The year 2018, Ireland, in the United Kingdom

Johanna got out after Liam and watched the building in front of her as she heard Liam talk away. She couldn't help but grin at him. It was at least a good thing he spoke out loud instead of thinking all that in his head. She took off her cap to brush back some hair before she put it on again and walked up to stand a bit behind him to his right. She looked at every spot Liam pointed out where they could get inside.

"I think we should go in pairs. One team look for the computer and the other Keelan. The one looking for the computer go to the top floor and work their way down. The other team start in the basement and when they find Keelan they should head out from there. I don't think he will be in a very good shape. If the computer team meets difficulties then one of the other team goes and help them when they have made sure Keelan is safe enough. Though we can start from different points when we have teamed up, then meet in the middle before heading out." She said when Liam had looked back at them.

She winked at him before looking at the building again. "I like the way you think. So, who goes with who? I don't have any problem with going with either of you or which search team. If none of you don't really feel like going through the Storm Drain then I can take that one. I don't mind getting my hands dirty." She said with a shrug as she turned to the others with her hands in her pockets.

(Well, you people said to wait for two days at least. I did. time to go on a tagging spree. Oh, and death, I WILL hunt you down if you don't come back :) I am also enacting one of the secret plans)

Liam looked back at Johanna. He admitted to himself that he was somewhat conflicted. He was trained to prioritize. And this training made him know, for a fact, they had to focus on the computer. He did want to save Keelan, but he knew the mission. Keelan was technically a secondary objective, however much he did not want to admit it. He also knew which team he had to be on. He could access the computer remotely and download the data if he got close enough with his watch, or he could use his spider drone to hack into it and get all the data. He needed to be on the Computer team.

"I will go get the data. We..." he hesitated a little. He quickly slapped himself. Hesitation means death. "We need to get the data, that is the priority. And I have the best equipment for getting the data too. I don't have any preferences on who goes with me either..."

----4 years ago, Top Secret Chinese Training Facility, Location: CLASSIFIED----

"Clash!"

Liam fought off the attacker, both of them wielding Chinese swords. They were sparring in the Sparring room, being watched by their trainers and the project leader. The Project leader looked at the trainers. "Where did you get this...Liam?"

"An orphanage in southern Hong Kong. He was left there by someone. We believe the mother was American and left him here".

"He is exceptional. He is surpassing all of your other students".

"Indeed. He has natural talents. The one that caught our attention was his natural ability to break into safes by ear, but he is equally exceptional at cracking electronic ones. He is short for his age, but he uses that to his advantage, getting under his opponents".

"I assume you looked into who his parents are?"

"Of course. Though he displays no interest to find them, or even know who they are. Which may be for the best. While we have no identity for the mother, the father's DNA has been found once, at a crime scene where an arms dealer was selling some heavy grade weaponry. We do not know his actual identity, we have come to believe he is a master criminal".

"And Liam himself? What else can you tell me about him?"

"Loyal, Goal Oriented, capable of compartamentalizing but showing compassion when he needs to. He has avoided relationships with most of his peers, excluding one who came from the Orphanage he was at. A Itari Xhe. He has also had violent complications with another one of our older trainees, Weyvet Chan. They seem to be of equal match, which is exceptional considering the 5 year age difference. We are selecting him for even further advanced training".

"Excellent".

The horn sounded. The trainer and Project Leader looked back. Liam had won, and his opponent was naked from the waste down. Liam had cut his belt and pants, which had startled him. "Liam is not afraid of doing what needs to be done. And he is creative too. He shocked his opponent for just a second, and used that one second to disarm him. A trick people have tried to use on him, but he is goal oriented enough that when people do that, he disarms them. He is well trained".

"Indeed. Consider Liam accepted".

----Present----

Liam looked at the others. "Well, you guys ready to start?"

----Meanwhile----

"Excuse me, Interrogator. I need a word with this boy for a moment".

He dismissed the torturer, and looked at Keelan. "Do you know who I am? I am the man who can make your life hell...". He took a knife that had a blade that was heated on an oven, and stuck it into Keelan's chest. "Lets not deny the facts. You are British Intelligence. Not MI6, we all know that is a cover for the real agents. And other will come to get you. Now, if you tell us what you know, we will kill you, and make sure your body gets media attention. You will spare anyone who comes here trying to rescue you. But if you don't talk...then you will be letting innocent men and women be slaughtered. It will be your fault. They died coming to save you, and if you give us the information in the first place, they will never have to die. So what do you say? How much blood do you want on your hands?"

