Sooo I know you guys are probably a little mad at me for not updating in like forever but I had to take a break for awhile. Don't worry though I am back and ready to write! Oh and I just wanna give a huge thanks and a bunch of gold stars to everyone who reviewed, favorited, and followed this story! You guys rock! Oh and if you haven't already please check out CatchMyBreath's Nikita story Burning Bridges! It's awesome! So are you guys ready for this chapter? It's gonna be...you know what I'll just let you read it and see ;) haha. Alright everyone I give you chapter 12! Enjoy!
Disclaimer: I totally forgot to do this last chapter but I'm doing it now. I do not own Nikita...because if I did there would be a full fourth season and many more seasons after that. Stupid CW.
Shoutouts!: Okay so last chapter I asked who starred in Xmen right? So congrats to Nicolebetkhodu, Wootar16, SkiTTdaTTle, Liz, Codekiki12, and SophieStark for guessing right! The answer was Aaron Stanford! Aka: Birkhoff! Aka: Nerd! haha. Oh and Gold stars for everyone who guessed and reviewed! Thanks guys!
Chapter 12: Domino Effect
The team returns to Division and heads to Ops where they find Birkhoff messing with one of the computers.
"Is everyone okay?" Birkhoff asks. He notices Alex is still bleeding from the cut on her forehead. "Wow, Zoe got you good!" He exclaims. Alex rolls her eyes.
Ryan walks in frustrated. "Ryan?" Nikita frowns. "What's wrong?"
"I just got off the phone with Danforth." Ryan begins. "The President found out about what happened in Paris and isn't happy."
"Well of course she's upset!" Alex replies angrily. "What is she gonna do now? Wipe us out?"
"Whoa, Alex." Nikita tells her. "Calm down. We can still fix this. The President doesn't know what happened in Paris, so if we can get her the flash drive and the real killer she will have to reconsider the contingency plan."
Alex groans holding her head in pain. "You should take Alex to medical." Michael says to Sean. "Get her head checked out."
"I'm fine, Michael." Alex says.
Owen looks at her. "You're bleeding."
"Come on Alex, it won't take long." Sean tells her.
She sighs. "Okay." Sean grabs her hand as they leave the room.
Ryan hands Nikita a piece of paper with a sketch of her face on it. "What is this?" Nikita asks.
"Um, isn't that your face?" Birkhoff says.
Nikita looks at him. "Nooo, its Michael's."
Michael walks over and looks at the picture. "That's-"
"I know," Nikita says rolling her eyes.
"Anyway," Ryan says. "The French police has a warrant out looking for someone who looks a lot like you."
"They got the wrong person!" Nikita yells.
"What are we gonna do?" Owen asks.
"We need to find Zoe and the list." Michael says.
"Zoe told us she would be making a lot of money with this job." Nikita explains. "I think she wants to sell the list. Nerd, find out where the original buyer Batouala was supposed to meet with is. Zoe will probably want to get into contact with her and make a deal."
"I'm on it." He says as he walks out of the room.
A Division doctor had just finished stitching Alex's wound on her head when Sean opened the door to check on her. "Hey, feeling better?" He says, peeking his head inside.
Alex smiles at him. "Yeah. It's no big deal."
"Good, you had me a little worried there for a minute." He says, walking up to her. He grabs a nearby chair and sits down.
"What do you mean?" Alex asks.
"Well, lately you've been acting a little-"
"Different?" Alex cuts him off. Sean nods, hoping her didn't offend her. "Listen, I don't care what Nikita or anyone says. She's just upset I don't always agree with her. I have the right to make my own choices."
"You do, but that stunt you pulled at the reception… what were you thinking?"
"I was so close, Sean! He was about to give me the list and then Nikita ruined it. She always has to have it her way. It's not fair."
"You should have told me, I would have helped you."
Alex sighs. "Well it's too late now. Zoe has the flash drive."
Zoe walks into Amanda's office. She tosses the flash drive on her desk. "Here, I hope you're happy, it wasn't easy to get. Nikita really kicked my ass, I wasn't sure I was going to get out of there alive." She waits for Amanda to reply. Instead, she was forced to stare at the back of a tall leather chair. "Hey, turn around and talk to me."
The figure who turns around was not who she was expecting. "Who are you?" Zoe asks.
"Just a friend of Amanda's… I'm just visiting. She'll be back in a minute." The man in the hood replies.
Zoe stares at him, frustrated. She didn't have time to waste, she wanted her money now. "What's up with the hood indoors dude? You supposed to be Robin Hood or something?"
He laughs, "Funny. No, I was just cold earlier." He takes off his hood and extends a hand. "Hi, I'm-"
"JR!" Amanda walks into the room, "So nice to see you again."
He shrugs and plops down in the chair again, relaxing. "Nice to see you too I guess."
Amanda gives him a rude look. She turns her attention toward Zoe. "Zoe, you're back. How was Paris?"
"I got your flash drive, now where's my money?"
