The Haunted Hacker

My name is Tobias Gray. I am 23. I currently reside in New York. I am a Hacker.

[bostons-virgil]

Don't Talk Buzzed {Virgil and Tobias}

[bostons-virgil]

Virgil paused what he was working on to refill his glass of water and grab some chips. He grabbed the first bag he saw and went back to his seat and inspected the screen as the weird computer system started to talk to him. Even if it was strange, he knew that it—or was it a she?— was right.  “I got that,” Virgil said wiping his hands on his jeans so he wouldn’t get salt on the keyboard. “This should be fun.”

He started in slowly, sifting through the servers to find the one with the easiest access. He didn’t want to make the ITs working to think that he was a professional. Once there, he smirked and immediately dove in, attacking anything and everything, making sure to make as much noise and damage as he could. He tried to emmulate the young hackers he’s seen when he was younger, who always made a big mess every time they hacked into another system. “You watching them?”

[greywinters-hacks]

"Watching them like a hawk," Tobi grinned as he took another sip of his soda. Cheerily, he watched as Abby immediately put up a dozen or so encryption to prevent any backhacking. The techs over there scrambled, all of their systems immediately flashing to life as they frantically tried to protect everything and anything. They were unorganized, just reacting to a threat, it wouldn't be long before a supervisor was notified and be online as well.

And there he was, coordinating the techs to try to fix the mess that Virgil was causing. "Abby, shut down all communication between the supervisor and his lackeys. Isolate him, I want to see what he goes for himself," Smugly, Tobi watched as the supervisor's system worked itself into overdrive as they realized they had lost contact. The remainder of the techs continued what they were doing but the supervisor was starting to take action. "Gotcha," Tobi cackled happily and began going through the files that the supervisor was protecting.

[greywinters-hacks]

Hack and Steal Our Way Through Everything (Parker/ Tobias)

[only-parker]

"I like being invisible," Parker grinned, tossing a wallet that’d found its way into her pocket at the unconscious man. If the horse didn’t make things suspicious enough to check out his rep sheet, then the stolen wallet definitely would. 

Parker made a beeline for the exit, falling in step with Tobias. Her shoes squeaked out a rhythm counter to his, and she wrung out her hair, droplets of water trailing the sidewalk behind them. “You gotta admit that it was fun though,” she said, her eyes sparkling. 

[greywinters-hacks]

"Being invisible is quite handy I might admit," Tobi chuckled and ran his fingers through his hair, ensuring that his vision remained clear and worry free. "Running from a killer who wants to rip me limb from limb and torture me? Super fun. If this is your definition of fun, I don't want to see you party," Tobi shook his head and turned the corner.

"So what brings you into New York? I didn't hear anything on the grapevine about any cons going down here. Yet." Tobi added on the last part as an afterthought. You never knew what con was going on where and when, however accurate your sources could be.

[greywinters-hacks]

Not All That Glitters is Gold (Alicia/ Tobias)

[moreausgooddeed-deactivated2015]

Alicia grinned at Abby’s response and looked at Tobi. "I am starting to like her!" and then scoffed at the word’s charities.

"Hugh! Those!” She pointed out with some disdain, Anthony had dragged her to way too many events of such nature for cons when she was younger. Whilst back then she considered them a challenge now they were purely boring. Boring and ugly, charities, like everything else in Alicia’s opinion, were a mask to some sinister business executives did.

"I could go to one of those charaties if needed. I know Martha Taylor wouldn’t miss the chance.” She said referring to the alias she’d been playing earlier that day, she straightened up, sitting like Martha would and switched personas. "Nice to meet you, Mr. Bracken. Isn’t it a lovely evening to give something back to the community? Oh, I donated a marvelous collection of rubies myself…” She rolled her eyes and leaned back, going back to being Alicia with a huff as she watched Tobi work.

[greywinters-hacks]

"I don't mind your presence myself," was Abby's quick quip in return.

"Well, we could always dig up more dirt. I don't like the sound of these charities. Bracken met the mother at these charities. So Its highly possible that these charities play a large part in whatever the two of them are up to," Tobi mused out loud, fingers tapping on his chin as he thought.

"Their next function is tonight. Its a gala at an art gallery downtown. The Goldsteins will be there, along with Bracken. It is an opportune chance to see if you can get in on whatever they are doing." Abby responded already pulling up the invite list and hacking into it to change it.

