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Nikita sucked in her breath as Owen leveled his gun. She frowned as she heard a noise above. "Owen honey, I am ordering Thai." She heard the sound of keys dropping into a dish. She looked at Owen who slammed his hand against a switch causing the room's door to swing shut, cutting off sound.
"You killed Daniel for them, and here you are doing the same thing," she said not knowing why she felt so betrayed. This is what Division did.
Owen shook his head. "She is not a part of this." He picked up a phone and speed dialed as he kept her in his sights. His face grew puzzled. "Where's Percy?" Snapping his phone shut, he held it tight.
"There's been a coup Owen. Percy doesn't call the shots."
"Why are you here?" he asked agitated.
"Because the only chance any of us have to live free..." she looked up to the ceiling, " to love free is to destroy Percy's legacy, all of it." She took a half step forward.
He took half a step back. "Where's Percy? He's not dead."
"He's alive, but not for long. His chickens are home to roost Owen." She decided to take a chance. "Amanda picked up his private line, didn't she? How long do you think it will take for her to get here and destroy everything, destroy everyone Owen. Your loyalty is now a huge question mark in her mind and that woman upstairs ordering Thai will pay for it."
His eyes darted up and then back. "I have to disappear, like you."
"Yes. Take her with. Find a way to take her with or Amanda will fuck her up to hurt you."
"Like Percy ordered Daniel dead to control you."
"Yes." She looked around. "I swear on Daniel that I will make the black box unusable. I swear that I will rip the fangs out of Division. I swear I will help you run. Help me. Give me the box Owen."
"I killed Daniel, why wouldn't you sell me out?"
"You killed Daniel, but not my knowledge that there is something better beyond Division. You know its true. We have to stop Division. We have to destroy it and walk away from the crater, otherwise, we will be trapped by it forever."
Owen nodded. He lowered his weapon. "She's my life. Percy would have killed her in a heartbeat if he had known." He motioned to a safe. Percy's first black box and his black hole cash reserve." He moved toward it. "I'll give you the box and about a quarter of the funds. I need the rest to get us away."
"I don't need money."
He looked at her. "You will to get the other boxes."
She looked puzzled. "Just how many are there?"
Alex cursed quietly as she realized what she was seeing through the narrow gap around the stopper. She managed to take out a pair of guards who were trying to kill a bug the target had seen in his shower. Hard way it is. She grabbed a long tool and stethoscope and moved back into the hall. She placed the stethoscope against the elevator and knew the vibrations were people making haste for the elevator. She thumped the tool in and began cranking on it to push the doors on her floor apart. The sweat beaded on her forehead as she cranked fast and hard.
Alex almost missed the elevator dropping. She leapt forward through the opening, the tool clattering to the ground beyond the shutting doors. She yanked up the trap and started firing into the car. Bullets whizzed past her and one creased her upper arm. Biting her lip she fired three more times into the car just before the elevator slowed to brake at the lobby. She began the process of climbing the shaft for a way out just as the screaming began below.
She eventually managed to move to a maintenance shaft long enough to tie a bit of her shirt around her upper arm. Alex prayed that Nikita was having a better day. She looked around. The cops would be covering the shaft soon.
She made her way to her room and cleaned up the room and her arm the best she could. Looking around, she knew it would not be enough to keep her under the radar. Alex set a charge against the pipes at the point where they moved between floors. Maybe the blast would keep them too busy to notice. She retied the headscarf she wore as she checked in and threw on her sunglasses. She walked calmly to the stairs and left as the building shook.
Alex pulled out her vibrating phone. "What?" she snarled.
"Bad day?" Nikita asked in an amused tone.
"You have no idea. How did your retrieval go?" Alex shook her head and moderated her tone.
"The guardian was the guy that killed Daniel," Nikita offered quietly.
"You kill him?"
There was a long silence. "He was the hand, but someone else was the one responsible, Alex. It was his job, just like you did yours today. That was Michael's call, not yours." She prayed Alex would start thinking about it.
Alex shook her head. "So what did you do to him?"
"I told him I wanted to be the maid of honor and then I sent him on his way with enough money to disappear."
"You think he will? If he doesn't, you're exposed." Alex was worried now. Nikita's soft heart would get her killed for real.
"He had personal loyalty to Percy. Amanda in charge shortens his life expectancy anyway. He has every reason not to look back."
"Let's hope he doesn't."
"Aw, would you miss me?" Nikita's lips spread in a happy smile.
"I would miss you forever," Alex responded quietly. "I love you Nikita."
Nikita blinked. "I love you too Alex." She shook her head. Alex needed to go back with her head in the game. "Now go kick Michael's ass."
Alex chuckled. "Yes ma'am." She closed the phone with a smile. She looked at her shoulder with a frown. The blood was starting to seep. Time for a little sewing before play.