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Date Posted: 17:31:09 03/03/01 Sat
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's message, "Innocent Generation" on 18:42:03 03/01/01 Thu
“ Carlen wait!”
He turned around and watched her approach him.
“ What was that about?”
“ Nikita….” They were standing in the center of the common area.
“ Oh no you don’t you come into MY Section and that’s fine. You can deal with Lydia how you want. You will however tell me what caused this!”
“ I am not going to discuss Center matters, with you.”
“ You come into MY section, throw Center wait around- who incidentally makes us laugh on a regular basis- throw a woman down a hall. I want to know why. Then you tell her that she will wish she were dead, if she comes near your kids. This makes me raise my eyebrows again and puts it back on my court. Now you will tell me what I want to know or you can take a turn in our white room.” She said coldly.
“ ALPHA has no interest here.”
“ ALPHA has interests in all the Sections!”
“ Nikita back off.”
“ Not when it involves the kids.”
“ Really…”
“ You’d be surprised what you can live through Carlen. Now tell me.”
“ Nikita back off.”
“ Come on we both know I am not backing down, and we both know you’d tear me to shreds if I did.” Nikita said almost friendly, then her tone once again became cold as she said, “ Out with it!” Skylar caught her eyes and watched but made no move to help.
“ I’m impressed.” Carlen conceded. “ After you.” He said and indicated toward her office.
An authority game huh? Well too could play at that. In fact Center and ALPHA had had a sort or friendly fire struggle going for years. Skylar meet her eyes and came over he walked very close behind him as she lead the way.
Nikita entered and sat behind her desk, and keyed in her computer “ Make yourself comfortable.” Skylar and Michael followed her in. Michael remained standing and Skylar perched on the side of the desk. Where he could watch the other two and see her computer screen also.
“ Kat is who I think she is?”
“ Yes.”
“ So what happen?” By the end of the recitation Nikita’s emotional side had come back and Skylar was not looking pleased either. In fact he looked like he wished he had killed the woman. There was no excuse for doing that to a child.
“ She is a hateful woman.” Nikita said, and then “ Perhaps she is not the right liaison for Center to use.”
“ I was thinking that also.” Carlen said sharing a look with Michael. The two mentors stared at each other knowing Carlen had purposely stirred up Nikita outside. It was Michael’s job to have her survive Section and keep her alive. It was Carlen’s to protect and revive that independent innocence, when Michael could not. Her innocence was what made her valuable, but in Section they would destroy that. To be innocent in Section 1 was equal to death.
“ Why?” Michael asked.
“ Revenge, Jealousy.” Nikita said. She feel silent, it was not her place to elaborate. She waited.
“ She was young when she was recruited into Section 3. I was working there, when she came in. Lydia had a crush on me, at that time I wasn’t fit for a relationship with anyone. I put her off as gently as I could. Then we were on a mission, she almost got us both killed. We got back she wasn’t able to let it go. I told Censer to never place her on a mission with me again. At that time they were so desperate for me they agreed. I was in ALPHA when I saw her again, she was…is jealous of my relationship with Czarina.”
“ This is bordering on an obsession. We might have to deal with it.”
“ We’ll leave that up to Center’s desecration, but based on certain events we must request she no longer contact ALPHA. How you handle that is again your choice.” Nikita said not naming the possibilities.
“ You are free to go.” Skylar said
. Nikita entered the order into the database and then typed ‘ should we move?’
“ That remains to be determined.” Skylar said. The two operatives shared a look. They had an uneasy feeling.
~~~>>>~~~
Adam came running down the stairs when he heard the doorbell ring. His mother’s boyfriend was answering it. Adam’s eyes narrowed, he did not know if he could trust this man or not.
“ Hey, you must be Kat.”
“ Yes, um is Adam here?” Kat fingered her necklace uncertainly. This man scared her. She did not know why but her teachers told her to trust her instincts. They were probably picking up on something she didn’t understand.
“ Hi, Kat.” Adam called. “ Let me tell mom you’re here and we can go outside.” He stirred her toward the kitchen. “ Mom, Kat is here can we play out back?”
“ Yes. I’ll send some snacks out later. Have fun, nice to meet you Kat.”
“ Nice to meet you Ma’am.”
The kids went outside and played on the swings for about an hour. When Anthony brought out the refreshments. “ There you go is there anything else you want?”
“ No, Sir.” Adam said.
“ Kat?”
The girl shook her head and fingering the necklace again, “ No Sir, Thank you.”
“ What is it?” Adam asked. Anthony had left and Kat was starring out at the street.
“ He makes me nervous?”
“ How come?”
“ I don’t know. I’m Sorry I know you like him…”
“ I think so too.”
