We waited a good half an hour before the door opened and I held my gun up. Owen figure quickly came in gun already risen, searching for his girlfriend.

"She's safe Owen." I told him all guns pointed at each other, two on him one flitting between us.

"Where is she?" he questioned, clearly pissed off at what we had to say to get him here. It couldn't be helped, reasoning wasn't going to work on the phone and he was walking into a trap.

"we're not your enemy" Nikita insisted

"Where is she?" he repeated and she came out from behind her bedroom door, his demeanour relaxed a little seeing her.

"Owen" she breathed

"Come here." She went to go but I stooped her, from going.

"wait"

"what"

"we want the black box" Nikita told him "And we want to help you escape from division with Emily." she added offering him a deal.

"why?" he wondered not understanding us. I am presuming that he spoke to Percy and that we were brought up. Maybe a shoot on sight order which he was not doing and that I was thankful for.

"why did you save that little girl at the bank? You could have sat there and waited it out, that's what training tells you to do but you didn't. You acted differently because it was the right thing to do. Thanks to Emily you know how that feels." I tried to voice reason, make the last bit of the bridge to him turning away from what had stopped him having a real life all these years.

"Leave her out of this " he snipped at me

"She's in this, we all are. Do you even know what that black box is? That hard drive contains every evidence of every job divisions ever done. All the nations dirty laundry and more. As long as Percy has it he's untouchable. It's been his leverage against the people who put him in power. That is why we need to destroy it because it's the right thing to do." Emily made her way over to him and they hugged. She looked at him while he kept his gun up.

"Is what they're saying true." Emily questioned him

"I don't know"

"Because Percy doesn't want you to know. There is only one way to be sure." i lowered my gun, then Nikita did the same. One glanced at Emily before lowering his gin as well. There was a collective breath.

"Where's the black box?" I question tucking my gun away.

"I buried it."

"You buried it? Like in the ground, where?" Nikita huffed, getting annoyed. Granted this is not what we were expecting but when is it ever?

"You first, how did the two of you escape division? How did you remove your tracker?" he inquired.

"We will tell you. Not now, we don't have time...."I began but then there was a gasp and we looked back at Emily she was bleeding , she fell backwards and Owne caught her. There the glass shattered with a gunshots. I got hit in the arm. I groaned ducking out of the way. One was trying to wake her up but where she was hit was practically an instant kill. We started shooting back.

"She's gone Owen. we have to go." Nikita yelled back to him and pulled me away. He started shooting at them in anger.

"Owen no." Nikita yelled

"Nikita we have to go" i pulled her away this time and we left down the fire escape and into the back streets of Montreal. Back in the car Nikita was talking with Alex.

"tell her i said hi" i smiled from the back seat with a first aid kit and taking out the bullet. I groaned in pain

"She says hi back. Are you okay?" She asked looking back at me

"I'm fine. Not my first bullet wound and certainly not my last." I huffed dressing the wound. She pulled out her phone and put it on speaker.

"Who is this?"

"It's Nikita and Cassie to speak with Michael." Nikita answered as I slipped on my long sleeved t-shirt back on. God that fucking hurt, mother fucker was gonna pay for that.

"This is Michael" his voice came over the phone

"Hello Michael." we replied. Honestly we sounded like Charlie's Angels only with a weird and twisted sense of humour.

"Oh, Nikita, Cassie. Where are you?" he asked, did he really think it was a simple question? Even we weren't that stupid to know they were going to try and trace this call.

"In Fiji getting some R and R" i teased

"Yeah i hear Nadi is lovely this time of year" he replied

"It's a bit humid. I wish i could chat but this isn't a social call. We need to speak with Percy." Nikki sassed

"he's indisposed" he stalled

"Find him then, Michael. Weren't you told its impolite to keep a lady waiting." i drawled

"Okay patch her through to Percy." Michael patched us through, there was a small beep.

"Percy."

"Hello Percy" I chimed

"Cassie, Nikita. Your ears must be burning. I was talking about you with your boyfriend." we had better jokes and banter than he did. Though he was a busy guy being chief asshole of a shadow organisation and all. I doubt he got out much.

