Hello everyone, missed me as I missed you, Red and Maya?
Here's a new chapter :)
Maya walked down the street few blocks away from her residence. She approached a phone booth looking around herself. When she found no one was in the street in that late hour of the night, she got the newspaper out of her purse and checked it, before she dials the number. She waited till she hears the female voice. She said quickly, "This is the white daisy."
The woman asked her, "What's the colour of the sky on Mars?"
Maya replied, "Red."
Mr. Kaplan asked her, "What's your emergency, White Daisy?"
Maya sighed, "I got important information. It's urgent."
Mr. Kaplan replied, "Go home, White Daisy. I'll see what I can do."
Maya sighed again and hung up. She moved her hand through her hair tresses and moved back to her place.
Before she reaches it, she heard her phone ringing. She stopped and got it out of her pocket. It wasn't a saved number. She could guess it was him.
She replied fast, "Adam."
She heard his voice, "Hello, my dear. You wanted to talk to me?"
She held her phone tightly, "Raymond, how are you?"
He sighed, "I'm fine, Maya. Are you okay? I thought we had a deal to keep this protocol only for emergency?"
She nodded, "It's emergency. I was surfing the internet, when I found something you mostly will be interested in. This is why I called."
She heard him, "I'm listening."
She explained, "A bounty was put for Lizzie's head. On the Internet."
For seconds, she didn't hear him, before he says in calm voice, "Okay, Adam. This is very urgent. It was a right decision to call. Thank you, Maya. I'll see what I can do."
She whispered, "You need any help?"
He replied, "I'll be in touch. Take care."
She hung up with him and moved towards her building.
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Early in the morning, Maya got up when she heard her phone ringing on the bedside table. She held it, it was Aram. She answered, "Aram? Something has happened?"
She heard him, "Maya, Mr. Reddington has just brought us a new name."
She wondered, "Red called?"
Aram replied slowly, "No, he's visited Ressler. Asked him for help to protect Agent Keen from our new name."
She jumped of her bed, "I'll be with you in less than thirty minutes."
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Maya got inside the black site to find Aram sitting to his computer, "Aram, what happened? What was that shooting? Is it related to Keen?"
He waved to her to keep calm till he finishes his phone call.
She listened to him talking, "Agent Navabi is on her way... NYPD has confirmed two fatalities... No, oh, God, no. Agent Keen stole a car and left it 10 blocks from the scene."
She listened to him giving information before he hangs up and looks at her. She asked him, "So, if two person has died in that shooting and Liz had survived. What about Red? Anything about him?"
He looked at her amazed, "He was just talking to me."
She stared at him in rage, "Damn it, Aram. Why didn't you let me talk to him?"
He shrugged, "He didn't give me a chance. He's just hung up when I told him about the gunsmith who makes Wendigo's weapons. We don't even know where we can find him."
She hit the desk with her hand, "That's Raymond. Of course he has his own way to find him."
Few hours later, Navabi rushed into the office, "Any news about that guy who was found dead in the street?"
Maya replied fast, "NYPD is still trying to confirm he was the Wendigo. But traffic cameras confirmed Red and Keen were in the vicinity. Also agents in the scene forwarded a hard drive found in his apartment."
Aram turned his screen to Samar so she can watch. She wondered, "What am I looking at?"
Aram explained, "An advertisement for a hit-man."
Maya didn't respond as she's already knew it from last night. Besides she worked with Aram on it and figured out all details together, including the laptop disappeared from Wendigo's place. The one that mostly Red and Keen had took.
As Aram was explaining to Samar, the phone rang. Maya rushed to answer it. She heard Red's voice, "Aram, I have a name for you."
She panted, "Raymond, are you okay?"
He didn't respond for a second then continued, "Gavrilo Princip, the screen name of the site creator. Get him."
He didn't wait to hear her, but hung up so she did too writing down the name.
Few minutes later, the man was already with them in the black site, being interrogated by Navabi with the help of Aram.
Maya sighed, "Okay. So we have the site creator, but we can't bring it down because of that guy, Arioch Cain, who nominated her to be assassinated. We have a two key system that we can't breakdown. Only that Cain can do it."
Aram sighed, "Yes. And we now have Princip's key, but we're lacking Cain's."
She shrugged moving to her computer, "Then, let's find our guy."
Before her hand reaches the keyboard, the phone rang again, so she answered fast, "Agent Adam."
She heard Red, "Tell me she's off the site."
She replied hesitated, "Red, we couldn't. It's..."
He cut her off in rage, "I gave you the name of the man created the site two hours ago. Haven't you found him?"
She replied fast as she watched Aram working on his computer, "No, we got him. But it's a two-key system. He's only one of the keys. The other key is Arioch Cain, the person who put her on the site. We can't find him unless we follow the money, and there's no money to follow until the bounty is put in escrow. Raymond, I'm so sorry. The only way they're taking Lizzie's name off the site is if she's dead."
