"Samine!"
Xander ran to the edge and leaned over and looked down. He started to laugh hysterically when he saw the condition that Samine was in. She had been saved by a window washer's rig that hung a few feet below the edge and she was sprawled between buckets, brushes, and a lone playboy magazine, obviously left by the window washer was sitting on her chest. She glared at him evilly as she carefully picked herself up and checked for any broken bones before looking up at him.
"Do you want to give me a hand here X? Or are you just going to continue laughing at my misfortune?" she asked with her hands on her hips.
Xander looked back over the edge and slowly shook his head as he smiled broadly. Leaning over the edge he held out his hand to her as she jumped and grabbed onto his hand and he pulled her up. Finally reaching solid ground again on the roof she looked over at him and weakly smiled.
"I thought you were dead," Xander said softly looking her over.
"Funny, so did I. Where did Scott run off to?"
"Back down the stairs, probably on the street already."
Samine jogged back to the door leading off the roof and to the top floor and hit the button for the elevator as Xander stood next to her. He looked over at her slowly and double checked her for wounds. He couldn't express the intense sorrow and grief when he saw her fly over the edge and heard her scream. When the elevator doors opened and they walked in he looked closer and saw the woman he had been working so closely with. She wore clothing that perfectly accented her figure and revealed that she took pride in herself and she dressed in the classy style. Only a little bit of makeup was on her face, allowing her natural beauty to shine through. The water from the sprinkler system had soaked her to the skin and clung to her like a second skin making his mouth go dry. Looking back towards the front of the elevator he felt a fire start to burn in his belly as he clenched his jaw shut and his fists started to tighten. Without warning he turned and pinned Samine against the wall and passionately kissed her only eliciting a yelp from her from his sudden movement. A moment later her arms were wound around his neck and pulled him closer to her as she arched against him and he kissed her. She felt his tongue stroke her bottom lip and groaned as his hands tightened on her hips. Pulling back she gasped for air and leaned her head back against the wall giving Xander to opportunity to start kissing her neck.
"Xander…mmm Xander…we can't do this now…we…uh…we need to find Scott and…uh…oh damn," she murmured losing concentration as his tongue started to get involved with the kissing.
Knowing that she couldn't get caught up in this she managed to move her arms between Xander's body and hers and forcibly pushed him away to the other side of the elevator. She held a hand to her mouth as she stared at Xander and held her other hand in front of her to ward him off which also held her gun. She took deep breaths of air as she held up one finger to him to hopefully keep him focused on what she was saying.
"Not yet…later. Once this is all done, then we can have all the foreplay we want but not now," she said clearly calming her racing heart and resisting the urge to attack his body.
"You promise?" he asked just as the doors opened to the first floor.
Samine looked at him wondering if he asked that as a serious question or if he was just being a smart ass. She kept her gun hand up at him and gave him a stern look but couldn't stop herself from glancing over his body. He was also soaked to the skin from the sprinkler system and the muscle shirt that he was wearing just wasn't sitting well with her imagination.
"Don't tempt me," she said seriously before walking out of the elevator and away from the temptation.
Samine got in contact with the helicopter guys and found out where Scott was heading to now. She waved to Xander to follow her as she ran down a street and made her way towards Central Park holding her gun ready for anything. Quickly walking along the path she slowed and gently toed a gun lying on the path and slowly bent to pick it up and check it as Xander slowly moved past her. Holding it she slipped it in her waistband at her lower back and moved closer to Xander.
"It was Scott's gun, it's slightly warm from firing and its clip is empty. We found the gun now where is Scott?" she asked looking around the area.
Both Xander's and Samine's head snapped to the right when they heart screaming from a distance. Both sprinted in that distance and passed some pedestrians that pointed out the direction that Scott went. Samine pulled out her cell phone and tossed it to Xander and slowed her pace to turn and walk backwards.
"Call Gibbons and tell him where we are. Get the containment crew here and fast, I'm going after Scott. I'll be fine Xander," she said knowing that he was going to say something.
Samine turned and continued to run and started to gain on the distant figure. She didn't have a heavy book bag on her back to hamper her movements and was being fueled by pure adrenaline. Getting as close as she wanted she came to a stop and aimed her gun quickly and fired a shot which hit the ground directly in front of the tiring Scott as he stopped before slowly turning towards her. She slowly walked towards him keeping her gun pointed at his chest ready for him to make a move.
"You've got me Samine. Now what? Shoot me?" he asked almost cockily.
"Not really what I had in mind."
Un-cocking her gun she slipped it into her holster and unfastened it before tossing it aside as she held Scott's gaze.
"And what exactly did you have in mind Agent Nalia?" he asked smugly as she slowly walked up to him.
"You know what they say about payback…well I'm the bitch."
