Katherine awoke the next morning in unfamiliar surroundings. She glanced at the digital clock sitting on the night stand next to the bed and noticed that it read 3:00 p.m. She got out of bed and entered her office to see if Will had left her any messages. Seeing that he hadn't, she went into the kitchen and pulled open the fridge that the CIA had thankfully stocked full. A short while later as Kat finished her bowl of cereal the doorbell rang.
"Hope I didn't wake you, but seeing that's already the middle of the afternoon I just took the chance that you'd be awake," Will said as she moved aside to let him enter her apartment.
"Guess I didn't adjust to the time as well as I thought, I set the alarm but I guess I just didn't hear it," Kat told him as she shut the door.
"I don't suppose you've had the chance to read over that file I gave you," he said as they sat on the couch.
"Actually I did manage to skim over quite a bit of it," she informed him.
"Good then perhaps you're up to going on a tour of the office," he replied.
"Sure just give me fifteen minutes to shower and get dressed," Kat told him.
"Take all the time you need when you're ready just come over to my place," he said getting up and leaving her alone again.
Fifteen minutes later, Katherine locked her apartment door and walked across the hallway to Will's apartment.
"Wow, it's very neat in here," Kat remarked once he let her inside.
"What'd you expect?" Will asked.
"I don't know, pizza boxes all over the floor, dishes in the sink, the typical bachelor pad I guess," Kat told him.
"It's kind of hard living a bachelor's life when you're hardly ever at home," Will said with a smile.
"Are you ready to go?" Kat asked.
"Yeah, we'll take my car, yours is waiting for you at the office," he told her.
The drive downtown took them about twenty minutes and soon Will was pulling into a parking garage. He pulled out a badge and scanned it at the tollgate. He parked the car and after they got out, he led Katherine to an elevator which took them to the main level of the building. Stepping out of the elevator, Katherine noticed that they were in the lobby.
"There are several business located in this building, ours is on the top floor, but the 4th floor is the one that's set up as the E.P.A. and you have an office there in case you should ever get some unscheduled visitors, but I figured you'd want to see the real base of our operation first," he explained as they got into another elevator that would take them to the top floor. The elevator opened into a large open space with a single door on the other side of it. Will stepped out of the elevator and motioned for Kat to follow him. They stood in the middle of the room and the room was filled with a red beam that scanned them. Once the light disappeared, Will opened the door and led Katherine through it.
"Welcome to the Reefside headquarters of the C.I.A.," Will said. Katherine looked around to see people working at various computer stations. None of them even seemed to notice her presence as Will led her to a room with a large table with chairs all around it.
"Have a seat, I'm going to let our division director know that you're here," he said as Kat took a seat and he left the room.
"Welcome to I.D. Agent Hillard, I'm the director here, Maxwell Logan," a man about the age of her father said as he entered the room followed by another man who was about her age.
"Hello, Mr. Logan nice to meet you," Katherine said as she stood up to shake his hand.
"This is Glenn Roberts our resident technological genius, you'll be working with him along with Agent Cole," he told her.
"It's very nice to meet you Agent Hillard, I've never actually met anyone from Australia before, of course I've never met a lot of people but then why would I since I'm always in the office instead out in the field," Glenn rattled on until the director cleared his throat.
"It's nice to meet you Glenn, please call me Kat," she said.
"Ok, um, Kat, I'd better get back to work," he said leaving her with the director.
"Excuse me, Mr. Logan, you referred to the base here as I.D?" Kat questioned.
"That's just a little nickname we've given ourselves, it stand for International Division," he informed her.
"Oh, of course why didn't I think of that," Kat said.
"Kat's station is ready," Will said as he rejoined them.
"I'll leave you in Will's capable hands," Logan said as he left them.
"Here we are," Will said as he led her over to her station that was set up with a computer.
"It's not that much different from my station at ASIS," she remarked.
"This is your pass code so that you can log onto the system, you'll have all the access you want to any of the C.I.A. databases," he informed her.
"Even the ones on the Chinese terrorists?" she asked.
"You weren't kidding about continuing the investigation on Reed," he replied.
"No, I wasn't, I'm going to do the job that you hired me to do but I'm not just going to forget about avenging my partner's death," Kat told him.
"I have every confidence that you'll do a great job, here are the names of all the files that we have on Mercer Industries, get familiar with them," he said leaving her to familiarize herself with the system.
After several hours, Will and Katherine walked out into the parking garage where he led her to a car that was to be hers.
"The agency really didn't have to get me a car, I'm sure I could have bought one on my own," Kat told him.
"Well, you can't very well be expected to do your job with no way to get around town I mean if I have to drive you everywhere it might raise suspicions with your friend Dr. Oliver, which reminds me, tomorrow I'll give you directions to Hayley's cyberspace," he told her.
"What's Hayley's cyberspace?" Kat questioned.
"It's an Internet café run by Tommy's college friend and partner Hayley, it's probably the best way for you to accidentally run into him, he hangs out there a lot," Will told her.
"Ok, well I'll try not to oversleep again," she said as he handed over the keys to her car.