"Still impatient, I see." JR picks up the flash drive and hands it to Amanda.
"Look, this job burned me. Completely." Amanda inserts the flash drive into her laptop, checking to see if it was the real deal. She smiles at Zoe. "Every intelligence agency in the world knows my face now." Zoe continues. "And I only agreed to do that because you promised me so much money that I would never have to work again."
Amanda ejects the flash drive and holds it out. "Well here you are." She says, smiling. "Payment in full."
Zoe takes it from her hand. "What am I supposed to do with this? Leak it on the internet?" She tosses it back on Amanda's desk.
"What is this?" JR asks, picking it up again.
Amanda takes it from him. "This list is valuable." She hands it to Zoe again. "Auction it off to the highest bidder and you'll have more money than you can spend in a life time."
"I don't have time for that!" Zoe exclaims. "I need to disappear now!"
"Well there's always the Russians. They came back from Paris empty handed. You should call them."
Zoe takes the flash drive from Amanda's hand. "They were going to give that Batouala guy billions…" Zoe says, smiling. "I only need millions."
"Billions?" JR exclaims. "Wow, that's a good deal!"
Zoe smiles. "Thanks for everything, Amanda." She starts to head for the door. "Good luck on your war with Division, I hope you get them."
"Be careful Zoe." Amanda warns her. "Nikita can't be happy. She planned such a lovely assassination and we ruined it for her. She will be hunting us both."
"I'm not going to lose any sleep over that… from what you said, Nikita is going to be too busy to worry about little old me." She walks out the door.
JR turns to face Amanda. "What does she mean by that?"
Amanda sighs. "Remember our friend Alex?"
"Yes, you told me she was the key to getting everything we wanted… when is that gonna happen?"
"You're impatient too." Amanda rolls her eyes. "Don't worry, we will help your friend. It's going to take some time first, Alex is only the beginning."
"Well, that's ominous."
Amanda laughs. "Oh JR, I think I know where you get your humor from."
Sonya walks into Birkhoff's office where he is busy typing on his computer.
"Hey, you got a minute?" She asks as she walks over to his desk. He looks up surprised and quickly clicks a couple buttons, hiding what he's working on.
"Uh, yeah." He replies nervously. "What's up?"
Sonya frowns seeing what he did and goes over to his computer. "What are you hiding?" She asks angrily.
"It's nothing!" He tells her. She sighs, pushing him aside and unlocks his computer. His eyes widen. "How did you-"
She gives him a look. "I'm a hacker too and your password was my name." Birkhoff blushes and looks down. She smiles but then she remembers she was still angry and turns back to his computer. She looks at the files that popped up, stopping when she sees one about Danforth.
"What is this?" She asks him.
His head snaps up. "Uh, it's nothing, trust me-"
"How can I?" She says looking at him with hurt in her eyes. "When I know you're lying to me."
Birkhoff sighs. "I'm sorry-"
"How could you keep this from me?" Sonya exclaims.
"I'm sorry, I wanted to tell you." He says standing in front of her.
"But you didn't." She says. "You kept lying and pretending and saying I was imagining things. What else are you hiding?"
Birkhoff walks over to a computer. "The President has a contingency plan. She's going to send in the SEALS to wipe us out."
She sighs. "I'm not surprised."
He looks at her confused. "You aren't?"
"I understand the President has to have a contingency plan." She tells him. "And I understand why you lied to me but it wasn't your choice to keep this info from me."
"I know." He sighs. "I just wanted to protect to you. After that whole kill chip thing... I just don't want to lose you again."
Sonya smiles. "I appreciate your concern Seymour, but I don't need you to protect me." She gives him a hug.
He hugs her back. "I promise no more secrets."
Sean followed Alex down the hallway toward Birkhoff's office. She was going on and on about wanting to fix everything.
"Come on! We need to find more information." Alex says, walking through the door.
"Alex, hold on." Sean says, stopping when he sees they had interrupted Birkhoff and Sonya hugging.
Alex glances at them. "Oh, I'm sorry… are we-"
"No, it's okay." Birkhoff says, "What's up Princess?"
"Don't call me Princess." Alex says, glaring at him. She wasn't in the mood for his banter; she was on a mission to find out more information on Danforth.
"Come on, Alex. Lighten up." Sean tells her. He walks up to her, placing a hand on her shoulder.
Alex shrugs it off and walks over to Birkhoff's computers. "Perfect, you already have a file on him." She says, looking at the picture of Danforth on the screen.
"Uh yeah." Birkhoff runs over to his computer, nervous. "What do you need this for?"
"I keep thinking about what Nikita told me." Alex frowns. "She keeps saying that all of this is her choice."
Birkhoff looks at her. "Well, Danforth and the President threatening to wipe out Division is not a choice. It's a hostage crisis. It's like Oversight and Clean Sweep all over again."
Alex smiles at him. "I'm glad you understand!"
"That got me thinking." Birkhoff says, sitting down at his desk. "If there's one thing we learned from Oversight, it's that everybody has a weakness." He presses a couple buttons on his computer, pulling up more files on Danforth. "Even the guy holding the gun on you."
