(NOTE): hello dear readers,
Things are heating up. Enjoy the chapter.
Chapter 29: Divide and conquer.
They moved surrounding the club. They booked a room in the hotel that overlooks the Ivory Street and another one on the opposite side from where Caitlyn is positioned right now. She adjusts her scope to look at it.
"Hi boss" Ashe sends the usual three delayed signals and greets through the radio. Caitlyn smiles and moves her scope on the garage next to the club.
"You have eyes on garage on your left?" she scans the area and there are no guards around it, but a lot on cameras
"Negative. The entrance is on alfa's view" Ashe reports.
"The Heartseekers are inside" Quinn informs. It was quite the ridicules name they came up with without the Night Hunter's knowledge. Caitlyn switches her attention to the two women that just entered the club. They are going dark and Caitlyn doesn't know what will happen inside.
Viktor readjusted Cassiopeia's necklace and attacked a devise that will send a distress signal if they confirm Petal's presence.
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"Don't you think it will risk my cover?"
Fate takes of his hat and places it on his knee as he cross his legs. Khada Jhin pours tea to the three of them while the violin music softly runs in the room. The fake Jhin the FBI caught is now being transported into a maximum CIA prison. They brought someone that looks slightly like Khada Jhin, brainwashed him, probably Thorn's doing, and then made him believe to be someone which he is not.
"Your cover is safe as long as you don't draw any attention to yourself" his features are hardened and his face stays immobile even when he speaks.
Jericho Swain has one rule. If you have power then I need your trust, if I don't trust you then you're are the enemy. Fate stares at a man that never went through the trouble of disposing of lackeys with his own hands. This man has power Fate yet to witness and not willing to cross. Their association is based on keeping his pockets full as long as he gives them solid intel on the FBI's movements. Especially the non-existing team that is secretly operating inside of the FBI, the CCRSB unit.
"I am constantly informing you about their plans and every time they get close, you people disappear. How is that not going to bring any attention to my cover?"
"They are searching for a needle in a hay stack. Petal is not easily found. The CIA was on him for almost three years. He knows what to do."
There were so many times that he almost told Caitlyn about his involvement with swain. He wanted to remove the burden from his shoulders, but he knew that the moment he speaks, a bullet with his name on it will be fired by the man serving them tea right now.
"His bitch ass only escaped because of my warnings."
"SQWAAK."
The bird perched on the small tree behind Swain stretches its black wings. It looks at Fate with blood eyes as if warning him to speak with more respect. It tilts its head from side to side waiting for him to speak again.
"Timing is everything, mister Fate."
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She follows her inside and the woman halts and turns around. She looks like she has something to say. Her eyes are filled with words Vayne wanted to dive in them and understand what they were. Then she resumes their walk through the corridor and enter the main hall. It was like a fashion show, but instead of clothes that wear displayed by models, there were women and men walking around and dancing to the music with dirty moves.
The audience have their faces obscured by masks to keep their identities hidden from one another. Only the staff are aware of who is inside and where exactly they are. Vayne looks to her right and finds Cassiopeia's eyes scanning the area. She can't see her face, but her eyes say it all. She reaches with hand for the woman's and finally she looks her way. Vayne's mask left her lower face exposed and she smiles at her. The green-eyed presses her hand on Vayne's as if thanking her.
"Want to go somewhere more quite?" she nears her and places a her lips on the back of Cassiopeia's hand. She nods and the beauty leads them upstairs to the VIP area.
There are more guards here than the lower floor, they are also armed unlike the ones she saw before. He must be near.
Cassiopeia opens the door to a room and they get inside, she immediately takes off her mask and drops on the settee. Vayne closes the door and checks the room. There was a dancing pool, a bed with red sheets and a wall filled with alcohol. She sits next to her. Vayne gets caught by the floral perfume she so hard forced her mind to adjust to it, but it was of no use. She turns to look at her and finds her distracted again. Vayne takes her hand and the woman finally looks her way.
"Why aren't you looking at me?"
Cassiopeia smiles and Vayne's mind start building more space to hold that smile as long as it can inside of it.
"Can I take you home after this?" her eyes are reflecting the light creating a dreamway made of green and only green around her, how am I supposed to decline this? How is she going to ever say no to her?
"It depends" she replies hoping to keep up with her, she can't keep up with her. Cassiopeia is incredible and if she learned anything from the meetings she has already seen her in, then it the art of playing with words like they are the deadliest weapon. She is perfect that way.
"hmm, I am cooking" the green-eyed interwind their fingers and pulls her hand up and kisses its back.
"You? Cook?" yeah, right like she will ever touch anything in the house. She at least has ten servants at her apartment, pent-house.
