Well, here's the next part. It's kinda short, but I'm going on vacation and I've been busy. Hopefully I'll have more when I come back, but for now, enjoy.

Chapter 4

"Sounds like you two had a pretty good time," Street was saying. She and Renee were sitting on the couch in the Resistance Lair, waiting for Liam to show.

"Uh, yeah," Renee replied, smiling. Giving a small laugh, she continued. "It was kind of awkward at first, but it was fun."

"Well, I can't say I'm not jealous, but I am happy for you. And it's about time!" Street chided.

"Thanks Street." She was about to go on when a quiet beeping noise sounded from a nearby computer, alerting them to someone coming down the elevator. Street walked up to the computer. "Who is it?" Renee asked.

"Lover Boy," she replied, trying to keep a straight face. "Well, I'm gonna get out of your hair." She gathered her jacket and went to stand by the door.

"It's okay Street, you don't have –"

"No sweat," she replied, reassuringly. "I have to meet a friend anyway." At that moment the door opened and Liam stepped in. "See ya Renee." Walking past Liam, Street spoke in a conspiratory voice, "Have fun!" winking at him. With that, she left.

Staring at the door, Liam then turned to face Renee. Raising an eyebrow he asked, "You told her?"

"How'd you know?" She gave him a mock grin.

Liam just shook his head. "So…." He said, not sure where to begin. "How was your meeting?"

She got up and walked towards him. "Well, you know, boring." She continued walking. "I was thinking about you," she said playfully.

"Oh, really?" he asked, smiling and playing along. "What about?"

"Doing this." She put her arms around his neck and pulled him to her, kissing him.

He placed his hands on her hips, deepening the kiss for a few more seconds. He broke the kiss, pulling himself away only by inches. "As much as I'm enjoying this," he said breathlessly, eliciting a small laugh from Renee, "I'm supposed to be back at the Mother Ship in 20 minutes. Did Street tell you what she found?"

Sighing, she reluctantly led him over to the circular computer station. "Yeah." Entering a few commands on one of the consoles, she brought up a file. "Street confirmed that the raid on Colin's cell last week was not brought about by a traitor."

Liam read the file, confirming what Renee was telling him. "Well, if it wasn't an internal breach, how'd the Volunteers find them? There's never been any known Resistance activity in Oaxaca, or anywhere else in southern Mexico for that matter."

"Seems Colin's hacker isn't as good as he thinks he is," Renee replied with a bit of an edge to her voice. She brought up a second file. "The FBI was able to backtrack him. We're just lucky no one was captured or killed." She looked at Liam and softened her voice a little. "Even with Amnesty, the Feds won't tolerate us hacking into their mainframe."

"Yeah," he said, glancing back at the screen before beginning to pace. "We'll have to send out an order…again…about leaving hacking into the more sophisticated systems to Street and the others Augur vouched for. This can't happen again."

Renee reached out and put a hand on Liam's arm, preventing him from further pacing. "Calm down, don't worry. By now half the Resistance has heard about what went down in Oaxaca, and the rest will soon. I don't think many people will be willing to try what Carlos did anytime soon."

Taking her advice and reassurance into consideration, Liam allowed himself to relax a bit. Sighing, he took another look at the computer. "Yeah, probably. But I'm still sending out that order." Glancing at his watch, he winced at the time. "But that will have to wait until tomorrow, I have to get back to the Mother Ship. Sandoval's giving the 'unofficial' security details for next week's Singapore presentation." His annunciation of 'unofficial' told Renee that these would be the real security details, whereas the briefing Liam had attended the day before was faked; something that would be more accessible to unwelcome guests in order to throw them off the trail of the real set-up.

Liam opened the door to the elevator and looked back. "You staying here?"

Renee looked up from the computer. "Yeah, I'm going to look into the Sunrise situation."

He smiled at her while backing out of the room. "Talk to you later?"

She nodded. "Bye." At that, the door closed and Renee went to work.

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"…Main convoy will centre around Major Kincaid's shuttle, " Sandoval was saying. He was standing in front of a large group of Companion agents, law enforcement officials, and event co-ordinators both from the US and Singapore. "Major Kincaid will be flying Zo'or, Da'an, our Door's Liaison Renee Palmer, and myself." Liam groaned inwardly at that, he'd been hoping the 'rumor' about Zo'or and Sandoval had been just that. Continuing on, Sandoval said, "Roberts, your shuttle will lead, and Simms will come up behind us. Erikson and Miller will take the right flank, Serez and Bailey will take the left flank. Any questions?" The room was silent, everyone knowing better then to respond. "Very well. Lieutenant Evans will lead the decoy…."

The room listened while Sandoval went on to the ground security.

After an hour and a half of fine-tuning the details they were finished. "There will most likely be changes before the presentation. In fact, expect them." With that, Sandoval dismissed them.

Liam gathered up his global and the security plans that had been handed out, preparing to leave, when he heard his name. "Yes Sandoval?" he asked, turning.

Sandoval hesitated slightly before coming to a decision. "I understand you and Ms. Palmer are…friends."

Liam raised an eyebrow. "Yes, why?"

"I am very busy this week and I would appreciated it if you were to fill her in on the security plans."

Liam, knowing it was really an order rather than favour, replied, "Sure." Sandoval nodded and walked out of the room, leaving behind a slightly perplexed Liam. What was with his little friends comment? Liam wondered. He could have just ordered me, Renee's and my friendship had nothing to do with it. He shook his head and left for the shuttle bay. Even with his memories, Sandoval would forever remain a mystery to him.