Tony let his hand drop.For a second he thought he had met a ghost. For another second he tried to find words but he had none. He just reached out to Michelle and grabbed her into a tight hug and buried his face into her hair.

"Baby, I'm so sorry for everything. I thought I lost you."

Michelle let her tears run. She could feel Tony's heart beating strongly against her chest. "I know, I tried to call you." She whispered. "I'm so sorry for getting mad at you, I just want us to be together."

Tony broke apart from the embrace and examined his wife's face. It hadn't been no more than a mere night that they'd been away from each other and yet, it felt like he was seeing her for the first time. She might have been bruised, bloody and sweaty, her hair was a mess and eyes swollen from exhaustion and tears, but to him, she looked stronger and more beautiful than ever.

"What?" Michelle smiled at Tony's stare. He tucked a curl behind her ear.

"I love you." Michelle leaned towards him and softly pressed her lips to his."I love you too."

There was no one on the roof. Chase and Kim had walked through it a couple of times at the same time gazing at the sky in search of a chopper.

"She's not here." Kim said looking around.

"No, and I don't see Chappelle here either. Come on, let's go see if Michelle has found anything."

They started walking towards the door which led to the stairway and to an elevator. Before they could reach it, it slammed open and Chase was standing face to face with Jack. His heart skipped a beat.

"You son of a bitch!" Jack yelled furiously and drew his gun at Chase. "Kim, are you ok?"

Chase swallowed nervously. He didn't even have a gun to protect himself. Not that he would have wanted to protect himself, he was more than sure that he deserved everything that was coming.

Kim had taken a few steps away from Chase. She nodded to Jack. "Yeah, dad, don't worry I'm fine."

"Good, now go inside, sweetheart, you don't need to see this."

"No." She replied after a short pause.

"What do you mean 'no', just go inside, Chase and I will have a little chat."

"He doesn't deserve to die, dad. Don't do anything stupid."

Chase couldn't believe what he was hearing, Kim was, in fact, trying to defend him. Actually, it made him feel even more horrible person if it was even possible anymore. After all what he'd done to her, she was willing to stand by him.

"I'm not gonna kill him, I just want to talk to him." Jack tried to keep his voice calm to convince Kim. Whatever he was about to do next, he didn't want Kim to be around.

"Kim, do as he says. It's ok." Chase cut in. Whatever he was about to face, he didn't want Kim to have to witness it.

She looked at him and nodded and walked to the door. Jack watched her open the door and walk in. He sighed from relief.

"Now it's just you and me. "

"Jack, I know what I did is unforgivable, but hear me out now. Chappelle is coming any minute and we need to stop him from leaving the country."

"We?"

"I think you need all the help you can get."

Jack weighed the situation. He took a step closer and punched Chase as hard as he could. Chase fell to the ground holding his face.

"I don't need your help!"

Chase stood carefully up, his nose was bleeding. "I guess I deserved that."

"Damn right you did."

Kate turned her back to the reunited couple. She felt like she was disturbing a private moment and she was blushing. She tried to look the other way. Why couldn't she and Jack have something like that?

Suddenly she thought she saw a shadow moving a few levels lower in the stairs. She leaned over the railing to have a better view, but she didn't see anything anymore. She tried to breath quieter to hear something but then she convinced herself that it was nothing. She took a quick look over Michelle and Tony, who were still all over each other, and turned her head away. Suddenly, there it was again. She was just about to open her mouth and notify Tony and Michelle, when a gunshot broke the silence. Kate had enough time to see the shadow approaching from below. She saw a woman drawing a gun but before she had any time to react, she felt a ripping pain in her left shoulder. She moaned in pain and staggered away from the railing.

"What the f..." Tony shouted and ran to Kate just in time to help her lie down.

"There's someone a few levels below us." Kate said breathing heavily. The bullet had gone straight through her shoulder and Tony was desperately trying to find something to stop the bleeding.

Kate's words hit Michelle back to reality. "Tony, it was Lilah, that's why I was heading down there in the first place."

"Michelle, come here. Press this." Michelle kneeled next to him and pressed the wound as Tony had pointed her.

"She's working with Ryan. Oh, I'm so sorry, I don't know how it slipped my mind."

Tony stood up and loaded his gun.

"Honey, what are you going to do?" Michelle asked although she knew the answer already.

"Don't worry, I wouldn't dare to die now that I've gotten you back." He smiled.

Michelle wasn't all that convinced. She didn't want him to go, now that she'd finally held him in her arms but she didn't have a choice either. She nodded and tried to smile. She turned her head and focused on Kate who was sweating and panicking. Michelle's hands were bloody, much of it was Kates but some also her own. The wound she'd gotten earlier was still bleeding and the bandage Alex had tied was wet from blood. She swept a curl from her forehead and watched Tony walking the stairs slowly down.

"Everything's going to be fine." She whispered to Kate.