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Lost and Found

Alex and Ryan returned to the apartment greeted by Birkhoff, Sonya, and Michael anxiously waiting to find out what happened.

"How'd it all go?" Michael asked the two of them.

"Great," Alex said.

"Alright, I guess," Ryan said with a sigh.

"We should start with the iffy one," Birkhoff suggested.

"The president, he...I don't know. He seemed not to like me. He hinted that I was basically a headache to Spencer."

"Yeah, that may be partially true, but it wasn't only you that's for sure. Division is a headache to anyone who ever says its name."

"He said he would find out if my help would be needed, but it just seems like he doesn't want me involved at all."

"That's kind of strange considering how closely you worked with the president," Sonya added.

"We should keep an eye on this guy," Birkhoff said with skepticism.

"How about you Alex?" Michael asked.

"Things went great. They were treating me as if I'm going to solve all of their problems. Like I'm some kind of...great person."

"Well you are," Michael gave her one of his rare smiles. Alex smiled.

"I told them that they should try a different approach. They should try to rescue a whole house of girls rather than just individual girls. I told them that I can find the places and we can use more force."

"How'd they respond to that?" Ryan asked.

"They seemed unsure of how successful that would be but they are willing to try it. I know it will work. I went into a house to rescue those girls by myself and with the help of Nikita, we made it out safely. If we were able to do that with just the two of us, i'm pretty sure we can be just as successful with the UN."

They all agreed.

"Birkhoff can you pull up the map we have of all the shop facilities?"

Birkhoff put them up on the screen.

"Where do you want to start looking?"

"I have an idea," Michael said. He walked over to his white board that was scribbled on with red marker. "I was thinking about Amanda. What she had planned, who she was working with. She used Owen to keep the black box in her possession and work with the Germans. We were all wondering how the Germans won the bid. Of course Amanda was behind it. The man who represented the Germans, who was it? If we find him we may be able to find Amanda."

Birkhoff began searching and pulled the man's profile up.

"Karl Jaeger...has been known to do shady deals on the side in...human trafficking," Birkhoff said and looked up at Alex. "He's done work with a Dominik Bauer who leads a brothel in Germany. Unfortunately, we can't find out any details unless we get ahold of Bauer since Jaeger took a bullet from the pleasant Sam," Birkhoff said in a sarcastic tone. "He's been arrested a few times for trying to solicit women. It is known that he is involved in human trafficking, but it seems like he may have some shady cops backing him up."

"Do we know if there are any Shop facilities that might be near Bauer's brothel?" Ryan asked.

Birkhoff searched for information about brothels in Germany, areas where Bauer was associated with on Shadow Net, and compared it to areas where there were Shop facilities. He found a place in Berlin.

"Bingo," Birkhoff said.

"That's it. That's where we will start. We can get the women out of there and find out what Bauer may know about Jaeger and possibly Amanda as well," Alex said. "I'm going to talk to Maryam about getting the UN military to raid this place. I can go in and find Bauer before they arrest him."

"You can't Alex," Ryan said. "Alexandra Udinov survivor of human trafficking now trained assassin?"

"Yeah that'll completely blow your cover unless you want to say that you were trained by a secret government agency formerly known as Division," Birkhoff playfully smirked at her.

"Right...but we need someone in there. How else are we going to talk to him?"

"I'll do it," Michael volunteered.

"By yourself Michael? That's dangerous," Alex said.

"And let's not forget that we almost lost you..." Sonya said.

"I'll be fine. I'm the only one who can do it. I need to do my part. Don't worry. After your next meeting, Alex, give me full details of their plan so I can map out my window of time to grab this guy and get something out of him." Michael said.

"Okay," Alex nodded.

"We may not find Amanda after this, but we may find out something about what she is planning. If she was planning on working with the Germans there had to be a reason," Ryan said. "Good work everyone. Let's keep it up." Ryan smiled at everyone and went upstairs.

"Hey, Birkhoff, any luck finding Nikita?" Michael asked. Birkhoff's heart dropped. He froze and glanced up at Michael with a nervous laugh.

"No...No. She must be...far."

"You got Shadow Net up and running again, haven't you? Sonya?" Michael looked at her hoping she'd give him a straight answer.

