"We want you on this Jillian," her boss insisted. "You either take this case, or take a forced leave of absence."

Jill glared at her boss. For the past four months she had been practically buried in paperwork. She was sick of paperwork and ready to be put back into the field. This was not what she had expected. She folded her arms over her chest, and leaned forward over the desk.

"This is crap Bob! You are seriously going to put me on this fluff assignment?" Jill had been with the Federal Investigation Agency for eight years now; she had joined right out of high school. Four years into it, she had been handpicked by Bob to be a part of his team on the Undercover Unit. She had a higher success rate than most of the agents on her team. Bob had started giving her a lot of the harder cases. The last case, however, had gone awry. "Come on Bob, I've passed all the psych evals. Don't do this to me. Put me on the Harrin case, you know my talents would be better suited there."

"This is non negotiable Agent Barre," Bob answered back. Jill sighed. She knew when he called her that he was serious, and there would be no arguing with him. She scowled at him.

"Where exactly am I going?" She asked not bothering to hide her displeasure. Bob smiled back at her and slid the yellow case file across the desk in front of her.

"It's called Forget-Me-Not Valley," Bob explained. "It's a small farming community, on Flower Bud Island, there are two small towns on the island, Forget-Me-Not Valley, and Mineral Town." Jill flipped open the file.

"Wait, I thought Takakura and Jack were already assigned there!"

"They are. But they seem to be hitting a brick wall. Takakura has it narrowed down to two families it could be. Neither he nor Jack seem to bet getting any closer. And Jack is not the best at dealing with people anyway. Listen I think they need some younger blood there," Bob stated.

"You're really sending me on a drug bust? Come on Bob this is ridiculous."

"Jill, there have been a lot of drugs going out of that Island. Our contacts in Mineral Town have not seen anything suspicious, so we've concluded that it must be in Forget-Me-Not Valley. It's secluded enough they'd be able to get away with it. Listen we're going to put you in as Jack's daughter, Jill Paxton. That has been his cover when he leaves Forget-Me-Not to come to the city. He says he is visiting his daughter. He is going to have met a tragic end on his next visit in a few days. So you need to be the grieving daughter. We've put some of the detailed background for you in the case file. Your mother is still going to be alive, that is who you will come see if you ever need to visit the city. The case file will help you catch up and learn what you need to know." Jill looked over at Bob again. She scanned the first page. Her words caught the word "Farmer." Her dissatisfaction intensified to disgust.

"Farming?" She burst out. "Like hell! You've got to be joking!" She tossed the case file back over to his side of the desk.

"Look Jill, we've thought this through, and after everything that happened with Agent Larkin, we feel that the peace of the country would do you some good," Bob explained.

"We?" Jill asked, her eyes narrowed in skepticism.

"The Director and I," Bob answered. The opposition in Jill quickly left. She would not ignore a direct order from the Director, and Bob knew that.

"You knew you had the trump card," Jill muttered as Bob eased the file back in front of her. She picked up the case file once again. Takakura and Jack had been stuck in Forget-Me-Not Valley for three years. She had met Takakura a few times and he had definitely not been one of her most favorite people. He was much older than her, and had acted as if she hadn't known anything. Jill looked up once again at Bob who had a satisfied smile on his face. She would have loved to reach across the desk and smack it off his face. This was going to be a long assignment.