A/N: Sorry it's taken so long to add more, I've had assignments and presentations at uni hope it's O.K ... please review and thanks for the reviews so far :-) Must add, none of the original characters are mine (I can only dream, and I do!


"…more than 3 years?" Agent Hunter was questioning Jack as Danny entered the office, he assumed that she was asking about the Lopez Family but he couldn't be sure and so waiting for Jack to signal for him to join in the conversation.

Jack turned to Danny.

"Danny meet Katinka Hunter, Katinka meet Danny Taylor. One of my best agents!"

Danny smiled, "You must be losing it Jack, we met already – outside in the bullpen, but I'm always happy to be introduced again"

"I know you've met, I just thought it wise to introduce you two face to face since Agent Hunter will be taking over your case notes for the Lopez family. I don't want any issues to arise and especially since you were the main go between the family and the F.B.I."

Danny appeared to blush, "Yeah, yeah Jack, I understand…anyway, since I now understand the question, I'll answer for you Agent Hunter – "

"Please, call me Kat, or if you really feel the need to Katinka, Agent Hunter's so formal!" Katinka interrupted.

"Right, Kat, again to answer the question, the family have been in the USA since March 1999. They have four children, three of whom were born here and they all attend local public schools. Both Mr. and Mrs. Lopez have steady jobs, they appeared to be paying taxes, however this did become apparent that it was the smuggler taking a large sum of their salaries to fool the family into thinking they were legal. It was only after their youngest daughter went missing that they realised they were in fact aliens in this country."

"Mrs Lopez is currently 3 months pregnant with another child also," Jack added.

"Right, good." Kat mentally noted all the facts the pair had given her within the last minute and half.

"I'll just need to look at their files, but to be honest they've been here so long, have kids and believed they were legal – they have kids in public school thought they were paying tax – but you can vouch for that – I can't see, them being deported, but hey, I'm not the be all and end all, I hope I can build up a case strong enough to help them as much as possible and with your testimonies I can only see good things happening." She smiled at the two men and crossed her fingers to show them that she really did hope luck was on her side.

Danny smiled too, "Great, I'll help wherever it's needed"

"Hmm, to be honest Agent Taylor; myself and Lou will be fine from here on in as long as we just have the notes, I hate to step on your toes and I understand that you've worked on this case a lot but… well there really is nothing else you can do, I talk fluent Spanish and therefore you wouldn't even be needed as an interpreter," Kat really hoped she wasn't stepping on his toes; she knew only too well what it could be like to have a case pulled from underneath you. She really wouldn't mind his help but… well what could she do? With Lou it should all be dusted by Monday, if not sooner- there really wouldn't be anything for him.

She looked at him, offered an encouraging smile, "but believe me I will keep you posted, and if there is anything you could help me on, you will be my first port of call, that you can count on!"

Danny looked mad, "Right well, I'll get back to work, shall I"? He looked from Jack to Kat, shook his head and walked out.


Kat looked at Jack and shrugged her shoulders.

"Don't worry about him, the Lopez family were kind of a personal case, we all get them from time to time, I'm certain you have had a fair few too, he'll come around and deep down he knows that this is your job but for now he just feels like I've pulled him from something he wanted to finish. I'll talk to him". Jack reassured his new agent, and thought to himself how she may be young but how far she'd gotten in the short amount of time since she had graduated, top of her class, from Oxford only four years prior.

"I really hope so Jack, I'd hate to have made an enemy on my first day here, especially an enemy of the main agent related to the case I'm taking over" Kat replied as she walked out of Jacks office.

Within a minute Kat was stood next to Danny's desk – she looked up and down the corridor trying to find Danny but he was nowhere in sight. She looked on his desk and saw a manilla folder labelled "Lopez 2004" she looked around again for Danny, he was still nowhere in sight. So she picked the file up and began to read it. Again the facts that both Danny and Jack had given her earlier were evident within the first few paragraphs. She looked at the writing and wondered who had written it – it appeared to be like a spider had run across the page and left imprints on the page, or even to be childlike, either was feasible.

Out of nowhere a distinctive voice boomed from behind her, "What the hell do you think you're doing?"

She jumped.

She hated what that happened, she pasted a fake 'all is well' smile on her face and turned.

"Hi Danny, sorry, I did look for you – twice actually – but you were nowhere to be seen, so I thought I'd get on with my work and review your notes. I hope you don't mind, I knew you wouldn't." She began to walk away.

"Agent Hunter?"

Kat pulled a face, hadn't she already told him? Insisted even? … "Danny?"

"My notes?"Danny pointed at the file in Kat's hands

"Well y'see Jack told you that I'd need your notes – I even mentioned it myself whilst we were in the office, I assumed that was why it was on your desk? …Actually I was wondering if you had any more? You should, I'm sure Jack said there was almost four? I could do with them to be honest I really want to start processing this case and the only way to do that is to use the notes linked to the missing case, Judges love sympathy – they say they don't but they do… so anytime you're ready – I'll be over there."

She began to walk over to her colleague just as Danny began to walk in front of her to get to his desk and they bumped into each other. Danny dived out of the way and went straight to his top draw.

"Shit" He swore to himself

Kat pulled a face as she rushed over to her seat and sat across from Lou. She turned her head to look at him, He was hunched over his task counting manilla files – he looked pissed.

"Man, who in their right mind gets annoyed at someone because they have to give their notes to another federal agent?" She whispered quietly to herself.

She quickly looked back towards the notes in front of her as she saw him begin to rise; she could hear him walking over towards herand felt him place a pile of files beside her as he firmly stated, "I want them back – I still haven't finished with them"

He walked off just as Kat called back after him, "Sure, when I'm done"

Lou smiled and tried hard not to giggle. Kat shot her a stare and asked "What?"

"I'm saying nothing, not a word!" came the reply between snorts.