CHAPTER 4 Enemies Collide
"So what's the plan ?" Michael asked.
"I don't know yet exactly." Alex answered honestly. "But I can get you out before I can get myself out if you want." Michael nodded his head.
"No. I leave when you leave." He told her. That made Alex smile. "Besides, who is going to look after you here if I leave ?" Michael asked rhetorically. "Maybe Thom ?" Michael guessed jokingly when Alex didn't say anything.
"Shut up." Alex laughed. "He is strictly a friend." Alex informed him as they walked out of the training room together.
"Ohhh, okay." Michael said sarcastically. Alex smiled, knowing that she really did like Thom and she knew that he liked her also. Thom trying to kiss her in her room a while ago gave that one away. She smiled just thinking about him. If it weren't for Thom and Michael, this place would be hell.
Alex was listening to some music from her radio when she heard a knock at the door.
"Come in." Alex told whoever was at the door. Alex smiled inside, expecting it to be Thom, but it quickly disappeared when she saw it was Michael.
"What is it ?" Alex asked casually.
"You've been activated for a OP." Michael told her bluntly.
"Well you don't waste any time." Alex told him, a flash of nervousness, suddenly flashed over her.
"Don't be scared." Michael told her after seeing her face expression change. "It's one of the simpler missions and Thom is going to be your date, so you'll be safe." He told her, trying to calm her nerves.
"I wasn't scared." Alex announced, turning off the radio. "What's the point of this mission ?"
"You and Thom are going to pose as a couple who sells different types of weapons to a guy named Bobby Finnigan who sells weapons all over the world. He is interrupting government sells and must be killed. But that's the easy part. The hard part is you need to get his schedule of the next shipping details so you can prevent those weapons from being shipped." Michael explained. "There will be a party tonight and Finnigan will be expecting you and Thom." Alex inhaled a deep breath as she stood up and lightly nodded her head.
"When ?"
"Tonight. I'll come find you when Amanda needs you which will be in about an hour or so."
"Okay." Alex exhaled. She was only nervous because she didnt think she would have to time to tell Nikita but now she had a chance to do so, so a lot of her nerves were calmed.
Alex knew exactly what she needed to do. She needed to tell Nikita about the OP that had come up on such short notice before she could not find a chance to do so, so she headed for the computer room.
"I've just been activated for an OP. I'm not sure where the location is yet but the guys name is Bobby Finnigan and we're supposed to kill him. We're leaving tonight to talk to him at a party going on. We're going to pretend to sell him weapons and find his schedule for the next sell shippings." Alex wrote Nikita. Nikita immediately went over to the computer to do research while she talked to Alex.
"Who is, 'we' ?" Nikita asked, knowing that was important information.
"Thom and I."
"I just found his office location. 510 Avenue on Westmount. I'll be there. Stall your partner from killing Finnigan until I get there." Nikita told the computer.
"Will do. See you there." Alex typed back before exiting the program.
Just as she was standing up to head back to her room, Michael showed up.
"Its time." He told her.
"That was fast." Amanda said as Alex entered the room. "Did Michael tell you what this mission was about ?"
"Yes." Alex answered. She didn't like Amanda. Something about her was so empty. Amanda gracefully walked over to the clothes rack and removed a dress.
"Pretty isn't it ?" Amanda asked, probably rhetorically. Whether Alex liked it or not, she was still going to wear that dress. It was a tan, strapless mini dress, that clung tightly to her body, showing off her tiny figure. To wear with it, Alex was giving tan, platform pumps and two pearl ear rings, one for each ear. It took very little time to change into the outfit but a bit longer for Amanda to apply the makeup and loosely curl the hair.
When she was done, Alex looked stunning. Her smoky eyes went perfect with the curly light brown hair and pale pink lips. Even Alex was taken back when she saw herself. Michael stopped in place when he saw Alex. She looked stunning.
"You did a good job Amanda." Michael complimented. "Its time to go." He told Alex holding his arm out , signaling her to go first. Alex was more than happy to leave the company of Amanda.
"Percy wants you to do the killing and me to report to him how well you did. There is no cameras in Finnigan's office or the bathroom, which is two of the possible places where we will kill him. I can do it for you if you want me to." Michael told Alex as they walked to the Division exit. There were no elevators in Division so they had to walk down three flights of steps.
"I thought Thom and I were going on this Operation." Alex asked disappointed. She was looking forward to spending some time with Thom outside of the Division building.
"You were but Percy had a last minute decision." Michael explained as he opened the car door for Alex.
"Seems there is a lot of those lately." Alex responded, referring to her sudden activation for an OP.
"What happens when you're not there to help me ?" Alex asked thinking about what he had just asked her.
"We'll get to that when that time comes." Is all he could think to say as he put a black bandana over Alex's eyes so she couldn't see where the new Division building was.
"Why do you guys have to do this ?" Alex asked, referring to the bandana.
"It's a new thing that Percy wanted done when we changed the Division building two years ago." He answered as the car started up and took off towards the party.
"This could be your chance to leave." Alex told Michael as they walked up the marble steps that led to the towering building.
"We've been over this, now no more of that tonight." Michael demanded as he signaled Alex to take his arm while the other one held on to the big suitcase which held all of the weapons they were going to show Finnigan.
One of the guards in the foyer told us where to go. The building had a ballroom on the first floor and that is where the party was held. The party was filled with couples, dressed similar to Alex and Michael.
"Start looking for Finnigan." Michael told Alex as soon as they started descending into the large crowd.
"Sure thing." Alex responded, taking a glass of white wine off of a trey being carried by one of the many waiters. Alex took one sip before Michael quickly swiped it from her soft hands. He gave Alex a shame look.
"What ? We might as well enjoy ourselves." Alex protested.
"We need to stay sharp for the operation." He told her, his face serious. Alex exhaled loudly and rolled her eyes.
"Why so serious ?" Alex joked mimicking the Joker from the Dark Night.
"Ha ha." Michael said sarcastically. At that time Alex spotted Finnigan by the food bar talking to some people.
"There, by the food bar." Alex told him, getting sucked back in to the operation.
"Good job." He told her quietly.
"Finnigan." Michael said enthusiastically as he and Alex approached him.
"You must be Michael and Alex." Finnigan acknowledged. Before Michael could answer he saw a flash of someone he thought he knew in the crowd.
"Yes that's us." Alex told him nicely when Michael did not say anything. He eyes were on something else.
"I'll be right back." Michael told Alex, his eyes never leaving whatever he was looking at, as he handed Alex the suitcase. Just as Alex took the suitcase from Michael, gunshots fired. Alex screamed as Michael pulled her down to the cold, marble floor.
"What's going on ?" Alex screamed so she could be heard over the other screams and gunshots.
"I don't know !" Michael told her honestly.
"You mean Division didn't set this up?"
"No, I would have known about it !" Michael answered, pulling Alex to follow him to a the food table. They quickly and swiftly made it safely to the food table and flipped it over, but just when they did, the gunshots stopped. It all happened in a matter of seconds
Alex was breathing heavily as she carefully and slowly looked beside the table to see what was going on. Everybody was either gone, still on the floor hiding behind a pillar or a turned table, or on the floor in pain or dead from being shot.
"I think its safe." Michael told Alex from behind the table, as he pulled his phone out to call Division for an emergency evacuation of the operation. Just as Alex was about to turn back to Michael, she saw a familiar body laying on the floor.
"Nikita !" Alex cried as she ran to her thin, lifeless body, not at all worried about if the shooters were still present or not.
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