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I'm still on the lookout for some new ideas, so keep them coming. This chapter is pretty short, but don't worry, the next one is a little longer and whumpier, closer to my usual standard of whump.

-Scottie.

Surprise

Riley was sitting in the conference room, papers spread out across the table in front of her. She was preparing for a briefing with the Pakistani Intelligence Minister regarding a mission they were hoping to run just inside the Indian border.

However, after the last time Gabriel had been on Pakistani land, they were less than happy to allow American's onto their land as a way in to India.

Lillian had been coerced into a meeting with a few heads of Government and other intelligence agencies, leaving Riley to prepare the briefing. Gabriel watched as she leant back in the seat and scrubbed a hand tiredly across her face. The intel collection had taken a long time, and the team had been up for almost 36 hours straight. Gabriel was about to go and see if she wanted coffee before the briefing started, but just as he stepped around the corner to the door, he received an alert from security that the Pakistani's had arrived.

"Sorry Riley," he mumbled as he turned away. "No coffee for you yet."

In hopes of persuading the Intelligence minister to allow them to run the mission, Gabriel had been banned from entering the conference room, and from being within 25 feet of the room. So while he waited, he flopped down in one of the arm chairs in Lillian's office, and brought up the camera feed.

When the Pakistani's begun to stand up, shaking Riley's and the other CyberCom agents hands, Gabriel stood too. He grabbed a cup of coffee and headed back toward the briefing room. When he got there, everyone but Riley was gone, and she was still in her seat, slumped backwards, eyes closed.

Gabriel approached quietly, and placed a hand on Riley's shoulder. What he didn't expect was the reaction from Riley. At the sudden pressure on her shoulder, she spun, trapped Gabriel's hand and threw a punch, connecting with his nose. Gabriel instantly dropped the coffee - good thing it was in a paper cup - and reached for his nose.

Riley blinked a few times as she looked around, she had zoned out for a few moments after the Pakistani's had left. Noting the dull pain in her hand, she turned to Gabriel.

"What the hell, Gabriel?" He looked up from trying to stem the blood trickling down his face.

"What the hell Gabriel? What the hell, Riley? You punched me in the face!" Riley frowned and looked down at her hand. The telltale redness across her knuckles meant she probably had.

"You shouldn't sneak up on me like that," she said. "I'm so tired, I barely know what I'm doing at the moment." Gabriel nodded.

"That makes two of us." He straightened up fully, happy with the decreased flow of blood from his nose. "I brought you coffee," he said, gesturing to the empty cup and brown liquid on the floor. "But I think we should go get some more." Riley nodded.

"I think that's a good idea." She turned back to the table and neatly placed all the papers in the file before turning back to Gabriel. "Lead on," she said. "And maybe we should find you some tissues, too."

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