I DO NOT OWN INTELLIGENCE OR ANY OF ITS CHARATERS

Riley knew this wouldn't end well. They had been on a run of the mill mission involving another drug lord when she was shot by one of his body guards. It wasn't bad per say the bullet didn't even fully hit her, but it grazed the middle of her back. And Gabriel of course demanded to let him see it, so he could clean and dress her wound. But when she told him no, he gave her his just let me help you look. She told him if he did, he would see part of her soulmark. He had sighed and motioned for her to remove her jacked. Oh, she knew when he of all people saw it, he would be able to read it. Her mark was on her right side on the upper half of her rib cage and always hided by her bra. Unlike most people whose mark was either a name or a symbol of there soulmate hers were a series of ones and zeros in two lines. A Binary code. She looked it up one and of course it just had to spell out Gabriel Vaughn. When she felt him pause then raise her bra slightly up, she knew he read it. Oh, how she really hated that chip in his head right then. But he didn't say anything. He cleaned the wound and they finished the mission. Once back at cyber command they split up. She went to medical and he went who knows were. He sent her a texted that Jameson took him home and that he would see her tomorrow. Then this morning he sent one saying he went in early. Sighing she got ready mindful of her new stiches on her back and drove to cyber command.

Gabriel never left cyber command, nor did he sleep. He was in Shenandoah's lab rendering about Amelia. He always thought she didn't have a soul mark due to her job. But when she had saw a compass pointing north with a stare replacing the N on the dip of his left hip, she had thought he was her compass. Oh, how they were wrong. He then started rendering about riley all the way from the beginning. When they first meet, she had a look in her eye that he now knew meant she had known they were soulmates. She knew and didn't tell him. She had sat there by his side while he mourned Amelia. She had even helped him look for her. She knew but his wants and needs before his. He looked at everything she had done for him and smiled. Oh, at first, he was shocked at the sight of his name in binary code under part of her bra. But after the mission he was mad, now though he understood. She kept quiet because he had refused to let Amelia go.

"I'm the stupidest man on earth"

He shook his head then paused felling her presence. "how long has he been rendering" she sounded worried even a little scared. So, he brought up the camera feed to see Riley with her back to him. He closed out the render and decided to have a little fun. Waking up he silently rose form the table. No one noticed yet as he stepped up right behind her.

"Neal, Vaughn my office." Lillian had stepped in the lab behind him so when she spoke riley turned on her heal crashing into him.

"Jesus, Gabriel don't do that" he just smirked shaking his head following her out of the lab. Oh, today was going to be fun or so he thought.

"So, what did I do this time?" Gabriel saw Riley smirk after all most of the time they were in here because of something he did.

"you mean beside rendering in the lab all night" he saw her stiffen then glare at him, so he raises a brow.

"my partner had been shot and I was trying to see if there was anything that I could have done differently, and I had some things I need to sort out with my past." Lillian seemed to buy it and dropped the subject.

"unfortunately, there another mission, a protection detail for a senator." He sat up straighter

"no, she was shot yesterday for god sake."

"Gabriel, its low risk and they asked for Riley personally" she sighed and sat forward.

"who is it"

"your farther" he was shocked frozen on the spot, but it pasted when riley voice was dead and cold.

"no, I would kill him myself if you put me in the same room with him. Lillian you've seen my other, other file you can't make me protect my worst nightmare." Now he was mad if he was her nightmare, he might kill him himself.

"why dose he wants her?" Lillian leaned back in her seat.

"he doesn't know that she's his daughter just that she a dam good agent. I'm sorry but even the president asked for you to do this" he saw the tear form and stood up in front of her putting his hands on the desk shielding her.

"why?"

"he has had death threats"

"and that's nothing out of the ordinary"

"from the partner of the drug lord you two just took down" he sensed her stand beside him.

"fine but he never finds out and if he touches me, I'm breaking his hand." She left going to the briefing room.

"I'll put a built in him if he does" he mumbled under his breath falling in right by her side.

Riley was worried. Gabriel didn't ask anything about her farther. Senator Richard North was the worst man anyone could ever meet not to mention a pig. But she had heard what he said coming out of Lilian's office. She smiled and shock her head.

"what's funny?" of course he was watching her.

"just imagining you shooting a man for just trying to be shaking my hand?" she saw his smirk.

"so, North? Like the North star" she nodded

"my mom was his mistress for a while. When I got older, he thought I could entertain some of his guest." His eyes were darker, and she could tell he was trying to find anyone that could have had a meeting with him at the time.

"good luck all the meetings were off the books and off the grid" he smiled and shrugged.

"I'm still going to look then destroy any of them."

"Don't bother anyone that tried now have very embarrassing scars. I would hide I knife on me and stab them. And he would choke me till I passed out." He was silent for a minute.

"were not doing this. I don't want you to relive any of that." She sighed oh she knew this would happen.

"no were doing this. One he won't know it's me. Two you will be there so if anything happens, I know you'll handle it. And three I'm not a three-year-old child anymore." He had a dark look on his face and he nodded.

"we stay together, and you stay with me at night. According to some dirt I found he still doesn't understand the word no and has a thing for strong women."

"Gabriel"

"no this is the one thing I'm only demanding especially since I now know. He doesn't lay a hand on you period." She nodded worriedly and I a softer voice she only heard him use when they were alone, he whispered

"I understand why you didn't tell me riley and eventually well talk. But right now, I'm more worried about you being around him is going to do to you." She was shock but still smiled returning to her work.