A/N: So I live, for the most part, I'm actually sick again and my injuries have taken a turn for the worse. I will not say more than that as everything is classified now. I have however been getting a lot of unpleasantness for two of my fics that are pieces. My understanding that in using a song to convey the mood and the emotion of the story is an honor. I don't steal people's work, I don't claim them as my own. In fact I'm pretty sure that I mentioned and gave credit to the artists. if not politely send me a PM telling me. I see quite a number of song lyrics being used in fanfiction and yet I'm being blamed for stealing. However because has not connected themselves about the stories they will stay as will the rest of my stories.
Sorry this is a little rant that I've put up because of the reviews on the stories that have nothing to do with the story itself. Kinda pisses me off that when I use a song it's to honor the artists that actually put out good work AND because it works with the writing itself.
Anyways this is the final chapter in the first of my Blacklist series I'm working on. The Second will be The Blacklist: The Liaison. I Should have a teaser up to this one soon... or soonish. I do try I really do, CONSTRUCTIVE feedback would be fantastic on my first COMPLETED Multichapter Fic. I'm actually really proud of myself.
Now disclaimers: I Don't own the show, I don't own the Blacklist Characters, I don't own any real places or names that are of real people if I even mention any. I do however own Kamryn, Saya, Ms. Grant, Caleb and any character not associated with the Blacklist
To say that the police had no comprehension of the situation during the investigation caused Kamryn to shut the radio off as they drove from the Vancouver Port to the station that Kamryn thought would be first stop. What was pissing her off was the amount of traffic that was congesting the roads and the accidents that were at least three different places.
Pulling her phone out Kamryn put the address in and saw that they were within walking distance and she pulled over into the closest parking lot eliciting a look of concern from Red and Liz.
"Liz, stay with the car and Dembe, your father and I will be heading on foot. I'm leaving you my phone, Dembe can leave us his phone. I can't protect you were we are going and if I try to stop your father you can guarantee he will not be dissuaded."
Dembe pulled out the phone but held it back a moment as he read through a text and looked to Red.
"Raymond, the Ukrainian is here would you like me have him meet you at the station?"
"Yes, we'll need him there with us to disarm the bomb."
"Red…"
"Lizzie, I can't sit by and let this happen. You are what matter the most to me right now, you are injured and I can't take the risk of you being with us." Kamryn turned to Red after having dug something out of the bag that was sitting on the floor of the passenger side seat.
"Reddington, turn." Kamryn attached a pin to Red's jacket and the vest he was wearing under it, turning back Kamryn did the same thing and attached a pin to her coat and the vest under it before pulling out a small laptop turning it on and plugging in a little antenna.
"Okay Liz, this is how it's going to work. You are going to sit with Dembe in this vehicle and it if you parking enforcement… just move. This is the same thing like those micro cameras I had out on his safehouse, it'll allow you to watch me and him. There are two windows per person because we have two cameras, one set will be black or you won't see much. If we have to shed our coats then you see the other feed. I'm keeping my cell phone with me and a headset that way you can keep in contact with us. That's the only way I'm allow you to help and 'be' with us." Liz nodded her head as Kamryn handed the laptop over to Liz in the backseat, the woman cracked the corner of her mouth into a smile.
"We'll try and be as safe as we can, but you are our first priority." Seeing Red nod in agreement Kamryn got out of the driver's seat and went to the back of the SUV and opening the trunk. There was a black case in there that Kamryn opened as Red climbed out of the vehicle followed by Dembe and Liz. Kamryn opened the case and pulled out of the molded foam her silenced Sig Sauer and five clips that went into her vest under the jacket, the weapon went into a hidden shoulder chest harness built into the coat before she handed a similar weapon to Red who it into a back of waist holster in two pieces instead. Red took five clips as well and tucked them into the back of his waist in a belt holster he had custom made but never really had to use til now.
Shutting the back of the vehicle Kamryn watched Red hug Liz and then move to hug Dembe before whispering something in the man's ear before stepping back and resting his hand on Dembe's shoulders. Liz went to Kamryn and stood in front of her protector.
"You watch his back, and you watch yours. I want you both back end of story."
