Filed To Story: Destined Bond with My Forbidden Alpha Novel (Alpha Alexander & Selene)
“I pulled it to a secure location and opened it. Inside I found documents that clearly belonged to the Ravager pack. It was just a series of communications between them and an unknown person arranging to get them a product that would ‘make the job easier’.
“Now, I saw this, and I knew this was very likely a crumb dropped to get me or whoever found it interested in where it would lead.
“So, I set up the virtual server. An almost exact copy of most of the network. Except if someone were to try digging into the files, they would find a lot of crude jokes and character sheets instead of actual Summer documents.”
Clara giggled.
“Blah, blah, blah, long story short, I watched and waited and wasn’t disappointed. All over the mirror server, I started to find random info dumps. Videos, pictures, and documentation. All about the other packs and what they have been up to the past few months. Some older. It’s not a lot, but it’s something.”
“But where is it coming from?” Galen asked.
Nessa looked at him and chewed the inside of her lip.
“So… about that…” she said nervously. “Pretty sure it’s Alice….”
“What?!” Both Galen and Clara shouted.
“I thought you said there was no way Alice could get back inside our system….” Galen said.
“I said that it was more defensible and that she wouldn’t be able to infect the system, which still holds true.”
“How is she getting the information inside if you still say she hasn’t gotten in?”
“It’s like a paratrooper. She is dropping them in and hoping they land safely,” Nessa smiled, then quickly added. “But I’ve run tons of security scans on every single file. I double and triple-checked that after the first drop-off, she hasn’t gotten any other files into the real system.”
“So, she’s only able to access your mirror image?” Galen asked.
“Yea, but as of about ten minutes ago… I think I can follow her back into her system,” Nessa smiled.
“Why would you do that?” Clara asked.
“Because, based on the reactions so far, you guys are probably about to tell me how she is sending false information and secretly laying traps and blah, blah… I get it; she did some bad stuff to people and is not trustworthy.
“But I don’t know anything about that. What I do know is that she has provided valuable information that could help Summer and its allies get ahead in the coming fight. So, before you guys immediately try to discount and ignore what could be a great inside source, let’s check her out. See what her personal computer tells us.”
Clara looked to Galen.
Galen sighed and rubbed the bridge of his nose.
He knew that he should tell her to shut it down and reinforce whatever allowed Alice to even send a document to them. Selene had made it clear that she did not trust Alice or anything about her. But, on the other hand, Alexander had been the one that said Alice wasn’t all bad.
“Do it,” he sighed.
Nessa nodded with a brilliant smile and immediately entered line after line of code. It took almost twenty minutes before any progress was made, but suddenly Nessa smiled and sat straight.
“I’m in,” she whispered.
Galen and Clara had been glancing through paperwork while they waited. Finally, they hurried over and looked at the screen.
It was a basic desktop, with only one or two folders and a few standard tools.
“Looks pretty empty….” Clara said.
“Yea… not sure what we’re supposed to learn from this….” Galen added.
Nessa smiled.
She opened the first folder and found it empty. The second folder contained four more folders. Finally, after going ten folders deep, she found a game file.
Opening it up, she was faced with a question.
“Would you rather be a scout or a spy? What is this?” Clara asked.
Galen remembered the first time Alice had come to Summer. Alexander had called her a spy, and she corrected him that she was a scout.
“Choose scout,” he said.-.
Nessa chose scout.
“Would you rather use honey or vinegar?” Nessa read the question out loud.
“What the heck is that supposed to mean?” Clara asked.
Galen stared at the words, feeling like he had heard them somewhere before.
“I guess… honey?” Clara asked.
Nessa nodded.
“It would be a guess either way,” Galen said. “Go for it.”
Nessa selected honey.
“Are you my enemy?” Nessa read the screen.
Below the question was an empty box.
“It’s not a this or that question,” Nessa said, “I guess we type our answer.”
“No, right?” Clara asked. “I mean, that’s what we should say? Who would say yes?”
“I guess,” Nessa said.
“Wait,” Galen called as Nessa began to type.
The memory of a long-ago conversation stirred in his mind.
“Honey, not vinegar, Darlin. Don’t you know the basic rules of talking to the enemy?”
“Are you my enemy?” Galen asked, looking her in the eye.
Alice let out a small gasp of surprise.
“I’m not sure yet,” she answered before turning to leave.
“I’d rather you not be,” Galen said as she was walking away.
“So would I,” Alice whispered with a curious smile.
Galen took a deep breath as the memory faded.
“I’d rather you not be,” he said. “Try that.”
“Are you sure?” Clara asked. “That’s really specific….”
Galen nodded.
“Alright, here goes nothing,” Nessa said as she entered the answer.
The screen changed, and a new desktop appeared with many more folders and icons.
“That’s more like it….” Nessa smiled, but before she had a chance to select anything, something else appeared and blocked the screen.
A pop-up with one more question.
“How will you remember me?” Nessa read with furrowed brows.
Clara sighed.
“A piece of chocolate,” Galen said, remembering the phrase Alexander had told him he used to reach Alice the two or three times he was able.
“What?” Clara asked.
“Don’t ask,” he sighed. “Just try it.”
“Ok,” Nessa said, entering the phrase.
The desktop returned, and Nessa smiled while the others let out sighs of relief.
“So, this is it?” Clara asked. “We’re on her computer?”
“Looks like it,” Nessa said. “Let’s start looking at what we’ve got.”
Nessa opened a folder called ‘Personal’.
“Really?” Clara asked. “All these folders, and you start with the one marked personal?”
“Hey, you guys don’t trust her, might as well go for the nitty gritty and see what we see,” Nessa replied.
Nessa opened the folder. Inside were several documents and a few folders. She was about to open one of the documents labeled ‘treatment schedule’, when Galen interrupted her.
“What is that?” he asked.
“What?”
“The folder titled ‘Sweet Boy’.”
“Let’s find out,” Nessa said.
She opened the folder, and inside were three video files.
The first one was immediately recognizable as Axel being named Alpha.
The second was of Axel and several others shaking hands and smiling. Finally, one man bowed to Axel, and he smiled back. That was where the video ended.
“That looks like a security camera,” Clara commented.
“I agree,” Nessa said. “I can probably figure out where, but it will take some time.”
“Check the third video,” Galen said. Growing a little concerned as to why these videos of Axel were on Alice’s computer.
Nessa opened the video.
It showed Axel sitting at a desk, typing. The camera was clearly on the computer he was typing at.
“She hijacked his camera….” Nessa whispered.
Axel stopped typing. He sighed and hung his head, running his fingers through his hair. It was clear he was upset.
He let out a soft sob and then pulled a small braid from the back of his head and pressed it to his lips.
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