Arthor Note: I do not own Macgyver or any of the characters, that honor belongs to CBS and the creators of the show.
Chapter 1
Mac looked in the mirror that was hanging at the back of his bedroom door, staring at his blue striped dress shirt. That Mac had planned to wear for his date with Riley, he started to mess with the cuffs, while to decide if he wanted to wear a suit coat or his leather jacket. As he was getting close to picking which one, there was a light knock at the door that was followed by the familiar voice of Mac's roommate Bozer. "Hey Mac, I'm sorry to rush you. If you do not leave now, you are going to be late.
He stared at the door confused, since the last time Mac had checked the time he had an hour left before he needed to leave. Mac moved his sleeve to reveal his wristwatch and was shocked when he saw that he was already late leaving the house. Biting the bottom of his lip, then ran over to his tall dresser and opened the top drawer to pull out a small white box. He opened it to reveal a homemade bracelet that he had made for Riley, made with paper clips, for charms he made them into different keyboard buttons signs.
This was their second date and Mac wanted to show Riley how much he cared for her, so he was really hoping that she would like his gift. After taking a few deep breaths, he shut the box and placed it into his leather coat pocket before putting it on and running down the hall and out the front hall. The drive to the French restaurant took Mac ten minutes longer than it would normally take, due to a car accident that happened half an hour earlier. The LAPD was still working on cleaning up the scraps of metal that was still left, when the three cars hit each other.
Luckily, he did not have to wait long, since as soon as he passed the traffic accident, he was able to speed up a bit to try and make up for lost time. After fifteen minutes after leaving, the accident behind he finally arrived, and after parking his car a block away he ran into the restaurant completely out of breath. Before Mac could catch his breath a young man standing at the entrance gave the young agent a warm smile, before speaking in a light tone. "Welcome to L'amour Pour Toujours, do you have a reservation, or would you like a table?"
Mac gave the man a smile before looking around the restaurant for Riley, when he did his first a scan he did not spot her, which he hoped, meant he made it there before her. However, Mac was not completely convinced so he figured that he would take his seat and keep an eye out for her in case she was there. "I have a reservation under the name, MacGyver." As Mac waited for the young man to find his name on the computer, he took another scan of the room and that when his eyes finally met Riley's. "Never mind, I see my date."
Mac pointed to Riley and once the man saw who he was pointing to, the waiter nodded his head and allowed the young genius to go over to Riley. As Mac got closer to Riley he got a better look at the long red dress that she was wearing, it was low up neckline with a short slit on the right side that went half way. Once he reached her they hugged for a few seconds before taking their place, before pulling away from her and giving her one of his smiles.
"You look beautiful tonight Riley." Mac's voice was in a soft tone as he gave her one of his told her what he thought of her look, he then motioned them to sit down. Due to his training and knowing to keep an eye on his surroundings, Mac took the side of the table facing the door he had just came in. While Riley sat across from him so she could watch to see who comes out from the kitchen behind him, the other reason he did this was because Jack would kill him if anything happened to Riley.
With Jack away hunting Tiberius Kovacs, Mac felt like it was his job to watch out for her plus Jack already knew how much he loved Riley. Riley smiled at him and took his right hand before clearing her throat, and speaking in a very hushed but loving voice. "You look very handsome." With that she let go of his hand, before pulling out a long light brown box which had a golden leaf on the top of it. As soon as Mac saw that she had a gift for him, he couldn't help but have a large smile on his face at how thoughtful she was.
"I guess great minds think alike because I got you a gift as well, and if you would I like you to open yours first." As Mac spoke he pulled out the box and placed it in front of her, as Riley slid the box in front of Mac then her gaze turned to the box. Riley reached down and picked it up, she started to open it when a young white man with scruffy short brown hair walked up to them. The man didn't look much older than twenty, but with his baby face figures it made it a bit harder to know for sure how old the guy was.
Once the man got up to their table he handed them each a menu and wine list, he then quickly took out a notepad in a happy tone of voice he spoke to them. "Good evening, my name is Trevor and I shall be your waiter. Our specials tonight will be Chicken Dijon, is there anything you like to drink while you decide what to order?" The waiter looked at Mac and Riley with a smile on his face, as he waited for them to speak he did his best to look impatient he kept looking down at his pad as he spun his pen between his left hand fingers.
Mac and Riley looked at the menus then looked at each other and smiled when they saw one thing they both drink on the list, Riley then handed the wine list to Mac who took it then spoke in his normal tone. "We will have two bud lights beers please." The waiter nodded his head and quickly wrote down their order, before taking the wine list and disappearing into the back of the restaurant in the direction of the kitchen.
Once they were alone Riley once again picked up the box and opened it, as soon as she saw the bracelet that Mac made her she gasped and her eyes went right up to him. He watched as Riley put it on and start eyeing all the symbols he had made out of paper clips, her eyes lit up as she kept examining her gift. "Thank you Mac, I love it." Riley spoke in a very happy tone, she right hand reached across the table, and took Mac's hand giving it a light squeeze and he smiled back squeeze her in the process.
"I glad that you like it Riley, I wanted to make it something that was personal to you." Mac spoke to her in a soft and normal tone he then moved his hand away slowly and opened her gift for him, as he open the lid he saw a keychain that had a picture of him, Riley and Jack dressed in their Star Wars costumes. He remembered that day so well, Jack had convinced them to go to a convention and he dressed up as Chewy and Mac and Riley went as Hun and Leila. It was the best time of their lives and it was just a week after that they found out that Jack was recalled for active duty, so seeing her gift being that picture on a keychain made him so happy.
