Chapter 2 - The coffee cup

The glass door was thrown to both sides with a loud noise and the heads of everyone in the common room turned towards the glass door.

"That door won't last long either!"

Muttering softly, Damian sat down in a chair.

Keith turned his eyes to the tall young man who came through the door. He was very tall. Long face; straight nose and chin. The hair was up to the neck and half of it was pulled back in a ponytail. In the FBI, officers had a proper way of grooming and dressing. But this young man had set his appearance in a completely different way. Apparently he didn't care about the mechanism of the unit.!

Behind him was a slightly shorter young man with beautiful golden hair; It was properly cut and combed. The face was like a teenager but this time the face was full of anger. He was scolding the tall young man walking in front of him for some reason. The tall young man halted his pace again and turned to face the scolding young man behind him.

"Why don't you even think once, you punk? After all this, we and Anil will have to make answers up Coleman!"

The young man with golden hair said angrily. Keith could see everyone in the common room was heading about their business without paying much attention to it.

"So don't make up answers!"

The tall young man said lightly but firmly. His voice was deep. Glancing at the two men's clothes, Keith could see black long pants black boots and white shirts with FBI swat vests strapped across the chest, waist and thighs. Accordingly, Keith realized that the two of them had left early in the morning for some kind of field duty or crime-related raid.

Unable to answer this, the golden-haired young man gritted his teeth in anger. Ignoring his anger, the tall young man turned around and hurried across the common room into one of the rooms, closing the door behind him.

"Nathan!! Did you see his attitude? Either you hit him or I do!!"

Then he vented his anger towards Nathan.

Nathan was calm. This seemed familiar to him. Nathan walked over to the golden haired young man and put a hand on his shoulder.

"Stephan..calm down. You know how he is. You can't make him understand by shouting. First of all, cool down. Let's go get something to drink."

"You say more lullaby..!. It was you who spoiled him!"

"Stephan come on.. lets go and have something to drink"

Nathan said, comforting the golden-haired young man. Young man obeyed and left with Nathan.

"Same drama.. same episode!"

Logan said jokingly. Keith couldn't understand anything. He had a confused look on his face. Lucas comforted Keith when he saw Keith's face.

"Don't worry bro... The entire Hoover Building knows that Stephan and Alex come to blows like a pair of elk.!"

Lucas crumpled up a piece of paper in his hand and threw it into a nearby trash can. Keith turned his attention to others as well. They were also engaged in their own activities as if nothing had happened. According to Logan and Lucas, the behavior of the two young men had become very common for the K12 unit. Keith looked around the common room again. It had 12 rooms. Each room had its own name and unit number. Keith's eyes pointed to a certain door.

'Alestair Tristan Bishop - K4'

It was the same room that the tall young man who Keith just saw, had entered.

The room to the right of it mentioned as;

'Stephan Brooks - K3'

It was the room of golden-haired young man who had scolded the tall young man in anger before. Keith let out a slight smile. The rooms of two quarreling youths were next to each other....

Keith turned his eyes back to room K4. The tall young man was still in that room.

"You'll have to be careful with him, man!"

Suddenly, Keith looked back. Colin was biting his pen to one side of his mouth, filing his arm full of files.

"What ?"

Keith was confused.

"You have been appointed as partnership with Alex. You will have to be patient."

Colin repeated, nodding towards the K4 room.

"Has anyone worked with him as a partner before?"

Keith asked eagerly.

"Oh yes. All of us. But it is not easy to work with him. He does not like to work with a partner. He is like a wild solitary elephant. He wants to do everything alone and to be alone... Stephan and Nathan are the ones working together with him."

Colin said, moving the pen in his mouth to one side. With the documents on his hands, Colin went to his room, K9. Keith saw the door of the room to the left of Colin's room.

"Keith Evans - K10"

That was his room. His name and his unit number were written in a wonderful golden metal on the brown door. Keith went near the door of his room and tried to open it, but it was difficult to open it.. He tried to open the door by inserting his FBI ID from his previous office into the automatic security lock next in the door, but it was no use.

"You'll have to stay outside until you get your new ID."

Austin said, stretching out in his chair.

Just then, the glass door opened and a thin young man came in. He came with many cups of coffee in his hands.

"Coffee to everyone"

He placed the tall coffee cups covered with plastic lids carefully on the table and straightened up with his hands on his back. Everyone moved towards the table to get their cup of coffee.

"I brought 12 coffees because I was told that our new member was coming today."

He looked around.

Keith quickly stepped forward and introduced himself to him.

"Nice to meet you! I'm Theodore Hank. I'm K2 in that room."

He said, pointing towards a room. Keith turned his eyes to the room to the left of Nathan's.

"You must be a little stressed out because you're new, aren't you?"

Theo said very friendly.

Keith noticed that his dawn-colored eyes were also welling up with happiness.

"Come and drink coffee. I brought for you with me!"

Theo picked up a cup of coffee from the table and offered it to Keith

"This is black americano. We still don't know what kind of coffee you like. So please have this today."

Theo said with a smile.

"No worries, I like the Black Americano. Thanks" Keith said sincerely.

"There are three coffees left here. Where are Nathan, Stephan and Alex?"

Theo asked looking around.

"Nathan went out with Stephan. Alex is in his room."

Austin said as he sipped his coffee.

"Have the two fought today?"

Theo asked Austin quizzically.

Austin shrugged his shoulders in response and went to his room, K7, with his cup of coffee. Understanding Austin's gesture, Theo made a disappointing sound.

"Nevermind, I'll bring the coffee. It will brighten his mood up"

Theo picked up a cup of coffee.

"Wait a minute!"

Keith quickly interrupted Theo.

"Is that coffee to that room?"

Keith asked and pointed to the room K4.

"Ah.. No.... This coffee is for Nathan. Alex only drinks Latte."

Theo said.

"Give it up me, I'll go"

Keith volunteered.

"Are you sure? Be careful, man. Leave the coffee and turn around. If Alex had a fight with Stephan in the morning, Alex might not be in a good mood right now."

Theo warned with a frown.

"Ah.. thanks Theo. I'll be right back"

Keith said, picking up the latte on the table.

Keith stepped nervously into room K4.

A strange kind of person...

Are you mentally ill?

Why are these people kept in the FBI?

In K12 unit...?

A series of questions arose in Keith's mind. Standing by the door, Keith read the nameplate on the door again.

'Alestair Tristan Bishop - K4'

Oh the heaviness of this name..

Even his name has something special...

Something like pride..?

Keith thought to himself. Walking to the door, Keith realized that he couldn't get into any of the rooms in the common room without the new ID.

"What to do now?.."

Keith stared at the door, confused.

"I will just knock... he will open the door"

Keith thought as he moved closer to the door.

Suddenly the door opened and a tall young man emerged from the door. The young man stopped at once when he saw Keith standing very close to the door. Keith gasped at once. Keith's cup of coffee hit the young man's chest. Because it was a cup with a plastic lid, the coffee survived without spilling. Keith was only tall up to his nose. Keith and him were separated only by the coffee cup. Keith immediately looked up and saw two deep black eyes!

Keith quickly drew his foot back, making the considerable gap between the two.

"What??????!!"

he asked angrily.

His deep voice...

Keith was stunned for a moment.

To be continued

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