Author's Note: This it everyone! I'd love to actually know your thoughts since this is the conclusion. Thanks again for all the support!
"Where do you think?" Percy kept his hands at his sides.
"Place your hands on the back of your head, now."
He didn't listen to her, "Two guards are outside that door."
"Not anymore..they're looking for Birkhoff's escape route."
His eyes went to the desk drawers.
Of course she took notice, "Percy, you're a brilliant man..it would be a shame if you chose to become a dumb dead one."
After a few seconds he followed her instructions leading her through the secret passage way, "You and Birkhoff?"
"No."
"GOGOL, Ari always did look at you in a certain way."
"Wrong again."
"Then who?"
"The arrangement I made will rectify everything that you did wrong with Division."
"Oversight. There's no one else."
She brought her lips to his ear, "There is but you're going to die not knowing who." Using the butt of the pistol she knocked him unconscious, switched his mobile phones and climbed up the ladder that led her into an abandoned building.
As she answered her phone she walked out of the building, "It's done."
Agent Katrina White and her superior Blake Delton stood up from the dining room table exchanging hand shakes with Nikita and her team.
"Unless something unexpected happens, I guess this is it for us," Katrina said to her.
With a gracious smile Nikita told her, "Until we come back to the states. Thanks again, we really appreciate it."
Blake spoke to Michael and Thom, "Remember to call me once you return."
"We will." Michael nodded.
"I look forward to it." Thom agreed.
Nikita went upstairs to Owen's room where he finished packing. She knocked on the open door.
"Hey, I'm ready to go," he picked up his bag off the bed.
Leaning in the doorway she told him, "They are too.."
"Did you work everything out?"
"Pretty much. We're going to spend the rest of the week here."
He smirked, "If anyone deserves a vacation.."
A brief silence passed between them.
She stepped closer to him, "Owen, you didn't have to do..any of this but I'm glad that you did."
With a modest shrug he answered, "I owed you and…it felt right."
"I-uh I just want to know that you can us call any time and you're always welcome."
"Thanks."
"And..I know it's hard to believe but there is life after loss. It just takes time."
He looked into her eyes, "I didn't think it was but you and Michael are living proof."
Touched, she embraced him, "You don't need it but good luck and take care of yourself OK?"
"You too," he reluctantly let go of her, "Bye Nikita."
"Bye."
Before Owen entered his rental car he felt Blake drop something into his jacket pocket.
Blake whispered, "I'm keeping up my end of the bargain."
He nodded at Blake.
When Percy awoke he briefly wondered why Amanda didn't kill him. He refused to dwell on that thought and instead climbed up the ladder trying his best to ignore his throbbing head wound. Once he exited the building he hailed a cab that drove him to the parking lot where his getaway car was waiting for him.
The CIA raided Division's headquarters using sleeping gas to render everyone unconscious. Nikita had warned them about how lethal each individual was and unnecessary loss of life wasn't an option. Using the numeric code that Birkhoff gave them they entered the facility taking everyone inside into custody.
Percy drove on the back roads until night fell. He pulled over and stayed in a motel. The next morning he dropped by a gas station to refuel his car and to buy food. Another long day of driving was ahead of him, he couldn't afford to make any unnecessary stops.
After the sun had settled in for the night Owen pulled up to an abandoned farm parking in the barn. He removed the phone that Blake had given him in Italy. According to the GPS tracking software Percy was about to pull up to where he was parked. Once he saw Percy's face in the open driver's side window he put the car into drive and pressed on the accelerator.
Percy was more than five minutes away from his secret country home. A sense relief began to come over him until Owen's car collided with his pinning him against a tree. Disoriented, he slowly lifted his head from the air bag and looked out the window. When Owen's face came into focus he scowled at the former guardian.
Without saying a word, he removed his gun and knocked Percy unconscious.
Two blinding headlights greeted him the instant he opened his eyes, he sat up finding himself in front of a lake. His hands and ankles were bound together. Then he saw that the rope around his ankles was tied to cinder blocks. The sound of footsteps approaching closed in on him until he saw Owen staring down at him.
With a defiant smirk he said, "Is this where I'm supposed to beg for my life?"
Owen grabbed his arms bringing him to his feet, "No."
"Then what do you want from me?"
"This." He stabbed him in the left lung then shoved his body into the lake pushing the cinder blocks in after him.
For a few minutes he stood there watching the water making sure that nothing surfaced, everything was still. He found comfort in knowing that Percy's last moments on earth would be slow and torturous and that unlike film villains this one would remain dead.
Birkhoff sat outside of a cyber café typing on his laptop. One of the gamers he had been chatting with for over a year sent him a photo of herself.
"Cute..very cute.." He typed down that statement sending it to her.
She was gracious and then asked him for a photo.
He paused unsure if he should until he said, "Screw it." Nervous, he watched the screen waiting for her response. A sigh of relief came from him when she sent him a message stating that he was handsome. Her encouragement prompted him to ask for her location. A wide smile spread across his face once he learned that it was in the same city that he and his friends were moving to in a few weeks.
By each other's side, Alex and Thom walked out of town square and turn onto the road where the villa was. As they talked they ate gelato out of waffle cones.
"Truth or dare?" Alex asked him.
"Did we just time travel to the eighth grade?" He joked.
With a roll of her eyes she said, "Come on, I've never played."
He looked at her imagining what other adolescent moments she was robbed of then answered, "Truth."
