Chapter Twenty Three - Crazy Kara

Sorry i didn't upload this yesterday

-3rd Person-

Neal began to pace. He was pacing because he was in deep, deeper than he'd ever been because now he had much more to loose. Not just his freedom but his girlfriend and now his unborn daughter. Hagen was only to happy to pressure on that point if Neal didn't comply. He didn't know if he was better than his father or on the same level.

"Neal, you need to relax if you're gonna get this right."

"If this is another speech about how we've gotten to close, Mozz." Neal grumbled

"No because that would be unfair." Moss replied

"What's unfair is that Hagen is using my..." He trailed off then shook his head

-Kara-

I was trying to give a briefing when Neal snuck in late. Then he kept interrupting and putting me off which was irritating me further.

"Neal. I swear to god. Shut up." I snap at him "I'm Eight months pregnant, I'm not eating or sleeping well. I'm not in the mood."

"Yes, Ma'am. Interruptions to a minimum. It is good though. The slow loris." he pointed to the screen

"And it's endangered." Jones continued

"Lord have mercy on my nerves." I leaned back in the chair

"Look, guys, simply shutting down Greytrade was a big win for the Beurau. But we have an opportunity to make it even bigger."  Jones added

"We're going to arrest the sellers. We can track their IP's through the site which means we know where they live." I continued

"And we have dossiers made up but once these guys notice that the site had been decommissioned,  there gonna close up shop, which is why even when we're short handed. We're gonna hammer as many as we can today." Neal raises his hand "I swear, Caffrey. What?"

"If the Bureau keeps Grey trade running for a few days, we can take our time and bust all of them." Neal stated

"We can't concede the sale of Illegal goods, even in the short term." I sigh answering

"We don't necessarily have to concede anything." the new guys speaks

"Really well, we're all ears." Jones retorts. He then looks to Neal

"Do you want to explain?" he wondered

"No, please."

"We drum up fake usernames then outbid everyone else since the plan is to arrest them anyway, the bureau won't be on the hook for a payout." New guy figured

"Be a lot of work but it's not a terrible idea." I place up at Jones

"Thanks for the assist..." Then Neal muttered something

"Sorry?" New guy asked

"What? Nothing. Neal Caffrey. You must be my new handler." Neal deduced

"Must be."

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"Agent James. We haven't been formally introduce." New guy came back into the conference room "I'm Agent David Seigal. Neal Caffrey's new handler."

"I know. Peter told me, new guy." i flit between laptops setting up fake accounts "Your attempting to handle Neal, that's both funny and disturbing."

"Neal knows when your trying to kiss his ass by the way." he chuckled and I looked up "Something funny?"

"No Ma'am." he went back to a straight face

"Word of advice. Neal may still be classed as a criminal. But he's human and he's had a rough time of it and it's not gonna get any easier. Just keep that in mind." I went back to what I was doing.

"You got it." he left

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Neal and Peter were hovering behind me as I was working.

"Kara." i heard Peter

"What." I replied deadpan as i continue typing.

"What's going on? You didn't come back last night." Neal added as I flitted to another computer.

"I'm multi-geeking. In addition to posing a three time holland I'm balancing chats  and auctions under 40 separate syms." a mother bid came through and I moved to the farthest laptop

"I don't know what that means." Peter replied and I sighed

"Multi-Geeking is when you operate more than one computer and a sym is a pseudonym, avatar, user name, take your pick." i moved back to my main laptop

"Did you spend the night here?"

"Tree time never slept before . He can't start now." I reply 

"And your drinking coffee?" Neal questioned

"Fuck off Neal it's herbal tea and it's the only thing that calms your daughter so I can concentrate properly. Pass me the headphones." he did so and I put the headphones on my stomach then played the music on the iPod tucking it into my pocket then continued

"If you wanna take a break i can..." I cut peter off

"I'm not trusting this to some N.F.G. You wanna help pull up a chair." I snap at them

"Yes, Yes. We'll do that."

"I got something." I heard new guy

"Gotta go that's my new handler." Neal kissed my head and walked out as I went form laptop to laptop.

"I'm gonna..." Peter went as well

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Kara was vegetating in front of her laptops and Mozzie was in trouble...again and Neal was at wits end with both of them.

"Peter, you have a minute?" Jones asks

"Yeah, get that to seigal." Peter says

"Actually, Caffrey should stay. We need to talk about Kara." Jones came in and closed the door

"Don't worry. I'm gonna pull her out." Peter replied 

"I don't think you should. I mean you've already taken her off fieldwork." Jones added

"He's right. I'm worried about her right now but it's better than her cabin fever. She need to keep her brain active." Neal adds

"She's eight months pregnant." Peter retorts

"Trust me we know. But she says she's fine." Neal says and Jones nod in agreement.

"She's been camped out in the conference room for two days."

"Running a city wide operation." Jones adds

"Neal, Jones. I'm not gonna put the baby at risk just because she wants to close the book on Greytrade. Neal you can't be okay with this."

"I'm not but I think she's got to that point that being Kara James a Mom is scary but losing Agent Kara James is scarier. Jones correct me if I'm wrong."

"He's not wrong. And it's about time you spoke up." Jones commented

"But she knows she'll always have a place here." Peter spoke

"Does she? Your talking about taking her off of case work because she's tired. And are either of you gonna feel good about sending her on a raid when there's a kid a home and he's still counted as a criminal. Look your the boss, I get the position your in. But she's in a position too." Jones left.

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Neal was bored and he was annoying Seigal while he was at it.

"You know if your bored, you can always help your girlfriend next door." Neal leaned back and saw Kara beating up a laptop

"I'll be right back." Neal got up and left the office going into the conference room

"Okay, enough with beating up inanimate objects." he turned her chair "Kara look at me." she did

"This is not healthy okay? I know you want to close this and to keep Agent Kara, but this is not healthy for her." he put her hand on his stomach "Can you at least calm down, please"

"Okay." she took a deep breath

"Good. now here take these headphones." he took them off her stomach and put them on her ears "Different music for Mom." he found some music and pressed play." she calmed down and went back to work. Neal went back into Seigal rubbing his face

"Everything okay?"

"I don't know. He breathed.

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