AN: So we are starting with Silva's capture by the Chinese, unfortunately he wasn't alone on the mission. PS someone kindly pointed out to me that Silva's real name is Tiago Rodrigues so I'll be using that name in all of the flashback scenes. Such good fun!
China, 1997
Miri thrashed violently in her captor's hold, her feet loosing traction on the stone floor of the slim hallway. Angry animal noises escaped through her bared teeth, determined not to become a prisoner of the Chinese. She had heard stories, so many gruesome horror stories of captured agents who were starved and tortured to death and she would not become one of them.
"I'm sorry," She heard Tiago say over the angry shouts of the Chinese soldiers. If he was surprised over this monstrous betrayal, he didn't show it. They were pulling them in the opposite direction, further and further away from one another, and Tiago knew once she was out of his sight he'd never see her again. In fact, he knew that the likelihood he'd see anyone from MI6 again was slim enough to consider breaking the cap off his tooth and ending it all right there.
"I'm sorry my dear, this is my fault," he told her, in a hurried attempt to come clean. He didn't want to think about what they would do to her, how they would first shame her then mutilate her. He didn't want to think that she was being punished for his sins, his beautiful Miri. Why had he let her in, he berated himself. Mistakes, this mission was filled with so many mistakes.
She flung her hand out, reaching for him, to touch him one last time. "Tiago!" His name tore from her throat, revealing the terror and confusion after hearing his confession. She wanted to know more, she wanted to know why they had been thrown to the dogs and he wanted to tell her but there was no time. Her death would be cruel and seemingly senseless, her life ending in a torrent of pain and misery.
Freeing an arm, he reached out, only able to grab two of her fingers before they slipped from his hand. Then the butt of a rifle smacked down on the back of his head and all he could think was perhaps M would reconsider. She had turned her back on him, he had been betrayed, but it wasn't too late. Perhaps he could even forgive her. But absolution never came and Tiago was left to rot in China.
AN: Okay so hopefully you have guessed this is not the last we see of Miri (short for Miranda) and obviously not the last we see of Silva. Luckily the people to come in are Bond and Q :) yay always a party with them. please review and let me know what you think! Thanks :)