Fan Fiction |
by Jenny Tran
Months soon passed from the time they discovered the secrets the company was hiding. After that very day with her encounter with Andy, she did not see him anymore. He had ‘quit’ according to rumors that started around the company. The security was higher than ever as they did not want those intruders to come back. There were random background checks on employees and every so often some would mysteriously disappear. Leann had explained their disappearance as being fired. But Julie had her own suspicion.
She soon found out Leann was as innocent as a rabbit when it came to her father and brother’s work. During a session with Sergeant Liu, he pointed that fact out to her “Our agents have found out a great deal on Leo Fung but never anything on Leann Fung.”
Julie nodded “There is absolutely nothing suspicious about her. She’s just a workaholic at times and kinda cruel to certain people.” She said curiously.
“What do you mean?” the Sergeant asked.
Julie shrugged “For instance, she is especially mean to my sister, Cass. For whatever reason, I don’t think we’ll ever know. And then there’s the girl on the 5th floor that often comes up to see Leo.”
Will tapped on his chin rhythmically “I think she does not like the girls that her brother likes.”
Julie shook her head “That’s not true, she likes me. And you’ve seen the way he openly flirts with me.” She said.
“Maybe that’s something you two need to look into?” Sergeant Liu said after a moment “Whatever reason that might be, it could help us in finding out more on her brother. Maybe he likes certain types of girls. Has he been treating you different, Julie?”
She shook her head “Nothing different from the usual touch of my shoulder or face.”
“He’s a damn pervert if you ask me.” Will said with total disgust “Did you see the way he looked at your sister that morning after we found the secret?”
Julie shook her head “No. I didn’t even see him. I guess I was too busy looking at Leann. I had a feeling that she would do something bad to my sister, so I wasn’t paying attention to anyone else.”
“He was going up on the elevator and his eyes didn’t leave Cass at all.” He pointed out.
“Maybe that’s why Leann played that cruel joke on her?” she asked herself.
“Why don’t you too do some more researching before you jump to conclusions?” the Sergeant asked. The two turned back to their leader and saluted while he nodded “Give me a good report on it in a week.”
“Yes, Sir.” Julie and Will said simultaneously.
The two left the bedroom to find Cass sitting on the couch, Sparky on her lap. The mechanical dog was a favorite in the house when Julie asked Leann if she could keep him. Of course, Will was still terrified by it, but whenever Cass was around, he seemed to be calmer with the dog being in the same room. She was staring into space when Julie asked “Ga Jei, what’s wrong?”
Cass looked up and a smile immediately appeared “Oh nothing, I was trying to daze my mind. You know when the silent sound is actually louder than people’s voices? Its like silence is deafening.”
Will looked strangely at Julie who too was concerned about her sister. He took a seat next to her as he patted her on the shoulder “You sure you’re okay?”
She smiled with a nod of the head. “Yeah. I’m just thinking too much.” Suddenly she turned to Julie “Hey, did you know that Andy was fired?”
Julie shook her head “No, I thought he quit?”
Cass shrugged her shoulders “I’m not sure. But gosh, that guy was strange. I swear he was there by the girl’s bathroom right before he was escorted out of the building.”
Suddenly an idea came to her head, her sister insisted that Andy was always in the girl’s bathroom. Maybe there is something in there that they need to discover. Her faced brightened like a light bulb just turned on. She turned to Will and pulled on his arm “Come in the room with me!” she said excitedly.
He turned to her with wrinkled eyebrows “Not now honey, your sister is not feeling good.”
Julie widened here eyes at him “Come on! We haven’t done it for a while.”
Will’s face reddened “What are you talking about?” he was not use to their couple talk, even if it was just a cover up.
Julie leaned in closer to his face as she gritted her teeth “I want you, now!”
Cass turned to the two with a funny face, she leaned away from Will “Oh, that’s sick! Come one guys, why do you have to talk like that in front of me?” she turned to Julie “You’re still my baby sister!”
Will yanked his arm away from Julie “Yeah, that can wait until tonight.” He said firmly.
Cass groaned in disgust “Please, guys!”
Julie only laughed at her outburst “Fine, I won’t tell you my secret.” She stomped her way back to the room.
Will was half curious about what Julie was up to but he did not want to leave the obvious depressed Cass by herself. He grew a liking to her when she constantly saved him from the overly hyper Sparky. She was much kinder than her sister and much more soft spoken. “You can go, I’m fine.” Cass insisted.