He held it in his hand and looked at it for the longest time, mostly he was staring at Jack's face wishing very much that he finish his mission and come home soon. After a minute his eyes went back up to Riley and he smiled at her, before lightly clearing his throat and speaking again in a soft tone. "Thanks Riley, I will always keep it on me to help me remember the good times we had with Jack. In another topic have you decided what you want to have to eat here? I thinking of going with their special it looks and sounds good."
Riley looked gave Mac a smile as she glanced into his eyes and stared for what seemed like forever, but she then turned her eyes away and looked at the menu. At first she didn't know what she wanted to get since everything on the menu looked so good, so she thought she might get the same thing as Mac until she saw there was roasted duck on the menu. Riley was about to tell Mac what she was going to get when the waiter came back into the room, as soon as Mac and Riley saw how scared he looked they knew something was wrong. They looked at each other for a moment, then Mac reached into his pocket and pulled his phone out and started to call Matty for some help.
Mac heard the first two rings then Matty voice came onto the line, her voice was groggy like he had just woken her up though he thought she would still be at work. "Blonde you better have a good reason for calling me, while I am trying to get a good night's sleep before our next mission." Mac knew that Matty had just put him in the dog house that she normally threw Jack when he was in trouble, knowing something wasn't right he opened his mouth to speak. Before he would tell her anything, a loud gunshot rang out and Mac felt a white hot pain surge into the upper right side of his chest.
Then another shot rang out and felt another surge of pain hit him like a brick, this time it was we closer to the middle of his back. Mac did all her could to fight the urge to pass out, instead he looked at Riley who now had tears running down her cheek at the sight of him being hurt. He reached out for her and his hand almost touched hers when another two gunshots rang out, he watched in horror as blood started to steep out of her stomach and left chest. Seeing her move her hand to her stomach trying to keep pressure, Mac opened his mouth to try to comfort his girlfriend but when he did, he felt an urge to cough.
"Ril..." He fought the urge and try to speak, but his voice broke and he started to violently start to cough start sprayed blood all over the table in front of him. Riley's eyes widened at the sight of the blood, she tried to lift herself from her seat though she found that all her energy was zipped and all she could do was sit there and watch.
Mac's phone that slipped out of his hand and onto the floor beside his chair after he was first shot, was still connected and he and Riley would hear Matty calling out to them. "Mac? Riley? Are you alright? What the hell is going on? I heard gunshots." Riley and Mac tried to answer but they were in so much pain that it was hard for them to form words, especially when one of them was coughing up blood. All Mac could do to stay conscious was trying to keep focused on Riley as she did the same, but then he heard the door open of the restaurant and that when he saw him.
Tiberius Kovac walked into the restaurant hearing a black suit and a huge smile on his face, he walked towards the two young agents and grabbed back by the back of his hair and pulled his hair up and spoke in a malice tone. "So we finally meet , to be honest I was a bit disappointed I thought a trained agent would have giving me more trouble. Take your friend Jack Dalton, he been hunting me for the last six months and he has giving me so much fun rubbing the fact he can't catch me in his face. Instead of running I thought I do something he didn't expect me to do, go after the ones that he loves and after buying your information this made it easy."
Mac spit blood into his captors face causing Tiberius to lift him up from his seat while holding in a groan, without warning the blond agents felt a punch hit his stomach causing him to gasp for air. The assault on the already gravely injured man, caused the guests and workers in the restaurant to scream and whimper as they feared they would be next. Kovac continue his assault by allowing his right hand man to use Mac as a punching bag, the young agent was too weak due to blood lost to defend himself. After two more punches to the right and left side of Mac's sides, Kovac let go of the agents hair allowing him to fall onto his knees gasping for some air.
"You can thank Dalton for your early deaths, to ensure that you don't survive this I have prepared a little extra torture for you and for your friend who will watch you die." Kovac voice was filled with venom as he spoke those words, he snapped his fingers and a young boy no older than fifteen walked up to them carrying a long box. Riley gasp as she saw two needles with light yellow liquid inside of it, she tried to get up from her seat, as she went to get up two strong hands held her down by her shoulders. She tired to get away but the blood lost was taking its toll and she started to feel dizzy and light headed, was not sure how much longer she could stay awake.
Mac however was already halfway ahead of her as his blood loss and the fact he could barely breathe, cause him to be half conscious though he tired hard to remain awake. Kovac took the first needle took three steps towards Riley, who had started to hit at him using what energy she had left to protect herself but in the end she failed and he injected the poison. Riley watched helplessly as he took the last needle and injected Mac, the strong hands left her shoulders and she whined as she climbed out of her chair and crawled over to her boyfriend. She reached out and touched to touch Mac's face but her hand fell onto his chest, she felt the darkness slowly consuming Riley but her eyes remained on Mac.
The last thing she remembered hearing before all went quiet was Kovac walking past her, then giving an order to his men that made everyone but the attackers scream. "I want no witness to what happened here, kill everyone but these two who will serve as a warning to their Government what will happen if anyone comes after me again." With that gunshots filled the room along with screams, then not two minutes later everything went silent and the sound of the killers leaving died down. Mac and Riley looked around to see the dead bodies all around them, not a second after they closed their eyes allowed the nothingness take them away from the pain and horror their last thoughts being where was Jack.
There you are everyone, the first of hopefully many chapters I plan to write for this story. I so hope that you like it and I promise to try and write the next chapter as soon as I can, so please leave a review and let me know what you thought of it.
Next week I am happy to say for those who are my Merlin readers, that I will have the 12th chapter up without any delays. So I wil see you all next week with a new chapter.