SunflowerFran and sujari6 guessed correctly on who was in the team so thanks for your reviews guys. Read on to see who else is in Delta team. ~I.a.H
"Names?" The women at the desk stared unimpressed up at Jasper and Bella. Her blonde hair in a messy bun above her filled-in eyebrows.
"Isabella Swan and Jasper Whitlock," Bella spoke tapping her finger on the wooden desk. The women took forever, slowing grabbing the consultant's badge from the printer. "Thank you," Bella quickly grabbed the lanyards off her before walking off in the direction that Marcus has emailed them. She tossed Jasper his lanyard as they sped walked over to the conference room. They could see the tops of four people inside the room. Bella knocked on the door, the brisk sound causing three heads to look up to the door.
"Come in," The man in the middle called out to the two police agents. Bella gave a smile to Jasper before walking in with him trailing behind her. The man in the middle walked around to greet the the two police agents, his copper coloured hair in a mess of a lump on the top of his head contrasting with the neatly made hair of the blonde girl next to him. "Edward Masen, you must be Whitlock and Swan," His voice was smooth but the words sharp, Bella shook his hand firmly and Jasper did the same. "Welcome to my team, Rosalie Hale is the blonde, named hottest on the team but I think I get that title, the other dude is Emmett McCarty and yes he lifts way too much. Alice Brandon is the midget and the tech expert and I am head of team Delta," Bella smiled at Edward's unorthodox introduction to his team, his smile revealed his perfect teeth and she somewhat agreed with his self-proclaimed title of hottest on the team. "How much have you been briefed on the case?"
"Only read the file and email Charlie forwarded us from Marcus," Bella told him, Edward tossed her a file and she opened it to a bunch of photos. It was a photo of a nightclub, then surveillance photos of men, all with names along the top of the photo. Aro Volturi, was the first man show and obviously the most important due to the sheer number of photos they had of him. "Big boss?" Bella asked Edward's team.
"Yes, they run out of the Eclipse nightclub for money laundering, selling drugs, prostitutes and illegal imports. They know we are onto them but we have been laying our surveillance low for the last six months so they may have relaxed once again," Edward briefed them quickly. "You're the tech one right?" Edward spoke point to Jasper, Jasper gave him a brisk nod. "Alice this one's with you," Edward told her, the other two women were whispering in the corner by the computer but when Edward mentioned her name the dark haired girl looked up, giving a big smile to Jasper.
"No problem Eddie, I'll take this one," She gave a wink to Jasper, I gave Jasper an eye raise as he walked over to the other two women.
"You're with me Bella. Do not call me Eddie," Edward said to Bella and Alice. "We are heading down to the nightclub now to do start up surveillance again, FBI bought a room in building across the way many years back so they won't know we are there," The man talked so fast Bella couldn't get in anything other than a nod in. Then Edward left out the door and Bella looked around at the rest of team Delta, Emmett just gave her a chuckle as she ran out after Edward. The small brunette jogged to catch up with the other man, who wasn't all that tall but seemed to make good ground with his walk. He took her on a winding maze of the FBI before getting outside and stopping in front of a small black they could get into the car a blonde man gave a wave to Edward and walked over. The blonde man, despite being quite a few years into his thirties, or so Bella could guess, was attractive. With a built face and firm arms he had everything in all the right places. His smile revealed even nicer teeth than the ones Edward has, perfectly straight and white. "How was the holiday Carlisle?" Edward asked him as the two embraced, Carlisle giving Edward a firm pat on the back.
"It was wonderful, Esme had an amazing time over there,"
"That's great. I'm actually heading out to the Eclipse house to set up the new mom I said hi and I'll show up to lunch on the weekend," Edward said as he began to open the door of the car. Carlisle only then seemed to see me on the other side of the car.
"Wow you must be none other than Isabella, you're dad told me so much about you. You've changed so much since I saw you last," Bella was surprised at this, Charlie never mentioned that he knew the team she was going to see.
"I wish I could say the same, you can call be Bella,"
"Carlisle Cullen, tell your father I said hi," Carlisle finished off as Edward jumped into the car.
"I will, nice to meet you," Bella closed the door behind her, as Edward began pulling the car out of the lot, driving quite quickly out of the FBI carpark. "Was that your father?" Bella asked finally as the question was burning at the tip of her tongue.
"Step-father, I didn't really know my real father so he basically is," Edward answered. The two lulled into an uncomfortable silence, Bella having no idea how to start another conversation and Edward obviously not interested in keeping conversation with her. The car began to slow and Bella looked around. "We are at the back of the apartment building, there's a back door. Can you grab one of the black bags from the back?" He brought the car to a stop, Bella grabbing one of the black bags as Edward grabbed the other two.
"How long have you guys know about the mob?" Bella asked as the walked up the stairs of the older building.