"Of course I can, what kind of person do you take me for?"
"I don't know, pampered?"
"First, how dare you and second, I will show you that I indeed can cook. That is if you are willing to accept my invitation" she says and Vayne can hear the confidence in her words.
"Sounds interesting, but I am one-hundred present sure you don't even know how to boil an egg" she counters trying to tease her. Cassiopeia is relentless and Vayne likes it. She keeps staring at her as if daring to even grin at her for saying she cannot cook.
"This conversation is over. You are simply rude" the green-eyed looks away and removes her hand from Vayne's and she chuckles and grabs it back. She pulls her near and her face ended in the woman's neck. Her lips are touching the skin and her nose inhaled the seductive perfume, Vayne closes her eyes savouring what she feels when she is around her.
"Talk to me" she whispers in her ear and her shoulders shoot up attempting to block the hot air that harmed her ear. Cassiopeia keeps ignoring her and Vayne moves closer to her erasing every space that was between the two of them "Come on."
"You are a horrible person" the woman speaks when she turns.
The door opens and they separate. Cassiopeia's face lose all its colours when she saw him. In fact, these colours were replaced by red. People call her perfect for the ways she can hide her emotions and speaks with ultimate truth, But there came a day when she found herself unable mask the hurt, unable to just switch on her happy side and act as if nothing wrong had ever happened... and that is where her problems began. This hideous looking person. He is a prince charming on the outside with a smile that fools every woman. And he is also disgusting and filthy from the insides. Vladimir, also known as Petal enters the room and his smile is from ear to ear.
"To what do I owe the pleasure of having the most beautiful woman in Valoran in my night-club?"
"Vladimir!" she calls his name acting surprised "I thought you sold the club. It is both pity and disappointing to think you still own such successful establishment."
It is showing on his face. A man that doesn't like a woman that challenge him.
"Not only did your father made a fool out of me, but now I must listen to you" he is greedy. Emotions were something alien to him, he barely understood his own let alone anyone else's. he is the guy that has the sort of face you forget even while you're looking at it.
"It might be a good idea. Some people do learn from their mistakes."
"An insignificant incompetent filth like you should respect her betters. We were at the verge of winning and your father coward like a dog and kissed the CIA's ass" his true self takes control. He barks like dog and shames whatever that makes him feel better. It's disgusting how he is counted a human being. This person had no value for human life "Get out of my property, traitor."
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"Target conformed" Caitlyn heard the Hunter speak after she had left.
"Leave. I don't want to see you around. That is an order" she didn't get a reply. The Hunter understands that she never orders her around, but this different. She wants the Du Couteau out of the scene before thing get dirty.
"Boss. We are in position" alfa informs. The entrance to the club is meant for guests. Vladimir enters through a different one. Graves, Parks and Quinn are alfa. Vi is with Ashe and Jayce is waiting in a car to pick her up.
"Wait for the target to show. Don't let him leave the garage" she orders and her eyes are watching the flank. Making sure no-one is suspecting anything.
"Unusual movements from three o'clock" Grey warns and she whips her sniper rifle around and to the right and finds three black vans entering the garage.
"He is being picked up. Move!" she removes her sniper and runs outside of the building to where Jayce is waiting to pick her up.
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Hearing the SAC's orders, the three of them run towards the garage's entrance.
"Hostile taget in sight" Quinn calls. She was fast. Sliding under the door before it shuts. She points her gun and runs before the camera spots her. The guard that is in charge of the door was knocked out fast and she hides.
"In position" she calls through the radio informing Graves and Parks that she is ready to reopen the door if she spots Vladimir.
"I don't know how the FBI agent got inside here, but I want guards everywhere" she hears Vladimir shout at one of his henchmen.
"Eyes on Petal."
He gets inside of the black Van. The garage's door opens and a bullet flew though the moment Caitlyn found the driver. It was a clean shot, Quinn confirmed and with one word through the radio, boy Ezreal shut the power down, a smoke-screen was thrown and quite shots were fired from Lucian's guns as he puts down all the guards in sight.
"No sight on reinforcements" Ashe keeps a look out from her point.
"Power will be back in 2 minutes. Now or never" Graves is already at the driver's seat. He open the door and throws the lifeless corpse on the ground and points his shotgun at Vladimir.
The side door open and Quinn and Lucian enter, also pointing their guns at his face.
"The CCRSB unit" he smirks as if he owns the situation "It is nice to finally meet all of you."
"Shut your mouth" Lucian sits in front of him and they lock the doors. Graves had taken off and they leave the garage heading for Viktor's place.
"Boss, we have Petal."
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She ends the call after Caitlyn had informed her. She walks to the kitchen to find the woman preparing to cook.
