***The Other White Room***
Angel woke up and found himself in a similar situation to Buffy, tied to the gurney.
"There seems to be some confusion over who you are, you don't show up in any database"
Angel gave no reply
The man was about to resume questioning when the outer door opened emitting Buffy and a woman with tall chestnut coloured hair with chocolate brown eyes.
"Angel" Buffy cried out as soon as she got into the room
"Buffy, are you ok?"
"Madeline can you please untie him?" Buffy asked turning to face Madeline with a pout on her face.
"Michael untie him please"
As soon as his arms and legs were free he went to Buffy and pulled her into a fierce hug.
"Did they hurt you?" Angel asked again
"No I'm ok" she replied tearfully
"Why are you crying?"
"Because I though you were dead"
"Oh Buffy, I'm sorry"
"It's not your fault, I jumped to conclusions"
"Where are we?" Angel asked noticing his surroundings for the first time
"Section One" both of them glanced to the speaker.
"The most covert acomm, you will however be at the mission briefing."
"What's comm?" Buffy asked
"It's communications, I'm guessing computers and other advanced technology" Angel answered
"That's right" Michael stated
"I'll take them to meet Birkoff" Nikita said
Michael gave no response just slightly nodded his head
"Is he always like that?" Buffy asked
"Like what, you mean softly spoken and in control?" Nikita asked
"Yeah"
"Well you were in luck today, usually people have trouble getting more then one-word answers from him"
"Ok then"
"This is Birkoff, he's a genius, and he's only slightly older then you Buffy" Nikita said approaching him
"Birkoff" Nikita said
"Whatever it is I'm not doing it," he answered without looking up
"Birkoff I'd like you to meet our new recruits Buffy and Angel"
"Buffy, Angel, this is Birkoff"
"Hey" he answered
"Birkoff did Michael tell you your training them in comm, tomorrow?"
"Yep"
"I've got the mission parameters, can you take them to Michael" Birkoff said holding out a panel.
"Sure" Nikita said going off back towards Michael's office.
"You got anything to eat?" Buffy asked
"Well I do have some Oreo's" Birkoff conceded
Just when Buffy was about to answer, the phone next to Birkoff started to ring
"Yes" he answered picking up the phone
"Birkoff bring Buffy and Angel up to my office please" the person asked
"Of course Madeline" Birkoff answered hanging the phone up
"Follow me" Birkoff said to Buffy and Angel
Birkoff led them into Madeline's office then went back to his station
"Please sit down," Madeline said politely
Buffy and Angel walked over to the two chairs and sat down cautiously.
"For the time being you have been given inter-connecting rooms, I will show them to you shortly"
"Thankyou" Buffy replied
"Buffy Summers, age 17, blonde hair, hazel eyes" she said looking directly at her
"Liam O'Connor, age 21, brown hair, hazel eyes" she said turning her attention to him.
"We know everything there is to know about you two"
'I somehow doubt it' Buffy thought
"Are we allowed to use the training room?" Buffy questioned
"Of course I'll take you there myself" Madeline replied with a smile.
Madeline led them to the training room and then left them to stand up in the observation room.
"Angel you feel up to our usual training routine?"
"Are you up to it, we haven't trained together in a while"
"Let's go"
Buffy and Angel stood to the centre of the mat facing each other.
They began to move through their old tai-chi exercise before moving into attack positions.
For the next three hours they fought as if it were a real battle, pining each other to the mat and raining painful kicks that would leave bruises later.
They never noticed the people gathering outside the door until they silently agreed to have a short rest before continuing.
Looking up they saw Michael, Nikita, Walter, Madeline, some guy with silver hair and a bunch of people they didn't know staring at them.
Madeline turned to Michael and Nikita and told them something.
Then Michael and Nikita moved down to where Buffy and Angel sat.
"Would you mind sparring against us?" Nikita asked
"In teams or separately?" Buffy questioned
"Teams" Michael answered
"Ok, you and Nikita against me and Angel"
"Are we pulling punches or going all out?" Michael asked
"Considering you both have a mission we'll go gentle on you"
"Don't pull punches on our account" Nikita piped up
"Well if you want we can go all out," Buffy said cautiously
"Alright" Michael said
Michael and Nikita walked over to take position on one side of the mat.
Angel and Buffy turned to each other and Buffy asked Angel to try and go a little easy on them.
With a glint of something Buffy couldn't recognise in his eyes Angel agreed.
While Buffy was talking to Angel, on the other side of the mat Michael was telling Nikita to be cautious as they had no idea what there true talents were in regards to their fighting abilities.
Suddenly thinking of something Buffy called out to the other pair "Hey do you use safety words?"