Keelan tried hard to not scream in pain as the hot knife slid across his chest. He took a deep breath when the man stopped. Keelan slowly looked at the man with a serious face. "I don't know anything. You're right i'm not MI6, and no one is coming to get me, so just killed me already." Keelan managed to get out. As soon as he finished, the man placed the hot knife back on his chest. Keelanscreammed with his teeth biting down on each other. "Now tell me what i want to know." the man said as he ran the blade against Keelan's chest.

When the man stopped, Keelan slowly caught his breath. "I can't tell you what i don't know, but i can give you the information." Keelan said quietly, getting the man's attention. "Now don't you feel better helping me to help you? Now where is it?" The man replied, placing the knife down. Keelan motioned to the gear laid out on the table near him. The gear that was taken off of him when he was captured. "It's hidden in the handle of the knife over there. The one that said SOG on it. Lower me down and I'll take it out." Keelan said trying to make it believeable. The man nodded to the guard and lowered Keelan down. Keelan placed weight on his feet for the first time in who knew how long. If Keelan wasn't still restrained, he would have collapsed from exhaustion.

The man walked over and grabbed the knife, looking at it carefully. "You're pretty smart to hide it in something so obvious." The man said as he handed it to Keelan. Keelan slowly took it and wiped some of the dried blood mud and sweat out of his eyes. He opened it and pretended to take something out of it. With the last of his strength and energy, he thrusted the blade down onto the man. He took the man and guard by surprise, but failed, the knife only went into the man's shoulder. The guard pulled the chains and lifted Keelan back up. The man grunted some and pulled the knife out and threw it to the ground. He placed his hand on his shoulder to stop the bleeding. "Let him hang some more. I'm not done with him. I will make you pay for that!" The man scream and kicked Keelan's feet out from underneath him, causing him to fall hard. When the restrains stopped Keelan from falling all the way, it caused his shoulder to get dislocated. Keelan screamed for a minute from the pain, then used anything he could to take the weight off of his arms.

***((Sorry for it being so long, just thought i'd get a good post in before they get to him.))***

Riley nodded and turned to Adele. "Let's move out frauline," she said with a smile.
With a fluid movement, Riley lept out of the helicopter and began sprinting at her top speed. If Keelan was still alive, which he was, then the probability of torture was frighteningly high, meaning that the odds he was severely injured were of the same proportion. In all honesty, she was grateful for Liam and Johanna, god bless their souls, with their attention funneled towards the prioritized computer, it allowed, for Adelaide and Riley to focus on finding and rescuing Keelan.
Her mind drifted towards the First Aid kit in her backpack, it was fully equipped to deal lacerations, but it worried her that she would not be able to treat the injuries he had sustained.
"Keelan, you better not go dieing on me," Riley thought, as Keelan himself could hear, as a hot, unshed tears began to sting her eyes.

(probably wont be able to post for awhile, so to not hold everyone up, il sneak my post in before Darkie's. Also, no reply get from Darkdiva. I asked if she minded if one of us controlled her character as well. She read the PM, but no response yet, so I would say wait another day before anyone does that).

Liam looked at the climb ahead. There was a narrow indent in the outer wall that had a Heat Duct shaft. However, the walls by it were near unscalable. Emphasis on near. Liam put his hands on one side of the indent, and jumped his legs up to press against the other side. He then began climbing up, moving an arm and a leg at the same time, slowly making his way up...

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The instructors and the Project Manager watched as Liam made his way up the completely flat surface. "He is creative. He seems perfect even. So, tell me his flaws. I have been alive too long to believe in perfect".

"Despite some people seeing it has a strength, A flaw I see is his inability to form new connections easily. Sure, he can joke and train and talk with others, but he doesn't really let them in easily. And while he has yet to have a major failure because it was his fault, his overreaching could potentially be dangerous, no matter how careful he claims he will be. Its not pride so much as commitment, but he believes he can go in and do things alone. I am afraid this will eventually get him killed, if we, or him, are not careful".

"But the skills are there?"

"Other then people skills and real social skills, yes. The skills are there".

"Excellent".

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Liam made it to the top, and got the Heat Duct open, before looking back down at Jo. He tossed down some rope so she could climb up, before going on ahead. He was goal oriented. And the sooner he found the computer, the sooner he could go save Keelan.

((Sorry for the wait. Something huge happen at home and I should have posted earlier. Anyway here it comes!))

Johanna watched Liam climb upwards to the Heat Duct, he's like a spider. She thought with appreciation and looked around a little before she grabbed the rope Liam had tossed down to her. She climbed up as fast she could, quickly rolled up the rope and put it over her head so it would lie diagonal over her right shoulder and left waist. Always be on the safest side, never leave anything behind you. She looked back at the other two before heading after Liam, climbing after him. When she finally caught up with him, she placed a hand on his ankle and placed a finger to her lips so he wouldn't say a word. There were faint noises under them that grew louder, two men talking under them and if they moved now. They might be heard. When they passed on and you couldn't hear them anymore, she let go of his ankle so that they could continue.

