A Wonderful Partnership [Updated]

Chapter 1: Pilot

Chapter 1: Pilot

Angela rushes to the arrival boards looking for the gate of her best friend's flight arrival. "I'm late…" The boards start to malfunction causing Angela to get frustrated even more so than the fact that she was late. "This board is broken. The arrivals board is not working." She looks around for help asking, "Uh, did anybody meet the flight from Guatemala? Aviateca airlines? What gate? Yeah, right. I'm late." She sees the customer service desk and walks up to it.

"Excuse me, uh, you have a computer glitch at the arrivals board." Yet she gets no response. That just makes her even madder. "Hello! Sir, excuse me, yoo-hoo…" The man there had the gull to hold up his finger to her. "Great." Doing the only thing she knows will get this ignorant man's attention, Angela rips open her shirt revealing a rather sexy lacy bustier. Which, of course, does get the man's attention. "Yeah. Hi. The flight from Guatemala?"

In the background you see a woman with brilliant blue eyes and her brown hair up into a ponytail say, "Tell me you tried 'Excuse me' first." She smiles warmly at Angela as she turns around.

Angela recognizes that voice in an instant and runs to engulf her in a hug while saying, "Sweeeeeetie. Yes, I did. Welcome home." They hug for a little longer and then they start walking toward the exit with Angela firing off questions, "Are you exhausted? Was Guatemala awful? Was it horribly backwards?"

Brennan smiles and jokes, "And yet I was never reduced to flashing my boobs for information."

Angela goes right along with it, "Flash them for any fun reasons?"

Of course, Brennan being her literal self says, "I was literally, neck deep in a mass grave, not romantic."

Angela – thinking that Brennan went on her latest adventure due to her ex-boyfriend – says, "You know, diving in a pit of cadavers is no way to handle a messy break up."

Brennan feels a twinge of guilt at deceiving her best friend like this but she lies, "Angela, nothing Pete and I ever did was messy." All the while Brennan can feel the ring around her necklace pressing against her chest.

Angela just laughs, "Then you were not doing the right things."

Brennan doesn't know what that means, however she has noticed a man has been following them. So she suddenly stops and drops her bag to confront this man. She goes right up to him and asks, "Sir, why are you following us?"

The unknown man grabs her arm trying to bring her in, but Brennan knowing martial arts and from other training, moves faster than the man and brings him down to the ground with a few arm swings and knee kicks.

Angela starts to yell, "Attack! Security! Hello! Who runs this airport?" She then starts to hit the man with her own purse and says, "Kick his ass sweetie!"

As all of this is happening the police arrive and raise their weapons. One officer says, "Police! Ma'am, step back now!"

Brennan looks at the cops like they're crazy, "He attacked me!"

The man on the ground yells to her, "I'm Homeland Security!"

Angela seeing the whole mess they were now in says, "Oh, little misunderstanding here."

Since the police still had their guns pointing at Brennan, she raised her arms up and stated with authority, "You can put away your guns."

The officers actually start to lower their weapons, but the man from Homeland Security says while he starts to get up, "What is she in charge now? No. I'll tell you when you can lower your weapons." The police raise their weapons one more time while the Homeland Security man orders Brennan, "Hand over the bag."