Chapter 49

New York, I Love You.

"Everything's a choice. Nobody's born good. Nobody's born evil. It's always a choice."
― Tom Hiddleston

After the fight with Sarah, I couldn't help but keep looking at her from the corner of my eye. She had settled back down next to Storm Shadow, and they looked as if they were talking about something important. I could only assume that they were talking about what had just happened before.

I was sitting next to Snake Eyes again, my head rested on the wall with my legs stretched out in front of me. I felt a nudge on my shoulder and I looked over at Snake Eyes.

"Yeah?"

Are you going to tell me what happened?

I sighed and looked over at Sarah who was now playfully punching Storm Shadows shoulder. I looked back at Snake Eyes and figured that the safest thing to do would be to sign back to him.

I turned my body and sat facing towards him I brought my hands up and began.

When Sarah was working with the CIA, she had to do something's for them that she wasn't proud of.

I rubbed my hands over my face and continued.

I guess one day things got to out of hand and she decided that she wanted out. And the only way that she would be able to do that was fake her death.

I looked up at Snake Eyes and he signed back to me. She faked her death? I don't understand.

I pursed my lips, how do I explain this right?

At the time I guess she thought that they were after her or something, and faking her death seemed like the only way out.

I looked back at him. I don't understand what that has to do with her yelling at you.

I snuck a quick look back over at Sarah who was now smiling at Storm Shadow.

Her parents in New York, and she's afraid of what's going to happen. That's just how she deals with tough situations.

Snake Eyes simply nodded as if he understood. I positioned myself correctly in my seat again and looked up at the ceiling of the plane.

"Hey"

I searched the plane for the voice when my eyes met Sarah's.

I gave her a small smile. "Howdie"

She snorted at me "Howdie really?"

"What I'm tired, and it's been a long flight."

She gave me a sympathetic look.

"Sorry I didn't mean-"

"No don't worry about it Carter its ok"

I smiled at her "Since when did you start calling me Carter anyways?"

She leaned forward and rested her head in her hands "Since you started calling me Brandt." She grinned at me. "So what is the deal with New York?"

I crossed my legs and leaned back into my seat. "I actually don't know"

Her eyebrows furrowed "What do you mean you don't know, are we going to sleep on the street? Oh God no trust me, the streets of NY are not a place you want to spend the night sleeping out in the open."

I pursed my lips and reached into my duffel bag for my lap top. I opened it up and typed in a few things until I saw my brother fumbling around in his room cursing himself out for not doing laundry.

"Umm Jason?"

My brother jumped and stumbled over something on the floor and hit it pretty hard.

"Jason? Are you ok?"

I heard a thud and saw Jason slowly climbing up his desk until he sat down in the chair.

"I'm super Aly thanks for asking. What's up?"

I could see Jason scanning his room with his eyes looking for something.

"Jason is everything alright? You seem a little absent minded."

he looked like he didn't hear me, his eyes continued their scan on the room. I looked up and saw Sarah walking towards me, she sat down and leaned her face in close to mine to see what was going on.

"Jason?"

"What oh sorry Al what did you say?"

I rolled my eyes at him "Do you know where we are staying in New York?"

He blinked at me a few times and gave me a nod. He typed a few things into the computer and turned his attention back to me "You are staying at the St. Regis, and you have the umm Royal Suite."

"Shut up."

"Excuse me?"

Jason gave me a weird look and I turned to Sarah. "Sarah what's wrong?"

She jumped out of her chair and had a psychotic grin on her face. "SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP!"

"Aly-"

I just looked at her "Why why why?"

She shoved me playfully "That is the best and most expensive hotel in New York City, and the freaking royal suite?!"

I looked over at Storm Shadow who was looking at Sarah as if she were from another planet-ooh how he had some getting used to, to do.

"So?"

She started walking back in forth "Trust me you'll get it when you see it." She walked back over to me and sat down.

"If you say so." I turned my attention back to my brother. "So what's your story?"

He gave me a funny look "I have no idea what you mean."

"Oh please, what's wrong you have a date or something?"

His eyes widened.

"Oh my God who is it?"

"No- No one Aly."

I gave my brother a look "Fine. If you don't want to tell me who she is, its your life. Just watch yourself ok?"

I could see a slight relief in his eyes "Sure thing Aly" he smiled at me and I gave him a smile back "Talk to you soon Jason."

"Later Aly"

The screen went black and I turned to look at Sarah.

"Little Carter is getting some action"

I punched her in the arm and she flinched.

"Geez take a joke" she rubbed her arm and laughed at me.

The intercom went off announcing that we would be landing, and to get ready.

Sarah walked back to her seat and buckled up. I looked at Snake Eyes, of course with that stoic thing that he had going on.

"Longest flight ever."

He nodded at me and I cracked a smile.

When the plane landed we got off and picked up our car, another van, and made our way to the hotel. After sitting in traffic in the middle of the afternoon, we finally made our way to the St. Regis, we checked in and got our room. We stood in the elevator together, and I had the strangest feeling.

I glanced around the elevator, and saw Snake Eyes standing in front of the doors waiting for it to open; Sarah grabbed Storm Shadows hand and held it in hers. This of course caused him to blush furiously and look away, though not letting go of her hand.

Never in a million years would I have thought that I would be in a situation like this, with these people, or the fact that I've changed so much.

The elevator dinged and we made our way out.

Sarah ran up to me and pushed me with her hips, she was giggling.

"Oh I am so ready for this room, you have no idea."

