1. It Needed Doin' - Lamarr WIlson


    Date: 7/14/2024, Categories: Loving Wives, Author: byWandering_Mongol 

    "Good afternoon, Chief." Kiki Narvaez said as she walked into the office like she had been there before. "I'm Agent Kiki Narvaez, here on assignment. I take it you've been told and have the authorizations?"

"Hello, Agent Narvaez," the Chief said, watching the woman sit down in front of him.

"Have a seat," he finished sarcastically.

Narvaez just kept her gaze on him, expecting an answer to his question.

Just so he could rattle her cage, the Chief sat back in his seat, gave the woman his neutral look, then turned in his chair, picked a small stack of papers off his side-desk, and made a show of looking through them.

"You say you are 'Kiki Narvaez?" the Chief asked. "It says here your name is Karen."

The woman visibly ground her teeth for a moment, then exhaled.

"I go by Kiki to my friends." She said. "If you aren't going to be my friend, I'm Agent Narvaez."

The Chief quirked an eyebrow at that, then went back to flipping through the papers he'd already looked through several times.

He again confirmed that all the authorizations had been given, the paperwork filed, and the annoyance he didn't need had now walked into his office.

"You have the paperwork?" Kiki prompted again.

"I do," sighed the Chief. "I'm still verifying a couple of these." He then softly tossed the papers onto his desk.

"They'll check out." Kiki informed him.

"We'll see," the Chief said. "Until every one of them does, you don't have my authorization to conduct your ...
    ... operations." His tone was even, measured, and designed to be infuriatingly reasonable.

"That's wasting time." Kiki lightly protested. "I'd like to start as soon as I can."

"If... when... all those clear verification."

"How long will that take?"

"I don't know," Chief said reasonably. "My office already has the calls in. We're just waiting for verbal confirmation."

Kiki grimaced, knowing how long these things could take. She might have to goose things a bit back in Arlington.

Kiki hated the feud between Federal and local. It was getting in her way.

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Kiki made two phone calls back to Arlington, one of which was fairly tense, but she got results.

Two hours later, she had several division heads from the local cops in a meeting room.

Kiki brought them cups of their own free coffee to try and foster a 'positive working atmosphere.'

"Gentlemen, you undoubtedly know about me by now, I'm certain the news of a Fed coming in and stomping on your business has been discussed to death."

There were a couple of nods, and the rest just gave flat looks, with their arms crossed.

"I'm going to make this easy... I have a list of names of people the DEA suspects of trafficking. They've been doing this a while, if they're doing it. I'm here to shake things up, and in a span of time, either confirm these people are scumbags and collar them, or clear them."

"To do so, in some of these cases, we're going to be doing something different... something I think you ...
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