Alex was lifted by the men down the halls. She struggled to get away from them but with no luck. At this point she'd pretty much accepted the fact she was going to die. When they turned a corner the two men holding Alex were shot in the head. Alex watched them fall then looked forward to see who saved her.

"Thom..." She almost smiled. His gun was still half in the air, half pointing at the ground.

"I... I couldn't let you die..." He looked at her and Alex stared back.

"So you're going to get me to the vents?" Alex asked somewhat sarcastically.

"Yeah..." He smiled slightly. They started to walk, but Alex stopped.

"What is it?" Thom turned back to Alex.

"I can't leave..." Alex told him.

"Why?" He asked.

"Nikita..." Alex remembered how she probably thought she was dead right now.

"Alex..." Thom tried to reason with her.

"Thom, I can't leave without her... I'll go hide in the vents. Go to where they're holding Nikita. If Michael's still there tell him that I'm in the vent and tell him to get Nikita down here, as soon as he can. This place is going on lockdown in about 15 minutes. Hopefully that's enough time for Michael to talk to Birkhoff." Thom had a lot of questions like 'Michael?' and 'Birkhoff?' He didn't know they would even think of betraying Division.

"Okay." He said and did what Alex told him to do. Alex went to the only place she would be safe and waited.

Michael and Nikita were in the middle of a conversation when Thom walked in.

"Thom, it's above your clearance level to be in here." Michael told him sternly. Thom looked at Nikita's face and could tell she'd been crying. He looked back to Michael and said what Alex told him to.

"I got Alex. She's alive." Nikita looked at Michael then at Thom.

"Where is she?" Nikita jumped off the bed and toward the glass dividing the room.

"She's in the vents, waiting for you." He answered Nikita then looked at Michael "She needs you talk to Birkhoff and get Nikita out now." He explained. Michael looked at Nikita then went to talk to Birkhoff. Before Thom left also Nikita called him.

"Thom." He turned toward her.

"Thank you..." Thom nodded then left.

"Birkhoff I need you to do me a favor." Michael told Birkhoff as he quickly walked into ops looking around to make sure no one was there.

"What is it Mikey? It looks like you ran up here." Birkhoff asked. As soon as he looked at Michael he knew what he wanted.

"No..." Birkhoff stated strictly.

"Birkhoff..." Michael sighed

"You'll get us killed! You told her..." Michael cut Birkhoff off.

"Birkhoff, you know Nikita is right. We all know it. If you know what is good for you, you'll do it." Michael stared at Birkhoff with the "Goatee of intimidation." Birkhoff sighed and went to his computer.

"If I die, I'm blaming you..." He informed Michael typing on his computer. "It'll open in 3 minutes." He said turning to Michael. "Better get down there." Michael walked away again back to holding.

Michael walked in with Nikita pacing from anxiety.

"Is he going to do it?" Nikita asked as he shut the door behind him.

"Yeah." He check his watch. "The door should be opening in 1 minute." He sighed. "Nikita once I get you out this can't happen again. You..." Nikita cut him off.

"What do you mean? Michael you have to come with us." She told him coming closer to the glass.

"No Nikita, I have to stay. I have people I need to protect here." Michael argued and looked at the door.

"Michael you need to protect yourself. They will find out, and they will kill you." Nikita barked

"I've been here longer than you, I think I know what they'll do..." He sighed then looked back to Nikita. "They won't find out it was me."

"How could they not?" After she said this the door opened.

"Come on." He demanded and started to carefully escort her through Division down to where she would find Alex.

Nikita entered the vent and looked back to see Michael for the last time she would in a while.

"Nikita, remember what I said. Play it safe, this can't always happen." He reminded her.

"You always said I was a bad listener..." She smiled. Michael cracked a small smile then he thought he heard someone.

"Go now!" He yelled in a whisper and shut the vent. Nikita waited til Michael was clear then looked for Alex. As she climbed up the vent's she saw her.

"Alex..." She sighed with relief and went to give her a hug.

"Nikita." Alex hugged Nikita back as soon as she got the chance. After they stopped hugging Nikita wiped Alex's hair out of her face and kept one hand on her head.

"Come on let's get out of here." Nikita suggested. Alex smiled and when they climbed out of the hell hole, they went back to Nikita's safe house.

Nikita was on her computer waiting for Alex to get out of the bath. She kept thinking about what Michael said, but she couldn't give up.

"It's weird with you here again..." Nikita pointed out.

"Yeah it feels weird with windows." They both laughed.

"It's going to be hard again working from the outside." Alex reminded Nikita but she already knew.

"We'll make it work." Nikita assured Alex. "We won't stop until they're gone, and I think were close to getting some more people on our side." Nikita looked at Alex who was sitting at the edge of her bed as they prepared for the next part of there mission... Alliances.

~THE END~

AN: That's it for this story. I MIGHT (emphases on 'might') do a sequel to this story but I don't know yet. I already have another story lined up so it would be after that one. Some of you might be like "Why can't you do 2 stories at once?" And I would answer because I cannot manage two stories. It just does not work for me. But let me know if you guys would actually like a sequel and I'll try my hardest to respond to request. Thanks for reading. Byee! :) :P :D