Plot time! Well more like story development lol.
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Chloe was sitting alone in the CIA cafeteria when a woman of average height and slim build joined her. "Hi, I'm Christina McCoy. You're Chloe Ferrera right?" The women with shoulder length glossy brown curls and stunning green and gold flecked eyes intoned amiably.
Chloe looked up and nodded a bit dumbly around a mouthful of chicken salad. She chewed and swallowed quickly, "Yes um sorry have we met before?"
"Not in person, but agent Hansen never shuts up about you and you looked like you could use the company…" Christina explained and Chloe smiled despite herself.
"How do you know Tuck?"
"Oh we trained together; I was part of the ops team during the Lauren debacle… We gave him no end of hell for that by the way", the brunette laughed a twinkle of mirth in her eye.
"Hmmm good to know someone stood their ground", Chloe replied with a laugh. She decided she liked agent McCoy, her easy smile, her friendly attitude and her boldness of just walking up and introducing herself out of the blue. They talked through lunch and the next day Christina brought her to what she called; the claimed table of ops. Chloe was quick to learn everyone's names and when they easily warmed to her she returned the favor.
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"Agent Ferrera", Collin's called and Chloe looked up from her work station. Her heart ached at the empty desks in front of her and her boss gave her a sympathetic look.
"Mam?" Chloe replied slowly, taking the packet of papers her boss was holding out for her.
"I have a task for you, the company team building exercise is coming up, your new friend from ops and ahem agent Foster's fiance have requested to go along", Collin's informed briskly. "We need you to run a crash course to prepare them and some others for war games…" She added.
"Yes mam, are you sure you want me, isn't a field agent more qualified?" Chloe couldn't help, but ask.
" I've had my eye on you for some time, get this training and the following exercise right and you'll be looking at a promotion!" Collin's stated with a small smile as Chloe's face brightened in excitement. Her boss moved to the open doorway then and turned to the burgundy haired women. "And Chloe… Ahem… agent Ferrera, it's good to see you happy again…"
"Mam!" Chloe called with a smile as Collin's stepped from view. She looked to the packet in her hands, she had reading to do if she was going to run this training and it started tomorrow no less.
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The next day she walked into the gym in casual work out wear. Some other agents had come and two actual field agents would be her assistants. She greeted them kindly and they her. One of them a woman by the name of Melinda Krieger and the other she recognized as agent Sanders. The man who had driven her home after the Heinrich case and her boy's war resolved itself in one afternoon.
She introduced herself and got the names of everyone there. As the day wore on she gradually became more comfortable in her role as leader. It was already lunch time before she had a chance to think and as she expected agent McCoy and Lauren joined her as she was reading through her class participants' backgrounds with a sandwich hanging thoughtfully from her mouth, mid bite.
"Hi Chlo, Christina here said I could join you guys… Errr sorry do you prefer agent McCoy", the blond asked the brunette sheepishly as they sat down.
"Oh no Christina is fine, actually it's nice to not be agent for once", said brunette laughed.
Chloe had closed the folder and finished the bite of sandwich. She was grinning quietly, having hoped Lauren would fit in and by the way the two women got along she realized her friend count was steadily moving up and she liked that, she liked it a lot. "So Lauren I have to ask are you sure you want to do this? We get kinda cut throat and super competitive it's not your average game of laser tag or school playground capture the flag…" Chloe inquired slowly, trying not to bring up the blonde's distress over Tuck's proficiency in even a simple game of paintball. Though she was sure he'd been showing off and taking it all too seriously.
"I know, I don't look it, but I can get scrappy and yes I want to share every part of FDR's life. I may not ever be any good, but I can at least try…" Lauren replied slowly and both Chloe and Christina smiled.
"All I needed to hear", Chloe returned and Christina cheered.
Over the next two weeks Chloe taught the class how to watch for tails, how to shoot and how to whip through a complicated obstacle course without batting an eyelash. "Oh jeez I'm never going to get this!" Lauren grumbled as she fell from the rope climb to the mat for the third time that day. Melinda having become another fast friend; saw and heard. She was blessed with a soft heart covered by a no nonsense attitude. Her hair was jet black and she had an athletic build. The raven haired women jogged up to the blonde and pulled her to stand as Chloe walked over. "How do you guys do this?" Lauren huffed.
