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A/N: Here's the next chappie!! Thanks to all who reviewed. As always, please R&R. My muse loves the attention. :D Thanks to both Aphina and Axellia for betaing this!

Chapter 26.

Black Ops

When Cory got home that night, she was exhausted. She'd forgotten just how much more stress she felt when she was at work. She sniffed as she walked into the apartment and found Alexis cooking dinner. "Hey, Mom. How was your day?" she asked.

Alexis looked up at her. "It was good. Listen, now that Frasier has been caught and you are back to work, I think it's time for me to get home. Beth said that she missed me, even though she spent a week up here visiting."

Cory smiled at her mother; she had known that she would decide to leave soon. "Mom, it's okay. I didn't expect you to stay this long. Go home. Get back to work."

Alexis smiled in relief. "Thank you sweetheart," she said as she embraced her. "I'll miss you and Danny. I truly feel like he's part of the family now."

Cory smiled as she laughed. "Thanks, Mom. We'll try to make it down there for Christmas. If we can't, I'll fly everyone up here!" She walked into the kitchen. "Now, please let me help make dinner. I need to unwind."

Alexis nodded and they finished up dinner quickly.

Lindsay got up early the next day. Flack was still asleep, so she left him a note saying that she had an errand to run before work and she would see him there. She got to the doctor's office and quickly signed in.

After waiting for fifteen minutes, she was shown to an exam room, where she sat down nervously. Her doctor, Dr. Aiko Hayashi, walked in a couple of minutes later. "Lindsay," she said. "How are you?"

Lindsay smiled. "Pretty good."

Dr. Hayashi nodded. "I see that you got married a couple of months ago. Congratulations."

Lindsay smiled. "Thanks."

Dr. Hayashi looked at the chart. "It says here that you were complaining of feeling a bit run down and some nausea?"

Lindsay nodded. "Yeah. I took a home pregnancy test last night and it came back positive."

The doctor nodded. "Okay. We'll do a blood test, but I also want to make sure there's not anything else wrong. If you'll just hop up on the table, I'll get started."

Lindsay did as she was told.

Cory got up the next morning, plans already forming on how to get someone into Los Dios. She sighed, knowing that all her plans hinged on whether or not Cruz would accept the assignment.

Danny looked up from his coffee at her sigh. "Everything okay?"

"Yeah, it's just getting back to work has been an eye-opener. I'm just trying to make plans for the case."

Danny smiled. "You can do it. You're the most organized person that I know."

Cory smiled as she grabbed her briefcase then bent over to give him a kiss. "You off today?" she asked.

Danny nodded. "Yeah. I think that I'm going to hang around for a while, catch up on my reading."

Cory raised her eyebrows. "Ya know. If you don't want me to know what you're doing, it's easier just to say you're running errands."

Danny had the grace to flush at her words. "Sorry. I just want to hang out with the guys today. Didn't want you to worry."

Cory just laughed. "Have fun." She grabbed her keys and quickly headed out the door.

When she arrived at work, she was surprised to see Agent Cruz waiting out of her office for her. "Agent Cruz," she acknowledged. She opened the office door and motioned for him to follow her. "What can I do for you?"

"I have been thinking about your proposition. I'd like to accept."

Cory felt her emotions at war inside of her. On one hand she was happy that she might have found a way into the group, but on the other…she was nervous that she was sending a man to his death. Finally, after wrestling with herself, she smiled up at him. "Okay. Then give me a bit to actually work out the logistics and to come up with a background for you."

Cruz nodded and walked out of her office.

Cory pushed her emotions to the side and began to gather together enough info to create a believable background for Cruz. Running a hand over her forehead, she knew that she was in for a long day.

Danny waited an hour after Cory left to begin his mission. He quickly dressed and grabbed his wallet. Then he turned on the computer and began to browse online. Grinning at the gift he had found, he withdrew his credit card from his wallet and purchased it.

Once that was done, Danny called Hawkes. "Hey, Hawkes. Listen. I need some help on a special project. Can you meet me for lunch?"

"Sure. What's going on?"

Danny smiled. "I'll tell you at lunch." He quickly repeated the call to Flack and as he hung up the phone, smiled like the Cheshire cat.

Once Cory had completed her plans, she made a call.

"Fielding."

"Agent Fielding, it's Agent Reid."

"How are you?"

"Fine. Listen, I'm going to be placing an agent undercover in Los Dios. I need any info that you have on upcoming drug raids, so that I can help build a criminal background for him."

"Hum. Let me check with everyone and get back to you. I'm not sure what's in the pipes right now."

"Sure, not a prob. Just let me know. I'm working on building him an alias right now." Cory made a couple of notes on her notepad as hung up the phone. Looking at the clock, she put in a call to Flack, but got his voicemail. Quickly, she left a message for him.

While she was working, Lydia came in. "Okay. You're working in a fever pitch, making a lot of notes. Cruz must have accepted."

Cory nodded. "Yeah. I'm trying to build a background for him. I know that he is from Spain. Can we use that to make his past seem more reasonable?"

Lydia tapped her pen on her lips. "Hum. What if we make it where he has just arrived from Spain? He's trying to open the drug trade from there to here. He can go around making inquiries to whom he would need to speak with to open the trade here. I can work with the Spanish police to build a criminal background for him there."

Cory widened her eyes. "I hadn't thought of that! Thanks." She motioned to her chair. "Please have a seat and let's get this done."

Two days later, their preparations were done. Cory gave Agent Cruz his new identity and sent him off to try to infiltrate the cartel. Cory watched him leave with a feeling of dread. Somehow she knew that he wasn't coming back from this.

Sighing in depression, she gathered her purse and made her way back home with a heavy heart.

AN: Duh, duh, duh, dah. Back to the case! There is mucho fluff coming up next chapter, so enjoy!!!

CSI junkie - So where do you think it's going to go? I love this chapter, just for the fact that it really shows how much work goes into putting an agent undercover. Hence the name Black Ops! I'm glad school is going well. I've decided to take some time off from mine (basically it's just getting impossible to schedule my classes around work).

brainDamage - Sorry it took so long to update...I've been spacey the last couple of days. Basically I was sqeeing over the premire last night and then my niece's b-day was last Saturday, so I had to be there for her (she turned 16!-God, I feel old). So I have up to 31 written and will go back to posting weekly until my muse decided where she wants to head with the story!

Aphina - I do, too. I know that it's a necessary evil, but if he dies it will dry up one heck of a story line that I created in one of the next chapters!!! You know how much Cory feels guilt and it makes me wonder why she stayed with the Bureau...

mj - Yup, you get offical confirmation here! I don't know why I wrote this in, other than it seemed to fit!