She hoped that mission would go smoothly so that they could bring Keelan and the computer back in one piece. Right now she let the worry about Keelan go, Adele and Riley would take care of that. Liam and her only had to worry about the computer, it also seemed that Liam had everything out thought so she just followed him. She would only interfere with when she thought they could do something else.

After a few minutes, and having his shoulder stitched and wrapped, the boss man walked back into the room with Keelan, holding the small computer they've been trying to get into for a while. He had the guard spalsh some water on Keelan to wake him up."Now since you won't tell me what you know, i'll give you a chance to end the suffering. Tell me how to access this device, you tell me that and i'll take away all the pain. The boss man said, holding the device up to Keelan. Keelan blew the water out of his face and looked at the computer. He nodded some. "Alright, i'll tell you, but only you. Keelan said in a scratchy soft voice. The boss man moved closer to listen. "You access it by shoving it up y... Keelan said and was cut off when the boss man hit him. The man pulled up a seat and sat down.

"It gives me great pleasure to see the pain you go through. The strength you have to resist, why couldn't you have joined my side? You could have been good, even great. Just tell me how to access it and all this will go away, and no one else will get hurt." The man said. Keelan looked at him and spat at him, causing him to get hit again. Keelan looked at the guard. "Before i die, and before my body leaves here...I will kill you. Keelan said and then got hit some. The cut above Keelan's eye and his lip was bleeding again. He, himself wondered how much longer he could take it. The boss man stood up and walked towards the door. "If he doesn't tell you within the next ten minutes, kill him and throw his body in the rivier. The boss man said before leaving the room, leaving the computer on the table for the guard to try if Keelan gave up the pass word. Keelan wasn't shocked or surprised, infact he was waiting for the bullet.

(Edit: Oops. Used to posting immediately after death. Oh well, I guess we might as well restore the posting order then. On a side note, got another PM from Darkdiva. Didn't answer any questions, but I thought it would be good to point out).

After the men passed, Liam continued, looking through the cracks to see if he could spot anything useful. Some hallways, a barracks, the woman's restroom, a firing range. However, the next room Liam looked into had a bunch of papers and computers. "This might be it" he whispered, looking through the cracks. There were two people in the room. Guards, both armed, both unaware.

"The computer might be in here. Two guards, in opposite corners. Easy pickings".

Liam took out his Compact Pistol, and made sure the silencer was securely attached. He fired twice from the heat duct, once into each guard in the head, then dropped down into the room. It was much cooler, seeing as how there was heat going through the heat duct. He started searching the room. "Let's hope it's in here. I would rather not have to search every room here".

As Liam searched, however, he found some other documents a bit more distressing. "Jo, look at this. These are plans to rob a bank. Not just any bank though. A Swiss bank. As in, mother of all banks. Look, see? This is a blueprint of the bank...and this is a notice, to confirm an invitation to a party. Two days from now. Black tie event. Jo, if they pull this off...well, just think about what and how much people keep in those banks. And if the robbery goes public...Switzerland's bank system is their main resource. If the robbery is made public in any way, even if it was stopped, it would make people lose trust in their banking systems. It could cripple or even destroy the country...".

"No computer here, but this is big. Did you find it? We need to get this out of here". Liam was legitimately concerned. Not only was there a money risk, but a lot of powerful people kept things there they did not want people to see or know. A lot of potential blackmail, on a lot of powerful people.

(Sorry if you didn't like my whole bank idea for later, just seemed interesting. Let me know if you want it out.)

Johanna just nodded at Liam as he spoke and waited for him to get down before going after him, they both searched on each side of the office. She took off her cap to wipe away some sweat, the heat duct had been seriously warm. She looked through a desk when Liam spoke again. "Hm?" She walked over to him and looked at the documents, putting her hand on the desk. "Woah, we need to take those documents with us. HQ needs to know about them. I was just about to go through the last desk when you called. Gimme a moment." She said before hurrying back to the last desk furthest away from them. She lifted some papers and saw it, right there under them it was. A silver coloured Ipod touch look alike. She fist pumped the air and waved the Ipod at Liam.

"I found it, come on. Let's get out from here, I hope Riley and Adele found Keelan and alive." She said and walked to the door that led out from this room. She opened it silently, moving it just so she could listen and glance around through the crack. Nothing was heard and she didn't see anything. "Looks like there's no one around but those two soldiers might come back from their patrolling around." She closed the door as quietly as she had open it and looked back at Liam. "Should we get out and wait for Riley and Adele or go and look for them? They could have met problem and if we get into too much trouble, we get out from here."