"How is he?"

"Could be better. What do you want?"

"What do we want Nikita? Oh, right. What we want it to empty a clip into your face." I snap, and craned my neck in annoyance.

"Yeah well we all know that's not going to happen, right? I mean unless you plan to do un reparable damage to the country." he retorted. Did he seriously think he was intimidating? My childhood cat could scare me more than he could.

"Yeah, Yeah, your protected. For now. What we want today is a trade. You give me Owen,We give you your black box."

"I miss you two, i really do. You two had the most natural tradecraft instincts of anyone I've ever seen. No matter what the situation you always had some gambit, some bluff you could play." I glance at my best friend and clicked my tongue.

"you think we're bluffing" I wonder "Nikki, he thinks we're bluffing, the audacity."

"I thing you're bluffing" i took the laptop and read what Alex had sent to us.

"Blackbox serial number BB-4905?" I look at Nikki and smile smugly. I could only imagine the look on his face right now and I felt the upmost satisfaction.

"Please tell me you didn't give the black box to Nikita and Cassie....did you?" Percy asked Owen

"Why is that a bad thing?" he played along with the subterfuge. He was a mad man, but he knew the right side to be on now.

"Kill him"

"Kill him and you'll never get you black box back." Nikita stated

"I don't care i've got others everywhere."

"All right. We'll take a peek inside. I'm sure there's tons of information maybe some secrets about you." i snigger "I've always wanted to know what make a big bad wolf a cockroach. I'm sure it will be enlightening.

"You are messing with the wrong weapon." he threatened

"no you did that a long time ago." I calmly reply back, regaining control of my emotions.

"You've got yourself a deal."

"Tomorrow morning 0700 Olympic stadium, north side. Bring Owen, no one else." Nikita ordered.

"Okay, are you sure about this he's a blip. I could kill him and no one would notice." he offered. It wasn't really one but he tried to make it sound like one.

"That's the difference between us and you Percy. You'll kill anyone at any time. We don't waist life." Nikki hung up and i looked down at the laptop.

Freigter, old docks. 3.5 miles from you.

Thanks

I told Nikki and we drove away.

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It was Dusk when we were on the freighter. Nikki and I took a guard one by one. We then caught up with Owen holding a gun to Percy.

"No, drop the Gun Owen." i ordered

"We want him dead just as much as you do" Nikita told him, trying to defuse the situation. This was not the time to get into a fight.

"Just let me do this" he replied

"I can't, you kill him now, those black boxes get out to the world. Innocent people will get hurt." Nikki replied

"Innocent people like Emily?" he voiced not taking his eyes of Percy.

"Yes, like Emily" I breathe "She told us abut you how you care for her."

"Aww" Percy cooed trying to taunt him and get Owen to do something stupid. But we were not going to let that happen. We had got him onside and we would like to keep it that way.

"shut up asshole" I snap

"You cared about someone Owen, remember that. We will help you get through this. We will destroy the black boxes and then we'll kill this smug son of a bitch. Do this now people will die." he looked at us.

"There is just one problem with that. I don't care" he tried to go at us and Percy grabbed a gun and shot him. We grabbed one arm of Owen and jumped of he freighter into the water and brought him to shore. By the time we got home he passed out.

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I sat with with Nikita as we talked with Alex

X 899 WELCOME BACK FROM THE GREAT WHITE NORTH WAS THE OWEN INFO USEFUL?

K1020: YES, GOOD JOB. RUN ACROSS ANY SURPRISES

X899: NO. NO PROBLEMS. HOW ABOUT YOU ANY UNEXPECTED COMPLICATIONS?

K1020: NO

E2102: ANYONE RUNNING AROUND LIKE HEADLESS CHICKENS?

X899 : YOU WISH. HOW WAS YOUR TRIP? GET WHAT YOU NEEDED TO DONE?

E2120: YES CAN FOCUS ON THE FUTURE NOW. STAY SAFE.