"A decade now. It was my Carlisle's case up until two years ago when he moved to director and I graduated from the academy, it's a family tradition now," He said soberly, his voice low. They reached the door, Edward unlocked the door. The door revealed a modernly decorated apartment, making it look a few decades newer than the hallway outside. "Alice insisted on decorating it when Delta team took up the case. Her rationale would be that it looks like it's lived in and not by a bunch of FBI,"
"Why didn't she become an interior designer?" Bella asked him, awed but how the colours flowed together through the living room, with bright colours but not blinding. The kitchen was off to the right, a small but modern kitchen that matched the living room. It only had a double stove, oven, fridge and cabinets but it wasn't a really used often if Bella was to guess.
"She had something change her mind, it was her original plan," He said cryptically, he began opening the bags so Bella followed his lead. One of the bags held a large camera, the smaller bag had small microphones and small cameras. It was high tech spyware - far better than the police ever got in NYC, Bella was impressed. "This camera we set up here, facing the entrance to the club, gives us a view of who is entering and exiting. The smaller spyware is going into the club,"
"In the club? Who is going to put it there without being caught?" Bella questioned him as he began setting up the large camera. He chuckled as he played with the screws.
"That's where your partner comes in,"
"Jasper? He's never done anything like that before what if he gets caught,"
"Chill, that's why he's working with Alice, she'll be the eyes in the sky he won't get caught because they will have no idea where he is. He is less risky than Emmett, if they run Jasper's face it won't reveal FBI, Alice's has tripled checked that already and the FBI has put on a fake ID on his face already - or at least that' s what they are doing right now," Edward explained. "Don't worry your boyfriend won't get caught," He gave her a wink.
"Jasper and I are not together," Bella said almost too quickly, Edward raised his eyes. "We've been partners nearly out of training, he was a childhood friend. What about you and that Rosalie girl?" Edward's face scrunched up in what Bella could only think was disgust. "You don't like her?"
"Let's just say, we've never got along. The second we met we didn't gel,"
"Delta team drama?" Bella inquired, he was finishing off the structure of where the camera would sit, it was nearly up to her waist in height, not that Bella was tall.
"No drama. Honestly we are a family, we've been together since Quantico. Emmett and I were close since day one, he and Rosalie have always had a thing for each other so that's how she came into the picture. Alice was in the tech unit, it's separate from the trainee agents yet she worked with us on multiply occasions," Edward's voice soft as he spoke of his team.
"How did you all stay together?"
"Honestly, I'm not sure but I reckon Carlisle had something to do with it. He's never helped me with any part of the training or application and since we don't share a last name no one ever connected us. I think this was his only way of helping us, everything the Delta team's done since then was us, not him," Just then multiple black cars pulled up to the club, the first car opened. The man that got out was none other than Aro Volturi himself. "There's him now, it's 8pm now so in a half an hour we are going to send your partner in," Edward opened a side pocket to the duffle bag and pulled out a phone, same model as his own. "This is your FBI phone, the numbers of all of the Delta team is there as well as Whitlock's registered phone. Use it," He said tossing it to her.
"Thanks," She replied looking through the high tech phone, with a high level recording device both audio and video. It had GPS location of all the phones from their team on the map. Bella studied the map. "Jasper and Alice are here?"
"Yes we are!" A cheery voice yelled and Bella snapped around to see Jasper trailing the small woman through the door. "Nice to formally meet you Bella, my head was buried in the computer earlier. Don't worry I took care of your partner very well," Bella's eye raised at her partner and he gave a shy shrug.
"Nice to meet you too Alice, I'm sure Jasper enjoyed your company too," Jasper blushed at that, embarrassed by his partner.
"His accent is cute too," Alice added on, dropping her bags to the dining table pulling out her laptop. Jasper' s blush didn't go away but Bella gave him a little tap with her elbow as he walked by.
"Back to business please pixie," Edward commanded the woman, she stuck her tongue out at him. "I swear I never know how we get stuff done,"
"Fine whatever. Jasper we need to get you equipped up with all the gear, I have a map of the club and I've crossed where the microphones and camera are going to go. The worst one will be here," She pointed to a point on the map that appeared to be an office. "It is Aro's private office, the door locked automatically from the inside and will not unlock without Aro's keycard, so the plan is to put you in place where right as Aro leaves you slip in behind his crew without setting off the alarm," Jasper studied the map confused at how this was going to happen without him getting his brains shot out by a bunch of Italian mobsters.
"When does the alarm go off?"
"The alarm goes off once the door has not locked within ten seconds, luckily for us there is a store room directly opposite the office so all you have to do is run across the hall once the mobsters turn the corner,"
"Great this sounds easy," Jasper sarcastically spoke, Bella just gave him a smile.
"Don't screw this up otherwise I'll have to tell Mama Whitlock and trust me I'd rather meet the mobsters than her,"
Hope you guys like the backstories to all of the teams, sorry if it's a bit confusing.
~Isabele