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Infinity and Beyond

-Chapter 12-

Dark Matter, Part One

Mommy and I are in a swimming pool. My arms are wrapped around a blue, floating tube and my legs are kicking in the water. Mommy has her hands on the tube too as she's using it to lead me.

Just then, she stops. Her eyes look around the room as if she's checking something. "Come on, honey, we've to go." She leads me to the side of the pool and lifts me up to sit on the floor outside of the pool before getting out herself.

She leads me into the change room and into a shower. After we're done showering, mommy turns the water off.

"Mommy, I'm cold." I grab onto her arm as my wet hair and olive skin is making me shiver. I feel goosebumps starting to pop up.

Mommy picks me up before going to get a big white towel. Then she sits down on a bench with me on her lap. She wraps the towel around herself and lets its two sides to fall over me as she wraps her arms around me in a hug. "Is that better?"

"Uh-huh." I smile. "Mommy's warm."

"Hmm, I think you're warm too." Mommy tilts my chin up as she smiles back and kisses me on the lips.

Just then, mommy leans closer to me. "Stand up and stay still, okay?" She whispers into my ear.

I nod and do as she says. I see someone wearing dark clothing walking toward us. 'Owen.' Mommy stands up and hits him with her towel.

She knocks him onto the floor before he holds out a hand. "Wait, wait, wait!" He shouts. I tilt my head at him, he doesn't seem as scary as last time.

"Owen?!" Mommy's eyes widen. "What the hell are you doing here?"

"I had to make sure you weren't armed." Owen pants a little. "Who was I kidding?"

"What do you want?" Mommy almost sounds a little angry.

"I started something." He tells her. "I need your help to finish it."

"Owen…" Mommy frowns. "What did you do?"

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"Where the hell is it?" Mommy asks angrily as she carries me back into our home with Owen following behind her. She puts me down on the floor beside my toys.

"The black box is in a safe place." Owen says. "Don't look at me like I'm some sort of dumb recruit, I'm in this fight just as much as you are. I've fired a shot across Percy's back!"

"That's not all you've done, there's a reason why I don't release Division operations to the press, Owen." Mommy says, still very angry. "First, there's chaos, and then there's a cover up. Someone will get framed for this. Or did you not consider that?"

"I've a plan…"

"Oh, I've heard that before."

"The video didn't come from the black box, the video came from this." Owen holds a small black rectangular thing that looks like those things mommy sometimes would plug into a computer. 'USB stick.'

"Someone hacked into my computer and left this." Owen continues. "Percy sends this to the guardians and we use them to update the black boxes." He finishes.

"You don't know who left this for you?" Mommy sounds worried.

"No, but there's a Division designation engineer, he built the box. He encrypted them, he set up the entire system. I released the video because if Percy thinks the system is compromised…"

"The engineer will come and fix it." Mommy finishes for him.

"Exactly, and when he does, it's our chance to locate the other six boxes. We do that, we take them out, and then we take out Percy."

"And how did you think you were gonna get close to this engineer?"

"That's why I came to you. He's gonna report to Division, you got someone on the inside."

Vision

"… He's found your fingerprints all over the world, lucky for you, I denied his request to go to San Diego. Hey! Are you listening to me!" A man in black clothing said angrily. 'John.'

"Send him." Percy said calmly. "Send him down here."

"Now, why would I do that?" John rolled his eyes.

"He's not your problem John, he's your Patsy." Percy told him.

End Vision

"You made your first strike alone, knowing that you would need my asset for follow through." Mommy frowns. "Did you think that I was just gonna go along with your little plan?" She sounds angry again.

"I didn't think you'd help, alright?" Owen says it in a tone that grown-ups sometimes use to talk to me when I'm crying. "Not after what I did."

Mommy just looks at him as he continues to speak. "Back at the pool, when you saw that it was me…"

Mommy turns away from him. "A part of you wanted to kill me." Owen continues. "I don't blame you, Nikita."

"Stop." Her voice comes out as a whisper, she sounds like she might cry.

I stand up and tilt my head toward her. "Mommy?"