((I thought the whole bank thing was intersting :3 And it's fine by me that you post after death. I like order so why don't we have it like this, Death, Mr. B. S, Darkie and Anything. It would suit me fine I think. I don't really care when I post as long as we try to hold an order.))

Keelan waited a few minutes and carefully watched the guard. Once he had a chance, he found enough strength to kick the guard in the back of the head, knocking him out. Keelan used his other leg to carefully set the guard on the ground. He carefully took the keys off of the guard by using his feet, and kicked them up to his hands. Once he had the keys, he unlocked the chains around his wrists. Being completely exhausted and weak from the strain he was under, he collapsed to the ground. Keelan wrapped his hands around the guards head and gave a quick yank, breaking his neck. Keelan then pulled himself over to the table and grabbed the computer and placed it in his boot to hide. He fumbled around with the things on the table until he found his pistol, which had a silencer on it. Keelan was completely exhausted, he didn't know if he had the strength to escape.

Keelan drug himself over to the wall and slammed his shoulder against it, popping it back into place. Once he did that he screamed out every curse word he could think of, but was thankful his shoulder felt proper again. He leaned against the wall and kept a close eye on the door, to make sure no one came in. Though it was hard for him, with being exhausted and having blood, sweat and dirt pretty much keeping his left eye shut. He tried his hardest to stay awake, but found himself dozing in and out.

((No i like the idea of the bank. It actually did more good then not good. It gave something to help me work off of.))

(Well, I realized Anything might have trouble posting since Adele/Darkdiva isn't here, so to help, il post for Darkdiva (sorry, just want to help) so Riley/Anything has something to post to)

Liam:

Liam acknowled this, and then went outside and made sure the hallway was clear of Hostiles, checking around corners. The hallway was filled with doors, paintings, an old laundry chute, and expensive vases. But no signs, and no stairs were visible. Liam started checking doors, when an alarm went off. He looked around, and after some more focus, realized there were hidden cameras.

"We need a way out of here, and to Keelan" he noted, taking out his pistol, taking cover, and firing at guards as they turned a corner. That is when he turned his attention to the laundry chute. A quick slide to the basement. He signaled Jo, then jumped in, sliding down to the basement. He landed in a pile of laundry, a surprise to him. He didn't think the chute would be in use.

Two guards quickly turned the corner and shot him in the chest. Luckily his clothes were made with bulletproof fibers, so albeit making them much heavier, he survived uninjured, and shot both of the guards. He then waited for Jo to come down, making sure to get out of the way of the chute.

Adele:

Adele made her way into the compound through the sewer drain. It was dark though, so she couldn't tell, if Riley was still following her. However, a guard turned the corner in the drain, but Adele quickly took him out with her crossbow. She soon found a drain that led inside the compound. "This way!"

Johanna nodded at Liam and when the alarm went off, she pulled put her gun and fired one shot at another guard that came after Liam jumped into the laundry chute. She quickly got after him, putting away her gun but just as she was about to glide down someone grabbed her and threw her backwards. She hit the floor hard enough to lose her breath but in reflex she kicked out the man's leg. He stumbled to the ground with a thud and Johanna got up as quickly as she could even when she struggled for her breath. She was about to grab her gun and shoot the guard but he had only gotten down on his knees so he grabbed her hand and wrenched the gun out from her hand, tossed it away and dragged her down to the ground.

"Helvete!" She swore and punched the man but that didn't stop him. He straddled her, held one hand tightly around her throat, making her gasp for breath and the other he raised to punch her across the face. She hadn't manage quick enough to block the punch that gave her a split lip and there would probably come a very angry looking bruise on her cheek. When the next punch she was prepared and followed his motion, grabbed his hand to toss him off her to the side. She quickly turned around on her knees and punched him hard in the throat and then again in his face, and again. She held her hand raised and waited for him to move but he was obviously unconscious. She breathed out and touched her throat as she looked around. No one else was there. She grabbed her gun and her cap that had fallen off her head when she hit the ground. She licked away the blood on her bottom lip and jumped down the chute, landing in a pile of laundry. She saw the two guards and drew her gun as she got out of the laundry pile.

"You okay?" She asked Liam after she made sure there would not come anyone else and looked at him. She saw that he was uninjured but better ask then just assume he was fine.

***TIME JUMP***
Madame Devone was waiting at the landing pad when the helo landed. The medic on board had started to treat Keelan's injuries, and informed her that xrays are needed, but he didn't think that there were any broken bones. She listened and welcomed her team back and congratulated them on a job well done.

