Xander struggled against the ropes feeling his skin be rubbed raw from the rope as he pulled against the rope loosening it as best as he could. He could feel Samine struggling behind him as he started to cough from the smoke that was filling the room as the flames neared them. He felt a liquid run down his hands and under the ropes and he cringed knowing that the liquid was his blood from the raw skin.

"Samine, how are you doing over there? Are you getting loose?" he asked starting to feel the rope give around his wrists.

"No, but I think I'm about to pass out. The smoke and my headache aren't really helping me," she muttered feeling light headed.

He felt her body slacken against his and he groaned to himself in frustration before just jerking his hands apart. The rope finally gave and he quickly reached down and untied his feet and jumped to his feet. The heat was scorching his skin as he bent down and picked up Samine in his arms and ran out the already broken door into the court yard. People were crowding around as the house continued to burn as Xander untied Samine and gently slapped her cheeks to wake her. He gently brushed away a stray piece of hair from her forehead as her eyes slowly flickered open to focus on him.

"Hey, welcome back," he smiled and she weakly smiled back as he helped her stand up.

She flinched a bit and gasped as he touched the slashes on her forearms from the shards of glass from the door. A crowd of pedestrians were starting to yell for help and the fire department could be heard trying to get to the house from the crowded street. Xander was busy trying to pull out the shards of glass that were embedded in Samine's skin and not flinch at her yelps of pain. Growing tired of her wandering hands she waved him off and looked around trying to find the horse that she came in one. The horse was standing at the back corner of the court yard as far away from the crowd as possible and was looking stressed out from the hustle and bustle going on around it. Moving towards it as fast as she could she reached out and slowly pulled the horse towards her calmly the horse almost instantly. Xander watched as she softly murmured to the horse and stroked its neck as the horse turned its head and rested its head on her shoulder as she spoke.

"Samine I don't mean to intrude on your bonding moment with the horse but what do we do now? We have no idea what our next step is," Xander asked as Samine turned and looked at him with a smile as she continued to stroke the horse.

"We find out what that paper said that Scott took."

"News flash Samine. Scott took it from your pocket."

Samine smiled at him and lifted part of the sheets that covered the horse and soon produced the same piece of paper that Scott had taken from her. Holding it up for Xander to see she smiled at his shocked expression before grabbing the rope reins and started to lead the horse out of the court yard away from Xander. He jogged after her as she wound through the crowd and towards an empty street away from the burning house when Xander finally caught up to her and started walking beside her. He had no idea where they were going so he just followed Samine's lead and she seemed to know where she was going.

"So where did you get the idea of switching the pieces of paper?"

"When we were coming back to Cairo and I waved you and Scott on when I stopped. I had gotten a message from Gibbons after he did some searching for Scott Pierce. Earlier he hadn't found anything in any of the agencies so I told him that Scott said he was from the British Secret Service so he did some more digging. Found that Scott Pierce had worked the British Secret Service but was dismissed once it was found out that he had been selling secrets to the highest bidder which was Enclave. After that he disappeared and it was found out that he was working for Enclave directly. Gibbons sent this to me and that's when I found out so I switched papers and hid the real one in the folds of the horse's sheets. So he has my shopping list right now," she smiled and motioned to go down a small street to the right.

"So where are we off to now?" he asked looking over at her.

"Right now to one of my fellow horse friend's small abode. We can clean up there and get everything ready to leave again. And finally get to read this important piece of paper which has almost gotten us killed once," she said holding up the piece of paper.

She stopped at a large set of wooden doors and punched in a code at the small keypad next to the doors as the doors clicked open and Xander pushed them open. The doors led to a large courtyard which was also the pasture for a small but elaborate barn which sat in the shade. Beside that was a large expensive house that was built of stucco like all the other houses in that country.

"Small abode?" Xander asked looking around as Samine lead the horse towards the barn and pushed the sliding doors open.

"Yeah well she calls it a small abode. Right now she's off at the Arabian Nationals at Scottsdale, Arizona and we always say if you're in our town and you need a place to stay then come on over. We know each other's codes to get in, we keep the place nice and we're good friends so it works out great. This is the great place to clean up and keep my horse till I can get him to Sydney to my barn," she said walking into the barn with the horse following her.

"Your horse?"

"Yes my horse. We had a bonding moment out there in the desert. He did everything I asked of it and he has the movements to go far in competition," she said removing the sheets from the horse and quickly brushing it before putting him in an empty stall.

She reached to close the sliding doors but flinched and grunted feeling her ribs protest the movement. Xander reached past her and pulled the door closed before grabbing her arm to keep her standing. Taking a deep breath she led Xander into the house and told him where the shower was and everything he needed. While he went to take a shower she pulled out a first aid kit and went to the other bathroom to clean up her scrapes and wounds from the glass door that she unceremoniously broke. Slowly she pulled off her shirt and flinched where the shirt pulled at the wounds that stuck from the dried blood on her back. Finally getting it off, she dropped it on the floor and looked at herself in the mirror.

"Damn glass door," she muttered looking down at the counter and picked up a pair of tweezers.

Looking back up she gasped and jumped at seeing Xander standing directly behind her clad only in a towel wrapped around his waist. Directly after gasping she cried out in pain when her ribs flared in pain and almost slipped off the counter until Xander caught her and held her on her feet. He lifted her up and set her on the counter as she breathed deeply trying to control the pain.