"Laur, we train for well years and continue to train as we work, you've been here a week and a day for a crash course", Chloe chided with a smile. "You'll get it, move on for now and I'll stay after to work one on one, we can get in some extra shooting practice too if you want," She offered and Lauren smiled as she moved to the next task in the course.
Melinda, Christina, and Lauren joined Chloe for the extra one on one while the brunette's boyfriend who happened to be an agent in IT watched. Even agent Sanders had stayed an hour later to brush up and offer his own expertise. The agent was a skilled sharp shooter and though the guns they would wield held no real bullets they were thankful for the extra lesson just the same. When Lauren finally completed the rope climb in a passing time, with no falls they were all ecstatic, making up their own high five.
"Ok Chlo you promised you'd do the routine if I beat it", Lauren goaded and Chloe sighed in resignation.
Without a word she walked to a long row of carpet in front of an even longer mat. She ran for a startup kick and went into a series of cartwheels and back hand springs before a back flip. As she landed a bit wobbly her friends still cheered. They pulled their new high five and continued to laugh and chat amiably as they headed for the locker rooms.
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Two days later Tuck and FDR strode confidently into the office only to look at a work station missing their partner.
"She's in the gym; Collins has her running the War Games crash course. It's a thing of beauty, FDR I didn't know your fiance had it in her!" Sanders stated as he walked by and noticed their lingering glances on Chloe's empty desk. He hefted the strap holding his paintball gun further up on his shoulder. "Come on, I'm sure Collins won't mind, Chloe err ahem sorry agent Ferrera said you two wouldn't be back till the end of the week anyway", the agent stated and they followed him to the gym without another word.
Tuck was already charged and frustrated, having been away from his girl so long, but when they stepped in to observe the crash course he nearly lost it. Chloe stood with an easy grace at the start of the obstacle course, dressed in full tactical gear, all black, looking confidant and sexy as hell. "All right you insufferable bunch of tossers…" she called to her chattering class who stood on the sidelines. Tuck grinned; hearing her use his slang was almost as sexy as hearing her swear, almost. "If seeing me run this thing as a whole will shut you up…"
"MAYBE... We said maybe it will shut us up", Lauren clarified loudly and the agents around her laughed openly and nodded in agreement of her words.
"So help me Laur…don't make me call you agent Scott again…" Chloe warned with a laugh and playful glare in her friends' direction. When the whole class began to cheer for her to do it FDR and Tuck stayed quiet. They wanted to see this too and didn't want her to shy and back out knowing they were watching. FDR snickered a little when Lauren saluted Chloe in response to her comment and continued to cheer. When Chloe began to bounce from foot to foot, they knew she was getting ready and boy did their jaws drop when she got going. She flew up the rope climb, rolled artfully down the other side into a crouch and hit the set up targets b/w the eyes when she pulled her gun. Turning against the wall she dropped to the floor below and navigated the tire course before falling to her stomach and shimmying through the barbed wire set up. After zipping through the last 2 obstacles she ran towards the finish line, ending with an unnecessary, but well received line of cart wheels and various back hand springs over the red mark.
FDR looked dumbstruck and the brit shook his head with a laugh. "Training mate… remember she's had and been training obviously more than we knew of", Tuck stated quietly with a clap on his partner's shoulder.
"Holy…Jeez Ferrera that shuts me up for sure" Agent Krieger called as Chloe walked over and received their high fives, handshakes and applause.
"Ok class we'll call it for today, tomorrow its more gun training, War Games is in less than two weeks we still have a lot to do", Chloe informed as everyone left, but Lauren, Christina, and Melinda remained standing around her. Tuck and FDR walked over with Sanders and when she looked up to meet the brit's storm grey eyes she nearly squealed. He simply smiled at her when she clearly looked torn, trapped b/w jumping into his arms as Lauren had when she saw FDR or remaining professional.
"Hello darling", Tuck drawled as he closed the distance for her and kissed her on the cheek. "My place tonight?" He whispered and all she could do was nod as his arms circled around her waist.
"I think that means class is done for today", Agent McCoy chuckled as FDR set Lauren down and they headed to change.
"Wait for me?" Chloe breathed and he nodded as she followed her friends to the locker room.
I don't think they would ever let a civilian do this, but I didn't think they would ever let Tuck take Lauren up on the trapeze either... It worked for the movie and this works for the story so nyah :P lol Hmmm a carnival double date might be fun... Yes? No?
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