The captain disappeared into the cockpit as Scott closed the door to the main cabin. A few minutes later the engines roared to life and the plane started to roll down the runway. She barely glanced over at Scott as he sat in the chair next to her. Xander was towards the rear of the cabin watching silently.

            "Scott, tell me. Who do you work for?" Samine asked looking over at him.

            "British Secret Service my dear. The finest agency around. Well in Europe at least," he smiled and lightly traced her hand with his fingertips.

            Samine pulled her hand away with a smile. Spying a newspaper next to her she picked it up and held it up to start reading.

            "Would you like a drink?" Scott asked causing Samine to look over at him.

            "A ginger ale would be lovely."

            She looked over at Xander who was asleep in his chair and smirked at him. His head was laying back against the chair and his mouth was hanging wide open. She shook her head with a laugh and accepted the glass from Scott.

            "Your friend must be very tired," he said motioning towards Xander.

            "Yes he is. He's an active man," she smirked and looked back to the newspaper.

            "So…are you two together?"

            "Ha, hardly. We just work together, that's all thank god," she muttered and snapped the paper smartly.

            "He doesn't seem that bad."

            "You don't work with him. Once you meet him he's great. Sharp attitude, great eyes, terrific smile. But after a while something just starts to wiggle under your skin about him."

            "Something called love maybe?"

            Her head snapped to the side so quickly she was amazed she didn't snap her own neck. Scott was watching her as she tried hopelessly to form a believable answer. Scott smiled seeing how flustered she was getting at the simple question. He had seen the looks that Xander give her when he thinks no one was watching him. Something was going on between the two of them and everyone saw it except the two it was centered around. He also saw the glimmer in Samine's eyes when she started talking about him and his attributes.

            "Believe me, it's not love. It's the exact opposite. It's a love hate relationship, more hate than anything else," she laughed shaking her head a bit with a cocky grin.

            "Sure it is Samine. But I believe it to be otherwise from what I've witnessed."

            He stood up and walked away from her with her jaw hanging open and her staring after him. With a soft snort she took out her cell phone and unlocked it seeing that she had an incoming text message from Gibbons. She read it and quickly typed a quick answer and another question before sending it off and slipping it back into her pocket. She continued to read and slept a few times before the plane finally arrived at Cairo airport. Discreetly as she could she would occasionally look over at Xander and watched him as he slept and faintly smiled to herself. Once the planed taxied to a stop she woke Xander up unceremoniously by throwing her empty ginger ale can at him and laughed as she walked out of the plane.

Grabbing her bags she followed Scott to an awaiting car and dumped her bags into the back and slide into the back seat behind the driver waiting for the other two. The car took them to a safe house to wait till the appointment time at the café. When the time neared all of them walked out and made their way through the narrow streets barely saying a word to each other. Scott had detained the help of a native to wait for the contact at the café and watched from a safe distance with Samine and Xander.

"Look. Over there, coming down the street," Scott whispered pointing down the street.

Samine finally spied the man walking down the street towards the café and cautiously looking around for anything strange. He walked straight to the table and sat down and quickly started talking to the placement. Almost on cue the replacement made the sign that they had agreed on earlier causing everyone to move towards the table. Just as they were crossing the street a vendor crossed their path and caused Xander to trip over the vendor's cart causing a ruckus. The contact jumped to his feet at the commotion and saw the American dressed people coming towards him. He quickly moved towards the crowd trying to lose them as Samine swore at the position they were forced into.

"Damn it he's running!"

She started to run after him as Xander jumped to his feet and went after her. He could barely keep her in sight as he moved past everyone in the market and yelled after Samine to wait. He suddenly heard screams from ahead and everyone started to run towards him only making it harder for him to move against the crowd. Almost falling into the clearing he stopped short and saw the contact holding a very elaborate sword and pointing it towards Samine who also held a sword. Xander's breath caught in his throat as the contact lunged at her swinging his sword expertly towards Samine. She jumped to the side and easily deflected the sword and swept his legs out from under him and moved to slash him with her sword. He rolled out of the way and jumped to his feet and pushed towards Samine with his sword swinging. Samine was backing away and moved towards Xander as he tried to back away from the fight but couldn't from the solid crowd behind him. Samine finally grabbed his arm holding his sword and planted her foot into his gut and pushed him away from her before advancing on him. He deflected her slash and back handed her across her cheek causing her to stumble back a few steps. When she looked up he was mounting a horse tied to a post and started to gallop towards her and Xander.

            "Down!" she yelled and grabbed his shirt pulling him down to the ground with her.

            The sword barely missed their heads as she looked up at the retreating back as the horse galloped away. With another curse she jogged to the other horse and grabbed the rope reins as the horse started to run after its counterpart. Samine ran by the horse's side nearing Xander as he looked up at her. With a gasp he ducked his head down and felt Samine step onto his shoulder and pushed off swinging herself onto the horse's back as she galloped away.

            "Samine!" he yelled after her and wasn't surprised to see her fail to look back at him.

            Scott ran up beside him gasping for air also watching the disappearing figures. They looked at each other and sighed before running towards a car that was just driving by. Pointing his gun at the driver Xander pulled him out and slid into his place as Scott ran to the passenger side as the Xander started to drive after Samine.

            Samine was leaning low over the horse's neck holding the rope reins with one hand while the other held the sword by her side as the horse galloped through the streets. She could see the contact look back at her as she urged her horse on faster. The horse was an Arabian and the breed was well known for its speed through the desert and she was counting on it. Thankfully the guy she was chasing after wasn't that good of a rider and she quickly gained on him and rode up next to him. She swung her sword towards him as they galloped farther out of the city and into the desert and continued to fight on horseback. Both slowed their horses and continued to fight before parting and cautiously watching each other. Samine was breathing heavily from both the ride and fight on horseback as was the other rider.

            "Where is the stuff going?" she asked pointing the sword towards him as her horse pawed the sand.

            "Why should I tell you?"

            "Because I'm the one that's asking?" she asked angrily with her short temper.

            Before he could say anything the sound of a car engine reached their ears and they turned to see a car speeding towards them. Growing impatient she kicked her horse forward and swung her sword towards him as he blocked the swing and his horse started to back. Dropping her reins she grabbed the front of his light weight coat and slammed her head against his as he jerked back in a daze. Recovering quickly his fist holding his sword came up and smashed into her face knocking her from the horse and onto the sand out cold.

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Okay everyone here is the new chapter *applauds*. I was having a lot of fun writing it but that's probably because I'm a huge horse fan and I knew exactly what I was writing about and I had the entire scene playing out in my mind. Hope everyone likes it and I hope that I get a lot reviews for this chapter. So please please R/R for me and I'll love you to death. Take care and peace.