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LB WANTS TO SEE YOU... ALONE

[ LB WANTS TO SEE YOU... ALONE ]
[ agent gill ╱ EmbersofMemories  ]
[LBaker]

LB wants to see you, alone.
These are unwelcome words to any agent. Well almost any agent.

LB had just this year been appointed as the boss of Spectrum 8. Bradley Baker (her fiancé) for one was incredibly proud. From the first ever female field agent, having to claw through highway RR for every opportunity to the head of them all. He smiled. Many agents considered him right for the role however he knew that in LB Spectrum could have a sense of organisation he could never bring. What's more she could get people to talk. There was no hiding from her gaze.

She had made her mission to leave no stone unturned and many an agent had been called in for these individual meetings. From their faces upon exit Bradley could only imagine she had grilled them, only Hitch had he ever seen emerge with a smile.

This morning he had received his orders. BAKER 6:30 REPORT TO COMMAND.

He'd rolled in at around 5 I order to get breakfast and some of his paperwork done. This was one of his more formal meetings with LB, not the usual cryptic note arranging to meet in one of their assorted destinations. This was to do with work. Missions and the like. Maybe a new briefing, maybe continued debriefing. They usually lasted 2 minutes shorter than were timetabled. They could both be clear cut and to the point when preferred. Then for those final minutes it would be back to the usual -flirt, laugh, enjoy the privacy of her office.

Whatever this meeting is about he was glad to see her, she'd been so busy with the twin ford bank case recently that he felt he'd barely seen her.

'LB will see you now' -says Buzz the new telephone coordinator

I stand up and give three sharp taps on the door.

'Come in' says LB

I walk in and smile. Without ever looking up from the files on her desk she says
'Stop smiling for a minute Baker and shut the door. '

I oblige and make my way over to her desk.

I lean over behind her and give her a kiss on the cheek

'What are you working on?' I ask as I walk round to my seat

'Documentation of the city bank plot'
and she slaps the file shut.

'Okay down to buisness.' She says.

Something is off about her. It's hard to lay a finger on it.

'There is a mission for you.'
She sates matter of factly
'Okay ' I say.
She fixes me with one of her stares

'Any other information...?'