Just as a warning this won't be a cross over until later on. I love constructive criticisms.
Joan came down the steps to the DPD floor and walked towards her operative Annie's desk. She was sitting at her desk looking over patterns in newspapers with Jai, and Joan smiled to herself knowing the two looked for every excuse to be with each other.
"Annie, can you come to my office with me? I need to speak to you about a case," Joan asked. Annie smiled and nodded.
"Of course Joan. Do you think you can finish this Jai?" Annie asked him and he nodded.
"Have fun." He told her as the two women walked to Joan's office. Joan locked the door behind them, and Annie noticed Arthur standing next to her desk with a large file.
"Annie, just the woman I wanted to see. Please sit". She sat anxious for her next task.
"Don't look so worried Annie," Joan smiled. "It's a very basic assignment." Arthur handed her a school picture of a young girl about sixteen or seventeen. Her thick brown hair was pulled into a French braid and she was wearing a private school uniform. Annie noticed her smile didn't seem to reach her eyes.
"Meet Danica Novák. She's sixteen going on seventeen, likes riding horses, does extremely well in school, and is next in line to take over her Czech family's crime business," Joan told her.
"A child mob boss? That's interesting," Annie noted.
"If we can help it she will never have to take over that business. She's been in contact with us for about sixth months while trying to help us build a case against her Uncle Josef and the rest of the family," Arthur told her. "That was until her Uncle became very ill. It seems now our window of time has shortened dramatically."
"They want her to take over after he passes away?" Annie asked.
"Yes and it's worse than that. Since she was six her Uncle has lived with her here in the states while running his business during the school year, and then they both live in Ceske Budejovice during the summers. But we recently got a panicked phone call from Danica telling us her Uncle has informed her she isn't coming back to the States. He wants her to learn more about her country she is going to serve." Joan told her.
"But she's just a kid! Why would a business this large allow a kid to take it over?" Annie asked.
"A very intelligent kid who has spent most of her life convincing her family she is loyal to a cause she finds horrendous," Arthur explained.
"Do we really trust Danica that she is going to turn on her family?" Annie asked staring at the photo. Annie wasn't sure if the CIA could really know where Danica's loyalties lied.
"Her Uncle gained custody of her after her parents were murdered. Well, burned to ashes to be more exact after they were dragged out of their home in front of Danica when she was just six," Arthur replied.
"Here in the states?" Annie asked puzzled.
"As far as we can tell her father, Ezven, was trying to distance himself from his family as much as possible. Her mother, Petra, fled the country with him and she had been abandoned by her family years before." Joan told her. "All we need you to do is go to the Czech Republic and retrieve Danica. Follow your procedure and it will lead you to a safe house in Gmund, a city in Austria just out of the Republic. Wait for a phone call from us and we'll tell you when you can return home. It shouldn't be more than a few days."
"What should I tell Danica while we are waiting?" Annie asked. She wasn't to sure about this being a basic assignment. That's what she had been told on her first day on the job and that had ended with her dodging bullets.
"Just that we need to make sure its safe and all the plans are in order. Most likely she is going to be so shook up she won't ask too many questions." Joan told her and handed her the rest of the file containing her protocol. "Be safe Annie."