Early Morning Visit <Flynn>

[Ashley Parker]

Ash smirked slightly, "I know. Do you want a lift?" he proposed. "I have a few questions for you, if you wouldn't mind and it may take a while," he pulled his ID badge out, showing it to Freddie. "Wouldn't want you being late for school now, would we?" he smirked slightly wider.

[Flynn 'Freddie' Dalton]

Freddie eyed the ID very closely, not letting Ash hide it until he'd read everything to ensure the guy was legit. Then he nodded. "Sure," he said slowly, getting in the back seat.

[Ashley Parker]

Ash smiled and shut his window, driving off once Freddie was in the back and had his seatbelt on.
"I hear you're into spies and stuff," he glanced at the kid through his rear-view mirror. "How long have you been interested in them?" he dropped the tough-guy act, acting more his own age, now. He's shrugged his jacket off as he'd waited and it was lay on the back seat beside Freddie, along with the tie he'd been wearing. "Was it your parents, or something else?"

[Flynn 'Freddie' Dalton]

Freddie's eyes widened. How did this guy know that? Had he read records of every magazine Freddie had ever bought? Crazy. Maybe this guy was a spy, undercover to investigate something. Feeling slightly faint, Freddie reminded himself to calm down. No one wanted a fainting spell before school.

"I just ... forever, I guess," Freddie said, making sure he spoke slowly, and shrugging like it was nothing. "Like, my first memory is watching James Bond and stuff, yeah? And, like, his car goes underwater, and I'm like, fuck yes, that's awesome, I so want that ... Amazing stuff. Don't even remember the name of the movie, but it was so awesome!"

[Ashley Parker]

Ash smiled at Freddie's enthusiasm, "...I'm guessing that you didn't know that your mother was part of MI6, either, did you?" he wondered, almost absently, though he was trying to keep an eye on the guy's reaction to that whilst keeping an eye on the road at the same time.

[Flynn 'Freddie' Dalton]

Freddie choked on thin air for all of five seconds, literally hacking for a few minutes until he got his breath back. When he finally regained a normal breathing pattern, he looked up at Ash, unsure what to say. His mom? MI6? Of course! It made sense! Why she left so much, why she would always be secretive about her files. She wasn't a lawyer at all, and she went on - oh, jesus .. His mom on missions. And then she'd get back home and spend some time with her spy-obsessed son like nothing was wrong.

"Evidently not," he said, trying to keep calm.

[Ashley Parker]

A bit taken aback by Freddie's reaction, Ash had almost swerved in surprise as he looked back over his shoulder to be sure the kid was okay.
"Uh, yeah, evidently not," Ash agreed. "...But the thing is, we have no idea where your mom is at the moment..." he confessed slowly. "We're certain that she's still alive and just went into hiding, but can you remember her saying anything about an investigation or someone being followed or tailed?" he asked, serious once more. "Anything?" he pressed.

[Flynn 'Freddie' Dalton]

Freddie shook his head resolutely. Damnit, that woman was good. He would need tips when she got back. "She never did," he admitted.

[Ashley Parker]

Ash nodded, "Okay, I was just wondering, since you're her son and all, if she'd maybe let you in on something, or let her guard down, but she's a good agent, to be able to be so vigilant even at home," he smiled fondly - he'd always admired people that were like that. "But hey, in my jacket, the breast pocket on the left, take a card, yeah? Call me if you hear anything," he told him. Ashley's Jericho ID, was also in that pocket, though. Ash smirked slightly as he watched Flynn out of the corner of his eye.

[Flynn 'Freddie' Dalton]

Freddie blinked several times, and nodded. If his mom had been a spy, he always knew she would be a good agent. All moms were. He carefully checked the other guy's pocket - he hated going into other people's things - and pulled out a card, not even spotting the ID, and slid that into the front pocket of his bag. He doubted he'd hear a thing, though. No one really said anything important to him nowadays. "Uh. Alright, then ..."

[Ashley Parker]

Ash frowned ever-so-slightly, but just nodded his head. It was but a couple of minutes later when he pulled up outside Freddie's school.
"Don't tell anyone about this, okay?" he rose an eyebrow at Freddie via the rear view mirror. He didn't think the kid was so dumb as to go blab to his friends, but he had to be sure.

[Flynn 'Freddie' Dalton]

"Would I ever?" Freddie asked, raising an eyebrow incredulously at Ash.

[Ashley Parker]

"Just being sure. I can never be too careful," Ash smirked rather knowingly. "And neither can you, since I've been seen at your house, so be on the look out for a couple of days. If you see someone loitering where they shouldn't be, text the number at the bottom of the card," he told him.

[Flynn 'Freddie' Dalton]

'"Kay," Freddie mumbled, and then spotted a friend of his entering the gates. "See ya, dude," he added, before opening the car door and jumping out to catch up to that friend of his, grinning widely.

[Ashley Parker]

Ash sighed and rolled his eyes, waiting until Freddie was well inside the gates before putting the car back in gear and pulling away from the curb.
Unbeknownst to Ash however, was the blue car with tinted windows pulling up on the other side of the road as he drove away, right opposite where he'd been parked.

[Luke Parker]

Luke stared across the road, angleing the camera in his hands to get a better shot of the boy that had just left his brother's car.
After getting a few stills, he smirked to himself, put the camera on the seat beside him and drove off.