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A/N: It's been a VERY busy week. Sorry for the late update, kudos for all that forgive me. On with that story.

Chapter 9- A favor

---Faith's POV---

"Does everyone understand?" a man questioned. The man was standing beside a rather large oval table in which a multitude of people were sitting at. "There's no going back after this. Once you sign that oath, and you go back on it, you're best men -and women- are as good as dead. Let's not dwindle too much on the negatives, we all know what will happen if we succeed." The man was dressed in a black suit with a velvet shirt on underneath. His sleek shoes had been polished upon entering the room, as well as his thick auburn hair had been combed right outside. He had a sort of pale appearance to him, with a hint of pink in his cheeks as well as a strong chin line. A girl with wavy dirty blonde hair was just finishing signing a piece of paper when she passed it to me and I read it. It had a contract written on it with signatures of the people sitting at the table on it. I glanced around the paper, looking for the fine print in the contract. After a few minutes I placed my "John Hancock" on the paper and handed the piece of paper to Sark.

"Are we sure about this?" he whispered.

"I don't know about you, but I have no room for doubts. I have to go along." I mumbled.

"Still Simon's toy?" Sark smirked, reading the paper.

I glared at him, crossing my arms and tuned him out.

By the time the piece of paper had made it's way around back to the guy who was standing up, all but the dirty blonde had signed.

"Miss Atmen… is it?" the man questioned, catching the dirty blonde's attention. She smiled, defiance in her eyes. "You know, 'kiss my ass' is a very popular phrase. Thank you for using it, now, let me show you how I'll use it."

Fear entered the girl's eyes as she stood up, ready to bolt for the door. The man pulled out his gun and shot the girl with one bullet and she fell to the ground, never to get up again.

"Kiss my ass, Miss Atmen." he stated with a smile. "Sven, would you please take out the trash?"

With that command a hunched over man, standing by the door , hurried over to Miss Atmen's limp body and dragged he out of the room.

"Well," the man began, a smile on his face, "pleasure doing business with you all. See you all soon."

---Sydney's POV---

I sat at the kitchen table drinking orange juice. After Faith and Sark had found out their relationship to each other and had a short talk they had taken off and I hadn't seen them since. Which had been 2 days ago. I was beginning to wonder if they had ditched me, but then I remembered Sark's phone call and knew that they had to be getting ready for some mission. From the way, Sark acted of course, I knew this mission had to be big; but what could they be going after that was so important?

---Sark's POV---

Everyone had begun filing out of the room, heading to who knows where. I spotted Faith walking away and I grabbed her by the arm, forcing her to turn around and face me.

"What do we do about Sydney?" I questioned, hoping she had the answer.

"Send her back, she has no business here, not now. It's the best thing we can do." she whispered, glancing around every now and then to see if someone was listening in on our conversation.

"She wont go, not yet." I murmured.

"What the hell's she waiting for?" Faith rose her voice a little. I motioned for her to lower it.

"She, she wants to know what a psychic told me." I replied, pulling her out of the building.

"Why'd you go to a psychic?" she questioned.

"Long story, look, I can't tell her what she told me, because it's about her future." I replied, heading for my car.

"So, it's wont be a surprise, what's the problem?" she asked persistently.

"It's what she saw in the future. You know what? You were right, we need to send her back, now. And you're going to do it." I answering, unlocking my red Spider.

"What did you see?" she persisted in almost a whine.

"Where's your car?" I questioned, changing the subject.

"I caught a ride with Simon. What did you see?" she repeated.

"Doesn't matter, the chance of that happening are just about as slim as me running for president and winning." I answering, starting the car.

"So, are you going to tell me?" She asked with a sigh.

"Maybe, but it does have something to do with what we're doing right now." I answering. "Later."

With that I drove away, headed for Irina's.

---Faith's POV---

"What the hell have I gotten myself into?" I asked myself, hitting a nearby tree.

"Hop in, love." Simon called form his car.

"Hey, Simon." I greeted a smile on my face as I got in the car. "Can you do me a favor? I need to be dropped off somewhere."

----A few hours later-----

I stood up, hearing the roar of an engine outside and moments later Faith rushed in, crying, but although she was crying hope could be found in her eyes.

"Look, I know, we don't know each other too well, but I love Julian, and, I suppose you love me brother as well, and, and he doesn't know…" she trailed off, crumbling to the floor in a heap.

I walked over to her, and kneeled down, helping her up. "What's wrong?"

She looked up at me, crying. "It's my daughter, Sark doesn't even know I have one, I just, I don't know who the father is, and, and do you know how degrading it would feel? Every time I think about it, I feel like a whore, so, I couldn't tell him, but, but, I've always kept her a secret, but don't get me wrong I love her so much, I just, I guess I didn't keep her a secret as well as I thought I did, because he, he, he took her, and until now I've had no way to find her or find out any information on her. But, I found out from my sources that someone does have information on him. He calls himself teddy bear, because it doesn't seem threatening, so it cons you. The, the CIA has information on him, but, you know as well as I do, that they're not going to hand that information over to me, so, I, I was wondering if you could retrieve that information for me, I'd be forever in your debt. You know how much it feels when someone you love is taken away from you, I, I have a chance to get her back, please, please help me."

I stared back at her and wondered if we had switched places and I had been asking for her to help me retrieve Danny again if she would help me.

A/N: And the surprises start… promise the story is gonna get sooooooooooooooo much better in the upcoming chapters.