Back At The House:
Jasmine arrives home and carries her backpack upstairs to her bedroom. She saw her grandmother’s pickup in the driveway and noticed that the shotgun was missing from the mounting rack. She grabs her Glock and quietly walks back downstairs. As she entered the kitchen, she noticed two teacups and the shotgun in the kitchen.

She tucks her Glock behind her back into her waistband as she hears a female voice coming from the kitchen entrance that led to the den. She stands and watches as the pantry door opens, and her grandmother exits from the pantry with a woman following behind her.

“Hi, grandma.” Jasmine smiles at her grandmother.

“Jasmine, did you just get home?” Clair spots her granddaughter standing in the kitchen.

“Yes, ma’am. Who’s your visitor?” Jasmine looks at the young woman behind her grandmother.

A smile appears on Clair’s face. She turns to face Ada. “Ada, I want you to meet my granddaughter, Jasmine Summerfield. Jasmine, this is agent Ada Franklin with the DOJ.”

Jasmine holds her out to shake Mrs. Franklin’s hand. She noticed that Mrs. Franklin looked like she was dressed for exploring. She also noticed Mrs. Franklin was of average height for a woman.

Ada shakes Jasmine’s hand. “It’s nice to meet you, Jasmine.”

“And you as well, Mrs. Franklin. So, what brings you out to my grandmother’s ranch?” Jasmine wondered why a federal agent was visiting her grandmother and where her car was.

Ada didn’t recall anything in Mrs. William's file about having a grandchild living with her. Then again, she didn’t do a deep dive into Mrs. William’s file either. She looks towards Clair to see if her grandchild knows about her.

A smile appears on Clair’s face when Ada looks at her. She wonders how Ada is going to handle this situation.

“My car broke down a little way down from your aunt’s property, and my cell phone gets crappy reception out here in the country.”

“And you were wondering if my grandmother could help you out. Then why were you coming out of the pantry with my grandmother?” Jasmine noticed her grandmother didn’t look like she was in trouble or distress.

Ada was flabbergasted by the observation this young woman had. She wonders if Clair trained her to be like that.

“Jasmine, Ada, let’s sit down and talk.” Clair smiles as she walks over to the table.

Ada follows Clair over to the table. She wonders how much Jasmine knew about her grandmother. She watches as Jasmine sits down at the table.

A smirk appears on Clair’s face. Jasmine was too much like her when reading people and solving problems. She looks at Jasmine. “Mrs. Franklin here came across an old map of the base and wanted to check to see if it was real.”

Jasmine looks at her grandmother and says, “I thought you said all the maps of this place had been destroyed.”

“And I thought they all have. Mrs. Franklin works in the Special Archives Department of the DOJ, and it seems they still had one of the original maps of the den.”

“Is that going to be a problem?” Jasmine was worried about her grandmother, even though they weren’t blood-related.

“It’s not going to be a problem. I have the only map that I know of from the special archives. By the way, are you Clair Wong, Mrs. Williams?” Ada wanted to get to the bottom of this mystery.

A smirk appears on Clair’s face: “My friend Clair Wong died in the early nineties from radiation poisoning. I’m Nancy Holmes. I changed my name when I became pregnant with my first child.”

Ada was stunned. She thought Clair Williams was Clair Wong.

“I think you broke her grandmother. Wait until she learns I was adopted by you?” Jasmine looks at Ada with a smirk on her face.

“You were adopted? Why were you adopted, Jasmine?” Ada was curious.

“Why don’t you two girls talk while I get dinner going.” Clair gets up and heads towards the deep freezer to retrieve frozen meat.

Jasmine looks at Ada. “I was given a second chance on life. I” as Jasmine thinks back to her old life.

“It’s alright if you don’t want to tell me.” Ada could see Jasmine was debating with herself.

“No, other than my grandmother and Nick Law. No one knew how rough life was for me and some of the bad choices I made. You see, I wasn’t born Jasmine Summerfield. I was born Frank Luciano, a young enforcer from the 'Ndrangheta Mafia.”

Ada has heard of the 'Ndrangheta Mafia. They are one of the most feared groups in the world.

“What made you want to get away from the mafia?” Ada knew no one ever left the mafia alive.

“I learned early in life that I enjoyed wearing women's undergarments. When I wasn’t doing what my boss told me to do, I would enjoy my time at a secret club where I could be myself. Of course, I went by a different name while I was there. Somehow, the higher-ups in my organization found out and decided they couldn't accept a homo in their organization.”

“So, they sent a hitman after you.” Ada has heard stories.

“Yeah, but not just any hitman. They sent Joe “The Animal” Barboza after me.”