"How do you usually spar?" Nikita asked
"Well usually we finish when one of us is out cold," Buffy said with a smile
"I believe that would be adequate, the mission can always be rescheduled" came Madeline's voice over the speakers.
"Ok I guess no safety words, we go all out, this should be a blast" Buffy said
"Begin" Madeline said over the speaker
Buffy advanced on Nikita and delivered a punch to her midsection that Nikita dodged, Nikita returned a punch to Buffy's side that missed as Buffy stepped out of the way.
"Oh some on your not even trying" Buffy said tauntingly
'Whack!' Nikita's foot connected with Buffy's hip, she fell to the floor but was back up in a moment.
Buffy kicked Nikita's legs out from under her then as she got back up she punched her in the jaw, Nikita countered with a punch to Buffy's midsection.
After half an hour of countering blows Nikita was starting to get tired but Buffy wasn't even sweating.
Another 15 minutes later they stopped mutually and sat down to watch their men fight each other.
The looked like they were dancing, twisting this way and that moving on the balls of their feet.
Buffy looked closely and realised that Michael and Angel were both using a similar style of fighting. They looked as if they had been fighting against each other for years because of the way they anticipated each other's next moves.
Eventually the girls called to them a halt to the fight and went over to their respective males to see what damage was done.
Michael came out of the fight with a bleeding cut above his right eye, upon further inspection Nikita found that Michael also had a few bruised ribs.
Angel had a split lip, a bruise along his jaw line and a few broken ribs also.
Both men had refused to have their injuries checked by someone. So the women turned to each other and said in unison "Let's go"
"See you later 'Kita?" Michael asked cautiously
"I'm busy Michael" Nikita said then walked out of the training room with Buffy not far behind.
At the door Buffy turned around and said to Angel "What she said goes double for me"
The two girls walked out of the room arm in arm.
Buffy invited Nikita over to her room for dinner that night Nikita said she would love to come and said she'd bring dinner and a few videos.
Then Nikita remember that Buffy and Angel had yet to be shown to their rooms so she turned around and told Buffy she would show her where her quarters are.
As soon as they got their Buffy blanched at the site, everything was white no other colour was evident.
"I'm beginning to notice a theme" Buffy said wryly.
"I know, when I lived in Section for the first two years, I did everything I could to bring a bit of colour into my room, I remember when Michael was away for a week he came back and saw what I had done to my room, I painted each wall with about 4 or 5 different colours, Michael called it graffiti I called it art"
Angel woke up and found himself in a similar situation to Buffy, tied to the gurney.
"There seems to be some confusion over who you are, you don't show up in any database"
Angel gave no reply
The man was about to resume questioning when the outer door opened emitting Buffy and a woman with tall chestnut coloured hair with chocolate brown eyes.
"Angel" Buffy cried out as soon as she got into the room
"Buffy, are you ok?"
"Madeline can you please untie him?" Buffy asked turning to face Madeline with a pout on her face.
"Michael untie him please"
As soon as his arms and legs were free he went to Buffy and pulled her into a fierce hug.
"Did they hurt you?" Angel asked again
"No I'm ok" she replied tearfully
"Why are you crying?"
"Because I though you were dead"
"Oh Buffy, I'm sorry"
"It's not your fault, I jumped to conclusions"
"Where are we?" Angel asked noticing his surroundings for the first time
"Section One" both of them glanced to the speaker.
"The most covert acomm, you will however be at the mission briefing."
"What's comm?" Buffy asked
"It's communications, I'm guessing computers and other advanced technology" Angel answered
"That's right" Michael stated
"I'll take them to meet Birkoff" Nikita said
Michael gave no response just slightly nodded his head
"Is he always like that?" Buffy asked
"Like what, you mean softly spoken and in control?" Nikita asked
"Yeah"
"Well you were in luck today, usually people have trouble getting more then one-word answers from him"
"Ok then"
"This is Birkoff, he's a genius, and he's only slightly older then you Buffy" Nikita said approaching him
"Birkoff" Nikita said
"Whatever it is I'm not doing it," he answered without looking up
"Birkoff I'd like you to meet our new recruits Buffy and Angel"
"Buffy, Angel, this is Birkoff"
"Hey" he answered
"Birkoff did Michael tell you your training them in comm, tomorrow?"
"Yep"
"I've got the mission parameters, can you take them to Michael" Birkoff said holding out a panel.
"Sure" Nikita said going off back towards Michael's office.
"You got anything to eat?" Buffy asked
"Well I do have some Oreo's" Birkoff conceded
Just when Buffy was about to answer, the phone next to Birkoff started to ring
"Yes" he answered picking up the phone
"Birkoff bring Buffy and Angel up to my office please" the person asked
"Of course Madeline" Birkoff answered hanging the phone up
"Follow me" Birkoff said to Buffy and Angel
Birkoff led them into Madeline's office then went back to his station
"Please sit down," Madeline said politely
Buffy and Angel walked over to the two chairs and sat down cautiously.
