It has been almost an hour since 20 Squad left the room where the commission camped out.
Everyone except Street and Chris are busy investigating a stolen property. The two will resume service from the next shift.
They are sitting on the bench outside the courtyard when Chris's cell phone rings, looks at the screen and reads Marcos.
She looks at Street, and then replies "Marcos tell me, what's going on?"
On the other side of the phone "hi Chris, nothing serious, it's just that your dog and Luca's have broken the glass in the window of the house and are now wandering around the neighborhood"
Chris opens her eyes wide "oh my god, we'll be right"
"What's going on?" Street asks anxiously
"Athos and Duke have been up and running away from home. We have to go."
"Chris you can't move. You have to wait for the commission."
At that moment Luca comes out "guys, the commission is looking for us. They want to talk to us"
"Luca, Marcos called me, Athos and Duke made a mess" Chris tells him, before telling him everything the neighbor has told him.
"I'll go, I hurry and I'll be back. You enter in the meantime" the man reassures them.
The couple returns and joins their companions explaining what happened, while Luca leaves for his house.
"Guys, come in" Hicks calls them
"Alonso, I am sincere, we have discussed as animatedly as never before." Begins the commissioner, "but both have come to a unanimous conclusion." He stops, as if to put tension "By carefully analyzing his conduct, that of Agent Street and of the whole team, we have seen that you are the team with the highest rate of success. Your dynamics are almost perfect, each of you you have a fundamental role in the team. You, in particular Alonso, have shown a sense of duty and impeccable discipline, on and off duty. "
The tension is skyrocketing in the room.
"but I can't deny that we have many doubts about it." Pointing to Chris and Street, who are next to each other, "these, however, are clearly outdated by your excellent work. That's why we are withdrawing our request for a transfer from Agent Street."
The feeling of relief pervades all members of the 20 Squad, who cannot resist hugging each other.
The commission is also happy with the decision taken, the commissioner turns to Hicks "commander, perhaps the time has come to speak with 20 Squad before making public the changes that will take place in the coming weeks."
Everyone freezes in surprise. What changes will there be? And above all, if those present are to know first, will it concern 20 Squad?
"agent Luca will be back shortly," does not finish the sentence as Luca enters the room.
"sorry, a little inconvenience at home. But all solved" He looks at Chris to reassure her
"just in time luca" says Grigson "please commander"
"The changes that will be made will mostly affect your team," says Hicks, pointing to all of the 20 Squad members.
"The time to dedicate myself to myself has come, and therefore I had to advise the commission a valid replacement, a person who can fill the role of commander always no problem. I must say that as soon as I talked about it with this person, he immediately refused, but luckily he thought about it and finally accepted, making me sweat a lot "he jokingly says
"you were sure that in the end I would have accepted" Luca intervenes.
"What what! Is that you? Oh my God" Tan almost screams
"that's right, the new commander will be Dominique Luca"
"after all if he deserves it, he's a great leader, and he has everyone's esteem" Hicks idolizes him
"Now let's move on to the second change, which will involve a third." Hicks continues
"Hondo. He will leave 20 Squad to fill the role of supervisor of all teams, the role that Cortez held. And as a result, a new team leader will be needed. Right away it comes to think of Deacon, but he flatly refused, he says he he is destined to be 30-david, to act as a rocker in the team. The choice was therefore a must, Christina Alonso, Sergeant Alonso. "
Once again, they can't hold back their happiness, even Street hugs Chris, still incredulous about her promotion to team leader.
She knew that one day she would become team leader, but she did not imagine that it would all happen together and quickly.
"Alonso, once again she's making swat history. And I'm sure you won't stop there!" Hicks approaches her and holds her in an almost paternal embrace.
"okay, but now you have to let us examine agent Alonso, if you want her as your team leader" jokes Grigson "luca, Kay, since you are trainers of recruits, could you prepare the practical tests for the exam?"
"Of course Commissioner, we will make the most difficult route ever" says Luca as he winks at Chris
"Okay, everyone out, and good luck Alonso" says Hicks before exiting followed by 20 Squad.
Chris's oral exam lasts about an hour, after which he immediately carries out the shooting test, running, climbing, and finally also an additional test similar to the one for the master gunner competition.
As you could already imagine, Chris gives it her all, and passes the exam with flying colors, setting new records for future sergeants.
She is tired, it has been a very stressful day, both psychologically and physically.
The round of team 20 is about to end, when everyone meets in the locker room.
"Guys, a moment to pay attention" says Deac "Annie has prepared a dinner to celebrate all together." She continues "you know she doesn't accept right?"
Everyone nods
"See you then at 7pm at my house" concludes Deac before leaving, followed by Tan, Hondo and Luca.
Street walks up to Chris and hugs her from behind her, resting his chin on her shoulder "Are our plans skipped for Sergeant tonight?"
She rolls her eyes "say diminish in duration, she agent" she tells him she maliciously, before sticking her lips to her man's.
"I swear if you don't stop talking to me like that, I'm not sure I can hold back for much longer."
Chris smiles, "you will have to wait a few more hours, I promise you it will be worth it, also because I have included something for you that you have never tried" she teases him even more.
"Chrissssss" yells at her, before pulling her by the arm and slamming her into her locker. He holds her against her body and kisses her intensely, as if there is no tomorrow.
"enough, let's go, before we're late." Chris says moving away from him "won't you want to explain to everyone the reason for the delay?"
"ok, I'll stop if you promise me we'll leave Deac's house before 10pm"
"okay, only if you play with me and the children"
"okay" he kisses her again and they come out of the locker room hand in hand.
Even if no one knows about them, now that the upper floors know about them, it is no longer necessary for them to hide from everyone's eyes.
Tomorrow they will think about justifying themselves with all their colleagues.