Chapter 2 1

Trinidad's POV

I arrived HQ at exactly 8:00pm, HQ looked like just any other house, if you were just casually passing by, it looked like a normal two storey building, the interior also looked a normal house with ordinary workers who came at different intervals,

The owner of the house was Mr Alejandro Perez, the leader of our secret agency, he gave us our orders and we reported back to him and the other higher ups and we were given further orders on our next target,

The system was simple, they gave us orders and targets and we carried out whatever order we were given on the target then reported it back to them and the circle continued,

I walked in and was greeted at the door by Miss Weathers, she was an aged woman with grey hair, it was easy to mistake her for the live-in housemaid but I knew better, Miss Weathers was actually one of the instructors who trained the new recruits, she was the expert on seduction and different types of poison, it was said that when she was much younger, she had troupes of men begging for her attention, I remember her as one of the instructors I met first when I was initially brought here, she was a little younger then, she had smiled at me and offered me a cookie,

Even now she smiled at me "Welcome home Trinidad" she said as she stepped aside for me to walk in,

Of all the instructors, she was the only one that called with my real name, all the rest used my codename,

I smiled at her and said "Good day Miss Weathers"

She returned the smile and said "I trust your mission went well"

"Very well Miss Weathers, I used only what you taught me" I said and winked,

The old woman threw her head back and gave a hearty laughter, when she looked at me again, her warm blue eyes were moist with laughter "You kids get to have all the fun these days" she said with a smile

I laughed as well and said "And I could only dream of the type of fun you had Miss Weathers"

The old woman smiled and said "I miss the good old days"

I laughed and said "I love catching up with you Miss Weathers but I have to go see Mr Perez now, I have to report my mission log and see if I got anymore missions coming up soon"

Miss Weathers waved her hand dismissively in the air and said "Run along now and say hi to the bastard for me"

I laughed and walked towards the stairs, Mr Perez's office was located on the second floor, as I climbed the stairs I had climbed many times in my life already, I couldn't help but remember the first time I had arrived here, that was fourteen years ago and it was also the first time I met Mr Alejandro Perez,

I got to a door made of heavy oak, I knocked gently and waited for the reply from within, it took only a few seconds before I had the deep voice from within say "Enter"

I gently twisted the door knob and pushed the door, it opened and I walked in,

The office was always the same, the same shelves filled with books and the black rug was the same as always and the man that inhabited the office was always the same, there he was in the place he always sat, behind the big oak table, his silver black hair was tied back in a neat fashion, the spectacles that were forever perched at the tip of his long pointed nose, and he was dressed in his usual plain white shirts, his black jacket hung on a rack behind him, his face was free of any facial hair, he was always writing something on a sheet of paper or typing something into his computer, he always looked like the wise man to me, I had adored him since I was a child.

"Good day, Mr Perez" I said,

Without looking up at me, he said "Welcome back Fox, I was informed that your mission was a success"

"Yes Sir" I answered feeling a small hint of pride,

"You have done well agent, you can go back home and rest for now, you will be contacted with details for your next mission" he said,

"Thank you Sir" I said, hoping he would look at me just once but of course I knew he wouldn't do that,

The last time Mr Perez looked me in the eye was 14 years ago when he brought me here, since that day, I hardly saw him, I only saw glimpses of him as he passed in the hallway or outside our classrooms when we were training,

After completing my training and becoming an elite assassin for the government, I only saw him on occasions like this when I completed my missions and even then, he never looked at me and he never called me by my real name,

"You can leave now Agent Fox" He said to me,

That was it, I was dismissed, the only time I was going to see him again was when I completed my next mission or when I came in for a new mission,

"Yes Sir" I said and walked out, the door closed behind me with a heavy thud, this house was ancient, I had no idea how many years it had been used as HQ for our secret agency,

I walked down the stairs, the house was quiet, all the instructors were probably in their offices by now or perhaps some had gone to train the new recruits in the training grounds,

My footsteps resounded as I came down from the stairs, I met Miss Weathers at the foot of the stairs, she was smiling brightly at me and I returned the warm gesture with a smile of my own,

"All done I suppose" she said,

"Yes Miss Weathers" I answered,

"And how is the old bastard?" she said with a wistful smile,

"Same as always I am afraid" I said,

She laughed heartily and said "He is always the same, always heaven knows what he writes on those blasted papers he always has on his table,

I smiled and said "You could always ask him Miss Weathers, he might just tell you" I winked at the old woman,

She laughed and said "If I couldn't get him to tell me anything all those years ago when my charms were still very much potent, there is absolutely nothing I can get him to say now when my charms are all wrinkled and dead"

I laughed, it was said that back in the days Mr Perez and Miss Weathers were quite the item but something made them split and this was how they turned out now,

"You should get going now my dear, you deserve a little rest before your next mission" Miss Weathers said and gave me a gentle pat on the hand,

I smiled and nodded "You are right Miss Weathers" I said,

The old woman gave me a smile and a said "Take care Trini" she waved and walked away again,

I watched her as she left for a few seconds before I opened the door and stepped out.