It was a normal day at X community police station. At lest that was what junior officer Ace dean had been told. As he looked around the chaos that was X community police station he noticed that the cell block was twice as big as the local school. After a while searching Ace finally found the right department for him. The detective department, Opening the door Ace found himself walking in to what could be a messiest and fun looking food fight. On one side of the room behind a load of up-turned tables Ace could see what looked like every female detective. While on the other side of the room hiding in the Jr commissioner office Ace could see the men all hiding and looking worried. It didn't take a geniuses to see that the girls where winning and the boys where about to give up. The food fight went on for just over half an hour before the boys admitted defeat, and the place was quickly put to rights.

All the time Ace stayed in the background. He didn't know how these people worked, so he had decided to wait till some one noticed him. 15 minutes later and Ace was still waiting for someone to notice him, when a young man whisked past. He paused and ginned at him. He looked about 25/26 he guessed. Light black hair fell in blue eyes. He looked fit and muscular as if he worked out a lot.

"Is this your first day?" he asked.

"Yea" Ace said

"I'm Joseph but every one calls me Anza" Anza held out a hand for Ace to shake and he did.

"I'm Ace" Anza nodded, drawing a stiff backed envelope from a pile of files he held.

"Don't worry about it Ace" Anza said cheerfully "you'll soon settle in to this mad house, oh could you do something for me?"

"I'll try" Ace said giving Anza a small smile.

"Thanks, can you find Kevin, and give him this letter, tell him it's the one he's been expecting from downtown."

Anza grinned then handed Ace the envelope. He gave Ace a quick pat on the back before heading out the room towards the elevators. Ace gazed after the officer for a few minutes before looking down at the envelope he now held. Looking back up Ace scanned the room. 'Why not, then I'll find the head' Ace thought, and with that Ace went in search of the officer called Kevin.

Commissioner Vallejo pressed a button on his phone. When it was answered he asked for Joseph to be sent to his office. When Vallejo put the phone down Ace frowned at him. "Your not going to give him a hard time are you? I wouldn't have told you if I'd known it would get him in to trouble" Ace said. The last thing Ace need today was to get any of the senior officers in trouble; it was hard enough settling in to a new place with out being given the cold shoulder at work cos you got a fellow officer in trouble on the first day. Vallejo was about to answer when there was a sharp knocking on the door.

"Come in" Vallejo called. Joseph Anza stepped into the room.

"You wanted to see me boss" he said. When he caught sight of Ace he smiled.

"Yes Joseph, I did" Vallejo's voice was filled with just held back anger. Which made Joseph winch. "I want to introduce you to Ace Dean"

"We've already met" Anza said brightly, before looking over at Ace. "You find Kevin alright"

"Sure no problem" Ace replied

"Ace is the new blood from the academy he'll be working with team Fillmore, so I want you to take him under your wing. You and Tehama can show him the ropes round here, and make sure he's filled in on how we do things and how the Fillmore's operate. I'll send him over in a few, make sure he's given a pass card and knows the door codes ok Anza." Anza nodded he knew he was in trouble. A note had gone round to everyone a few days ago saying some new kid on the fast track was coming to work here, so as soon as any saw a new face around they where to tell Vallejo. Anza nodded to Vallejo and turned on his heel ready to bolt for the door when he was dimissed. But as he was about to head to the door he heard Vallejo speak again.

" oh and by the way Anza" Vallejo said as Anza made for the door " next time you want to off-load your work on to someone else, so you can go and meet Tehama I suggest you check who they are first"

"I'm way ahead of you on that one boss" Anza said as he walked out the door and closed it behind him. Ace was sure he had seen a look of amused relief on Anza's face at his narrow escape.

On a Monday 2 months after Ace had arrived Cornelius Fillmore walked in to the main office with cups of coffee in his hands as well as carrying a couple of Burger king bags for the two of them. Ace sat at one of the desks.

"It's really weird having the whole place to ourselves like this" Ace said, looking around at the deserted workstations of control. "It's so quite" Apart from a few cleaners, Ace and Fillmore were virtually alone in the headquarters. Vallejo and nearly everyone else was at the mayor Folsom's birthday party, reinforcing the long planned security at the party.

Fillmore grinned at Ace as he placed the food and drink on the desk." Yea it's almost too quite" Fillmore said with a grin. Ace laughed.

"Yea a bit, I've got used to having people around me" Ace reached over and got himself one of the coffees and one of the burgers out of the bag. "I wonder how Ingrid's' getting on" Ingrid Fillmore was Cornelius Fillmore's wife and partner. They had been fast track trainees from the academy too.

They had also been friends and partners since middle school. Fillmore and Ingrid had been married for just over two years now. Ingrid was currently at the airport acting as Extra security in immigration control; the three of them where in direct radio link to each other, they where on what was called red listing for the night. This was a report of potential illegal visitors, produced by cross checking addresses, passport numbers and names against passport control databanks. Normally this process just needed two officers one at base to get the red list and one at the airport to pick up those who came in to the country illegally. But for tonight Ace had joined the Fillmore's so he could learn what to do.