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Meredith crawled through the large air vents of the APP agency, her knees aching. She had been crawling for two hours now, and was pretty sure the tiny, barely visible, kneepads she wore were wearing through. Even so, she could help but to smirk to herself. The APP still hadn't caught her- they didn't have good security systems apparently. All she needed to do was to grab the info they had about the war plans, and that's it. And they still hadn't caught her. The usual drill would be if they caught her, she'd escape within a second and no one would have a clue who she was or why she was there. That was the art of being a spy.

She sighed triumphantly as she arrived at the air vent she needed to get through to arrive in the hallway of the tech rooms. She whipped out her little laser sensor, and scanned the area for sensors or lasers or alarm systems. Not to her surprise, she found a few lasers and a security system. She quickly and flawlessly turned them off using another laser tool, which had come in handy before. She then went to the security system box, which stood on top of the vent. Wow, she thought, this is just too easy! Meredith turned the security alarms off effortlessly and smiled to herself. She used her laser to open up a hole in the metal vent and dropped through, landing on the ground with barely a sound. She brushed off her pants happily.

Meredith then pushed her hair out of her eyes as she searched down both hallways of the corridor, spotting no guards. Something occurred to her just then: that was a little too easy to be true. To be safe, she placed a few barely visible traps along the hallway. They'd beep if someone was behind her, giving her warning of any approaching enemies.

She tiptoed down the hallway quickly, aware of any and all her surroundings. She had to take a few guards out as well, kicking them in the head and knocking them out. It was elementary. She would shove them into supply closets or any other open space she could find, hiding them from sight. She even laughed to herself a few times at how simple the whole thing was. I guess she owed it all to Bailey, for getting the helpful plans to her. It made the thing much easier.

As she approached the high security room which was rumored to hold the war plans, she heard a noise. It was high pitched and quick- so quick, if she hadn't been paying attention she wouldn't have heard it. But it was there. And that noise meant someone was following her.

She felt her breath quicken immediately, and she pulled herself up flat against a wall and turned her head towards the hallway, listening to any more sound. Beep, beep, beep, beep. Four more. How many people were following her?

Meredith silently shunned herself, angry for not being more careful about walking around. She listened intently, frozen. Her heartbeat with quickening by the second. Beep, beep, beep, beep…. And then it was silent.

She turned her head to the right slowly, and she felt a blow hit her head. Someone had punched her. She reeled back, rubbing her cheek and looking up. Three guards were behind her- they must have been following her. She angrily replied with a hit to the stomach- a tough uppercut. He moved backwards in surprise. She smiled coyly at him, bragging, but before she could run, another guard showed up behind her and whacked her in the back of the head. As she turned around rapidly, she felt someone do a sweep to her food, knocking her down. She fell with a thump, and felt a sickening crack in her foot which followed with searing pain. I just need to get out of here, Meredith thought, ignoring the pain. She staggered to her feet as someone punched her in the stomach.

Before she could retort, she felt someone grab both her hands and yank them behind her back. She struggled to get out of the tight hold. "Let me go!" She said angrily, twisting herself around to get one of her hands free. Much to her dismay, another guard grabbed that hand that she had gotten free before she could do anything. She tried to kick, but her legs were stuck in the tight hold of cuffs. She let out a reluctant sigh and thought, I'll do what any spy is trained to do. I'll regain my energy and not tell them anything, and either they'll let me go or I'll run away. It'll be simple. Little did she know that it wasn't going to be quite that easy…

- - - - Derek - - - -

"Derek! Derek!" Derek turned to Mark, who was running down the corridor towards him. He spun around, lost in his thoughts.

"Yes?"

"We got her! We got her!" Mark shouted. Derek's ears perked up.

"Seriously?"

Mark groaned, "Yes! And she definitely knows things. Come down to hallway A4, and hurry!" He added, "And make sure you put on your angry, hardcore face. I can tell this chick isn't going down without a fight."

Derek grinned, "Of course." He followed Mark, who walked out of the room promptly, hurrying towards the exit. Derek grinned to himself. He knew how to make people talk, and he was eager to show Agent Webber what he could do. Then he would be bumped up in his ranks and be given a promotion. And that was always a confidence booster. Maybe he'd even get up the courage to ask Meredith to marry him…

He entered the end of the hallway, and Mark was already at the end, yelling at a girl that struggled away from two large guards. He smiled to himself. Derek walked down the hallway towards them, and began: "Well, well, well, looks like we finally~" But stopped midsentence. He froze as the girl looked up at him. The girl struggling and fiercely yelling back at Mark wasn't some airhead agent. It was Meredith.

He watched as Meredith looked up at him, shock flooding through her eyes. Mark laughed cockily, "Lookie here! We got her!" Derek watched in horror as one of the guards accidentally stepped on Meredith's foot, and she yelped in pain.

"What happened?" He said. Big mistake. Mark turned to him and gave him a why-do-you-care look.

"I think I may have broken her foot, Agent Shepherd." One of the guards answered promptly. Meredith looked up at Derek in pain and disbelief. She couldn't believe it. Was it really him?

"Get her some help," Derek responded. Mark grabbed his arm, stopping him.

"Dude, what are you doing?" He said in a hushed whisper. "She's an enemy. The weaker she is the better. Right?" He looked at Derek, confused, "What's going on with you, man?"