"Yes ma'am." Kamryn grinned and took Liz's hand giving it a quick squeeze, "I'll bring your dad back even if I have to bring him kicking and screaming." Liz's eyes watered a fraction before she blinked them back, Kamryn put her shades on and started walking for the exit with Red in tow before they heard car doors close. Walking into the street Kamryn turned and looked up and down it before she pulled a headset out and put it into her ear and looked at the map on her phone.
"This way."
Red and Kamryn took a leisure stroll down the street taking in the life that was milling about with not knowing what about to happen in just hours. As they got closer to the college and the Skytrain station Kamryn saw an influx of students and noted the time of day. It was just about the end of the school day for the majority of students and it would be getting packed soon.
"Come on, school day is almost out if and Caleb wants to inflict the most amount of damage he would take the empty train right after the full one. Usually how the system works here and it's dependant on the time of day…" Red looked at Kamryn and followed her through the streets and the sidewalk that led up to the station they were aiming for. As Kamryn predicted the station was starting the fill up with students him and Red were the last ones up before Transit security showed up and started checking for passes.
"Avoid the dogs and they won't check us."
Two sardine packed trains later and Kamryn turned her head in time to see a new train whip around through the other side and past them without stopping and people on the train.
"We need to get the next train, Caleb is on that one. I have to make a call." Kamryn dialed up Ms. Grant and had the woman put her through to Translink. After explaining the situation a train came by that had been loaded and it was quickly off loaded before coming around. Transit cops had rushed up the stairs keeping the students away from the train and them. Ms. Grant had shown up much to the surprise of Kamryn and was keeping at bay while grabbing them and another man throwing them on the front train car with the doors shutting moments later them taking off.
"I've contacted Skytrain control, they've started clearing the platforms. The train ahead of you will soon be packed with people but they are older cars like the one you are on. It's up to you to just trains as soon as we connect and make your way through to the front car. You are on a timed clock and the front car is more or less sealed off and filled with armed guards from what we saw of camera footage before they shut it down.
You are literally on your own this is all I can do now for you."
"Thanks 'Dria', get out of the core and make sure that you look to Waterfront Station. Caleb won't know what will happen but the loss of life there is too much. Take care, and if I don't make it… thank you for everything." Kamryn hung up on her friend and looked to Red as they stood there on the train as it moved to catch up with the train in front of them.
"Okay… quick and dirty. Make sure that your man stays behind us, he's no use to us dead." Red nodded and looked to the Ukrainian and spoke to him quickly. The man nodded and crossed his heart hugging his backpack to his chest. Kamryn nodded as they pulled up just a bit closer and closer with the next two stops. They were touching by the third stop and as soon as the doors opened they went into the last train car with the explosives that were up front.
A text message to Kamryn's phone alerted her that the guards from the front car were moving and they were starting to place themselves on the other cars. They knew Kamryn and Red were coming, at the next stop where Kamryn was sitting by Red and his man, they saw a couple of bulky looking men walk onto the train. It was clear they were there to stop them as they stood by at the other end of the car. Kamryn looked to Red and raised an eyebrow.
As the train started to the move the two men started down the car pushing a few of the passengers to the sides or into sitting people. Looking to Red, Kamryn shook her head and stood up cocking her head to the man before she struck out at the man closest to her using the inside edge of her hand to hit out at the man's throat dropping him to his knees coughing. The other man swung his arm but Red caught the wrist and spun the man to face him a solid fist to the man's nose breaking it before spinning him into a pole. The third man was met but a solid 'push' kick from Kamryn and he was knocked on his ass sliding down the main aisle a few feet.
Turning Kamryn watched as Red pulled out his gun and squeezing the trigger, the soft crack was all that heard as people started to scream. Kamryn's voice however was louder than the screams and she was able to stop the passengers, however there was one that was whimpering as she was behind held as a shield by the third man and a gun pointing to the woman's head.
"Drop the gun and give up Wolf."
"You think that taking her as a hostage will make me stop, or him behind me for that matter?"
A soft crack and the man's head exploded out the back as he took a bullet to the right socket, the man dropped to the ground the woman turning and looking at her savior.
"Alright, everyone listen up!" All the passengers turned their attention to Kamryn as Red walked up looking at the man he had shot and killed, the fear was evident in their eyes, "Okay this needs to happen quickly and quietly, as soon as the train pulls into the station get the hell off of it. Don't let anyone get onto it and leave this place. Don't think to film this because as soon as I had walked onto the train I placed a wireless device that erases any video that you may try or have already taken, you don't want to know or see what happens next so just do it." Kamryn looked to the doors as the train pulled up into the next stop.
