Ethan POV

I was walking towards this quaint little restaurant I didn't see Ilsa I only saw Kensi sitting with Benji. Ilsa wasn't there. I really hope her not being there meant they let her go. Kensi looked stressed but she knew what she was doing. I trusted that woman with my life. I looked around but I didn't see Lane anywhere to be seen. I had hoped that he would show his face. But he didn't, his henchmen were here though. I walked towards both Benji and Kensi. Benji didn't move a muscle, he had an earwig in. Something was off. Benji started speaking in Lane's voice.

"This is the end Mr. Hunt." I looked at Benji more closely, he was wearing a certain type of lens where there was a camera. I went to touch him Kensi looked like she was going to cry.

"Careful!" She whispered to me. I lifted the jacket he was wearing to reveal a time clock.

"2 pounds of samtex, 500 thirty caliber ball bearings. Your friend is sitting on a very high sensitive pressure trigger. So no sudden moves." Damn. It was weird hearing Benji say this to me. I looked back at Kensi. She had a gun.

"You're final test." I asked her.

"When Lane has what he wants I kill you and Benji, if not everyone dies." Kensi replied to me. I took a look around to see his henchmen carrying semi auto weapons.

"No time to think Ethan. Take a seat please." Benji said. Benji had tears in his eyes. I needed to get us all out of this alive. I sat down across from Benji.

"Human nature. My weapon of choice. The moment I killed the young lady in the record shop I knew you would stop at nothing to catch me. I also knew Ilsa wouldn't have a choice, whether she broke you that night or let you go. Whether you let her run in Morocco or not, whether she went to Attlee or not." He spoke.

"You were certain we'd end up where we are, right now and again, so was I. I know you Lane, somewhere along the line you had a crisis of faith. Human life didn't matter anymore. Maybe it never really did. Either way you killed too many of innocent people without ever asking who was giving the orders or why. You blame the system for what you are instead of yourself. You wanted revenge, but Rome wasn't destroyed in a day. You needed help, you needed money and a lot of it. And you'll stop at nothing to get it. That's how I know I'm going to put you in a box." I replied.

"Where's the disk?" he yelled.

"You like to play games. I have a game for you." I started writing on a napkin.

"I'll give you 50 million dollars to let Benji go." I negotiated.

"Wheres the disk?" he yelled at me again.

"You're looking at it. I am the disk. I memorized all 2.4 billion in numbered accounts, that vest goes off you get nothing. Without this money you are nothing. Without me you are nothing. Right now you're thinking it's a bluff. I'd never let my friends die. I couldn't possibly memorize the entire disk. There's only one way to be sure. Let Benji go." I watched the clock on Benjis vest stop. Oh thank god. No one would die today. I heard Kensi sigh with relief along with Benji. He had his men moving in on me.

"They come one step closer, shoot me" I told Kensi, she scooted closer to me pressing her gun against my chest. They stopped.

"Remember one day I told you you would take things too far? This is me speaking by the way, not him." Benji said to me and I smiled.

"The only way this ends is you and me Lane face to face. Only this time I won't be locked in a glass box. You want your money? The bone doctors going to have to beat it out of me. Now let Benji go." I think I made my point. He must've told Benji the number because he typed it into the vest he was wearing and it released. Benji took out the contact lens and got up. I handed him a phone and said,

"Go."

"Ethan…" He tried to argue with me.

"Brandt and Luther are waiting.. Go." Finally Benji left. I looked around at his men, one of them was inching closer. I glanced at Kensi. Her eyes locked with mine and we both had a moment. She nodded slightly. Once I saw the gun I ducked under her arm covering her from bullets, she killed him. I heard someone else pull a gun and immediately changed her arm position to kill that guy. I took her gun from her and she used me for cover pulling us out of the restaurant as I shot at Lane's hench men.

Kensi POV

Ethan and I got out unscathed although we were shot at which I was a little upset about (name that reference). I knew he had a plan for Lane I would talk to him about that later but right now we needed to get out of here. He knew I wanted him dead, maybe his way would be better. We ran across a street and into an alleyway however a car had pulled out in front of us.

"Which way?" I asked out of breath. He ran in a different direction and I followed him. They were shooting at us, of course. We hid behind some pillars and waited for them to come. When they got close enough we jumped out from the pillars and attacked them, trying to get their guns out of their hands first. Ethan saw another car pull up he took the gun from the guy he was attacking and shot one of them. I started running away. He followed after me. Another car pulled up. Ethan shot the two inside. We continued running. We took a small break in a building alleyway, gathering our breathing. He looked at how many rounds he had left and it turned out he had none. I nodded at him and we started running again. Ethan took out the man who was pursuing us still. I had a moment where I didn't know what to do, I didn't want to leave my friend behind but I needed to go. I ran up some stairs and into a building where I knew Ilsa was hiding waiting for me. This building had a bunch of fun pillars we could hide behind and be stealthy. I found her and she nodded at me. I found a knife and held it close to me. I kept moving closer to him so I could attack and kill him. I jumped out the same time Ilsa did I stabbed him once and she punched him. I fell on the ground as he looked appalled at both of us. She took a step backwards. He had a surprise of his own. He took out a knife as well, a very large one at that. He said something to me in a language I didn't really understand. Ilsa spoke,

"Now lets see what you are made of." She told me. She attacked him from behind while I went at him with a knife. He ended up cutting me a couple times pushed me up against a pillar but I came back strong trying to keep his attention off of Ilsa. I threw her the knife so I could catch my breath for a second. She fought him for a little while which I threw some punches. She stabbed him in the thigh. She made more advances but he countered them. Eventually, she wrapped her leg around his arm climbed on top of his shoulders and came down on him stabbing him in the spinal cord. He finally fell. I had separated from Ethan I needed to find him quickly, I needed to see Lane go down. I forgot about Ilsa for a minute and I ran into the sewer where I had saw him last running after Ethan. I walked up behind him seeing Lane in a glass box where he was trying to shoot Brandt, Ethan, Benji and I. Ilsa ended up walking up behind me, I don't know how she found us but she did.

"Remember me now? I am the person you shot about a year ago on the street in India. Kensi O'Connell. Gentleman, this is Soloman Lane, Mr. Lane, meet the IMF." I told him. God it felt so good to put him in a box. Ethan smiled proud of his work. Benji flipped a switch and the box flooded with gas. Once it was full he turned on the lights. We were in the parking garage. Ethan tilted the box over and shoved it into a van marked Police. Benji locked the doors on it. Ilsa was standing by the BMW car I figured I would give her and Ethan some space. I walked away with Benji, Brandt and Luther. We got changed and into some more comfortable clothing. They were hugging when Luther said we needed to go. She looked over and saw me in the van as well she smiled and waved then got in the car, she said something else to Ethan and closed the door and drove off. Ethan walked over to us and got in. We drove off too with the sirens on. I was back with my team and Soloman Lane wasn't my problem anymore. I looked over to the guy next to me who was staring at me in a different way than before.

"Kensi." I heard my name. I smiled and he put his hand on my cheek. I leaned into it.

"I love you." I whispered to him. He didn't say anything back just leaned forwards and caught my lips in a long kiss. I smiled into the kiss knowing not much had changed although everything had changed. He broke away first.

"I love you too O'Connell."