Prologue
He was gone; Thaliana knew that. He ran from the CIA and she was caught. He tried to save her but he failed. She tried to get to him but she failed. They had failed each other for the last time. She saw the gun and she struggled to get free but there was nothing she could do, by the time she had broke free he was already dead. Her whole world went turned upside down in that one moment, her whole world was taken from her. Her brother was already in CIA custody and had been for months, her mother died four weeks ago while trying to steal a Rambaldi artifact from an SD-6 vault, and now her lover lay dead on the ground before her.
20 minutes earlier
"Thaliana, you need to get out of there now." Dominic's voice came over to the walkie.
"Almost done, just give me three minutes." She said back to him.
"Make it faster. The CIA has agents coming to your location. They're after the same thing." He told her.
"Done. Meet me around back. I'll see you in two minutes." She said.
Thaliana ran to the storage room of the museum and before she could get into the car she was grabbed and so was her lover. She stood horrified at what she was seeing; Dominic was forced to his knees and the agent pulled his gun and shot him in the head. Thaliana broke free of the agent that was holding her back and ran to him, his bloody body lay limp in her arms and she cried. No one around her would understand that people like her actually had feelings; they cared for each other like everyone else did.
CIA holding cell
Thaliana spent most of her time just staring at a wall, crying, or trying to dream about Dominic. Then two agents came to her cell. She recognized them, the tall, brown haired agent; who introduced himself as Michael Vaughn, and the agent that held her back while this all happened; Sydney Britow.