People clamored off of it as Kamryn led Red and his bomb guy to the next car where it was empty except for a group of seven guys. Red and Kamryn stood shoulder to shoulder looking at each other as if the situation that they were in was a western standoff, the men had no guns out but that didn't mean that they couldn't be hiding them at their waist bands.
At this point guns would be useless in a close quarter's situation but it would even the field fairly quickly. Red rose the hand up with the hand gun and aimed it at the man closet to them. "You know boys, if you wanted to drop like flies this is really the worst spot to die quickly." The men grinned as the smallest of the seven looked to the trio.
"Yeah and do you really want to fire that gun in here when one of us is wearing a bomb that could go off when punctured?" Red's jaw set as he lowered his gun to his side. Kamryn looked around taking in the features of the men trying to figure out who had the vest and if it wasn't on the front of the body it would certainly be on the back. Most of the men were burly and tall, the smaller looked to be a scrapper for sure, but there wasn't much to be said about his clothing other than it was baggy and bulky like the others.
"Red, we can't risk the bomb going off here… I hope your hand to hand is good."
The only thing different was Red taking his fedora off and putting on the seat beside him and placing the gun in its holster. The men rushed at the two of them as Kamryn snapped kicked the leg out from under the first man that tried to rush her. Red engaged the next man only to be thrown into one of the poles with a grunt. Red held onto the man spinning him into a set and throwing his fist into the man's face. Red cocked his arm back for another blow but was pulled off and down the aisle. Kamryn was fighting between three men in an open space by one of the exit doors, as she pushed away the punches and kicks. Kamryn grabbed on guy by the back of his neck and drove her knee into the man's face breaking his nose and patting his back not feeling a vest or a bomb. Letting the man drop to the ground Kamryn turned in time to take a kick to her side making her grunt in pain, raising her arm up into a guard Kamryn blocked the punch aimed for her face before reaching with her free arm to cinch the wild haymaker aimed for her side. With the arm in a hold Kamryn drove her fist into the kidney of the man's side before driving it again into the man's stomach making the man cough before she let the arm go and did power front kick knocking the man against the doors. The third man had pulled a knife and tried a forward thrust but it was knocked away before Kamryn quickly disarmed the man and jammed the knife into the top of the man's head turning the knife before pulling it out.
Red was being held by one thug from behind and being used a punching bag before a roar came from him and ripped out of the thug's grip elbowing one in the gut and catching the fist of the other man and throwing him into a window before he was on him with a kick to the man's leg, knee and face when the thug tried to get up. It was a brawl that was for sure with Kamryn and Red fighting not only for their lives but the lives of the people of the city.
For the Concierge of Crime it was a fight to see his daughter again and if he had to turn into a monster that she had once called him, then so be it he would so the world what kind of monster he was in defence of the innocent and those that mattered to him. Stepped back against a swing he took two punches to the face before he brought his arms up to protect his face that sported a split lip and the beginnings of a bruise on his cheek. Kamryn flew past him down the aisle as one of the mountainous men had picked her up and threw her. Sliding along the ground Kamryn didn't move right away and groaned. Taking his gun out from the waist holster and aimed for the head of the man and watched as the man's brains painted the windows. The training was picking up speed now as Red stumbled forwards and Kamryn slide on the ground a fraction.
The mountain of a man clearly knew what he was dealing with and no matter the blows that Kamryn rained down on him it wasn't doing anything, she really didn't expect to be going down with the paw of the man's hand around her neck but it was just sheer luck that he threw her away like a rag doll. It took her was seemed like hours to properly come around but it looked like Red had taken care of her problem as he started empting his gun into the heads of the men. They really didn't have time to play around and as much as Kamryn couldn't risk the bomb going off Red was willing to take the chance.
