"Calling in a Favor"
Chapter 1:
A/N #1: Alright, I know I shouldn't be starting a new story when none of my others are near completion but after seeing the Nikita episode before the hiatus and with the ending it gave us, this idea popped into my head and I just now had the time to write it down. Also it's my brother's birthday today so that's my reason for publishing a new story (I've done it for a few of my other stories before). So I hope you enjoy this crossover so enjoy!
A/N #2: I just wanted to say that if you're a reader from my other stories then I apologize for the delay on updates but I just ended classes for the semester and now I'm currently in that pre-exam period so when exams are over I plan to get back to all my other stories. So thank you for sticking with me and giving any of my stories a chance.
A/N #3: Sorry in advance if I got Nikita's location wrong but I was going off what I learned from the pilot episode.
Disclaimer: I don't own Supernatural or Nikita. They belong to their respective owners (I thank them for creating them in the first place). Recognizable dialogue comes from ep. #1.16 of Nikita.
Full Summary: 2010: After Alex has another close call with her past, Nikita thinks it's time to get Alex out of Division's clutches, so she calls upon a few people she calls her family for some help.
Supernatural Timeline: starts right after Episode #5.12 – 'Swap Meat'
Nikita Timeline: Episode #1.16 ('Echo') when Nikita makes plans to get Alex out, Amanda is interrogating a drugged Alex and Michael is suspicious of Alex/Nikita connection
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Roselle Park, New Jersey:
"Her name's Alex. You've done this for her before. I need an identity package Gustav, scrubbed clean." Twenty-seven year old Nikita stated into her cell phone as she made her way to her base of operations inside of Whitfield's former home.
"Disappearing your friend…again. Not a problem. How soon do you need this?" Gustav asked on the other line as he got comfortable in his makeshift work space with a half eaten apple in his hand.
The rogue Division agent sighed. "If I'd have it my way, Alex would be on a plane halfway around the world by now."
Gustav quickly swallowed his current apple slice before he spoke. "Ah, so a rush job. When can you bring her by?"
"She's not available but it can't wait. I need that package ready to go as soon as she is." She stated firmly as she stopped right in front of her computer, ignoring the crunching she heard on the other end of the line.
"Nikita, I'm an excellent forger but the two things I cannot forge are fingerprints and passport photos." Gustav explained once again before taking another bite of his apple.
Nikita was silent for a moment as a plan popped into her head. "I have an idea on how to get that. I gotta call you back though."
Before she was able to hang up, his curiosity got the better of him as he spoke without truly thinking. "Hey, I have to ask, what exactly is she running from?"
She was hesitant before she spoke. "Let's just say, I'm more worried about where she's heading." It was a vague answer, she knew that, but nothing else came to mind as her focus was on her computer before she ended the call with Gustav.
Her fingers glided over her computer mouse as she clicked the video to start again as it played the moment Alex, her nineteen year old mole in Division, had admitted who she truly was, Alexandra Udinov, before pulling the trigger and killing the man that was once the head honcho back when she was his sex slave after coming to America.
Nikita didn't like it. She didn't like it one bit.
If she was worried before about Alex being in danger because of Division, she was downright terrified now when it came to where her friend was headed. The video itself showed the cold exterior on Alex's face as if she didn't care that she was about to take someone's life. Sure, Nikita had trained Alex so that she would be prepared against Division but Alex's past was catching up to her. Nikita sighed at the thought of what the duo have been through together; she never thought that when she saved the little girl six years ago from Division that they would end up here.
She needed to get Alex out of Division now, before they found out that she's an Udinov, a former Division target that escaped their attack thanks to Nikita.
The rogue agent couldn't take the sight of Alex in the video anymore before she immediately shut the video player down, leading her straight to her desktop as she tried to figure out a way to save Alex.
An idea didn't truly hit the rogue assassin until she focused on her default desktop picture that she hadn't known had changed yet she couldn't help the sad smile that formed on her face when she took in the four people in the photo. A photo that was taken what seemed like a lifetime ago. She could see the happy smiles caused by laughter on the three youngsters' faces as they sat in front of an older man on the couch. The little girl was sandwiched between two boys; one appeared to be the same age as the little girl while the other was a few years older as he was roughly a preteen. The boys had their arms wrapped around the little girl as if they were her protective cocoon and it didn't look like she minded as the older man gave a smile at his children but it was evident in his eyes the mystery that they held.
She remembered a time when she thought she'd always be alone after her parents died, making her an orphan. She never thought anyone would love her but that changed instantly when the man in the photo had taken her in as his boys welcomed her with open arms. They instantly became her family and no one was going to take that fact away from her, not even Amanda discovered that fact when Nikita was still a Division recruit.
Nikita sighed once again as it had been a long time since she took the time to look at the photo (or any photo for that matter) that was taken before Division had set their sights on her. Whenever she saw the picture now, it would just break her heart for the fact that the two eldest in the picture were now dead and she hadn't spoken to the other boy since shortly after the second's death.
