Training

We were soon in the car driving to Mario's mothers house, the car ride was silent as we were both mentally getting ready for what may lay ahead. I had a wave of emotions running through me, mostly fear in case something doesn't go to plan and Mario finds us there. But I also, was happy that I'm finally feeling like I'm actually doing something. Since my father went missing, I feel like I've been sitting around while other people are looking for him. But now thanks to Jackson agreeing to help me, I can finally get my hands dirty! We soon turn off of the main road and onto a street, it was a normal looking place. Kids were running around playing with each other, while a few adults would look over to see what they were doing from time to time. In no time at all, Jackson pulls the car over right outside of an abandoned looking type of house. The grass outside of the house was badly overgrown, no one has attempted to cut that in what looks like years. The outside of the building itself was falling apart, when this house was first made it looks as though the brick was covered up with paint. But years of neglect meant the paint was chipping off. 'The house lives up to what the neighbours told us, Catia will only emerge out of that house if she has to." Jackson says breaking the long silence, but he was definitely saying what I was thinking. 'So how do we do this? Do we just go to the door and ask if we can come in? I mean I don't know about her, but there would be no way I would let two randoms into my house." I say looking back over to Jackson who just smiles, I guess my questions were funny to him! 'I have a badge that will tell her I'm an officer, you of course don't have one, so you just need to stand beside me a look pretty until she lets us in." He says taking his badge and showing me, I just laugh a little that he just told me to stand there looking pretty. 'Oh, one more minor little detail, we know Catia doesn't talk to her son, but we have to be so careful that your disguise isn't blown, so when we're doing this investigation and we talk to anyone, you need to have a fake name." He informs me which in my mind wasn't a little detail, I'm going to have to keep up with a fake name while trying to get this does. 'Any suggestions on what this fake name should be, or have you already decided?" I ask where he smiles gesturing for me to think of one, which was easier said than some right on the spot. 'Okay, Lucy, my fake name will be Lucy." I say picking the first name that came to my head, thankfully it wasn't a bad name. 'Lucy, I like it." Jackson smiles before he opens up his door, this once again makes me laugh as I take my seatbelt off and join him outside of the car. We stand there for a few seconds just looking at the house that stood in front of us, I don't know what I was expecting on my first real interview of our secret investigation. Jackson looks over sending me a smile before walking through the gate, I follow taking a deep breath in as all of this finally got real. There was a little concrete path that led up to the front door, but due to how overgrown the bushes and grass was either side of the path, navigating our way through it was proving a challenge. 'Do you think the prince that broke that princess out of that castle had to deal with this, if so, he really wanted to be with her." Jackson says while fighting off a thorn bush, but his comment confused me on what princess he was talking about as we finally reach the front door. Before Jackson could even reach his hand up to knock on the door, it was opened, and a woman stood there looking at us. I had to stop the shock that wanted to fill my face as she scared me, but we didn't really try to be quiet when we were walking up to the door if I'm honest. 'Good morning Catia, I'm agent Jackson and this is my partner Lucy, I hope we're not disturbing you." Jackson smiles pulling out his badge to show her, I didn't have one of pull out, so I did what I was told and stood there quietly. 'We were hoping we could come in and ask you a few questions?" Jackson smiles politely at the woman; he must have some good people skills! 'I don't know if I would be any help of you, I know you're not around for me cuz I keep my nose clean now." She tells us which gave me the vibe that she didn't like us being here, well with what her son does and the life that she used to live, it did make sense. 'No, we're not here for anything that you have done ma'am, my partner here is new so she's going through some training. We like to send them off with senior agents on non-emergency cases so they can get a feel of what to do, we're looking into your son and all of the crimes that he has committed over the years. We were hoping we could come in and ask you a few questions, it won't take long." Jackson said really having to work his magic, but at least he could use me being here to help him. 'I don't normally talk to anyone on your side of the fence but considering, no one has ever spoken to me about my son and the likely hood of you ever catching him in the first place is very slim. I'll speak to you this one time, but it can't be long." She tells us agreeing, I was expecting her to tell us to bugger off out of her garden before slamming the door in our faces. She turns and walks into the house leaving the door open, Jackson as I both share a look of surprise before he slowly enters the house. As we went, I saw him place his hand on the clip where his gun sat, I knew he wanted to make sure Mario wasn't lurking in the shadows for us. Once I was in, he stops picking up a random box which was on the floor, he walks over to the door closing it but leaves it open slightly. I was about to ask him what he was doing as he places the box just behind the door with a glass object on top, which still didn't make any sense to me. 'We can't see if anyone such as Mario will walk in the house, now we've got this they will knock over that which will tell us so I can get ready." He whispers once he saw my confused look, but I have to hand it to him how amazing that plan of his was. 'I thought you wanted to ask me some questions, I can't have this run too long as I have a show I want to watch. Watching that is more important to me than answering your questions, so I'd hurry up!" Catia shouts from what I think is the kitchen, Jackson shakes his head before taking my hand and pulling me into the room. 'Sorry, as I said she's in training, so I had to give her a little rundown of what has to happen when we enter a house." Jackson says trying to cover up why we were taking as long as we were, I'm glad he was because I'd have no idea! 'What's your name again?" She asks turning to look at me this time, I guess she didn't like that I haven't uttered a word since we arrived. 'I'm Lucy ma'am, sorry I was holding us up back there but I'm really grateful that you have agreed to answer some questions, it really helps me out." I smile as Jackson and I take a seat beside each other at the table while she lights a cigarette, she shakes her hand in the air which told me she didn't care for my thanks. 'Whatever hunny, that boy is far from being my son so ask me anything." She says as Jackson pulls out his notebook. This interview alone giving us more information on Mario than anyone knew.