Pushing herself to her knees, Kamryn looked up to Red holding out a hand which she gratefully took, Red's bomb man was dismantling the 'mountain' man's bomb that was strapped to his body. Standing and rubbing her neck Kamryn leaned against the pole starring at Red before she moved away from the pole pulling her gun from her shoulder holster and going from the connecting doors to the next train car, they had one more train car to get through before they could get to the nuclear bomb. Shooting the lock out Kamryn kicked the door open only to be met with a kick to the face knocking her onto her back. It was her brother Caleb, Red went into the room only to be disarmed and hit with a rapid set of punches ending with a knee to the face and a kick to the stomach.
"Well, well, well. If it ain't the hero."
"Fuck you Caleb."
"You know if you hadn't been my sister…"
"Okay you know what, I don't need to know this. You were sick as a kid and sure as hell are sick as an adult." Kamryn pushed herself to a stand and put her arms up in a guard to meet another kick. Pushing the leg away Kamryn started blocking the flying arms and legs moving into the training car more, the bomb was on the train car they were on when she was kicked to the ground again.
"Holy shit…"
"Like my handy work?"
"What is it with you and want to destroy your home?"
"My home? I have no home, you saw to that Kamryn, you saw to that and made sure that my parents turned against me." Kamryn blocked a punch to the face by bringing her elbow up to catch the fist as she drove her fist into her brother's gut following by an elbow. Looking up for a second she saw the bomb guy helping Red up and pointing to three guys that had woke up from their beating.
Turning in time Kamryn caught her brother's arm and flipped him over her shoulder before calling out to Red.
"RED! Get that guy in here now!" Kamryn was kicked into a seat as Caleb in macabre outfit rushed to a stand and was on Kamryn driving his fists into anywhere that he could hit her. It seemed that Caleb was resigned to the fact that he would be willing to die for this, he was wearing a mismatch of clothing that clearly had seen better days, but it looked like he had walked out of a video game.
"You took my mother away from me! You took my father away from me! You took my home away from me! YOU TOOK EVERYTHING!" Each statement was punctuated by a fist being driven into Kamryn's face, chest or stomach. The blows were like that of an animal and Kamryn knew there would be nothing holding her back. Her baby brother whom she helped take care of was truly insane and there was nothing left but a husk, her beaten and battered body wouldn't be able to take much more, but she only needed a little bit more time to fight back then she would gladly rest here now in this world or the next.
Red had pushed himself to a stand after taking a fist and feeling one of ribs crack, coughing he turned and using the knife that Kamryn had used on one of the men. It was clear they had picked up the blade was trying to use it. There were already a few slash marks from where the knife got to close but Red had killed the man and taken the knife for his own use and was defending his man while Kamryn was fighting her brother. After killing the last man he turned to see Kamryn getting beaten on pretty hard, rushing for the man he watched as Kamryn's brother picked her up and threw her down the aisle into him. They bother hit the ground hard with a resounding crash as Red's bomb man watched on seeing the nut job that took down his employer rush him.
Kamryn had strength for this last fight and with a roar she pushed off of Red and tackled her brother to the ground pinning him on his front with all of her remaining strength. Red got up and grabbed his guy pushing him towards the bomb that was ticking down distance to target, he turned and watched Kamryn get elbowed in the face before he ran to help by then Red was kicked into a door his head bouncing off the Plexiglas divider his vision was swimming but he able to sit up and watch as Kamryn even hunched over had a murderous look in her gaze.
"I am so sick of your shit, I so sick of you blaming me for problems you generated yourself Caleb. It was your own doing that mom and dad turned away from you. You turned to the life of crime, you were a smart kid, hell smarter than me but look at what you did and what it got you, you murdered our parents because what? You were Jealous, come on you aren't five anymore."
Kamryn ducked under a punch while blocking another one and pushing another one away, the crazed and heated hate was in her brother's eye. He had really lost whatever marbles he had left in her last speech. What turned out to be a childish grudge turned into years of pain and suffering for herself and whatever was left of her family and the people that her brother had killed on his way back home. It was time to end the family fight; what energy she had left, Kamryn pushed her brother into the open space as Red crawled away and went to the bomb as his bomb guy was sweating through the disarmament of the nuclear device. Leaning against the wall, Red was tired and he looked like he had gone at least ten rounds with a heavy weight boxer he turned his head and watched as the siblings punched, kicked, shoved, threw each other around the train. Kamryn was keeping her brother away from the bomb and was forcing him further away from the device.
