MWWAAAAAAH DEFINITELY MY FAVOURITE CHAPTER EVEEEEEEERRRRRR
Little detail : For optimum experience, when it says "Back at the Beach Mansion" Put "Cosmic Love" By Folrence and the Machine in the backgound. This music just fists so well will the moment.
Birkhoff was in a deep nap when a piercing sound suddenly started yelling in the background. He raised his head from the couch and moaned. The engineer got up and walked to the sound source, his computer, and sat in from in the big leather chair. On the screen was flashing a red warning sign.
"What?" He murdered, staring blankly at the monitor. He clicked on a few things, tipped a few words on the keyboard and exhaled. He started reading what had come up on the screen with a surprised look. He turned and made his chair slide to the fridge, took a can of Fueler© and went back in front of the screen. He finished reading the Intel while drinking the energy drink and got up hastily before walking upstairs. He came back a second later, Nikita and Alex following him.
"Amanda just enabled a new mission." He said, sitting down on his chair again.
"What? Now? That doesn't make any sense." Alex frowned. She crossed her arm in from of her chest and leaned a bit towards the screen. "In St-Petersburg? What's in St-Petersburg?" She asked.
"Apparently, a scientist who just discovered a power source much more powerful than atomic bombs." Birkhoff explained. He smirked and brought up the picture of the old man. "Meet Jacovich Alexeyev, Medical Laboratory Science Genius."
"And Amanda wants the compound?" Nikita asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Apparently yes. The swat and retrieving team just got dispatched. Oh, and look who's with them Alex…" Birkhoff chuckled then scowled when he opened the agent's profile. "Your favorite friend, Sean Pierce." He mumbled something imperceptible before going back to typing different codes and various passwords around the network. Nikita walked away and began assembling a machine gun. She took a different muzzle and screwed it on the barrel while looking at the wall with an empty eye. She loaded it and held her finger on the trigger for a second.
"Put us on the first flight to St-Petersburg. We need to get to the power source before Division can take a hold of it." Nikita said, dead serious.
"Already done." Birkhoff praised himself and continued typing on the keyboard.
St-Petersburg, Russia.
"So? What's the deal with you and Birkhoff?" Nikita Asked as they were making their way through the vents of the secure facility.
"What do you mean?" Alex frowned. Were they that obvious?
"Well… A minute ago, you two were like, the best friends ever, and now, it's cold as ice. What happened?" Nikita explained. She turned her face towards the young woman and waited for her answer. Alex hesitated a second, sat on the floor or the air vent and mumbled.
"He… Tried to kiss me…" She exhaled loudly, as if it was a huge burden just token off her shoulder, which it was, in a way. She evaded Nikita when the woman tried to make eye contact with her and bit her lip.
"And? Why is that wrong?" Nikita asked, with a reassuring tone.
"I… I don't know. It's not that I don't want to, it's just… I'm scared." Alex confessed to her mentor. She them clenched her jaw and grind her teeth. "Nikita, this is not the moment, we'll talk at home." Alex brushed the conversation away and passed Nikita, going back to the initial mission plan. Both women fell down a ventilation trap, into a huge office. Alex looked around, depicting the place. There was a huge double door to enter, with two glass windows open to the city. The big and old wooden desk was standing in the middle of the room, bookcases and filling cabinets were dispatched around the room, containing millions of different files and books. The two women ran to different cabinets and started scavenging through the different craft paper files. Alex stumbled on one called "Project Green Blast", she took the folder out and opened it on the desk.
"Is that what we're looking for?" She asked Nikita. The eldest approached and read a few papers.
"Yes, that's it. The Arch Reactor should be in the laboratory under us according to this blueprint of the facility. Let's go." Nikita checked the load on her gun, grabbed all the papers and shoved them in the back of her jeans. The two ladies walked to the big door and posted themselves on each side of it. Nikita peeked through the window part of the door quickly before hiding again.
"Okay, two guards at the end of the corridor. The Elevator is on our right. Silencer on, you take one, I take the other."
"Got it." Alex answered simply. Nikita mimed a countdown and opened the door. Alex aimed at the guard on the right and pulled the trigger. There was a faint sound, the groan of the guard and the body falling on the floor with a muffled noise. The two women walked to the elevator and opened the doors. The gap was huge to the next steel pillar. Nikita jumped first, and then let herself slide down to the level under her. Alex gasped, closed her eyes a second and followed her mentor's path. She grabbed the steel pole with a shaky hand and pulled her body against it. She panicked for a second, feeling her finger slip on the smooth surface.
"Alex, there is an angle to your left, it will stabilize you." She heard in her ear. She did what she was told and once she felt secure, raised her head to look for a security camera in the elevator shaft. There was one, just on top of her, in the right corner. She gave a faint smile and began her descent towards the lower level.
"Thanks Birkhoff."She whispered as she gained the safe platform where Nikita was waiting for her. She smiled, imagining Birkhoff's expression of relief, and followed the eldest to the next floor. They got out in the corridor, securing their path as they advanced. The laboratory was just in front, after a set of big white secure doors. Alex frowned when she realized there was a password key to enter.
"Birkhoff, there is an encrypted password thingy. Can you do something about it?" She asked as she brought her hand to her ear to enable the communication.