She turns to look at me before she starts walking toward me. She tries to smile as she picks me up and hugs me. "Division made me what I am, and Percy put me in a cage to guard his secrets." Owen keeps on talking.

Mommy is looking at a spot on the floor, but at the same time, it looks as if she's looking at nothing. She looks sad, so I turn my head in a way that my lips would touch her cheek. I let my head stay that way.

"I had no idea what I was hoping I would do." Owen finishes. "Until you came along…" His hand touches her shoulder.

"Stop it. Stop." She turns around very quickly. She almost sounds scared as she hugs me a little tighter, almost as if it helps her in some way.

"Help me." Owen repeats. "We can do this."

Mommy turns away from him again. "If I do this, there's no we. My operation, my rules." Mommy turns back toward him. "Say it." Her voice sounds louder.

"Your rules." Owen says. Just then, mommy's computer starts beeping. That happens every time Alex wants to talk to her. Owen walks away.

Mommy sits down and puts me on her lap before she starts typing…

Vision

Wendy sat in a small, empty restaurant with a cup of hot drink. She stared outside the window until a man walked over to her. I remember him a little bit, his name is Jason, he's someone Wendy works with.

"Still worried about your little girl?" He asked her as he sat down beside her. He wrapped his arms over her shoulders. "Are you really going to do it? That woman is her mother, you know."

"That woman is not my concern." She said as she looked over to him and unwrapped his arm.

"Percy's not gonna keep his word, you know." He turned away from her to look down at the table in front of him. "Not when it comes to Infinity."

"As long as I'm alive, he won't be able to lay a hand on her." Wendy said as she raised a hand to tilt his head toward her. "I can handle Percy." She looked him in the eyes.

"And Amanda?" Jason asked.

"She won't get in my way." Wendy smirked at him. "I know her secret, remember?"

Jason was silent after that. After a few seconds, Wendy got up from her seat and with a wave of her hand, Jason got up too.

Then, Wendy quickly knocked Jason down on the floor and pressed her knee onto his chest. "Just a little reminder Jason, I always get what I want." She had a scary smile on her face as she said those words.

"That's kinda hot." He groaned as he looked as if he was trying to smile.

Wendy still hadn't let him go. "If you wanna keep your worthless life, I suggest you stay on my good side." She finally let him go after that. She left Jason staring after her as she walked out of the restaurant.

End Vision

I tilt my head and frown. Does that mean I have two mommys?

"Division's creating an electronic paper trail to pain someone as anti-quantana." Mommy tells Owen as he comes to sit beside her. I'm still on mommy's lap.

"You're right." He sighs. "I never considered this kind of collateral damage."

"Actions have consequences." Mommy says. "That's what Division teaches you to ignore. First thing you need to learn is to forget everything they taught you."

"Do we know who they're framing?" Owen frowns.

"We'll find out." Mommy says. "Alright, this engineer, what's he look like?"

"He's like forty, forty-five, weird, glasses, kind of eccentric, weird." He repeats the word weird twice.

"I got it." Mommy nods before she types something to Alex again.

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Mommy's using blocks to teach me to add numbers together as she's waiting with Owen for Alex to tell them something. 'The engineer who designed the black boxes. Engineer: a person whose job is to design or build something.'

"I got something." Mommy says to Owen as her computer beeps. "Division's linking this paper trail to the same IP address everytime. Pinged at home wi-fi belongs to Ryan Fletcher of Alexandria." 'Ryan Fletcher: a junior analyst who works for the CIA.'

"Oh, here we go." Mommy continues as she pushes something on her keyboard. "He consults for an import export company, Madrazo Importaciones. Offices in Virginia, San Diego, and Chile."

"Import export, that seems a little like a CIA firm." Owen says.

"Framing a company man, bold stroke." Mommy mutters.

I move the two blocks to the other side where there are three blocks. I put them together before I count them. One, two, three, four, five.

"Does two plus three equal five, mommy?" I turn to mommy.

"That's right, sweetie." She smiles and nods as she brushes some of my curly dark brown hair out of my face. She stands up and picks me up with her before she continues to speak. "We've to go somewhere right now, but we'll continue with this once we get back, okay?"

"Okay." I nod.

"Wait, we're taking her with us?" Owen frowns.