"You up for it Alicia? Oooh, there's lots of high profile people there," Tobi scanned the invite list hungrily, typical charity function of course.

[bostons-virgil]

Don't Talk Buzzed {Virgil and Tobias}

[bostons-virgil]

Virgil kept up with Tobi easy enough, even though Tobi moved at a really fast pace. Once they reached the RAD department, he began to type away after his queue. “Got it,” he muttered with his eyes glued on the screen. He hid the files that he got from RAD and immediately erased his steps. He briefly wondered if there were any IT people working now and what they were thinking at the sudden activity.

"Is there anything else after this?" he asked as he double and triple checked that everything was going properly. "Any other files worth stealing from this place?"

[greywinters-hacks]

Tobi happily sifted through another set of data that Abby was transferring over, all the while running an interference program that would keep them hidden from anybody working on the server at the same time. These big companies and their fancy security systems. All talk and no game. "Well," Tobi murmured thoughtfully, "If these guys stole one blueprint, I wouldn't be surprised if they took other ones. We can do some poking around. Their database is massive, lets shake the server and see what falls out."

"I do suppose if you attack them blatantly after we have secured the files, their techs will scramble to protect the most important documents. We can just watch and see what they protect. Any unusual files will most likely be it," Abby commented through the speakers. Tobi grinned widely, Abby was always so helpful.

[greywinters-hacks]

Hack and Steal Our Way Through Everything (Parker/ Tobias)

[only-parker]

Matteo staggered in surprise, and Parker nearly bent over double to get in a good shot with the taser; it connected at his neck, the water increasing the voltage and sending his body into spasms. The horse kept running as Matteo’s body dropped, and Parker yanked hard on the reins to keep it from running right over Tobias. 

Her legs were soaked and the horse was panicking, prancing around like his tail was on fire. Sliding off, she slipping through a blasting stream of water, grabbing the reins and wrestling the horse over to where the water streams crossed over. The water there was a little less forceful, and the horse calmed a touch. 

Matteo’s crumpled body lay on the grass where a puddle was slowly forming, and the police officer was just jumping over the fence. 

"We should leave now," Parker muttered, wheeling the horse around so that it blocked her from the officer’s sightline. Matteo was taken care of, the officer would see to that, but they were a little more than soaked and she wanted to clear out before people could start asking them questions. “You okay?” 

[greywinters-hacks]

Tobi leapt out of the way as Parker came plowing through with the horse and wielding the taser. The horse still unnerved him a little bit and the taser of course didn't help at all. But that still didn't stop the grin from spreading across his face when he saw Matteo crumple to the ground. "I'm cool with leaving, I'll be fine once I get my heart rate down to normal and I'm dry," Tobi gestured to the nearest park exit and threw his soaking jacket over his shoulder to dry. His phone would probably be a little waterlogged but it was nothing he couldn't fix.

"I have all footage of you two erased. It was like you were never there," Abby added helpfully.

"Find me the quickest path back to home base Abby. I hate water," Tobi grumbled as he made his way down the sidewalk, shoes squeaking with every step he took.

[greywinters-hacks]

Not All That Glitters is Gold (Alicia/ Tobias)

[moreausgooddeed-deactivated2015]

"My family is whealthy!" she argued. "And we are not...” then she remembered her father was an evil mastermind with God complex, her mother was the daughter of the boss of one the most important Bratvas in the Russian mob and she herself had ended up working for those who took her father down in the first place. "Oh, forget it!" she muttered as she leaned back and grabbed a cookie as she watched him work.

"Wait, you’re going to track every single one of their moves to find what really is going on?” she asked as she watched Abby worked.

"Usually I would just meet with the guy, prob him a little, you know, but I think I could get used to this. One more pervert staring at my ass if we do it this way.” She said with a grin, still not so sure that would be as efficient as lively talking to the people.

She smiled when Abby exposed a picture of the three of them, a smile of a girl that had just found a secret no one else knew. "They really do have a strange dynamic." she muttered to herself before bitting the cookie.

[greywinters-hacks]

Tobi paused, waiting for Alicia to continue her statement after she trailed off. When it became apparent that she wasn't going to finish, Tobi turned his attention resolutely back to the screen. Files were flashing on and off the screen faster than you could blink as Abby began sorting through all the data, trying to locate exactly what they were looking for.

