I will lie for you

Beg and steal for you

I will crawl on hands and knees until you see

You're just like me

Garbage, Number 1 Crush.

Sydney looked to the other side of the rooftop as a black Mercedes pulled up right beside her car. Sighing she looked around to make she they were alone, they were. The mall parking lot was not a full place after around eight especially the rooftop.

Pulling her arms around her herself she waited for him to get out of the car he did. He wore a suit as always. Black. And a pair of sunglasses, which annoyed her, it was nighttime after all.

'Sydney nice to see you here, I have been waiting for our little meeting all day.'

She could feel anger rising up on her. 'Listen. I'm only here because I have to be. These are not our 'little meetings' this is business. Simple as that.' A smile came to his face after the word business, 'We're not friends. Let me guess something, the only reason you asked me to do this is because you had no one else. All your sources are two years old and dried up, all your 'friends' or either dead, in prison or don't know or care who the hell you are anymore. You're all alone. Just like me. Which means, you need me just as much as I need you.'

'I choose you Sydney because you're the best. And I'm a people person; I make new friends quite easily.'

She just stared.

'But you are not completely wrong...perhaps. Here.' He handed her a file. Opening it she saw a picture of a man about 50 years old. 'His name is Steven Cummingham he lives in the south of France. Covenant. His job is to train 'new recruits'

'So maybe me.'

'So maybe you.'

'What do you want me to do?'

'We will go into his home; I have it on good authority that he keeps videos of all the recruits, especially thing women ones, in his home...for 'personal' use.'

'That's so sick. You think I could be in there?' She stepped back surprised at how weak her voice sounded.

'Maybe.' He said, she was surprised again, she thought she could almost hear sympathy in his voice. Almost.

'We take the tapes then.' She finished as he nodded. 'How does this help you?'

'The tapes won't be the only things I plan to take from him. He's a high ranking officer in the covenant. With him gone. Well it will be a blow.'

'You're going to kill him.'

He didn't respond. He opened the car door and began to get it. 'I'll contact you in the next few days. You have a cover for the CIA?'

'Leave of absence from missions. For a while.'

He again nodded. She turned to get into her car.

'Oh and Sydney.'

She looked at him. 'Vaughn's wife.....you don't have anything to worry about, she's not half as lovely as you.' The smug smile came back to his face. He shut the car door.

That bastard. She thought. Hating him, and herself for getting involved with someone like him.