Chapter 1

John's POV

"Come here"

My mother pulls me to her as she adjusted my uniform and badge for my very first job just like all my firsts.

"That's much better doesn't it?" She smiles after adjusting what she needs to adjusted.

"Mama. I'm all good really." I reassured her.

"Aber denken sie immer daran, seien sie diskret! (But always remember, be discreet!)" She reminds me for the many time.

"Ich weiß was ich tue, keine sorge. (I know what I'm doing, don't worry.)" I hug her reassuring her before taking my stuff and leaving the house to wait for the bus to take me to the Academy in California.

The bus came after about 10 minutes and I hopped on right away. I hate being that social butterfly so I stuck with what I know during trips like that.

Crosswords & Books

"I see Plantagenet and Normandy are done" I quietly say to myself flipping to where I stopped on my new crossword book when I heard some of the new rookies gossiping.

"I heard the Deputy Chief they promoting today is the first beauty!" One of the bulky rookies started off the conversation.

"Surely the Chief is never going to promote his own sons, I even heard the other day he is going to promote one of his boys for the Deputy Chief isn't he? I mean this Chief is very traditional after all…"

Another said and I just continue focusing on my crossword puzzle cause all I hear from the gossip to me is gibberish.

Keona's POV

"Thank you Chief Vince for all your hard work to put me to where I am today"

I tossed up the glass of sparkling water after my promotion ceremony is done, thanking the Chief.

"You need not thank me, Keona, you've worked hard and proved you are strong. So you need to thank yourself."

He tells me. "So whoever I picked among the rookies here will follow me to New York?" I then asked about one of my new privileges.

"You can pick whoever you want and wherever you please of course!"

He laughs a little answering. "Hopefully you're not asking me to pick your sons to baby them" I looked at him asking, as I felt suspicious about his answer.

"Ah nooo! I will have them trained under other people to make your life easier." He reassures me nonchalantly. "I see you're going for nowhere than anywhere now." I joked

"You can say so" Chief chuckles before I can hear my 4 year old twin daughters crying.

I excused to check that Marie & Victoria are fighting over a doll and making a fuss. I wish someone can tell me why twins cry are so similar.

"Alright alright, let's go play dolls instead okay?"

I had to pick the two up and cuddle them so they'll stop crying. "Now let's go find your big brothers and sisters shall we?" I smiled to them both as soon as they stopped.

They just wipe their tears at the same time as I bring them to look for their siblings in the playroom.

Pierre was playing with the slides with his stomach while Gwen and Glen are arguing about what homework to do first.

"I say we do Math first!" Glen suggests. "No! Spanish!" Gwen folded her arms pouting as the argument continues while I put the girls down near the blocks before going to the slide to pick Pierre up so he won't hurt himself.

"Oh my gosh!"

I facepalmed putting Pierre near the mini police kitchen before dealing with Gwen and Glen by separating the two for a talk.

"No one is doing anything else until you two start to learn what's being nice and compromise"

I tell the two. Seeing the two are strong enough not to budge, I just leave the two alone to attend to the younger children until I saw a young lady outside looking outside.

I quietly leave the playroom to attend to the young lady. She look a bit like my annoying sister with the nose but surely a beautiful young lady.

"May I help you?" I asked the lady. "I'm a new agent here and I'm supposed to report to one of the Senior Agents. Do you know where I can find the agent by the last name Lockett?" She asks me in a petite yet mild voice.

'Really? May J have such a mild person under her?' I think to myself confused while not showing it. But I still showed her the way to Lockett's office otherwise.

"Thank you very much, Mam"

She bowed lightly to me thanking me profusely. "Not to worry young lady." I reassured her. "And before I go, what is your name?" I stopped a little asking her.

"Raussen, Diane Jane."

The lady introduced herself. "I'm 20 this year." She adds on. "Interesting and very lady-like name. See you around, Miss Raussen." I nodded my head saying before taking my leave.

'Diane Jane Raussen…this name is as interesting as the person herself looks…'

I thought of the agent still as I headed back to the playroom. When I headed back to the playroom, only Gwen and Glen are there but not Pierre and the baby twins

"Before telling me which subject, did you know where Pierre and the girls went?" I asked my older twins, trying not to be anxious.

Gwen pointed to her left, and I looked at a bag of colored balls being all around the floor.

Marie and Victoria are putting balls after balls inside their shirts while Pierre rolling balls even to his pockets much to my horror.

"And we've decided to do Math first."

Gwen tells me with that rabbit smile she had which Glen soon followed along.

"Very good, just do your Math and make sure your siblings don't make the mess too much to handle." I ruffled both of their heads before leaving the playroom and head back to my office where the Chief left me a rather large list on my table .

'What is this?'

I think to myself walking towards the table and pick up the list. I soon realized the list is about the rookies for the new batch which I can think of only Chief giving the list to me because only he has this list.

"Let's see"

I softly said to myself as I look through the list of these young fresh rookie meat.

'Interesting names' I think to myself until I saw the name highlighted in yellow that is indicated that the agents are under Lockett and even come across a familiar name.

Diane Jane Raussen

'Now it make sense why she asking me where's Lockett's office?'

I think to myself and then see even highlighted in blue that bloody Rodrigo has taken some agents of his own.

Making me wonder if any of these agents will last given the way this Henry Tudor of the FBI has run things.

Laura Micaela Padilla

Rachel Rivera

I then put my attention onto the names of those that nobody has taken under yet which make me wonder if I should take some of them or not.

"Can somebody page in Instructor Siracusa for me please?" I then decided to page in the newest rookie in-charge promoted into my office.

-5 Minutes Later-

"Good morning Feli"

I greeted the instructor as she comes in after knocking the door. "Good morning Deputy Chief Shyden" She greets me walking in.

"For god sake, Feli, drop the formalities when it's just you and I."

I chuckle at Felicita's dork demeanour when she greets me. "Still, you're the Deputy Chief now. I can't have Chief V thinking I am crossing the line." She giggles.

"Ignore him. You know he can be a hypocrite some days when it comes to that." I reassured her giggling also.

"So what are you going to do with the new list?" She then proceeds asking me. "How about you tell me whose left so I can just pick from there?" I suggests back to her.

"Cause I seriously and definitely not trusting whatever nonsense Chief Vince is up to next." I explained.

"From my memory to the list, I know somebody my uncle G brought to the FBI, her son." She says as I looked up for the name in the list.

"Okay so Jadwiga Kowalska, Harold Richard Jenkins, Ilir Koleka, John Charles Daniel McForbes, Angelina Bradfield, Eva Harley, Timothy Lee-" I listed the name so far I can find that has nobody assigned under until Felicita cut me off.

"YES! IT'S HIM!"

She cut me off squealing excitedly. "Calm down Feli. Which one?" I calmed her down asking though surprised by her reaction at the same time.

"John Charles Daniel McForbes, he's the son of our Intelligence Analyst Letizia Van Rhineburg!" She answers me excitedly.

"Wait, so your uncle G's protege is Analyst Van Rhineburg, and her son is John Charles Daniel McForbes?"

I stopped Felicita and asked her again. She nods her head with much certainty. "Interesting." I commented.

"I know who am I settling on but first and foremost. I need you to bring me his profile so I can learn more about him."