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Infiltration ©Rachel R. Heil 2023

“You’ve completely lost your mind,” Ulrich told him matter-of-factly at lunch when Ernst had revealed his plan to his friend.

Anxiously looking around at the others in the cafeteria, Ulrich snarled at Ernst, “You want a suspected terrorist to be your secretary?”

“You did say I was in desperate need of one,” Ernst sat back in his chair, dangling a cigarette between his fingers.

“No one is that desperate,” Ulrich’s face was tight was indignation as he poked at his soup.

“Ulrich, you must think of this logically,” Ernst leaned forward, planting his elbows on the table. “We are getting nowhere with Logan and the officer tracking Daniel Prochnow. We are essentially in the same spot as before we caught Bauer. We’ve now been given a golden opportunity to infiltrate the group.”

“If she’s involved,” Ulrich reminded him.

Ernst inhaled his cigarette before blowing out the smoke with annoyance. “She is. No one goes through what she did and not want revenge against the person whose behind it. Bruckmann agreed with me when I proposed the idea to him.”

“Ernst,” Ulrich folded his arms and placed them on the table. “She has no idea you signed off on the orders.”

“It doesn’t matter,” Ernst burned the cigarette out on his plate. “She wants revenge against me. To her, I am the embodiment of evil and need to be stopped.”

“And so you’re going to stop her by having her be in a position where she’s with you all day?” Ulrich was nearly laughing. He grabbed his glass of water and shook his head. “You are a lunatic.”

Ernst began to wonder if he was but whatever way he looked at it, bringing Prochnow in as his secretary and having access to her for several hours of a day might just be the break his investigation needed. The only thing that still troubled him was that he might have to sign off on the execution order for Prochnow as he had done for Bauer.

Ulrich sighed heavily, finishing his water and placing the empty glass down. “You know I’ll support you but I think this is risky.”

Ernst smiled. “Most of what we do is risky.”

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