Okay, so this story ended up being totally different than what I originally planned. I deleted the original first chapter and posted this one as an alternative.
Chapter 1: The Team
Perhaps I should begin the story by telling you a little about the core members of The Elite group.
First of all, there's Alexander Mahone, a renegade FBI agent. He is the founder of The Elite and the head of the entire organization. While working for the FBI, he specialized in manhunt investigations. A couple of years ago, an organization by the name of The Company grabbed hold of Mahone and blackmailed him into doing unspeakable things to innocent people. Once he was free from their grasp, he found himself with no where to go and no job to speak of. He soon realized that there were others out in the world who opposed The Company and other people who were rogue federal agents pining for work. His brilliant mind began to formulate the plans for an agency that could adequately compete with The Company. He set out to find and hire these people and soon established The Elite.
Gretchen Morgan was an actual Company agent. She was actually one of the heads of The Company at one point in time. The Company used her to their benefit and then dropped her when she was unable to complete the assignment of killing Michael Scofield and Lincoln Burrows (who are still at large today). She intimidated many of us when she joined The Elite, but we soon learned that she was a great ally. Personally, I'm just afraid that she could be an even better enemy, so I try to stay on her good side as much as possible.
Keith Colburn was a CIA operative. He was an intelligence professional who managed to uncover some information the CIA wanted to remain top secret. As a result, they attempted to take him out…permanently. He managed to elude them and stumbled across The Elite. He is a great field agent and tends to be more warm and kind than the rest of us.
Edgar Hansen was a professional assassin for the United States government. He is the newest addition to The Elite and my latest partner. He worked several undercover assignments for various agencies including the FBI and the CIA. An unfortunate incident occurred two years ago, thanks to his young and naïve partner, and his cover was blown. He was terminated immediately and found himself on the streets without a job. Two years after being terminated, he found us.
And then there's me, Jack Harper. I was a bounty hunter operating in Los Angeles, California for three years. I ran into Alexander Mahone about two years ago when I was visiting family in Colorado (Little did I know that this was where The Elite was located). Unlike the others who joined The Elite, I was not a rogue federal agent or anything like that. I had not lost my job and I had nothing personal against The Company. But when I heard Alex's story, about what The Company had done to him, I could think of nothing else in the world I wanted more than to destroy this horrible organization. I signed on that very day.
The Elite has evolved over the past two years. We now deal not only with The Company, but also various domestic terrorist threats. My first assignment dealt with the latter.
It was a huge hostage situation in a hotel in downtown L.A. I am still convinced to this day that those were the longest two days of my life…
To Be Continued…
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