The FBI NYO's office has apprehended Moustafa Ahmad before he could reek havoc on New York City. This team the "Critical Incident Response Group" was the one who found Ahmad. The group sounds more like they work for the CDC rather than the FBI. Everytime I imagine them I see hazmat suits and them ready to clean an oil spill. Sometimes I laugh at these agencies and their squads some truly borderline on ridiculous and I have received my fair share of glares when I let a chuckle escape.

I have come to collect Ahmad I already envision how much pushback I will get from the group. Everytime I seek to retrieve someone has to shout blah blah and think they will win the argument because they made the capture always avoiding the bigger picture. But it doesn't matter.

Before I walk into the room these six individuals are having some sort of meeting or briefing I study them. I can immediately tell who Assistant Director Weller is and I see a short woman who says nothing. Well many have said nothing so far but she is not studying what's being related by the white blonde woman. She is only studying everyone in the room. She isn't a part of their team. She looks like an omnipresent figure that makes herself fade in the background without doing anything. She takes careful measured looks at the most opportune times and none of them even realize it.

She is spying on them and I doubt she is from the bureau ethics branch. This is not their style and they are too cheap to hire from the outside and too prideful to ask for help from another government agency. Which I can only surmise one thing. She is definitely from their governments stock but she forced her way in they didn't ask for her. The United States government agencies are notoriously known for not working amicably with each other to the point that they have tv shows displaying it. They have something she wants and I am somewhat intrigued in finding out what that is.

One of the women in the room has her back to me. She has what one would characterize as curly hair but they are quite loose. From the back she reminds me of someone I knew a while ago. A sister-in-arms who died as a result of a zealous member of the CIA. We could never avenge her death because we couldn't touch Tom Carter without setting an international incident. He mysteriously ended up dead and the only reason my superior didn't think we were behind it because we have been deep in our original mission. I walk in because we need custody of Ahmad.

"Assistant Director Weller?" The tall white man turns around and his blue eyes have signs of fury that is only slightly contained. The room is a tense enviornment and we stumbled in at the absolute best time because it gives me time to assess everything in here. The spy must be loving this.

"Who's asking?" The man makes no gesture to shake my hand and his tone is accusatory. I pull out my credentials and pass it around to the team.

"Sabine Ghazal, I am here on behalf of Interpol and the government of Cyprus. I was made aware of the capture of one Moustafa Ahmad. He has an international warrant out for his arrest." I feel I have been struck by lightning when the girl with the loose black curls turns around. She has a tattoo on her neck that is only slightly visible due to her turtleneck but she looks just like Alice. I don't linger because the spy is in the room I also would never tip my hand.

"We just stopped this guy from detonating a bomb here. He is ours!" The woman with the ponytail tells me. She crosses her arm and makes a defensive stance. She is too emotional it will hinder her career if she ever wants to get ahead.

"It is heroic that you were able to stop him from detonating his bomb over here. The authorities in Cyprus were not as lucky. 34 Cypriots are dead due to Ahmad and a bomb he set off there. Your prevented execution of a terrorist act does not take precedence over an actual carried out. If you decline to hand over Ahmad now. I will go through all the appropriate channels so he can be tried for the 34 lives he has taken." If I have to bring up treaties and UN resolutions I will. Its always the Americans who give me the most pushback in my travels.

"That won't be necessary. We will process Ahmad and he will be turned into your custody we will just need to have you fill the appropriate paperwork." It is the spy who says this and no one contradicts her. So she isn't with the FBI but she is with the American government. I doubt she is CIA, or DEA. Ahmad is many things but he doesn't push drugs. The fact she is always observing I come to believe she is apart of the NSA. She must be in high order to be giving definitive answers.

"Thank you..." I have no clue who anyone is besides Alice and the Assistant Director. Alice does incredible without reacting to seeing me.

"Naz Kamal." She extends her hand out and I take it she gives the most guarded and slight smiles and I know in my gut I am right. I shake her hand and I walk out. One thing I am sure is that Alice Kruger is alive but I want to know how... She was killed in combat or so they had everyone believe... I am going to have someone on my team follow her and this team.

"Yes... let's get those documents for you so everything is on the up and up for this swap." The Assistant Director finally speaks again. He is quite rigid and stoic but he is being slightly more fair. He most likely needs to leave this room because what ever was being talked about before was an intense conversation. The too emotional one just starts shaking her head that she can believe it and I walk away. Once the door shuts as I walk with the AD I see the woman speaking again.

"Who is that woman with the large tattoo on her neck?"

"No one of your concern."

"When people say that it just makes them want to know more. I find it fascinating honestly."

"She is just a consultant" She is more than that but I'll keep my mind short I don't want think I am investigating them or her. When he says the words its with anger and contempt. Does he hate Alice? Alice may think she is running a one woman army.

"She looks quite interesting." I get started on all the paper work to ensure all procedures are followed. I don't want the U.S. saying we didn't follow the correct steps and get this guy. I cannot return to France with nothing.

"What is your assessment?" I am anxious to find out what my team has encountered.

"I have reason to believe that the subject who may be Alice Kruger is being monitored by more than the FBI. When we were doing reconnaissance. As I was covering Fatima I discover that she wasn't the only person watching Alice. I was able to take a picture of the man whom I believe to also be watching her.