Derek shook his head, "You're right. You're right." Derek turned back to Meredith, bracing himself. "Send her to a cell. She's now our…" He gulped, "…hostage." He looked away.

"Never." She growled at him, defiance flickering in her eyes. Mark looked at Derek, nudging him to say something.

"Uh…" He took a deep breath and put on his best mad face, "Shut up. You're now our captive, and there's nothing you or your stupid organization can do about it." He snapped at her. "Take this prisoner to her cell. Feel free to drag her, she'll live without medical care." Meredith's eyes widened. He felt sick as he said, "Yes, that's right. Do it. Now. I'll be back to question this failure later." Mark smiled at him, obviously approving of what he said.

The guards began to drag Meredith along the hallway, and Derek could hear her cry out in pain reluctantly again. They kept moving her though- all of him wanted to yell at them to stop as they continued, making her yelp even more. But both he and she knew he couldn't.

He was numb as Mark placed his hand on his back and said cockily, "Dude, that was great. Nice work!"

"Of course it was, Mark. Aren't I always?" He replied automatically. He began to walk in the direction of the cells.

"Where are you going?"

"To question the agent… alone." He retorted. "You can go report to Webber that we got her, okay?"

Mark obviously was excited that he'd be the one to break the news, "Sure thing, Derek! I'll come by later. You know how good I am at making people talk."

"Yeah." He responded, already nearing the cells, fear and sorrow filling his eyes.

- - - Meredith - - -

Her foot was searing with pain, shooting through her whole body. She'd try to get up, but the pain would rattle her again so she'd collapse to the floor again. She still wouldn't comprehend that Derek was working in her enemy's association. He wasn't evil. He couldn't be. That wasn't who he was…

She twisted her ankle painfully to get a better view of the cell. It was black, barren and empty. Nothing was in it to help her hoist herself up to a standing position, which made her quite vunerable. She sighed- getting out of here was definitly not going to be easy…

She heard a door open outside the door and she listened intently. There were only two footsteps, so whoever it was was alone. She grinned slightly- maybe she could take him down. She could hear someone turn off the security cameras. Then the door slid open, and it revealed… Derek.

She groaned, looking down. She wasn't about to let him see her weak. Especially after what happened. He stood at the end of the cell, looking down at her. "What do you want?" Meredith snapped.

"That's no way to talk to your captor." He said quietly.

"Knock off the act." She said, looking up at him. There was a silence that surrounded them. "What, you aren't going to yell at me? Question me? Go ahead, I can take it!"

"You know what? Just shut up!" He said angrily to her. "How could you do this?"

"Me? Do this?" Meredith retorted, disbelief ringing in her voice. "You're a villain, Derek! A VILLIAN. How could you?"

Hurt struck across his face. "I'm not a villain. You just… you don't understand."

"Don't understand? Are you kidding me?" She lowered her voice, her foot still throbbing. "What you're doing is wrong, Derek."

He shook his head and leaned on the wall. "If only you could understand." There was another silence that followed that filled up the whole cell. Meredith cautiously tried to get to her feet, but the pain shot through her again and she screamed out in pain. Derek rushed to her side and caught her. "I'm so sorry." He whispered. Sadly, Meredith glared at him and rolled away from him, hitting to the floor with a thud. Derek backed away, luckily before Mark and Webber rushed in.

"Agent Shepherd." Richard said nodding at Derek. Derek backed away, still looking sadly at Meredith. "Has she said anything?"

"N-no. Not yet." Derek said, looking down. He didn't want to have to yell at her, but he knew that something like that was going to have to happen eventually. Both of them knew it.

"She'll talk eventually." Mark growled at her, stepping forward.

"Mark…" Derek said quietly.

"What? She deserves everything we're giving her. She's a traitor. She works for those… those…" Mark spat angrily. He looked at her. "Do you even realize what some of your plans could do to the people of the US? Do you even REALIZE?"

Meredith just looked up at him, not saying anything, defiant. He kicked her leg and she yelped. "Mark!" Derek said angrily, watching Meredith whimper. Mark turned to him, astonished. The chief looked onto him as well, both confused.

"What's your problem?" Mark said to him.

He stuttered, "Nothing. It's just… We shouldn't… I don't…" He sighed. "Isn't it a little rude to do that?"

"Rude? What's rude is what her plans are going to do to America." Mark added in. Webber sighed and left, unannounced. Meredith looked up at Mark and Derek, fear in her eyes. Meredith hadn't remembered feeling fear in a long time, and she didn't like feeling it again. Mark looked down at Meredith again, "And you think you guys are the good guys, the heroes. You're not." He retorted angrily, yelling now. He turned on his heels as well, leaving the room as he muttered, "I'll be back later."

Derek looked down at Meredith, "Meredith…"

"Just GO." She said angrily. Then she let out a sigh.

"I guess… I'll be back later…" He said quietly. He added, "I can't believe this."

"Me neither," Meredith muttered. This was the man she trusted her life with. Could she really believe this was happening?

A/N: So… what did you think? Don't yell just yet! I hate seeing Meredith and Derek in peril, but I'm trying to make it a little angsty! Ah! I hope that wasn't a total fail. xD Anyways, hope you liked it!