Once back at the school, Doctor Roberts started to clean up Keelan and examine him for any major injuries. He also took some xrays and patched the young agent up. He informed Madame Devone that his left shoulder was dislocated, but was resent, and that there were no broken bones, just bruised ribs. The doctor also informed Devone that Keelan was exhausted, and needed time to recover. She thanked him and sent him away.

After the briefing, she put the newly formed Team Alpha on rest and recovery, and informed older agents to go to the bank and make sure nothing happened. She was informed that the ipod they had ran tests on was not the computer the young agents were sent for. She informed the Techs that they would have to wait until Keelan woke to get it. She was sure he was the only one who knew where the computer was. Two days after the recovery mission, the new agents were sent to classes, it was the first day back after a nice summer break. Charles continued to do his duties, but stayed by Keelan's bed side all night.

Three Days after recovery mission:
It was nearly 10 am, when Keelan had finally woke up. Not remembering the extraction, he looked around confused, and unable to move his left arm without pain, at the same time noticing how it was wrapped. Feeling the pain, Keelan forced himself out of bed and looked around. Still being a little weak, Keelan tried to stand, but fell to the ground, causing a loud thud on the floor. The house keepers and Charles heard the sound and went to see what happened. Keelan was on the ground, using every swear word known to man. "LEAVE ME ALONE! OUT NOW!!" Keelan screamed as the house keepers went to help him. "Leave him be. I will take care of him, you just go back to work." Charles ordered in his gentle tone. After everyone left, Charles helped Keelan back into bed. "You're still a bit weak from everything, you need to rest some more." Charles said, pulling the blankets over the injured lad. Keelan knew better then to fight with Charles, and soon went back to sleep.

***{{ We're gonna pick back up in the evening, after classes, and at dinner time. }}***

A successful mission was one thing, but Liam literally only had three, maybe four relationships. His "friendship" with Keelan, though it could only barely count if it counted at all, was one. He had a friendship with Riley, though that was only from a lot of joint operations based in the Pacific. There was a fellow Chinese operative from his orphanage. He was close with everyone there, even if he left no record of it.

Still, he had something similar to Keelan. "You know, your body was hard to drag out of that place. Good thing you lived. If you had died, I was going to be the only boy on this team. I am already the youngest. But, you know you have one day to recover right? Guess what, you get to go back to work tomorrow! You are lucky the Swiss have had a snowstorm for the past three days. No flights in or out, so you are not missing us infiltrating a bank to prevent it from being robbed. The party got rescheduled for tomorrow, so you better heal quickly".

In a way, Liam was taunting him in a friendly "I saved your life" way. He sat next to Keelan. "You are asleep again? Aren't you? Oh well, I can taunt you more when you wake up".

Liam moved on next into the main room, where there was a bunch of mail. He looked through, then took out a package and opened it. Inside, it contained several things. Liam's toolkit, a bunch of identities, foreign money. He looked through several of them. "Ah yes, Jack Richard, Profressional Young Chef. I got a lot of cooking lessons for this one. Ooooh, Jeremy, my dancer...not going to remember that any time soon. Too many bad memories".

There wasn't much to do until Keelan woke up and Johanna did what she did best with spending time, cars. Well, when she didn't have classed of course and needed to study. She had asked Madam Devone if they had some kind of garage that she could be in and maybe fiddle with a car. She was granted that with a few conditions, she wouldn't leave her tools all around the place, keep her things separate to everything else and not to fall behind with her studies. Which she more then gladly obeyed. She came and visited Keelan now and then to look how he was doing, leaning against the door frame. "I'd say we're even now, you remember that time in Iraq? I would never have manage to get out alive without your help." She said with a smile before nodding and go back to the garage.

Johanna arrived up to the main room when evening has started to fall and smiled at Liam who stood there with bunch of mail on the table. "What's up kiddo? Oh mail, anything for me?" She asked as she moved to the table. She didn't have her cap this time and her hair was tied as usual in a pony tail, her hands, arms and shirt were dirty after the long time spending under a car. She had streaks of oil along her cheek. She lifted her hand to wipe away the itchy oil, only to make it worse and wince. "I swear, that man had knuckles hard as steel. My cheek's still sore after that punch." She sighed and prodded on her cheek before looking down at the mail. She of course didn't touch a single of them with her dirty fingers. "Oh well, no mail for me. What did you get?" She asked curiously and glanced up at Liam.

(OOC: Ok, sorry guys. My schedule's been a lot busier since I got out of the hospital. I didn't mean to leave you guys.)

