- Hushed Discussion

Jason(Jim) and Bill finished the cocoa and the cookies.

Bill asked Jim to stay back in the room, and that he would ring the bell of Jim's room once Robin was here. He could then comedown and accompany his friend to his room to which Jim agreed. Bill collected to tray with empty mugs and left.

Robin arrived in a while. It was less than 30 mins drive to Jim's house. He parked the car next to Jim's car in the parking lot and walked up to Jim's house.

Before even he could ring the bell, the door was flung open by Bill. " You are Robin right? Come on in my boy." Before Robin could even respond he was pulled inside the house by Bill in a fatherly manner.

Robin found it a little strange that he was just dragged inside but he could sense the love shown by Jim's dad and so he did not really mind.

Robin rang the bell for Jim to come down, and once Jim was down he told the youngsters to go upto the room and he would join them in just a while.

Once the friends went upto the room, Bill walked up to Miley who was in the kitchen busy cleaning the counter. As Robin was not given a chance to ring the doorbell, Miley was not aware of Robins arrival. Bill told her about Jims friend but avoided giving any details as to why he was here, just telling him that he was here to discuss some office related work.

Miley felt Bill was lying as she was very well aware that Robin did not work in Jim's office . She looked at Bill in a suspicious way and Bill knew he was caught. He slyly said that Jim had some issues at office and he was planning to change.

Miley was not completely convinced but she did not probe further. She asked Bill if he needed anything from the kitchen to which Bill responded if she could quickly make some mint flavoured lemonade for Robin and give some of those spiced cookies, which she had given along with the cocoa drink earlier. Miley nodded and got on to making the lemonade.

Bill knew that if Miley had to come upstairs she could sense the sound proofing and he did not want to take a chance. Finally the lemonade was ready and Bill carried it along with the cookies upstairs.

Meanwhile upstairs Jason and Robin were discussing on general topics while they were waiting for Bill, before they heard the door knock. Jim got up to open the door.

Bill entered the room while Jim closed the doors behind him, he then carefully placed the tray with lemonade and cookies on the table and asked Robin to have it. He told them that he would quickly use the washroom to relieve himself and Jim knew that his dad did not want to create the sound proof room in front of his friend.

Bill once inside the washroom, created a little stronger sound proof room this time along with saying another spell to disguise Robin. This was the best he could do to protect Robin from any danger while Robin was completely unaware and was busy deciding on what details can be provided on food business.

Bill was back and settled on the chair while both Jim and Robin were seated on the bed.

Robin looked at Bill and said "Thanks for having me here. It's good to meet you all"

Bill gave him a quick smile before clearing his throat "Thanks for coming Robin, I know this was not planned but appreciate your coming down just with one phone call"

"Anything for a friend sir" said Robin grinning and looking at Jim to which Jim gave him a thumbs up.

"Robin" Bill started this time on a serious note, while he was still contemplating on how to open the topic to him. "Boy, firstly let me apologise to you, as we wanted to discuss something different from what Jim mentioned to you over the phone. We could not say it over phone and that's why I asked Jim to ask you to come over"

Robin got a little suspicious and did not respond. He awaited for what was coming up next.

"We need your help to save someone in danger, who we all know but we cannot do it without some help as it involves a little danger " said Bill looking at Robins face to see if he could see any changes in his face.

Robin got a little worried now and looked at Jim and then Bill before asking "Who is it and has it been reported to police?"

This time it was Jim who responded "No Robin, we haven't reported it yet as the news is not conclusive. We want to be make sure that the news that we have received is at least 90% accurate before we reported"

Jim hid the fact that even the normal police officers on earth could not confront the enemy.

That seemed to have convinced Robin a bit. "Who is it?" , he asked again.

In a hushed tone Bill said "Rachael and her entire family"

This news shook Robin. It took few seconds for Robin to come back to normal and he replied "Sure sir, I'll do anything for my friends. Just let me know what I will need to do"

It was Bill's turn this time to pause before speaking to Robin again.

"Robin , firstly this news shouldn't leak outside other wise it will not only put us in danger but even our families may be in trouble due to this. What we are about to do is a little risky but we have made sure that all who are involved are fully protected."

Bill continued speaking to Robin. He was planning to let out only some details to Robin, just to get his help in a amicable way. Bill had decided that he would erase most of Robins memory around the discussion that took place today, leaving out only the details required to carry out the next task. Also he would overlap the erased memory with other details.

This would in a way help, if unfortunately any day in future, Robin got caught by the dark forces he will not be able to recall the actual facts as it would be over written.

Bill had become smarter over the years but somehow he never wanted to show his smartness in his very own office as he wanted to lay low.

"The people due to whom Rachael and her family are in danger are extremely powerful and dangerous is what we heard. But again who they are even we are not aware. So we have to be careful on what we are doing" said Bill.

After hearing what Bill said, Robin was not comfortable but something made him trust Bill and Jim and he decided not to step back.

"Yes sir, I get that"

"What we will do next will look absolutely normal, nothing out of the place and along with Jim and you, we need to get in another person into this but without this person actually knowing about the issue"

Robin felt it was getting complex now although Bill made it look simple. He looked at Jim and asked him who was the other person to which Jim answered

"Natalie "