Enemy:
Once we got to headquarters Kensi was sent to the doctor to be checked out, Deeks at her side, while Hetty and Adam had a heated whispered conversation in her office. I tried to wrap my head around Alexandria being dead, but it was something that I couldn't imagine. She had been like a superhero, invincible. To believe that she was dead, somewhere amongst the flames of the compound, was something that I thought would never happen.
Two hours later Kensi and Deeks came back, Kensi in a wheelchair with strict orders to rest and not to do anything that could make her hurt herself further.
Hetty ordered Deeks to go and take her home to get some rest, but Kensi refused saying she wanted to hear what Adam had to say as well.
Hetty sighed. Saying no was something you didn't do to Hetty, but I guess after everything we had been through, Hetty let it slide.
Once everyone was settled in the Ops center, Hetty turned to Adam and said "You may begin your tale Mr. Barclay".
Adam sighed and then said "Alexandria has never..."
He stopped, swallowed, and then said "Alexandria had never fully believed that all of the Arch Angels were dead. She always thought that there was still someone out there."
I felt the tears prick at the back of my eyes at the thought of Adam mentioning his sister was dead. I shoved the tears away, I wouldn't cry, not here, in front of everyone. I would mourn later.
"That's not possible, they're all dead. I was there" Sam inturrepted. I nodded my head in agreement, I had been there too. There was no way that anyone could have survived.
"Mr. Hanna, please let him finish" Hetty scolded. Sam turned to look at Adam and then muttered "Sorry" before going quiet again at the look on Hetty's face.
"While she was in the CIA she looked over every file they had that had anything to do with Andrew Barclay and the Arch Angels. She knew that she was never going to find anything useful though, not while she was still at the agency, so she left, and took me in. She began to train me, and then confessed her worries to me. She had always thought that Andrew knew what he was doing, when she was suppose to be the first. He knew exactly what would make a person crack, what would make them do as they were told. She thought that she would be the trail and error, but she wasn't. He used the same technique on her that he used the others, like there had been someone before who had survived, but Andrew never said anything about it to her, even though she was his second-in-command.
"That's when we got the note. We were in Rome at the time. We were so careful. We didn't stay at one place longer than three days, we changed routes, appearances, but when we got to the hotel room we were staying at we found a vase of roses waiting for us with a note. The note said 'I was the first'. Alexandria freaked out, I never saw her that way before. She packed us up and we left. What we didn't know at the time was that Andrew had trained someone to be extremely dangerous. Even more dangerous than Alexandria, even more dangerous than the whole Arch Angels combined" he said looking at us uneasily.
We knew that whoever it was, Adam and Alexandria had already met this person, and something had happened, something bad. He looked at Hetty and she nodded.
"She said there was only one way we were going to find out if it was true about there being another. Andrew kept everything of importance at one of their old compounds. So we headed to Arizona, where the first compound was at. She looked everywhere, in the armory, her old room, everywhere. Then we headed into Andrew's room. We didn't find anything on the surface so she dug a little deeper. That's when she found it, in the floorboards of his closet, in the back with his guns. She grabbed the file and then that's when everything went wrong. Apparently, Andrew had a self destruct device around the file. If someone tried to grab it, then the whole place would explode. We barely made it out, and that was only because of the trap door that Alexandria had in her room in case she needed a quick getaway.
"We headed to a motel and we looked through the file. She had been right. There had been someone before her. The file was all about that person, the person Andrew called SAM. SAM was Andrew's lab experiment, everything was tested on SAM before Alexandria and the others. Andrew created a monster, one worse than anything, or anyone else. Inside was everything that had anything to do with SAM, the types of torture that was inflicted, the kills, everything. Aleandria finally burned the file. She knew one thing though, we had to find and kill SAM, before SAM got to us. SAM knew who we were, what we did, Alexandria was sure that's why there was the note, SAM was telling us that they were after us, and they weren't going to stop" Adam said,
"Have you ever seen SAM?" Kensi asked.