I just laughed at her.

I turned the key and opened the door, my mouth dropped. It was beautiful; it was like a tiny mansion squeezed into a room.

"AHHHHH!"

Sarah started running and she jumped onto the couch. "Look at this couch!" she ran into a room "Look at this bathroom!"

All I could see was a blurry Sarah running to different areas of the suite shouting at us whenever she got into a different room.

Storm shadow stood next to me "Yeah, that your girlfriend"

He just looked at me. I put a hand on his shoulder "Good luck with that" I chuckled and walked into one of the bedrooms. It had a view of central park. I set my bags down and looked at all the children running around, and couples walking holding hands.

I felt someone wrap their arms around me and I smiled and held onto them.

"I love it when you sneak up on me like that"

I turned around and wrapped my arms around Snake Eyes neck. I looked into his visor, I knew we wouldn't be able to take his suit off as much, considering we shared the suite with the bipolar ninja and Sarah, but I didn't have to take the visor off to know the look he was giving me.

I kissed the cheek of his mask "Love you"

He leaned his forehead on mine.

I heard someone clear their throat and knock on the door. I leaned my head and saw Sarah standing on the door frame.

"Sorry for interrupting, but we really do need to come up with a plan of attack."

I nodded my head ok, and Snake Eyes and I walked into the living room with paper and a tablet in hand.

I set all of the info on the table and sat down on the couch. "Ok so what do we know about these guys?"

"From what I know, these guys are big on security." Sarah dug through some paper until she found what she was looking for."

"They have one of the top security details, and I'm not just talking about people, I'm talking about high grade tech. "

She set down a photo of a woman and a man, this is Tara O' Conner and Franz Hartmann. "They are the head of Skydyne Systems. They are in charge of overseeing some of the smaller subgroups in The Division that are based her in the US. "

I nodded my head and typed a few things into my tablet and set it in back onto the counter. I put my hand over it and raised it up reveling a digital scale of a building.

"This is Skydyne Systems. It has 60 levels. Some containing the sub groups, and all of them containing security measures to keep out the people that they don't like. To get to a different level you either need to have a pass code, or be able to get whatever security measure they have set in place. Which means that we will need to get through 59 levels of hell before we can get to Tara and Franz."

"Easy enough"

I snorted and leaned back on the sofa crossing my arms over my chest.

"With all of your guys ninja, super spy, assassin , and whatever the hell you guys can do skill it just be a breeze. "

"Sure Sarah"

"So when do we want this to go down?"

"Tonight?"

I looked over at storm shadow and gave him a glare of course he would, there is not rest for the wicked right?

"Yeah, fine tonight. Sooner we get this over with the better."

ooooOooooOooooO

We had each gone to our separate rooms to rest a little before the big strike on Skydyne. Skydyne? Where the hell do these people get their names from anyways? I lay done on the bed holding onto a pillow. I rolled onto my side and looked at Snake Eyes rise and fall of his chest as he sleep. He always does things so peacefully.

I laid my head on his chest and held onto him. I felt him stir but he didn't wake up. I closed my eyes and listened to the sound of his heart beat. It was as steady as a drum, pounding life into the man I love. His heartbeat became a lullaby as I felt myself slowly drift into sleep.

ooooOooooOooooO

When we woke up, I showered and got ready putting on my suite, boots, and half knuckle gloves. I put my hair into a pony tail with braids running down the sides of my head. I was putting my guns into my holsters, and my swords on my back, when I heard a knock on the door.

"Come in"

I stuck my sai behind my guns and saw Sarah. She had her hair in a side fishtail braid, black tank top, and black cargo pants and boots. She wore her combat boots, and a small smile.

"You ready?"

"As I'll ever be."

We made our way to the van Storm Shadow took the wheel with this one, so I sat in the back with Snake Eyes. Sarah of course riding shot gun.

He sat across from me, I reached out with my hand and he grabbed it and held it in his. Our fingers tangled together, and he brought it up to his mask as if to kiss my hand. I smiled at him, leaned in closer to him. He leaned forward and we stayed there just looking into each other's eyes.

"How about some battle tunes?"

Sarah turned around in her seat and looked at us. "Or maybe some cheesy ballad. Jeez you guys get a room"

I flipped her off "Love you too!"

She turned back in her seat and turned the radio on. Got Nuffin' by Spoon came on, and I could see Sarah relax in her seat. She rolled down the window and looked out at the bright lights of New York welcoming her home again.

Storm Shadow pulled up to the building driving down to the garage. A burly man with a deep scar running down his face stood by the entrance. Storm Shadow rolled down his window.

"You need ID's to be down here"

I saw Storm Shadow and Sarah look at each other.

"Sorry I must have left them in my other pants"

The man was about to talk into his walkie when Sarah took out her gun and shot him. We all turned to look at her.

"What? He was going to blow our cover, besides not like anyone who works here is innocent."

Touché Sarah.

Storm Shadow parked the car and we got out. Snake Eyes double checked his weapons, I quickly checked the ammunition in my gun and re holstered them.

"Are we ready?"

We all nodded at Sarah, and made our way to the garage entrance. This was going to be one hell of a night.

(A/N) Yay ok so I was able to update again, let me just say my psyh teacher is hardcore. HARDCORE. But in case you are wondering college has been going well. But enough about me, you are only here for the story right? I hoped you guys enjoyed it, it was a little more on track than the last. The action will be packed next chapter which will be out as soon as I can write ok? Patience.

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