"How far are you to the door?" The tech asked. Alex could hear the clicking of the keyboard in the distant background and it stole a smile from her lips. What wouldn't she give to be next to him at this very moment?
"300 feet maybe. Not very far, and we're moving fast." She answered, sizing up the distance between her and the white door.
"It'll be done when you get there." Birkhoff said, before cutting the communication again and focusing on the code hacking. In a few second, he was in the security system of the facility, and breaking the laboratory code. He had on one screen, the surveillance camera feed from the facility, and was watching in the corner of his eye Alex and Nikita, carefully making their way to the big white door. They reached the lock pad and as Alex threw a glance at it, Birkhoff finished the decryption and the key pad opened. The two women slid inside the room and closed behind them. Birkhoff changed cameras and brought up the ones from the testing room. He screwed up his eyes while looking at the blurry image of the screen. There was in the middle of the room, a glowing blue round reactor, turning really fast.
"Is that it?" Alex asked.
"I guess so. Looks strange though." Nikita answered, walking up to the thing.
"I would advise you to not touch that." Alex said with a warning voice. "We don't know what it does." She was about to join Nikita in the observation of the Arch Reactor when she heard a gunshot. She ducked and turned to face the door. She saw, in the slight opening of the panel, a smg muzzle. Alex jumped on the side and took cover behind a control panel. "DIVISION!" She yelled for Nikita who was taking cover at the other side of the room. She took out her desert eagle out from her right boot and started shooting at the entering agents. She shot two of them and had to reload. She grabbed a magazine from the side of her jacket and pushed it in the gun. She fired a few more shot before the silence fell in the room again. Nikita motioned at Alex to not move while she was going to check if there were any Division Agent left. Alex exhaled before peeking at the side of the control panel. On the floor were laying, motionless, 6 bodies of former agents.
"Wait, 6? Swat teams are always 10. Where's the rest?" She thought out loud to herself. Alex grabbed the control panel with one hand to help her back up and aimed her gun in from of her. She walked slowly to the laboratory door and carefully walked out of the white room. Before totally closing the door, she shot the control panel a few times and closed the door. She waited a few second before she heard an explosion. The Arch Reactor was destroyed. Now, the only thing standing between her and the house, and Birkhoff, were those agents. She walked slowly through the corridors, following some faint sounds of fights. She arrived in front of another white door. She listened for a minutes before recognizing Nikita's scream. She rolled her shoulders, no one was hurting her mentor without her approval, and busted in the room. She analyzed the situation in a second and took cover behind a shelf.
"Alex?" She heard in her ear. As she heard his voice, her heart instantly calmed down, and she could think strait.
"Yes." She answered, wondering what Birkhoff was going to tell her.
"We need to talk." He said after a silence.
"About what?" Alex asked, now really worried.
"I'm so sorry. I never should have tried to kiss you. I mean, we were so good friends before and, now, we're not even talking anymore." Birkhoff started to explain.
"We are talking now Birkhoff." Alex interrupted him.
"Alex… Please, hear me out. I am truly sorry. I should have known you didn't want that. Just, can we just go back to being friends, like before?" He said, with a little voice. Alex had to retain herself from shouting that she didn't want to go back to how they were before. She wanted to go ahead. Where ever it may lead them, she wanted to discover what would have happened if she had kissed him. What if it was what she was secretly missing all this time? Nikita was right; "What If" was the most dangerous question ever. Alex closed her eyes a moment, forgetting about where she was, what she needed to do, everything around her.
"Alex? Please, just… Don't give me the silent treatment. Just… don't." Birkhoff pleaded in her ear. A bullet ricocheted next to her ear, bringing her back to reality. She threw a glance between the volumes and saw one agent coming closer.
"Not really the moment Birkhoff, we'll talk later." She answered as she got up and shot the agent through the books in the shelf. "One down, three to go." she thought. She rolled to her next cover and shot another agent in the kneecap. Nikita finished him by pushing him in the jaw. They exchanged a look and smiled at each other, before going back to fighting the other men.
Countless punches and gunshots later, the three agents were down, and Nikita and Alex were casually walking out he building, mission accomplished. Division was stopped, the Arch reactor was destroyed, and Nikita had all the files that would allow anyone to recreate it. Alex had totally forgot about Sean Pierce…
Back at the Beach Mansion.
"Good job Alex." Congratulated Michael as he hugged Alex as thanks to saving Nikita's life. The two love birds held hands, and walked out of the house. Alex and Birkhoff were left alone. The engineer swallowed his saliva and gasped. What was going to happen next? He scratched his forehead out of discomfort and walked up to the young woman.
"So?" He asked, scared of the answer.
Alex didn't answer, and they just stared at each other, lost in the other's eyes. Alex bit her lip unconsciously, and Birkhoff spotted it. He toned down a giggle and grabbed Alex at the waist; brought her closer to his body continuously looking at her eyes. Alex batted her eyes to calm her rushing heartbeat and opened her lips to say something. But her throat was dry. She couldn't say a thing, and all her body was telling her was to kiss the man. She leaned forward, and closed her eyes. Their lip touched and the feeling they chaired was the most powerful they had ever felt. Birkhoff closed his hand in the back of the young woman as Alex's fingers were creating path through the man's hair. Their connected in a way they thought they'd would never do and it felt good. Their body pressing against each other, and their tongue mixing together.
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