Adele gently slid the bow over her taut strings one last time before sighing, setting down her violin and bow. Keelan still wasn't awake and mostly everyone was separated. At least two hours ago, she sat beside the guy's bed, glowering at him. "You owe us all big time, idiot," she had told him even knowing that he was pretty much dead to the world at the moment. "Went through a lot of unnecessary crap, so you better wake up soon."

Adele chuckled at the memory and slid to her feet, brushing off the imaginary dust on her gray sweatpants. Glancing at the clock one last time and deciding that it was late and that she should at least leave her room for a littlw while, Adele pulled the scrunchie out of her hair and headed out the door. Long brown hair fell down her back, glints of the golden-brown highlights catching in the setting sun's rays. Before long, she was in the main room and waved to Johanna and Liam.

"Hey, guys." Adele noted the table. "Any of that for me?"

(sorry for the late reply, i got busy last night.)

Charles walked out from the kitchen and into the main commons. "It's dinner time, come sit at the table." The man said, being the one in charge in their home. Charles was more of the guardian then a butler, and more imparticularly a father to Keelan. He watched Keelan grow up for nearly ten years, and has taken care of the teen through injuries and sickness. He walked into the dining room and sat at the table, as the kitchen staff brought out plates with steak, veggies, potatoes, and gravy, and sat them at all the seats. Charles knew he'd have to go over the rules with the kids sooner or later, so he'd probably end up doing it at dinner.

Keelan slowly woke up later in the evening. He had no idea that everyone had visited him during the day. Slowly, he climbed out of bed and looked around for a shirt. He took his arm out of the sling and carefully slipped his arm in and pulled it over his head. Keelan placed his arm back in the sling and slowly got out of bed. He didn't move anywhere until he knew he was well balanced. After a minute or two, Keelan slowly made his way down the stairs, house keepers asking to help, but with a stern look, slowly back away. He grugerly moved into the dining room and saw everyone there. Faces that he hasn't seen in a while, yet have no idea that they were the ones to resuce him. He slowly walked over to his seat, and sat down. "I see you all are still alive, but what are you doing here?" Keelan asked in a weary, scratchy voice as a plate was sat down in front of him, along with a glass of water. Charles had already finished cutting his steak, so he scrapped it off onto Keelan's plate and took the one off of that plate. "Thank you Charles. Keelan said, they both knowing that he wasn't able to use his arm just yet.

"You meet after saving your life, discovering the ultimate bank robbery, and planning an op? Getting some cover IDs mailed to me...". He looked through some of them. "Oh, Keelan, you remember Vance Redcliff, right? that was a nice cover ID. Won't get me ïnto many legitimate parties, but the name did prove useful to get me into the criminal underground".

One of Liam's strengths was also one of his weaknesses. He wasn't used to working with teams. Sure, he could plan an op for a team of agents, but he isn't the best at working with people side by side. He was independent, but his communication skills could use improvement.

When dinner was announce, he went to take his seat. Normally, he didn't care about height, but for some reason it was bothering him everyone was older and taller. He then noted to Keelan "I swear, if you die on me though, I will find a way to bring you back and kill you myself. I do not want to be the only guy on this team, understood?"

"Oh, and could you pass the mashed potatoes and gravy?"

(it wasn't letting me tag for some reason. D:)

Johanna waved at Adele when she came. "I don't know. I won't touch any of the letter, obviously." She said looking at her dirty hands. She was leaning with her arms on the counter but straighten when Charles came and told them that the dinner was done. "I better go and clean up a bit then." She excused herself as she went to her room to clean up a bit, so that she didn't look like a total mess. She didn't bother to change clothes really, if the others had a problem with that then well.. They could deal with it.

She returned when everyone was sitting around the dinner table. She took her place and laughed at Liam's comment, putting food on her place. "It can't be that bad being surrounded by girls." She winked at him and bit her lip to stop from laughing. She grabbed the mashed potatoes and gave them to Liam, then the gravy. "We were sent here to get you out from that place and well.. I guess Madam Devone have something more in mind for us, obviously since we're still here. And we even have classes here." She shrugged and took a bite. "Whatever it is, I hope to find out soon but I think she wanted to wait until you woke up and recovered."

Keelan took a few bites of his dinner and pushed it away. He wasn't hungry that much, he figured it was the injuries. "Saving my life? Team? What?" Keelan looked confused. He had no idea what was going on. "Eat Keelan. We'll talk about everything later." Charles ordered as he pointed to the plate of food. Keelan shook his head. "I'm not hungry." Keelan replied. Charles took a deep breath and laid his fork and knife down and looked at Keelan. "Keelan, you can either eat on your own, or I'm going to strap you down in that chair, and force it down your throat. Now eat!" Charles said. "Alright, alright, no need to go that far." Keelan said pulling his plate back, showing a side to him, none of the other agents have seen. He knew that Charles was not kidding. Keelan slowly forced himself to eat.

