Summary: Troy Bolton and Gabriella Montez both work for the CIA. When Gabriella gets transferred and has to become Troy Bolton's partner, the two have to go through many events to learn to cooperate together, agree together, train together, and most of all trust each other with their lives. The two go through life and death while trying to save a little girl, but will that teach them their own lesson at the end of the day? Troy plopped down in his desk chair in the huge office of the agency he worked for. He shut his eyes trying to block out what he and his partner/ best friend just attended. Troy could deal with criminals. He could deal with crazy people. He could deal with mysteries and solving them. But he could never get used to filing a missing person report and just moving onto the next case without looking back. Granted he had only had to do it one other time on his second case, but it had just happened again.

Troy reached up and loosened his tie as he felt that it was too stiff. He looked at his plain desk and realized unlike everyone else in the office, he had no personal things on his desk that stood out to show that it was his. He had been working there for six years now and he still had no personal touch, although he wasn't really in the office all that much since he usually was in the streets out on a case.

"Dude, that was…I never want to attend one of those again." Chad said as his desk was right by Troy's and they were the only two in there since half of the other agents were out on assignments or gathering information, and others were simply busy stopping the crimes. "I just…the girls mother…I've never not finished a mission before, you know?" Chad asked with regret in his voice.

Troy and Chad had been best friends since they were born, and had both gone to college together and gone into the same field: law. They both worked for the CIA, and they loved it, unless they couldn't complete a certain task in time.

"Actually, I don't know." Troy sighed as he decided to just take off his tight tie that felt like it was suffocating him.

"What?" Chad asked as he swiveled around on his computer chair to look at his best friend who was rubbing his temples in circles.

Troy sighed remembering six years ago when Chad was on vacation so he was partnered with some other guy who retired a couple of years ago and how they couldn't save the little girl. "You were on vacation remember, six years ago? This is my second time not finding the little ten year old girl." Troy said in a miserable tone. They were given a certain amount of time and after a while, if they couldn't find her then they had to file a report and just hope that others could as they had to move onto other cases.

"Oh…yeah." Chad said now actually remembering how depressed Troy got. Troy always took these things serious, which you should, but he took it to the heart unlike others that they worked with. "What do you think the chief will say?" Chad dreaded.

Troy shrugged, "I don't know. Where is everyone?" Troy looked around and noticed that only three women were in there at the front of the office answering phones and taking notes frantically as some of the chief's doors were closed indicating that there was a meeting going on or something else important.

Troy leaned back in his desk and shut his tired eyes. He hadn't had a good night sleep for three weeks as his piercing blue eyes were dreary looking, he had bags under his eyes, and he needed a change of clothes.

"I can't believe that slime ball Jenson got around us." Chad said with a slight anger in his voice. Troy opened his eyes at the sound of Jenson's name. He was their number one suspect who has been one of their top criminals for years now, but always managed to get around the law somehow.

Troy had no doubt that he had something to do with this kidnapping, but from anonymous sources Jenson skipped town for now, and they were left with no leads. "Chad, do me a favor and don't mention his name around here again." Troy rubbed his jaw self consciously as he remembered the last time he saw Jenson, it was a week ago and it ended with Jenson throwing a punch to Troy's jaw and just making it out of an abandoned warehouse before backup could reach them.

"Bolton! Danforth!" Troy's and Chad's heads snapped up at the sound of their names being called from the Chief who just opened his office door and then it dawned on Troy and Chad where everyone else was who weren't on assignments, they must have been in a briefing for some new case as they all filtered out and scrambled around to set to work. "Get in here!" The Chief demanded as Troy threw his tie down on the desk and followed Chad quietly.

Troy and Chad entered the large room where a long wooden table was that fit thirty people if it had too and sat in the two closest chairs near the door. "I heard about your latest case and I'm sorry to hear about such a thing." The Chief started out and Troy gave him a skeptical look.

"It's not an easy thing to lose to especially since it was one of our hardest cases. I promise you two that we'll catch Jenson." The Chief said.

"When!" Troy asked abruptly letting the anger from the funeral they just attended for the little girl that they couldn't find come to life. "When because I refuse to wait until he kidnaps another girl just to spite her family for revenge." Troy declared as he slammed his fist down and Chad's eyes were wide. You don't talk to the Chief like that.

"Troy, man, calm down." Chad said out of the side of his mouth.

"No, I refuse to just sit back. We should be out there and sick every god damn agent on him to bring his sorry ass back here to face his punishment before anyone else can get hurt." Troy stood up.

"Bolton!" The Chief commanded. "Sit down if you want to keep your job." Troy glared as he sat down reluctantly. "I see where you're coming from, and I'm greatly sorry about the little girl, but if we put every agent we have to go after Jenson who could be anywhere right now, then what about all the other people that need and deserve help also?" The Chief shot back as Troy sighed and softened his face knowing he was beat. "Now I called you two in here to tell you some big news."

