A/N: I know that my last chapter barely had any halo stuff, but please be patient this chapter and the next will prelude the real HALO action. I repeat these chapters are considered part I. Anyways please review

Chapter Two

1350 hours, January 6, 2005

Bush International Airport,

Houston, Texas

Elaine put her sunglasses quickly as she exited the airport terminal, the southern sun beating down on her. She felt pretty warm as it was 61F outside, much warmer than in Washington around this time. Her thoughts then turned back to her partner. She still didn't like to be abandoned by her partner. Forensic conference my ass, she mumbled as she called for a taxi. She got in the old yellow taxi as she told the driver to take her to the University of Houston Main campus. The taxi driver nodded as he turned the meter on and took off. The taxi exited to the road and took off at an even faster speed as it exited on the highway. She estimated that she would arrive at the campus in about an hour, hour and a half tops. The taxi then took a quick and sudden exit down an unknown road and stopped in an abandoned building.

"We're here," the driver whispered as he exited the car.

"What do you mean we're here?" she said nervously "this is not where I wanted to go"

"I'm afraid there has been a change in your plans" said a man with a thick British accent as he and another man in a ski mask opened the taxi doors.

"What the Fuck…" she gaped as the man pulled her out and pushed her to the ground before she could finish and pointed a Israeli Uzi into her face. She had a surprised look on her face as the man with the British accent laughed. Elaine calmed down a bit but was nervous again as the British man told his partner to search her.

" I found something sir," said the man with the ski mask, strangely in a military type style. He took out her .40S&W police pistol and her FBI badge and showed it to the British man.

"Excellent, keep watch of her while I look through her stuff, if that's all right with you Agent Clancy," he said with a laugh as he looked at her badge. The British man lowered his Uzi but was quickly replaced by the even more intimidating Remington 870 Shotgun held by the man in the ski mask. The British man went to the taxi trunk with the driver right behind him. As he opened the trunk Elaine got an idea but she had to make the man in the ski mask angry and did not know if he would shoot if he got angry. What the hell she told herself.

"Hey bastard, what the fuck do you want from me?" she spat. The man continued to ignore her but still leveled the gun at her, his finger just itching on the trigger.

"Hey, I'm talking to you bastard, why won't you answer me!" she screamed as she slowly tried to get up.

"Stay down you bitch, or I'll shoot you," he said edging the barrel closer to her face. She could tell he was getting angry by making fun of him, Nice she thought with the new discovery.

"Are you scared of me?" she said " You must be gay then if you're scared of woman" she said with a laugh " You know you must love your partner then since you're SO gay"

"Shut the fuck up if you want to live" he said. His gun started to shake with rage, his eyes filled with blaring anger, he then suddenly hit her with his open hand as he leaned close to her on the ground.

" You know bitch, as soon as were done with you, you'd wish I was gay" he leaned close to kiss her on the neck. Now's my chance she though. She slowly raised her leg as he leaned closer, she then with all her strength kicked him in the groin sending him to the ground groaning and screaming.

"Aw, shit" he screamed in pain as he held put his hand on his groin in hopes to stop the pain. Elaine wasted no time to pick up her pistol and badge from the man, including the Shotgun and ran away towards a distant parking lot. Meanwhile, The British man was busy searching when he heard his partner scream in pain. Shit he said to himself. He runs to the taxi and puts the key in the ignition and starts the engine. The taxi driver comes running towards the taxi and putting his hands up to tell him to wait.

" Hey, you haven't paid me yet and you can't take my taxi" he protested

"Oh, where's my manner, let me get your reward," he slowly lowered his hand to his side holster and withdrew his Silenced Five-seveN pistol. "This should more than cover for the taxi too." He pointed it right at his head and coldly shot him twice in the forehead. The driver slumped over towards the hood but the British man ignored it as he started and moved the car towards his partner.

"Get in you bloody idiot" he said as he opened the door. The man obeyed and painfully got up and went in to the passenger's side of the taxi. I'm going to mess her up for what she did he thought to himself still holding his groin in pain. The British man saw Elaine running towards what looked like a Houston police cruiser. Oh shit he said to himself.

"Hang on, I'm going to floor it." Both men put on their seat belts as the British man put the car on drive and pushed the gas pedal to the floor.

Elaine ran desperately towards the idle Houston police car hoping that a police officer is inside. She finally reaches the police car but to her dismay the police car was empty. She then hears a car speeding, she turns around to see her captors coming after her in the taxi car she rode in. With speed, she gets her pistol out and starts shooting the car but it doesn't affect the car at all. In panic, the only thing she could do was dive behind the police car and shoot at the car before it runs into the police cruiser. In a last ploy she shoots the shotgun, with deadly accuracy the shotgun pellets go into the British man's head causing his body to collapse on the emergency brake and stopping the car. In surprise she realized she stopped the car with that one shot. But her joy was short lived as the guy in the ski mask came out with an Uzi and started shooting at the police car.

