I would like to thank darkangel718310 & Annieandy. They were great editors. Any errors are my fault. I went back and had a nerdgasm over certain paragraphs after they were edited. There is a lot of detail and it takes time to get to the sex. There will be mistakes feel free to help me improve, by telling me what can be fixed.
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It's now three years after Mathew was surprisingly elected to the U.S Senate.
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It was an early morning in London, England, in the basement of the US Embassy. Sarah Harris sat outside the office of Section Chief Henry Reinhold.
After ten minutes of silence, the secretary's phone rang and Sarah was waved in. She tried her best to steady herself as her stomach became upset.
"Sarah, thanks for meeting with me so quickly. Take a seat," Reinhold said as Sarah mapped out the room with her photographic memory. She'd been assigned to the London desk for a year now and had never seen his office. Truth be told, she was rarely ever in headquarters. It was rumored she had an office and a desk somewhere in here.
"How are you Sarah?" Reinhold asked as he peered into a classified binder.
Sarah didn't have time to respond before Reinhold asked her another question.
"The Russian died under your watch, is this correct?"
"It was complicated. He got off the plane clearly poisoned; it was out of our hands." Sarah tried to explain as she began to feel more discomfort.
"This isn't a physiatrist's office. I want yes or no answers to yes or no questions! Do you understand?"
"Yes sir. Yes, he died on my watch." Sarah said as she thought simple answers really don't go hand in hand with intelligence gathering.
"Were you able to extract intelligence?" Reinhold asked.
"Yes and no." Sarah said griping her stomach.
"Which is it? Do you have the memory stick or not?" Reinhold asked unrelentingly.
"I swallowed it." Sarah said, as for the first time Reinhold began to smile.
He looked at the petite twenty-nine-year-old with her cute, angelically soft features; he never expected that from somebody appearing so delicate. "I understand the FSB and her majesty's finest were closing in on your location, quick thinking.... You've surprised me. That doesn't happen often. You've done great work here over the past year, and everywhere else you've been assigned. Ms. Harris, after your mission is over you're to report to the directorate for Clandestine operations at Langley."
"I don't understand?"
"You're being promoted, Ms. Harris."
"I understand that sir, but you said when my mission is over?"
"When I get my memory stick back," Reinhold said pulling out some prune juice, "You're in luck I have this, British food has never agreed with me," he said cracking a smile.
Three days later, Sarah was in Washington DC.