Chad and Troy both looked at each other wearily, this couldn't be good. The Chief sat down in one of the black squishy chairs as he folded his hands in front of him. "You two are one of the best partners I have seen in a long time." The Chief started and Troy and Chad both knew that this news wasn't going to be good at all. "I just found out yesterday that we're getting two transfer agents in a week."

Troy and Chad looked at each other one last time. Troy inwardly groaned, there was no way that he was going to get stuck training someone who's new to their office. "Their names are Montez and McKessie. Two of the best women agents there are, I think if you look into Montez's record you'd be pretty impr--"

"With all do respect sir," Troy cut in as Chad gave Troy a warning look and the Chief looked down at his watch impatiently as he looked back up at Troy again. "What does this have to do with us?"

The Chief sighed, "Bolton, you're getting reassigned to Montez and Danforth your new partner is McKessie."

"What!" Both of them exclaimed. They had been together since, well…forever. They were partners and they didn't trust anyone else with their lives. Troy knew for a fact that Chad always had his back and in return Troy was always there for Chad. There was no hesitation about it.

"Why?" Troy asked in a disbelieving tone.

"Look, you two are the best here, and they were pretty good in New York, and now I want to see their best working with our best. If it doesn't work out then we'll figure something else out, but this is how it goes." The chief said firmly and everyone knew not to mess with him when he spoke like that.

After a long talk and a lot of grumblings from Troy and Chad the two walked out of his office and over to their desks that each had a manila folder on it. Troy's was almost double the size of Chad's as their two other friends walked over to their desks.

"What's up with you two?" Zeke asked who was a tall African American with medium color skin.

"Yeah, you two look pissed." Jason pointed out as he sat on the edge of Chad's desk.

Troy and Chad ignored the two comments as they eyed the folders. "What the hell is this?" Chad asked as he plopped down in his desk.

"Kathy said that this is all the information about your new partners." Zeke informed them as Troy and Chad groaned.

"Don't remind me." Troy said as he pushed it away and Chad opened the folder slowly as he saw a picture of Taylor with all the basic information about her family, age, height, eye color.

"How come Troy's is bigger than mine?" Chad asked as he got up to look at Troy's.

Troy slapped Chad's hand away. "Would you stop. Isn't it bad enough that we're getting new partners, but now we have to baby sit two girls." Troy said as the other three guys looked at each other.

They all knew that there was only guy agents located in LA, but now this would be sure to mix things up. "Don't you want to at least see what she looks like?" Chad asked eagerly. Taylor was cute, and he was betting Montez was too.

"No." Troy said simply as he put the huge folder in his desk as he had to jam it shut to just close it. "See, all taken care of." Troy said with a fake smile seeing as he wasn't in the mood to joke around that day.

"Yeah, until you have to pick them up at the airport in a week." Jason pointed out as Troy just tried to block out the events that were to come. This was not his day.

A medium height, petite, 25 year old stood by an oak desk with a picture frame in hand. In the frame there were two people, a medium skinned girl with black hair and brown eyes smiling widely, and Gabriella herself with her curls reaching mid way down her back. Gabriella traced the two girls with her pinky finger sadly before putting it in the cardboard box in front of her.

Gabriella shut the box blocking out anymore memories as Gabriella heard her best friend talk. "I'm gonna miss you."

Gabriella turned around and came face to face with Taylor as they embraced in a hug. "I know, I can't believe you get to go to LA without me." Gabriella said as the two pulled away.

"It's gonna be really weird not having you as a partner. I can't believe they're transferring me just because they needed more 'women' other than secretaries over at the agency." Taylor scowled as Gabriella finished taping one of Taylor's desk boxes. "Just promise me you'll call."

"Only if you do." Gabriella said back. They had been partners for five years and had become best friends. Out of the corner of Gabriella's eyes she met a pair of green eyes and she quickly looked away. She couldn't deal with him today, not with Taylor leaving in a week and getting assigned a new partner.

Before Gabriella or Taylor could say anything a voice boomed through out the office that had people hastily talking, running around, or talking on the phone trying to do their jobs seeing as most of them were working on this huge case of a business man planning a bombing. "Montez!"

Gabriella looked up to see her Chief standing in his doorway to his office waiting for her to start moving. Gabriella sighed as Taylor shot her a confused look as Gabriella pushed herself away from the desk and walked by him. Him being her ex-boyfriend as of two nights ago. They had been dating for one month and he wanted to start getting a little more serious, like moving in together but Gabriella just didn't feel anything with him. They had slept together, but that was as far as Gabriella would go, she just wasn't comfortable giving him a key to her house or moving in with him.

Gabriella walked into the Chief's office and waited for him to take his own seat. He had his eyes settled on Gabriella for a minute before he started talking. "As you know you're getting reassigned a new partner."

Gabriella nodded. "Yes Chief."

"Well, I think it would be in the best of interest for us all if you didn't." The chief explained as Gabriella's mouth dropped open. She couldn't get fired, this was her life! She grew up with her mom and dad both working in the CIA. She still had her whole life ahead of her to accomplish her goal which was to bring down the one person she hated the most.