I can't ask him to do this. She tried to reason with herself. She couldn't ask him to help her out with Alex, not after all the radio silent between them in the past two years. She wanted to be there for him after their brother died but she couldn't risk Division finding out about him and killing him to get to her, just like they had killed Daniel to keep her with them, which backfired.
What choice do I have now?
Nikita groaned as she picked up her cell phone again before typing in the all familiar number that she was surprised was still in use. She couldn't help the smile that formed on her lips when she heard his voice on the voice mail message before she took a deep breath.
"Hey. It's me. I know it's been awhile and I've kinda been AWOL but I need your help…."
Housatonic, Massachusetts:
Thirty-one year old Dean Winchester groaned when the sun's rays were shining on his face, interrupting his much needed sleep. They had just finished the case for their former babysitter and her family, had dealt with a teenager that managed to do a body swap with his brother so that he had a Trojan horse advantage in his attempts to kill Dean off for the demons and now the hunter just wanted to sleep. He would have ignored the sun's rays by moving around his pillow but that was before he heard some pacing in his motel room before some ruffling of their bags.
Dean turned his head to the sound of the pacing before the sound of the laptop keys clicking. Sam. Dean groaned. "Could you keep it down Sammy. Some of us are trying to sleep."
"Well don't because we gotta go." Twenty-seven year old Sam Winchester replied after finally coming to the internet page he was looking for.
Dean's brow furrowed in confusion. "Go where? It's not even-" He paused as he rubbed his eyes before checking the clock. "It's not even noon yet Sam." Dean groaned again as he slumped his head back into his comfy pillow.
"Just got a call and we're needed in New Jersey." Sam explained as he wrote down the address Google Map had given him that had matched the coordinates that he had received moments before Dean had stirred in his sleep.
That peaked the older hunter's interest. "What's in New Jersey? Another case?" Dean questioned as he slowly got himself out of bed, figuring that it was a lost cause to go back to sleep now.
Sam pocketed the address before shutting down his laptop and packing it away with the rest of their stuff. "Not sure, she didn't really specify."
Dean smirked at his brother. "She?"
Sam rolled his eyes as he took out one of the cell phones that Gary hadn't thrown away when he was in Sam's body just a few days ago. "Listen for yourself." He stated, handing his brother his phone.
Dean shrugged as he accepted the phone, scrolling down to bring up Sam's latest voice message before he started to listen in. "Hey. It's me…" Dean's eyes widened when the familiarity of the female's voice hit him like a ton of bricks, a voice he hadn't heard in just under six years.
Nikita.
He hadn't heard from her until a year after she had been taken in 2004. He was supposed to meet up with her after one of his cases but she never showed up. He tried everything he could to track her down, using everything his father had taught him but it was as if she vanished off the face of the earth.
Well that's what he thought until a year later when she made contact with him and told him everything about the past year and the organization that had taken her against her will and trained her to become an assassin. Dean's fury only grew as Nikita continued on with what she had to do and he couldn't believe he wasn't there for her. When Sam had left them to go to Stanford, Dean swore to himself that he would protect Nikita to the best of his abilities, as if Sam had never left, but he had failed her. He wanted to go rescue her and bring her back home, back to her family but she rejected the idea. He didn't understand why until she told him. Division would kill him, her, Sam and Dad if they ever found out and they have their eyes on her. She was even lucky to make the call in the first place. Dean fought with her on it; he wanted her to come home, back to their family of hunters.
But she refused again, saying that it was too soon after they had let her outside of the compound. She told him not to look for her, to continue hunting and going after the yellow-eyed demon (they didn't know his name was Azazel until it was years later after Dean had killed it) and that she would find him when it was safe for her to do so. He wanted to argue with her, to tell her that he'll protect her like he's had to do all his life but she cut him off again before she hung up and even until this day her final words to him always ran through his mind; I love you brother but I'm doing this to protect you, Sam and Dad. Goodbye.
After that he tried every number that Nikita ever had to her name but they were all disconnected. He never heard from her since that call but hearing her voice again in the voice message had sudden relief wash over him. He never thought she was dead but with him and Sam loosing a lot of people due to the Apocalypse it always worried him that he had no way of contacting her, no way to warn her since it wasn't just him that lost contact with her but every hunter contact they had together hadn't heard from her either.
Dean closed the phone as the message still reeled through his mind. "She's alive." He couldn't help but whisper moments after ending the message.
Sam nodded even though his brother wasn't looking at him. "Yes…and she needs our help."
Dean got up from the bed before handing the cell phone back to Sam. "Guess we're going to New Jersey."
Division:
Ever since Michael heard Alex mutter the name Whitfield during Amanda's version of rehabilitation/interrogation, his need for the truth increased as he discovered that Alex had known the name of one of the targets of a mission that happened over three years ago; a target that Nikita was assigned to eliminate.
He looked through all the inconsistencies that he's noticed since Alex had been recruited and it wasn't until he got a positive match on the audio profile that Birkhoff had created for him that everything clicked. Everything was always connected to Nikita.
