I do not own the rights to or anything else to do with Numb3ers. Got bored one day and decided to try my hand at this.
Chapter 1
It had been 3 weeks since Colby Granger had been rescued off the Chinese freighter. It had been a hard 2 years for Colby, reporting on the LA office of the FBI and his team mates, but the last 8 weeks had been harder for his team mates. Special Agent Don Eppes knew that his team was unraveling around him and had to get it together and start functioning as team again.
A new day was starting, and FBI Agent Colby Granger really hoped that today was the day that his old partner, David Sinclair, would begin to put the past behind them and start fresh with their friendship and partnership. Colby knew that if David didn't come around, they could not be partners in the field anymore. Partners had to trust each other, but this Triple Agent business had made David cautious about going in the field with Colby as his backup, and it was just a matter of time before one of them was hurt or killed in the line of duty. What no one realized, was that there was one other person outside of the Colby's team that knew the story of what went down…because she had been undercover in the same investigation.
"What do I do?" Colby Granger asked his old friend. "David can't reconcile the last 2 years of me spying on the office with that went down in the last 8 weeks. Don can't decide if he should have seen thru my lies or if he isn't fit to lead because he trusted me for 2 years. Thank God Megan has sort of taken it in stride. Some days I think that she is the only one who wants to see me back in the office."
"Come on Colby, you can't mean that! Those guys came after you on that freighter. I was there and saw how hard they tried to get to you and then keep you alive until the EMTs got there." The girl was pretty plain and boring to look at, but then that is what good black ops agents are. Even in a room full of light, they fade into the background. And she was the best.
No one on the team had realized her mission was to keep tabs on Colby's mission AND act as bodyguard to Charlie Eppes, the math geneuis. The mucky mucks at the alphabet spy agencies would have had a coronary if the op had ended with the Chinese getting their hands on Charlie. The girl had a job to protect Charlie, no matter what happened to Colby or Don or the rest of the team. But there was something no one on the team run by Don Eppes knew: they had until 3 pm on Friday to get the team running smooth or else. If things were not functioning better between Colby, David, Megan, and Don then on Friday at 3 pm the team would be called into the Director's office. There someone much higher than the director of the LA field office would be waiting. It would be painful to watch, but the team would be broken up. Each agent sent to a different field office in a different part of the nation or world. Their personnel folder would be marked to say that they could never work together again as a team.
"David wanted me alive to answer questions and go back in prison. And he isn't the only one. Most of the field office believes I should still be in prison and can't figure out how I got reinstated. Even when Don made the floor watch the video from the freighter, some thought it was a trick to get me back in to the FBI," responded Colby depressingly. "I just don't know what else to do to show them that I have their backs."
The girl knew what the options were. The option she was about to suggest was not going to be pretty. It was dependent on Colby agreeing and trusting her but more importantly, she couldn't be wrong about Agent Don Eppes, the rest of the team, Charlie, and Alan. If she was wrong and it didn't work, and if she was wrong about Don Eppes and his team and family, it failed
A vial was taken out of her pocket and placed on the table between them. "How bad do you want the team to stay together and be on it? What are you willing to do?"
