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Chapter 1: The New LG

Softly squeezing the flipper of the penguin he loves, Bob Frederic Garrison waddles through the big base. He holds a stack of papers under his flipper and manages to hold on to his brown leathered case with that very same flipper too. Finally, he had gotten the promotion, finally he would be able to live up to his wife's expectations, dreams and wishes. He smiles widely at the younger female penguin waddling next to him. Wasn't he one lucky fellow to have such a great chick, such a good job and such an amazing wife?

But he feels slightly nervous, excited. He knows that this was the day that his life would change forever. With this position, he would be able to earn enough money to give his little Edmond everything he needed and his wife too. He was sure this job would fit him perfectly.

Bob looks sideways at Risette again and sees her glancing a bit irritated at him. Bob gives her another smile and continues to kind of drag her through the base. He then manages to get out a piece of paper from under his flipper with the help of his beak. And he lets go of Risette's flipper for a moment to look at the paper. It told him he had to go see GLC Gray. He glances a bit nervously at the paper. He had heard things about that 'Gray' penguin. He had heard about guys that didn't even lasted a couple of weeks under her regime. He had heard how she used to get really angry at the penguins in her area. He glances nervously around. He could turn back now, but he wouldn't.

He had to get this job. He had to do it for his family. He knew that Risette wanted more money on flipper. Not that he knew what for though... Bob gives another soft smile at Risette before seeing a stern looking female penguin, from around his age waddling rather quickly past them.

General Lieutenant Commander Grace Kimberly Gray waddles towards her office. She had just come from a meeting with her higher-up, Commander Marian Scott. The meeting had once again been about her 'slight' anger-issues. Grace hadn't meant to hit that newby guard into next week during today's training exercises...It had just sort of happened.

Grace waddles along silently. She gives a couple of small glares at some of the more annoying guards as she does so...And by some, it would have been better thought of as all. They are all either too old or too young for her...Too stupid or too idiotic...None of them is a right guy for her.

She knows that she shouldn't think about the men at work as possible boyfriend selections...But, well...She couldn't really help it. She was lonely. And no matter how many times Marian tells her that this base isn't a 'dating service,' Grace continues to inspect the men working here for her tough male standards.

GLC Gray turns down a hallway towards the office. She stops for a moment when she sees this male penguin out of the blue. He looks strong and tall...Handsome...Her own age. She briefly looks him over. She wonders what the smoked halibut a cutie like him is doing in a place like this.

Then she notices the woman. Grace mentally snaps unhappily. She highly doubts that that female is just his sister...So, that means that he's already taken. Great. The first good-looking guy in here in like forever, and he's not up for grabs.

Grace looks them over a little more before continuing to her office. Even though it doesn't really matter all that much anymore, she still wonders who he is and what he's doing at this base.

Bob looks a little bit more at the stern looking female penguin and then sees her waddling to one of the offices. He softly looks back at the penguin next to him and then lets go of her flipper with a small smile. "Au revoir, ma chérie.*" He says to her and gives her a kiss on her cheek. Risette looks a bit unamused at him before turning around and waddling out of the base. Bob sighs a little at her silence, but then continues in his search for the right office. It wasn't hard to find, he just had to waddle straight to the end of the base and then turn left. He looks at the name plates next to every door until he finds one that read 'GLC Gray'. Bob takes a deep breath, lets a flipper run through his feathers and then knocks three times on the door.

Grace looks up at the door curiously from her pile of paperwork. "Come in." She says as she lays her pencil aside and staples a few sheets together. She figures it's probably Marian here to talk to her more about her temper or maybe something else work-related.

Bob hears the female voice and looks a bit hesitantly at the door. He nervously opens it and waddles into the office and then snaps a salute. "Madame Gray" He says with a nod as he nervously orders the stack of papers under his flipper.

Grace looks at Bob with a raised nonexistent eyebrow. She really hadn't expected the new, cute penguin to be at her door. She clears her throat a little. "Euhm...Name and rank?" She asks curiously as she looks him over some more. He looks even more handsome and cuter from closer up.

"Agent and Medic Bob..." Bob says silently and a bit clumsily. "No... Euhm... That is wrong... Euhm..." Bob looks a bit sheepishly at Grace. "Lieutenant General... Yes, Lieutenant General Bob." He says silently as he thinks that he really should have practiced this. "Madame..." He adds with a nod.

Grace looks at Bob amused at his clumsy talking. She thinks it's cute, too. "Ah, so you're that new LG Commander Marian was talk'n about..." She says with a small nod. 'I definitely approve of having to work near this LG, yup.' She thinks.

