KING OF HEARTS and QUEEN OF SPADES

Chapter II. LEXA

Time: 3:15 am

Date: present day, October 27,

Location: the docks

Subject: Lexa, Woods

09:00 am, October 25

Morning debriefing at the FBI headquarters was hell on earth for the Woods family. Having to literally come back in town and infiltrate the gangs, talk to their ex-colleagues from high school and betraying their trust once again was the finest mission. Lexa was on Anya's right, and Echo on her left. The oval office felt like a cage for the three of them and suddenly the hot coffee freshly brew was the only thing that kept them awake and focused. They will need more than one coffee soon...

Chief Abbigail Griffin, the fiercest leader that FBI had, was conducting the meeting. She handed to each of them the yellow files and an envelope. The mission was clear – infiltrate, extract, annihilate and come back. Abby was walking around the table handling to each member of the team the files.

Lexa felt her stomach crumbled when, behind Abby, the picture of her high school sweetheart appeared. Clarke Griffin was on full display, the pixilated image bringing back all those suppressed memories. The girl she used to kiss and share a lot of memories...now on top of the most wanted criminals list... how did that happened?

- Lexa, you have to infiltrate The Delinquents Drug Cartel. The envelope you have is your identity and the job. The leader is known for her cruelty and special deals abroad. Find as much as you can about the policy they have, who is supplying them and their trading points.

- Yes, ma'am!

- Anya you are the leader of this field team, their 24/7h support. Use your old connections to warn as many undercover agents as you can. We need all hands on deck this time.

- Yes, Madam!

- Echo, you have to infiltrate The Spades, a bikers charter. Their leader is Octavia Blake; she works as a chef for a local restaurant. From what we know, she graduated pyrotechnic chemistry alongside with John Murphy and Gabrielle Quicksands. They are in need for an accountant at that restaurant and we all agreed you should take that job at all costs.

- Understood.

The debriefing followed with a short presentation of each member. Lexa was assigned to meet once again the troublemaker of Arkadia High school. She looked through the file, analyzed every detail and looked through the photos. Clarke had been busy, very busy in the past 10 years.

Her new job was to be a lawyer. She was good with laws and it was true- she did graduated Law at Harvard after all. It felt so bizarre to be in TonDC after so many years and nothing seemed to be the same. Octavia Blake as a chef? Who could ever have imagined Blake, the girl who drove like a lunatic, and lived life like a wild animal, all covered in flour or pasta sauce?

The meeting was done and the three of them walked on the endless corridor chatting about their new assignments. Since they were family, the bureau agreed to give them a larger space to have their offices. As soon as they stepped in the room, Anya threw the files on the already messy desk and started to yell:

- What the actual fuck! This is not even fucking possible. I cannot imagine how someone like Griffin went from sweet and innocent to this ... savage most wanted criminal in the last decade.

She slammed her hands on the desk, making Lexa jump out of her trance and Echo just stared at Octavia's picture as if she was trying to put a spell on her. Anya threw herself on the big leather chair with a thud.

- Nobody is innocent, we all have our demons or we fight silent wars each day.

Echo said with some kind of sadness in her voice, not taking her eyes off that picture. She leaned on her desk, lowering her hands and looking at Anya.