30 minutes earlier
"I'll pick him up," Nico said over the phone.
"Are you sure?" Clark asked Nico as the latter sped through Arlington hoping to make it in time to pick up his nephew.
"Yeah, I'll be in and out and no one will recognize me, I'm not in uniform anymore," he explained.
He was glad to be free of that uniform and all the rules that accompanied it.
Nico had every intention of telling his parents that he planned to leave the military and build his own private security service.
That was the very reason why he asked to work with his future brother-in-law, he needed the right recommendation and the right connections.
He knew that Nathaniel would have given it to him regardless, especially if it was Maya asking for it, but he wouldn't have earned it. Nico despised the soldiers he worked with who got their ranks because of their family names and he wasn't about to be like them.