"Your first kiss, who, when and where?"
"Shelly Tergesen, second grade during recess on the swings."
Her eyebrows lifted, "Sounds memorable."
"It was, she tackled me off the swing and kissed me then ran off to laugh with her friends. I turned so red, I matched my Spider-Man lunchbox."
Chuckling she replied, "That's too cute."
"Now it is. For the rest of the week all the boys made fun of me saying that I had cooties.." He licked the melting chocolate gelato.
"Well, at least your father didn't send a dog after her."
"Seriously?"
She nodded and smiled, "Sasha was the son of one of my father's guards. He'd hang out at our house every day after school. We were twelve, in my backyard and he just..kissed me. It was nice until Papa and his Serge came running at us."
He grinned, "I can't top that."
A smug look came across her face, "I know."
Thom opened the villa's front door for her, "God you're so humble."
Alex laughed before taking one last lick of her gelato as she walked in.
Noticing the spot of the dessert on the corner of her lip he pointed at it, "You got a little.."
"What?" She tried reaching the spot with her tongue but failed.
At that moment he decided to be a little flirtatious, "I got it," he licked the spot away.
Her blue eyes shone matching her bright smile. She tenderly seized his mouth with hers. His hands gripped the small of her back bringing her body closer to his while her fingers ran through his hair.
Once their mouths parted she spoke, "They texted me when we got the gelato, they're gonna be gone all day."
In a low lustful voice he simply said, "Good."
Their lips hungrily met as he picked her up leading them to the bedroom.
Leaning back in her seat Amanda watched Blake Delton follow the restaurant hostess leading him to her booth.
"You're late." She said before taking a sip of wine.
He replied, "I've cleaning up the mess that you helped create."
"I was simply stating a fact," her lips pulled into a brief grin.
"Percy has been dealt with." He placed the napkin on his lap.
"Owen was one of the best cleaners Division ever had. Percy has experienced that first hand."
"The Oversight committee has been detained in an undisclosed location."
"And us?"
After he took a small sip from glass of wine before he answered, "When Nikita told me and Katrina about Division, you sounded exceptional. I knew that the US government would benefit from having you working with us instead of against."
"You're clearly a brilliant man. Does Nikita know?"
"This is just between you and I," he handed her a medium sized envelope.
Her green eyes ran along the sealed envelope, "Everything?"
"From funding to a new location for Division's rebirth. It's all there."
"How about the recruits and agents that I specifically requested?"
"Their location is also included."
"Excellent."
"Don't forget-.."
"GOGOL and Ari will be eliminated in a year's time or else our arrangement will be void, I know. I don't break promises, Blake. I've proven that."
"You have."
Giving him a ravenous stare she stroked her foot behind his calf, "This is the start of a beautiful partnership which makes this a celebratory occasion."
He smirked and leaned forward, "I agree."
After leaving Italy, they returned to the states and began settling into their new lives in California. Birkhoff was hired by the CIA's cyber terrorism unit. Alex began taking classes to earn her GED and planned to attend college in the fall. She would work part time at an entry level position for Birkhoff. Thom was hired as an analyst putting him on a path to become a field agent. Even though they loved one another, he and Alex chose to take things slow by moving into the same apartment.
Nikita chose to take some time off before deciding on what she wanted to do. Until then, she and Michael moved in together. She focused her time on turning their house into a true home. Michael was in put in charge of the CIA's operations training where he would mentor and instruct potential field agents.
"Nikita? I'm home!" He called out after entering their home. He moved past the moving boxes in the living room.
She finished placing pillows on their king size bed, "I'm up here!"
When he stepped into the room he smiled, "It's good to see you finished the most important room in the whole house."
Giggling she got off the bed and kissed him, "You know it. So, how was your first day?"
He wrapped his arms around her waist, "Surprising."
"Really?"
"Not the actual job but who I talked to on the way out."
"Who?"
"Owen. He's a field agent now."
She pulled her head back, "That explains his text to me this morning. All he wrote was that he got a job here and that we should all go out sometime."
"I know, he told me that you invited him for dinner Friday night…" He playfully scowled at her.
"Babe, I'm a housewife now. Everything that goes on here is in my hands, I don't need to report to you," she teased him.
"Some things never change."
Her lips pecked his mouth, "I've been thinking..everything's been happening so fast..we haven't had time to.."
He finished her sentence, "Properly christen this house…"
"Actually, I was about to say grocery shopping but you're not wrong about that," her body pressed closer to his.
"Nikita..delivery exists for a reason." His hands grasped her beautiful face pulling her into a kiss.
Sounds of their moans and passionate kisses filled the room. Their hands roamed all over each other's bodies freeing them from their clothes until they were completely exposed to one another. She gently pushed against him against the pillows and he gladly obliged. Her toned yet feminine arms circled around his neck.
His slightly calloused hands grasped her firm backside lifting her onto him, "God I love you…" He moaned out at feel of being immersed in her.
"I love you tooo…" Her legs tightened around him.
With his right hand splayed against the small of her back, he began planting soft sensual kiss on her chest.
The wet and invigorating sensations of his lips and tongue on her breasts caused her to throw her head back releasing a loud groan.
He knew it was only a matter of time before the inevitable happen and he determined to satisfy her needs first. His left hand released her hip traveling down her body to caress her desire. In a matter of seconds she clenched herself around him climaxing. Moments later he joined her.
They collapsed on the bed with their bodies and souls forever intertwined.