Chapter 14 – Failure to Follow Orders

Peter woke to the beeping of hospital machinary. Glancing around he found himself in a small room but he was no alone. Pulling himself up he found Walter sitting sleep on the chair on the right of the bed and Astrid on the left. Astrid stirred when she heard the bed move.

"Hey Peter. How are you feeling?" Moving closer to the bed she kept her voice down.

"What happened?" Trying to shake the feeling something bad had happened, Peter needed to know.

"You save Olivia's life. Gave yourself third degree burns in the prosess and inhailed a fair amount of smoke but you saved her life." Astrid turned her body to the bed next to them. There Olivia sat, head facing them both and her eyes closed.

"What did the doctor say?"

"Other than the fact that you are crazy…?" Astrid met his eyes and smiled, "…she's going to be fine. Burns around her stomach where the beam fell on her and a slight concusion. She caused a scene when she woke up and couldn't find you, so they had to being her in here with you to calm her down."

Peter couldn't take his eyes off her. She was safe, for now.

"Peter, there is something else…Walter did a blood test and apparently she was injected with something. Now I couldn't make any sense out of him but I did understand one thing, whatever was injected into her counteracted the cortexiphan. Walter isn't sure why they would want to do that though."

Peter was shocked. That's why Olivia couldn't control the fire. "The other day Tash and Olivia learned to control their abilities, to an extent. That's why they injected her with the counteragent. So she wouldn't be able to control the fire and save herself. They were trying to kill her." Peter trailed off gazing over to Olivia.

"It won't last." Walter's voice could be heard over the silence, "The counteragent won't last in agent Dunham's system. I have no idea how they even created it." Walter sounded angry with himself because he was not able to create it from the beginning.

"Walter, it'll be ok." Astrid tried to calm him down and Peter took the opportunity to pull himself from the bed and make his way over to Olivia's bed. Slowly he sat on the side of her bed and bend down. He didn't even care that Astrid and Walter could see him. He placed a small kiss on her lips and as if Sleeping Beauty was real, she opend her eyes.

"Peter!" Olivia threw her arms around his neck, wincing at the pain she had caused herself but she didn't care. He was awake.

Peer brought one arm around her shoulders and the other one on the back of her head and just held her close. "Thank god you're ok Liv."

"Agent Dunham, Mr. Bishop. It's good to see you both awake." The doctor came into the room carrying a clip board and Broyles followed. "How are you both feeling?" The doctor looked more concerned with the state of Astrid's face than the two who were actually in the hospital.

"We are fine, thanks doctor." Peter couldn't bring his eyes away from Olivia and this hadn't escped Broyles attention.

"Bishop, I should suspend you for failure to follow orders," All eyes were now on Broyles and he knew he would never win if he really did suspend him, "but you saved Olivia's life. Don't ever disobey an order again. Got that?"

Peter smiled at Broyles because he realised how difficult that actually was for him, "Of course sir."

Both Olivia and Peter were released in the evening and without fail Olivia had convinced them they had to keep looking for Tash. Astrid's voice piped up, "I'm so sorry, that's what I was going to tell you but you had already left for the building, Peter, you program went off again at different location, but there was something different about it. I think she is still there." Astrid looked ashamed that she hadn't rememebered that earlier but both Peter and Olivia knew that things had gotten a bit hectic.

So the plan was worked out. They were going to go in with heat sensors before anybody stepped foot inside the warehouse.

Peter pulled Olivia to the side before the rest of the team was ready to go. All they waited for was Olivia's say. No one moved until it came so Peter had time. "Do not even begin to think that you are going anywhere near the inside of that warehouse without me. I'm not going to wait outside and watch you go in there alone. Do you understand me?"

Olivia could see the forcefullness behind his eyes and she smiled at him, placing a hand on his cheek, "I wouldn't dream of it."

Turning on her heals Olivia gave the order and the team broke up into pairs, each with a set of heat sensors, circling the perimitor.

"Agent Dunham. We have her. The back room. There is 3 oyher people in the house that can be taken out easily but there are two person standing in the room with the girl." Olivia's radio cracked with the information but at the same time an ear peircing scream came for the warehouse and the earth began to shake.

"She's here Peter!" Olivia reached for Peter and tried to steady each other as the ground slowed and stopped. "Ok, everyone is to take out their mark. Leave the girl to me and Bishop."

With that Olivia and Peter stormed in to the front room and found an unconcious Tash strapped to a chair and standing over her was Justin and in the corner Peter saw a smirking Talia.

Peter made a bee line for Talia as Olivia made her way over to Justin, all the while dodging the punches that came her way. Peter had easily taken down Talia, she now lie on the ground handcuffed to the all heater. She wasn't going anywhere.

Peter watched as Olivia was thrown across the room but tripped Justin as he came over to her. Trying to get a good view of his chance to jump in, it came when Justin had Olivia against the wall and was trying to strangle her. Peter grabbed him by the arms and swung him around. Both of them hit the ground but anger filled Peter as the image of this guys hands around Olivia throat entered him mind. Slamming his fist into Justin's face over and over again Peter only stopped when he felt Olivia's hand on his arm.

"Peter he's out. Just cuff him so we can get outta here." Peter nodded and took the cuffs from Olivia.

After about 30 minutes Peter, Olivia and Tash entered the backyard waiting for the amublance and all the suspects were taken into custody. Olivia was checked out by the paramedics, Tash was taken to hospital for observations and Peter's hand was bandaged up much like his arm. The bandages now covered his thrid degree burn and the bloody and bruised knuckes on his left hand. Olivia watched as he walked over to her ad wrapped her up in a hug.

They both wished they could stay there forever but they knew they still had a long night ahead of them.

Hopefully this made sense. I was waiting to go to a party and got bored. If I stuffed anything let me know otherwise hope you enjoyed it

Ash