"It's life sir, but if you know my record you also know just how long I've been a police officer and part of the Reserves, it's past time I retired, should have retired a few years ago really but...things happened and the state needed me for a bit longer"

"Well so long as what you've noticed hasn't influenced your decisions that's all I care about"

"Sir, there's something I think you forgot about the next five months that I just thought about, the conference that's supposed to last for two weeks in about three months, the one that's been planned since shortly before I left for my most recent Reserve training"

"You're right, maybe...maybe you can be the one in charge or something similar of that function as one of your final duties in a formal function"

Allison was ultimately made head assistant, because it turned out that the person originally in charge of the conference was competent but needed help, at already five months pregnant the conference was cutting really close to the due date and as such the person in charge wanted help but also wanted to remain in charge for as long as possible, which Allison understood, (unlike the original head assistant who had been fired when the person in charge was only two months pregnant and the assistant demanded to take over) however she still took over one very vital task within a week of being made head assistant. She was meeting with the person in charge to see where the conference was and saw a mess of papers

"Okay, how disorganized are you right now because you can't trust most of the assistants?"

"It's not so much me being disorganized, it's the fact that I just found out that several dignitaries are going to be at this conference and..."

"Okay, how about you give me a list of the dignitaries that you are expecting and I'll coordinate with security details and make sure dietary concerns are handled"

"Thanks, that should work actually, hope you know Russian, they're currently the biggest headache for me because for some reason they refuse to have a translator right now"

"I'll look into that because I'm fluent in Russian, oh let me know when you have doctors appointments, that ways if someone calls for you I know to let them know that they simply have to deal with me for the entirety of the appointment"

"Right, should have thought about that actually, wait...didn't I hear something about you being in the military?"

"Made a few calls before meeting, I'm not having the normal training I normally would until after the conference, besides there's...something that's going to be happening in the next few months regarding my military service that I can't explain yet"

"I can probably guess what that change is"

"Yes you probably could at that, but I will make no formal announcement until certain conversations are had and certain protocols and other details are dealt with"

"Understood, what I suspicion is just that, suspicion, until it is confirmed by you to be something more"

"Okay, we also need to talk about balancing your police work and your work for this conference"

"Well, I can actually call the dignitaries at work in between my cases, that phone is more secure anyways than the phone here, my cell phone is actually the secureists but I won't use that this time for reasons of my own, have anything else sent to my cell phone and I'll return calls after work"

"Okay, I'll let the others know that rule of yours"

"Thanks...oh and by the way you're going to hate me big time but I'm taking away your chocolate no matter how much you're craving it"

"Oh no you don't"

"Fine, I'll have the doctor pull the chocolate, unfortunately it's going to happen either way because I do believe you're having a reaction to something in the chocolate all of a sudden, either that or it's some other food you've recently had that is causing you to itch and develop hives"

"You win I'm having a reaction"

And with that the twitching that had been happening for several minutes ended only because of the fact that the person finally gave into the urge to scratch

(Sighs) "come on, I have something that should help with your itching"

"Walk-in clinic for me afterwords?"

"Oh yeah, this can't wait for your primary doctor, now then are you allergic to calamine?"

"Yes I am unfortunately"

"Okay, that's not a problem I have other anti-itch creams that should work on you"

Once that was taken care of Allison drove her temporary boss to the clinic and while she waited she brought out one of the journals feeling the need to hear Arizona's voice because of everything that had triggered her lately in regards to her journey to the past

Day 905

We're celebrating our independence today and the town I'm at has gone wild. I think part of it is because we're still healing from the rift the civil war caused and the aftermath of the war, I personally am not just celebrating our independence from Great Britain but am also using it as a means of remembering President Lincoln who was assassinated too soon after the war ended, thus denying him the chance to truly see the healing process begin I don't know how it's done in K's time but for now this kind of celebration works for me. We might have a slight problem though, it isn't very clear to me what's going on but a government agent wanted to speak with me briefly and so I met him, when I did meet him in his hotel room all he did was bring out an arrow, a black arrow and asked me if I knew what the arrow signified, I told him I didn't, but when I said that he said that explanations would have to wait due to the significance of the date today, hopefully tomorrow I will get some answers