"We have him" Vayne says and stands next to her. She looks dazed, in her mind somewhere else. What is she thinking about? So Vayne reaches with her finger to removes ther hair and tucks it behind her ear. She leans in and places a kiss on her cheek. "You're ignoring me."
"I was just thinking about Vladimir. Why did he lets us go?" she is right. If there is a mole inside of the FBI then he should have killed her in her place. It's as if he didn't want to risk something and they don't know about it.
"He will never see the day light again. Viktor's place is secret only the members of the team know of its existence. No-one will find him there" she is trying to make her relax, but nothing is working. "Hey" she makes her look at her. She bring her close and hugs her, wanting to comfort her. Cassiopeia feels amazing. Everything is safe about her. Even though, normally, this woman would be cunning, Vayne likes to be around her. "What are you making?"
She shoots up one perfect eye-brow "It's a secret, that I am not willing to share" she licks the spoon and Vayne's hearts beats uncontrollably. Damn it, she swallows. She just wanted to make her feel better and now she was caught off guard by the pair of shining emeralds.
"I can't eat what I don't recognise" she says lowly trying to keep the woman off of her lips.
That is when the doorbell rings.
"I am not expecting anyone" she walks to it and Vayne stops her. She places her finger across her lips motioning for her to stay quite. Vayne gets her gun out of her coat and walks next to Cassiopeia to the door.
Cassiopeia will actually take the gun and shoots the person that had inter-
Her father. He is standing on the other side of the door. She turns to Vayne "That is my father" she lowly speaks dragging the woman to her room. "Stay here" she tells her and closes the door.
"Mister Du Couteau. What a pleased visit" she greets her father kissing both his cheeks. He doesn't look pleased. He gets inside and Talon follows him. The ass, smirks as if he knew one of her secrets and threatens to spill it out to their father.
"I know she is here. Go get her" he speaks when they are in all inside.
"She? Katarina is on a mission" she plays dumb.
"Shauna Vayne came here fifteen minutes ago and I saw her enter the building."
Cassiopeia felt the panic begin like a cluster of spark plugs in her abdomen. Tension grew in her face and limbs made her think of the possible outcomes. There are none. Her father ordered and she can't play around it. She will have to obey and there are no other ways to delay what will happen.
The door opens to her bedroom and the agent shows herself.
"How dare you come here tonight?" his voice is hazardous. Will he actually shoot her? or will he order Talon to? Cassiopeia gets by her side and takes her hand.
"I invited her. What's so wrong about that?"
"Did you even ask her where she was tonight? Go ahead, agent. Tell your lover where you were before you got here" his eyes will set the apartment on fire. Cassiopeia holds her arm tight using part of her body to cover the agent's.
"Father, wha-"
"I wasn't talking to you" she is afraid. Her heart racing faster. The thoughts are accelerating inside her head. She wants them to slow so she can breathe but they won't.
"Say something. You pathetic human being. You are a decrease to the FBI. How could you come to an endangered civilian's home after declaring war with the same people that want us dead" part of her wants to scream at her father for speaking to her like that.
"Don't leave" she begs against her lips. Right now, she doesn't give any single fuck if her father is watching her so close to the agent. She wanted her to stay, she wanted to talk more to her. She wanted to hear more of her voice, see more of the different colours of her eyes and admire that small grin she always send her way.
The agent backs away and takes her hands, she kisses them both and Cassiopeia will lose her mind if she to just walk away. Her kisses are full of apologies and her eyes and doing the same.
"Cassiopeia" she hears her father call her name.
"Give me a minute. There is something I want to say" she walks grabbing her hand taking them outside of the apartment. She closes the door behind them and throws herself at her. She holds her tight in her place, why is her heart beating so fast? Why is it celebrating with excitement when she hugs her. Gods, she likes her. Cassiopeia can't believe it, but she wants say it. The agent is already leaving.
They pull away and she takes her face with her hands and watches the way Vayne kisses every inch of her palms. Those sweet lips she wanted to find out the secret to their gravity tonight and she was denied.
"I was going to have you to myself" she has had enough with her. Done playing around with each of her feelings and wanted to settle this once and for all "Don't you think this is over, agent" she loves the way she seduces Vayne. She loves the way the woman react to her.
"It's your fault" her voice is shaky her eyes are intense. She is not the type that like to be cocky or play around, Cassiopeia came to the conclusion that the simple, yet so mysterious woman, is very straightforward about the things she wants.
"You're blaming me? when you're the one running away from me" she takes full of her coat and pushes her hard against the wall. She can't stand it, the way her body would fit so perfectly into Vayne's. How her blood boils when she touches her. She wants everything about her. Cassiopeia wants everything about this woman. If its lust driven or love.