"You can't do that yourself Samine. You need help with it since you can only use about one hand at a time," he said holding her forearm up to look closer at the wounds.

"Yeah well, get to helping if you think you can," she said as he helped her sit up straighter.

Her ribs were black and blue from her fractured ribs and dried blood streaked her arms and her back. Parts of her bra were red from the blood as was her shirt still on the floor. Xander took the tweezers from the counter where she dropped them and slowly went through the task of pulling out the shards of glass from her skin trying not to hurt her too badly. Once he had all of them out he wiped away any oozing blood with the wash clothe as Samine watched him.

"You need to take a shower and get cleaned up. When you get out we'll finish patching you up," he said softly tossing the bloody wash clothe into the sink before looking back up to Samine.

"Thank you Xander. Really thank you," she said softly looking up at him as she pushed off from the counter.

"You can thank me after you take a shower. That hot water is going to hurt like a bitch on those gashes," he said gently touching them with his fingertips.

"So if you hear me scream don't mind it any attention."

He walked out of the bathroom smiling and closed the door behind him hearing the shower start. Almost an hour later Samine walked into the living room dressed in loose jeans and a tee shirt and sat down next to Xander on the couch. On the table were the first aid kit and a plate with a sandwich on it along with a few other edible items.

"Made you a sandwich for when you got out of the shower. Thought you might be hungry after our excitement of today," he said as Samine took a bite of the sandwich and slowly nodded.

"I'm shocked. He has a license to kill and he can make a pretty good turkey sandwich," she smiled as she looked over at him. She laughed out loud when he blushed a bit but the laughing quickly stopped from her sore ribs.

"How are the scrapes?" he asked sitting up and looking at the scrapes on her forearms that were visible.

"Well you were right. They did hurt like a bitch when I got in the shower but the heat eventually felt good on these old bones. But enough chit chat I want to find out where Enclave is going now."

She grabbed the piece of paper and slowly unfolded it. It would just be their luck that they had gone through everything to keep the piece of paper that she just happened to accidentally rip it in half as she unfolded it. Placing it on the table Xander and she leaned over and looked at the paper and at what was written on the paper in almost chicken scratch.

"What in the hell does that mean?" Xander asked as Samine picked it up and held it closer.

All that was written on it was a bunch of numbers, dashes and a few letters and nothing else. Samine dropped it back onto the table and rested her head in her hands as she rested her elbows on her knees and pulled her damp hair back from her face as Xander stood up and started pacing.

"Well what now? That doesn't tell us jack shit about what to do now," Xander snapped pointing towards the piece of paper on the table.

"Maybe it does and maybe it doesn't. 40n43, 74w0 has to mean something. We can't be sure," she muttered lifting her head up and looked over at him.

"We don't have enough time for that!"

Standing up she walked to the kitchen and started to make a pot of coffee as she thought over the number and letters on the piece of paper. As the coffee dripped into the pot she picked up a pad of paper and a pencil and started making notes of anything that came to mind of what the information could mean. She heard Xander moving around in the other room and soon she also heard the television be turned on. Looking at her notes they almost seemed like chicken scratch and just a jumble of words that made no sense what so ever. Pouring herself a cup of coffee she carefully carried it into the living room where Xander was and sat down on the couch next to him with her notes.

"Where did you learn to use a sword like that?" Xander suddenly asked and she lifted her head a bit to let him know that she was listening.

"Hunh?" she asked paying only half attention to him and his question.

"In the market when we were chasing after that guy. You handled that sword pretty well. Anything I should know about you?"

"Well I had to do something else at my ranch in Sydney except work with horses. I very well couldn't ride at night or during the heat of the day, so I trained with different weapons. Got pretty damn good with the swords too," she said with a small smile.

"Any other little things I might find useful to know about you?"

"No, not really. It keeps me mysterious."

"Well I already know that you love horses and you live in Sydney. Why Sydney? What does Sydney have that the US doesn't? Other than being upside down?" he asked leaning his head back against the couch.

"Upside down? Where do you get that?" she laughed still reading her notes and looking at the piece of paper.

"Upside down. You know, on the other side of the equator. Everyone on the southern hemisphere is upside down," he said almost like it was a law.

"Yeah sure X. What ever-"

Samine stopped herself and looked to Xander who was almost asleep on the couch as her brain started to run away with her. Grabbing the piece of paper from the table she looked at it and counted out loud softly and tried to remember what she was taught in school. Her jaw dropped in realization at what the numbers meant.

"Oh my god X! You're a genius! That's it, that's what the numbers mean!" she yelped startling Xander causing his head to jerk up in shock.

"What?" he asked looking at Samine strangely.

"The number and letters on the piece of paper. It's the exact place where Enclave and Scott are now!"

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Okay everyone there is the new chapter. I'm so happy with it (giddily dancing around my laptop). So hope everyone likes it and I get a lot of reviews. Please, please, please, please. I'm begging you I love reading reviews. So anyway I'll start work on the next chapter once I get this one posted up and hopefully get that one done and sent out. I've been watching a James Bond marathon so I'm having fun with that and guess what???? I saw the new James Bond movie Die Another Die. And I must say I love the last scene with MoneyPenny. Oh god that was just classic! So everyone R/R and I'll keep writing. Peace.