"What!" Gabriella exclaimed.

"Now don't have a fit. Let me explain. I'm transferring you back to your hometown." The Chief explained further as Gabriella's face scrunched up into confusion. Her hometown, but that was LA, where Taylor was going.

"LA?" Gabriella asked just in case she heard wrong.

The Chief nodded, "I think it would be safe to say that we're gonna miss you here, but it would be best if you moved on."

Gabriella mentally rolled her eyes knowing why he was doing this. She wasn't completely mad, but the reasoning why he was transferring her was despicable. Just because she broke up with his son. "Whatever you say Chief and tell Tom that if he really wanted me out of the office, he could've just told me straight up." Gabriella said standing up and rolling her eyes.

Gabriella walked out of his office and into the huge one where Taylor was still at her desk. Gabriella walked past Tom again and he had a smirk on his face as Gabriella reached Tay who didn't seem to notice her. "Hey Tay, can I have a box?" Gabriella asked.

Taylor turned around and handed her one as she looked on at Gabriella confused. "Why?"

"To knock Tom out with." Gabriella said sarcastically and Gabriella knew that's what got her into tight situations, it was her mouth that would just shoot off. But if someone lived the life she did, they would have a mouth too, …or be scared that they wouldn't come out of their room, but Gabriella was tough. She could deal. "Guess who's going to LA also?"

Taylor's face broke out into a smile as she rushed over to Gabriella and squealed as she hugged her in a tight embrace. "Now we can be partners again! I knew you would always have my back." Taylor said excitedly.

"Tay, even if we were thousands of miles apart, I would always have your back." Gabriella said in a light tone even though they both knew that Gabriella was dead serious and Taylor returned the same intense stare that meant she would do the same for Gabriella. They both knew that was true, there was no doubt that the other one wouldn't be there for each other since they proved that numerous times over the years.

"Well, here's your box." Taylor said with a smile and her eyes turned into the light brown Gabriella knew them to be as her face fell out of the seriousness look and into a smile.

Gabriella was currently on the one of many CIA's planes with only Taylor, and a pilot. Gabriella was leaning back in her seat with a lazy smile on her face. She loved adventures, and transferring back to her home town would definitely be another exciting chapter in her life.

"So why'd you and Tom break up?" Taylor asked from her seat as she was currently flipping through some cheesy pamphlet the airline had by one of their counters and receptionist.

Gabriella opened her eyes and kinked an eye brow at Taylor who put the pamphlet down and was staring at Gabriella with curiosity. It totally slipped her mind that she forgot to tell Taylor why Tom and her broke up.

Gabriella shrugged as if it was nothing, which it was since she didn't think of Tom to be a serious boyfriend, and shut her eyes while leaning back more in her seat. "He wanted to move in together."

Gabriella heard Taylor gasp as Gabriella opened one her eyes in her own curiosity and only found Taylor trying to hold in her laughter. Gabriella shook her head as she rolled her eyes behind her eye lids. "Are you serious!" Taylor asked. "You guys have only been going out for like, what?…a month? And he wanted to move in and like split the bills, go shopping together, share the bathroom?" Taylor let out another laugh as Gabriella nodded her head with her eyes still closed and she brought her hands up and put them behind her head like a pillow.

"Do I look like I'm serious?" Gabriella asked as Taylor stopped laughing and Gabriella finally opened her eyes.

"Yeah, but come on. You could've been joking, almost everyone at the agency knew that you aren't one for big relationships." Taylor pointed out.

Gabriella nodded slowly. She knew that was true. She had a hard time trusting people due to the fact of her past, but that didn't exactly stop her from having a relationship, they were just shorter than others. "So who do you think our new partners are like?" Gabriella asked changing the subject as she saw that Taylor made a disgusting face.

Three days ago they found out that they wouldn't be partners anymore and that their new partners were Danforth and Bolton. Gabriella and Taylor both tried to get some kind of dirt on their new partners, but found absolutely nothing on them. But they kind of expected that since the agency was good at covering up names so that not just anyone could track them down.

Gabriella was coming around to the idea of having a new partner. She wasn't happy about it, but she was one for the positives, so as long as Tay and her worked in the same city she would be happy, even though she would prefer knowing her best friend was right by her side, Gabriella wasn't arguing since they were together.

Taylor however was not liking the idea so much. Taylor was not one for change, it took her almost a month to come around to the idea of transferring cities, and now they weren't going to be partners, Gabriella knew that deep down Taylor was panicking until they met their new partners that they were expected to train with, work with, get along with, go undercover with, and eventually trust their lives with.

"Probably some small minded, egotistical, big headed guy." Taylor said with a scrunched up nose that Gabriella laughed at. "What?" Taylor asked confused as her forehead creased and Gabriella laughed a little harder.

"Tay, you are something else." Gabriella said as she settled down. "Everything is going to be fine. I promise." Gabriella said with sincerity. Little did they know Taylor would get the nicer partner of the two guys as Gabriella would get the broody of the two, and a little surprise along the way.

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