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Til The End Ch.6

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Mac's Dujo

Mac knew what was happening. All over town she was betting that the news was spreading of Brady and Chloe's divorce. She had known what was happening how could she not, she still had bodyguard watching Chloe, and they had intervened several times when they fights got too loud.

Hearing a beep emitting form her laptop, she moves to the desk and opens up her email. Going through them she deletes most of them, but one marked Machiavelli catches her eye, and she open it.

Machiavelli

                        It's so nice to know that after betraying your family, you can still live a peaceful life. But Beware the DiMera's are never down for long, and when we return we do so stronger then before, and with a vengeful heart. So sleep well Machiavelli, while the option remains yours.

 Revenge is near

The Phoenix

Mac picks up here phone and dials a familiar number, when the caller picks up she barks out orders. "Have my Europeans contacts do another sweep, I need an email traced, and beef up security on Chloe." Mac hangs up and goes to the heavy bag once again needing to get lost in the a world of pain. She begins to pound the bag when a noise alerts her to another presence; turning quickly she pulls her revolver, and points towards the sound.

"Hey Boss, don't shoot." The brown haired man stepped into the light revealing his face.

"Shawn Brady, I thought I told you about sneaking up on me." Mac puts the gun back, and walks back toward her desk, motioning for Shawn to join her. "Why aren't you in Kenya?"

" The situation was dealt with, I came to wish you a happy birthday." He gives her a crooked smile, that Belle once told him, made him look rugged and sexy.

"Oh, please don't give me that dumb grin or yours, and don't mention my birthday." Looking back hiring Shawn Brady was a mistake. Once again he didn't meet any of her usual requirements to be one of her agents, except that he was determined. "I'm not a fan of yours Brady, so save your low-budget charm for someone who is."

"Have a bad day, El Captain." Shawn knew that Mac hadn't ever wanted to hire him, but they both knew that they needed each other. He needed adventure, and she needed someone that could pick up where she had left off, before Patrick. It wasn't that Mac had slowed down; she just wasn't as adventurous as she was once. The woman that would have once toured the world looking for bad guys, now only left Salem in case of a real emergency. She needed Shawn as her second in command, whether she admitted it or to, which is why Shawn played with her, it kept her on her toes. "I did get a call about two men being sent through the front window, you wouldn't know anything about that would you?" Raising an eyebrow, at his employer he thought for a minute that she blushed in embarrassment, but he knew that could be it.

" Never mind that, have you heard anything about Stefano?"

" As far as I know, you popped him, about six years ago." Shawn lost his laid back attitude as the topic of DiMera came up. The man was pure evil, and the thought that he could still be alive, terrified him.

"I know that, I mean anyone going around using the name." It had to be a fake, She had shoot him, listened to his chest as no sound emerged, and then she had kept a vigil by his body for several days after that waiting for the Phoenix to rise again, but he never did.

"None that I have heard but I can check with some people."

"Yeah, do that." Shawn stands and moves toward the door. "Your cousins back."

"Which one?"

"Chloe arrived about four hours ago." She stands and moves form behind the desk to lean against it. "You might want to lye low, I don't think anyone will be happy to know that we knew about it for quite sometime."

Shawn runs a hand through his hair, he hated pretending to be as confused as everyone else when he knew exactly what was going on, but it wasn't his place to tell. "Well, at least I can visit my parents without trying to avoid the topic."

"You staying for the dinner, on Saturday."

"I hadn't planned on it."

"I wasn't asking, I was telling." Mac steps in front of the younger man, and smiles inwardly when she sees him tense up. "Any missions that you were singed up for reassign to someone else." "I don't like the feeling I'm getting, and I want you stateside, until I say otherwise."

"Alright." Shawn nodded, and turned to walk out of the dujo. As he walked to his car he caught sight of a small blonde woman leaving a store her arms loaded down with packages, and for a moment he stopped breathing. He knew it wasn't her; she wasn't Belle, but the idea of being that close to her hurt him, he hadn't seen since that night it they broke up and ironically the night he joined Red Wolf.

Flashback

Shawn's Apartment

4 years earlier

"Shawn, don't go it's dangerous." The tears flowed freely down Belle's cheek as she pleads with her fiancé. "Let Mac's people do this."

"I have to Belle, I can't just let Lexie get away with taking Isaac." This was fast becoming a nightmare his little brother had been taken from school, by a group of men dressed all in black, and then they received news that Lexie was in the states. "I need to help my brother, why can't you understand that?"

"I understand it, but what I don't understand is why you have to take of for Ireland by yourself, instead of staying her and helping your parents cope." Shawn's idea to find out information from the DiMera headquarters in Ireland was too dangerous, considering the hatred for the Brady's felt on that Island. " If Mac, and her people aren't checking out that lead, why would you?"

"Because he isn't their brother." Shawn took her hand and kissed fixing the engagement ring on her finger that keep turning inside. "I'll be alright."

"Shawn no one takes on DiMera, without getting hurt, look at Chloe or Mac, or you Mom."

"I can handle this."

"NO YOU CAN'T." Belle snatched her hand and looked at him pain and anger radiating form her eyes. "Mac and my father are trained mercenaries and can't handle him, don't do this."

"I have to."

"Then do it without me." Shawn narrows his eyes at the ultimatum. "I am not going to sit here and wait for word of your death, you leave, and we're finished."

"I love you Perfect Girl." Shawn blows her a kiss as he takes his duffle bag, and leaves the apartment. Throwing the bag in the truck he heads straight for the airport, and a flight to Ireland.

Twenty minutes later Shawn was seated on a commercial seat to Ireland, when a voice stopped he thoughts.

"And where would you be going little Brady?" Shawn looked up and meets Mackenzie Red Wolfs brown eyes.

"Don't try to stop me, I going to get my brother." Shawn glared at the woman that moved to seat across from him.

"Why would I stop you, you know what you need to do." Mac looks at the angry man, he was ready for a fight, determined, and he reminded Mac of herself, when she first woke up from the DiMera Brainwashing. She had been set to track DiMera down like a dog and kill for what he had done, but her grandfather token her aside and told her that her anger was her enemy. "Of course you're going to get killed, but hey I guess your mom can deal with losing two sons in the same week, she's strong."

"I thought you weren't trying to stop me."

"I'm not, I'm just wondering if this is the best way to go about things." She shrugs her shoulders. "You shouldn't mistake stupidity for bravery."

"Just say what you want to say, and go."

"Fine, here it is." She turns and looks at him. "You're angry I understand, I spent most of time with that emotion, but you're letting it run things, and you're going to get hurt." " Anger may be great for fist fights, and bar room brawls, but for rescues mission it's sucks."

"What are you suggesting, I do, wait, let her take my brother."

"I am suggesting that you join me, I can teach you how turn that anger into a asset instead of a liability." "I'm offering you a job, it's dangerous, but the pay is good, and I can guarantee that if you do I will get your brother back." Mac extends a hand and raises an eyebrow." What do you have to lose?"

"Alright." Shawn shakes her hand and begins to wonder if Mac can keep all her promises.

Flashback Over

Thinking back he made one very good decision, that night, joining Mac. He got his brother back, and he had leaned things from Mac that he would forever be grateful for, he only regret was losing Belle.

Shaking the thoughts from his mind, he starts up his truck and heads for his parents house.