Secret Agent, Counterspy (?????????) | Rewritten From Chapter 51+

Chapter 89- Missing Link

Arista: Okay, so he's madder than your sister was at you.

Dr Kozak: Yeah. *realises what she says and can't help looking at her confusingly* And how do you know my sister was mad at me? You weren't even there.

Arista: I just know these things.

Dr Kozak: *frustrated* Anyway, I've really messed up now. I want to apologise to them.

Arista: Why do you think Kieran is mad at you and not Esperanza?

Dr Kozak: *gets a fizzy drink (7Up) from the fridge and drinks it helplessly* I feel like me leaving him is me mistreating him and he told me that he doesn't like it when I do that. *as he said the word mistreating he used air quotes*.

Arista: Why was the word mistreating in air quotes?

Dr Kozak: Because I don't feel like I've been doing that lately but obviously everyone thinks differently.

Arista couldn't come up with a (meaningful) response so therefore she didn't really say anything.

Dr Kozak: Kieran even called me a two faced backstabber apparently. Esperanza texted me everything even though I said they should do some things without any of my help.

Arista: Maybe you are a two faced backstabber to him, I've noticed.

Dr Kozak: How though?

Arista: I'm sorry but did you just say how? *knocks on Dr Kozak's forehead as if it's a door and then stops* Dad. I've been noticing. You barely pay attention to that kid. Don't you know he's had a rough life?

Dr Kozak: *nods really slowly* Yeah. He's had two sets of parents. They both died. His stepmother was a serial killer, who murdered all of Kieran's siblings, well except Susannah who died in a tornado, Kieran being the only surviving one. I feel so terrible for that kid. And I feel like I've made his life worse.

Arista: *sort of perplexed* Hang on. If you know that his life has been miserable then why would you make it even more miserable by making him become really mad at you?

Dr Kozak: You don't understand, Arista. I didn't know about these things when Kieran and I talked just now. I just researched them like two seconds ago.

Arista: But I thought you said that you had a history of his life down.

Dr Kozak: I do. But I don't read everything on it. It's way too long. *shows her* See? It's approximately 963,102 words long. I can't read all of that and memorise it. I lost my photographic memory when you destroyed my gun.

Oh Jesus not this again...

Arista: You lost your photographic memory too?!

Dr Kozak: Sadly. Yes. And it's all your fault.

Arista: But how do you know when Kieran's birthday is and how long he's been alive for and all that?

Dr Kozak: Because they were literally the first things that came up on Kieran's history of his life. The bit we just talked about came up much much later. It came up on the 1,526th paragraph. There's 1,936.

Arista: Oh. That makes sense. How else did Kieran say you've been mistreating him?

Dr Kozak: Hardly caring about him and caring more about you guys and Esperanza.