"Abby, give me half of your data, I'll process that half, we can comb through everything twice as fast," Tobi sat up and cracked his knuckles, pulling the laptop closer to him. A multitude of files appeared on the screen of the laptop and his fingers were off, flying across the keys like lightning, his eyes scanning each file for less than a second before deleting it or sending it to a mildly useful pile.

"Welcome to the hacker's world. Where no secret is safe and no safe is a secret," was Abby's slightly amused response. "Tobi, I have found a trail of high powered functions both Bracken and the mother have attended, they were both going separately."

"That sounds about right. I have one here, it should be their first one. It was Bracken's charity function. Of course the man owns a charity, image is everything." Tobi sent the file over to the big screen to be projected.

[greywinters-hacks]

Not All That Glitters is Gold (Alicia/ Tobias)

[moreausgooddeed-deactivated2015]

Alicia rolled her eyes at the good-bye, Lizzie wasn’t touching her, she knew.

When Tobi reached for the files Alicia grabbed his wrist to stop the motion, hacker, how on heart did they ever get anything done Alicia didn’t know.

"It’s not the files, Tobi." she told him."It’s the people. Abby, could you expose the pictures of the Goldenstein women and of him, please?” she asked and then started pointing at them.

"If this man had merely hired this woman as his lawyer, he would have paid her in money, maybe an offshore account in the Caimon Islands or Switzerland, but still money."she explained to him.

"Money is less personal and definitely easier to give away since people tend to get attached to jewlery. So, if this was just about a court case why would he offer her a diamond that’s worth more than his empire when put back next to the other two pieces? And why would he get engaged to the lawyer’s mother?” she questioned. Yes, the court case was important, but there was something extremely personal going on in there.

[greywinters-hacks]

Tobi stared at her mutely and dropped the files that he had just picked up. "Abby? Bring up anything you have." There was no verbal response but a half a dozen pictures flashed up onto the screen. He frowned at Alicia's words. People, great. He wasn't a big fan of the whole human interaction thing. Which was clearly why he chose the simplicity of computers. They were predictable and easy to control, unlike people.

"Well, rich people are a little crazy," Tobi murmured as he fixed his gaze on the screen, at the pair of smiling people. Or were those smiles fake? You could never be sure. "So you're saying that there's something deeper going on. Abby, run them again. Pinpoint their every movements going back eight months. If they had dinner, I want to know what they ate." And Abby was off again, systems whirring softly as she began combing through multitudes of files with a fine haired comb.

[greywinters-hacks]

Hack and Steal Our Way Through Everything (Parker/ Tobias)

[only-parker]

Parker laughed; haywire, she was on a horse - Abby had a sense of humour! As fast as Tobias and Matteo were moving, the horse could go faster, and as soon as she was a few feet away from Matteo she shouted, “Sprinklers, now!” 

They’d all get soaked a little bit too, and she reached down as the horse drew level with Matteo, who looked up with surprised. A wet Matteo and a good shot from the taser, and he’d be immobilized until the officer showed up.  

[greywinters-hacks]

"Abby. You heard the woman. Sprinklers, go go go go go go!" The words had scarcely left his mouth when the sprinklers came on, full blast. Cannons of water. Abby had turned everything on full blast. A little stunned, Tobi nearly tripped when one blast caught him full on in the face. How fortunate that his coms were waterproof.

Matteo, who was following closely behind him was not surprised when Tobi started shouting to seemingly nobody. It was a thing that he seemed to do often. But the horse approaching beside him with a grinning blonde and a heavy blast of water definitely caught him off guard.

[greywinters-hacks]

Not All That Glitters is Gold (Alicia/ Lizzie/ Tobias)

[moreausgooddeed-deactivated2015]

Anthony had taught her punctuality, the hard way and by now Alicia Moreau was only late when she meant to be late so she didn’t worry about time.

The first thing she did was undress the man in front of her and drag the body to the couch again, later scattering his clothes on the floor around him so it would look like he’d been undressed on a rush.

After that she went to the kitchen and poured his very expensive bottle of wine down the sink, being careful enough to leave a few drops on two glasses and put her mouth in one of them, marking it with her red lipstick. She took the glasses and the empty bottle to the living room and placed them on the floor next to the couch.

After that she kissed him on the cheek on the collar of his shirt, marking it too and wrote him a note that he left by his body. It had a random phone number on it and it was signed Trisha at bottom.

That way he’d think he’d gotten drunk and slept with a random girl that had left earlier in the morning and that was why he didn’t remember a thing. She left the apartment and went down to her own.