"Well, we..." She looked between Michael and Birkhoff. "I'll try and see if I can get a signal. Hopefully she hasn't removed her tracker. I'll let you know what we come up with." Michael noticed their strange behavior, but just nodded and walked away. Alex waited for Michael to leave and walked up to Birkhoff and Sonya with her hands on her hips.

"Alright, spill it. What's going on?" Alex asked. Birkhoff let out a sigh and looked down at his keyboard.

"I just, I don't want him going after her. If Nikita left, she did it for a reason."

"But we can help her, Birkhoff. She needs to know that we have her back."

"And we do! Look at what we are trying to do now. Division is long gone, burnt to a crisp and yet we are still doing missions. We want to help Niki, but I don't think we should spend our time chasing after her if she doesn't want to be found."

Alex got closer to him and spoke softly so no one else could hear her.

"Find her. I just want to see where she is," Birkhoff paused unsure what to do.

"Do it Seymour," Sonya said. Birhoff looked Sonya in the eyes and she nodded to assure him. Birhoff sighed again and began searching for Nikita. Her picture came up on the screen and a map with a red dot.

"Montreal," He mumbled.

"Montreal? What would she be doing there?" Alex asked.

"Maybe she fled the country to lower he chances of being arrested for the crime." Sonya suggested.

"No, Canada has extradition laws..." Birkhoff zoomed in on her exact location.

"Wait a...I recognize this address. Montreal...Percy." Birkhoff looked up the police report on Owen Elliot when he made the news by shooting armed bank robbers. He pulled up Owen's information and remembered Percy sending a team there to eliminate Owen. Instead they shot a woman, Emily Robinson.

"She's at Owen's apartment. Well, his old apartment."

"What?"

"Or Sam or whoever the heck he is now." Birkhoff scoffed.

"Do you think she is with him right now?" Sonya asked.

"Possibly..." Birkhoff said.

"Hey Birkhoff..." Michael said as he walked into the room. Everyone jumped, surprised at his sudden entrance into the room. Birkhoff immediately shut down the search and pulled up a game. Everyone looked at Michael.

"Um... I just wanted to know if you could give me an update about the search for information about the President's death just to give keep up informed," Michael said.

"Uh...yeah sure Mikey," Birkhoff said.

"Okay, let me know what you come up with."

"Yup."

Michael left the room.

"Keep an eye on her Birkhoff," Alex said. Birkhoff nodded.

Alex walked to her room and sat on the bed completely exhausted. She was used to being exhausted. It was apart of her job description if there was one for trained assasin. She took her shoes off and then tried to massage her shoulders. Then, she remembered Sean, he used to do it for her. She had to urge to look behind her hoping he would be there. But he wasn't. And would never be. She felt the urge to cry, an urge that she had often felt after that day. She got up and closed her door and then laid on her back in the bed looking up at the ceiling. She let herself cry this time, and it was a build up of all the tears she had not let out before. She turned cold. She almost turned back to drugs. In a way, she was happy that those men tried to pin her down in that day when she planned on doing drugs. It reminded her of what she did not want to become again and what she had the potential to do. But it was so hard, and there were days when she just couldn't deal with it. The days when she hesitated to tell Nikita, because she didn't want to worry her were the days when she would lean on Sean. She never had to say what was bothering her; he already knew. But it was gone now.

Once the first tear ran down the side of her face, the rest of them ran down like they had been trapped waiting to be free.

"Sean..." She covered her face with her forearm and felt a slight throb in her head from trying to keep from crying. "I miss you so much."

She rolled over on her side and closed her eyes. She couldn't believe that Nikita left Michael. They were both survivors. They made it through everything together, and Alex knew that they would make it through even now. They were inseparable. Yet, Nikita decided to run. It almost made Alex mad. Alex lost the man she loved and couldn't be with him if she wanted to. Yet, Nikita left Michael.

She forced herself to shake those thoughts out of her head. As much as she may have envied Nikita and Michael's relationship, she understood why Nikita had to leave. Alex wanted to do everything is her power to help her friend. She had done things that she wasn't proud of, and it was time for her to turn over a new leaf. She wanted the people she loved to be proud of her, she wanted to be proud of herself, and she wanted Sean to be proud of her.

I really wanted to portray how Alex feels about losing Sean. In the show, they made her deal with it by going on a rampage trying to rescue the girls and being reckless. I wanted to show that she is still hurting and is trying to keep it together on the outside, but really has no one to vent to. Hope you all liked this chapter!