Charles looked at everyone else and pointed. "Let that be a note to the four of you as well. As long as your under this roof, it's my rules. I understand you'll get injured, but you will eat. Now onto the other rules. I get up at 0530 in the morning, you have until 0700 to be out of bed. You're not out of bed, I will throw you out of bed. Breakfast is served at 0730, you'll be there. Classes are at 0830 to 0330, you'll be at every single one, unless you are sick, or you are away on a mission. Yes i know you all are agents. You get one hour after classes to relax, then it's on to homework. Don't let me find out that you did not do your homework. Dinner is at 1900 (7pm), you'll be there, you miss dinner, you're on your own. After dinner, we have tea, you'll sit until we're done. Hopefully you'll join us for a cup. Just so you know, the chef, Joe, is in the kitchen until 0100 for late night studying. Your room is your responsibility, keep it clean. The house keepers will only clean the common areas, so don't trash it. Unless you are studying, lights are off at 1200 (12am sorry i used military time.), Laundry is done once a week, so make sure your clothes are in the bags provided and outside your door on Thursday mornings. Dry cleaning in done once every two weeks, make sure your school uniforms are ready on Wednesday mornings. The four of you, your uniforms should be in tomorrow, and your professors understand why you don't have them on, but come Monday, you'll wear them. And absolutely no sneaking out!" Charles explained the rules. He wanted to make sure everyone knew the rules. After he was done, he finished eat.

Keelan just slowly ate, listening to Charles explain the rules. He wasn't as bad as he seemed with all the rules, though Keelan has lived with Charles since he arrived at the school when he was 7. Keelan dropped his fork and leaned forward, grabbing his head some. Charles looked at Keelan. "Keelan, you alright?" He asked caringly. "No..." Keelan answer. Charles got up and turned Keelan's chair. He didn't have his keys on him, so he patted Keelan's pockets for them. Once he found them and threw them to Liam. "Up in Keelan's room, there's a small locked cabinet, inside is a bottle of Crystolitium. Bring it here, and made it fast." Charles said, then got up to turn the lights down. He needed to get it under control fast.

Liam was fine with most of those rules, but a few he twitched at. The Uniforms. First off, he never ever had to wear a uniform ever. Not even for training. They had sparring outfits, sure, but never school uniforms. There was a reason for that. School uniforms did not have bullet proof fibers inbeded in them. All his clothes did. The lights off thing was another issue. He sleeps for about 4 hours a night, because that is how much he needs. He usually works until 2 AM on his tech. He recently was working on a new drone design.

Liam caught the keys, and quickly went to Keelan's room, which coincidentally was next to his. He got the medicine, or at least what he guessed was medicine, quickly glanced around the room, then went back down. He walked next to Keelan, put it on the table, then went back to his seat. "So, while you do whatever you do with that, perhaps I should go over the op now? The party is tomorrow, and we need established cover ideas. I already got us some invites, but I need to know what cover IDs you plan to use. Riley, I wasn't sure about everyone else, but I was thinking we use the Baylons. Those cover IDs have banking history, and we could pass off that we came to the party to represent the family who could not make it. It worked before for us".

Liam waited for his answers, hoping he would be able to start the briefing soon. Liam would be a good handler and manager one day. He has great potential.

Madame Devone walked into the dining area after getting word that Keelan was awake. She came to check on him and see how everything was going. She heard Liam talk about the bank op and shook her head some. "There will only be two of you for that. Liam and Johanna will be going." Madame Devone said and then turned to Charles and Keelan. She noticed the lights were low and knew that he had a migrane strike him. "How is he, Charles?" She asked. Charles stood up after giving him the medication that he needed. "Doctor says he needs to rest. He's lucky, no broken bones this time. I suspect everyone is getting settled in." Charles answered. Keelan leaned back some, keeping calm, it was these occurances that got to him the most. "I will be ready in a few days, I just need to rest some." Keelan added. Madame Devone nodded and then walked away.

After a few minutes Keelan was better. He knew the others would have questions, but he wasn't sure if he was going to answer them. Keelan didn't like others to see when he was down or hurt, and tried to always show a strong side, no matter who it was. Charles was the exception to that, having spent most of his life with the man. There were things that Charles knew about Keelan that no one else knew, and there were things that Keelan knew about Charles that no one knew and that was the way it was going to stay.

(Anything just let me know that she has been busy with school stuff, and that I can post for her. So add Riley to the mission list)

Riley and Liam:

Riley looked over at Keelan, and then at Liam and Jo. "Only three? That is going to make this mission tougher....is there any way we can give Keelan time to heal?"

