Hi there! This is my first Inception or Nikita fiction, so I hope you all enjoy :)

Reviews are very much appreciated, so indulge me!

Gratitude to myparamour for beta-working on this, you're my savior!, and to Nik216, she's the one that came up with the tittle and her stories were my inspiration for this! Thank you my darlings!

Without further ado...

Alex looked at her reflection in the bathroom mirror of the dimly-lit hotel room, shoving her fingers through the curls of her hair. She gave her make up final touches: more blush, red lipstick. Hum, better make it a simple nude. She wanted to look professional. After all, it wasn't every day a company like Cobol asked for a private meeting.

The brown and black vertical striped pants and the loose cotton blouse sat flawlessly on her athletic body, as the black high heels elongated her legs, accentuating her ass. Damn, she looked good.

"Alex, are you ready or what?" Owen said, as he opened the door and entered her room. He stopped at the entrance, and as she exited the bathroom he stared at her with a sheepish grin. He thought the looked good too.

"C'mon, Birkhoff is waiting," she said, tapping his shoulder as she walked by him, but not before she took a good glimpse at him. Owen was wearing a dark two-piece suit with a white long-sleeve shirt and a plain black tie. Simple, but both effective and practical considering he was now formally known as her Head-Chief Security Officer; although he represented a more important role in her personal life.

Since the end of Division as well as the end of Nikita and Michael's marriage, Alex was left with the option to regain control over the billion-dollar company of Zetrov, as her father would have expected of her. The power would allowed her to create organizations to help fight against human trafficking, and she could help girls from suffering the same fate she had. Even with that, she still didn't feel quite comfortable with her new role. She wasn't prepared to control the company, or to live more of a normal life, for that matter, with a house, children and a good husband to keep her warm at night. She wasn't sure she wanted any of that for the time being.

Despite her trepidations, she set upon her business and recruited Owen and Birkhoff and together they started a Security Firm operating underground. The business was growing as word continued to spread of a powerful and competent Alexandra Udinov taking the helm of a corporation specialized in solving everyone's problems – for a reasonable amount of money.

Birkhoff waited in the hallway and as they passed him by he joined their quick stride and gave them each an ear piece "Can you hear me?"

"It's working. Birkhoff, access the hotel surveillance cameras, I want a footage of the meeting in our possession," Alex ordered, walking side by side with Owen.

"On it," he said, before turning around to return to his room, temporarily called the Opps Room.

"Let's see what they've got for us," Owen said, before allowing Alex to take the lead and taking a quick glance at the weapon on his waist, just in case he needed to use it.

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The man sat alone in a booth of the bar with a drink in his hand, studying a few papers. Alex slipped in across him, while Owen stood at her side, opting to stand guard instead.

"My name is Richard Kelly and I'm Cobol's Operations Advisor. A few months ago we suffered unbearable losses with a breach of contract by the signee, and now we need an efficient team to execute a closure with the same said firm." He passed Alex the files and continued. "As I'm sure you can understand, Miss Udinov, Cobol does not take unfulfilled contractual obligations lightly."

"I see," she simply added, as she examined the files, her concentration interrupted by Owen's voice.

"We have a small job in San Francisco, in two days' time we'll give an answer." Alex tried to disguise her shocked reaction as she got up, shook Mr. Kelly's hand and followed Owen back to the Opps Room.

As soon as they entered the elevator she punched him hard in his shoulder, letting out all of her frustration. "What the hell happened in there!? As far as I can recall I'm still the one who does the talking, and we do not have any mission in San Francisco!"

"I know, I'm sorry." he sounded oddly nervous. "We need to leave now Alex, I need to warn Cobb."

Alex stared at him for a few seconds, until it hit her that he was referring to the signee who bailed on the contract. "Dom Cobb? You know him?"

"He helped me while back, he practically saved me from losing my mind." He gave her a sad smile at that before brushing it off of his face. "The least I can do is give him a head's up, before Cobol hires someone who can actually do the job. He has two small kids, you know?"

Alex sighed with renewed frustration. "Fine. We're gonna pay him a visit. And the other two, Arthur and Eames?"

"I'll call Cobb to arrange a meeting, I guess he'll fill them in"

"What!?" Both of them heard through the earplug the shocked tone on Birkhoff's voice.

She smiled and punched Owen's arm again, as she talked to the tech man "Aren't you listening to me, nerd? We're going to California!"

Hope you all have enjoyed it, please review!