By ValrieRichards
Disclaimers: See previous chapter(s).
POV: Maggie, Auggie, and Vincent Rossabi.
Chapter 3
I boarded the plane to Istanbul and put my carry-on in an empty spot. Originally, I had planned for a nice vacation to Istanbul, where I had once been stationed in when I was in the army. A fellow CIA operative and former solider that served in the same unit as I did had been stationed there by the Agency.
"Auggie, what are you doing here" I asked playfully. I knew he was going to the Jazz Festival in Istanbul, but he didn't know that I was also on a vacation. Auggie answered with a shocked expression.
"Maggie, what are you doing here? Is there something I should know about" he asked. I rolled my eyes. He thought I might have been sent on an op or something like that.
"I'm on vacation Auggie, relax" I told him. He relaxed a little before asking why I picked the same place he was going. I wanted to smack myself on my forehead. Auggie and I had been stationed in Istanbul at the same time, only I wasn't the special ops and I was in an all women's unit. When we landed, I went to go meet up with my friend while Auggie took one of the stewardesses to his hotel room.
"Excuse me" I said grabbing Auggie's elbow in the middle of the festival; which took place a week after we arrived. Auggie and I had met up to go to the Jazz Festival, but I had heard and seen a faintly familiar blur. I followed what; or who; I had seen and confirmed my suspicions; it was the guy who had blinded Auggie and had shot me on a previous tour.
"Is everything okay" Auggie asked me when I met up with him at his hotel room. A couple of minutes later, he heard what I did and saw. He began to make plans, but I walked out of the room. Auggie was blind, he wouldn't be able to take the guy down while possibly being faced with a gun. Auggie ran out into the hallway understanding my intentions and yelled at me.
"I'm sorry Auggie, I can't let you go in. My shooting on a previous tour was due to him. HE shot me! If he had aimed a little more to the left, you wouldn't have been an older brother anymore" I informed him. His face paled and he swallowed hard. This idiot was going to have a gun and Auggie wouldn't be able to see it if he pointed it at him. He could be shot and killed.
Auggie
I paled. I never knew that it was the same guy that was responsible for blinding me. And if he had aimed differently, Maggie would be dead. I shook my head I couldn't believe that I'd even thought about using Maggie and dead in the same sentence. I knew I had to follow Maggie; there was no chance that I was going to let her go fight the guy.
"Hi, I need to go where that car is going" I told the cab driver. I was told by the cab driver; who was worriedly asking me what was going on; that Maggie picked her phone up and then threw it on the seat minutes later. As soon as he said this, my special phone rung and I pressed a button to answer it. Before I could say hello, a frantic voice started.
"Auggie, you've got to stop Maggie! She's going to go confront the idiot that shot her! She's going to get herself killed" Agent Rossabi nearly yelled at me.
"I'm on it. I don't know if there's much I can do when I get there" I told him as calmly as I could. I could hear him pacing back and forth.
"I...oh Maggie! Call me when...you know something. And tryto stop her" he said in frustration. I rolled my eyes and hung up.
Vincent Rossabi
I was probably wearing a hole in the CIA's floor out of worry. It had been a couple of hours since I hung up with; as I had just remembered; Maggie's CIA older brother.
"Stop pacing, everything's going to be fine. You won't lose another informant" the guy I had been temporarily partnered up with told me. I glared at him. He didn't understand; he didn't know anything about us.
"She's not just an informant" I mumbled to him. Maggie would never be just an informant or just a person. She would always be my best friend, my angel, and unfortunately, my ex. I'm usually not cheesy, but I loved her more than anything else. It was the 'Spooks' that broke us apart. Something about the two of us not dating for some stupid reason.
"Joan, Auggie just called. The two of them are fine and they've got Khani in...eh...rope" Annie Walker informed Joan Campbell. I looked at the floor and gave a snort. My temporary partner gave me a weird look. Trust Maggie to find something to use in place of handcuffs.
"Atta girl" Joan said quietly. I called my boss and asked him to have some other guys meet me at the airport to transport him to prison. I watched the guys put Khani into the car and turned to see Auggie clutching Maggie's arm as though it was a lifeline. Walker, who demanded to come, managed to pry Auggie off of Maggie and walked to the car with him while I got the private time with her I asked for as a compromise for Walker coming.
"Maggie, I'm so curious as to what was going on in your brain when you saw him. Don't you already throw yourself in the deep end enough with this job" I asked trying to keep myself from yelling at her. Why did she let herself get put in so much danger? These ops, that she goes on, doesn't she know that these guys could be more dangerous than she or her superiors knew? The Spooks didn't let their agents carry guns and that could be deadly.
"Vinny, I was thinking that the guy that nearly killed me and that killed plenty of others was standing in front of me. All that guy I had to do was wait a little longer and then my brother would've been dead" Maggie hissed at me. Maggie had told me about getting shot when we were dating, but she never told me who had done it. I sighed.
"Maggie, look I'm sorry. I just...I just hate how you guys go into ops. No weapons, no real knowledge of who they could be and what they could do" I told her before she got in the car. She looked at me and grabbed my hand for a brief moment. When she let go, that hand felt as though a dozen bolts of electricity had shot through it. A loud bang sounded from inside the car and I looked over in time to see Walker whack Maggie's brother on the arm.
"Auggie, was that neccessary" Maggie asked him when she opened the door. I rolled my eyes and sighed as I headed to the driver's seat.
