Hi. My name is Ashley and this is my first fanfic so I'm not very familiar with how this works. I am open to criticism and reviews are greatly appreciated. Rated 'T' for minor course language and violence. Disclaimer: I don't own Intelligence or any of the characters.

Chapter 1

"RILEY," Gabriel screamed as his partner was pulled out of a plane flying 2,500 feet above the ocean by Alexander Hood. He ran to grab the other parachute but Hood's brother stepped in front of it and threw a punch at Gabriel. He blocked it and the two resumed their fight. Meanwhile Riley and Alexander were fighting it out. Riley had had a parachute but while her and Hood were fighting, he had cut it open. She knocked him out temporarily, or so she thought. She grabbed on to him and deployed his parachute. They sunk the other 100 feet and landed in the water. However as soon as they landed Riley heard what sounded like a motor. At that second, Hood opened his eyes and grabbed Riley from behind in a choke hold. She tried to fight him off but she couldn't. By this time Gabriel had knocked Hood's brother out, had grabbed the other parachute and jumped out.

He was about halfway down when he saw Hood climb into the motorboat and speed off. When he got all the way down he unhooked his parachute and swam over to the other one and saw that Riley wasn't on the surface. He dove under following the strings. He saw her floating about 20 feet down. The strings were starting to wind themselves around her. He quickly swam the rest of the way and realized that she was turning blue. One of the strings had wound itself around her neck. He tried to pull it away but he couldn't. He knew that if he wanted her to survive he would have to move quick.

58 Hours earlier

Beebeebeebeep beebeebeebeep, went Riley's alarm clock. She walked over, shut it off, and went back to her punching bag. She hadn't slept a wink and she had been working out all night and she had only stopped once that night and she wasn't going to stop again. She was pissed that Hood had gotten away. They were so close to getting him but his boat vanished and they couldn't trace it. Her phone rang but she decided to let it go to voicemail. That didn't work out though because they man calling could make her phone pick up and he put it on speaker just to annoy her.

"Riley. I know you're there and I know you're awake." She walked over picked up her phone, took it off speaker and spoke.

"Gabriel, it's 4:30 in the morning. What do you want?" she asked.

"I know you're upset about Hood so I brought coffee."

She shook her head and started walking over to the door. "How did u even know I was awake?"

"I tapped your alarm clock," he said. She opened the door and sure enough there was Gabriel with coffee. "Can I come him," he said, still into the phone. She hung up and stepped out of the doorway. He walked in and went into the kitchen and she followed. "One soy latte, for the lady," Gabriel proclaimed in an old fashioned manner adding a bow just to annoy her.

"Thank you," she said with agitation in her voice. She took a sip and Gabriel noticed her hands were bruised and bloodied.

When she put her coffee down he grabbed her hand and exclaimed, "The hell did you do?"

She pulled her hands away quickly and muttered, "Nothing." She went and got an apple from the refrigerator.

"That's not nuthin' Riley now tell me, what did you do."

"It's nothing Gabriel, okay? I was just taking my anger out on the punching bag. Alright?" She said irritatedly. "You don't have to worry about me. And why did you leave the building without telling me first? Your supposed to clear it with me."

"Sorry if I didn't feel welcome at the al new sandbag beatdown. Next time I'll ask to join."

Riley gave him 'the look(the whole 'really' look)' and was about to say something back when her phone started ringing. She pulled it out and looked at the caller ID. "It's Lilian," she said, sounding confused. She answered the phone and put it on speaker. "Lilian what's wrong?"

The head of Cyber Command sounded worried as she said, "We have a problem and I need you and Gabriel to come into C-DOC right now."

"We will be right in," Riley said and hung up the phone.