Title: Undercover
Author: SallySimpson
Rating: PG
Prompts: AU, established friendship, desert, dessert, insidious
Word count: 2860
Author's Note: I can't believe I never cross-posted this last year. *facepalm* This was a 2008/2009 Secret Santa gift for roseclaw.

Summary: 10 years after graduation, Chad and Ryan have an unexpected reunion.

Special Agent Chad Danforth did one last careful check of his weapons – an M9 Beretta pistol in his left ankle holster, a 10-inch carbon steel blade strapped in its leather sheath to his calf, and a subcompact 9 millimeter carefully concealed beneath his shirt – before turning to face the standing mirror. His double-breasted black tuxedo jacket was trim and fitted to his leanly-muscled frame, and his snow white shirt had been carefully tailored to reveal nothing of the pistol he was packing. His hair... Chad sighed. Deep cover agents are not supposed to be memorable, his superior had told him. A drastic haircut had followed, and Chad was still trying to adjust to the look of his denuded scalp. It wasn’t so terrible, he supposed, running his hand over the short burr of hair. And judging by the ladies’ reactions, well, it seemed to work for him. His moustache and goatee were barely more than five o’clock shadow, again carefully calculated to make him look handsome, distinguished. But not distinctive.