Author's Note/Disclaimer This story is 100% fictional, anything resembling a real person or situation is mere happenstance. With that out of the way read on.
Ever since I was a kid I wanted to BE a secret Agent. 007. That was the life I wanted. Years of school and criminal justice classes and what did I do for a living...airport security.
It was yet another boring day. I sat by the metal detector, while thousands of people bustled through with important places to go, and prominent people to see. Airport security did have its perks though. I get to wear a gun, that's always cool. And we routinely carry a reasonable amount of contraband to plant "probable cause" on anyone that we have a gut feeling about. Yeah it's profiling, and profiling is wrong, I hate it myself, but who can argue with results. Say we inconvenience ten people and they are held up maybe ten minutes while we ensure the safety of everyone. If one of those ten did have foul intentions...the system works. I wouldn't even bother mentioning this nasty detail of my job...except its kind of where the heart of my story begins.
I stared down the line of people in my metal detector line, able to guess with some accuracy, who'd set off the alarm. Young business man with more techno-crap then a best buy store...definitely. Older man, his shoes were the special airline kind without metal soles so he could breeze on through, no way, my bet was he didn't even have keys with him.
I continued to size up people...down the line when I laid my eyes on quite possibly the most drop dead gorgeous woman I had ever seen,
She was average height, young twenty something, Long straight brown hair that fell just past her shoulders and to the edge of her neckline. Her breasts, Oh her breasts, two mountains hidden under a red blouse with one button tastefully undone. A tasteful matching skirt and shoes completed the picture. She was beautiful and she was in my line.
"Bet you'd love to frisk her..." Mumbled my coworker in the next line.
I avoided looking at her again until she was next in line. In front of her was the old man. No luggage no detector alarm. He flashed a ticket and with a smile he breezed through, as I knew he would.
I sat at my station as the beautiful young woman put her purse on the conveyor. It went in and got x-rayed. Nothing., but as she stepped through I heard beep beep beep. The alarm sound that had all but become white noise to me.
She looked rather surprised. I walked towards her with the wand.
"Kick your shoes off and walk through again." I instructed.
She did and beep beep beep. Again.
"Any change, keys, anything metal on you?" I asked. She searched her pockets turned them out and found them to be empty. She shook her head.
Lucky me I thought. I hated people like this usually. It could be anything, buttons on jeans, a screw in some eyeglasses, a metal filling in a tooth...these people took time and held up the line. "Cover my line Joe." Joe didn't respond to me, but babbled into a walkie talkie and I knew he'd ordered back up. "Come with me ma'am." I requested in my most neutral business tone.
"Is there a problem?"
"Come with me." I ignored her question. She followed me to my office and closed the door behind me.
"There's no problem," I assured her "This happens all the time. I do have to search you though. You cooperate, and I don't find anything you'll make your flight. You don't cooperate...you wont. Simple as that.
She nodded in understanding.
"ID.." I requested.
"She fumbled in her purse and retrieved a drivers license. I skimmed it and returned it to her.
"Ok Katherine..." Remove any metal you have on your person and we'll try this one more time." Her brow furrowed as the desperately thought of any metal she had on her. Checking all her pockets she turned out a few cents in change. I extended her a bowl to place it in. "Step through" I gestured, motioning to the smaller version of the detector in the hall.
Beep Beep Beep. I heard her curse under her breath.
"Ok, heres how this works. I'm gonna frisk you, if you don't cooperate in any way my suspicion will be heightened..."