Bob nods. "I think so..." He says silently. "If she is the one in charge of this base, then yes." He says somewhat less silent-like. Now that Grace hadn't yet yelled him out of her office, he became slightly more confident about himself being in it. He starts looking around in the stack of papers under his flipper. "I got this lettre*..." He says before clumsily letting all the papers fall from his flipper. He blushes heavily and then quickly starts getting the papers together. "Euhm..." He says really nervously as he looks for the right paper and kneels besides the mess he had made on the floor of Grace's office.

Grace watches him and puts her flipper up to her beak for a moment to keep from laughing. She quickly regains her calm, stern composure and watches him curiously. "Yes, Bob, Commander Marian is the one in charge..." She says. She then kneels down near him and helps with the papers. "Was it this one?" She asks holding up a sheet and showing it to him.

Before looking at the paper, Bob gets together the other papers he had dropped and pushes them a bit roughly and still a bit ashamed in his case. 'I bet she thinks of me now as a total loser... bon début*, Bobby.' He silently thinks and looks at the paper that Grace is holding. He nods after a couple of seconds. "Yes, that one." He says, still blushing heavily as he softly takes it from Grace.

"Okay." Grace says and stands up from off the floor. She dusts herself off before looking at Bob. "Nervous?" She asks him with a small smile.

Bob nods a little. "A little bit, madame." He says a bit silently. "However," he tries to make a new start, "The letter says that you are going to be my new boss..." He says as he looks at Gray.

"It does?" Grace says and looks at him. "Euhm...Can I see?" She asks. She can't remember Marian saying anything earlier about her being the new LG's boss...Not that she would complain now or anything, nope.

Bob nods and hands her the letter. "Right here, madame." He says as he points his flipper to a certain point of the letter. He looks a bit sideways at Grace. He thinks she looks kind of cute now, not at all like that stern monster that the others at his previous base in France had told him about. "Exaggerated." He mumbles really silently as he shakes his head. 'And no looking at different woman, Bobby, you're married with a chick. That's a very bad thing.'

Grace looks at the letter and nods. "Alright...Well, then I guess I had better start show'n you around then, haven't I?" She says with a small smile. She heads towards the door. "Anyone showed you where your office is at yet?" She asks as she opens the door.

Bob shakes his head. "No. The letter only said that I had to go to yours, madame." Bob says as he gets his case and waddles out of the door. He then gets a bit excited, he had never had an office before and it seemed very cool to him to have one. He waits patiently for Grace first though.

"Of course..." Grace says with a nod. She waddles out the door and shuts it behind herself. She then waddles towards another office. "This way, Bob." She says.

Bob nods and follows Grace while looking curiously around. He thinks that this base is not even remotely as bad as the other agents always told him. He himself had never been in this certain base before, seeing how he was a medic too and most of the time either doubled or went with a team. And more often, his missions had arrived per letter, mostly by pigeons. Bob looks around a bit impressed by the amount of guards waddling through this part of the base. "Are we in a high-security zone?" He asks Grace curiously.

Grace chuckles a little. "Bob, this is Base Q. The whole entire thing is high-security." She says. She waddles a little further before opening a door. "And here is your new office." She says with a nod towards it. Grace likes how close to her office it is.

Bob nods and waddles into his office. He looks silently around and thinks that the office looks boring and gray. He puts down the case on the desk that is standing at one side of the office and wonders if he is allowed to hang a painting and bring a couch and closet into it. He looks at Grace. "Madame, am I allowed to hang a painting on the wall?" He asks.

Grace shrugs a little. "Sure. You can do whatever you want about how the office looks...Seeing as how it's your office now." She says with a small smile. "You could repaint the walls, too, if you want, just as long as you keep up your work."

Bob nods. "Alright." He says and then looks a bit sideways at Grace, at her large gray eyes and then swallows a little. They seemed so much softer than Risette's fierce and always angry looking gray with a green tinge ones. Bob looks away from his boss to pretend he had been looking around the office instead of observing her face. "All the flipping kippers!" He silently exclaims to get himself out of it. 'Bob!' He yells to himself in his head. 'You know perfectly well that you aren't allowed to look at other women. That's cheating! And Risette would never do such a thing to you, so you are not going to do it to her too.' He thinks before looking back at Grace. "Madame Gray, are you going to show me the rest of the base?" He asks curiously. He thinks that Grace doesn't really behaves all that stern or really like his boss...

Grace looks at him before nodding. "Of course." She says and waddles back out the door. She waits up for him to hurry up and come out, too. Grace glances at the time on her cell phone. She doesn't have much time before her meeting with a scientist about their newest invention. She decides that she should try concentrating on that and her work than on Bob...Especially since he's probably already taken...And is her employee.

Translations:

*Au revoir, ma chérie : goodbye, my darling

*Lettre : Letter

*Bon début : good start