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AN: I know I said there might be a post-EOS one - that'd hopefully be the next drabble. Hope you guys enjoy this one...and big thanks to Eraman for reviewing!
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When Lord Johnathan Creighton-Ward had been born, his parents had been very proud. Sure, he had been smaller than average, but he had been healthy and strong, resembling his mother in every way except for his eyes, which he had inherited from his father. He was spoiled to death by his parents and a very proud Aloysius Parker.
Two years later, the same baby boy couldn't have been more pleased or in awe at his tiny little sister, Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward. She resembled their father more, inheriting the Creighton-Ward blue eyes which had skipped her father, blue eyes the exact shade as their Great Aunt Sylvia's.
Penelope stuck close to John, followed closely by her proud godfather, Parker. By the time Johnathan was four, his parents had realized his potential as an undercover agent and had begun training him, sharpening his mind and allowing Parker to teach the boy how to defend himself.
The FAB had been recruiting at the time, keeping close behind the steps of the GDF and ensuring that its agents were quickly and quietly placed into the global organisation with little fuss or awareness. Due to that, the number of active agents on hand for the bureau was steadily decreasing as the GDF numbers quickly rose.
John, a legacy of the bureau through his father and Great Aunt, had been eagerly received. The lessons started were simple enough for a child to follow, while Parker occasionally taught the young boy a thing or two about ways to get into more unsavoury places. The old man didn't bother to mask his disgust at the interrogation techniques they forced upon the boy, but he could do nothing about it.
After all, it was better that John was prepared for this rather than not.
His eager little sister followed in his footsteps, using her beauty and charms to get what she wanted. Like Parker, John was wearier of teaching Penelope – or even allowing the bureau to, for that matter – the 'interrogation techniques' he had been taught. That didn't mean he didn't warn her about it. Just didn't want to teach her the practicals behind the theory.
For her part, though, Penelope seemed remarkably understanding about the whole matter, instead turning to other methods to get information out of people. Her large doe eyes seemed to be working for her just fine for now, and Parker's role as her bodyguard would leave the dirty work – though she loathed to place a burden like that on him – to him.
The siblings quickly learnt how to understand the second meaning in everything everyone said and used that to their advantage while eavesdropping on adults. They would talk in code, researching methods of spies. They would have fake conversations over the phone and practice tracing their steps and losing a tail.
All this came further in handy when John was sent over to the Tracys. Through these methods, Penelope and John could have whole conversations about things while being in the same room as the Tracys. So well-tuned in this were they, that even Lord Creighton-Ward could hardly understand the subtle yet rapid-fire exchange over raised eyebrows and head tilts to one side.
The FAB had claimed that the two, especially Penelope, had the makings of a remarkable FAB agent.
Eventually, though, Penelope became International Rescue's London Agent, while Johnathan became International Rescue's Space Monitor.