Xander slammed the car door closed and jogged up the stair hoping to find Samine. Reaching the door he swung it open and found Samine lounging in a chair holding a bottle of water in her hand. The look on her face froze him in his steps.

            "What happened?"

            "I'll tell you later. What happened with Monoclay?" she asked taking a sip from her water bottle.

            "He has a huge storage of some gas called Ricin. It's in aerosol tanks that he keeps stored under his place in a lab. He is also leaving town tomorrow night and is going to a town in Austria, high up in the Alps. What for exactly I don't know."

            She nodded slowly as she leaned forwards and set the bottle on the table and looked up at Xander.

            "A few weeks ago a load of the Ricin gas was stolen from Japan and disappeared. Monoclay has that load, you saw it. The chips he's been buying are being shipped to Gevenin. Ricin is a poison derived from castor bean plants. It can be transmitted by inhalation, ingestion, and a water supply. If inhaled it causes weakness, fever, chest tightness, cough and sever respiratory problems, including pulmonary edema. Kills in about three days. If it is ingested it causes intestinal bleeding and organ damage. There is no vaccine or antidote for Ricin and Monoclay is planning on doing something with it," she said deadpanned holding Xander's gaze.

            "How do we destroy it or break it down?"

            "It breaks down in extreme cold or extreme heat. And I mean extreme."

            "What do you think he's going to do with the chips and Ricin?"

            "If Monoclay acts like he always does it's going to be big and directed towards the U.S. Since he's collecting high-tech chips he has to be building something electronic. And he needs something to put it into motion, like a-"

            "A missile! The chips can be used to guide missiles. So the missile is built and ready in Gevenin and is waiting for the package it needs to deliver."

            "Which he's taking tomorrow," Samine said as she stood up and paced a few steps.

            "Right, so where did you get all this info?"

            "From Laslos. Why are you here and not with Monoclay?" she asked realizing what time it was.

            "He said he had to take care of other business so I left. Figuring I'd catch up with some sleep," he said as he pulled off his shirt and walked towards the bed.

            "Yeah that does sound good," she said as she picked up some of the papers Laslos gave her.

            "Well then come and join me."

            "Hunh?" she asked looking up from the papers in her hands.

            "This bed is big enough for the two of us," he said sweeping his arm to the partially empty bed.

            "No, that's okay X. I'll take the couch."

            "Suit yourself."

            With a sigh she sat on the edge of the couch and tossed the papers on the table. Rubbing her eyes tiredly she fell back against the couch and dropped her hands onto her lap. Something was nagging at the back of her mind, some important piece of information that she was over looking. She looked over at X who was fast asleep on the bed and looked back at the couch. Standing up, she pulled off her shirt and dropped it on the couch as she walked towards the bed. With a slight groan she sat on the empty side for a second before lying down and pulling a blanket over her. Whatever it was that was bothering her she'd know it after she rested and cleared her mind.

            Slowly waking up she rolled over and looked at the empty side of the bed and found no Xander. Climbing out of the bed she picked up the note he left and read it on the way to take a shower.

            "Went to Monoclay's place."

            She looked up from the note with a cocked eyebrow and nodded.

            "Yeah I was right, a man of few words," she mumbled crumpling it up and tossed it on the counter.

            While she showered she remembered what she was thinking about last night. Thinking about it again she hit the same mental block from the night before. Something wasn't fitting into the puzzle that she had laid out in her mind. It continued to bother her as she dressed in a pair of jeans and a cable knit sweater to go and see Laslos again. Before walking out the door she grabbed her Sauer and checked the clip before slipping it in her waist band against her lower back. Her pace was quick through the city as she neared the bar from yesterday and pulled the hood lower over her face. Entering the bar she walked directly towards the stairs ad sprinted up the stairs. As the door came into view she slowed her steps and finally stopped. The door was more than halfway open and something was making her skin tingle. Reaching behind her she eased the Sauer from her jeans and held it low in both hands as she carefully nudged the door open with her boot.

            "Laslos?" she called out without looking around the corner.

            Hearing no response she glanced around the corner and scanned the room before pulling back again. With her Sauer leading the way she slowly walked in the room and walked towards the body in the middle of the room. Standing next to it she knelt next to it and felt for a pulse with one hand while watching the room. Nothing, he had been dead for a while.

            "Oh Laslos," she murmured glancing down at him.

            Looking back up she focused towards the kitchen where a shadow slowly moved towards the doorway. A gun barrel came into view leading the way for the rest of the weapon and the person holding it.

            "Oh shit!"

            Lunging to the side into the bedroom, bullets rained onto the spot she was just kneeling at a few seconds before. With her foot she slammed the door shut and rolled to the side as bullets ripped through the door. Jumping to her feet she looked out the window and down at the empty street. Window wasn't the way to go. The firing stopped and she caught the unmistakable sounds of the clips being changed out. Looking above her she stepped in front of the door and jumped. Grabbing onto one of the exposed pipes she swung her full weight towards the door and kicked it clean off the hinges towards the gunmen. Dropping to the ground she ran across the door as the gunmen were pushing it off them. She skidded down the stairs ducking the last few steps as gun fire followed her. The patrons in the bar were hiding under tables and behind the bar as she exploded out the door and ran for cover. She ran down small streets twisting and turning before slowing finally and listened for footsteps following her. Gasping for air she leaned against the brick wall and placed her hands on her hips still holding her Sauer.

            "Damn, okay think Samine. Why kill Laslos?" she asked out loud.

            Her mind scrolled back to when she talked to him last and slowly went through the encounter. Her mind's eye focused on the window remembering being blinded for a moment by a reflection.

            "A reflection. A reflection of what? A mirror? No. Binoculars. So someone was watching him. What for?"

            The moment that they first meet zipped back to her. He had said: 'They can smell me miles away.' They knew he was an agent and he had information.

            "They saw me there yesterday. Knew who he was and knew that I was supposed to be dead. Because Xander shot me on the bike…and now Xander is at Monoclay's. Monoclay knows. He knows."

            A second later she was running again towards the safe house with a plan forming in her mind. Reaching the room she pulled out a large metal case from under the bed and set it on the table before opening the lid.

            "Now it's time for some real action."

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Okay people there is the new chapter, hope you like it. Stay tuned, this is where it starts to get really exciting. I'm getting chills just thinking about writing it. So keep R/R and peace out.