I see the picture and it only further proves that my hunch that Alice is alive is becoming more credible.

"This is the subject's brother. I believe the consultant for the FBI is Alice Kruger and the fact that her brother is also watching her then he believes this is his sister."

"I wonder if he is watching her for Shepherd or for himself..." Fatima inquires and it is something that I want to know as well.

"Last time I was able to speak to Alice she was worried that she would be found out by Shepherd. I told her to do whatever was necessary to not be found out. She believed she could flip her brother when the time came but it wouldn't be until much later. He is too unpredictable to be trusted with a secret with this magnitude. The fact she is alive possibly means we can possibly penetrate that organization again. We will need to get in contact with her."

"That may not be so easy... she is being watched by the brother, most likely the FBI, and maybe Zawjat Alshshaytan as well." Fatima has a slight look of worry. It has been a while where we have had split focus.

"If the brother is watching her then Zawjat Alshshaytan will not be. They like to stay in the shadows. The brother is the renegade he will be doing it on his own. When Alice was doing undercover work he would find ways to sneak out from Shepherd to watch over her. Most of the time it would be in spite of being told not too. Its my assessment that hasn't changed. Shepherd is paranoid with her current exploits she has definitely gone underground she truly can't afford to be found after the things she has facilitated."

Alice/Jane's POV

I feel lonelier than ever. I am trying my hardest to not let the coldness from the team get to me. I have to look at it like a job and nothing else. I don't know who I have in this world. Roman is my brother but I have no recollection of it. I made myself forget my whole identity. I know nothing and I think to myself how could my old self think it was worth it? I know I can be ruthless I am turning against my own mother and brother but how could I believe in what Shepherd is espousing? Corruption is everywhere and unavoidable but she is willing to sacrifice everyone no matter if they are innocent or not. What happens to the children who are at the wrong place and time?

Is she even really my mother? She says she raised me but she only helped in making me a killing machine. My old self had questionable morals and skewed vision? She made me into what she wanted me to be? My old self was probably fucked from the start and being sent to her was just the icing on the cake. She was my headmaster in a league of assassins. I wasn't made to experience any kind of happiness but it doesn't mean I don't want it. I envy everyone out in the real world. In the little time I get to interact with the world I see people happy with children and in relationships.

I was foolish enough to think maybe Kurt and I could be together. Even when I think of him it causes me to have a full body reaction. I don't know if I'll ever get used to it. I don't know if my past self felt that with Oscar but I feel like I can't live without Kurt. What I should feel for him is revulsion! I was tortured by the CIA because he let me go. He let them have me and for a man about justice he let them take me with no trial. I don't even exist anyhow thanks to Carter and Sheppard. It only helped the CIA in that regard. If a person doesn't exist there is no one to find.

No I am stuck here working with them until I am no longer valuable to them. I will most likely got to jail or end up in the ground once this is all done. I just realized I never really lived a life before or after I lost my memory. Even when I was Remy I was probably my most free when I was in the Navy. Shepherd probably always had us living in the shadows. I have no freedom and I don't know if I ever will.

I find myself thinking about Roman. I have a brother and in my heart I know we had a solid relationship where we relied on one another. My heart tells me a number of things and I know this to be true of him. My first thought when I found out who he really was is maybe I am not truly alone in this world. He was raised just like me. We both lost our parents, we both lost our childhoods. He is a child of the Krugers like me. Our parents fought to do right in this world and they paid the price for it without killing innocent people. I know Shepherd believes in her cause but she doesn't care about who gets in the way of her vision. Shepherd made Roman and my past self only think that her way was the only way. How many people have died because of that mindset?

Alice and Ian Kruger is who we are? I wonder if Roman would ever want to be Ian again? Could I ever be Alice? How did I know that Roman was Ian? I feel more memories coming back. Well not memories just snippets of specific facts in my life.

I feel a whirlwind of emotions after today. Naz and her threats are something that I have to take seriously. The pseudo-freedom I have would be a luxury considering my only alternative would be a CIA blacksite. I wouldn't be able to go to a prison I doubt the government would let that happen especially after I was able to escape a CIA blacksite. I wonder who that woman was who came today. She gave me the briefest of glances probably a fraction of a millisecond if I am being honest but it was enough.

It sounds ludicrous when I think about it but this woman was trained. Maybe I am reading too much into it or I am right. Maybe I knew her in my past life? Have I ever been in contact with Interpol? Has she ever arrested me? I doubt it because if she did I wouldn't have been allowed to see freedom again. I get the same feeling I had with Lukas that I feel about her. She reminds me of someone or something important connected to my past.

I'm finally make it back to my apartment. I guess its one step up from the safe house. I have an illusion of freedom with having an apartment. I don't get the same government protection like I used too. It's a more hands off approach now. I find myself missing Kurt being the one to take me home but I also feel anger towards him. Just like he feels betrayed from me I feel betrayed by him.

I open my door and my instincts are on hyper alert. Someone is in my apartment. I don't who it is but I doubt it would be Roman. But then again its not like I know him at least I can't really remember who he was.

"Hello... I have been waiting all day to see you again." I feel only slightly better once I hear the voice. I know it won't be a fire fight tonight.