To
cap everything off, Hayward gave Athena her very first fake I.D., complete with
dogears and fading so her driver's license and credit cards and insurance card
all looked like they had been well used and were ready to be replaced.
Yes,
someone could accuse him of trying to make up for all the years he couldn't be
active in his daughter's life. Someone else could ask why he bothered, since he
had only been a sperm donor, and he had nothing to feel guilty about. But that
was the kind of honorable guy Col. Franklin Hayward was. I think he enjoyed
being a dad at long last.
Bethany was preparing to help Athena change her look, thanks to her friends in the makeup team for the movie she was making. Not just hair and eyes, but skin tone and build and the way she walked and talked. The rest of us would settle back and watch how intensely the Grandstones scrambled to try to track down Athena. Maybe we would discover the strings being pulled, to follow them back to the evil spider puppet masters. Hopefully clipping those strings would cripple our enemies even more.
At least, that was the plan. Things got weird and distracted me, so I wasn't really involved in all the cyber-spy work, which Hayward and his allies and Athena handled quite well. I got to enjoy the slide show later, when Bethany came home for a visit and treated us to all the pictures and videos of her and Athena's semi-under-cover adventures.
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