Sonya walks up to the computer. "So this is what you've been working on."
"Yeah, I was trying to figure out a way to prove that Danforth wasn't trustworthy." Birkhoff says.
"That's a great idea!" Alex exclaims. "Ryan and Nikita would finally have to open their eyes."
Sean walks over to them, looking over the files. "I don't think some dirty little secret from his past will cut it. We need to know what he's up to now… where he goes, who he talks to, what he's hiding."
Alex looks at him surprised. "You want to help us?"
"Yeah." He looks at Alex. "Listen, you know my Mother was a part of Oversight. I didn't like that she had a contingency plan either. And now the President has one too? It's not right. We are doing our best to clean this place up; we don't need that kind of threat lingering over our heads every day."
"So what are you guys going to do?" Sonya asks. "Are you going to follow Danforth?"
"Actually, I've already been tracking his cell signal." Birkhoff says, pulling up a map. "Well, that's oddly peculiar." He says staring at the screen.
"What is it?" Alex says looking over his shoulder.
"His cell signal shows that he's been in the woods for the last couple hours."
"What is he doing in the woods?" Sonya asks.
"I don't know, camping?" Birkhoff says sarcastically.
"Did you refresh the data?" Sean asks.
"Yeah, still no movement." Birkhoff replies.
"We should go check this out, Sean." Alex tells him.
"Wait, what about the others?" Birkhoff asks. "Should we tell them? I mean, Nikki is still trying to find Zoe and the list. What if she asks where you two are?"
"Make something up… say we went shopping or something." Alex replies, heading toward the door.
"Yeah, the Princess can never have enough shoes." Sean laughs, following her.
"Hey!" Alex slaps him in the shoulder. "I'm not a Princess!"
"Okay, you guys go. We got you covered." Sonya says.
"Yeah, but be careful out there." Birkhoff warns them. "And hurry before Nikki gets suspicious."
Nikita, Michael, Owen and Ryan walk into ops.
"Tell me you got a lead on that bitch!" Nikita yells.
"Which one?" Michael says. "There's no sign of Zoe or Amanda."
Nikita sighs then looks around. "Where is everyone?" She wonders. She looks at Birkhoff's station and sees he's not there. "Where's Nerd?" Nikita asks. Annoyed, no one had an answer for her, she decided to run off, looking for him herself.
"Birkhoff!" Nikita shouts, opening the door to his office.
Birkhoff jumps. "What!"
"Hey, have you found out where the original buyer is yet?" She asks.
"Uh, hold on." He turns to his computer. "She's on her way to New York right now. Her plane is about to land in three hours."
Michael walks in. "She still wants the list."
"Any idea where the sale is gonna be?" Owen asks walking in after him.
"I was monitoring some of her known associates and she called one of them before the flight." Birkhoff tells her.
"Good, what did you find out?" Nikita asks.
"She called some guy who owns a nightclub in Chinatown and put her and a friend on the VIP list for tonight." He explains.
Nikita groans. "We have to go clubbing again?"
Michael looks at her. "Aww come on it's not so bad."
She turns to him. "You guys got us kicked out last time!"
Owen laughs. "Okay, but if you need another distraction, warn me before you sucker punch a guy in the face!"
Nikita rolls her eyes. "Okay, we got three hours to prepare, where's Alex and Sean?" Birkhoff looks around the room nervously. She narrows her eyes at him. "Nerd, what are you hiding?"
He looks at her. "Huh? Oh I don't know, maybe they went shopping or something. Why don't you call them?"
"Fine, I will." Nikita says picking up her phone.
Sean and Alex were busy tracking Danforth's cell signal in the middle of the woods.
"Still no movement?" Sean asks her.
"Yeah." Alex replies, checking the map on her phone. "What do you think he's been doing out here all this time?" She questions.
Sean looks out around the woods. "I don't know, but I don't like the looks of this."
They walk towards a clearing and notice soldiers guarding what looks like a military base. "I didn't see anything on the map that looks like a military base." Alex questions.
Sean looks around, studying it. "This can't be a base."
"Then what is it?" Alex asks. Suddenly Alex's cell phone rings. She pulls out it out quickly; worried the guards below would hear her. "Hello?"
"Alex, where are you?" Nikita asks her. Alex could hear the worry in her voice.
"Oh, I just needed some time to clear my head." She lied. "Everything is fine."
"Nerd said you went shopping, is Sean with you?"
"Uh, yeah. Retail therapy is a good way to relax."
"Okay. Well, can you get back here now?" Nikita asks. "We got a lead on Zoe."
Alex looks at Sean. "Nikita wants us back now." She whispers.
"Tell her we'll be back in a couple hours." Sean whispers back.
Alex nods, and lifts her phone back up to her ear. "Nikita-"
"Alex, Zoe is going to trade the list in about 3 hours." Nikita cuts her off "We need you."
"Okay, hold on. We're on our way back."
