Emily returns

Feeling relieved and refreshed, you're ready to face a new day, before there's a knock on the door. You go to check as is the standard, and it's Emily. Shooing Mazl into the bedroom is hard when it's not to make love to her. You'll have do just that later tonight.

When everyone is in their place, you open the door and Emily comes in. "I.. did what you asked me to do. Hope this helps." She says as she hands you the USB stick.

You toss it over to Aurora who speaks up. 'I know. My program is already reporting back, so we have that going for us. I'll verify your files and we'll go from there." She says as she slots the drive into her Cyberdeck and goes to work.

"While she's working.. Do you have a picture of Mazl? Emily asks with a timid tone.

'Yeah." You say as you move to the framed picture of a sickly Mazl. "It's only the one that was in the file, but here it is. It's the only thing I could do to preserve her memory." You say.

Emily takes the picture from your hands and sniffles. "That's sweet of you." Emily runs her fingers over Mazl's picture before crying. "I... I'm so sorry. Mazl." Emily's voice is shaking. "If there was one girl I wanted to find a sponsor and a good home, it was you. Shit. I'm so sorry. I wish I could go back in time to tell you how much I cared instead of caring about my damn job. I'd quit AWIO before doing that again."

It seems Emily is really being very genuine with her apology. "Mazl... Mazl..." Emily mutters. "Fuck. I'm so... So... Sorry." Tears run down this girl's face.

"We don't need you to quit AWIO." Aurora says. "In fact we need you there now than ever, and we need people like you after we clean house. Your files are clean, and they're good. All we need you to do now is keep doing your job. Feed us names of any suspects as we prepare the next stage of our plan so it'll narrow our scope, you dig?"

Emily sniffs. "Yeah. Yeah. I can do that. I'll try."

"Keep your head low at the office, just behave normally. We don't need you to lose your job either, Emily. Okay? We'll root out this poison one way or another. I'm a master digital forensic investigator. You can't hide from me if I'm the one searching." You say.

Aurora grins, "Sounds like just what the doctor ordered. You keep surprising me with your depth there Jack. I can see why you're a good pick."