Watching her head bounce off the floor Red was about to get back up but Kamryn's grip on Caleb's leg was impressive when she pulled him down as she pushed to a stand grabbing him by the back of his with a roar and throwing him into the doors. Rushing him Kamryn spilt every angry feeling, every bit of rage, every bit of hatred for her brother into her strikes. Red watched as The Direwolf systematically tore the Hellhound to pieces, the Hellhound managed to get in a strike but the hand on the man's face and it being slammed into the glass of the door dropped him.
Kamryn stepped back allowing her brother to stand on last time, they stared at each other as the distance drew every closer to the bomb going on. Images flashed of her baby brother in her mind and the fun they had as kids before jealously ruled his life. Caleb struck but time seemed to have slowed down for Kamryn as she side stepped the punch and drove her right fist deep into his stomach, her left followed up into the kidney, her right fist pulled back and flew into her brother's battered face snapping it to the side. With every hit she saw all the pain, all of the memories, everything coming back in full clarity. She asked for strength and courage to put her brother down, she apologized to her parents for killing off the blood line, and ultimately she asked her baby brother whom she remembered for forgiveness.
The world seemed to snap back into real time as she kicked her brother into a pole before he fell onto his front, straddling his back she wrapped her the inside of her elbow around her brother's neck and with her left arm started to squeeze and turn. Caleb even though he was weak fought back with the remaining strength he had. After slamming his head into the Plexiglas divider to her right Kamryn decided to forgo choking her brother out and knew it would be better and far quicker to end it.
Grabbing his chin and the back of his head Kamryn struggled as tears painfully started to make their way down her face, looking up it was getting close to station that would turn Vancouver into a ball of fire. Looking over to the bomb tech and Red, Kamryn had no idea how far along they were in disarming it, but it she might as well make peace now.
"I hope for your sake, in the next life you lead a better one."
"Kam… no…"
"I'm so sorry Caleb…" Kamryn ripped her brother's hands on her arms grabbed his head and chin and with a sharp movement snapped his neck in one direction before twisting it in another and dropping her dead brother to the ground. Stumbling back Kamryn looked around and saw the tech shout in excitement, the bomb had been defused and they weren't going to die. As Kamryn stood and looked out the windows she saw the giant ball that was once just known as Science World it disappeared as they went into a tunnel and darkness covered them. Moving away from the door Kamryn went over to Red and ungracefully slide down the wall with her legs kicked out in front of her as she leaned her head back shutting her eyes.
Red looked over watching blood flow down from breaks in Kamryn's skin, the corner of her mouth was dripping and the cuts on the side of her face from where the punches split the side of her face open. The bruising starting to be apparent under the blood and Red could only guess how bad the bruising on the rest of her body was.
"Well we can certainly put this our resume: Saved the World from Nuclear Holocaust 2015."
Red chuckled as he put a hand to his face feeling the dried blood along his temple, he ran a hand through his hair and felt the bumps from where his head had bounced around and off items; he really was going to be sore as he lowered his hand to his side. He pushed gently against his side and winced in pain, he had a cracked rib at least his breathing wasn't constricting or damaging.
"Yes, the number four on the FBI's most wanted list saved the world without any regard for his own life. I'm sure the FBI will look favourably on this."
"You never know Red, you might get some more freedom out of this, however we need to get off this train before it pulls into Waterfront." Pulling out her, Kamryn pushed a button and the trains brakes started to engage. Red looked at Kamryn with a shocked look before Kamryn was helped up by the bomb guy and left leaning against the wall by the door. Another push of a button on her phone and the doors opened up revealing Dembe, Liz and Ms. Grant with a medical team standing by.
"Liz… Dembe." Red was embraced by his daughter and led away, Kamryn was being held up by 'Dria' as the doors closed on the Train car and it slowly pulled out. Kamryn looked at her friend before her eyes rolled back in her skull and she collapsed medics rushed to Kamryn and Red taking them away from the scene.
"Breaking News, nuclear device found disarmed on British Columbian Transit System."
Images of police swarming a Vancouver Transit Train and the lockdown of the Vancouver Core.
"In the heart of the City of Vancouver a Terror Plot has been foiled by unknown persons, but the carnage has been left behind in brutal fashion. The downtown core of Vancouver is currently closed due a Nuclear Device has been found disarmed on the second train car. The bodies of unknown men and the one known as the Hellhound has been found. Sources close say that not warning the city was a calculated risk to be taken and that it due to outside interference that the city is still standing."