"No, they are striking at this party, and we got lucky with the snowstorm. Anyways, so this bank is called "The Vault", it has 10 levels. The first level is the main hall, and art galleries, where people usually wait while business is being done, and where parties are held. The first level is three floors, and includes a kitchen, a ballroom, and a game room. The second level is employee and Minor VIP areas, and consists of two floors. The third level is one floor full of security measures, that even kids have to abide to. Whoever enters needs to have a registered standard weight in the system, which is done by employees and regularly checked. They also need a fingerprint check, and a facial recognition scan. The only human involvement in the system is registering. The rest is done by cameras, and previously mentioned systems. Now, back when me and Riley were working in the Pacific Area, we had a cover established that we can still use. It already is registered with most banks like this, and including this one itself. So, we have access past the first major security level, into the Elite VIP area, which is Level Four. There is literally a private room for everyone registered at this level and their families, so it gives us access. It consists of six floors. Next is another security checkpoint, Level Five, which we get access, and then the Elite VIP boxes. You can take an elevator and stairs right past level six, and to the rest of the boxes. Level six is the most well protected, and the best guarded. 4 guards native to the country stand in the box room at all times, and are either mutes or had some incident making them unable to speak. Point is, they can't communicate secrets that well, and are sworn to secrecy".

Liam took a breath, and drank some water, before continuing. "While level six is the most secure room in the whole building, level seven through ten is also, and are filled with money vaults and safety deposit boxes, as well as cameras, roaming guards, gun turrets, and a lockdown system. Our way in is their way in, the party. Me and Riley will be able to access up to level six, but unless you have a cover I dont know about, your stuck up to level two. On that note, I do know an alternative way in for you. Facial recognition software is unbribable, but it mistakes photos for real people. Jennifer Aldeson will be there, she has level six access, I believe you are close enough in weight, and she will be there at the party. All we need to do is acquire her fingerprints on any surface, I will bring my toolkit, and I can get you fingerprint access. The camera data will be easy for me to erase and disable on level four, and then we can stop what they are up to".

He took another drink. "Any questions?"

Riley just sat there and processed all that. However, she also felt like making fun of him a little. "Sorry, can you repeat that? It was hard to hear you when your all the way down there!"

Liam knew what she meant by that, and she knew he felt a bit outnumbered. Normally height jokes meant nothing to him, but this time he was a tad flustered by it. "Shut up Riley! Not funny!"

While they did work together, Riley was still his rival. The Chinese and American spies had a long standing rivalry.

((I'm finally back! Holy geez, I've been super busy even when I came back but it finally calmed down now. Sorry for being gone for so long..))

Johanna finished her meal pretty quickly and listen what Charles had to say. School uniforms. That'll be interesting. She had never had to wear something like that before and it made her wrinkle her nose a little. She liked to be careless with her clothes, didn't really mind if they got a bit dirty or worn but now she had to wear a school uniform? She bit her bottom lip and leaned back in her chair. "Does that mean we girls will have to wear skirts?" She asked and masked her disgust against it. She was really not a skirt or dress wearing girl. She preferred pants and maybe shorts when it's warm.

She gave Keelan a sympathetic smile when he seemed to be in worse pain, they all have been there more or less. She watched as Liam hurried away as Charles worried about Keelan, everyone here had worried about him and it had been quite the relief when he had come down to eat with them. She crossed her arms and tapped her fingers on her arm and sat there in silence.

When Liam came back with the bottle of.. Okay, whatever it had been in it. Something that would make Keelan better at least. She turned her attention to Madam Devone and nodded when she said who would go to the new mission. She sighed lightly, they would be only three but she thought even though it would be hard they would manage it. She chewed on her bottom lip when Liam told them about the bank and the party there. He was like a walking information terminal, it was amazing and it made it harder to see him as so much younger then the rest of them were but she knew better then to underestimate him. She nodded when he was done and chuckled when Riley teased him.

"You're amazing." She simply said after a moment when she went through what he had said in her head. "I think we'll do fine, even if we are cut a bit short."

(Darkdivi had left, just wanted to inform everyone. Welcome back Darkie)

Keelan listened to Liam carefully, he wasn't going but he still wanted to know, just incase he had to go in. "By the way, thank you guys for getting me..." Keelan said, most likely shocking everyone from him said thank you. He slowly turned back around as the house keepers brought out tea for everyone. He picked up his glass and took a sip. He loved drinking his tea, it was the irish in him. Charles sat down in his chair as well and drank his tea. Everything seemed quiet, and Keelan was still tired. "how long have I been out?" Keelan asked, though Charles remained quiet about it. He didn't know he was out for three days, but he felt like he just got home and been out the whole trip back.