A/N: New chapter. I know you guys want longer chapters, but the story is set in increments, some chapters are longer than others. I sometimes put two together.

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2100 ZULU
Somewhere in Virginia
March 19th, 2003

Harm groaned and rolled his head back. The last few days had been the absolute worst of his life. His nose was broken and his eyes, as far as he could guess, were swollen almost shut. He could taste blood in his mouth and his entire body ached and throbbed with pain. Kareena hadn't come in a while, so he knew that she was coming soon. He tried to move but his arm rubbed against the back of the chair and he drew a sharp intake of breath. He winced, this was definitely not good, he knew that he could count on AJ, Webb, and Mac to find him, he just didn't know if they would find him alive. A door banged open, he could hear two distinct pairs of footsteps. They stopped in front of him. Harm hung his head down and his chin rested on his chest. He heard Kareena's voice,

"You remember my uncle right?" So that had been the second pair of footsteps. Harm tried not to show his feelings, this was the end. He was doomed. He prayed that Mac would find him in time. He could hear the smile in Kareena's voice.

"I thought so."


0800 ZULU
Clay's Office
March 20th, 2003

Mac had gone through files for an hour now. She could tell that Webb was weak, but she knew that every second that went by could be the second they needed to save Harm. Webb had thought of everything to find Kareena, but it wasn't working. The phone rang on Webb's Desk. Webb took it with his left hand.

"Webb… really...we'll be right there…yes I know what Harm means…oh, and I'm coming with someone else… I'd trust her with my life… okay."

Webb put the receiver down. "Do you know a man by the name of Alexi, dark hair, Russian accent?"

Mac nodded. "Yes, what about him?"

"He's downstairs, apparently he knows where Harm is." Webb replied.

Mac nodded. She wheeled Clay while he gave directions. When they arrived, Clay pressed an intercom button and spoke a password.

"Cabbage."

Mac couldn't help but snicker. Webb looked at her and asked.

"Would you think of saying that?" Mac shook her head, amused. Webb had a point. She wheeled him in.

Alexi was sitting in a makeshift cell. As soon as he saw Mac he stood up. He told Mac and Webb how he had driven Kareena to her hideout, and how he was her guide/Russian helper. When He finished Mac thanked him and immediately started wheeling Webb towards the exit.

Webb put his hand on hers, and told her to stop.

"Mac, we need to form a plan, I've dealt with Kareena before, as I told you she is a military mastermind, she'll have thought of everything." Mac nodded.

They trekked back to Webb's office. Mac called the Admiral and told him that they had found out where Harm was. The Admiral reached the building in a matter of minutes.

Webb put a bunch of blueprints on his desk. He pointed out a building.

"This is the building Harm is being held in." he said. He took out another blue print; it was an enlarged version of the first. "This building could have been built for the purpose of hiding someone because it's like a labyrinth. There are three entrances. The front entrance is the most heavily guarded. There's no way we can get through there. Then there's a back entrance. It leads directly into a room that leads directly into another room, which leads into two rooms, that's where we might mess up. I've got the probable locations for everyone in the building and I've got the exact locations of all the security cameras. I'm positive that Harm is in this room," Webb said, putting a blue square in one of the rooms. "It's more like a closet though. This is the room where we might find Kareena and her uncle, which we have just learned, arrived in the country yesterday."

Webb put a gold dot signifying Kareena and a turquoise dot signifying her uncle in a room.

"These are the security cameras." He said, putting blue dots in Harms room and the main hallway and at the entrances. The back entrance only had one while all the other entrances had at least three.

"And theses are the security guards." He said, putting red dots on all three of the entrances.

"There are, as you can see, gray areas, they are danger zones and are to be avoided if possible. Of course we have to enter, so that's one danger zone, and we have to get Harm, that's two danger zones." He said, pointing at each in turn.

"Purple doorways mean the doors are sealed." Webb finished, pointing at one of the purple doorways. AJ was skeptical.

"And what if these aren't accurate, anyone can blow a damn hole in a wall."

Webb nodded, "Trust me, these blueprints are accurate AJ. A hole in the wall would show up in Yellow."

AJ believed Webb, for the moment.

Mac spoke up, "How will we get through the sealed doorways?" She asked.

Webb looked at AJ, "I would think that AJ could set up some c-4 to blow off he locks, then you can just walk through. I can disable the camera at the back entrance but I can't disable the one in Harm's room. What I would do is set up charges to blow holes in the walls so you can make a quick exit off the right side of the building, that should be only 2 charges to get out. And 3 to get in." AJ nodded.

"My knowledge of bombs isn't very updated, I don't know how to arm c-4." Webb nodded.

"I'll give you a lesson later. Right now we've got to plot a course through this maze of a building."