This chapter is going to have some Portuguese and I will be translating as close as possible. the phrases will have a "*" at the end and I'll have all the translations in the order they come so they're easy to understand.

Chapter Nine

The night air was thick with humidity as Christina and Hank walked down the small private plane's ladder and both saw a silver car sitting alone headlights blinding them as they swung their bags over their shoulders. The passenger front and back driver side doors opened and two dark clad people climbed out.

"Boa noite. Como você está gostando do tempo?*" The smaller of the two dark clad figures said.

"Está tudo bem. Embora ainda precise de um guarda-chuva.*" Hank said slowly his voice barely changing in pitch.

"E quanto a garota? Ela pode não ser um de nós.*" The second one asked and even though she couldn't understand completely, Christina felt her nose start to tickle.

"Ela está comigo. Ela é minha neta.*" Hank said wrapping an arm around Christina's shoulders. " Ela pode ser confiável.*"

"Faça-a provar.*" The first one said and Christina felt placed on the spot as Hank and the two figures were looking at her.

"What am I supposed to do?" Christina whispered before she realized that she was to prove she was with her grandpa. " Meu nome é Christina. Meu avô e eu precisamos que você confie em nós.*" The figures looked at each other before nodding and the area around Christina and Hank went darker as bags were placed over their heads.

~License to Hunt~

Christina and Hank were silent as the car, they were in, moved off the main street and onto an uneven road. Christina, having been with her brothers for a year and had gotten very close, silently began to count the seconds to make sure she could mentally map where she was from the airport.

The car slowed to a stop and the sound of the window rolling down snapped her out of her concentration. "O pardal voa para o norte para escapar da tempestade no sul.*" There was a few minutes of silence before the car moved forward and the window slowly closed.

"Pegue a garota e coloque-a na sala de conferências.*" Rough hands grabbed Christina's arms as they dragged her out of the car and outside in the humid night air. The rough hands continued to push her until she could slowly feel humid air turn cool and comfortable and she could hear her grandpa grunting and groaning as they took him somewhere.

"Sente-se aqui.*" Christina was set roughly in a chair and the bag on her head was taken off. The sudden shock of the bright lights made Christina blink back the sudden bright spots. She was sitting in a bland grey room, the only thing to try to lighten up the room was a painting of an ocean veiw with a lone figure standing on the edge. But that one picture made Christina very depressed.

"Quem é Você?*" The voice was female.

"Christina." Christina said trying to see the person who stood behind her.

"An american." The female voice said again, and Christina watched as a woman with raven black hair and dark brown eyes sat down in front of her folding her delicate hands in front of her. "Forgive the welcoming committee but we had to isolate you and your 'grandfather'," she did the air quotations which made Christina shift and her eyes twitch. "My name is Ana Serpico."

"And you're telling me this because-"

"Because we looked you up before you arrived." Ana said her English was really good which made Christina wonder if she was an American just living in Brazil. "Only a few people know my full name."

"So Ana Serpico isn't your full name?" Christina asked and Ana shook her head. "Why did you separate me and my grandfather?"

"Is he really your grandfather?" Ana asked her brown eyes narrowing trying to see if Christina would lie or tell the truth.

"If you want to be technical he's not. I was as adopted by his daughter. So because of that I am his granddaughter just not blood related."

"I'm impressed." Ana said leaning back in her chair her hands falling to her lap. "Now tell me, what information do you have-"

The lights turned dark and Christina saw Ana jump to her feet and pull out a service pistol and walked over towards, the door leaving Christina still strapped to the chair. "Iniciando lockdown!*" Said a computer type voice.

"What's happening?!" Christina screamed trying to break out of her ties but she could only feel them cut into her soft flesh of her wrist.

"Nossas defesas foram comprometidas. Iniciando a sequência de autodestruição.*" The computer voice echoed again. "Cinco minutos antes de se destruir!*"

"Can you swim?" Ana asked quickly taking a knife she had strapped to her leg cutting Christina's binds and pulled her towards the painting.

"Yes I can swim, but tell me what's going on!"

"I'll tell you once we get you out." Ana gripped the picture and flung it to the floor showing a hollowed out hole with a panel on the wall. "Viva o Brasil!*"

The panel lit up and Christina could hear a soft clicking coming from beneath her and Ana. She could also hear the door open before Christina saw her grandfather standing in the door way. Black eyes replacing Hank's warm brown ones. He had blood coating his hands as he raised his gun and pointed it at Ana. Before he fired the floor beneath Christina and Ana dropped sending the two falling into darkness as the floor above them returned to its regular position.

~License to Hunt~

"Ela vai ficar bem?*" The voice sounded familiar as Christina's vision slowly cleared.

