There was a flurry of activity in the ladies locker room that caused April Dancer's natural inquisitiveness to lead her a little closer to the front of the crowd of ladies. Giggling and sighing seemed to be permeating the room, something that April found odd and definitely worth investigating.
One of the secretaries from Section VII caught sight of the Section II agent and slid something out of sight.
"Hey, I saw that. What's up girls? What's got all of you so enthralled?"
Eyes darted back and forth, a few heads shook and some more giggling came from the back.
"Agent Dancer… oh gee whiz. Look, there was a camera at the Alexander Farms where that nut job was trying to take over the world. Down in the basement an experiment was being recorded and the film was seized and brought back to headquarters."
April was following the story, had heard some of Solo and Kuryakin's comments about it. She'd had the impression, however slight, that one of the innocents had shown more than a little interest in the Russian, something Napoleon vehemently denied.
"Okay, so … what does that have to do with …'
And then Agent Dancer remembered hearing about that oddball cultist who had tried to make Illya into a mummy.
"You don't have pictures of …? Do you really?"
The secretary, Gina Simmons, wasn't entirely sure that they weren't all in big trouble.
"Look, Agent Dancer… oh my. Well, it's just that someone took a few frames of that film and made some prints, for the file on the affair. I guess maybe more than one copy was made and, well… "
April was grinning now.
"May I?"
She held out her hand expectantly, fully aware that the other woman would not deny an enforcement agent a request of this nature.
April Dancer had seen Illya Kuryakin in various circumstances, both on and off the field. They were professionals, there was very little that would cause them to change their behavior towards each other, up to and including being naked or drugged or … well, whatever. Respect was at the core of how they treated all of the agents in Section II.
She looked at the photograph in her hand very carefully. Every shadow was mentally recorded, the glint of light off of Illya's hair, body and head … nothing was missed by the highly trained eyes of April Dancer.
The redhead handed the photograph back to Gina.
"I wouldn't let Agent Kuryakin catch you with that. Carry on, girls."
With that, April turned and left the locker room. She didn't need a photograph to know Kuryakin looked good in his underwear.