"3 hours, Alex. Hurry."
Alex hangs up her phone and rolls her eyes. "We can't leave now." Sean says.
"We're aren't." Alex replies. "Not until we find out what's going on here. Nikita can wait."
Sean nods his head. "Come on, this way. Those guards aren't patrolling that entrance. We can be in and out before anyone notices."
Nikita puts down her phone. "Alex and Sean are on their way back."
Birkhoff sits back in his chair glad Nikita bought his lie. "So, what's the plan?"
"We wait and when Alex gets back we go kick Zoe's ass." Nikita tells him.
"How are we going to get on the VIP list?" Owen asks.
Ryan walks in the room. "Have you guys found Alex yet?"
Michael nods. "Yeah, she went shopping with Sean."
"Shopping?" Ryan ponders, he shakes his head. "Never mind, when they get back we need Alex to pretend to be Alexandra Udinov again and get her and Nikita on the VIP list."
Owen frowns, annoyed at Ryan's comment about Alex pretending to be a person who is technically her identity but he decides not to say anything. "What about me, Michael and Sean?" Owen asks.
"Unfortunately, the club has a limit of plus ones so you guys need to wait down stairs and be backup in case anything goes wrong."
"Darn, I was looking forward to being a VIP." Owen says.
Michael puts a hand on his shoulder. "Eh, maybe next time."
"I don't like this, Sean." Alex says, as they walk toward a large structure away from the guards. "What is this place?"
Sean opens the doors, revealing a replica of Division. They walk in and look around wide-eyed. "This is a kill house." He replies. Alex looks at him shocked. "They must be planning a mission."
"Sean…" Alex says scared, "This is Division!" She looks around frantically, panicking for a moment. She felt her body become shell shocked. "I need to get out of here!" She screams, wanting to run away. Division still scared her, she wanted so desperately to escape and forget about how evil this place was to her.
"Alex? Hey! Are you okay?" Sean shakes her, trying to get her to snap out of her paralyzed state. Suddenly an alarm goes off, "They're running a drill!" He screams, grabbing Alex's hand. "Come on, we have to hide!"
They run toward a crevasse in a wall and hide. Sean pulls Alex close to him, protecting her. She was shaking. "Division…" Alex whispers. "This is Division! They're going to kill us!"
"No, it's just a drill." He whispers softly in her ear. "It's alright, calm your heart rate."
Soldiers entered the facility, aiming their guns at dummies. Bullets shot off everywhere. Sean and Alex ducked their head.
"Alright, bring it in. Let's reset, go back and check our times." Sean hears the commander say. He couldn't believe it, he recognized the voice. It was his former SEAL unit commander. "No, this can't be." He looks at Alex, who was still shaking. "Hey, it's over. Come on." Hey grabs her hand. They run out the door and head toward the woods.
"What was that?" Alex exclaims once they reach a safe distance. "Those men! They want to kill us!"
She was freaking out. Sean tried to calm her. "Hey." He says, grabbing her shoulders. "Look at me! I know those men, they're-"
"SEALS?" Alex finishes, realizing what this meant. "Danforth is getting ready to wipe us out!"
"Hey, no you don't know that for sure. They could just be practicing."
"You saw them!" Alex screams. "Oh my god, we have to stop Danforth!" She points to the kill house. "This is not right!" She grabs Sean's hand, "Come on, we got to stop him!"
"Wait a minute, Alex. Let's head back and tell the others first before we jump to conclusions and do something drastic."
Nikita paces back and forth, impatiently waiting for Sean and Alex to return. Birkhoff sat at his desk while Owen and Michael relaxed on a couch with Ryan standing next to them. All of them still in Birkhoff's office, wondering where Sean and Alex are.
"Hurry up dude, play a word." Michael says to Owen in their game of Words with Friends.
"Don't rush me, I'm trying to think." Owen replies, staring intently at his phone.
Michael smirks. "You don't know any good words."
Owen glares at him. He was about to speak when Sean and Alex walk in.
"Thank god!" Nikita exclaims. "Where have you been? You said you were heading back when I called you!"
"We were following Danforth." Alex tells her.
"What!" Ryan yells. "Are you insane? What would happen if he saw you?"
"We followed him to a secret training facility in the middle of the woods." Sean explains. "We found soldiers there preparing for a mission."
"What was the mission?" Owen asks as he and Michael put away their phones.
"They're planning an attack." Alex says. "An attack on Division." They look at her shocked. Michael and Owen stand up.
"Wait, what do you mean an attack?" Michael asks worriedly.
"They built a kill house that looks exactly like Division." Alex tells them.
"Alright, hold on." Nikita says glancing at everyone. "We know the President has a contingency plan but that doesn't me she'll execute it."
"That's what I told Alex." Sean agrees.
"Come on, Sean! You saw them!" Alex exclaims. "They were packing up and getting ready to move... they must have another staging area closer to Division."
"This doesn't sound good." Owen frowns.
Ryan takes out his phone and walks away to call Danforth.
