Things start to unravel, they start to get closer? Not really.

Dan smiled at his assistant, Rick, as he plopped down onto his chair.

"Hey!" Rick said, tossing his shaggy blond hair from his eyes. "Was the wedding cool?"

Dan shook his head. "Nah." He spun on his chair once then pressed the speaker on his office phone. "Dedee, get me Mr. Mcytyre."

"Sure thing," Dedee's sweet voice said through the mic.

Two seconds later, Mr. Mcyntyre's voice filled the office.

"Hello Dan."

Dan leaned back on his chair. "Our Branch Leader is married to a Lucian. We can't do that."

"Yes we can," said Mycntyre's whispery voice. "It gives us ties."

Dan snorted. "Your joking, right?"

"Of course not."

"But I was the one who found out first! I'm not married to the Lucian Branch Leader!"

"Amy is wiser."

"By marrying a Lucian?"

A pause. "That was her choice. She knows the consquences."

"Of course she does," Dan said, rolling his eyes.

"Hey Dan!" Rick said, fuming through some files. "We have this code the CIA needs you to crack."

Dan grinned. Top Code Breaker in the CIA, now that was cool.

"Just let me finish," Dan said. "But William, who's even leading while Amy's away?"

"Me."

"WHAT? You!? What about me? No, I'm just 'High Authority,' even you are higher than me!"

"The same is with Natalie Kabra. She is 'High Authority,' third rank."

"This is injustice! You treat me like a swine!"

"Swine?"

"Pig," Dan said, blushing.

"Watch your language!"

"Why? I didn't even say 'shit'."

"Maybe you should crack that code. Everyone has work with Amy gone."

Dan angrily pressed the End button.

"Not fair," Rick agreed, another high official in the branch. "It'll be okay. You'll see."

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Natalie plopped down angrily in her chair. "I hate the CIA!" she screamed, stomping her foot.

People glanced at her.

"What? They intercepted one of our messages!" Natalie cried.

A murmer passed through the group.

"How?" someone asked.

"Dan Cahill."

People relaxed as sighs passed around.

"What?" Natalie cried, jumping up. "He's a Madrigal!"

"But his sister is married to Ian," someone else said.

"You idiots! He is not Amy Cahill!"

"Yes he is. Same blood."

"Oh get out!"

"You cannot order us around!" someone yelled.

"Agh!" Natalie screamed leaving the room. She flipped her cell open.

She scrolled through her contacts, stopping at Ian's. Her thumb hovered the Send button.

But Ian was on his honeymoon with Amy and of course Natalie wasn't in charge.

She sighed, glancing down the hall of the stronghold, then at her cell.

Sometimes life just wasn't fair.

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Dan just had to grin when he broke the code.

"Yes!" he said, shoving his fist into the air.

But it quickly ended with the sounds all alarms.

See, Dan had put a certain contact to the ringtone Alarm, to warn him. And that was Natalie Kabra.

Dan sighed, his happiness fading way, as he picked up the cell.

"I'm sad and bored," sniffed Natalie.

Dan tried not to scream with despair.

"So?" he finally said. "What's so sad?"

"I'm not Branch Leader, Ian's gone, nothing's working out for me," Natalie sighed.

Dan's heart nearly stopped. "R-Really? Same."

He heard the sound of a classical, sly Kabra laughter from the other end.

"We're very similar then," Natalie said.

Dan did not like to be called similar to a Cobra. In fact, he hated it.

"No we're not," he said harshley, and hung up.

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No one hangs up on Natalie Kabra, that's for sure.

But it was out of luck that happened.

Natalie was glancing at her cell with disgust. They were stuck with each other, might as well do something about that.

But no, of course not.

STUBBORN, IDIOT, SWINE.

Her phone vibrated. Natalie rolled her eyes, looking at her cell.

AGENT X,

WE HAVE REPORTED ACTIVITY OF A NEW THREAT. LOOK OUT.

-S.M.I.T.S.

Natalie rolled her eyes, not really caring. She just where went where she was needed.

Ah, it was too much.

What do you think? Guessed it already? There's a HUGE clue on what Natalie's job is.

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