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Assignment X789557
August 5th, 2028 12:AM Walker High, Auditorium
"Agent 459"
A young brown haired women stood up and walked towards to the stage to accept her diploma and the hall was filled with cheers from all of her classmates. The first one graduated from Walker High: A spy academy/High School.
"Congratulations"
She shook hand with her mentor and soon to be superior, she was giddy with emancipation for her first mission as an agent. Even if her first mission will be for the security department, which is the lowest rated department of Carmichael Industry. Most of her classmates were looking to be a part of the one of the top squads, but she was fine with doing security. Agent "Claire Woods" will be her cover name, she has been using this throughout her time here at Walker High. Most of her classmates have been getting their cover name from, a database, but she chose her own with the help of her Aunt and grandmother before she applied for the school. The next one to accept their diploma was 'Amanda Stevenson', her real name was 'Ann-Charlotte Schewosky' and was Claire's best friend and one of the few who knew Claire's real name.
Later the same day Claire gets her first mission, a long term mission surveiling and protecting a client. Her hands are shaking when she opens up the red folder that's tagged as high security:
Assignment X789557:
Name: Mary Lisa ****** (Carmichael)
DOB: May 14, 2014
Type: Undercover, standard surveillance, assessment of potential danger
Classification: X8 (Highly classified, no one outside of the mission team can now)
Supervisor: Mary Bartowski (Head of Security)
Agent will work along with Agent Amanda Stevenson, who is head of security detail for Miss Carmichael. Your mission will be working undercover to screen everyone Miss Carmichael comes in contact with and surveil them to asses if they are a danger for the subject. Agent will also do standard surveillance when it's necessary. Because of the undercover part of this assignment, Agent will under no circumstance make contact with protectee! During standard surveillance.
Timeframe: 4+ yrs
Claire was happy that she got a high security mission, but a bit surprised that she got this mission.
May 24th, 2032 05:29 PM Carmichael Industry
Claire lurked in the shadow, her eyes scanned the entrance for her subject, she knew that her subject will soon arrive. Surveillance is the worst part of her job, sometimes she hoped that she got the overt assignment instead of the covert assignment. Even if she willingly chose to be a covert agent. Not because it would make her a superior over her best friend, more because then she would have a life. Luckily her surveillance will be short today, her superior Amanda will be working at the prom. Which gives Claire a free evening, that she will spend with her family. But until the subject and her protectee arrived to the prom, she was the only one that will do the protection. Even if she strongly don't believe anything will happen, the car drive from CI to their High School is only 15 minutes and she haven't found any potential dangerous people during the four years she has working with this assignment. She's kind of sad that she haven't found any dangerous behavior.
A red beetle was driving through the main gate and caught her eyes.
" Finally! "
She whispered when she recognized the plates and jumped in her non-descriptive car.
"Subject has arrive, following him, no suspect behavior, 05:30 PM"
She hit send and her reports ended up in the CI database automatically and started the car.
May 24th, 2032 05:30 PM Parking lot B2
A man steps out of his car a red beetle, he has never been here before, outside it looked like giant block, but inside it looked more like an hidden city, it seemed to have everything you need. This place was huge, he was pretty certain that he saw a hospital when he drove around to find the parking lot. He got the feeling that someone is following after him, but when he was looking back he can't see anyone. It's probably all the rumors about this place that makes him think that someone were following him. Checking the map he got at the entrance, it doesn't take too long for him to find the easiest route.
After about ten minutes of walking he finally arrived at Walkers Avenue, he finds the road blocked by a gate with two small guard house on each side of the gate.
"Sir, state your name and business'
Max looks at the man in suit that suddenly appeared in front of him. He didn't see him coming, the man came probably from some of the guard houses.
"My names Max, Max Anderson, and are here to escort Mary Carmichael to the prom"
Max stuttered and looked down and blushed. He knew all about the high security, Mary told him about that at school but it still surprised him. Mary's family was rich and owned a big security company and the only thing he knew about them was that they was all about security. For some reason Mary didn't want to talk about her family.
"Mr Anderson, I've heard much about you, stand still while the scanner will check your identity "
The guard smiled and entered a code on his wrist computer. Max saw a green light on him, he assumed it was the scanner and tried to look casually at the guard which he now saw had a name tag: David. David were build like a soldier and looked scary, but Max also saw a kindness in his eyes and wondered if that was some of Mary's 'uncles' she talked about when she got a bit drunk.