Will shook his head firmly “Hey, you were always there for me, so I’m going to be here for you.”
Cass let out a comfortable laugh “When was I there for you?”
He pointed to the sleeping metal dog on her lap “You save me from this monster all the time!” She laughed with her head shaking. The two talked on about random stuff while Julie paced around in her room. She wanted to go to the girl’s bathroom to find out what Andy was up to. She waited impatiently for Will to come but after 15 minutes of pacing the room, she decided to go herself.
Opening the window as she jumped down the 2 story home. She wore her same uniform with the coat, she landed softly on her feet as she rolled with her back to reduce the impact of the ground. She turned up to see if anyone saw but no one was around so she headed off to the building by the harbor.
When Julie reached the bridge, she found Andy leaning on the post waiting with his arms crossed. She stopped a few feet from him “So you are still alive.” She said with sarcasm.
His eyebrow arched to the left “Who ever said I was dead?”
“I was hoping you were.” She joked.
Andy smiled as he dropped his arms “Who would save you again?” he nodded his head towards the building “Come on.”
She quickly followed him as he used a star shaped device to activate the doors. Her curiosity taking over the better of her “What’s that?” He turned to her but didn’t say anything. He only reached for her hand and kept it close to him. “Where are we going?” she whispered once inside the main floor.
Again they went to the 3rd stairwell and entered it. “To the girls’ bathroom of course, you wanted to know what I found in there, don’t you?” She was a bit scared from his knowledge of her most secretive thoughts “Don’t ask how I know.” He said shortly.
“How did you read my thoughts?” she asked even though he told her not to ask.
He chuckled lightly “You don’t listen well to directions don’t you?”
“You don’t answer questions well, do you?” she threw back a question making him smile with interest.
On the third floor, Julie could not use the blind spray since Andy did not have a coat. Instead she used her triangular beam gun to angle the cameras away from them. The two looked at each other with a nod as he led her to the girl’s bathroom. He quickly walked down to the last stall to his left. “This can be used during the day when there are too much people to use the ‘No Trespassing’ door. They are smart to think of this short cut.”
Julie looked at the toilet “How did you find out?”
He turned to her with a smile “I told you not to ask.” He reached behind the foot of the toilet and pressed on a hidden button. The device sunk down into the ground as a walkway of stairs appeared. This was fully lighted unlike the elevator that she was in with Will.
“Is it safe?”
Andy nodded “As safe as it gets. This is seldom used during the nights. I discovered this just a few months ago, so it’s actually a new design.” He took her hand once more and led her down the steps. They walked down at least a hundred flights of steps before Julie heard voices, she quickly stopped yanking Andy with her. He turned to her with a shake of the head “You’re hearing their voices from the vent.” He pointed to the right corner of the hall of stairs.
She sighed with relief “What is down here?”
“The middle room that you didn’t get to explore that first time you were down here.” He explained.
Julie continued to follow him until they reached a room that was closed out from all angles except one door. He turned the knob and it easily opened. Inside was another glass room. It was overlooking the room that Julie found all the giant human machines in. “What is this room?” she whispered. She noted the table across from her with hundred of buttons and controls. A tiny microphone was dangling from the glass ceiling.
“It controls those machines. Plus it’s a place where Leo Fung goes to show the buyers.” He walked her to the control table “Do those toys look familiar?” he pointed to a ferocious looking beast that stood towering over the human machines.
She narrowed her eyes as she recalled seeing it somewhere “It looks familiar.” Her face brightened up as she nodded “It’s that new toy that was designed by James Chung, I saw it when he brought it to Leo’s office.”
Andy smiled “You have a good memory for seeing it just once.”
“I normally don’t pay attention since all the toys that James bring in are fairly boring looking. But I particularly remember this beast like animal that he was holding and I remember thinking, what kid in the right mind would want to play with that?”
He nodded “My exact thought, that toy he was holding is actually a control for that beast.” He pointed to the humongous version of the beast. “James is actually the mastermind behind the machines, if you haven’t already guessed.”
Julie nodded “I was suspicious but at least now I know. I always thought-”
Andy covered her mouth when he heard voices. “Shh!” he reached over her shoulders and took off her coat, pressing his finger against the collar as he covered it over both of them “Conceal.” He commanded.