Hellhound found to be to the supposed prison inmate committed suicide four years ago. Hellhound identity to be revealed as Caleb Anderson Destler, younger brother to severally injure Retired Royal Canadian Navy Officer Lieutenant Commander Kamryn Jade Destler. Blood DNA suggest that the Former Officer was on the train, a body was not recovered. Blood also found on the scene two weeks ago is that of notorious number most wanted on the FBI list, Raymond Reddington, his body was also not recovered.
One anonymous tip call to the city of Vancouver Police left police baffled as two voices confirmed that lives were saved and the nuclear bomb was disarmed. Witnesses on the trains have confirmed verbally that Raymond Reddington, a woman and another man were on the trains and that they saved lives. Could it be that Raymond Reddington is not that man that many suspect him to be?
~ 6 Weeks later ~
Laying on a beach chair enjoying the sun gently on a beach in Hawaii half bandaged laid Kamryn, Saya was sitting on a beach towel rubbing lotion onto her legs, arms and face. The injuries she had endured all those weeks ago healed well under the care of the Ninja Clan. Kamryn was in the midst of finally relaxing when she felt something cold on her leg that didn't have any remains of the bruising unlike her face, torso, and her arms. Opening her eyes under her shades she turned her head and smiled at Saya.
Red was sitting up in his lounge chair, his split lip and the injuries to his face healed up nicely, his chest was wrapped up under his white short sleeved button up and his brown shorts, his straw fedora over his eyes as he read a book, Liz was now fully healed and she sat next to her father looking out to the ocean as she rubbed sunscreen on her face. Saya had finished with Kamryn and her sunscreen and turned to help Liz put some on her back, it was an interesting family dynamic now that Kamryn had decided to be a permanent body guard to Liz, and the Japanese would back Reddington and his operations.
As the clan home had been destroyed Saya had been looking into new property to buy, and with Red's help they decided to build a new clan home in the city that Kamryn nearly died protecting. There was several hundred acres of land on the Lower Mainland that was purchased for the clan far enough away from the city and yet close enough. The government of British Columbia at the assistance of the City of Vancouver signed off on permits to build and for the Clan to be in control of everything in their borders.
While the Clan was building their homes in British Columbia, the Concierge of Crime and the Direwolf were taking a long deserved vacation. The US Government had found out through security systems on the Train that Raymond Reddington fought on the train, had it not been for him and his criminal connections and the bomb tech hey brought with him, they would be looking at a disaster they didn't want to comprehend. The US President had ordered that Reddington be pulled off the Top Ten and given citation that would go onto his deal for saving Canadian and American lives.
While the news wasn't presented to the rest of the American Public, his name and file was removed from the FBI's most wanted list and under orders of the President to never have the man's name up again. There was an inquiry as to why Reddington was considered a traitor to the country initiated but the results of that injury were held in check by the very people looking to take out Reddington, find the Fulcrum and silence their President to install one of their own for power dominance.
"We can't let this continue, if Reddington is able to further gain on his immunity. He will have free drive in the United States to be seen in public without reprisal."
"We get that, but if we try to take him out now we are looking at the President…"
"The President no longer holds power, we are holding him and his inquires at bay and will head him off. If he continues to be a problem than we will have to look into taking him out." The men sitting around a table looked to the man known as the Director, he was an older looking man with glasses and grey hair that held no fear of Raymond Reddington. Berlin was still active for him and so were a few others, but with Berlin now hidden away the Director looked to one of the men behind him.
"This is the Liaison, he will make sure the FBI work for us now instead of Reddington. We will cut the Taskforce off at the heel, anything they do now, we will know and we will be keeping Reddington on watch and first chance we get of him, we will take him out. I don't believe he has the Fulcrum and I doubt he ever did. I will deal with this." The people at the table nodded as the meeting ended leaving the Director and the Liaison behind, "I want our people in the Task Force, start keeping tabs on all in-going and out-going communication with The Post Office. Reddington can't hide forever and neither can that FBI Agent he has with him. I also want you to find any and all information about Elizabeth Keene. I want everything on her."
"Yes sir."
