I walked over to the woman with a cigarette in hand and she lit it for me.

"Thanks. So what's a pretty girl like you doing out here during a big party like this?"

"Well, I mean for one I don't wanna be at this thing to begin with. Really just here for a paycheck. I was told I'd just have to go in for a second and smile and wave and look in love."

"Oh, so you're a prostitute."

"You're lucky that you're cute and that I was also told I couldn't use the gun unless absolutely necessary." She said. That's when I realized I somehow didn't notice the sub machine gun hanging off her hip. She also had a knife sheathed on her leg. "I'd bring up the fact that I don't know how well an American whore would work in Russia these days but I am talking to a gigolo who speaks perfect English." I let out a chuckle.

"I suppose that's fair." I said. "I'm not an escort either."

"Then what are you?"

"Bodyguard."

"And where's your boss? Somewhere where they can be easily murdered considering you're not with them right now?"

"I'm sure Dmitriev has people watching their every move."

"Sure if you trust these pigfuckers to successfully defend anyone or anything. Heard a couple nights ago a couple of dorks took out a whole military base. Couldn't have been more than ten of them. They didn't stand much of a chance when I got here either."

"So you must be pretty skilled in your own right."

"I dunno. You tell me." She said before lifting up her leg to axe kick me. I grabbed her ankle, stopping her from hitting me in the head. She pulled her gun out and pointed it at me but I also grabbed her knife and held it under her chin. At first she was surprised but then she smirked at me. I looked down and saw her white panties exposed from the way I held her leg.

"You're gonna catch a cold in this weather dressed like that."

"Cold never bothered me anyways."

"Usually when they start quoting Disney movies on the first date that's my cue to leave." I said lowering the knife as she bolstered the gun and I let go of her leg.

"You've got strong hands. I like that."

"They're great for strangling."

"You're saying all the right things right now." She moved some hair out of her face with a grin. She looked down at my hand. "I'll take that back now." She said gesturing to the knife.

"I think I'd better hold onto it. Never know what kinda weirdos are out and about tonight." I said before we heard an explosion not to far from here. "The hell was that?"

"Fireworks. Dmitriev loves to draw as much attention to himself as possible. Idiot doesn't realize how easy of a target he makes himself." She said. "And if you're not going to give me the knife back at least give me a cig." I obliged and opened up the box of cigarettes and gave her one. She took her lighter back out.

"Allow me." I said gesturing to light it for her.

"Only if you promise to give me it back after you use it. I'm serious about this one. It's a gift." She said. She handed me the lighter and I noticed a little decal on it. It was a circle, half blue, half orange. The outline resembled a scope and the orange side has an eye on it. I lit her cigarette and she let out a ball of smoke. "Rose Wilson, by the way."

"(Y,N) (L,N)." I replied.

"Well, (Y,N) (L,N), how would you feel if we blew this party and-" She began to say before the doors to the balcony swung open.

"Fucking great, you're here now." I said looking at Komi staring at us with rage in her eyes.

"ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME!? I LEAVE YOU ALONE FOR TWO FUCKING SECONDS YOU'RE-"

"Woah, lady, who shit in your mouth?" Rose asked.

"WATCH WHO YOU'RE TALKING TO YOU LITTLE-"

"Ah, there you are!"

"Fucking hell, everyone I can't stand just show up at once now." I said under my breath looking at Dmitriev who walked out onto the balcony now as well.

Is this a bad time then?

D-...did you just make a joke?

"Rose I've been looking for you all night!" Dmitriev told her.

"You have?" Komi and Rose asked at the same time.

"Komand'r, this is Rose Wilson, my lover and the American defectee responsible for us receiving the virus and means to disable the American's nuclear warheads."

"She is?" I asked.

"And Rose, this is Princess Komand'r and her servant (Y,N) (L,N). They are visiting from the great country of Tamaran."

"They... are?" Rose asked with her eye focusing more on me. "Wait, did you say 'country'?" Uh oh.

"Yes. Why, what's the matter?" Dmitriev asked.

"Nothing, just not used to Tamaranean's looking so much like (Y,N) here." Rose said. "I knew one from back when I was in America. Hey, Konnie Anders, was it? Do you happen to have a sister name Kori?" She asked. Komi flinched hearing the name.

"...No." Komi said.

"We must go in, the ceremony will begin shortly. Come, Komi, I want you to be the one who does the honors of destroying the filthy Americans once and for all." Dmitriev said.

"Woahwoahwoah, back up Rasputrid. You said I'd get to do the deed." Rose hissed.

"Uh- that is correct! How silly of me to forget! Why don't you go get freshened up a little, ya? All the snow upon you is covering your beautiful features!"

"They're all beautiful features." Rose said before walking away.

"Now, let us get back, yes?" Dmitriev said.

"Actually, I think I need to go dry off as well. I'll be-"

"Going with me, to discuss your insubordination!" Komi said.

"Komi~, Ixnay on your dictator fetish for a second, this is important." I said through gritted teeth.

"Where is the wine bottle?"

"Seriously not now, Komi!"

"You will not speak to your princess like that!" Dmitriev said. I was at my fucking limit and I was starting to see red with a growing whisper start to demand LET ME OUT so I pushed him out of the way before I did something drastic and walked out into the main ballroom once more. I was looking around for Rose and saw her as she walked through a door into a grand hall that lead to the rest of the building.

"Fuck!" I shouted before then deciding to try to find Tara and Flag to relay the new information. Luckily I found Rick talking with Sidorov still and Tara handing a woman a drink just a few feet away from him.

"(Y,N)! Come back here!" I heard Blackfire shout. I ignored her and made my way down to Tara and Rick. Blackfire called out to me more times behind me but I continued to walk away from her before grabbing Tara by the arm and approaching Rick.