"Would you like to stay here and babysit for me?" Mommy asks him with raised eyebrows. Owen doesn't look like he likes babysitting very much. "That's what I thought." Mommy finishes before she starts packing her weapons.

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Mommy takes me and Owen to a place with dirt roads and square buildings. Owen moves to get out of the car as soon as mommy stops the car. "Whoa, whoa, close the door." She tells him.

Owen listens to her and closes the car door. "Wait here." Mommy continues speaking after that, but I stop listening as I can't understand anything else she's saying.

I look at Owen to see that he too has an I-don't-know look on his face. I almost smile, but mommy doesn't look too happy. "Is there a problem?" She sounds annoyed.

"You lost me at wait here." Owen says. This time, I really do giggle quietly. Owen looks at me quickly and smiles.

"I've credentials, you don't, that makes you back-up, got it?"

"You're used to working on your own, huh? Just get right in there, direct offence, solo, right?"

"Do you know what I'm not used to? Sitting outside a building while I'm about to infiltrate and talking to me about how I'm going to infiltrate it. When I do something, I just get in there…" Mommy stops talking for a moment and waves with her hand.

"Yeah…" She murmurs quietly after a few seconds.

Owen looks like he might say something, but before he can, mommy stops him. "Wait here, and keep my child safe." She tells Owen before turning to me. "Be a good girl and stay with Owen, Okay? I'll be back very soon."

"Yes, mommy." I say.

Vision

"Looks like Percy's going to frame Ryan Fletcher for this." Jason said as he sat with Wendy in front of a lap top.

"He won't succeed." Wendy said.

"How do you know?" Jason asked, raising his eyebrows.

"Because I'm sure Owen and Nikita are already hot on his trail." Wendy smirked.

There was a few seconds of silence before Jason spoke up again. "You're the one who hacked into Owen's computer…"

"It fits well with my plans." Wendy shrugged.

"And it doesn't bother you that Division might kill both Owen and Nikita?"

"I let things take their natural course as long as it doesn't interfere with my plans."

End Vision

"Hey, kid." Owen turns his head to me. "What do you say we go help out your mom?"

"But mommy says to stay here." I frown and tilt my head.

Owen's silent for a few seconds before he speaks up again. "You know, if we go help her, it might make her really happy and she might…"

"Get me pink cotton candy?" I interrupt him with a hopeful smile.

"Uh… sure… I guess." Owen clears his throat.

"Okay." I grin happily as I pull on my seat belt buckle. "Unbuckle me, please."

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I hold Owen's hand as he takes me into a building. I see mommy and a man talking. I want to go over to mommy, but Owen leads me to a good hiding place. "Not yet." He whispers very quietly. I frown, I still don't know how grown-up know what I want without me saying anything.

"That's because they don't know." Mommy says as she's sitting in front of a computer. "The director asked me himself."

"Really, because you know what I think? I think…" The man doesn't get to finish his sentence as Owen suddenly rushes out and knocks him out. I walk out of the hiding place too after that.

"Somebody called for back-up?" Owen says unsurely.

I skip over to mommy and climb onto her lap. "Hi, mommy."

"I asked you to wait in the car and keep Infinity safe." Mommy growls at Owen, sounding very annoyed.

"Um… she wanted pink cotton candy?" Owen mutters nervously as he scratches the back of his head.

"Gee… thanks, Owen." Mommy rolls her eyes. 'She's being sarcastic.'

I bite my bottom lip, mommy doesn't seem very happy. I wrap my arms around her in a hug. "Mommy, smile?"

"Infinity…" Mommy unwraps my arms. She still looks a little unhappy. Something in my stomach feels as if a balloon has just been popped.

"I'm sorry mommy." I say quietly as I kiss her on the cheek. "Please don't be mad. I'll listen better next time."

Mommy smiles and kisses me on the lips. "It's okay. I'm not angry at you." She gives me a hug before looking back up at Owen. "Now, I can't say the same thing about you."

Owen almost looks scared as he gulps. "Uh… I'm sorry too?"