"Yes, but we haven't actually seen what SAM looks like. SAM's face was always covered. All we know was that whoever SAM is, wants anything that had to do with the Arch Angels, and anything that could trigger a memory about them, gone. We don't even know if SAM is a man or woman. We couldn't tell, even when fighting" Adam said.
"Fighting?" Deeks asked.
"We headed to Russia, the file said that SAM was comfortable in Russia, so that's where we headed. Alexandria told me I could leave, that she would do this on her own. I was still new at this, and she wouldn't blame me for anything, but I stayed. The fight got intense, we barely made it out of there alive. I honestly don't know how I'm still alive" Adam said shaking his head.
"We've hunted SAM for eight years. Finally, when SAM realized that we were hunting for answers, the body count began to rise".
"Body count?" I asked crossing my arms over my chest.
"Everytime we followed SAM's trail somewhere we always got there to late, and there would be a body count waiting for us with a note. SAM was playing us, telling us that they were there and that they knew we were after them. That's why we were in Portugal, we had folllowed SAM's trail there..." Adam said.
"Miss Blye, do you remember anything about being caught?" Hetty asked turning her attention to Kensi. This made me very curious, why would anything Kensi was investigating have to do with Alexandria, Adam, and this SAM?
Kensi stared at her hands for a moment. "All I remember is walking into a bar in Portugal to look for the arms dealer. He never showed, so I headed back to the hotel I was staying at, that's when everything went black, and when I woke up I was in a warehouse with men that sounded like they were from South America" she answered.
"South America?" Adam asked quietly. We all turned to look at him. He was suddenly tense, and we could practically see the gears turning inside his head. Then, realization dawned on him.
"Get me a map" he demanded. Eric quickly pulled up a map of the world on the screen and Adam stepped in front of it.
"Mark Russia, South America, Prague, Romania, Italy, France, England, Amsterdam, and Eygpt" Adam said.
The nine places were soon became highlighted in yellow on the map. "Does anyone notice something?" he asked.
I looked at the map, the yellow places jumping out at me. Memories swarmed over me, all having to do with Alexandria.
"Alexandria and I've been to everyone of those places except Eygpt" I said quietly. Adam nodded his head, a grave look on his face.
Turning to Kensi, Adam said, "You weren't the original agent that was suppose to be on the case of the arms dealer were you?"
"How did you know?" Kensi asked shocked before glancing over at Hetty.
"Who was suppose to be the original agent?" I asked.
Hetty turned to look at me. "You were Mr. Callen".
Everyone looked stunned. No one said anything. Then Adam looked at us and said "SAM knew there were two people that Alexandria would drop everything to come rescue and protect. Me and you, Callen. We followed SAM to each of those places, Eygpt was the only thing that threw us off the trail, the only reason we didn't connect the dots before".
He looked at Hety and then at me. "Callen, you were supposed to be the one that SAM kidnapped. You were going to be how SAM got to Alexandria".
I was the reson Kensi got kidnapped and tortured. I was the only reson Alexandria came to my aid. SAM was using me to get to Alexandria.
"SAM knew you were one of the two people that Alexandria had a weakness for. If you were captured, and she found out, she would rush to Portugal to save you, and SAM would not only take out you, but Alexandria and me as well. If SAM killed you, Alexandria would do anything to try and take down those responsible, including SAM. The grief would drive her insane. She wouldn't be able to function properly, and in the end, Alexandria would be dead, and SAM would have won" Adam said.
I looked at Adam and forced the pain, and the tears away, keeping them for surfacing. "Alexandria's dead Adam, SAM's already won" I said quietly.
So you found out why Alexandria and Adam were in Portugal, and you find out what's actually going on, and why Kensi was kidnapped. How did you like it? It's currently 12 a.m. as I finish this chapter. Let me know what you think. Thanks to SilverSentinal21, Takoh, and katiekatz27 for the reviews! I hope I'm getting all the questions answered that are running around in your heads!
This may be the last chapter for a few days as I have so much schoolwork to get caught up on (that's most likely why I've went ahead and put out the last two-now three-chapters). I promise that as soon as the schoolwork is caught up I'll edit and post the next chapter!
-Haleybug