All of the sudden the agent moves and she doesn't know how, but she is against the wall facing it. Both of her hands are held together behind her lower back.
"look who's talking, the one who seduces me and leaves me dreaming about her" Cassiopeia knew it, this woman is hopeless. So she struggles against her grip demanding for the agent to let go of her and Vayne backs.
"Dream about me?" her voice got higher, she shoves her with both hands and the agent stumbles backward, her wrists were caught by Vayne's hands making her stop "I am looking for you in reality and you go…dream about me?!"
In her defence Vayne has never asked for this. She has never asked for this gorgeous woman to be in her life fighting with her without them being in a real relationship. What the fuck are they even fighting about? It makes her angry how the green-eyed is making her fall in love so easily. Why is it even so easy to lose herself around her?
"I hate you" Vayne was taken a-back by the words the green-eyed said. These pierce though her heart like needles. Disturbing its beatings, weakening it into a state she hate herself for. Vayne pulls her in and slams her lips against Cassiopeia's, roughly and their movements are possessive. Casting every thought aside and she only loves her in their meaning. Why is she even kissing her?
"Say it again."
"I hate you."
She shuts her up before other words are spoken. Her head hurts. The thoughts of not wanting to stop kissing her suddenly fill her mind letting Vayne touch the body of a seductive goddess in ways she would naturally never does.
"How much?"
"You have no idea."
Vayne preps her head to the side, but Cassiopeia's tongue is already lashing on her lips licking them. She greets the source to her addiction with her own. A hand on her wrist makes her stop when her hands roam the woman's body.
"Don't touch me."
"Has anyone ever told you that you're insatiable?" it's almost like calling it love, when they both are aware that the other is uncappable of saying the one thing that will drive her crazy.
"You are being unfair" Vayne keeps on kissing her while the back of her neck is being assaulted by the claws that sink in almost getting under her skin to the point of drawing blood. Her hand goes on the woman's side gripping on it.
Cassiopeia lets a sharp sound out when Vayne presses on her. She can't take it any longer. If she can't show her that she is beautiful, then she will tell her that.
Cassiopeia can't keep her like this. She wishes she can stay with her like this. She also wishes to take back the three words and eight letters she said. Switch one word with the other and it will be what she really wanted to say.
"You should go" she looks down, how is she going to forget about her?
The last thing she felt are the lips kissing her hand for the millionth time and the last thing she saw is her form disappearing from the view.
Cassiopeia heads inside and closes the door. She lean against the wall and her breaths came in gasps and she feels like she will black out. Her heart is hammering inside her chest like it belongs to a rabbit running for its skin. The room spins and she squats on the floor, trying to make everything slow to something her brain and body can cope with.
She recollect herself. Walks and finds her father pouring himself a drink "Are you happy now?" she takes the drink from his hand and sits on the couch.
"Not the slightest. Do you even know where she even was just now?" her father sits in front of her and keeps rotating the glass around while it rests on the armchair.
"How would I know that?" another lie she has to use. This is wrong and she despises the way she lies to him.
"They caught Petal tonight. Your brother tells me they did it soundlessly and not even the Lightshield prince knows about it" if Talon was keeping an eye on the team, then he must know she was there…did he keep it a secret? Or did he simply not see her?
"Wait, so you are not against me being with her?"
"Just stay away from her for now. Swain will do anything to get his bitch back" Talon sits next to her and smiles. No. that wasn't a smile to comfort her, he was gloating.
"And after that?"
"She is half spoiled rich woman with family issues and half FBI agent with no real identity. You will love one side and hate the other, but do it after we Kill Swain or destroy Noxus."
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Pale as the skin of a glass of milk. His eyes are as early as any sharpened weapon dipped in poison. Then he lays double-entendres into his speech, never wavering his calculated glare.
"Khada Jhin. I am sure your leader sent him to kill me. Would you be a dear and tell me where I can find him?" Caitlyn knew about it all. That kind of guy will not be captured easily because he miscalculated the agents timings. He was supposed to be caught.
But they miscalculated one thing, her death. They wanted her dead in that encounter.
"You are not bad…sheriff. Is that what they call you around here?" this is the part where he thinks he is studying her face for a sign of recognition. But Caitlyn was never the type to bite. Not in her words and not in her face. She will never invite him into her head. Unless they are on her terms.
"You are well aware of you position. Don't make this harder for both of us. It is very simple, I ask you questions and you answer" he laughs as if it's the funniest joke he has ever heard in his life.
"Give me your best shot."
(NOTE):
Marcus? Hello? Really? Wtf dude!
I mean he could have kicked her out more nicely.
So as always, thank you for reading and until the next chapter. Which will be out very soon. I hope. I don't know.
