Find It Inc.

Chapter 5

Boss K has an interesting story to read if you are into TV series dramas and stuff where everyone and their dog have a secret to keep (the dog is a cat, that’s their secret) well Boss K has a secret. A few actually… well, two secrets to be exact if we are being picky. She is a winged person who has a family. Now those two things may not sound bad to you (certainly the second one but I will get to that one in a second-haha) but there are a few things you should know about the winged people of this world. Winged people are not angles, they are people that can grow wings from the back and use these wings to fly. As mentioned before with Dylan they are close to impossible to kill. They are also able to heal their wounds and never get sick. Good deal right? Well there is a thing with good deals and that there is a catch that make good deals not last as long. Winged people have to work.

Before you roll your eyes any further into your head to see T that I asked you to keep there; try to keep this is mind: anyone can choose a job that they want to do even if the economy is rubbish and money is tight unless you are winged person than you can only do one job which is office based and paper work. The company finds winged people and drags them to work for them and that is all they are allowed to do. If a winged person does not do the job they are arrested and never seen again. You know some places have crazy laws that do not make any senses and seem to be without any reasoning? Well this is one of those laws. However, some winged people like the job that they get and plus it makes it so much easier when a job is just handed to you because of what you are and not who you are. Most people in the company are bad at what they do and other people have no idea what they are meant to do.

However, it does lead to depression if you are stuck in the job that you hate and the only other option is jail which is not a warm place to be certainly with Bobby roaming the halls… or so I heard. On top of it all winged people have to destroy a large area of land in order to try to kill themselves. And suicide is bad. And land destruction is bad. Boss K has a loving family and cannot in the deepest part of her heart leave them. So when Boss J (an old high school friend who is a mimicer as in can mimic what other creatures do, so she sometimes as wings, sometimes can smell like a wolf but it does not last long) approach her with her plan to open ‘Find It Inc.’ and erase Boss K’s existence from the files at the company, the contract was signed before the ink was even wet.

But Boss K had second thoughts because what if she got caught? What about her family? On the first day of work she thought she would walk into the new office and quit her recently acquired new job regardless of what the contract says. On that first day and as soon as Boss K’s foot stepped into the new, dusty, office she saw not dust but light. The light was soft, warm and welcoming that she stood there in awe while Boss J opened up the window and began cleaning the place. Boss K knew that this was where she was meant to be. The weight of her depression was gone and her mind was clear.

So Boss K ended up going to a job that made her happy even though it is illegal for her to do so. And if she gets caught at least she will have been free and happy, plus if you give Bobby gum than he is sweet to you but what would I know I never been to jail (heehee). And her family will surely come to visit; she can watch them grow up via the virtual phone. All was going well until and her family was extremely joyful to have a happy mother doing a job she loved plus the kids get to plan ‘tell no one about mommy’s jobs’ for the rest of their lives. But they law changed which threw a lighted match into the haystack.

The law was that anyone who knew of any winged person who had rejected the job they were meant to do in favor of another will be sentenced to life regardless of age. Boss K could handle going to jail but she could not handle her supportive family going to jail. As since as the law was changed Boss K went to resign at ‘Find It Inc.’ with a heavy heart and bruised eyelids from all the crying. She had to keep her family save.

She was on the way to the building to go back to work and she did not know how to redo the erasing of her existence that Boss J managed to do but she had to try something. That day she walked to building instead of flew since she really did not want to go back there. She thought about breakfast time and how her husband’s face dropped when she told her she had to go back. He tried to convince her that her literal happiness is more important than a job and that she was changing and wearing away while she was working at that company. This happens to many winged people when they are shells and no longer feel or exist; you could literal throw a brink at them and nothing would happen; one even walked over fire. Her husband did not want that life for her.

A tear dropped in front of her feet while she was almost at the building. It took her a while to recognize that it is her own tear. She looked up at the building and it looked dark to her so she ran away from the building and back to ‘Find It Inc.’ She was exhausted about not having a choice on what to do with her life. She could choose everything else and even made sure to not marry a winged person so that her offspring would not be cursed to work at a dead end, meaningless, job. She ran keeping her wings in so as not to give herself away and she got back to ‘Find It Inc.’ and pretended that nothing had happened. “Resignation? What? I was joking.” she explained to her co-workers and Boss J said that it was good enough for her.

Boss K did not tell her family that she returned to ‘Find It Inc.’ because if they did not know they would not get into trouble; you cannot hide something you did not know you were finding, right? She explained to her family that the company that she pretend to work at gave her a different position to the one she had before which makes her a whole lot happier hence her forever smiling face like before. Her family accepted this and no more questions were ever asked again including the common ‘how was work honey?’ question because the answer was the same: ‘fine’.

Boss K hides her winged personness from everyone by pretend she is a mimicer or a mix between a winged person and a… bat (or something, to be fair creativity was never her strong point). Caz, Jo and Frankie have no idea that she is not a mimicer and Boss J has become so used to the idea that they are the same creature that the idea of Boss K being a winged person is odd and bizarre to her. Oddly bizarre.

Now on to the family secret (as in the secret Boss K is keeping from everyone else about her family members). You see, Boss K figured that if everyone thought she was family less they would not go after her loved ones since they did not exist. It was perfect (well close to perfect) that the family lived far away from Treeburg and that people do not like to talk to each other. She could keep her personal and professional life apart without any worries. So no one in the office (including Boss J although she is suspension) that Boss K has a secret family in the woods. She would go home every night and come to work every morning as if nothing was the matter and if the kids kept her up all night she could just say she fell in love with a TV series and could not rip herself away.

The idea of keeping your family secret from everyone may sound complicated and pointless but as a mother you will do anything to keep your family safe and still try to remain in their lives. That was Boss K’s reasoning and she has stuck to it for a year now. Boss K is also stubborn to that point that is passed stupidity but she will not believe you hence her stubbornness.

The evening that Boss J and Boss K told the hunters about the three assignments, Boss K went home like it was any other night. She arrived, greeted her kids, greeted her husband, feed them, you know: the usually. While the kids were asleep and her husband was working on the car in the garage, Boss K was reading a book in her bedroom when her phone ringed. She answered it and heard nothing on the other side. Thinking it was a mistake she places the phone down and went back to the pages of her book. The phone rang again and this time she looked at the number but it was from a blocked phone. She ignored it. It rang a third time and she picked it up:

“What,” she said with her tighten teeth.

There was a faint giggle from the other side.

“Listen, if this is a prank I will give you to my husband he enjoys these things more than I do” and with that she lifts herself off the bed to head to the garage. The phone is dropped on the other side of the line. But her phone rings again. She gives it to her husband who answers it.

“Sup” he says. Nothing and the phone go down again. They think nothing more of it and continue with their even activities. But that would not be the last time the phone would ring. Because a lot of people have her number and they like to talk to her. As well as the fact that T is standing outside K’s bedroom window watches her read her book and thinking whether to call again. But she does not… yet; she is skipping ahead in the game and has to wait for K to make her move first. T just wanted to play a prank, she is not ready to make K go crazy with the idea that someone knows her two secrets and will tell on her; but K will have no idea and hence the madness of K will take over. But not yet.

T goes back to her empty office as she looks over her treasures one last time before she sends them out into the world at dawn. She was lucky with that client came when he did otherwise she would have had to make another treasure hunt plan instead of the two she already created and coming up with separate hunts is difficult and headache inducing. Plus some extra real money on the side would never hurt. All she needed to know was what Caz got and figure out how to get Dylan there to exploded.