Stalker

Jackson looks back down at the box in a loss for words type way, I was also shocked that I had been able to find it accidentally. But why would Mario want to hide it here, I can't see fully what's inside the box but from what I can see, it's nothing that incriminating. Jackson clears this throat while placing the lid back onto the box, so I won't be looking in that again until we're done here. 'Would you mind if we take this with us?" He asks turning around to Catia, she also looked confused as she sat at the table watching this all unfold. 'Of course, I have no use for that as I didn't even know it was there." She says which was really nice of her, she could have told us no due to wanting to protect her son. 'Thank you for agreeing to this interview, we have taken so much of your time already so we will leave now. But if you have any more information or just need to talk to us, give me a call." Jackson smiles reaching into his jacket and pulling out his card, but I could tell by his voice that he wanted us out of this house as quickly as possible. 'We should wait a little longer while I clean all of this mess up, I can't just make a mess and leave Catia to clean it." I say pointing down to all the junk that was from the cupboard but was now on the floor, I mean I would be so angry if someone did this in my house and just packed up and left. 'No, it's okay Lucy, I have been meaning to clean all my cabinets out anyway and now it's all on the floor, I can give it a deep clean." She smiles standing up from her chair, her whole denier has changed from when we entered the house. I send her a smile as Jackson says goodbye to her, he was out of the kitchen rather fast telling me to follow him. I walk over to the table to pick up his notebooks, he would be kicking himself later if he would have left this. 'Thank you, Lucy, I don't normally like you kind of people but I can just see that you're different. You're going to make such a great agent." She smiles just before I could leave the kitchen, if only she knew that being an agent wasn't a part of my plan. 'Thank you Catia, I better go before Jackson has a heart attack. Reach out to them Catia, you won't know until you try." I smile looping back to the conversation we were having before I found the box, she smiles understanding what I meant before I send her a final wave and leave the kitchen. Jackson was waiting by the open front door for me, but once he saw his notebooks in my hands, relief feels his expression. He reaches out his hand and takes mine, before I knew it, we were both out of the house and making our way into the car. When we left, I clocked onto all of the neighbours watching us from their houses. Catia did say she has friends that watch her house for her, I hope those friends aren't linked to Mario at all. I climb in the passenger side of the car as Jackson's fires it up, the box that I found in his lap as we drove away. 'So, are you going to tell me what's in the box and why it's got you so worked up or not?" I ask as we drive fully out of their road, he looks over at me for a second but doesn't speak. 'I don't know if you've realised Jackson, you can't tell anyone else that we have that because they will find out that we're doing a secret investigation, something that you keep telling me they can't know about. You said if we were going to do this, I would have to change the way I think slightly, but that means you have to start opening up and telling me what you know because if you don't, this isn't going to work." I say really hammering in that we're actually on the same team, I need to know where all of this is going. 'You're right, you did really good back there putting your normal feelings to the side, and we are a team. Take a look." He says handing me over the box, I send him a smile taking it from him to place it on my own lap. I open it up and place the lid on the dashboard, the dust was flying around the car slightly as I did so. I reach in and take the first layer of things out of the box, there were many photos of the same girl with black hair. 'That is agent Allison." Jackson says knowing what question I was about to ask, but his answer only gave me that much more questions. 'Agent Allison, I know that name where do I know that name from?" I ask trying to remember but I kept coming up with nothing, Jackson smiles slightly looking over at me trying to remember. 'Agent Allison is the agent that went missing, her fiancé is Derek, that man that you keep saying went hulk on you." He says with a little laugh, but that was when it all started to click in my mind. 'The owner of the car that I saw the night my dad was taken!" I say finally piecing it all together, Jackson nods his head telling me that I was right. 'Didn't you say that it was Mario's gang that took her, so to me it would make sense that he would stalk whoever it was that he was planning to kidnap, when did she go missing?" I ask looking through all of the different photos that were in the box, this must have been over a few weeks due to the places and what Allison was wearing. 'It's coming up to a year now." He says with a sigh as he went, but that timeline wasn't making any sense in my mind. 'But that doesn't make any sense, Catia said the last time that she saw Mario was when he hid this, but that was 4 years ago. He must have done this over a couple of months which would make these even older, yes stalk someone leading up to what you're about to do but not three years in advance!" I say hoping that I wasn't just crazy for thinking it didn't make sense, but the look on Jackson's face was telling me a different story. 'I've never thought of it that way, he put those photos away in his mother's house years before he kidnapped Allison and years before we even knew about him!" He says as we have to stop at a red light, which gave him time to think more about everything. 'I'm not an agent or really know what any of this means, but with the many crime tv shows that I have binge watched over my time. This seems to me that Mario had an obsession with Allison, taking her while she was working the case was just a coincidence, maybe he was planning it all along." I suggest my theory, which Jackson soon nods at telling me I might be on the right track, maybe I am good at this. 'That does seem like the luckily theory in all of this but also makes this better for her, if he has an obsession with her, it gives her a better chance of still being alive." Jackson says which would be the best option, Mario isn't going to kill somebody he had stalked and loved for over four years. 'So, what's the plan now, do we look more into this without letting the big guys know?" I ask talking about my mother and Reece, it's funny that me and Jackson have been on the case for a day and have found more information than they have! 'We have to work the lead; you are good at this Ally." He smiles looking over at me, I tilt my head to the side in an I know kind of manner while laughing.