"We need to kill Danforth!" Alex says.
"Whoa, we're getting ahead of ourselves here." Nikita replies. "Zoe is still out there, she's going to meet with the Russian operative and sell her the list, we need to focus on that."
Alex shakes her head. "Danforth is the bigger threat! The SEALS are preparing for an attack as we speak! We need to run!"
"Why would the President order this, she was the one who asked us to kill Batouala?" Michael asks.
Ryan walks up to them. "I don't she was. The President wasn't the one who handed me these files, Danforth did. And given the conversation we just had, I doubt the President has any idea. This is all Danforth"
Alex nods. "He's the one who ordered the SEALS to attack us, not the President. We need to take him out before he takes us out."
"Relax, there's still time to fix this." Nikita says.
"It's a little too late for that." Owen replies.
"It's not, we still have time to do what Division does best….control the narrative." Michael tells them. "If we can stop Zoe, we can stay invisible and build a cover story to tie up all the loose ends."
"This is what we need." Nikita agrees. "We need to prove to the President that Division isn't doing anything bad."
Ryan sighs. "I think this is the only chance of surviving this."
"You thought we were working for the President!" Alex snaps. They all look at her shocked. "Maybe it's time you let someone else do the thinking!"
"Hey, hey." Nikita says, walking up to her. "He made a mistake."
Alex glares at her. "Not his first! That was lying to every single person in Division about the danger that they were in."
"Alex-" Sean tries to say.
"Including us!" Alex shouts, ignoring him. "We didn't deserve that. And neither do they."
"Come on Alex, I know Ryan was wrong but let's focus on the bigger picture." Sean tries to calm her. "Michael is right, there's still a way to fix this without killing anyone. Zoe is going to sell that file tonight once that happens…"
"We can't control the fall out." Michael finishes. "Zoe will disappear and then the President will give the order…"
"There will be no turning back." Nikita says, pacing around the room.
"There already is no turning back..." Alex argues.
Nikita stops and stares at Alex. "That is why, once we get Zoe, we will deal with Commander Danforth."
"I don't know…" Alex says, staring back at her.
Nikita looks directly into her eyes, "I promise you, Alex. We will deal with him later." Alex nods in agreement.
Michael, Nikita, Sean, Alex and Owen walk into the club.
"We'll wait downstairs, if there's any trouble call us and we'll come running." Michael tells Nikita and Alex as he motions to Sean and Owen.
The girls nod and make their way towards the stairs. Just as they reached the staircase, a Bouncer stood in front of them.
"Name?" He asks.
"Excuse me?" Alex asks, putting on her best spoiled princess act. "You don't know who I am? I called ahead of time and told you to prepare for my party?!"
"Uh," The Bouncer looks down at his list then back up at Alex, smiling sheepishly. "I'm so sorry Miss. Udinov, the hostess is clearing your room for the party right now."
Alex rolls her eyes feigning annoyance. "We don't have all day."
"Right, again sorry for the wait Miss. Udinov." The Bouncer replies nervously letting them upstairs.
"Hey, where is everyone going? " Zoe asks the Hostess, noticing people were leaving the room. "Is there a gas leak or something?"
"Nothing to worry about," She smiles. "They're just clearing people out for your party."
Zoe and the Russian buyer who's sitting next to her look at each other confused. The two get up and the Russian buyer picks up her phone and orders for back up in Russian.
"So, you don't know what party they're talking about either?" Zoe asks.
Alex walks over to them. "Alexandra Udinov…."
"Party of two." Nikita finishes punching Zoe in the face causing her to stumble backwards. Alex hits the Russian buyer knocking her to the floor. Zoe pulls out a gun and starts shooting it off, causing Nikita and Alex to duck for cover. Nikita hides behind a curtain while Alex jumps over the bar, hiding behind the counter.
Michael, Owen and Sean are standing by a bar downstairs when they see people running from the club.
"I think it's time to crash the party." Michael says, a worried look on his face. He looks toward the staircase, hoping the girls were okay.
"Wait, look." Owen says motioning over to some security guards running towards the stairs. "We have to stop them from interrupting the girls."
Sean nods. "We don't need any more innocents involved in this."
The boys run over blocking the guards from the staircase.
"Yeah, sorry but you can't go up there." Owen says. Michael and Sean give him a confused look.
A guard frowns. "Move."
"Nah, I'm good." Owen replies then punches him in the face. The guard stumbles backward a bit giving Owen enough time to hit him in the stomach. Another guard tries to attack Sean but he dodges it and hits the guard in the stomach. As the guard doubles over, Sean hits him in the back of the head and the guard falls to the floor unconscious. Two guards go after Michael but he quickly dodges one and throws the other guy into a table. As he tries to get the other guy off of him he notices two guards running up the stairs.
Zoe starts to walk over to the curtains where she saw Nikita run, when two guards enter the room. She points to the curtain telling them that someone was there. One guard walks over to where she is, while the other walks to the counter.
