Third person POV

Jason and Bravo were sitting in the cave waiting for Blackburn to arrive with their new strap, a translator. The only information they had received was that they had no say in the placement, that alone raised red flags with the team. Every strap was replaceable and if they didnt fit in with the team or couldnt pull their weight they were booted there and then, simple as that. But somehow they knew this was not going to be quite so easy...

Unsure looks were thrown around the room between the operators, not knowing what to expect or how to prepare. It was unnatural for the team not to have a plan, they usually mapped out every detail of a mission, everything that could go wrong they were ready for, but this, they were going in blind.

30 minutes later

Mandy and Lisa walk into the cave and looked at the scene before them. 5 highly trained tier 1 operators playing paper football, and Trent nursing Clay's paper cut. Mandy rolled her eyes and Lisa just laughed. This caught the attention of all the people in the room. Jason was the first to speak up,

"Mandy, Lisa" he acknowledged them, "not that we dont love spending time with you guys we do-"

Mandy cut him off, "-you want to know why you've been waiting so long? And why you've had no information on the new strap?"

"Well yeah." Sonny spoke up shrugging his shoulders.

Lisa answered Mandy's previous questions for the team "You have been waiting this long because Blackburn had to go and collect this new strap, and the information? We're going to give you that. Now."

Mandy continued for her handing out personnel files to every member of the team "The straps qualifications are in there, everything you need to know is there."

Brock, who had been silent the whole time, made his presence known "Half of this has been redacted, Name, Age, DOB, Education level, Medical History, Family, even the personal notes, we don't even get their damn gender. The only things we can read are the languages they speak and their skills, don't get me wrong for a strap this is pretty impressive, but why can't we see the rest of the file?"

The two women shared a nervous glance, but Lisa spoke up first, "The rest of that information is on a need to know Brock, some of it will become clear when you meet, but the rest is up to them to tell you in their own time."

Ray spoke up "Why don't we need to know? We are putting our lives in the hands of this person, their abilities to translate and their ability to hold their own in the field, we need to know more than their qualifications on paper."

Everone nodded their heads in agreement with their Bravo 2, Lisa looked to Mandy for guidance as even she was unsure of what to do, she had only read the file herself a few hours ago and she had the same questions as Bravo, except she got answers, Bravo weren't. At least not any time soon. Mandy sighed and looked at the operaters after a few minutes of silence she spoke up,

"This is all the information you are going to get for now, I know that's not what you want to hear but that's all i got. These orders came from washington," she paused to allow the groans and complains to die down then continued, "So I suggest you stop with the questions for now and wait for Blackburn to arrive."

She spoke with finality and confidence this time ensuring they knew the conversation was over. Bravo looked away and back to the file infront of them and conversed about the straps abilities,

"She's got the language base covered, any she doesn't speak I do," Clay said.

"Yeah kids got a point." Trent nodded in agreement.

"Persons fighting abilities are impressive, alot more extensively trained and experienced than some of our other straps." Spoke Brock who was sitting with Cerb in his lap.

"I dont know why we're discussing this the decision isn't up to us it's up to the cake eaters in Washington, who for some reason feel it's not important for us to have information on a member of our support staff, but that's beside the point. So why don't we instead of sitting here discussing the strap talk about how we're going to get some more information about them." Jason suggested.

The room went silent at the master chiefs words and they began thinking about how to get information on their new strap.

1 hour later

The door opened and everyone stopped talking and looked up to see Blackburn standing in the doorway. He walked into the cave and stood in front of his operators, alone, "I know you're wondering what is going on, I'm going to tell you. But before i say anything understand that this is not up for debate and this was not my decision, OK?"

Nods of aggreement were heard throughout the room and he took a minute before continuing,

"You're straps name is Cautlin-Jane Wriggley, she goes by CJ, she is apparently one of the best translator we'll ever meet and has been trained by the best of the best in hand-to-hand," he paused and took a breath looking at each member of the team, "She is wary of new people and has a... shall we say history, with men, so she may take a while to warm up to you guys, if at all. But from her recommendations and speaking with her handler and social worker she's 100% worth the time."

Gasps and shouts echoed throughout the room and Eric immediately knew he had said too much, he went to speak but Jason spoke up first,

"JESUS CHRIST BLACKBURN!" He yelled, he took a second to compose himself and his face softened at the thought of the kid, "How old is she..?"

Blackburn ran his hands down his face and mumbled "14..."

Outrage was present in the room as Ray looked at Jason knowing if he spoke he would say something he'd regret, so he took charge as Bravo 2 and kept his head,

"How can we put our lives in the hands of someone who is young enough to be clay's daughter? Scratch that, how do we go into the field knowing we're putting her life at risk everytime we step off that plane? What would we do if she died? Kidnapped... or worse? We cant put a kid through that kind of trauma! She's 14 for God's sake!"

Blackburn looked at the team and simply said, "The people on the hill see this girl as a highly valued military asset, and even if we don't agree, they've apparently thought this through so we don't have a choice." Then he turned to Ray and adressed him directly choosing his next words carefully, "She has been through more than you could imagine and she is a lot stronger than you think."

The whole room was confused at what those last words meant before Clay asked quietly a faint smile grazing his lips,

"Can we meet her...?"

Blackburn nodded and told the team he'd be right back with her, as he was about to walk out the door he turned back to them and said quietly "Be kind to her."