This is the last day.
It was the only thing that was keeping Kailey Danvers going on Monday afternoon: the fact that this would be her last day on desk duty. In her year since graduating Quantico, Kailey had yet to see any action. A normal Quantico graduate probably wouldn't complain, but Kailey had two and a half years experience on LAPD's K9 team behind her. She had seen field work almost every single day back then but now she rarely saw anything but a computer screen and files. When the director had called her in to reassign her to an actual team, Kailey took the news calmly, but her inner child was practically screaming with joy. She needed this, she needed to get out quick before she'd decide to quit and go crawling back to LAPD.
Kailey supposed the impatience for action was in her blood. She came from a long line of public service. Her grandmother had been a nurse in World War II, her grandfather a Marine, father was a fire chief, and she even had an uncle who was a lieutenant for LAPD. Her mother was the most influential figure, though; she had over forty years of experience raising and training K9 service dogs. By the time Kailey was in high school, she played a major role in the raising of the dogs too. It only made sense to become a cop for the K9 unit and her wide area of knowledge had gotten her into Quantico.
"Hey, I just caught wind of a rumor that you're leaving us?" Agent Tiffany Fitzgerald said, sitting on the edge of Kailey's desk with coffee in her hands. Kailey and Tiffany had graduated Quantico together and had stayed close when they were both brought back to LA.
"Yeah, the director called last week; it was supposed to be more on the DL, you know?"
"Well, now that everyone knows…. Where are you going? Miami? Washington? Chicago? Somewhere small maybe?" Tiffany asked, grinning anxiously.
"Try upstairs," Kailey said, laughing at the look of shock and disappointment on Tiffany's face. "He assigned me to Special Agent Don Eppes' team."
"The Don Eppes?"
"I guess."
"What do you mean, you guess? You have to have heard of him!"
"I have." But Tiffany didn't seem to hear her.
"Agent in charge, Albuquerque, takes a demotion for his family then brings his math genius brother in…"
"Tiff, I know," Kailey cut her off, not needing to be reminded of how popular this man's team was around the office.
"What are you going to do?"
"I'm gonna be an agent. Work my ass off, do what needs to be done; I can't focus on their success. I just need to do what I'm supposed to and leave it at that."
"You are way too calm about this."
"Believe me, I'm not, but I need to tell myself that, Tiff, come on, you know how I work."
"Are they allowing you to take the dog?"
"I don't know."
"And you're not worried about that?"
"She's my dog; as long as she gets to come home with me at the end of the day that's all that matters."
"You're unbelievable."
"I try."
A male agent walked up to the desk.
"Can we help you?" Tiffany asked, taking a sip of her coffee.
"Agent Danvers?"
"That's me," Kailey said.
"You're wanted upstairs by Special Agent Eppes." He turned on his heel and left. Kailey took a deep breath.
"Here it goes," she said, raising her eyebrows at Tiffany.
"Good luck!" Tiffany called after her.
