Face To Face

AJ got home to her place later that night. She was still in prison wear and had dried in blood over her face, neck and hands. She wasn't bothered by it.

She walked up the spiralled stairs to her apartment tiredly, holding the bag of money over her shoulder as she got to her apartment door.

She opened up the door, noticing her balloons she had left were all popped, frowning sadly as she closed the door behind her, throwing her keys into the pot by the door and dumping her bag down.

She walked further into the apartment and paused when she saw the four people she couldn't stop thinking about. Dean was standing by the window, Seth at the kitchen table on his laptop, Eve standing by the couch whilst Punk was sat on the couch.

She smiled to herself and nodded, "Gosh I would have… dressed a little more appropriate if I knew I had visitors." She sighed as Punk looked across at her, studying the blood all over her and the obvious prison uniform she was in. She was a hard one to figure out for sure.

AJ smiled at them all as they didn't appear to be saying anything. She knew they were trying to intimidate her but it just didn't work on her.

She walked over to the cake she'd left, swiping her finger over the frosting and putting it in her mouth, sucking on her finger as she looked over at Punk who stared at her.

"Who doesn't like frosting?" She picked up the note by the cake.

"I don't." Punk stood up as AJ raised her eyebrows and looked at him.

"You're weird." AJ smiled as Punk just nodded.

"You're a little messy." Eve said, walking over to AJ as AJ looked her up and down.

"You're hotter in person." AJ smiled as Eve looked at her.

"Whose blood is that?" Dean asked, "Next target I assume?"

"Clever." AJ nodded sarcastically, "I am… so tired." She huffed tiredly, "And so dirty." She looked at herself, "Could I take a bath? You can watch if you like." She smiled, again, turning to stare at Punk as he looked across at her.

"We're not leaving." Punk nodded to her.

"I don't want you to leave." AJ frowned, taking her t-shirt off and throwing it over at him as it hit him on the face, "I shan't be long." She hummed, walking off into her bedroom in just her trousers and bra whilst Punk threw her t-shirt away and ran his hand over his hair.

"Look into the prison system and see what's going on." Punk nodded to Seth, "They must have put her back there to kill someone." He said as Seth nodded.

"How can she act so calm like that?" Eve asked, "And is she a lesbian?" She wondered.

"Explains how Clara was killed." Dean nodded.

"She had a boyfriend before. Remember. The one she killed?" Punk asked them as they stayed quiet.

"Yeah a female died in the prison that she was in before." Seth nodded, "Tara Moslav. A guard was also killed and three are in hospital." He looked up.

"Get into the prisons cameras, see what she was up to, who she was speaking to in the prison. Someone had to have got her in there, with connections to the prison." Punk said, listening to the bath running in her bedroom.

"I have pictures of her walking down the corridors just… normal like everyone else." Seth said, "And then a guard takes her at one point." He said as Punk walked over and looked on at the footage, "That's definitely her, right?"

"Yeah." Punk nodded.

"Are we really gonna wait on her having a bath?" Dean rolled his eyes.

"Yeah, we are." Punk said, "Being violent with her isn't going to get us anywhere. So everyone keep their fists to themselves."

Meanwhile AJ was in the bath. She wasn't fussed they were in her place, she was excited to talk to them, to see what they really wanted from her.

She relaxed in her bath, glad to be clean again, before getting out and putting on some shorts and t-shirt. She left the bathroom and crouched down to the dresser in her closet, opening it up and smiling to herself as she saw they had taken her guns and weapons, but left the tampons of course.

She left her bedroom, looking at them all scattered around, "Did no one want my tampons?" She asked them innocently as Dean just scoffed.

"Sit down." Punk nodded to her as AJ turned to him, "We want to talk with you."

"Ok." AJ rolled her eyes and sat down across from him on the chair, "What do you want to know?" She smiled.

"Who are you working for?" Eve immediately jumped in as Punk looked up at her.

AJ just laughed a little and looked at Eve, "Next question." AJ waved her hand.

"We're not gonna hurt you. We're not here to get you." Punk nodded to her, "We just want you to tell us who you're doing all of this for? Why you're doing it?" He asked her.

"Speaking to me in a softer voice doesn't mean I'm gonna tell you." AJ laughed hysterically as Punk looked across at her whilst Dean shook his head.

"Ok, then… how about you just fucking tell us." Punk stood up, taking his gun out and pointing it down at her as AJ smiled and laughed.

"That's better." AJ smiled, happier that he had pulled a gun out on her.

"Who are you working for? A name?" Punk asked as AJ looked up at him.

"Why do you want to know so bad?" AJ questioned curiously.

"Maybe because you're killing a lot of people for some reason and it's… illegal." Eve said as AJ turned to her.

"I'm just doing a job. I don't know who it's for or what it's for." AJ shrugged, "I'm… I'm in the dark." She said.

"I knew it." Dean nodded to himself.

"You report back to someone. You get money from someone. Who? Give us a name?" Punk asked as AJ rolled her eyes.

"Adrien." AJ shrugged.

"Adrien who?" Seth asked.

"I don't know his second name." AJ shrugged, "Honestly, I don't." She said truthfully, "I don't ask questions. I just do my job like they asked me to."

"Because they gave you immunity from prison? From all of this?" Eve asked, "Only government can do that so… who are you working for?" She asked.

"I honestly don't know." AJ laughed, "You're all so angry." AJ sighed, twirling her hair around her finger.