The whole relationship of the Carmichael family was a bit weird, he knew that Mary has siblings but all the twenty uncles and aunts doesn't make sense. He has seen one of their annual family picture and they doesn't really look like a family. He knew that a rumor in the school was that they all are Russian spies collecting knowledges about the US, but he never believed those rumors.
When the scanning was finished, David opened the gate with his wrist computer, Max got surprised when everything looked so normal, he thought it would look like a fortress inside. On the left side of the street was a high school, on the other side of the road were several houses. All houses looked the same with a big garden and white picket fences, he counted to five house. It really looked like a idyllic village from the 50s.
The last house was Mary's , it was slightly bigger and had a red door but that was the only difference from the other houses. The thought of multi billionaire Charles Carmichael living here was preposterous, but he knew they lived here. He opened the garden door easily, no lock was found on the garden door. Everything felt off, he hasn't found any sign of tightened security since he got through the gate. Everything looked normal, even the doorknob, not retina scan or finger scan or any other high tech gadget. Even if he didn't saw it a scanner had accepted his ID and let him through the house.
Not far from the security gate was Agent Claire standing, faking a smoke pause. She knew that she never could enter Walkers Avenue without someone noticing it and during this surveillance she can't be noticed especially in this place, her own home.
May 24th, 2032 05:30 PM Carmichael house
Sarah was still angry at her youngest daughter, she can't believe that Mary lied to them about her boyfriend. They haven't taught them to act that way, their family's motto was that you never lie to your family. Sarah didn't know anything about this guy until yesterday, when Mary announced that her boyfriend are picking her up for their prom. The worst part was that even the guards knew about him and Mary got them to promise that they kept it a secret. She hated secrets and it really hurt her that Mary thought she needed to lie to her mother. Thank good for perfect Ellie, she would never lie. She even understood that this old boyfriend wasn't worth her, when Sarah heard what he was planning to do to Ellie she got really angry.
It was different with Mary, even if Sarah understood Mary's yearn for some normalcy, she sometimes wondered if they did the right thing to let her go to the nearest public school. She wasn't home often anymore and when she was home, she spend all her time in her bedroom. Sarah couldn't get help from Chuck, he never got angry at Mary. Sarah tried to talk about Mary, but he said that we needed to let her to go her own way. But she was happy about the security detail on Mary, that made Sarah feel safe during the days when Mary was in high school.
Sarah heard a beep from her cellphone, the boy has arrived.
Thank good that Chuck isn't here, he would never let me interrogate him.
Sarah slowly walks towards the hall and sent a text message to her mother in law. She had read all the rapport on Max since she gained knowledges about him, all those report was signed by X789557, Sarah knew that's a code to protect the agents, but she had gained respect for those agents. The reports was flawless, but something felt similar with one of these agents wrote and she wondered who it could be.
Mary nervously paced back and forth, her date was coming soon and she was terrified. She chose a public high school to get a more normal life, but she has never invited some of her friends home. Most of them would be too scared to accept it, even if she asked and probably some of them wouldn't be allowed to enter Carmichael Industry. But her biggest reason was that she was too scared too lose her friends, her family was pretty intense. Her mum's interrogation methods scared most of them. But it was different with her boyfriend, he asked her several times to meet her parents and learned more about the famous Carmichael's, he didn't looked like he was too scared to meet them. Even if she loved him, she doesn't feels to secure to tell him more about her family than what he can find in the newspapers. Eventually she decided to invite him home and the prom day felt like the perfect day for the meeting to occur. Him meeting the parents might not sound so scary, but the fact that she kept him a secret makes it more frightening. She hasn't spoked to her mother since their arguments about her lies, so she didn't knew if her mother still was angry.
Her mother was very protective and she wasn't so keen on another incident like the one between her mum and Ellie's first date. She still remembered that day , Ellie were so happy and couldn't wait to introduce him to her parents. After a conversation with Mary's mother, the poor guy ran out of their house and never talked to Ellie again. Ellie were devastated, but she hided it from her mother.