I look at mommy to see her glaring at him…

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Yay! Owen's giving me a piggyback ride! I like piggyback rides, they're fun. Mommy is leading the way up a hill in a forest. She stops when she gets behind a very large rock and hides behind it, Owen follows her lead.

He puts me down beside mommy before pointing his big gun at something or someone… "Put that away." Mommy tells him. "This isn't a cleaner job." She sounds a little mean.

Owen just stares at her for a few seconds. Mommy softens. "I'm sorry." She mutters.

"That's okay." Owen says quietly as I stand between him and mommy. The rock is much taller than me so I don't have to crouch down.

"I'm not good at this hero stuff." He continues. "You've been doing it for a lot longer."

"I'm not a hero, Owen." Mommy frowns as her head is peeking out. I try to step out a little so I can see what she's looking at, but she stops me. "No, no, no, sweetie. You need to stay still, okay?"

"Okay, mommy." I nod before sitting down on the dirt floor with my back leaning on the rock.

"I'm gonna go in hot and I'm gonna put Fletcher in the cross fire." Mommy says to Owen. She pauses and takes a deep breath before continuing. "Owen, I'm gonna need you to take care of Infinity, okay?"

Owen looks like he's going to argue, but mommy speaks again before he can get a word out. "Owen, I'm serious, I need you to keep her safe for me. If at some point, things look bad, just take her and get out of here. Promise me, Owen."

Owen doesn't say anything. He looks sad and worried. "I…"

"Please." Mommy looks like she might cry soon. "If anything happens to me, I need to know that she's going to be safe, that someone else will protect her."

Mommy's words are scaring me, it sounds like something bad is going to happen. Something in my stomach feels like a balloon that's been squeezed very tightly and is going to pop very soon.

"Mommy, you're scaring me." I whimper tearfully. "What's wrong? Is something bad going to happen?"

I'm starting to cry a little as mommy pulls me into a hug. "No, no, no, honey, nothing bad is going to happen, okay?" Mommy says softly. "Mommy's just going to go and help someone. I'll be right back, okay?"

I hug her tightly as she's about to let go of me. "I'm scared, mommy." I cry. "Don't leave me."

"Sweetie…"

"I can go and do it." Owen speaks up again.

"Wha—"

"Your daughter needs you, Nikita." Owen interrupts her. "No matter what happens, she's your priority."

Mommy doesn't say anything for a few seconds as I don't loosen my hug. If I let go now, she might leave me, and I don't want her to.

"Non-lethal weapons whenever possible, Owen." Mommy takes a deep breath before speaking. "Infinity and I are gonna wait here."

"I got it." Owen smiles at her before walking away very quietly.

Vision

Jason knocked a guy down before turning to Wendy. "What happened to letting things take their natural course?"

"Infinity's with them." Wendy said as she kicked a guy onto the ground. She pressed the heel of her boot down onto his chest. "If I let Division do their thing, she might get hurt."

They crouched down beside the ugly green car. Just then, loud gunshots started up. "Owen's making quite the scene…" Jason said.

"Bad for him, good for us." Wendy smirked. "Create a diversion for me, Jason."

"Aye, aye, captain." Jason said before he ran out from behind the car and straight to three men. He somehow climbed up one of them and grabbed another with his hands and easily knocked two of the men down.

Owen looked surprised, but then he ran out and joined in the fight with some other men. "Who the hell—" Owen started toward Jason, but Jason ignored him and ran into a small, square-looking building.

Owen stood there for a few seconds before following him. Jason kicked the door open. There were some other men in there, and the fight started again.

End Vision

"Who the hell was that?" Mommy mutters to herself as she's peeking out from behind the rock again.

I'm bored so I use my hands and starts drawing in the dirt. Just then, more gunshots start firing. "Shit." Mommy murmurs. "Division."

A few seconds later, I hear Wendy's voice. "Don't move." I look up to see Wendy crouched down beside mommy with a gun pointing toward mommy.

My eyes widen. "Wendy, no…"

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Author's note: Hey guys, so there it is, a cliffhanger. I know we all have a love-hate relationship with that thing, but I think it suits this chapter. Anyways, please remember to review and tell me what you think of Wendy and Jason's relationship.

Here's an image of Jason:

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