"Sim. Ela vai ficar bem. Você, por outro lado, não vai usar esse braço de vocês a qualquer momento em breve.*" It was another voice Christina didn't recognize but as her vision cleared she saw Ana holding her left arm gingerly in a sling while the man that spoke looked her over. "Ela pode nos entender?*" The man asked as he watched as Christina sat up and fruited her head where a small piece of gauze was placed on her right side temple.

"Barely. Do you know English?" Christina said as she winced when she touched her forehead. "Trying to translate Portuguese so that I can understand or even speak it is making my head hurt worse."

"Your friend is very bossy." The man said his accented English was still hard to understand but it didn't hurt her head nearly as much.

"I'm not bossy," Christina snapped which made her wince again. "Just in a lot of pain. And she is not my friend, no offense, just mere aquaitences."

"John, please leave us for a moment. I'd like to talk to her alone." The man, John, nodded and left the room, leaving Christina and Ana alone to talk.

"Boyfriend?" Christina asked and Ana slowly shook her head.

"He is my older brother."

"And let me guess he doesn't know what you do for a living." Ana nodded her face falling. "Yeah, that's how my brothers feel about me. I've been with them for over a year and they still don't know me."

"You have brothers too? Why weren't they with you?"

"Well, my oldest brother, Dean hates flying. While my other older brother, Sam isn't good at speaking foreign languages. As you can see my Portuguese isn't all that good either. But I knew more then him."

"Sounds like you should call them. Let them know that you're okay."

"I doubt my phone will work. It was in my pocket when we fell through the floor, and if we landed in water I doubt it works." Ana sighed before tossing her cellphone towards Christina.

"Don't worry you cannot be traced." And left the room to give Christina some privacy.

Christina's fingers raced over the numbers before hitting the call button. It rang twice before the other end clicked on as someone answered the call.

"Hello?" Dean's voice made Christina's eyes tear up as she was so happy to hear it.

"Dean?" Christina said gently. "You sound tired did I wake you?"

"Christy?" She could hear the soft groan of rusty bed springs as her brother sat up. "Thank god you're okay. Why haven't you been answering my calls or texts?"

"Well, I can't really call you. We had a slight miss up when we got here to Brazil. So I'm using my friend Ana's cell." She could hear something hard hitting something and Sam's groan of annoyance on the other end. "How's Nana treating you guys?"

"Oh, Sam and I are back in South Dakota. Sue didn't want us to not do our job when Bobby called us for a case."

"Where was she staying at?" Christina asked slowly standing on her feet to walk to the small diety mirror that stood over a small water bowl and pitcher.

"She and Hank had a cabin out in some woods in Georgia. She was going to stay there until you guys came back." Christina felt her heart fall as she could hear her sons muffled voice calling out for Dean.

"Are you guys at my house?"

"Yeah, Bobby is having his house is being fumed for bugs and is off on the road for a couple of days. So we're staying with your boyfriend."

"Okay, well whatever you do, don't tell Alex what you guys do for a living."

"Already said that we're superheros. Oh before you ask, we told Stan and Alex that you had to do a special superhero case away for their safe keeping."

"Thanks for that." Christina slowly took off the gauze that was over her head and saw there was a small cut with seven stitches on it. "Well, I should let you go. It's good talking to you. Stay safe and I'll see if I can call again some other time."

"Please be careful." Dean said before Christina ended the call.

"What do you mean by superhero?" Ana asked making Christina jump.

"It's what me and my brothers do for a living. We-we're superheros sort of."

Ana looked at Christina with narrow eyes. Before shrugging not wanting to dive in deeper into something she was clearly not ready for. "Come with me, you need to tell me what you came here for, and also you need to be able to get our base back."

Christina felt strange as she nodded and followed Ana towards the bedroom door and walked inside a small kitchen, then out the front door to a large farm area near the edge of steep hills that lead to a beach some five hundred feet down. Christina walked over towards the fence that lined the edge and felt like that woman she saw in the painting before she saw Ana motion for her towards a path.

"It's such a beautiful place," Christina said as they made their descent doen the path towards a small cave half way down the mountain side. "What are we-"

"I need to train you so that you can infiltrate the facility to save it. And this is alalso where we can talk freely without my brother finding out what I do."

A/N:

Translations are as follows. Some of it might be altered slightly due to translating. But still the point will be across. Sorry.

"Good evening. How do you like the weather?"

"It's all right. Although you (I) still need an umbrella."

"What about the girl? She may not be one of us."

"She is with me. She is my granddaughter."

"Have her prove it."

"My name is Christina. My grandfather and I need you to trust us."

"The sparrow flies North to escape the storm in the South."

"Take the girl and put her in the conference room."

"Sit here."

"Who are you?"

"Initiating (Starting) Lockdown!"

"Our defenses were (are) compromised. Starting the self-destruct sequence."

"Five minutes before it's destroyed!"

"Long live Brazil!"

"Is she going to be okay?"

"Yes. She will be fine. You on the other hand, will not use this arm of yours anytime soon."

"Can she understand us?"