I do not own Nikita or the awesome characters! Though I wish I did cause things would be A LOT different!
Jealousy
"Where are you going?" Birkhoff asks her.
"To find Owen." She tells him simply. He raises his injured had in goodbye as he watches as she walks up the stairs and out of view. Well then he thinks to himself. Mikey isn't going to like this. He laughs out loud and takes another sip of his drink.
Three weeks go by. Nikita calls him often for help and he is more than happy to help her. She's found Owen and they are both on the move looking for the other blackbox. She sounds a little bit happier than she did three weeks ago. He doesn't know if that has something to do with being around Owen or if it's because her mind is preoccupied and she isn't thinking of him as much. All he knows is that he's happy that she seems happier.
He isn't surprised when Michael shows up a week later. He knows that he will always come back to her. Maybe it has something to do with how he saw him deal with his love for Nikita while they were in Division. He saw a side of Michael that he knows Nikita has never seen and that's why he told her that Michael would come back. "You're like Bonnie and Clyde" he told her once.
He's on his computer when he hears the familiar footsteps walk into the wide room. He looks up to greet him. The first thing he notices is that he looks tired, drained even. He watches as he sets his bags down and walks further into the room.
"Well would you look at that. Look at what the cat dragged in" he says standing up from his desk, moving around it to welcome his friend home.
"How are you feeling?" Michael asks him sincerely nodding to hand.
"Oh this?" he asks referring to his hand holding it up. "Neh, it's nothing. It's all good thanks to Nikita. You know she can be real bossy."
Michael chuckles and nods his head. His eyes seem to brighten at the mention of Nikita. "Ya she can be. Speaking of Nikita, uhh where is she?" he asks him looking around the apartment for a sign of her.
Shit he thinks to himself. Just tell him the little voice in his head tells him.
"Niki isn't here right now Mikey." He tells him slowly and somewhat nervously.
Michael stares at him and crosses his arms. "Well then where did she go?" he asks his voice low.
"She's uh, well she's with Owen." He tells him taking a step back preparing for an explosion. He knows that Owen is not Michael's favourite person in the world.
"She what?"
He flinches a little at Michael's loud voice. "Yeah she actually went to go find him, which she um, did and now they are looking for the second blackbox." He tells his friend calmly making his way back behind the safety of his desk and computer.
He watches as Michael starts to walk back and forth in front of him.
"Where are they now?" he asks stopping in front his desk leaning on his hands.
He raises his hand in surrender. "I have no clue man, last I heard from her, which was two days ago they were in Spain." Lair the little voice in his head tells him. He knows that Nikita and Owen will be making their way back here in two days.
"Spain?" Michael repeats crossing his arms in front of him. "What? Are they on vacation or something?" he asks sarcastically.
"Wow someone's jealous." He mutters to himself earning a glare from Michael.
"How could you let her go after him? You know how dangerous Owen his." Michael asks him angrily.
He lets out a loud sigh. "Look man Nikita is gonna do what Nikita wants to do, and there is no stopping her, you know that. And really man, you don't really have any say in what she does anymore, truth be told. I know you guys broke up or whatever, but if you really wanted to Michael, you could have gone after her or something." He tells him point blank. He feels the need to stick up for her. After all she did save his life.
He watches as Michael sits down on the couch and puts his head in his hands taking in everything that he just said. He leans back in his chair and lets out a sigh. He stares at his friend and feels sorry for him. He knows how much this must be killing him.
"Look man, Nikita and Owen will be making their way back here in two days. Why don't you go and make yourself at home. The spare room is on the right down the hallway."
Michael nods his head and stands up slowly and picks up his bags making his way down the hallway and out of sight.
Things are about to get messy.