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Lisbeth Salander
Fandom: Millennium Trilogy
Word Count: 764
Notes: Bobby mentioned is goren_mcs who is abused without permission but with love.
Rebecca Maynard is easy to find, James Welliver is not so easy to find. Rebecca is social and out going, she was born 1986 and just like anyone born after 1984 she has a Facebook page listing all of her friends complete with tagged pictures of her pretty much documenting much of her life for the last three years. Hacking into someone's Facebook page is not incredibly difficult, hell if they have the right app you can slip right in and gather the information that way.
The amount of information that people put out into the internet is staggering and alarming and once it's out there it's pretty much out there. Rebecca is a beautiful girl, relatively smart and easy to make friends with and for the last two years she has been working with her father at various gem and precious stone expos all over New York. Jewelers come to buy and look at stones and settings out on the market, she works her father's booth showing off the work he's done as a model and a sales woman.
Rebecca Maynard is very good at her job.
In Lisbeth's experience the worst kind of people aren't usually the ones who look like they are. They're the pretty people, the ones with bright smiles and over two hundred friends online who all gush and comment over their latest musings. She's not particularly nice to her friends, this Rebecca Maynard, at one time she might have been but Lisbeth notices a decline in the comments and posts to people Rebecca used to spend a great deal of time chatting and communicating with.
James Welliver is not James Welliver online, online he's Jack69@hotmail.com. Charming, Lisbeth finds that charming. Apparently Rebecca Maynard found it charming as well. Before the most recent robbery there was a lot of emails exchanged between Rebecca and Jack and then emails moved to text messages. Those were a little bit harder to get a hold of but Lisbeth's got friends in big places.
Protip: just because you delete the messages from your phone doesn't mean they're gone forever.
After the robbery a new number kept showing up and at first Lisbeth thought it was James but it didn't sound like James. The number was registered to a Patrick Bowler who could very well be James but Patrick knew how to spell difficult words like incredible where James did not. Plus, James still sent messages to Rebecca occasionally, messages that sounded desperate and largely went unanswered.
On a cold November day Lisbeth finds herself camped out in what can only be described as the most annoyingly loud and cramped Starbucks she has ever, ever been in. All in order to confirm her theory that the phone did not belong to one, James Welliver. Rebecca sits down first next to the large floor to ceiling window that looked out over the sidewalk, waiting for Patrick. She does not have to wait long, he slips in and puts in an order before sitting down next to her and giving her hand a reassuring squeeze.
Digital cameras, high quality digital cameras are small and easy to place these days. They come in phones, teddy bears, even built in laptops. All Lisbeth needs to do is keep her back to them and video tape the meeting with her laptops built in camera. However it's too loud to get audio.
Despite his dubious spelling skills James is not a fool, he has half of the gems apparently and is the only fence Rebecca knows. One just can't go out and sell stolen jewels to random people on the street, really there's a procedure involved and out of the two James is the one who knows. James is also getting suspicious and understandably so, his girlfriend has been missing text messages and not returning his calls.
That's because she's busy holding hands with Patrick who casually suggests that once James does what he's good for they should take the money and run, just the two of them. Wouldn't that be romantic?
It takes a number of weeks to find the information and gather it up together, she spends that time in a very nice New York loft taking the occasional break to eat and fuck. Which takes a lot more effort on her part when it comes to Bobby then it did with Mikael and she's not sure how she feels about that. She also doesn't know how she feels dropping off the envelope full of information off at the same man's door step. A promise is a promise.