Melissa was good, and she knew it. She was ten years out of the Academy where she'd graduated with the second highest rating for a woman, ever. She was also, ninth overall in the Academy's training records at Quantico. She'd been the principal investigator on many high-profile cases involving nearly everything including racketeering, robbery, forgery, the white slave trade, accounting and Wall Street. Fortunately, her prowess and the information she provided were so good that she'd only been required to testify in court twice, and at each of those times it was in secret Grand Jury proceedings. Her name and picture had never been in the news.
The guys used to call her 'Missy from Tulsa' and drool over her long legs. She spoke softly with a tiny bit of Oklahoma in her voice. On the street she could force that bit of 'Oklahoma' and then dress down, and no one would suspect her of being in the Bureau. She didn't often have a chance to wear jeans anymore, but when she did, every male eye would follow those shapely legs and that tight ass while they undressed her.
She was good looking, and a head turner and she frequently observed the responses of the men around her. Some guys openly told her that she looked "just exactly like Scully of the 'X Files' TV show. It wasn't true. Melissa was at least three inches taller than "Dana", her hair was more auburn than red, and she didn't think she was as pretty as the TV gal. Any guy would argue the latter point if asked.
She was married now, and had been working for seven weeks on a bank robbery case. Her busy time had been used coordinating profiles, viewing and cataloging bank cam videos, studying eyewitness statements and attempting to develop a pattern and sequence to the events of the case. She felt they were close to an arrest. The suspected 'perps' were a group of guys that had recently moved to Texarkana. The ringleader was a guy named Ed (AKA the boy lover) and his closest associate was named Ron (AKA the Boy) - - they were slick talkers who'd had a history of double exposure. They had no discernible source of income, but managed to throw money around on cars, girls (when not 'together') and drink. They gambled a lot and always lost. The bureau had suggested the IRS watch them closely. A third disgusting individual named Walter (AKA "the dumb one") had recently disappeared. They assumed that the group had done away with him, but he was so inconsequential, and a bigamist, that they only made a single one line note in the files.
The Bureau likes there agents' to travel in pairs to provide backup and support to each other. And, Melissa had always followed that rule. Except, tonight was going to be different.
She took off early and told her male partner, Dave, that she was going to get her hair done. Instead she drove off and headed downtown to park outside an underground garage in the business district. She got out of the car, and checked her weapons. She had two handguns and a can of a new pepper spray the bureau was experimenting with. The guns were standard issue and one, a plastic Glock, was securely strapped in a shoulder holster beneath her left arm within the loose fitting coat of the suit she was wearing. The second piece was a .32 caliber in a thigh holster between her shapely thighs.
She checked the street for observers, and seeing none, she walked quickly between the barricades and into the underground garage. Again, she looked around, observed the security TV camera locations and purposely avoided them while walking to see the deep blue car parked in space '14A'.
Satisfied that her prey was still in the building she moved behind a nearby support column and began her wait. If he was on time, he should be walking to his car within the next twenty minutes. She had an unobstructed view of the elevator door.
Precisely eighteen minutes later, a soft bell echoed as the elevator door slid quietly open. Quickly, she stepped into the shadow of the column and waited to verify that he was unaccompanied. He stepped out and the door slid shut.
As he walked quickly toward his car, she quietly positioned herself to act. As he reached in a pocket for the car keys in that darkened area, she stepped behind him holding her badge and ID in her left hand she reached around to place them in his field of vision. She said "Mr. Jones don't turn around. I am agent Bedford from the FBI. We want to talk to you about a Security matter." As he started to turn, she grabbed his arm and pulled it up behind him and told him that she'd told him not to turn around. He was four inches taller than she, and outweighed her by at least eighty pounds. But, she wasn't concerned because she'd been first in hand-to-hand at the Academy and been directing the quarterly refresher course to all of the local agents for more than two years. She could have had him on the floor crying for mercy in a heartbeat, if he'd made a hostile move.
As it was, he was meek as a lamb. She handcuffed him "telling him that this was standard procedure. Next she took a piece of duct tape from her pocket and taped it across his eyes. A second piece was used to seal his mouth. She paused and leaned close enough to verify that he was having no problem breathing through the mouth. Satisfied that he was okay, she prodded him forward the same way she'd come in, while making certain that they remained clear of the remote video security cameras.
When they got outside, she stopped him and checked the street again. It was still clear.
She forced him over to her car, pushed the trunk open button on her key ring and made him climb in. His muffled outcry was efficiently handled by the tape. She closed the trunk, got in and started the car. She pulled away from the curb, making sure to stay below the speed limit, and then headed for the freeway.