Now Ellie was 19 and secretly sees a guy, Mary are doing the same, she has worked really hard to keep Max, her boyfriend secret from her parents. He has tried and tried to get to meet her parents, but Mary always has denied his request. Both of them was planing on telling their father about their boyfriends who was less terrifying than their mother. For some reason the prom made Mary want her parents to meet Max, so she finally accepted his request and told him to pick her up for their prom. Ellie had cautioned her and told her that Mary should wait, but Mary didn't listen to her sister. Even if she regretted it after her big argument with her mother, she knew that she did the right thing. Her father had been happy for her and was saddened when he couldn't be here to see him, but the president was visiting them and as head of Carmichael industry he needed to be there for the president.
The doorbell rang and she knew that he finally was here, she unlocked her door and run down the stair to try to intercept him before her mother.
Max heard footsteps and his heart-rate was accelerating; he are finally here to meet her parents , he have been practicing a speech of what he want to say to them, but a the moment he doesn't remembered a thing. The door opened and revealed a stunningly beautiful woman, he sees some similarities between this woman and Mary, this must be Sarah. He heard lots of story about Mary's mother, everyone loves to talk about her. Before he didn't believe all the stories he had heard, but when standing face to face with her, he know that she could do anything. "Maybe she really did seduce the president"
Sarah says hello and gave Max a bright smile and gestured him to enter.
Just as the door was closing Mary arrived and gave her mother a fake smile, a duplicate of how Sarah Walker used to do them.
" Hello Max, I see you have met my mum, dad isn't hear today so you can't meet him"
Her fake smile changed to real one when their eyes met and she gave him a lingering kiss, they didn't stop until they heard someone was clearing their voice. Her little brother Stephen has arrived and suddenly Mary was blushing, she forgot that he still was home, todays practice started later because of the visit from the president. She don't want to punish him, only her mother, she gave him a weak smile and introduced him to her boyfriend. But Sarah doesn't seem to care about the kiss.
Stephen heard a lot about Max and she knew that he wanted to talk to Max for a while, to learn about who he is, Mary was getting anxious, she wanted to get away a soon as possible, hopefully until Max got interrogated by her mother. She knew that Stephen soon needed to go to practice, hopefully it will happen soon.
Max doesn't seem to want to go at the moment, he gave her his jacket and followed her mother and brother to the living room. Mary hanged up Max's jacket and followed them, it felt like she was awaiting her death penalty.
Max are in awe, the living room has everything a teenager want; a gigantic TV connected to a high tech home theater system. The walls were filled with movies, games and music, he walked toward the nearest shelf that has a small sign with a childish handwriting : 'Mary's stuff'.
"I see you are admiring my collection"
Max knew who this voice belonged to and turned around and smiled at his girlfriend, he always get butterflies in his stomach when she smiled at him.
" I didn't know that you had that extensive collection"
" Dad loves movies, I think he buys every movie that comes out and he still tries to teach mum about the fun with movies"
Max chuckled he has heard about Mary's mothers idea about what's fun, he smiled at Sarah who didn't reciprocate it. Apparently that rumor was true, Max is getting excited she's learning something about Mary's family.
"Mary...I can enjoy a good movie, but after watching Star Wars a hundred times it gets a bit boring and frankly I'm really tired of those movies"
"But Mum..how can you say something like that, dads loves those movies'
"That's why you will never say this to him"
Sarah answered, but she looked directly at Max in a threatening way instead of looking at Mary. Max got the feeling that Sarah doesn't like him, he pondered what he did wrong, he looked at Mary who gave him an encouraging smile. He's about to ask Sarah about what kind of moves she liked when the doorbell rang again.
"Oh that must be your grandmother, she wanted to get a picture of you in your prom dress Mary'
"Saved by the bell" Mary thought, she was pretty certain that Max was about to ask her mother something and that wouldn't end well.
"Don't worry Max, mum can be a bit threatening be she's really nice when you learn to know her"
Stephen told Max as he walked away from the couple to say hi to his grandmother before he went to practice.
If he was scared when he first lay eyes on Sarah, he's a lot more scared when two more intimated womens go side by side both eyed him curiously. One of the womens are younger and might be in the same age as Sarah, he wondered who she was. The other one he assume was Mary's grandmother, behind those similarly looking womens a smiling Sarah walked with a box in her hand.
Mary glanced at her grandmother, aunt and mother she felt like she felt through the floor. She won't survive this, to ex agents wanting know about Max intention with her can't end well.
Hopefully Aunt Ellie can control them, Mary thinks and takes Max sweaty hands and gave him a yet another encouraging smile.
