two. This is amazing. And the fact that you were able to go there firsthand and see what you need has impressed the hell out of me.”
“I was letting the stuff you had me read settle in my head and this sort of popped in there. And I don’t know what I’d do with a printer. I’ve never used one of those kind before.” The more Tru walked around the thing, the more she could see how much time and effort Allie had taken with this. Tru asked her how long it had taken her. “Not very long. It was finding things that I could use for the shop that took the most time. The paper towels were easier. I could cut them down to the size I needed.”
“We’ll have someone train you on the printer. It’ll be easy once you have that down.” Anna was standing where the entrance of the shop was—there was toilet paper there to represent the street. “Christ, you even drew little cars here so we’d know this was the front of the place. I’m so excited to see how you can make this work for other crime scenes.”
“Me too.” Rogen moved around the table too, but she was bulky right now with her baby showing so much. “I have two other files like this one. Where whatever went down isn’t adding up. Like Tru said, I believe that this will cut down on a lot of going there and coming back to try and work out the details. This is your job from now on if you want it. This is going to save us all a lot of time, Allie. Thanks so much.”
“I was just trying to get it straight in my head.” Rogen told her she’d done that and more. “You don’t have to give me a job, guys. I was just sort of bored and needed something to occupy my mind while the things in the book settled around me. I don’t mind doing this for you, but you don’t have to pay me for having some fun.”
“You took what, an hour to make this thing?” Allie told Tru yes, about that. “We’ve had this sitting in a file for a couple of weeks to see what sort of progress we could make on it. You not only figured it out by playing around, as you called it, but I believe you’re right. It’s done from the inside. If you only did this for us a few times a month, you’d be saving us a great deal of time and resources. You’re hired. I’m standing here thinking of all the shit you could do once you set your mind to it.”
Pride. Tru knew only too well how good it could feel to have someone be prideful of your job. She thought perhaps Allie hadn’t gotten any of that growing up. To think that they told her basically not to breed. Tru hoped that every one of her children were little redheaded monsters. It would be awesome for both her and Beckett.
Rogen left them for a few minutes as she and Anna went over the project with Allie. Not to have her explain how she’d done it, but to get the details on how she’d come up with the conclusion. Tru realized a couple of things about Allie that she liked.
One, she didn’t chatter or need to fill in silence when it wasn’t necessary. She thought about what she was going to say, then said it. There wasn’t any “I think” or “I believe” either. Allie knew what she’d figured out and wasn’t backing off when questioned about it.
The second thing she realized was that Allie did need to have her information settle in her mind. Tru took a quick peek into her head and was amazed to feel her putting things in her mind in order. Taking information that she could use and sliding it into something to remember it by. Tru would bet anything that if someone could look into her mind and what she was doing, it would look like filing cabinets with names on the drawers for her to be able to retrieve the information quickly. It was what she did when she read something she needed to blend in with. File after file of information.
Rogen joined them again a few minutes later. “I’m having someone come out in the morning to build you a space to use. I don’t know that you’ll need a huge space, but