Stetson's Together
"Matthew, Jenny, I need you to come sown to I.F.F. I have an assignment for you." Aunt Francine was on the phone and both of them had picked up on the line from different phones.
Matthew groaned. How did I get pulled into this world that I've been trying to stay out of? He thought back to about four weeks ago when his sister had been shot.
"Does Mom and Dad know about this." Matthew asked.
"No, but they will know soon enough." Francine Desmond Stone said into the phone knowing the next question.
"Aunt Francine, does Phillip know about this?" Her niece asked starting to make sure that her hair was presentable. She had just gotten out of the shower and hadn't had time to comb it.
"He's finding out about as we speak and if you don't get here he will not be very happy. We don't want him blowing his top at us.
Phillip was just as protective of his younger brother and sister as their father and mother were. Francine didn't like to mess with this family and upset any of them and she had too much respect for Scarecrow and Glinda. Good thing Phillip didn't get named Toto or something like that and that wouldn't be likely to happen because The Wizard would have blown his top.
Lost in her thoughts she had forgotten that she was on the phone until she heard Matthew say to his sister, "Hey, Sis, you can work on your hair on the way to the Agency. No hairspray." Her brother added as a second thought.
"Fine." She said to him before she said to her aunt, "We'll see you in fifteen." She hung up the phone and got ready to face Phillip and the Oz team.
"Francine why are my brother and sister being called into the agency for an assignment. Don't you know what my parents are going to say and how they will react." Phillip met her in the hall on the way to the bullpen. The look on his face was making the workers stop and watch. He noticed and turned around and glared at them. They all rushed about their business as if they hadn't stopped.
"It wasn't necessarily my idea as I had no one else for this assignment that would actually work. They are young enough to do this job and they have the skills for it as well." Francine defended why she had to use them.
In the lobby of the Georgetown Foyer sat a middle aged woman at a desk waiting for anyone to walk in the door and defect them to another area of Washington that wasn't anywhere near the Agency.
Matthew looked the brown haired peppered with little bits of gray and smiled his best Stetson smile he could. As always it didn't work. "Password." Matthew was always amazed how the Stetson charm never worked on her.
"Matthew. You know you're just like you're father. Always thought that he could get by giving handsome debonair smile and get away with anything that you want." Francine walked into the foyer seeing the two Stetson children.
"Aunt Francine. why are we being called to an assignment? I don't like having AGENT Travis call us in on assignment let alone the Agency." Matthew not only looked irritated but sounded very irate at being called in.
"Matthew will you settle down. It's probably just a milk run. Relax." His sister had placed her hand on his arm to pull him back from anything. Francine looked into his brown eyes and had to shake her head. He still fought everything that he was to keep from becoming like his father and it wasn't working. She had watched him grow up and have his line of girls around the corner all ending with an i or a y and had seen the look in his eyes when his sister was hurt. He had Amanda's eyes and her brunette hair but his father's gently squared facial structure. You could read volumes and he could hide his feelings as well when was required.
"Your brother's waiting in the Q bureau for us." They knew about the famous Q bureau where there parents had worked and solved more cases than any partnered team had ever done. No team had been able to meet those standards and wished that they could.
Phillip looked like his father with his medium dark brown hair and brown eyes. He reminded Amanda of his father's every mannerism in the fact that he was adventurous and stubborn and willing to do what it took to get what it was that he wanted. He hadn't married until late in his life because of this. He hadn't wanted to cause any woman the heart ache that his father had caused his mother and his mother hurt for him because of the sadness that would remain in his eyes 'til he met his wife. He then he went through a lot of things that Lee had gone through and luckily he had Lee's advice to aid him in his adventures.
When they arrived in the very messy Q bureau Jenny had to smile. Her mother would have never allowed her office to look like this and would have never let another person leave it as that.
"Jenny, please don't worry how the room looks. You need to listen to me." Phillip told his sister.
"I'm listening what is it you need." She answered getting irritated at him.
"I need you to go to Oxford University. You two will be exchange students over there." Francine was telling them.
"Wait a minute, Aunt Francine. You want us to go to college abroad for what reason?" Matthew asked starting to get a little interested.
"I have classes started in a month and half. How can I get back her e to take my classes if I'm at Oxford taking classes." She said or asked more to Phillip than she did Francine.
Phillip looked to Francine imploring her to answer. He knew that his sister had a temper sometimes. "After you have the finished you're assignment you will be allowed to finish your year there." Francine answered.
"Since when do you not ask if I want to do something like this?" By now Matthew was by his sister's side trying to calm her down.
"Hey, it's okay. They probably will have people keeping an eye on you while you're they're and you get to study in another country. It's something that you have always wanted to do." He managed to calm her down just a little.
"You will be in constant contact with I.T.A. (International Travel Agency). They will make sure that everyone is alright. They will also have men keeping an eye on you in the school." Aunt Francine told them handing them they're new identities.
"How will my college retrieve my credits I earn while I'm over there if it's going to be under an alias?" She knew that they would probably have a way to do it but she could never figure out how they did such things.
"Don't worry. We'll take care of it when the time comes." Phillip informed his sister when his parents walked into the Q bureau.
"What's going on here?" Amanda asked her oldest son when she heard Jamie walk in and say hi to her.
"We've been given an assignment abroad, Mom." Jenny answered and would see that Phillip was worried what kind of reaction would come forth.
"Abroad?" Questioned Lee as he looked at his daughter's now calm face as if this kind of thing was normal for her.
"Yeah, Phillip told me about 20 minutes ago to come up here as soon as I got a chance." Phillip gave him a look that said don't say it. "Can it, Worm Brain."
Without thinking Amanda and Lee said simultaneously, "Jamie, don't call your brother Worm Brain."
Jamie only shook his head. "Anyways I'm supposed to give them there physicals and they are supposed to leave tomorrow night."
"Tomorrow night?! How can iI possibly pack everything that I will need in that time. I need to pack............"
Francine looked at Amanda. "I thought you were bad Amanda. She might look a lot like Lee but she rambles more than you ever did." Lee looked at his daughter and grinned. The 'Black belt confuser' had passed on her traits to her daughter just as much as he had. Only she had inherited his good looks. Not that Amanda wasn't beautiful. they're son had inherited Amanda's looks and his brazen head.
"Alright but I want steady check ins from you two or we'll be flying over saving you." Lee said to his children.
"No you won't Lee. I'll be sending Officer Ayala Young over in just a few days and Officer Travis won't be able to do anything about it. I can tell you he's not very happy about us sending Jenny but he'll be even less happy that we're sending Officer Young. According to his reports they are his best team that he's ever had." Francine told the infamous Scarecrow. He could be pretty hot headed at times especially when it came down to his family.