Nikita sneaks away as the guard walks over to the curtain and pulls it back. She creeps up behind him, hitting him in the back, causing him to fall down. Nikita then kicks him again and kicks his gun away from him, grabbing it in the process. Zoe sees her and tries to shoot but Nikita quickly runs out of the way, shooting Zoe with her gun. Zoe falls to the floor, dead.
Meanwhile Alex, is looking over the counter trying to find something to use to protect herself from the guard roaming the other side of the bar. She finds a knife and grabs it. When the guard comes close to her she quickly attacks him then runs over to the still unconscious Russian buyer and grabs the flash drive that had fallen next to her.
"I got the flash drive!" Alex announces. "Come on, lets go get Danforth." She runs toward the door.
"Alex, wait!" Nikita shouts. "What are you doing? It's over, we won. Give me the flash drive." Nikita says.
Alex turns around and stares directly at her. "What? You promised me we would go after Danforth next."
"Yeah, I said we would deal with him…" She looks at Alex confused. "But come on Alex, you can't still want to kill him…" She notices Alex's blank stare. "Alex, this is crazy. We can't kill him. Give me the flash drive. Let's go home."
"No, this is what he wants…" Alex says, enraged.
Nikita looks at her confused. She notices a change in Alex's demeanor, the girl held on to the flash drive so tightly in her hands. "Alex," Nikita says taking a step toward her. "Give me the flash drive. It's over, lets get out of here. Michael, Sean and Owen are waiting for us downstairs."
Alex looks at the flash drive for a moment, hesitating. "No, once we give it to him, he's just going to wipe us out…" She glances up at Nikita. Her eyes flickering with such intensity. "Can't you see? There is no winning with the government."
Nikita stands her ground. "Come on, Alex. It's over." She tries to rationalize. "We stopped the threat, the President will call off the raid."
Alex rolls her eyes. "No! It's not over." Nikita looks at her confused again. "You really trust the government?" She laughs, "After all this? They have a gun to our heads, Nikita! You keep saying you have a choice, that Division is different now, but it's not." She takes a commanding step toward her, "We don't need to win…"Alex trails off, realizing the inevitable. As much as Nikita tries, Division will never be saved. She had to end it now, once and for all. Nikita stares at her, trying to figure out what was going through Alex's head. "We need to survive." Alex says, holding out the flash drive. "You see this? This is how we survive. We can use this as leverage."
"You want to blackmail the President?" Nikita asks, shocked. What was Alex thinking.
"No." Alex replies, "I'm going to kill Danforth, and make sure he won't stand in our way anymore…" Nikita notices how Alex kept trailing off, her mind obviously somewhere else.
"Alex-" Nikita tries to snap her out of her trance.
"I'm not going to let him stand in our way!" Alex screams.
Nikita stares at her, shocked. Who was this person standing in front of her? It sure as hell wasn't the same Alex she thought she knew and loved. "I can't let you do that, Alex." Nikita says, shaking her head. "You'll be starting a war."
"Open your eyes, Nikita. The government has already declared war. It's time we fought back." Alex yells.
"Nikita, Alex. Report, is the target down?" Nikita hears Ryan say through her coms.
Nikita ignores him, focusing her attention on Alex instead. "It's not the same thing, Alex." She speaks, calmly. "The President doesn't really know what went on in Paris." She looks at the girl, pleading. "If we bring her the flash drive, she will call off the raid."
Alex laughs, ignoring what Nikita had to say. "You're so blind." Alex slightly turns her body toward the door. "The President doesn't care about us. Can't you see? Nothing has changed! Division will never change…" She trails off again. Nikita glances at the flash drive in her hand. Alex wasn't giving up. "It's changing us." Alex finally says. "It's changing you." She glances at Nikita one last time.
"What?" Nikita says, baffled. If anyone was changing, it was Alex. She suddenly put all the pieces together. It was obvious now. Alex's behavior had been drastically different ever since they got her back, Amanda must have done something to her, even if Alex doesn't remember. Nikita had to find a way to convince her to snap out of it. She didn't want to hurt her, but she would stop her with force if necessary.
Alex had fully turned toward the door. "Division is evil…" Nikita hears her say. "It always will be… there's no changing that. I know what to do now. I'm going to stop it." Alex continues to say in a trance-like way. Nikita watches as Alex attempts to leave. Panicking, she runs toward the door, blocking Alex's path. "Get out of my way, Nikita! You can't stop me." Alex screams, determination in her voice. She had to stop Division and killing Danforth was the first step in doing so. It starts with him, and ends with Nikita.
"You can't do this! You can't just walk out this door and leave me hanging here… Alex! You need to snap out of this, you're not thinking rationally."
"No, I am! For once in my life, it's finally clear! Division needs to be shut down!" Alex shouts, erratically. She tries to push passed Nikita."Move!" She screams, on the verge of insanity. Nikita continues to block her path. She watches as Alex gets angrier. "I have to do this! Move!"
"Alex, what is wrong with you? You have to tell me what happen in Romania…"
"Romania? What are you talking about?" Alex asks, confused.