"Sorry for the trouble." she told Tobi as she sat down on the couch and started analysing all they had.

"Something doesn’t make sense." she told him with a frown.

[lizziethefinderhelps-blog]

Through the coms she could hear everything was fine, Alicia was unharmed and not the least disturbed by the creep that apparently lived above and Tobi, although slightly annoyed seem to be handling everything the way any hacker should. She reclined on her chair.

"Okay people, that’s your con, not mine. My work here is done. Tobi, it was really nice to meet you, just don’t forget to ask if you want to mess with Alicia’s security system again. Alicia, I am kicking your ass next time I see you, take care.” and she hung up. She needed a drink.

[greywinters-hacks]

Tobi kicked his legs up and leaned back in his seat. This was far too much excitement for him. He really preferred the air conditioned calm of his own home base and the stillness of computers. Swinging around the vents and stuff was not really that great. "Oh? What doesn't make sense?" he scooped the files and scanned through them trying to figure out what was wrong.

"I liked Lizzie. When she wasn't messing with my systems," Abby commented wistfully as Lizzie left. She was already busily shutting down her reserve systems and closing other operations.

"Maybe we'll get her on some other con one day," It was nice having another hacker, other than Abby around. And Lizzie seemed like a fun person, protective, but fun nonetheless.

[bostons-virgil]

Don't Talk Buzzed {Virgil and Tobias}

[bostons-virgil]

Virgil took a quick glance at the plans, guzzling down his water as he did so. With computers, he liked to think that he had a really good memory. The patterns were easy to recognize and from there he filled in the rest of the blanks with common sense and experience. In his alcohol induced mind, he was focusing more on the details than he should have, but by the time it came time for him to act, he did so.

Without really thinking about it, he started to type away on the computer, falling into the groove he used to be in before he got fired. He imagined that he was back in the offices, building another server for a department. He kept his eyes glued to the screen as he put all of his energy into working.

[greywinters-hacks]

The first few bits of the server were not that interesting. It was largely from the receptionists, some day planners and appointment books. Bored, Tobi filtered through it quickly, going through the larger files just in case. If even one copy of the file was missed, then all this work would be for nothing. But alas, there was no file there, he didn't really expect the receptionists to handle such files, but you could never be too sure, human beings were nosy after all.

After that, he was in the research and development department. And much to his chagrin, he found more copies of that all over that department. Luckily it was just shared files between the heads of the various departments within the R&D section and nothing else had leaked out yet. "Alright, the R&D department is starting its transfer over to you now, I've got all the copies of the file from there."

[greywinters-hacks]

Hack and Steal Our Way Through Everything (Parker/ Tobias)

[only-parker]

Tobias was off and… Parker had a short lull. “Hi,” she said to a small child with an ice cream. When the child didn’t look away, Parker looked around before pointing at the horse. “Like my horse?” she asked, and the horse stepped to the side idly as someone took the child away. 

Parker tugged on the reigns to get the horse back facing the way she wanted - okay, professional horse rider she was not, but she could figure this out. “Just go forward,” she told the horse, giving him a squeeze, and the horse started going forward just as she heard the shouting of the police officer to get her to stop. 

"There’s our cue," she told it with a grin, slapping down and kicking in her heels. "Giddy up!" 

The horse took off, slightly startled. The officer was yelling at her as he chased after them, but she was much faster on the horse - thankfully, it wasn’t that hard to follow a gigantic beast that was charging its way through a heavily civilian populated area. Thankfully the horse made the jump over the fence, and Parker felt herself grinning - that’s the part she’d been worried about. 

"Get the sprinklers ready, I’m coming right at’cha guys!" 

[greywinters-hacks]

So now he was flat out sprinting, suspicions be damned. He was going to be in a load of trouble if Matteo actually caught him. This whole running thing was getting to be really tiring, really quickly. He wasn't a thief or a hitter, running around in this beaming sunlight really wasn't his thing. A nice comfy leather chair, air conditioning, artificial lights, a cold soda, that's where he belonged, his perfect world. Not this fresh air, sunshine, green grass, blue skies crap. Not that any of that mattered right now as he continued running for his life. His surroundings blurring as Tobi moved as fast as he humanly could, he could hear the footsteps of the Sicilian hitter behind him and he gulped.

"Sprinklers are all set Parker," came Abby's calm voice through the coms. The park's security system on these high end, professional grade, golf course worthy sprinklers were a piece of cake for Abby's multiple systems. "They should really upgrade the security on these things, or they might just go haywire," you could almost hear the smirk and pride in Abby's voice.

