A/N This chapter is set three years after the prologue.

Chapter 1

"That's it! I quit! I can't work with you people! Clearly you want someone who's not me so I'm done!" With that the woman in question grabbed her belongings and left. She'd only joined the team 5 days ago.

"Alright pay up Ladies! And Gent, you owe me. I win again!" Danny Taylor smirked.

"Damn not again!" Sam exclaimed as she handed over the money.

"No kidding! That happens once more and he will be unbearable!"

"You mean he's not already?"

"Point taken. OK he'll be even worse if he wins again!" Elena laughed

The team, which consisted of Danny, Sam Spade, Elena Delgado, Vivian Johnson and Rick O'Hara, had all taken bets on how long the new team member would last. They'd done the same thing on every newbie who'd tried out with them; there'd been 6 of them in the last three months and no one had lasted longer than 6 days.

"You can joke guys but now I have to find a replacement again!" Vivian complained good naturedly

"I don't know why you bother Viv, you know they aint gonna last" Rick himself had been with the team for two and a half years and fitted in well from the start.

"Pessimist" Sam said grinning with a playful slap to Rick's arm.

"Well look at the record! We've been looking for a new team member who fits in with us for eighteen months and so far, no luck. No ones even come close."

"The man has a point." Danny admitted "Can't we just give up the search and leave the team as just us?" he asked Vivian with a slight frown.

"Because the Big Boys upstairs say so." Vivian replied.

The four younger agents all rolled their eyes.

Three weeks later

"Girls night tonight?" Sam asked as she walked in drinking her coffee and trying to wake up. "I feel the need for too much sugar and so does Em"

"Uhh yeh sounds good to me" Elena replied with a smile starting on the paper work from the previous day.

"I'm in, Marcus can watch Reggie tonight." Vivian said "And Danny your welcome to crash at mine."

"I'm getting kicked out of my own home for a girls night again!" Danny said in mock outrage. "There's a shock!"

Sam laughed "Yeh guess you didn't figure in that fact when you agreed to let me live with you and your girlfriend huh? O well your problem not ours! Em and I are quite happy with the arrangement" She added with a smirk.

Danny hung his head in defeat.

"Bad luck man but you should have realised that living with two women would be a bad idea" Rick teased with a cheeky grin.

"OK listen up people. We have a new member joining us today" A collective groan came from the four other agents as Vivian spoke.

"Don't be so quick to judge" She continued with an odd look on her face, one that said I know something you don't. "I think you might just like this guy"

All four agents looked at her sceptically but she just grinned.

"Rick, as the only one who's yet to meet him, I'd like to introduce you" Vivian said indicating behind the other agents "to Special Agent Martin Fitzgerald"