Sarah closed the door and opened the box and took out an expensive camera (Chuck's latest anniversary gift), she wanted to take the pictures before they boy pissed his pants. And she was fairly certain that it will happen very soon. No one survived her interrogation, when she knew they hided something.
"Times for photos dears"
Max looked up and found three womens with cameras ready to take the prom photo. He laid his arm around Mary's shoulders and smiled at the cameras.
When the photo op is finished, it was late and they really needed to get going so that they won't miss their own prom. Mary took deep breaths and mouthed thank you to her Aunt who apparently had problem with getting the right picture.
Sarah should be angry, but seeing her daughter so happy made her heart melt and surprisingly the photo op took too long, so the planned 'talk' will be postponed. Even Mary her mother in law seemed to have lost her belligerence. Who can't deny little Mary to have her wonderful prom day, something Sarah never got to enjoy.
May 24th, 2032 06:37 PM Carmichael house
Everyone followed they young couple outside to the front porch to say goodbye. Sarah walked towards her daughter and gave her a bear hug and she felt very emotional. Her eyes was starting to well up when Mary whispered something.
"I love you, Mum.'
She nodded and tried to look threatening at Max, but it's impossible to do that when you are on the verge of tears.
"She needs to be home by midnight and no visit at some cheap motel" ,
Sarah spoke up, before she teared up completely and run inside and shut the door. She missed her oldest daughters prom and didn't know how emotional it would be, she wished Chuck was here to comfort her. Her family is everything for Sarah, she felt so proud of her youngest daughter. Even if she still was a bit angry at her.
Outside everyone were quiet, no one believed what just happened. Max didn't understand the sudden change in Sarah, Mary had never seen her mother that emotional before, if you don't count the time her father went missing during a standard operation he just needed to do to keep him 'flash' ready. The only one that seemed to understand what happened was Ellie who waved goodbye to the kids and went inside to try to comfort her sister in law. Inside was Sarah sitting down at the floors crying, Sarah looked up and smiled at Ellie.
"She is so beautiful, I wish I was here when Ellie had her prom"
"Sarah you should be proud of both of your daughters, both of them are heading for a exciting life"
Sarah nodded and embraced her sister in law.
Mary smiled at her grandmother: "Bye grams" and took Max sweaty hands and walked away from the porch smiling.
She made it and still had a boyfriend, she need to call her sister to talk about this.
She and Max walked hand in hand to his car that was parked at one of the big parking lot inside Carmichael industry.
Mary looked at her granddaughter and felt saddened that she never sent her own kids out for their prom. She gladly accepted when Sarah had asked her for help with meeting the boyfriend, she liked him even if he seemed to be too scared for such a big guy. He could be a perfect man for her youngest granddaughter, when she now decided to not work with their family business.
May 24th, 2032 06:47 PM, Parking Lot B2
Mary smilingly got in Max's car, she was looking after security detail but couldn't see one.
"Maybe I'm without security today"
Mary thought excitingly and gave Max a kiss. Not far away Agent Claire was sitting in her car and followed them when they drove out from the parking lot.
May 24th, 2032 08:00 PM Lancaster High School
Amanda Stevenson was waiting at the entrance of the gymnasium where they were holding this years prom party, Mary was a bit late, but Amanda isn't worried about it she knew about the stuff kids are doing before their prom. She did some exciting stuff before her own prom.
One hour later and Mary hasn't still be seen and Amanda was getting worried, she tried to contact Claire but she doesn't get any answer. She needed to call it in, even if she was terrified to do so, not a good way to start her career with loosing her bosses youngest daughter on their first assignment.
May 25th, 2032 01:17 AM Carmichael house
A phone was ringing and did woke Sarah up from her nightmare, she didn't felt Chuck's presence so she have to go up to answer the phone.
"Sarah is speaking"
" Hi I'm Peter Avery, head of security, sorry to bother you Mrs Carmichael, but I need to inform you that four hours ago a code red was issued for a Miss Mary Carmichael, we delayed calling you because of a request from the agent in charge "
"WHAT ARE YOU SAYING...HAVE MARY BEEN MISSING FOR FOUR HOURS AND YOU HAVEN'T DONE ANYTHING?" Sarah shouts in the phone and her eyes was welling.
Later that night Sarah was laying still in her bed with Chuck comforting her, when the doorbell was ringing. Outside of the door is devastated Ellie Woodcomb also in tears.
TBC