Author's Note:
And now… we continue!
Chapter (v): Warm Interlude
After working on a lot of paperwork for her past mission, Cameron exhaled and closed the last filing cabinet. She stacked a few folders into the side pocket of her briefcase, and then rose from her armchair.
It had been a longer morning than she had anticipated… she inwardly wondered how many cups of coffee she had drained over the lengthy hours of writing up reports.
She rubbed her tired eyes and stretched her arms out in front of her. Her nose caught the delicious sent of lunch being served in the café down a few hallways, where most of the agents ate their lunches and conversed with each other, about missions and other such things. She felt her stomach groan with hunger and she grabbed her folder of paperwork.
"Miss Wolfia?" Jenny's timid voice came from the other side of the aforementioned agent's office.
"Come along, Jenny." Cameron straightened out her shirt and grabbed her things. Her intern opened the door for her and they left the office. Cameron and Jenny walked side by side towards the filing rooms.
"You wanted me to remind you to call your mother, Miss?" Jenny tried to keep up with Cameron's hastened gate.
"Yes, thank you, Jenny." Cameron nodded, adding the call to her list of immediate priorities. She opened the door to the filing room, where each agent's paperwork was stored, and pulled a key from her pocket.
After scanning the wall of cabinets, she located the W's and unlocked her own compartment. She noticed that a new compartment had been added above hers for one of the new recruits. The agent shrugged and pulled open her compartment, heavy with folders of paperwork from her many missions. Cameron slid the thick folder of paperwork in the G-Section of her compartment –for 'Gingerbread Man'- and then she elbowed the compartment shut. A brief report, following up her accomplished mission, was all that remained in her hands.
Cameron turned to Jenny, whose ears perked up. "I can take that report to Mister Flippers' secretary on my way out to lunch." She offered.
"I think I'll take you up on that offer, Jenny." She handed the report to her intern. "I'll see you after lunch?"
"Yup. See you later, Miss Wolfia..." Jenny smiled warmly. The young intern then scurried out of the filing room, leaving the agent alone among the cabinets.
Cameron sighed, rubbing her eyes tiredly, and made her way back to her office. She'd call her mother, then, lunchtime.
"Hello?" A kind, but aged voice answered from the other line.
"It's Cameron." The agent stated.
"Cameron, dear!" The voice responded cheerfully. "You go my message…"
"Yes, I did, mother." Cameron cleared her throat. "What was it that you wanted me to call you for?"
"Well, for starters, I wanted to check how things were at the Agency..."
"They're…" Cameron paused. "Same old, same old." She shrugged; then she remembered that her mother wouldn't see the gesture and added. "There's nothing really different."
"Oh… well, the other thing is about Carson."
Cameron sighed. "What is it that he's done, again?"
"Another fight at school."
Cameron groaned. "Why does that boy keep getting his paws into things?"
"I suppose he gets it from his father."
The agent sighed. "Maybe… anyway, I'll be back home as soon as I can. Tell Carson that he's grounded."
"Oh he's already been punished for his actions… all of the boys in the fight apologized to each other, and they have served a week's worth of community service after school. I also gave Carson a lecture about his behaviour."
"But I don't suppose that's going to stop it from happening again." Cameron stated bluntly and then sighed. "Listen mother, I have to go, but I love you all. Give them big kisses."
"I love you too, good bye Cameron."
Cameron hung up her office telephone and rubbed her temples. New recruits, a confrontation with Duke Rutherford, paperwork, and her son having a fight at school… she had said it herself that today would be a long day, she just inwardly wished that it would be that long.
The top field agent sighed, standing from her desk and decided to take her lunch break. Priscilla would likely be back for lunch, after transporting a few agents to and fro on their missions, and that girl always found a way to brighten Cameron's day.
Author's Note:
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