"Why do you do this?" Punk asked her, "What do you get out of killing these people?" He asked.

"Lots of money." AJ nodded, "Sometimes sex." She said, "Jewellery." She looked at Eve, "A home." She looked around at her apartment, "It's great." She shrugged.

"How can you kill them? So many?" Eve asked.

"I'm sure you've all killed people." AJ shrugged.

"Not without good reason." Eve said.

"I have good reason." AJ nodded.

"Then tell us what it is?" Punk asked.

"Money." She laughed as Punk put his finger on the trigger as AJ watched him, "You won't shoot me." She smiled, draping her legs over the chair, "I mean too much to you." She hummed.

"Then just tell us what you know. This man… Adrien… when he came to you in prison, what did he say to you?" Punk asked her.

"Gosh, that was a long time ago." AJ groaned, "Hmm… he said he needed help with something. He gave me immunity, told me how to get out of prison, then he gave me my first job." She shrugged.

"And why would you do it?" Punk asked.

"Because I didn't want to spend another thirty years getting beaten up in that disgusting prison." She said.

"Why'd you kill your boyfriend?" Eve asked. They all had their questions that they couldn't help ask.

"These questions feel… a little irrelevant." AJ stood up.

"Well with all due respect." Dean said, "We're just trying to understand you and not believe you're a complete nutjob psycho killer." He laughed a little as AJ walked over to him, taking the knife out which she had hid in her tampon box.

Dean immediately gulped as he felt her press the edge of the cool knife against his neck, "What did you call me?" She asked.

"Hey, c'mon." Punk said.

"I called you a nutjob, psycho killer." Dean said as AJ looked at him, pointing the edge of the knife in at his throat whilst Punk looked on.

"Don't do it." Punk said, "We can help you." He nodded, "We can help you get away from these people. They're using you. They're using how bright and quick and talented you are." He said, "But they're not using it for good." He said as AJ eyed him slightly to the side of her.

"You don't know me." AJ spat, not looking at him.

"I know something bad happened to you." Punk nodded whilst Dean gulped, feeling the knife against his neck, "I know… I know that something terrible has happened to you but… you came out a fighter for it." He said, "And these people you're doing this for… they've taken advantage of that." He said as AJ listened to him, "So just… put the knife down, and just tell us what you know." He nodded as AJ slowly lowered the knife down from Dean's neck, backing off as she looked at them all.

"I don't know anything that will help you." AJ looked across at Punk. For some reason. He stood out in the room. Not just because he was doing most of the talking, but he just seemed to stand out more to her, "You have… beautiful eyes." AJ nodded as Punk looked across at her and shook his head whilst the others looked on with confusion.

"Uh… ok." Punk said.

"Adrien Petrov." Seth said as he turned his laptop around, "This is an Adrien who works in the cabinet under the foreign minister." He said as Punk began to move over when AJ pointed the knife at him, pressing it against his chest as Punk looked down at her.

"Stay." AJ spat, as if talking to a dog, walking over to the laptop first as Seth gulped, shuffling away a little as AJ deliberately bent over the table to look at the laptop.

"Is that him?" Seth asked, frightened to talk to her as AJ looked at the picture of Adrien.

"Yes." AJ said bluntly as Seth looked over to Punk.

"Why him?" Punk asked, "Did you know you were working for the government?" He asked her as she didn't say anything, looking on at Adrien's details.

"This guy works under the foreign minister in the government." Seth said, "So why would they need you to kill these people? What are they hiding?" He asked AJ who just stood back up straight and turned around.

"You can all leave." AJ said, walking over to the door.

"I'm afraid we can't do that." Punk said, "We can't let you go… do another job." He nodded.

"So what… you're gonna babysit me? Throw me back in prison?" AJ asked.

"Eve is gonna stay with you." Punk nodded AJ turned to Eve.

"I'd rather you stayed with me." AJ looked across at Punk with a smirk as Punk just rolled his eyes, "No, no one is staying. I need my privacy." Her smile quickly faded

"So you can go kill more people?" Dean asked.

"We got our guy." Eve said, "We can set our sights on him now. She doesn't matter." She said as AJ looked across at her.

"I don't matter?" AJ asked them, gripping her knife a little tighter, walking over to Eve who looked at her, "Why don't I matter?" AJ frowned.

"Because you're a-" Eve paused as she felt AJ pushed the knife into her side.

"Hey!" Seth got to his feet as AJ ripped the knife back out from her, dropping the knife on the ground as Punk rushed to Eve.

AJ scrambled into her bedroom, grabbing a coat in her dresser which she knew had fake ID and money in.

"Call 911." Punk said whilst Seth held his hands on Eve's side to apply pressure, "It's gonna be ok. Look at me." He told Eve who was moaning with the pain, "It's gonna be fine." He nodded, cupping her cheek whilst he felt his gun being snatched from him.

"Why didn't you shoot her?!" Dean asked Punk who was the only one with a gun. He was so confused as to why Punk hadn't shot her when she drove a knife into Eve, "Stupid bitch deserves to die." He said, bursting into the bedroom with his gun raised as he paused, looking at the wide opened window where AJ had clearly left out of.

"She's gone." Dean said, walking back into the living room whilst Eve was sitting on the floor with Punk and Seth around her.

"The ambulance is coming, just… just hang on, alright?" Seth nodded to her as Eve wheezed as she took deep breaths.

"Dean, shut everything down here. Close that laptop." Punk told Dean who nodded whilst they awaited the ambulance.