As she got downstairs to the dancefloor she was growing increasingly uncomfortable with all the stares and whispers she was receiving. When she spotted Jason dancing with a blonde girl she nearly ran to him and grabbed his arm. He looked at her like she was crazy but when he saw people running behind her screaming questions he didn't hesitate and ran with her towards the exit. As they got to the car they were out of breath and Birdie rushed Jason to get them out of there and to her house as fast as he could.
Jason asked why she was so panicked, so she showed him her instagram with all the videos the people posted and he instantly understood. "At least you didn't make any mistakes in the piece and you look really cute" he tried to make her feel better joking a bit, but she couldn't be persuaded to feel better and she face palmed right in front of him. When she did so he got a view of her knuckles that were injured after she busted them with the punching bag.
"Hey! What the h*** is that B ?" he knew instantly but he just couldn't believe she did that to herself. He thought she was doing better, and even though he knew losing her family was a big deal to anyone he didn't know she would go as far as to hurting herself.
Jason didn't know about her training, he only knew she exercised and he thought that was why she went running to school and spent so many hours in the gym, even though he had never been to her gym. She couldn't afford him finding out, it would put him in danger. So she didn't tell him and when she had to train she told him that she was going to the gym. Now he was freaking out and she could only blame herself for not hiding it. At least her hands didn't appear in the videos. That would be a lot of explaining to do.
She didn't want to answer but he was still looking at her expecting for her to explain herself. So she did. She couldn't lie to him about this. "I may or may have not been in the gym this morning taking my bad mood out on the punching bag" Birdie said with a guilty look in her eyes. She knew he was going to get mad at her.
"Why would you do that !? You could've come to me and cry or eat tons of ice cream or just be there but I didn't think you could go as far as to hurt yourself to this degree. When we get to your house you're going to let me disinfect it and then we are going to have a serious talk about this"
He was so furious, she could tell, but he was even more concerned than mad. As she realised this she took his hand and gave it a kiss. "It's alright, I already did, and it looks worse than it is, I promise ok ?" she explained in a doting voice, she didn't want him to stress over her "However I need to get quickly to my house, cause I have to erase any prove of the videos that are posted all over the internet" she said "So if you could please hurry ?" she pleaded
They hurried to her house and when they parked in the driveway she went running without waiting for Jason, he knew not to make a big of a deal of this, as he knew where she was going anyway. In the first floor there was a library not really big, but big enough for her to make it in to her office. She replaced the old books with hers, she was a reader before the incident, now they just reminded her of her family and how they would tell her to stop reading and do something else. She had a big desk with a massive computer in the middle that was her baby, and that had Frank installed to help her with some of her hacking jobs. Behind the desk there's a massive window and in the opposite wall thats covered in pictures of her family with two floor speakers, as she liked to hear music at all times.
When Jason arrived to the office she was already seated in the chair typing furiously in the keyboard. He took the chair from across the desk and sat beside her. He recognised some of the codes she was using but most of them were too complex for him. She did this for about half an hour and then she stretched her hands and looked up from her computer to him like what she just did wasn't so hard that skilled people like him didn't understand.
"I'm finished" she said with a cheshire cat smile in her face.
Meanwhile in a secret hideout in the north of Spain
"Finally we got her, I can't believe it took us three years ! How difficult should be tracking a child down" Beatriz the director said with exasperation in her voice. Since Victor, Birdie's father left the agency when Birdie was born they kept track of the family, but when they were mysteriously killed they tried to keep track of the only survivor but couldn't find her anywhere. "Well what did you expect, if she had half the talent her father had we should expect her to be an excellent hacker" one of the board members said.
They were all sat in a big room with lots of screens on the walls with pictures of different sequences of the video that was recently posted of Birdie playing in the party. They all had interest in the girl since her father was a great agent, even making it to the board, and the fact that she hid herself from them so many years. That was nearly impossible considering they knew everything. "I think we should send someone to inspect her and decide if she's worth it, and if she's not then we'll just arrange vigilance for her. In the case that she's cualified then I say we recruit her. All those in favor please raise your hand" Beatrice said in a commanding tone. All the board members agreed and so they started deciding who would go.
As the night went on they were just finalizing the details when suddenly all the photos and videos on Birdie disappeared from the panels. A warning flashed in big red letters in the screens, it said " Stay away from her" and it was signed by one of the few enemies they had since their existence wasn't known, Shadow, the hacker that always tried to make their life impossible.
Seeing that their enemy might had an interest in the girl they decided to get to her as fast as possible. They all agreed to send their best agent to get her at all costs. Asher Alandeen.