Raymond listened to her carefully, before he replied firmly, "Well, we're just going to have to kill her."
She yelled not believing, "What? Did you just say you're going to kill her?!"
Aram and Samar stared at her shocked. She heard Red's yelling at her, "Maya, listen to me very carefully. This is what I need you to do. I'm going to fake her death and publish the pictures. You let that guy you have enter his pass key to confirm that Wendigo killed Lizzie. When he does it, Arioch Cain will enter his pass key to release the will send the money to Wendigo so we can trace it and find him. You got that?"
Maya nodded, "That sounds perfect. Good luck with killing her and I'll be ready for my part."
After less than an hour, photos of dead Liz were all over the Internet.
Maya called Red who turned on his speaker, so Liz held Wendigo's laptop, "The website said, kill confirmed?"
Maya turned on the speaker as well, so Aram can share conversation with them, "Okay, Princip's admin site should automatically release the funds into escrow. When they do, Wendigo should get an email with a link to a routing number. Now the actual funds won't be available for 32 hours."
Maya continued, "But the routing number can be traced to give us an address."
Liz yelled, "Hang on, I got the email."
Aram commented, "Read me the routing number."
Before Liz replied, Red spoke, "Thank you, guys. That will be all."
He hung up with them without even saying goodbye as usual.
Aram looked at Maya astonished. She nodded, "That's my man. He will deal with it from here."
Few hours later, Ressler was back from his presidential commission. He was briefed about their day. He looked at them, "You've made the right call. Not only Keen is safe, but the site is down. And we have leads on four assassins we didn't know exited."
Maya looked at him confused, "We thought you'd be furious?"
He shook his head, "I'm not. Actually I was scared."
He sighed, "For a moment, I thought Liz has already gone."
His eyes got blurred with tears, so Aram held him patting his back. Maya sighed sad of the idea, before Deputy Attorney General got into Ressler's office, "Agent Ressler, when you have a moment."
He followed her and they all got out back to their desks.
Few minutes later, Maya, Aram and Samar got shocked when they saw Ressler coming out to them accompanying the CIA director, who looked smug while Ressler eyes were glowing in rage. The two approached them as Ressler briefed, "We've been ordered from now on, to share Intel. Anything and everything relating to whereabouts of Reddington and Keen."
Maya could feel her heart beating very strong. The man greeted them with a nod as Ressler introduced them all to him. He scanned them and fixed his gaze on Maya's belly for a moment, before he raises his eyes to her face. She swallowed hard and ceased breathing, till he moved away with Ressler. Samar moved to her desk, and Aram looked at Maya amazed, "What was that?"
Maya shook her head confused, "I don't know. You think he knows?"
Aram looked at her abdomen then asked worried, "You mean, he knows about your relationship with Mr. Reddington?"
She nodded, "Maybe?"
He moved his gaze to the man away from them, "I think you need to be careful, Adam."
She had a deep breath and nodded, before she wishes them good night and leaves to her home.
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On her way back to home, her phone rang. She answered, "Agent Adam."
She heard Red's soft voice, "Hello, sweetie. Are you home yet?"
She sighed, "Red, how are you doing, my love?"
She could hear his smiling voice, "I'm fine. Actually I have good news I wanted to share with you."
She asked curious, "I'm listening."
He didn't speak for a second then continued, "Dembe. I found him. Actually, he found us. He had some injuries, but he's going to be okay."
She sighed, "This is great. Say hello to him."
Another moment of silence passed, before Red asks concerned, "Something wrong, Maya?"
She stopped her car in front of her building and replied slowly, "Something happened today. Something I don't feel good about."
He started to get worried as he asked, "What happened?"
She moved her hand through her hair, "The director, he joined us today in the office."
He furrowed his brows, "What do you mean?"
She sighed, "Ressler was ordered to share with him every single detail about you and Liz from now on. He came to the black site and met us all."
Red replied, "That will make things more difficult to you but interesting to me. Listen to me, Maya. I need you to be very careful. I'll have to stop contacting you, to not to put you in danger. You all might be traced or bugged. This man is very dangerous and will do anything to get rid of me and anyone connected to me."
Maya swallowed, "Raymond, you're scaring me."
He replied firmly, "You've got to be scared, Adam, so you'd be careful."
She sighed again, "I'll try to be, Raymond. I'll miss you."
She could see him smiling as he replied, "I love you, Maya."
As usual he hung up with her before she can tell him she loves him too.
Maya got out of her car, walked to the front door of the building, when she felt someone walking too close behind her. She tried to turn back to see who was that, but a piece of cloth soaked with aromatic smell was put on her nose and mouth. She gasped panicked before everything turns black and she collapsed.