Prompt: Red kills everyone involved with the assassination attempt (which of course translated to me as "Red kills Tom") Warning… got a little silly with this one at the end. Couldn't help myself

Elizabeth Keen awoke to fingers roughly gripping her shoulders.

"Liz. Wake up. Wake the fuck up!"

Panic overtook her as she tried to scream but couldn't; a hand pressed to her mouth assured her silence.

"It's only me! Calm down…it's only me."

Allowing herself to breathe and focus on the person holding her down, Liz narrowed her eyes and bit down on the hand across her mouth.

"Ouch! Stop! It's just me!"

"Somehow I don't find that reassuring." Liz rose quickly from the bed and grabbed her gun, pointing it in the general direction of the intruder's head. "What do you want, Tom?"

Tom sank down on the edge of the bed, ignoring the threat of gunfire. "I need your help. I need you to talk to Reddington."

Liz was honestly surprised this visit hadn't happened sooner. "No."

"Liz! He's GOING to kill me! Every single solitary member of The Alliance is dead. He's out of his fucking mind." Tom ran his hands over his shaved head and Liz couldn't help but think that Red wore that look soooo much better.

"No… he's just very vengeful. Has a lot of pent up anger. And YOU lead The Alliance to him. And if you think I can protect you… you've misjudged the situation terribly." Liz lowered her gun and walked out of her bedroom door and down the stairs of the apartment she had finally accepted from Red. "Show yourself out," she called up behind her.

The stairs thundered behind her as Tom followed. "That's it? That's all you've got for me? Liz… I was your husband!"

"No, you were MY contact. And a pretty lousy one at that." Raymond Reddington stood in the doorway of the spare room he had taken to sleeping in since the shot to his chest.

Tom froze, his eyes wide as he took in the sight of Red's grin over the barrel of his gun. "You don't understand…"

"That's not true. I just don't care."

And Red pulled the trigger.

"RED!" Liz stood in shock over the body of her fake ex-husband.

"What?"

Liz pouted. "You were supposed to let ME do it."

Kicking Tom's leg out of his way, Red came to stand by Liz. "I know. I just didn't want a repeat of the last time. You're all out of dark holes to stick him in. Well… except for the one Mr. Kaplan is digging in the woods."