Day 907

Had to wait a full day due to the fact that we both had to help a posse with a small time criminal but I finally got answers today about the black arrow that he showed me. You guys never told me about the Black Arrow group that wanted to basically form their own government and threaten to tear the country apart so soon after we had come back together, there's a possibility of them coming back, not with the original leaders of course but with new leaders from the original group, those that were simply arrested, but we don't know for sure yet if it is happening, all we know is that there have been threatening letters sent with a black arrow each time

Allison read for a whole hour which got her to the end of Arizona's black arrow adventure, which ultimately didn't last for very long only until day 987, but it had definitely been long enough to Arizona once her temporary boss was finished she went home and started the next several months of going back and forth between her police job and her conference work. The initial talking with the dignitaries had been complicated to say the least, Russia being the worst of the complications, only her fluency in Russian and it's culture saved her from a major faux pas at least twice that she was aware of, but eventually she had things under control

"So...things settled?"

"As much as possible anyways"

"Good, we still have another two and a half months before the conference"

"Right, but the way how are you feeling?"

"Might have to turn everything over to you soon, I'm getting tired way too easily for me to keep up this job"

"Doctor's appointment soon?"

"Very soon I hope, I made a call and said I needed to see them ASAP, but I have yet to hear back from them about said phone call"

"Right, for now there's a perfectly good couch that you can sleep on for a few minutes"

"Thanks, think I will"

An hour later and Allison was calling for an ambulance because the person who had been in charge of the conference had just suffered two seizures back-to-back. When the paramedics arrived she had just started to truly wake up

"Oh no...don't, don't move boss, let the nice paramedics do all the work for you"

"What happened?"

"You just had two seizures back-to-back, with the fact that they were back-to-back, you're pregnant and this is your first known episode you need looked at ASAP and you know it"

"Baby?"

"Fine as far as I know, but that will also be looked at I promise"

"Husband?"

"Um...that I have no clue about, I told someone to call him but I have no clue if they managed to get in touch considering what you told me his job was"

"Understood, talk to you later, fortunately everyone knows the routine by now"

"Exactly so get yourself and your baby taken care of and things will be good to go when you get back"

When Allison got back to the station she saw a group of local PD and Texas Rangers around a computer desk talking to themselves, and when she got closer she heard comments that warranted her immediate attention

"Okay, try this code, maybe then we'll have access"

"Okay what are you guys doing?"

Everyone turns as one and they all had a guilty look on their face and when she sees the computer screen she sees why

"Why are you guys trying to hack into a case file regarding my early days as a Texas Ranger?, that file was classified for a reason"

"This is why"

All of a sudden the screen is littered with pictures of victims and the objects surrounding said victims

"Okay, that would do it, give me the computer and you'll have access to the original case in a flash, though I hope this isn't what I think it is"

"What do you think it is?"

"I'm hoping that it's not either a really, really demented copy cat killer or a person out for revenge"

She brings up the original case which starts the manhunt all over again, fortunately they were able to figure things out without any outside help, but it was a close call in everyone's mind, it turned out that the original perpetrator had trained his oldest child to take over and when the child found out that their father had died recently in prison that was the trigger to start killing themselves, they also solved it within three days of things starting

"So...why was the case originally sealed anyways"

"It's not for a normal reason, there were...complications during the case, complications that were ultimately covered up for the good of everyone involved, police and victim's families alike. The FBI decided that the case would be sealed until at least thirty years after the final person actively involved in the case was either dead or retired for everyone's benefit, the only time the seal can be broken is either in the situation we had been in or the one other situation is if it is used by the FBI to train profilers in the ways of a potential serial killer. I have learned however that the FBI has yet to use this as a case study because of personal reasons regarding their training"

"Can you give us at least a little information on the complications that would force the federal government to demand it sealed for so long?"