“I’ve heard his name before. He is considered one of the best hitmen around. I know he officially has killed four hundred and ninety-five people. Unofficially, his killed count is like five hundred and fifty people.” Ada has seen his record when she attended Langley for training.

“Yeah, but he made the mistake of accepting the contract for Nick Law.” Clair/Nancy interjected what she knew.

“Who would have thought an eighty-year-old man could move so fast.” Jasmine had seen Nick move like he was in his twenties.

Clair smirked because she knew why Nick reacted so fast. She had been there when it happened.

“I take it you know something?” Ada had seen Clair smirking.

“It’s a unique story and not mine to tell you.” Clair wasn’t going to give Nick’s secret away.

“So, Nick took The Animal out. How does that relate to you?” Ada was curious as she looked at Jasmine.

Jasmine looked towards Clair before she spoke. She turned her attention back to Ada. “Nick gave me a choice. I could let him finish the job, or he could give me a second chance to make up for all the harm I did.”

“I understand now. So, let me guess, he paid for you to have extensive surgery to turn you into a woman?”

“Yes and no.” Jasmine looks over towards Clair for help.

Clair looks towards Ada “Remember when I told you there are things in this world that are too dangerous to let out?”

“Yeah, I remember. But as far as I know, there is nothing that can change a person. Well, let me change that. There’s some drug that is a rumor that can do it.” Ada heard about it.

“Well, I haven’t heard about that drug. However, the Russians found an alien device while researching down in Antarctica. My team was sent to either retrieve it or destroy it.”

“Let me guess, you guys told the government you destroyed it. But secretly transported it back here.”

“Oh no, it’s not here or at our secondary base. It’s at a location only known to three people.”

“Let me guess, this device can change a person?” Ada wonders what it was.

“Yes and no. It’s a medical device capable of replicating or building organs compatible to a person’s body.” Clair knew the device had been used on her.

“So, when they changed you. You became a fully functional woman.” Ada wonders if it is true.

“Yes, they used the device to change me and made sure I didn’t look like I used to. After what they did to me, Clair offered to let me stay with her and attend college. Ever so often, I do jobs for them in return.”

“Which you don’t have to, Jasmine. Nick and I made that very clear.” Clair wanted Jasmine to have a normal life.

“I know, but I must make up for all the bad I did. I know it will never erase what I did, and one day, I’ll have to answer for that.”

Just as Jasmine says that, there is a loud crashing sound out outside and an explosion. All three women run out of the house and down the long driveway. They spot smoke and fire coming from a crashed hi-tech-looking car. A person was trying to crawl out of a broken window.

Jasmine and Ada run over to the person when they notice them collapse and stop moving. Ada reaches the person first and grabs the persons arms.

“They’re stuck.” Ada looks towards Jasmine.

Jasmine looks around and spots one of the wooden planks from the wooden fence. She runs over to it and picks it up. She runs back over to the wreckage, jams it under the car, and lifts upwards with it.

“Trying pulling now.” Jasmine was using all her strength to pry the wreckage up.

“Okay.” She pulls the driver away from the car just as it explodes.

The explosions send Jasmine and Ada backward towards the ground. Both women were hurting from the force. Clair runs up to the wreckage with a fire extinguisher and uses it on the blaze. She looks at the women as they lay on the ground near the person wearing a heavily stained and brunt racing suit. She couldn’t see the person’s face because a black motorcycle-style helmet covered the head.

“Owe!” As Ada sits up. The front of her clothes had holes in them.

“I agree.” Jasmine was feeling the pain as she sat up.

Her face hurt, and since she was closer to the wreckage when it exploded. Her whole body was in pain.

Clair walks over to Jasmine “Are you alright?” As she helps Jasmine stand.

“I’ve felt better. How is the driver?” Jasmine saw Ada removing the person’s helmet.

Ada removes the person’s helmet and notices dirty blonde hair fall out. The person looked to be younger than her. She opens the racing suit so she couldn’t check her pulse.

“How is she?” Clair recognized the person from her trips to the local junkyard.

“She’s got a pulse. Its slow, but its there.” Ada was glad she was certified in first aide.

“Who is she?” Jasmine doesn’t recall seeing her before.

“She works down at the junkyard. Normally, you don’t see her because she is out in the yard pulling parts.” Clair has only seen her a few times.

A few minutes later an ambulance arrives and the fire department a few seconds later. The young woman is taken to the local hospital, while the fire department makes sure the car is out. The police take the girls statements. Clair isn’t going to press charges.

Afterwards, Clair, Jasmine, and Ada walk back to the house. Jasmine works on her homework for her criminal justice class, while Ada goes and bring her car to Clair’s place.