“I know how it sounds but trust me the situation is under control” Dana tried to explain what was going on at their place of work but the lawyers kept on interrupting her.

“This is not happening” Alice quickly added covering her face with the palms of her hands.

“Listen to me… all of you just listen” Dana said more firmly this time and it seemed to be working since she had the undivided attention of the three girls standing right in front of her. “Thank you, now this is the situation: two unknown subjects entered the DA’s building pretending to be cleaning staff and…” But the brunette got quickly interrupted again.

“Wait how do you even know they are not actually from the cleaning staff? Couldn’t this be a mistake? Please tell me this is just a mistake” Helena asked speaking a mile a second.

“I’m sorry but I can’t tell you that. See we set up facial recognition teams in different spots of the building and required the companies that are hired by your office to send us pictures of all the employees that are currently working there”

“But that’s like almost impossible to achieve in such short period of time” Alice interjected.

“Well we asked for those even before we actually arrived here, besides I think in time you’ll realize that Bette and me can be… very persuasive” Dana shyly said. “Anyway the only two companies that you have currently working in the building sent us that information and we built a data base of all the staff that you guys have plus the external people and yesterday we gave it to the facial recognition techs”

“So that’s how you know that two strange faces are going around our building” Tina reasoned.

“Precisely”

“And how do you know they’re after my mother?” Helena asked with tears in her eyes, finally understanding what was going on.

“Because you three should be dead by now, along with everyone else that was at that cemetery… so they sent a small assault team to finish the job” Dana somberly said.

“Oh good lord” Helena exclaimed as the tears that were previously forming in her eyes were finally rolling down her cheeks.

“Hey it’s gonna be ok… Bette and Shane are on their way there, actually they are probably there already and we knew this was coming so we already had four backup teams with specific orders on how to proceed when this would happen” Dana said placing her hand on Helena’s shoulder. “Plus the fact that your mother has Agent Cooper and her team with her, and trust me they are one of the best teams available”

“Are… are you sure?” Helena asked trying really hard to hold back the rest of the tears that were threatening to follow the ones she had already shed.

“I am very sure” Dana said in a very tender and yet not condescending tone of voice, just the exact mixture of knowledge of the situation and understanding of the feelings it stirred in the women she had under her protection.

“I hope you’re right Dana… I just hope you’re right” Tina said really pensive at the moment, the blonde seemed to be pretty much inside her head. At that moment Dana’s cellphone rang and she immediately answered it.

“Talk to me… … … … … … yeah… … … … … all right… … … … yeah they’re quite on the edge as you can imagine… … … … … … sure I’ll tell them, okay keep me posted and you two be careful” Dana’s conversation ended with that last phrase and at that moment Tina knew her heart couldn’t take any more.

On one hand she was worried to sick about Peggy and on the other, after hearing Agent Fairbanks, she could only presume that Bette and Shane were about to go inside the building to chase these two guys, with all the risks that implied.

The blonde had managed to catch some kind of a breath when she knew that Bette had made it out of that cemetery, but now it was happening again and even worse now that Peggy was in danger too. All that anxiety and fear and that particular feeling that you get when you know something bad is gonna happen, how it makes your hands shake and your whole body sweat in nervousness.

“Jesus” Tina said in such a tone of voice that even Dana realized the state she was in.

“Calm down TK, Agents Porter and McCutcheon are really good… and so is Agent Cooper so… they will find these motherfuckers” Alice tried to calm her friend, which also was directed to Helena.

“I just hope you’re right Al” Helena said in between sobs.