Chapter 5. Well here is chapter 5. I hope that you like it. It was a rather fun chapter to write. Anyway here it is.
Disclaimer: I do not own Camille.
Spoilers: None what so ever.
There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty,
sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.
William B. Given, Jr.
"May I ask you what is going on?" Camille asked as soon as she and Angeline entered her office and closed the door.
"The Bureau decided that you would be useful in solving a certain crime that has fallen under their jurisdiction," Angeline explained, "They sent me as a liaison to replace," she paused, "succeed Agent Booth."
"Alright," Camille replied, "Would we be able to maintain the relationship after this case is closed."
"If you solve this case I will do what I can," Angeline replied calmly.
Camille smiled. This woman was excellent at getting what she wanted. "Very well," Camille replied, "When do we start?"
"Today?" Angeline suggested hopefully, "However tomorrow would be suitable as well if you need time with your team."
"I think I will take you up on that one," Camille replied glancing towards the door.
"Very well," Angeline replied, "I will see you tomorrow at nine o'clock to brief you on the case. With that the detective turned and left the office.
"Well then," Camille said to herself as she left the office too.
"What did she want?" Katharine asked immediately.
"We have a job with the FBI starting tomorrow," Camille informed the team. That was all they needed to know about the whole affair. The rest of it was irrelevant.
"Cool," Katharine replied with a looked at the others who, with the exception of Daniel, did not look particularly excited. "That will be interesting. What is up now?"
"Would you and Ms. Dogood mind coming with me for a few minutes?" Camille asked knowing that she needed to address this problem before it got any further out of hand. "Dr. Webber, Dr. Cramer will you excuse us for a moment?" Camille asked as she led the two young women to her office and closed the door again. "What is going on between you two?"
"We went to," Katharine started before Elise cut in.
"Stop it you are going to tell it all wrong," Elise told angrily, "You were always jealous of me."
"I was going to say that we went to high school together," Katharine replied annoyed, "And I was never jealous of you."
"Okay," Camille said closing her eyes briefly, "Katharine can you go out into the hall? I think we will need to do this separately."
"Of course," Katharine replied politely. She may despise Elise with every fiber of her being, but Cam's respect meant a lot to her and she would loose that if she acted irresponsibly. She also did not exactly have what you would call job security at the current moment so she exited into the hall without a fuss.
"Ms. Dogood," Camille said politely but firmly, "Would you like to explain your side of the conflict."
"Well we were in high school together," Elise explained. "If I remembered we had two classes together: Art and Science. I was much better than her at art and worse than her in science. She took it personally and felt it necessary to show me up on everything we did in science. She was always jealous of me. I was popular and had a lot of friends and a boyfriend. She just didn't have those things. And…no never mind."
"Ms. Dogood," Camille told the woman, "I really need to know all of this because other wise I cannot hope to build a strong team."
"Alright," Elise said seriously, "I don't like to speak badly about people, but she was vulgar at times. She swore and read all these mystery novels with gruesome plots. I think her sister is a cop. That might have influenced it. I never really liked her sister either. She was-"
"That's enough thank you," Camille told Elise, "Can you go wait in the hall and tell Dr. Burn to come in?"
"Of course," Elise said as she floated out. A few seconds later, Katharine walked into the office and closed the door.
"Okay here is the short version of why I don't like Elise because I am assuming she gave you the long version of why she doesn't like me," Katharine said to Camille. "She and I were in high school. She was from some fancy expensive part of New York. I don't actually remember where any more, and I was born and raised in Brookline. She destroyed me in art and always thought that I tried to show her up in science."
"Did you?" Camille asked hoping that Katharine did not take the question personally.
"No," Katharine replied, "I had to work my but off if I wanted a chance a college scholarship, which I really needed. I worked hard in everything."
"She says you were jealous of her," Camille revealed as to allow Katharine to defend herself.
"She was very pretty and very popular. I was very academic," Katharine explained still rather calm, "I had no problem with that. What did have a problem with was her critiquing me at every turn and explaining that I could be a better person if this or wore that that. I was perfectly happy the way I was. I did not really want to become one of her happy all the time, perfectly upscale goons. And she never did like Aiden very much."
"You two have opposite personality types," Camille stated. The two women could not be more different because unfortunately the only thing they had in common was that they could both hold a grudge for over half a decade. "Get Dr. Dogood in here." Katharine did as she was told and the two women came to stand in front of Camille's desk.
"You two don't leave me a whole lot of options here," Camille informed them, "So your options are to work together or get fired."
"Which one of us would get fired?" Elise asked.
"Both of you," Camille responded, "so I hope for both your sakes you can figure this out." As the two women walked out, Camille ran her fingers through her hair. This was going to be a very interesting team. All she could do was pray it would be interesting in a good way.
Did you like it? I thought it turned out okay. Please review.
By the way. I don't own Aiden either. She is from a different crime show. You guess which one. :-p