"This is for kicking my crotch, you bitch," he screamed as the bullets went into the police car. By this time the police officer that owned the car came out and ran towards the action and calling for backup. He then saw Elaine behind his car; he decided that he needed to take action to protect Elaine.

"Stop, Houston PD drop your weapon and…" before the officer could finish the man with the Uzi turned his weapon towards the officer and started shooting him in the chest. The officer dropped dead instantly as the first round went straight through his heart and out through his back. Elaine was dumbstruck and getting very angry as she saw the police officer sacrifice his life for her. She quickly broke the window of the passenger side of the police car and unlocked the door; she slid into the front seat and hotwired the car as fast as any criminal. The man looked up from his kill as the Police cruiser's V-8 engine started, realizing that Elaine used the police officer as an opportunity to run away. Not today he thought.

Come on, come on she said to herself as she struggled to turn the car into gear. Bullets suddenly sprayed through the back windshield causing Elaine to duck. The car finally went into gear as she floored it, and speed towards the parking exit. Bullets continued to hit the car as she hit the speed bump causing the cruiser to fly and landing on the main road. As she hit the speed bump one stray bullet hit and stayed in the gas tank causing a small gas leak. The man ran quickly into the old taxi and put the car in gear speeding after her. Elaine grabbed the radio in panic as she tried to radio for help. A barrage of bullet suddenly flooded into the car hitting the radio in the process. "Shit" she screamed out loud as she looked into her rearview mirror. The man had his gun sticking out the window ready to release another barrage of bullets. Elaine took her pistol and tried to aim at the car behind her in the process releasing bullets. She returned facing the front realizing that she was now in downtown Houston. Cars rushed passed her as she tried zigzagging past them hoping to god that she wouldn't crash. I got you now bitch the man said to himself as he pushed his car to the limits. His car bumped into Elaine's bumper causing her swerve into the opposite lane. She quickly repaired herself and went even faster. I need to get rid of him she said to herself; she looked around for something to slow her enemy down. She then spotted the rail ahead of her position. Yes, Houston has a light rail system she told herself as she heard a loud whistle signaling that there was a train coming. I need to time this right she thought as she literally pushed the pedal to the metal. The odometer went up close to it's max speed of 100 mph as the car raced to beat the speeding train. You can't get a way from me that easily he said to himself, oblivious to the fact of the train heading towards him. Elaine pushed the car even more causing the engine to whine in protest. She could now see the train heading towards them, she keep the car steady knowing if she didn't she would crash.

A witness would later come forward retelling the event at the point when she saw Elaine heading towards the light rail train. She was shopping at that moment at a shoe shop when she spotted the police cruiser going at top speed towards the train. She thought at that moment Elaine would crash but amazingly enough she just missed the train by what seemed a few inches. But the car behind her was not so lucky, the taxi crashed into the light rail at what seemed at top speed, in which the car exploded instantly. But no one was injured in the train, as it was in a maintenance run and the crash was mainly in the middle so the driver was not injured.

Elaine looked into her rearview mirror and smiled at the fire behind her. This was the most dangerous and exciting event that had ever happened to her in her career at the FBI. She rarely smoked but she felt that she needed one at that moment. She opened the glove compartment and searched for one in hopes of relaxing. She then realized that she was looking through a dead officer's items. God bless him she told herself Because of him I survived. Then as if magic acigar fell out of the glove compartment and landed in her open hand. Maybe it's a sign she said. She took a bite of the cigar and lit the bit end of it. Nice she marveled at the cigar, as it was her first. To you she said as she looked up. She paid more attention to the road, but she then realized she was lost. But she then saw the University of Houston ahead. My luck is changing she thought. She looked for the Archeology building, which she found instantly. She parked at the far right corner of the parking lot and turned it off. She got out of the car and threw the cigar carelessly behind her. She walked towards the building unaware that fuel was leaking from the bullet hole in the gas tank. The fuel ebbed its way towards the cigar, still lit on its end. Elaine kept walking towards the building until the gas made contact with the cigar, causing a massive explosion blowing up the car and throwing parts into the air. Elaine hit the ground instantly as soon as the vibrations hit her. Just my luck she told herself. But at least I wasn't hurt she thought, but ironically enough a piece of the shotgun that was in the car, hit her in the head causing her to be knocked out cold.