"You still don't remember?"
Alex shakes her head. "Stop trying to confuse me." She looks down, shaking her head again.
Nikita looked at her worried. "I'm not trying to confuse you, Alex. I'm trying to help you remember so you can stop fighting me." Alex stayed silent, still fighting off her headache. Nikita grabs her shoulders, forcing her to look her in the eyes. "Tell me, Alex! What did Amanda do to you!"
"Amanda has nothing to do with this!" Alex screams, annoyed at Nikita's efforts to confuse her.
"Alex, come in. Why aren't you responding to your com?" She hears Ryan in her ear. Momentarily distracted, Nikita uses this opportunity to quickly knock the flash drive out of her hands.
Alex looks at her shocked. Nikita glances in the direction the flash drive had landed in and back at Alex. She had to get to it before her. Nikita quickly runs toward it. "No!" Alex screams as she tackles Nikita into the bar, sending them both flying over it. Glasses shattering as they landed on the ground.
From downstairs, Michael, Sean and Owen heard a loud crash, followed by a terrifying screaming sound.
"What was that?" Owen turns to face the other two.
Sean had just finished knocking out the last security guard. "Alex?" He says alarmed. He shares a look with Michael.
"Michael." He hears Ryan call his name through the coms.
"What is it?" Michael replies, kicking a guard in the face who was still conscious and trying to get up.
Ryan sigh in relief at the sound of his voice. "Good, you can still hear me."
"What's wrong?" Sean asks.
"I can't contact the girls, they're not responding to their coms." Ryan says. "I thought it was a connection error but Birkhoff says they're still online."
Michael glances at Owen and Sean. "I don't like the sound of this." They hear another crashing sound upstairs.
"We better go crash the party." Owen says. Michael and Sean agree.
They race up the stairs, finding Alex and Nikita battling each other on the ground. Broken glass from the bar was scattered everywhere.
"What is going on in here?" Michael shouts.
Nikita looks up at him distracted. Alex quickly grabs another knife off of the bar and pulls Nikita into a chokehold, with the blade against her throat.
"Alex!" Sean screams. He tries to run up to her but Michael holds him back.
"Whoa, there. Alex, what are you doing? Put that knife down."
"Michael-" Nikita tries to say.
"Shut up!" Alex screams, she presses the knife harder against Nikita's throat, threatening to draw blood.
Michael's eyes grow wide. He tries to approach the two girls.
Alex points the knife at him. "Stand back!" She shouts, trying to back up into a corner with Nikita.
"What is going on in here?" Owen asks, shocked at the scene.
Michael looks at him and back at the girls. He glances between the two, noticing Alex's erratic behavior. He catches Nikita's gaze and puts the pieces together. "Stand back guys, don't make any sudden movements, she's clearly not herself right now. We don't want to scare her."
"Alex, just put the knife down and let's talk this out. What are you doing?" Sean asks calmly.
"I can't let her do this…" Alex replies.
"Do what?" Owen asks.
Alex's eyes flicker toward the flash drive on the ground. Sean picks it up. "Is this what you want?" He asks her.
"Yes, Sean you understand don't you?" He looks at her confused. "Danforth wants to wipe us out Sean, you saw the SEALs. Your former unit..."
"Yeah, I saw them, but-"
"They have a gun to our heads! We can't let them control us, we can use that flash drive as leverage and kill him!" She replies crazed.
"Kill him? Who said anything about killing Danforth?" Owen questions.
"He's the only one the President briefed about Division. If we take him out, that'll buy us some time."
"Time to do what?" Michael asks.
"It'll give us some time to shore up our defenses and tell people to run. Then finally, Division can be shut down. Permanently."
"Alex." Nikita tries to say.
"Shut up!" Alex snaps at her.
"Hey! Calm down." Sean tries to approach her again. Michael gives him a warning glare, but Sean ignores him. "I want Division shut down as much as anyone but killing people is not the way to do it… put the knife down, Alex."
Alex stares at him, scared. She starts to back away, pulling Nikita with her. "Don't-"
"What happen to you, Alex? The Alex I know would never be holding a knife to her best friend's throat like this."
"She's…" Alex pauses, shaking her head. Another headache starting to form. "Nikita's changed. Division is changing us. It's just not right anymore. I can't just stand by and watch us get pushed around." She looks at Sean. "Division is evil and it needs to be destroyed."
"You're right." Sean says.
"What?" Owen says, glancing at Sean.
"Division does need to be shut down." He glances at everyone in the room. "And it will be, I promise you that Alex… but you need to put that knife down first. You're not thinking clearly. Nikita is not the enemy, we need to focus on finding the Dirty Thirty. That is how we shut down Division."
"Sean's right." Michael says. "Theres still rouge agents out there."
"Shut up!" Alex snaps. She tries to back away more, holding the knife tighter around Nikita's neck. She backs up into the bar. With no more room to move, Alex starts to panic. Sean, Michael and Owen had her surrounded. There was no way she was going to escape them and get the flash drive.