[bostons-virgil]

Don't Talk Buzzed {Virgil and Tobias}

[bostons-virgil]

The first thing Virgil saw when he went downstairs was Tobi playing around with his feet. He paused mid-stair and glanced at the door, wondering if it was too late to bail. After realizing that having a foot fetish didn’t mean you were a psycho (which took a surprisingly great amount of time), he went the rest of the way downstairs and went to the kitchen to get water. It was time to sober up as much as he could.

"So what do you want me doing boss man?" Virgil said as he watched him disable the firewall and alerts. He’d seen the system before from time to time. It was popular with companies who had too much money to throw around. It was a flashy system, but there were plenty of flaws within the mainframe that a hacker could use to disable it. He saved his old company a lot of money by advising them against it.

He went to his workbench and glanced at Tobi. “Exactly how intricate is this server that I have to rebuild?”

[greywinters-hacks]

"Uhm, just get comfy. Abby's getting the first few bits of the server now. Once I take down the last bits of this fantastic firewall, I'll comb through it and you can just rebuild it, there's a detailed plan on what its supposed to look like on your computer. So just follow that I guess," Tobi shrugged as he happily blasted away the last firewall.

"Now that's out of the way," Tobi chuckled and began running through all the files that Abby was sending his way. Whistling, he began deleting any trace of his target file, Abby picking up the slack. These big companies thought that their big firewall around the server was enough to protect them. Once you got past that wall, it was simple passcodes and primitive safeguards, serves them right for being flashy.

[greywinters-hacks]

Not All That Glitters is Gold (Alicia/ Lizzie/ Tobias)

[moreausgooddeed-deactivated2015]

About twenty minutes had passed and the guy was sitting really close to her, reallyclose to her. She’d been crying and sobbing and acting all frail, rambling about how her boyfriend had left her over some peroxide-blonde that was a few inches taller and a few pounds thinner and he’d been patient enough to listen and comfort her, telling her how beautiful she was and that her ex was a douche that would only too late  appreciate what he’d lost. Soon that had gone to small touches, shared silences and glances. He’d touched her knee and arm, he’d tugged strands of hair behind her ear, he had even squeezed her hand and now his gaze was wandering between her eyes and her lips and she knew exactly what came next. She’d made herself the easy prey.

What Richard never noticed was how close Alicia kept her purse to herself so when he kissed her, his hands on her face, he never saw her slip her hand inside the bad pulling the syringe out. Seconds later all she saw was the look of complete surprise on his face before he fell from the couch with a loud thump.

"Sleep with the angels." she muttered before she removed the syringe from his neck. “Tobi, give me twenty minutes to cover our tracks and I’ll be there with you.”

[lizziethefinderhelps-blog]

She hated, hated, when people did that. Why did they have to cry? She hated tears. It enraged her that people would be so stupid to spill tears for those who’d hurt them and Alicia knew that yet she’d still done it. And the they both knew the girl could have found any other way to wrap that mark around her finger, yet she’d chosen the easy way…

Lizzie held the cigarette between her fingers and stared at night sky, it was pretty late in San Lorenzo, compared to New York since they were six hours apart. She’d always enjoyed the night and that time was no difference, soon she stopped shaking like she was and she stopped feeling so mad. Almost twenty minutes and five cigarettes later she was ready to go back in.

She held close to her hear listening carefully, searching for any sound that resembled crying, yet all she heard was Alicia telling someone to sleep with the angels. All her anger faded away and she smiled.

"You drugged the man like I taught you, didn’t you? That’s my girl!” she was proud.

[greywinters-hacks]

"You've got twenty minutes on the dot," Tobi replied as Abby seemed to read his mind and bring up a timer onto the screen. Humming contentedly, he started scanning through files, getting rid of irrelevant ones, it wasn't long before something of interest popped up. "I've got something fun," he grinned before passing along the files to Lizzie.

"Meet Keith O'Neil. Small time engineer, big time brains. He came up with the design a couple months back. Imperial Oil, one of the biggest oil companies found a new patch of oil. And they were going to give O'Neil's little business the contract to build the rig. Now our dear friend Jason steps in, it looks like he's taken the design but given it some tweaks here and there. Basically that's what Bracken blueprint 4302 is. Because he has the backing of a much larger company, he can undercut O'Neil by a wide margin. O'Neil is suing of course, but Bracken has tied him up in all sorts of legalities! That's what Ms. Goldstein is for! By the time O'Neil gets through the lawyers, Bracken will have the Imperial Oil contract in the bag!" Tobi exclaimed, finally connecting all the dots.