She felt a beam of light covering the both of them right before Leo walked in a with a group of men. “Now, here we have the control room where the tests for the machines are made. You can tell them exactly what to do.” He pointed to the table and pressed on a control. Julie was facing the back to them so she could not see what they were doing or how close. Andy was literally centimeters from her face, their eyes seemed to lock as he read her fears. They seemed to have a language of their own as she nodded slightly understanding that he was trying to reassure her.
After a couple of minutes Julie distinctly heard a voice that sounded almost identical to Andy’s “I would like to see them up close.” He sounded more in control and definitely important.
“Sure, of course, of course you can.” Leo’s voice was syrupy like he had to kiss up to this person.
When the men left the room through the correct exit, Julie saw a glimpse of the man’s face. She couldn’t believe that she saw, her eyes widened at Andy. That man was a complete duplicate of the guy standing before her. When the coast was clear, Andy held onto the collar “Conceal Off.” The beam disappeared.
“He looks just like you!” Julie whispered.
“Who?” Andy asked.
“I don’t know, I heard the voice and then when he walked out of the room, I saw his face.” She looked away in confusion “Do you have a twin?” she asked.
Andy smiled “Not that I know of. I’ll be sure to ask my mom when I die and go to heaven.”
Julie placed her hands on her hips “I’m serious.”
He nodded with his hands up in a surrender motion “Okay, I know you are. But I do not have a twin. People look like people.”
“Not that much!” she exclaimed. “I wonder who he is.”
“CEO of World of Toys, Inc.” Andy said clearly.
Julie turned to him with a look of awe “What? And you said you don’t know him?”
He turned to her and waved his hand “It says it right here.” He pointed to a contract that was left behind, he picked up the chip and held it up at the light. What appeared on the glass wall was a business card with the title and name that read ‘Anthony Lung, CEO’.
Julie stared at the name strangely “I’ve heard of that name somewhere.”
“You might have seen it on documents that Leo had on his desk?” he tried.
She nodded “Maybe. We better get out of here before we get …” before she finished her sentence, a loud annoying alarm sound wailed while beams of red light flashed in all directions.
“They must have found the open bathroom!” Andy cried over the noise. He took her hand as he took her back up the steps where they came from.
“Are you crazy they’ll find us if we come back that way!” Julie cried.
He turned to her “Trust me.” She didn’t have any other choice as she let him lead her up the steps. She heard other steps coming down as she squeezed his hand for support. She prepared herself for a fight but to her surprise, he stopped along the way and pushed his hand against the wall until it gave way and opened another secret passage. He quickly pulled her in and the wall closed automatically. “Can you swim?” he asked.
When she nodded, he took her both of her hands as he led her to an area of the darkened room and jumped into the ground. To her surprise, the ground they stood on was soft as can be. She held her breath as they collided into the ocean. Still holding onto one of her hands as they swam upwards together.
Julie felt her lungs were about to explode as they finally reached the ocean waters. “How…did…you…know….” She was panting.
He looked up and found the red lights still flashing inside the glass walls, he quickly swam under the building where a tiny gap that separated the wall from the building was. She quickly followed Andy as they were safe under there. He leaned against one of the poles as his legs kicked to keep himself up. “It’s not over yet.” He warned.
At the warning words came a loud whooshing sound of a helicopter flying over the waters causing ruffles of waves crashing up and down. Andy reached in the side of his belt and pulled out a round white metal object, he placed it over the stone poles and press it, a metal string came spinning around the pole making a ripple of bumps and eventually the strings were big enough for them to hold on for dear life while the helicopter continued to spin in circles causing more waves “You’ve done this before.” Julie commented.
Andy smiled as he wrapped an arm around her to secure her position “You can say that.” He had more endurance than her as his legs began to support her after a while when she was beginning to feel tired. After a good hour, the helicopter finally disappeared and the annoying alarm that could be heard from miles away stopped. Andy looked at her and nodded “Now we can go.” He began swimming to shore as he easily pulled himself up using a thin ladder that he found a long time ago. He reached his hand over and pulled her up with ease. The two sat there soaking wet trying to catch their breaths.
After a few minutes, they got up and walked down the streets to the same alley that she followed him to months ago. “Now can you tell me who you are?” she asked when they were alone.
He turned to her with a serious expression “I will if you promise me one thing.”
She nodded “Anything.”