Samine lashed out with her fist and knocked him back a few steps before stepping up and grabbed his head and slammed her knee into it knocking him to the ground. He swept her legs out from under her and sent her to the ground with him before he straddled her and gripped her around her throat. She quickly brought her knee up and hit him in the balls before rolling the two of them over to flip positions. Before she could do anything he punched her and knocked her off him as she laid there temporarily dazed. Focusing again she saw the tree branch come flying towards her and she quickly rolled to the side and kicked her foot out hitting Scott in the side before she climbed to her feet. She heard Xander come running but he was still a distance away but she knew what she had to do. Just as Scott was climbing to his feet and once he straightened she took a few strides towards him and went forward on her hands into a handstand and kept arching over. Her legs landed on Scott's shoulders and she locked her ankles together behind his head as tightened her thighs and lifted her entire upper body up. Her momentum had already knocked him back and he was in the process of falling onto his back as she tightened her thighs in a quick jerk and heard his neck snap. When his limp body hit the ground she rolled off continuing the roll and stopped a few feet away from him crouched on the dirt. She slowly looked up from the dirt at the corpse and Xander who watched her shocked as she flipped her hair out of her eyes. Xander shook his head to focus at the task at hand and ran to the corpse and rolled it onto its stomach to let him look at the book bag. Samine moved to crouch across him and swatted his hands away and did a quick check.
"It has a trip wire attached to him so we can't take it off him. Let's open it and see what we've got," she said and carefully unzipped the book bag and flipped it open.
Xander's eyes widened at the mass of wires that was exposed to them as did Samine's and both were almost afraid to touch it to set it off. It was on a count down and they only had like five minutes left before it detonated as Samine reached for the wires.
"Do you know what you're doing Samine?" Xander asked as she carefully pulled apart a few wires to look under them.
"Yeah, kinda. I took a bomb course when I first started with NSA but that was like five years ago," she mumbled tapping a few of the small boxes.
"Well I hope you're better at remembering things than I am."
"Yeah, me too. For both of ours sake. Okay Xander give me your pocketknife."
He pulled it out and handed it to her as she carefully separated some of the wires. She selected three wires which were connected to the circular metallic object at the center of all the wires and everything else.
"Okay the rig that this is set up as is pretty basic but not exactly simple. One of these wires is a booby trap, well actually both of them are. One will speed the timer up and the other with automatically detonate it. The last wire will stop the chain reaction from hitting the plutonium which would set off the nuclear explosion, which we really don't want."
"Hurry Samine, we've only got two and a half minutes left," Xander urged eyeing the clock.
"Okay, so I'm going to cut this wire and hope it's not one of the bad ones."
Samine held the wire over the blade of the knife and looked at Xander with frightened eyes and took a deep breath before pulling the knife and cutting the wire. No explosion happened but the clock sped up and was down to like a minute. With a curse Samine quickly picked one of the other wires and scrambled to get it cut, not knowing if it was the right one.
"Samine! Hurry!" Xander yelled frantically as Samine cut the last wire and clenched her eyes shut.
No explosion happened and she looked relieved at Xander before realizing that the clock was still going. She grabbed the plutonium and grabbed Xander's hand as they both made a run for it. A few seconds later the explosion threw them to the ground as a small fireball rose into the sky. Painfully rolling over to look up at it, Samine looked over at Xander with a tired look and weakly grinned at him. As they both slowly stood up they heard distant sirens nearing them as they looked at the small crater that the explosion had left. Looking down in it Samine started to laugh a bit and slowly lowered herself to the edge of the crater and dangled her legs in it as Xander sat down next to her.
"I don't think the mayor will like this very much," Xander observed looking around at the bits of burning debris and burning grass.
"Oh I think he'll get over it," Samine smiled and looked lazily over at Xander. "Hey Xander…come over here."
Samine reached out and grabbed him around the neck and pulled him to her and solidly kissed him on the lips slowly taking her time as she leaned back and pulled Xander over her. He braced himself over her as he slowly kissed her almost soaking her in as she laid under him on the grass. Her hands ran along his back under his shirt as she happily sighed when he pulled away.
"Now that's how I like to be congratulated after a successful mission," she murmured gazing up at him.
"What Gibbons doesn't show his appreciation?" Xander asked softly as he smiled down at her.
"Even if he did he's nothing compared to you Mr. Xander Cage."
"Samine! Xander! What in the hell happened here?"
Both turned to see Gibbons come stalking up to them with the entire infantry. Xander stood up and held out a hand to Samine and helped her up from the ground and looked around at the mess that they created.
"Don't really know Gibbons. We did our job though, have fun cleaning up," Samine smiled and tossed the plutonium to him as she pulled Xander after her as she looked over her shoulder. "If you'll excuse me…I have some unfinished business to attend to."
She looked longingly at Xander and crooked her finger at him and looped her arm around his waist as they walked away, leaving everything to the professionals as they laughed.
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Okay everyone there is the new chapter and it is almost done. *Wiping away a tear* But don't worry, there is still one more chapter to this story after this one and I already have a great idea for the next story in this trilogy. I can't believe this has come this far, I am so proud of this story *sighs happily*. So anyway everyone R/R and I'll keep writing. Peace.