I'm on a ten-hour long road trip :P What better time to write my fanfic huh? I'm absolutely sorry for the eternity before updating! I have been extremely busy. Anyway, first chapter is underway!

Chapter 1: Irresistible Longing

Nikita fastened a silencer onto her 44 Magnum and tucked it under the waistband of her jeans. She had to maneuver around the seat of the car knowing it was too dangerous to walk outside, for someone might recognize her. The duffel bag that lay on the passenger side was filled to the brim with what she needed for a kill mission. The same weapons used in President Spencer's murder-no, she couldn't think about that. Nikita had an idea of Amanda's location-she was working with The Shop. She really missed having Birkhoff around to easily hack into everything and find where Amanda was in seconds, but that was a luxury she had chosen to give up.

"Stop sulking, Nikita. You'll be with them by tonight if you do this right. Remember, Amanda is the threat. She is putting everyone you love in danger," she silently reminded herself. She wildly tapped the keys on her laptop until she saw a flash of auburn hair cross the camera's lens. That was ten minutes ago at an intersection not too far from where Nikita currently sat. It was a slow start, but it was better than nothing.

"Gotcha." Nikita started the engine and bounded toward Amanda with only one purpose: To kill.

"Birkhoff! I'm on my way out!" Michael shouted snatching his coat and standard weapons: Glock, knife in his boot, binoculars. Birkhoff and Alex bounded toward the door.

"Mikey, wait!" Birkhoff yelled back. Michael hesitated and looked back at the two desperate faces.

"Michael, where is she?" Alex barely choked out. She already knew the answer. She just couldn't bare it. Michael once again paused, "She's gone. Nikita's gone, and I'm going to find her." He turned around but he felt fingers curl around his forearm.

"Please let me come with you! She is my family too," Alex pleaded.

"Alex-"

"No, I need to go. She would do the same for me." Michael gave up trying to fight her.

"Do you have the essentials?"

"If you mean weapons, then yeah."

"Okay, then let's go. Birkhoff, you monitor us."

"But Mikey-"

"Just do it. We don't have time. Nikita is probably already planning something. If not, she is executing it. " This time it was Birkhoff's turn to give up, "You got it."

Michael lightly tugged Alex's shoulder and they ran out the door of the temporary safe house and ducked inside his car, zooming off into the late afternoon sun.

Nikita had caught up to Amanda's average mid-sized Toyota a couple miles away from the traffic cam where she had first seen her. Between their cars were three others so Nikita was inconspicuous. Her plan was to follow Amanda to wherever she was hiding out and as soon as Amanda saw her face, she would shoot her. Out of their lives for good. She, Michael, and their little family she had built around them could live happily ever after. However, there was fatal flaw in her plan. She was wanted for a murder she didn't commit. The entire United States is after her. She has to clear her name. To do that, the Shop must go down. How? Would Amanda have to wait?

"NO! Amanda has wasted so much of my damn time! She fills my worried thoughts! If she is gone, I won't have to worry anymore. I can't let her go." Suddenly, a voice filled her head, "Nikita?"

"Nerd?' she realized something. They never took out the tracker Amanda had implanted in her head, "I thought you destroyed this frequency when we took out that guy."

"I eliminated HIS frequency. Yours, however, I figured might come in handy, so I shut Amanda out of it and reconfigured it to ME 'cause guess what, I'm awesome!"

"Okay, save the gloating for later. I'm on a mission. Wait, Michael's not with you right?"

"I will NEVER stop gloating, and no, he's coming after you. I'm helping him."

"Wait, so that means-"

"Nikita, where the hell are you?" Michael's voice raged into her ear.

"First off OWWWW. Second, I'm fine. I'm just finishing something I should have ending a long time ago. I will come back, just not now."

'Nikita, you don't get to do that to me! You left the ring. You left me. Why couldn't we just do this together?"

"BECAUSE," Nikita shouted, "I'm putting you all in danger. If somebody sees you with me, any of you, the world will go after all of you. I can't do that to you all. I can't allow someone I love to die because of me! Enough people have died! I can't lose you. I've already told you that. I simply cannot. If something happened to any of you, I wouldn't be able to live with myself. That is why I need you all to stay away from me. If I can figure out a way to clear my name, I will, but I can't let you all put your lives in danger for me."

"That is not your decision to make Nikita!' Michael protested, "When are you going to realize that?"

"I will never realize that Michael. I will always put my family before myself. If I have to die, I will die. When are you going to realize that?"

"Nikita," this time it was Alex's voice interjecting, "Please come back, I need you here! I can't do everything on my own! I've lost too many people. I can't lose you too! We just started having a solid relationship again. I can't lose you too! Sensei, please, I'm begging you." Nikita was nearly in tears listening to her family she had built around her calling for her.

"I love you all, but I must finish what I have started." She watched Amanda pull into a deserted looking mansion hidden between masses of trees and tried to tune out the protest of her loved ones as she pulled in behind some of the miniature forests. Nikita slowly and silently opened her car door and made her way carefully to the end of the car. Amanda had no one guarding her. That was strange. Nikita was about to pursue her target when Michael's voice broke through her racing thoughts, "Nikita, I love you. I am going to spend the rest of my life with you. I don't care if you don't want to be found. I will find you and I will always be there. You know you can't leave Alex. You know that you have to come back. Please, come back now. How many times have you heard me say please?' Nikita didn't respond and instead stepped out from her hiding place, aimed and fired.

This chapter was wayyyyy overdue! I'm sorry! I couldn't write for the longest time! Another chapter for Continued Nightmares is on its way, but I haven't started yet cuz I'm writing a book! Anyway, I'll post ASAP!