"General Flag, a word?" I said before nudging him to follow me into the hallway.

"Hey! What's with the grabbing, dickhead!?" Tara asked.

"I'll explain in a second." I responded. Rick followed us out and closed the door behind us. I did one more search for Rose to see if she had gone far in the time it took for me to rally the troops.

"What's the problem, soldier?" Rick asked.

"I found the spy. Rose is her name. You'll also know her as the only person here not dressed like a soldier who has a gun on her." I said.

"Wait, you mean you didn't get her?" Tara asked.

"No, because of-"

"How dare you make me chase you across the fucking building like-"

"Her." I said pointing at Blackfire as she opened the doors.

"What?" Rick and Tara asked looking over at Blackfire.

"Rose was about to lead me out of the party when she showed up having a fit because I was doing my fucking job." I said. "And I think she's onto us. She questioned Tamaran being a country and asked Blackfire about her sister."

"Waitwaitwait, why did you stop them?" Tara asked Blackfire.

"Because I was being disrespected as the princess of-"

"YOU'RE NOT PRINCESS OF SHIT! YOU'RE A FUCKING ALIEN FREAKAZOID WHO IS SO USELESS SHE WAS HELD CAPTIVE IN A PLANET EARTH PRISON PLAYING DRESS UP FOR A NIGHT!" Tara blew up. "YOU MIGHT'VE JUST FUCKED US BECAUSE YOU GOT JEALOUS THAT NO MATTER HOW PRETTY YOU ARE ON THE OUTSIDE, YOU'RE SO UGLY ON THE INSIDE NO ONE WILL EVER ACTUALLY LOVE YOU AND YOU'RE SO INSECURE THAT YOU CAN'T LET THE REST OF US DO OUR JOBS!" There was a tremor starting to go underneath us.

"YOU LITTLE-"

"Shut it!" I told Blackfire before looking back at Tara and grabbing her by the shoulders. "Hey, it's alright. We can still make it out of here alive." I told her. She calmed down for a second before giving Blackfire a death stare.

"I want you to give me one reason I don't tell Waller to blow your head off right now. I've had enough of your team sabotage and insubordination!" Rick told Blackfire.

"Y-you need me! I-I'm your princess! You can't-"

"I don't think we do anymore. You're more of a hinder that a help." Tara said. I weighed the options of letting Rick go ahead with blowing her to bits and letting her live. I saw the fear in her eyes and I smirked for a second.

"You're right. We don't need her anymore. But she'll make things easier if we let her live." I stated coldly giving her what seemed to be referred to now as The Kubrick Stare. "Dmitriev dearest still is madly horny for our dear Blackfire here. She can still be used as a distraction while we take care of him and Sidorov. We'll give her twenty minutes more to live out her little fantasy before we clip the President and Vice President. Flag you can have Sidorov, I'll take care of that waste of oxygen that is Dmitriev. Tara, no offense but I think the public will notice if you vanished the least out of the four of us so I need you to find Rose."

"None taken." Tara stated.

"Good plan there, (L,N). You better act fast before Rose gets too far now." Rick told Tara. She nodded and began to ran off. "Now I have to find out how to explain the sudden interruption in our conversation to Sidorov." Rick said walking away leaving me with Blackfire. I hadn't taken my eyes off of her once. She stared back with a shudder and a mortified look realizing how close to death she was.

"...Why do you continue to push me?"

"I...I..."

"I tried so hard to protect you from the horrors of who I truly am but you continued to push me to this." I said walking towards her.

"I just wanted to be l-"

"Don't say that word around me." I said. I could feel the blood start to trickle out my nose once more and my headache somehow worsening even more than it had before. She gasped when she saw the blood pour. "Don't you see that you've killed me? No matter what after tonight I am dead and you killed me. I've grown weak trying to protect you but you just had to keep pushing and pushing and pushing. And for what? Do you even really like him?"

"H-he treats me l-like the p-princess I am-"

"He manipulates you to join his little harem of girls promised the world while he can't even scrounge up pocket change to pay Rose. Do you really think he loves you? Or do you know he wants to be seen as a lady's man with all the most beautiful women in the country wrapped by his side?"

"It's more than I ever got from y-"

"BECAUSE I HAVE A DEMON LEAVING INSIDE OF ME THAT SEES WHAT YOU ARE! A WEAKNESS! I'D BE ON A HELICOPTER BACK TO BELLE REEVE BY NOW IF YOU HADN'T GOTTEN IN OUR WAY MULTIPLE TIMES TO FISH OUT THE ROMANTIC FEELINGS HE HAS TOWARDS YOU!" My body was leaking an absurd amount of blood from my nose and coughing up blood as well. "YOU ARE STANDING IN THE WAY OF OUR IMMORTALITY! I'D KILL YOU MYSELF RIGHT NOW IF THE GOOD DOCTOR HADN'T ALREADY REALIZED YOUR LIFE WILL BE WORSE THAN DEATH IN A FEW MOMENTS, AS THE ONLY ONE CAPABLE OF LOVING YOU WILL DIE AND THE ONE WHO EXPLOITS YOUR NEED FOR ATTENTION WILL REVEAL HIMSELF TO YOU AS THE FALSE PROPHET HE IS!" I fell backwards onto the ground. Komi stood speechless as I felt under my nose and saw my hand was now painted red. I looked up at her. "The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist. I'm sorry Komand'r but you fell in love with the devil and forced him to expose himself to you."

"...I always knew what you were and that's what I loved you for." She said with a shaky voice. "You're wrong. I'm lovable. Okay!? I-I don't need someone like you to t-tell me my worth!"

"I hope you're right." I said. "You have twenty minutes to prove me wrong." I told her before turning into fear gas and leaving her alone in the hallway while I went to find a bathroom to wash up.