"For the time being you have been given inter-connecting rooms, I will show them to you shortly"
"Thankyou" Buffy replied
"Buffy Summers, age 17, blonde hair, hazel eyes" she said looking directly at her
"Liam O'Connor, age 21, brown hair, hazel eyes" she said turning her attention to him.
"We know everything there is to know about you two"
'I somehow doubt it' Buffy thought
"Are we allowed to use the training room?" Buffy questioned
"Of course I'll take you there myself" Madeline replied with a smile.
Madeline led them to the training room and then left them to stand up in the observation room.
"Angel you feel up to our usual training routine?"
"Are you up to it, we haven't trained together in a while"
"Let's go"
Buffy and Angel stood to the centre of the mat facing each other.
They began to move through their old tai-chi exercise before moving into attack positions.
For the next three hours they fought as if it were a real battle, pining each other to the mat and raining painful kicks that would leave bruises later.
They never noticed the people gathering outside the door until they silently agreed to have a short rest before continuing.
Looking up they saw Michael, Nikita, Walter, Madeline, some guy with silver hair and a bunch of people they didn't know staring at them.
Madeline turned to Michael and Nikita and told them something.
Then Michael and Nikita moved down to where Buffy and Angel sat.
"Would you mind sparring against us?" Nikita asked
"In teams or separately?" Buffy questioned
"Teams" Michael answered
"Ok, you and Nikita against me and Angel"
"Are we pulling punches or going all out?" Michael asked
"Considering you both have a mission we'll go gentle on you"
"Don't pull punches on our account" Nikita piped up
"Well if you want we can go all out," Buffy said cautiously
"Alright" Michael said
Michael and Nikita walked over to take position on one side of the mat.
Angel and Buffy turned to each other and Buffy asked Angel to try and go a little easy on them.
With a glint of something Buffy couldn't recognise in his eyes Angel agreed.
While Buffy was talking to Angel, on the other side of the mat Michael was telling Nikita to be cautious as they had no idea what there true talents were in regards to their fighting abilities.
Suddenly thinking of something Buffy called out to the other pair "Hey do you use safety words?"
"How do you usually spar?" Nikita asked
"Well usually we finish when one of us is out cold," Buffy said with a smile
"I believe that would be adequate, the mission can always be rescheduled" came Madeline's voice over the speakers.
"Ok I guess no safety words, we go all out, this should be a blast" Buffy said
"Begin" Madeline said over the speaker
Buffy advanced on Nikita and delivered a punch to her midsection that Nikita dodged, Nikita returned a punch to Buffy's side that missed as Buffy stepped out of the way.
"Oh some on your not even trying" Buffy said tauntingly
'Whack!' Nikita's foot connected with Buffy's hip, she fell to the floor but was back up in a moment.
Buffy kicked Nikita's legs out from under her then as she got back up she punched her in the jaw, Nikita countered with a punch to Buffy's midsection.
After half an hour of countering blows Nikita was starting to get tired but Buffy wasn't even sweating.
Another 15 minutes later they stopped mutually and sat down to watch their men fight each other.
The looked like they were dancing, twisting this way and that moving on the balls of their feet.
Buffy looked closely and realised that Michael and Angel were both using a similar style of fighting. They looked as if they had been fighting against each other for years because of the way they anticipated each other's next moves.
Eventually the girls called to them a halt to the fight and went over to their respective males to see what damage was done.
Michael came out of the fight with a bleeding cut above his right eye, upon further inspection Nikita found that Michael also had a few bruised ribs.
Angel had a split lip, a bruise along his jaw line and a few broken ribs also.
Both men had refused to have their injuries checked by someone. So the women turned to each other and said in unison "Let's go"
"See you later 'Kita?" Michael asked cautiously
"I'm busy Michael" Nikita said then walked out of the training room with Buffy not far behind.
At the door Buffy turned around and said to Angel "What she said goes double for me"
The two girls walked out of the room arm in arm.
Buffy invited Nikita over to her room for dinner that night Nikita said she would love to come and said she'd bring dinner and a few videos.
Then Nikita remember that Buffy and Angel had yet to be shown to their rooms so she turned around and told Buffy she would show her where her quarters are.
As soon as they got their Buffy blanched at the site, everything was white no other colour was evident.
"I'm beginning to notice a theme" Buffy said wryly.
"I know, when I lived in Section for the first two years, I did everything I could to bring a bit of colour into my room, I remember when Michael was away for a week he came back and saw what I had done to my room, I painted each wall with about 4 or 5 different colours, Michael called it graffiti I called it art"