The next evening Samine and about three others were sitting in Shelly's apartment and were quietly talking between each other before Samine got the attention of everyone and cleared her throat. The three people were her closest friends outside of the NSA and all were willing to lay their life down for another. Next to Samine was Shelly who had gone through basic training with her but decided to not go with NSA but instead went with the CIA. Beside Shelly was Cole, he was a wizard in computers and anything technical. If Samine needed to hack into anything Cole was her man. Beside Cole was Cindy who worked in the police department which Samine had worked with on an earlier mission and the two of them turned out to be good friends.

          "I'm sure all of you have heard on the news and radios that I am currently a wanted criminal in Washington. Someone is building an elaborate story that I shot and tried to murder my boss Augustus Gibbons and let me be the first to say that that is a load of bullshit if I ever heard it. Whoever is doing this is going through a lot of trouble to be sure that it is airtight and there is no reasonable doubt," she said looking at each other them.

          "What do you want us to do? I mean where do we start?" Cindy asked leaning forward to rest her elbows on her knees.

          "First of all I need a copy of that tape. Something was fishy about it now that I think back on it I think it was the timing but I can't be sure. Cole I need you to run over the tape once we get it and chop it to bits and see if anyone tampered with it. Next…" Samine continued giving out instruction as everyone took notes of their jobs.

          Several hours later all the kinks and holes were hopefully ironed out of the plan and everyone was pretty confident of their part. Samine leaned back and rubbed her face before dropping her hands and looking at each of them with a grateful smile.

          "Thanks, all of you. Right now you're the only friends I've got to help me through this. Everyone at the NSA has deserted me and thinks that I'm guilty."

          "Yeah and Gibbons is kind of busy being in a coma and all so he can't point out the killer. So we've got to dig them out," Shelly said and Samine slowly nodded her accordance.

          "And your boy toy Xander isn't helping out any; he's already pointing the finger at you," Cole said as he stood up and went to get a drink from the kitchen. "I don't know why because he knows in his heart that you didn't do it and yet when we do clear your name and you meet him face to face he's going to be out in the dog house for about five months."

          "More like forever. I still can't believe he thinks that I did it. Why don't you guys think that I did it?"

          "Honestly?"

          Samine nodded and Cole looked to the other two as they looked back at him. Cindy cocked her head towards Samine to look at her and looked her straight in the eyes.

          "Well for one thing, we've known you for a bit longer than Xander and know what goes on in that head of yours. Most of the time anyway. And we know that you wouldn't do that. Two, we know that you shoot to kill and Gibbons isn't dead. And three, we know that being in your path is not one of the safest places to be. Better to be the right hand of the devil than in its path."

          "I think that was a compliment so that's what I'm going to take it as. But thanks guys and you're right. Being in my path is not the safest place but some people don't know that."

          "They don't know it yet but they will," Shelly said as all of them stood up and moved towards the door leading out of the apartment.

          "Oh you're damn right they will. The hard way," Samine said grimly.

          Two nights later they set their plan in motion as all meet up at a small bar on the outskirts of Washington to go over it one more time. The past two days Samine has set out to change her image slightly too hopefully not seen straight off. Her hair was highlighted more making it seem more blond than her normal light brown and it was also cut shorter no longer able to pull it into a ponytail. They sat at the far table in the back and each had a beer to loosen up before they set off.

          "To start off Cindy found out that there keeping all the evidence at NSA headquarters, they think it'll be safer there than in a regular police station because they're known for losing evidence. So it's going to complicate things just a bit but nothing we can't handle together. They've deleted my access codes to enter the building so we can't go in the easy way but that would be too easy. Cole you get your ass into the elevator shaft once we get in, we can't get through the place without your magical hands into the system. The main computer cables go down the elevator shaft so you should be able to wire yourself in and hack the rest of the way. While you're in there go searching for any disgruntled employees that have been laid off that may have a reason to go after Xander, Gibbons, or me. Another thing, hack into Gibbons's files that are in the main system. He probably has them protected by a password but don't hack it. Just copy them and we'll work on them later when we have more time. When I was in there I saw that someone had burned some papers in his wastebasket I want to know what they were. Now it's going to be a bit more crowded than usual because of all the shit I'm into so we can't walk down the hallways. You watch your back and stay away from NSA people, if you happen to run into Xander the best advice I can give you is to run. You don't want to tangle with him believe me I've seen him in action. Anything you guys can think of?" Samine asked looking at each of them.

          "Yeah, we can do all of this shit and everything but one big thing…how in the hell do we get in? I mean it's the fucking National Security Agency of the United States America. They just don't let people walk in and around their complex especially one they're trying to catch for attempted murder of the boss," Shelly asked and the others nodded.

          "I know exactly how we get in. Hope you guys don't mind getting a bit dirty," Samine said with a smile as Shelly started to hum the song 'Dirty' and the other two smiled.

          A few hours later four black clad figures crept through the dense forest towards the looming NSA complex. They all wore black clothing and black masks which almost made them invisible in the dark as they moved towards the wall of granite that was at the side and under the building. Samine pressed her hands against the stone as she felt along the wall mumbling to herself.

          "Samine what are you looking for?" Cindy asked softly close to her as Samine continued to feel the wall.

          "One late evening Gibbons and I were talking about this complex and all the offices and labs that you wouldn't expect to be here because of what was visible outside when you look at it. About three fourths of the complex is built in the mountain which an outsider can't see. When they were building it the builders blew out more of the rock than necessary to allow for mistake if they made any but they didn't so there is a cave under the building. The elevator shaft goes all the way down to the very bottom floor where there is a panel into the caves. But there is a slight problem," Samine said as she suddenly pulled away several vines that were grown to the wall to reveal an aged number pad.

          Mumbling a slight prayer she punched in a six digit code and a dim green light flickered to life as she gently pushed against the wall and moved it back. A door opened which lead into blackness as she pulled out neon lights and cracked them to activate the chemicals before holding them out in front of her. The cave was a good size with jagged edges against the walls with stalagmites and stalactites everywhere.

          "And what is the slight problem?" Cole asked shifting the weight of his pack.

          Samine lead them to one of the walls and looked up and put her hands on her hips before looking back to them.

          "The slight problem is that the panel is up there," she said and pointed up towards the ceiling which was about a hundred feet up the wall.

          "You've got to be shitting me."

          "I shit you not. So…who's ready to go climbing?"

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Okay everyone there is the new chapter hope everyone likes it. The three additional characters are pretty much a shout out to Cindy (aka VinsGurl) and Cole (who I'm writing a story for) and Shelly (aka ivorybrowneyes). So everyone please R/R for me and I'll love you forever. So I'll keep typing but I'm going to throw in a tid bit of info. I'm posting this on a Sunday night and Tuesday afternoon I'm going to be getting onto a plane to go to England to study for the semester so I'm going to incommunicado for a few days but I'll keep writing and hopefully the next time I get online I'll have a new chapter for you. So, peace peeps.