"I have also gone through the design and any recent movements with the company. Bracken has purchased a bulk of materials. Most of which would match the specs designated on the blueprints. However, most of these materials are substandard in comparison with the ones required by O'Neil's original design," Abby continued, highlighting several parts on the blueprint in yellow and several billings to Bracken's company.

[greywinters-hacks]

Not All That Glitters is Gold (Alicia/ Lizzie/ Tobias)

[moreausgooddeed-deactivated2015]

Richard sighed, pinching his nose with his fingers, clearly some girl he didn’t even remember breaking into his house and wanting his goodwill wasn’t what he’d be hoping for and she almost pitied the guy, he had no way out.

"Listen, lady, I say many things when I am drunk, okay? You need to leave and leave now." His tone was firm yet she knew exactly how to break him. She started crying, she buried her face on her hands and sobbed while her body shook, she really was crying and she could hear Lizzie flinch and step away. That was the moment he broke, he rolled his eyes, sighed once again and approached her.

[lizziethefinderhelps-blog]

"I have it now, thanks"

She was accessing all of the numbers he had as well as all the mails, phone calls and texts messages he’d sent or received. Smart cellphones weren’t such a good idea when people were naughty after all.

"Not Bracken’s company, hu? I think he’s doing commercial espionage for Bracken.” she told him before she heard Alicia’s soft cries and harshly throw the mouse away.

“Fuck you, Alicia!” she spat. “Next time I see you, I am shoving my boot up your arse!” and she took the com from her ear and left the room, she needed a break and a cigarette.

[greywinters-hacks]

"Did she leave. Abby, did Lizzie just leave?" Tobi sat up in the chair at Lizie's declaration. Great. Now Alicia was crying with the random mechanic in the room, he was stuck a floor below her.

"Yes she did just did," Abby confirmed.

"Let's just dig into Mr. Richard's nice little blueprints here then since everybody seems to like to do their own thing," Tobi scowled and ignored the muffled crying on the other end. Picking up his phone, he proceeded to scan the blueprints to Abby who immediately started processing it

[bostons-virgil]

Don't Talk Buzzed {Virgil and Tobias}

[bostons-virgil]

As he walked away, Virgil heard Tobi talk to Abby and he was still crept out at how real the computer sounded. If he didn’t know any better, he would have thought that there was a woman in the room with Tobi. It would take him a while to get used to that, if ever.

He found the bathroom easily enough and he realized how much he really had to drink as he went pee. It was almost as if he had never used the bathroom before. Once he finished relieving himself and washing his hands, he glanced around to make sure there wasn’t anything too weird going on. He didn’t find the creepy room with the pictures so that was a plus. After snooping, he went back downstairs.

[greywinters-hacks]

Stretching, Tobi settled down comfortably in his chairs. He kicked his socks off into a corner and examined his feet. It was part of his nightly routine, make sure none of his bones were broken, joints still in place, all that fun stuff. He usually did that before bed, but it looked like it was going to be a long night. While he flexed his toes and wiggled them around, making sure they were all intact, he opened his bottle of soda and took a long sip. He was going to need whatever sugar and caffeine he could get really.

"Tobi, overnight firewalls have just come up. I'm working my way through them now. It appears to be an updated version," Abby alerted him. There was amusement in her voice and Tobi smirked.

"Updated version? Well that's cute," he moved up to his work station. Virgil wasn't back yet but he figured he'd have some fun blowing through this firewall first. "Kill the firewall, I'll take out all the alerts," Tobi told Abby, fingers flying over the keyboard as he began disabling all the alerts that let security know that the firewall was being tampered with.

[greywinters-hacks]

Hack and Steal Our Way Through Everything (Parker/ Tobias)

[only-parker]

Parker dodged between a loudly complaining teenager and his annoyed guardian. While she could only see Tobias’ legs, the horse wasn’t that hard to miss, ambling down the pathway without a rider. Parker went to meet him. “I’ve got the horse,” she said, reaching out to take the reigns from him. “Gimme the taser, hop over the fence, and start running until you see Matteo - he should almost be round the bend by now.” 

"You’ve still got the sprinklers?" she asked, looking behind them to see where the officer was. She had a feeling he might be moving a little quicker than your average Joe once he started looking for his horse. 