"Come on Alex, it's over. Let's go home." Sean says.
"What home?" Alex glares at him, a strain in her voice. "Division is not a home."
Sean looks at her with sadness. After all the stories he had heard from Nikita in the past few days, he finally understood all that Alex had gone through before he had met her. She had been running away for so long, she never knew what a home was.
"Home is with us, Alex. Come with us, we won't hurt you." Michael says. "Just put the knife down and let Nikita go."
"I can't. It's too late." Alex says, on the verge of tears. She was breaking down.
"No, it's never too late. You can do this." Sean tries to approach her again. He holds out his hand. "Give me the knife." Alex shakes her head. "Come on, it's me. What are you doing? I'm not going to hurt you."
"Get out of my head!" She screams, "I know what I'm doing!"
"Alex, please!" Sean begs, "Look at me! You can't kill her."
"No." Alex looks away. "I have to stop her."
Sean looks at her. He sighs, tired of trying to reason with her. He knew it wasn't working. "Alex, please." Sean begs one last time.
"Alex, what happen to you?" Michael asks. "This isn't you."
"What happen to me?" Alex laughs. "What happen to all of you?"
"I'm not the one holding a member of our team hostage." Michael counters. He glances at Nikita, worried.
"Nothing happened to me! I know what I'm doing!"
"You keep saying we've changed, but you have too." Owen says to Alex. She glares at him. "Amanda changed you. Try to think, what did she do to you?"
"Stop! Just stop lying. Amanda didn't do anything to me, I don't know what you're talking about!" Alex screams. "You think I can't decide on my own, that Amanda had to have done something to me? Stop trying to make up excuses."
"She doesn't remember." Sean says to Michael and Owen.
"Alex, put the knife down." Michael says calmly.
"Stay back!" Alex screams. "You can't stop me! I need to do this!"
"Do what Alex?" Sean asks. "What are you trying to prove by holding Nikita hostage? Let her go. We're not going to hurt you." Alex looks at everyone conflicted, but she couldn't stop herself. Her grip on the knife tighten subconsciously, like she couldn't control herself. Sean tries to catch her attention again. He knew it was a crazy idea but he had to try. "Put the knife down, Alex…" He says staring deep into her eyes. "We can walk away."
She looks up at him, for a moment he see a glimpse of hope. But the moment was soon shattered. "I can't do that." Alex says, shaking her head. "It's too late… I can't go back."
"Yes you can, you can do this. We don't need to go back. Let's just get out of here. You and me. We can go, run away with me." He says approaching her slowly. "All you have to do is give me the knife."
Michael and Owen stare at him shocked. Was Sean really thinking about running away with a crazy person? They can't let Alex go, she needed help.
"No, I can't." Alex says, her body shaking. "We were supposed to shut this place down." She says speaking to Nikita, tears starting to form. "You and me, that's what you told me. Why did you keep it running?"
"Alex… I'm sorry." Nikita tries to say. Alex presses the knife even harder, threatening to draw blood at any moment. Michael's eyes grow wide. He needed to do something.
"Alex, you need to think about what you're doing." He says. "Killing Nikita won't solve anything."
"If Nikita dies, Division dies too! It ends here!"
"No it won't, it won't end here. You're going to have to kill me too, and Ryan, Sean, Birkhoff, Owen… everyone in Division." Michael says.
"What?" Alex asks confused. "No…" She says shaking her head. "This doesn't make any sense! It ends with her!"
"Is this what Amanda told you?" Sean says trying to approach her again.
"Stay back!" She points the knife at him.
"We need to do something." Michael says to Sean.
"Do what? We can't shoot her."
"Stay back!" Alex warns again, she was getting too aggravated.
Sean tries to approach her again, she brings the knife back up to Nikita's neck. "I'll do it!"
"Whoa, wait a second." Owen exclaims. "I don't know what messed up mind crap Amanda did to you, but you got to listen to me." Alex stares at him. "We can help you."
"You can't help me!"
"Amanda has you brainwashed, Alex. This isn't you." Sean says. "Let us help you."
"You're lying!" Alex screams, pointing the knife at him again. "I know what I'm doing! I don't need any help!"
"No, I'm not Alex. Trust me."
"I can't trust anyone!" She cries. "Not even my own memories."
"You can trust me. I love you, Alex." Sean begs.
She looks at him, her eyes pleading for help. "This isn't real. I need to end this right now. It's the only way." Alex brings the knife back to Nikita's neck.
Sean pulls out his gun. Alex's blue eyes find his. "Alex, don't make me do this." He pleads. "I don't want to hurt you."
She stares him, with all hope lost she lifts the knife in the air, ready to slice Nikita.
Sean aims his gun, a single bullet shot off.
WHAAAAATTTT! You did not see that coming did you! Alex has gone crazy, Sean may or may have not shot Alex and Mr. Mysterious Man has a name! JR! So much is going on and so much more is on it's way! Be prepared!
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