Hey guys. To those of you who have stuck with me, thank you! Ever since the Karen's have started their complaining my views have plummeted. Not just on this story but all my stories. One person's complaint has had a large impact on me. I'm thinking about taking this story down and reposting it revamped and better than ever. What do you think. Let me know.

Reagan was getting ready to head back out there when someone from support walked in and caught her.

"What are you doing?"

"There's a whole pile of intell out there just waiting to be destroyed, causing the two men who gathered it are dead. I'm going to get to it before that happens."

"Alone?!"

"Yeah. It's better this way. Less chances of getting caught."

"I'm going with you."

"No you're not. Is there a team in I?"

"No. But you'll draw attention. With me there you won't."

"Fine. But you listen to me. Got it? I tell you to go you go."

"Deal. You know where we're going?"

"Yep. I have a map. Let's roll.

You know before the boys figure out what we're doing."

"You didn't ask permission?!"

"I just took a hard hit from Jason. You really think I'm going to go talk to him?!"

"True. Alright Alright. Let's go."

"You might want this. No doubt we'll be facing resistance."

"So how we doing this? We can't exactly walk through the door."

"I've been scouting the place since we arrived. We can climb out the back."

"Best I don't know right?"

"What? Oh my behavior? Probably not."

So the 2 snuck out of the back of the 'base'. Outside a car was waiting. Dave, the support man who caught Reagan, had mentioned the group of Americans who left the day before were a giant pack of party animals, so he kept his car parked outside in case he had to go pick them up. Reagan internally rolled her eyes. The assholes, party animals they were, never had to fight for their jobs. 'They' were always there for 'them' whatever happens. Meanwhile not only did she face resistance because she was a female, if she pulled even one of the 'thing's she'd be terminated. As they grew closer to the compound where the goldmine of intell was, she knew that she had to put anything but focus in her inner box and lock it until she was safe back in her own bed at home. She took a deep breath and then the car had stopped. It was showtime.

Meanwhile:

"Ray first off, I'm sorry. I just lost my cool. I knew we were about to get our asses handed to us by the upper brass and was not in the mood."

" Really, you're fine. I get it. I should know better than to get in your way when you get like that. I was trying to get you to take a breath and not get all in Reagan's face. I could see a type of fear in her eyes. I wanted to get you to back off before things elevated. Something's up with that girl, and I want to know what. Nothing's going to work out if she can't trust us beyond a professional capacity."

"So you think something's up with her, too? Her behavior out there rubbed me in a weird way."

"I have no doubt. The one that bothers me the most was when we were watching the target waiting for confirmation. So we both know that we agreed that we would watch for 4 then rest til everyone else had a turn, so none of us wore out. We both know she never came and got me to switch with her. At lunchtime, I went to see her with food, water, and an offer to switch with her. She said she was fine without even looking at me. I knew there was no way she was not hungry because she hadn't eaten anything in hours. When I ordered her to switch with me, the look on her face broke my heart. It looked like I had kicked her dog."

" Well, that's certainly interesting. What bothers me the most is that she seems to be a Jack of all Master of None, in terms of her skills but seems ashamed of them. She appears to be a natural born leader, but hesitates to lead. I mean I like to think I know a lot from nearly 20 years of sustained combat, but I didn't even know half the information that she was saying. If you're smart and gifted, why hide it? You know, I owe her an apology for the whole incident earlier and all, I think I'll try and talk to her then. Think you can keep the rest of the team busy?

" For you? Absolutely. I think the only rookie we've had as complicated as she was Spencer."

"True. But she does remind me a lot of myself at her age. Although I have a feeling she'll excel past me someday."

"Ah, Lisa, what can I do for you?"

"Have either of you seen Reagan? I was hoping she could help me with something. She seems gifted after all."

"She's not in the 'bunks' with the rest of the team? I was actually looking for her myself. I owe her an apology. That, and I was hoping to talk with her. We need to decide what we're going to do about her contract."

"Oh, right. I kinda forgot about that. We've kinda got more pressing issues. Can we gather in the team room? Like now? I take it back, yesterday."

"Ok Lisa, what are you not saying? I need to know what we're walking into. I'm not sure what's happening here."

"They can't find her. NCIC was hoping to talk to her about the American that died. The upper brass, trying to cover their asses, tried to use base surveillance to locate her. They couldn't find her. However, they did find someone fitting her description sneaking out the back with someone else. To them it looks like she's trying to run."

"Bullshit. Show me. She saved our lives today."

"This is my fault. I didn't give her a chance to explain. Instead, I just blew a gastic. She thought she had to prove that she belongs here. No doubt she went out to find any proof she was truly acting in self-defense of herself and us. Why did I decide that yelling at her was such a good idea?"

"Jace you couldn't have known. She is a different type. Probably faced shit for being a female doing this job. Who knows what else has come her way. We need to find her first. I have no doubt if anyone else finds her first it ain't going to end well."

"Ok! SOMEONE WANT TO EXPLAIN TO ME WHY I JUST RECEIVED A PACKET OF SIM CARDS AND A FLASH DRIVE WITH AN 'I'M TRULY SORRY' MESSAGE?! Plus, a car that came back minus a passenger."

"And that would be Mandy. And based on the tone she's pissed as hell. Rightfully so in my opinion."

"Oh good, you're all here. Jason, care to explain why we're down one teammate after you hit them."

"Mandy I can explain. You see I freaked out while we were in the field because we had a dead HVT we were instructed to bring in alive, in addition to the dead American. I knew that we were in for it when we got back and I took it out on her. She was just standing there, in the way and I 'pushed' her out of the way."

"Jason George Hayes what the hell were you thinking?!"

"I know I wasn't. But she's ok, right... right?"

"Well, since you're so concerned, she was separated from her escort trying to save him and another American.

"So let me get this straight... She's all by herself out there being hunted by not only the greatest enemy ever known to the US, but also our own government? We have to do something!"

"Look to Jason, he started this."

"We can help her by sorting through all this intel. Maybe there's something there that will either clear her name, or help us find her."

I'm set up in our team room. I could use some help sorting out all this information."

"I'll help. We need to find her."

"Me too. Cerb can sense something's wrong."

"I owe her after our little encounter earlier. I'm in."

"Who knows what's going through her head. She took a huge risk for us. I'm in as well."

"There's something going on so I'm in too."

"She took a big risk for us, isn't it only fair we do the same?"

Hey guys. Another chapter read. So from the next chapter on, I'm going to be cross posting no matter what. Things are going to get pretty dark, so here I'm going to keep it PG-13, and over on AO3 will be the unsensered version. See those of you there who want to be.