Things Couldn't Get Any Worse By: Delia and Amanda

Part 4 By: Amanda

Inside the kitchenette the Worm Guys busily brewed pot after pot of delicious, steaming hot coffee. Elle and Delia were a little too preoccupied by Agent Gee to pay any notice to the enticing aroma floating in the air.

"Wow," Elle murmured to her friend, "you're right. He IS cute."

"Told ya," Delia answered, "he's athletic, handsome, charming, a good cook, the man has no faults! Looks like I finally hit the jackpot!"

"Well…if you like that sort of thing," R grumbled.

Jay waltzed into the room and noticed the two blondes drooling over the new guy. "Uh Elle, Delia, Zed says he wants the two of you down in the lab pronto. There's been kind of a crisis down there with some new invention the Doc and Zeeltor are testing."

The two agents reluctantly got up and left the room. Hopefully it wouldn't take long to complete the task and get back to the hunk of burning agent flipping through the lifestyles section of the newspaper.

Once Gee's fan club was gone Jay pulled up a seat next to the sulking R. "Gee's really buggin' ya huh?"

R didn't answer, at least Fatail was nowhere in sight. Maybe R would loosen up a little and get some things off his chest. Jay'd hate to be the unlucky agent that had to pry him off 'pretty boy' if all that anger was suddenly unleashed.

"I see your old flame's not around."

Through gritted teeth R finally spoke, "She's NOT my old flame. And I finally got Fatail to leave me alone for two seconds. And YES Gee is BUGGIN' ME!"

Gee pretended not to hear this outburst and got up to get some coffee. Maybe he could catch Delia before she left the lab and get a little time alone, AWAY from the green yellow eyed monster.

As he poured the coffee he spoke to Jay, "I think things are going to work out great, Delia and I are really hitting it off! Hmm…D and Gee. Hey, I even match with my…new partner."

Jay watched as R's nails raked across the metal table, leaving thin streaks as they went. It was pretty obvious that Gee was getting R steamed. And dumb luck Jay had managed to get himself caught playing referee.

The Worm Guys were filling the coffee maker with yet another exotic coffee flavor while continued to ramble on about his 'new partner'.

"I'm sure happy I took this job…One day I'm Greg Prefect and the next I'm here with Del," Greg looked directly at R as he used Delia's nickname.

R was muttering threats towards Gee under his breath as the coffee maker dinged.

Gee proceeded to pour himself a cup and then thought aloud, "I ought to get a cup for my partner while I'm at it."

"She DOESN'T drink coffee!!!" R yelled. Gee smirked and turned to leave.

Passing the table where the two agents were sitting Gee took a bottled water from the refrigerator, "Thanks for telling me. I'd hate to offer her a beverage she doesn't drink."

Jay scooted away from R as his green skin reddened. "Cool down pal, Gee's just trying to get to ya."

"Well he's not going to get MY partner!" R exclaimed loudly in hopes that Gee would hear him all the way down the hall.

Shaking his head Jay cautioned him, "If you keep shooting off your mouth and giving him tips like you just did…He just might."

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Fatail snuck into one of the large computer labs in HQ. It had been all too easy to get past the other agents. All she'd had to do was babble on about how she was Agent R's girlfriend and wanted to catch up on her honey bun's history since he'd joined the ranks.

Naturally no one had wanted to hear her go into detail about their intimate relationship so they'd simply let her pass on by. This was too easy.

After a short series of rapid key clicks she had hacked her way into the secured files of the agency. "Jackpot." she grinned as file after file of superior technology, extraterrestrial strengths and weaknesses, and valuable chemical formulas appeared on the screen.

"Now to download you to this disc," she said aloud as she placed a disc in the drive. "Come to mama."

"Excuse me," a stern yet irritating voice came from behind her. Fatail spun around and came face to face with…

"Who are you?"

"U." the man answered.

"Very funny." Fatail scoffed, "But you don't strike me as a humorous kinda guy. Now stiff, what's your name?"

"I'm afraid it's YOU that needs to identify yourself," U replied, "and I just told you, my name's U."

Fatail narrowed her eyes, then remembered her cover, "I'm Fatail, Agent R's girlfriend."

"I'm sorry ma'am but the MIB doesn't allow civilians of any species to go snooping around headquarters unsupervised. Your boyfriend should know that by now."

"But I wasn't snooping," Fatail changed her tone to a more innocent one, "I was just trying to find out a little more about my sweet green knight R, you know, tomorrow would be our sixth month anniversary," Fatail turned on the charm and hid her face in her hands, "if he hadn't run out on me to take this job!"

U watched as the female burst into fake tears. "Um…well…" like most guys, U couldn't stand to see a girl cry.

"I loved him so much!" Fatail whimpered, "And I still do! I was just hoping to find some answers! To see what my burly protector's been up to all these months! I just feel like we've grown so far apart!!!"

U searched his person before finally finding a handkerchief, handing it to Fatail he relented. "Uh…well, this is highly unusual. But I guess you could search R's files. After all, you DID know him before he joined us so maybe we could bend just this one rule."

Satisfied that this had stopped her crying U turned and headed out the door.

Fatail wiped away the last of her phony tears and smiled triumphantly after the agent, "Sucker."

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