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On My Own, That was the Plan

I started packing as the commander came barging into my bedroom.

"K! What on Earth are you doing! We thought something happened to you! You didn't answer call or respond to pages?" He yelled at me.

" I had to think some things through and figure out what to do."

" So what are you doing?"

"Uhh... I am going to find OX and..."

"Are you Crazy!! You are going to get killed!"

"Commander, I have to do this! This man killed my best friend and.." I started to tear up "One of his agents took everything I am from me."

"Xavier was a rogue agent."

"That doesn't matter, OX's task is what led him to do this and it can't be taken back. I have to get revenge. it's the only way."

"K you can't just do this. You have to plan and it takes time."

" I was going to visit my family in New Orleans, to make sure they are safe and okay. While I'm there I was going to plan my personal mission."

Ok I haven't told you the whole truth. I am not truely American. My family is French and they wanted me to have a good life so they took a ship to the U.S. while my mother was pregnant with me. Things didn't go as planned, I was born a day before we docked. But my father changed my birthdate on my certiticate. So i became a an American illegally. No one outside of my family knows. To keep our French heritage we moved to New Orleans in 18985, When I was 1. So to protect the country I wish I was legally born into, I became a S.T.R.I.K.E. Agent as soon as i turned 18. I trained for two years under The Commander. Even though my whole life has been a lie, I don't regret a thing. I am who i am because of the things my faily and I have been through. So now you know who I truely am. I hope that doesn't effect what you think of me. \

Back to the story...

"Karina" said The Commander " We can't let you go by yourself."

"You can't assign me a new partner. I just can't do it!" I cried and almost broke down.

" I am not assigning you a new partner or sending you alone... I am going with you." He sounded as if he cared.

I stood and stared at him trying to figure out his emotion. He stood taller than I and looked at me in concern. He sat down next to me and I knew that he cared. When you think of a Commander you probably think of an older man in a suit like fro Men in Black, but our commander was young about 30 or 32. Even though he is young, he is well respected. I'm getting off track.

"Don't you have responsibilities at headquarters?" I asked.

"Yes, but I will leave it to my second in command Agent 007. So I can keep you safe."

"Thank You." I said as i finished packing.

He called a car and went home to pack. We decided to meet a LAX at 3 p.m. in disguise before boarding the plane to New Orleans.