Michael grinned mischievously before he subtly rushed out of Division as he now had the upper hand when it came to Nikita. He knew exactly where to find her now and he had to see her immediately.
They had some unfinished business to take care of.
Roselle Park, New Jersey:
It was mid afternoon when the Winchester brothers arrived at the coordinates that Nikita attached to her message to Sam. The ride was silent, except for Dean's rock music in the background, as the brothers' were sucked into their own minds as they remembered the time when the three of them were together, to a time where no government organization was watching over them or to a time when the fate of the world wasn't on their shoulders but to a time where they just had to worry about each other's safety as they dealt with the current hunt. All musing was put to a halt when Dean pulled up right in front of Whitfield's address.
"Is this the place?" He questioned his brother as he parked his Chevy Impala across the street before shutting it off.
Sam briefly checked the address with the one he wrote back at the motel. "Yup. This is the place." He confirmed before Dean stepped out of the car, with Sam following quickly behind him.
"Think she's home?" Dean questioned as he marched towards Nikita's current residence.
"Only one way to find out." Sam responded as he matched his brother's stride. Dean knocked on the door a few times and when there was no answer, he gave Sam one look before he kneeled down, taking his lock picking kit out of his jacket pocket before he started to unpick the lock in front of him as Sam was acting as lookout likely they've done many times in the past.
In a few moments, the Winchesters were inside the complex, their guns out and ready as they slowly entered and they were instantly hit with the shock of how empty the place looked. There was only a designated place where it seemed that Nikita had spend her time as it had the basics of a bedroom and an office all in one. Before heading there and seeing how Nikita had been living all this time, the brothers checked the rest of the place to make sure it was clear. It only took the brothers a few minutes to get a confirmation that no one was home.
Dean put the safety on his gun before tucking it away behind his back. "I guess we're early." He stated before he started to head towards Nikita's things.
"Seems like it." Sam was still taking in the place as he too put the safety on his gun and tucked it away. His eyes roamed over the rack of clothes before drifting over two heavy crates before his attention snapped to Dean as he was ruffling through the night stand by her bed. "What are you doing?"
"Researching, that's all Sammy." Dean explained as he continued to look through her stuff and he couldn't help the smirk that appeared on his face when he saw one or two pairs of handcuffs in the drawers.
"That's an invasion of privacy Dean." Sam reprimanded before taking a seat in the chair by Nikita's computer.
"Well I haven't seen or heard from her since a few years after-" Dean paused in his train of thought as he came across a picture of happy grown up Nikita in the arms of an unknown man. Dean's brow furrowed in confusion before he turned the picture over so that Sam could have a look. "Wonder who this is." Dean thought aloud, not expecting an answer but he was surprised he got one.
"That's probably Daniel." Sam sadly answered as he remembered the last time he heard from Nikita.
Dean quirked his eyebrow; curious as to how his brother knew that in the first place and who this Daniel was to Nikita. "Who?"
Sam sighed. "The fiancé she had that Division killed off in 2007." He explained as Dean's focus was on the picture, taking in how much she had grown up since the last time he saw her she was just out of her teens.
After Sam's words sunk in, Dean did a double take. "Woah, back up. She was engaged?" Dean gave his brother an incredulous look at the thought.
Sam nodded his head in agreement. "Yes."
It wasn't soon after that confirmation that Dean narrowed his eyes at his brother. "And you knew yet you never told me?"
Sam sighed as he pinched the bridge of his nose, not completely sure how to tell Dean how he knew. "She called me a month or two after…after you went to Hell." He started off as the memories of that time came rushing back, the emotion he felt of not being able to save Dean was tense then but it was slightly relieved when he heard Nikita's voice during her unexpected call. He took a deep breath before he continued. "She found out about Dad, about you and she told me that she escaped Division. She told me about Daniel, I told her about Jess. I basically summed up the major parts that happened over the years since she disappeared and I thought that her contacting me after everything meant that she was going to come back but she didn't. She couldn't."
Dean nodded along as Sam spoke. "She still had to lay low." He stated as it was the same thing she told him years ago.
"Right. I could never get in touch with her again." Sam explained before running his hand through his shaggy hair.
Dean couldn't believe it. She was out of Division, free of them yet she didn't return to her family, especially at a time when Sam needed her and if he was right about the years, it would have been a year after Daniel was killed…she would have needed Sam too.
Dean's brow bunched up when another thought occurred to him. "So she thinks I'm dead." Sam nodded his head in agreement, causing Dean to feel worse. He sighed. "Well, that explains why she messaged you and not me." He thought out loud as he carefully placed the picture where he found it. "Well Sammy, it looks like baby sis is in for a wild surprise then."
Sam's response was interrupted when they heard movement where the front door was located. The brothers pulled out their guns instantaneously as they readied themselves for the possible threat to come as they each took cover as they were unsure if it was Nikita or someone else as they heard the front door creak open.
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A/N #4: How was it? Who's at the door? Was it a reasonable way to cross the two fandoms? Let me know in a review please and I really appreciate the time you took to read this! Thanks a million in advance! Have a great weekend!
Originally Published: April 8, 2011