Gregory, Brian Nathaniel

[BRIAN NATHANIEL GREGORY]

TAKE WHAT IS LEFT OF ME

AND MAKE IT A BEAUTIFUL MELODY

Brian Nathaniel Gregory
YOU'D BE MY REMEDY

45 ,.,., Fordham ,.,., High level Fordham operative (CIA double agent) ,.,., Liam Neeson
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CIA personnel file
Security level 10
Eyes only
Burn after reading

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Name: Benjamin Vincent Grey
Alias: Brian Nathaniel Gregory
Age: 45
Height: 6'5"
Weight: 220 lbs
Build: Muscular
Status: Deep cover agent (Deceased: official cover story for all non-essential staff)

Target details, goals and reassignment details, REDACTED, access to be granted by personnel with appropriate security-clearance on a need to know basis[/color]

Benjamin grew up in Manhattan with a lawyer mother and a military father, he spent much of his childhood walking the streets of New York, exploring and learning about the city he loved so much, coming to know it like the back of his hand, better even than that. He didn't know what he was looking for, perhaps he wasn't looking for anything, perhaps all he wanted was to be a part of the city as it loved and breathed around him. This was helped in no small part by his father, during Benjamin's younger years being a colonel in the US marine corps, who told him that New York was one of America's greatest accomplishments, since it had become theirs it had become a centre of culture, economics and politics, home to Wall street, the UN and only the richest, best and brightest of America's citizens. This understandably filled the young man with no small measure of patriotism and pride; a feeling which slowly but surely manifested itself as devotion to his country, not to such an extent that it could or would be called fanatical but certainly more than an average citizen would have.

After finishing a college degree in security systems Benjamin immediately joined the CIA, quickly proving himself as an effective and valuable field asset. At the time though, that's all Benjamin was, another new recuit, fresh-faced, good at his job but lacking any real distinction over some of the more experienced agents. That was until the 1990's and the Gulf war, several high-value targets needed to be exfiltrated from Iraq, however conventional means and forces were either unavailable or too risky politically, leaving only special forces and covert operations. At this time, despite being a relatively high-ranking field-agent for his age Benjamin had still yet to distinguish himself significantly despite his high success-rate and a record of being an effective, efficient and above all loyal agent, there was still nothing to distinguish him from the crowd.

Going on the mission to exfiltrate the targets changed everyone's views of the man… things went wrong right from the start, one of the two helicopters flying in troops was shot down, rendering the squad combat ineffective for several hours including wounding the co-pilot of the chopper. Despite this Benjamin decided he would push on with the mission, despite having only half the amount of support he was supposed to have. More than that though, within 24 hours Benjamin had called in the exfiltration chopper without the platoon he was in command of having to fire a single shot, with all the designated targets.

Upon returning to the CIA Benjamin received an immediate promotion and was then put into an advanced training program to train the greatest operatives that the CIA had seen to date, this program was eventually to take backseat however to the young agents program as a faster, more efficient method of training agents but every time anybody needed a reference or testament to the effectiveness and success of the advanced training program, Benjamin was the first name to pop up. He excelled not only in training and practical exercises but also in real missions with real consequences, proof not only of his training but of his skill as an agent.

During his time spent training Benjamin met Amelia, the woman who would eventually become his wife and then later the mother of his children, Baylee and Azreal Grey. Amelia had been a Russian sleeper agent, planted after the Cold War in case of a resurgence in hostilities between their nations, however after several years in the USA she instead decided to change her allegiances, approaching the CIA of her own will and offering to join them on the condition she be granted full immunity and protection from both her previous actions against their country and from any of her old comrades from the KGB. Benjamin was the man sent to meet her, despite their happy years together they did not start off on a high-note, he was abrasive and distrustful of her and she was cold and defensive, this in turn led to much dismay to both of them when they learned that Benjamin would be heading Amelia's protection team. However, despite no small effort on their parts to find reasons to hate each other, soon enough they found that being forces to spend so much time together left the two finding that they had more and more in common, first leading to a reluctant truce, then acceptance of each other and finally love.

The two spent many long, happy, years together, Amelia giving birth to their two children, all the while watched all the more closely by both their countries for their commitment to each other. It was several long years later when one day, Amelia was involved in a car accident which caused her death; at least that was what the papers said. Benjamin was told later by the CIA that it was Fordham, they had targeted their agents, aiming to cripple the resistance that they were putting up to them. This was a blow in and of itself, however when it transpired that social services saw Benjamin as an absentee parent and had his children taken away from him, it was the last straw. While he had never before been a man for revenge Benjamin wanted it now, he wanted the blood of Fordham, for tearing his lye apart and leaving him alone, all he wanted was for them to suffer. The CIA had immediate use for him, they had long needed to get a deep cover agent inside Fordham and this was their chance! They took Benjamin and groomed him, engineering his apparent death in bomb blast while raiding a Fordham warehouse, creating a new identity for him and finally managing to work him in close to the Fordham organisation, managing to slip him into their ranks and maintain communication with him, allowing them access to new information and sabotage opportunities. For ten years now, the man formerly known as Benjamin, now Brian Nathaniel Gregory has worked at Fordham, his constant efforts working to bring down the terrorist organisation from within.

Despite what he has been put through, Brian has remained on the whole a relatively open, friendly, approachable, even funny person; this however can only be said to be true of the man off duty, while working Brian is nothing short of cold, calculating and ruthlessly efficient. Many have been confused by this man of two halves, how he so easily and almost casually cuts off all emotional ties as soon as he considers himself 'on the job' but then, only a select few at the CIA know his true past to put a true face on the man he has become. His mood has also been deeply affected however by the treatment of his children, though he knows they have been kept together and that both seem to be doing well for themselves, he is also very aware of the CIA's use of teenage agents, a practice he despised even before he learnt of his own son joining the program itself, while he is unaware of the exact circumstances of Azreal's retirement from the CIA he knows of the organisation's tendency to throw away assets which are no linger of use, this has only added to his harder side, not necessarily as resentment, though only because he knows that Azreal now owns a flower shop, seeing it as a sign of his son recovering from the life he had with the CIA. His daughter however, has of course remained the apple of his eye, even if he has to observe her at a distance, whenever he sees her he feels a warm feeling in his chest welling up, she makes him prouder than anything else in his entire life. He wants nothing more than for his children to succeed and simply to have a better life than their fool of a father had and he would do anything to give it to them.[/size][/blockquote][/blockquote][/justify]

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