Putting one foot in the stirrup, Parker pulled herself up and over the horse, patting it’s neck as it took a small step back, unused to the weight. It settled almost immediately though, and she silently thanked Eliot for all the impromptu horse riding lessons. “I’m gonna wait till the officer gets here and then I’ll meet you guys. Just keep running from Matteo and I’ll make sure to get him before he gets you. And be ready to turn on the sprinklers.” 

Unless Matteo had a gun. But he wouldn’t want to attract undue attention, so they’d be alright. 

[greywinters-hacks]

Happily, Tobi turned over the stolen horse and taser. He didn't particularly want to deal with the unhappy police officer that had 'lost' his things. "Aye aye captain!" Tobi gave her a mock salute and a grin and then he was off. Running? That seemed to be the plan, and that was definitely something that Tobi was good at. He was never much of a fighter, always on the run. Who knew that it would actually come in handy now.

He set off at a good speed, careful not to be flat out sprinting and attracting any unwanted attention because sprinting always looked suspicious. Nimbly, well as nimbly as he could get, he hopped over the fence and continued running. He was so not dressed to be doing all this cardio. Yeah, he looked a little out of place running around in his jeans, jacket and messenger bag. But nobody really gave him a second look, probably some student late for class or something.

"We still have the sprinklers right Abby?" Tobi asked as he moved quickly down the path, sneakers slapping against the pavement. He dodged around a baby carriage and out of the corner of his eye he saw him. Matteo, he finally managed to track him. The Sicilian hitter was moving at a good speed at well, not too fast to attract attention but still faster than Tobi, meaning that he was closing in. Tobi gulped and resisted his usual urge to just book it out of the park and disappear. Usually he'd be miles away from the park by now, hiding. But there was a plan and he was going to be damned if he didn't stick to it.

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Hack and Steal Our Way Through Everything (Parker/ Tobias)

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Parker shook her head, “No uniform. Just the horse. And the taser. The taser’s really important. Can you get the taser?” That would make things easier for her, if she didn’t have to worry about lifting a taser from the police man who’s horse they were stealing. Heading the other way, she scanned the crowd, trying to find the guy who was looking for them.

Matteo was stalking through the pile of people admiring ducks against a railing - apparently he thought a swarming group of tourist’s was a good place to hide. And it wasn’t bad, but their place was better. 

"Bring the horse over here when you’ve got it - and make sure that the officer’s gonna be looking for his horse in two minutes. I’m gonna get Matteo en route to run into you in three." 

Parker slid in next to a few tourists, careful to keep her face hidden from hitter. “Yeah,” she said loudly, startling the lady beside her. “I saw the kid running right past us with his smart phone, shouting orders and no one. Crazy, kids these days.” Matteo’s head turned toward her and she hid behind a man, raising her voice louder. “Yeah, saw him going up the path, almost ran into a dog making a right!” 

The path was just a loop back; if Matteo headed down that way looking for Tobias, he’d run in a circle. And sure enough, Matteo, still looking suspicious, took off down the pathway. 

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Luckily for him, the police man was far too busy yelling at these kids to notice Tobi pass him and lift the taser out of the holster. Pickpocketing definitely wasn't his strong suit but when you leave it in a holster, well that just made everything easier. Taser safely stowed away in his bag, Tobi set about accomplishing his second daunting task, stealing a horse. He'd never been really good with animals or anything. They generally just left him alone and he in turn, left them alone, simple as that.

The officer had left the horse near the sidewalk, where it was just standing there, enjoying its break in the shade. "Alright buddy, we're just gonna go for a quick walk," Tobi reached out hesitantly and patted the horse on the nose. Then he gently took the reins and tugged, leading the horse away from the officer, back towards where Parker was waiting. Surprisingly, the horse obeyed and trotted along amicably next to Tobi. "Abby, you better be wiping this from the cameras," Tobi murmured under his breath as he led the horse farther and farther from the officer.

"Already done, Tobi," was Abby's smooth reply, she was always thinking ahead.

"Alright, I think we're far enough, get into the the cop's police radio and alert him that his horse is gone. His badge number is 4205," Tobi had taken a quick glance at the man's badge before he lifted the taser, always handy to notice little things. "Parker, I'm about twenty feet away from you, what do you want me to do with the horse," Tobi stood on the other side of the horse, using the creature as a shield to prevent himself from being seen.