HERE'S A NEW STORY! XD If you've read my previous stories, in terms of timeline, this story takes place a few months before Teddy's Adulthood. If you haven't read my previous stories, that's fine, because it takes place in Britain as opposed to the American Tri-State Area. It is a standalone.

Author's Note: this is explained in my fic but Agent Zero is the new name of Agent 0-0, seen in Phineas and Ferb episodes Live and Let Drive (cameo) and mainly Elementary, My Dear Stacy. Also it has been over eight years since the episode Last Day of Summer but Double 0-0 is the same age as his appearance in Live and Let Drive, purely because I'm sure that he was at his physical prime in Elementary, My Dear Stacy

"Okay, there's another way we can play this."

Esther stood up from her chair at the dull table and walked around to the two-way mirror, her arms behind her back. "Instead of me asking questions and you sitting there and not answering them, how about I ask questions and I answer them too?"

The suspect gave her an odd look but he continued to say nothing.

"We arrested you on charges of assault, correct?" She didn't give him a chance to reply. "Yes, that's right."

Now even the supervising arresting officer was looking at her strangely.

"And it says on your form that you're denying the charges," mused Esther. "Which means you must be innocent."

"What?" spluttered the arresting officer. He had heard of Esther's odd methods, so he closed his mouth and said nothing more, but he couldn't help wondering where on earth the BOWCA agent was going with this.

The suspect stared at Esther.

"I mean, it makes sense." Esther turned to face the suspect. "Right? If you don't admit the charges, you can't be guilty of them."

"That's ridiculous!" the suspect burst out. "I denied the charges because I assaulted someone! If you assaulted someone and didn't want to go to prison, wouldn't you deny the charges?"

"Is that a confession?" Esther asked quietly.

He seemed to realise what he'd said. "What? No!"

"Can we charge him on that?" Esther asked the arresting officer.

"Yes, yes we can," grinned the arresting officer.

"Then my work here is done."

Esther left the interrogation room and entered the lit corridor outside. Waiting for her was a stylish man in a black suit, leaning casually against the wall with his arm folded and a grin on his face.

"Impressive."

"Thanks."

"Does that method usually work?" inquired Agent Zero, formerly known as Agent Double 0-0.

"Well, luckily for us, that guy was just plain dumb."

"Don't sell yourself short." Zero adjusted his bowtie. "I couldn't have made the guy talk."

"With all due respect, your forte is guns, car chases, and action. Mine is the quieter side."

"It's why we work so well together as a team," Zero pointed out. "You want to go to dinner later?"

"Sure," Esther smiled. "Well, if I can manage it. I have to write up a report on the interrogation using only the tape. I've already sat and listened to that painful five hours of interrogation that I watched before I had had enough and absolutely had to intervene. I honestly don't want to listen to that whole damn interview again, if I'm being honest." She caught Zero staring at her. "What?"

"Sometimes it's hard to believe English is only your second language. No offence."

Esther laughed. "Für mich ist das ein Kompliment."

"…what?"

Esther paused for a full twenty seconds before she realised she had unconsciously spoken in German instead of English. "Oh, I'm sorry. I said "to me, that's a compliment". That's awkward, since you just said it was hard to believe that English is not my first language."

"It's perfectly okay," Zero dismissed with a smile. "I'm nowhere near fluent in Russian and yet sometimes I find myself speaking it instead of English. It's perfectly understandable that you would sometimes slip into your native tongue instead of the tongue you adopted when you moved here."

"Do me a favour and don't tell John. I seriously do not need another reason for him to call me racist names. He calls me a Nazi, just because I'm German."

"Has he done it recently?" asked Zero.

Esther smiled briefly. "Not since you hit him."

"And I will do it again if he calls you that again," Zero said. "Besides, he's jealous because you're a foreign woman and yet you're BOWCA's top agent. That's too much for his sexist, racist mind to bear. Plus, you're bi-lingual and he can only speak English."

Esther smiled again. "Thanks for sticking up for me."

Zero also smiled. "You're a talented agent in your own right, Esther. I can't abide people who bully other people just because of that."

At that moment, a fellow BOWCA agent came up to them. He was wearing a silver suit similar to Zero's, his dark blonde hair slicked back. "Inspector Initials wants me to say she's got a new mission for you," he said in a very posh London accent.

"Thanks James."

""You"?" repeated Esther. "You mean Zero and me?"

"Yes," replied James simply.

"Not you?"

"No, actually. I'm starting training to go on a mission next August in sunny Bombay."

"Where's that?" Esther asked.

"India."

Zero sucked air through his teeth. "India in August? You're going to melt."

James grinned. "I know. I'm packing the thinnest shirts I have. But Bombay's meant to be a beautiful city so hopefully that will detract some attention away from the heat."

"You're so lucky," Esther said enviously. "I've only been out of the country on a mission once, and that was back to Germany."

"That's because you're our best agent and all the major threats are here in the UK," James said. "Anyway, you'd best go to Inspector Initials and get your mission."

He waved as he walked off. Zero turned to Esther. "I bet it's something to do with smuggling."

"I bet it's thefts," countered Esther.

"Loser buys a dinner for two?"

"You're on."