After the end of the first case Thomas and Lucia had to take a break from their private detective business for several reasons. The biggest one being their marriage in June which was to be a large affair that they had already started planning and it would take up pretty much all of their time. The remaining time that they had would be spent on their other business ventures that they were starting up as well and looking for new agents to assist them. In which finding suitable candidates would be no easy feet.
Meanwhile at their office the construction company that was owned by, Lucia’s older brother was remodeling the entire property. Which meant gutting the inside of the building and replacing the entirety of the interior from everything from the walls, floors and plumbing. To even the floor plan of the entire building leaving only the essential support support structure where it was.
The design of the new floor plan was done to the specifications of Lucia, though the actual design was done by a professional architect who only had to follow the specifications that Lucia wanted in the Office.
The changes of the design of the office would be as follows, the basement would be turned into storage with the hidden room being turned into a regular room that would function as the office's gun storage. The other part of the basement would be storage for everything else.
The first floor would be turned into the business section that has a reception room which had several leather chairs, a reception desk as well as well as some decorations. The other rooms would be for meeting customers and other public functions.
The second floor would be for more private matters, as there would be a library, a storage area for artifacts, a study and archive room. As well as rooms that can act as workshops to help with investigations.
All of which is done in an elegant way that turns the building from looking like it would be owned by someone from the middle class to something that only the wealthiest could afford to own.
The renovation is expected to take around a month and a half to finish and during that time Lucia and Thomas were taking their honeymoon in Europe.
July 20th, 1920
The time went by and soon enough the honeymoon was over and Thomas and Lucia were back in New Bristol ready to continue their Private detective business. Though for the time being they couldn’t take any cases as for why? There was no one that had come to them, but more importantly the two of them had decided that the two of them wouldn’t be enough to handle it, and having more people would be helpful. However hiring an agent that would help them in cases was going to be a lot harder than hiring a receptionist or secretary, which they had done easily by recruiting people from their families company, since there aren't any special requirements that they need for the two positions.
The requirements that Lucia had set to be an agent at the company, made it a lot harder to find someone. As they needed to be able to hold their own in combat against. Even when outnumbered by humans or non human opponents. As well as larger monsters that are much stronger than humans are. Last and most importantly they need to have psychological toughness to not break when they are needed the most. Which is hard to judge when interviewing someone and can generally only be discovered by spending time with them or going through traumatic or difficult experiences. To then discover what some is like and learn how tough someone truly is because someone that may seem tough and brave when first met, might end up running at the first sign of trouble. While inversely someone that seems weak, might be unbreakable and never break despite how tough the situation may seem. Though it is almost always in between the two extreme examples, they show how someone shouldn’t necessarily be judged by how they look or how they may first appear.
So because of those difficult qualifiers it meant that it would take a while before someone could be found that could be hired. Which also meant that cases would have to wait until they are able to find around 2 more agents. However even though there wouldn't be any casework to do for the moment, it didn’t mean that there wasn’t a lot to do.
As Lucia took the time to start training Thomas to make sure he can endure future cases as well as to teach him some things from her past life. His agent training included physical training to improve his physical fitness which will determine how effective a lot of the other training will be. So because of that his physical training served as the basis of his training. He was also taught how to use firearms, melee weapons(a bit),hand to hand combat, as well as psychological training to make sure that he doesn’t have a repeat of what happened last time. Where instead of trying to fight the creatures he sat in the car mumbling out of sheer terror. Though to be fair, he wasn’t expecting it nor did he have any clue what it was so he can’t really be blamed for freaking out. Though it means that the physiological training will be even more important for him, as even if it wasn’t a major issue this time it won’t be the same in the future and breaking down in a middle of the fight might cause him, Lucia or anyone they are with to possibly lose their lives because they had become incapacitated and unable to properly fight. Which would be the same as someone being killed or knocked unconscious, which could turn the favor of battle against them.
So Lucia had determined that she would make sure that they would at the very least ensure that Thomas and her agents ( when they get hired), won’t break during combat at the very least. Though it would be nice if they would never break (physiologically) during a case, Lucia realized that might be asking for a bit much.
Besides teaching Thomas practical skills that she would teach all agents, she also taught him skills that she learned from her world, such as some martial arts and intelligence analysis and most importantly, the supernatural forces from her world and how they may be connected to this world.
She also told him about her past life and her past job to Thomas’s curiosity as well as his realization that he actually married someone who is mentally old enough to be his grandmother. Since Lucia lived around 43 years in her past life and 20 in this one, so in total she would be around 63 years old give or take a year or two. Though beyond a little shock, he didn’t care about that and proudly declared that he would still love her . . . even if she was mentally the same age as his grandmother.
The two then spent the days in the fleeting peace that they have, before starting a never ending war against the supernatural forces that wish to encroach upon the world and the cults that worship them.