“ Is your house bugged?” She asked the terminology rolling easily off her tongue. The adults would be surprised to hear this little girl talk like that. Then again this was not an ordinary little girl.
“ Yep.”
“ I’m scared.”
“ Nothing is going to happen, we’re safe here.”
“ Are you sure?"
“ Sure.”
“ How come.”
“ Cause we got shadows.”
“ Where?”
“ You tell me.” He said coming to stand beside her as she scanned the area.
“ There… and there. They look like they come from the same cell.” She said noting the way they carried out their mission and that they seemed to know of each other and weren’t fighting.
“ I bet they are.”
“ What makes you say that?"
“ Cause there’s no way, Nikita and Aunt Rina would trust the… others.”
“ So Nikita comes around here?”
“ All the time. She and mommy are good friends.”
“ Do you like that?”
“ Yeah she’s really nice, she cares about mommy and I know she checks on us for Daddy so…”
“ I wish I could get a message to my mom.”
“ Why don’t you ask them?” He nodded across at the operatives. Used to this the one that caught Adam’s eye raised an eyebrow in question. Adam shook his head, and she returned to her garden.
“ They know you saw them!” Kat was horrified.
“ Yep.” Adam seemed unconcerned.
“ You want me to ask them?”
“ Sure.”
“ No!”
“ Why not?”
“ Because…” she shivered.
“ They aren’t from those guys. They really are here to help.”
“ I don’t know…”
“ Hey Nikita will be by later wanna stay?”
“ Yeah!”
“ Okay!” Adam said he had an idea, with a small smile he said. “ So you want some of these cookies now? Mom makes um from scratch! Come on,” he pleaded.
“ Cookies! Race ya!” The kids tore off at a run. Their shadows smiled, they had been way to serious, and the team had been getting nervous.
“ Adam is planning something. I recognize that look.”
“ Hey it got rid of that scared manner. I don’t really care what he’s planning. That’s Nikita’s problem.”
“ Poor girl, between that kid and Michael.”
“ They are a handful aren’t they?” The team laughed.
“ Nikita, I am so glad you made it for dinner.” Elena said.
“ Sorry I’m late.” Nikita said with a sheepish grin.
“ Don’t worry about it, I was running behind anyway.”
“ So how was your day?”
“ Great actually.”
“ My Boss was finally forced to realize I was right. Adam has a friend from school over.”
“ Oh?”
“ Yes, she’s a doll, her name’s KaTina. I think Anthony makes her nervous though.”
“ Well he can be intimidating at times, especially to a young child.”
“ I know, and I’ve tried to work with him on that. He is good to Adam and I.”
“ Cute too.” Nikita said.
“ Of yes.” Elena said, the women laughed.
“ Talking about me in here?” Anthony said.
“ Confident isn’t he?” Elena said, rolling her eyes playfully.
“ Cocky if you ask me.” Nikita shot off.
“ Hey! That hurts.” Anthony said.
“ Poor Baby.” Elena said and smacked him. “ But you are cocky.”
“ Okay I know when, I’m out numbered. Name your terms.”
“ Go get the wine, while I put the salad on the table.” Elena said. “ Nikita, I’ve got all this. Why don’t you say hello to Adam. He’s been dying to see you.”
“ Where are they?”
“ Out back.”
“ Okay, I’ll get those two cleaned up while I’m at it.”
“ Thanks.”
~~~>>>~~~
The sun was starting to set, and the angle of rays momentarily blinded Nikita as she steeped outside. Blinking her eyes she looked around. The kids were by the swing set. Nikita’s heart went into her throat, as she was Kat. The girl was doing a tumbling routine, using the support beam as a balance beam. Adam was standing to one side, watching
closely. Nikita was about to speak but decided it was best not to startle the girl. Kat must have seen her because she made a clean dismount and motioned to Adam.
“ Adam!” She hissed. “ You know better then to let her pull a stunt like that.”
“ She was fine, Nikita.”
“ Its dangerous.”
“ No really it wasn’t, the beams wider then I use at the Academy.” Kat said running up.
“ But your parents don’t know that.” Nikita said thinking, ‘ This is why I stay away from the gym area, when I go there.’
“ Sorry, Nikita.” Adam said.
“ That’s alright. You just scared me.” She said giving each one of the kids a hug. Trying to calm her racing heart. ‘ Maybe I should check out that place. I am not really sure what these kids can do’ “ Want to tell me why Anthony makes you nervous, Kat?”
“ I don’t know.” The girl said, as she used the hug to push Nikita’s knife more securely in her belt. It had been showing a little. The action only served to make Nikita want to take a closer look at the place. “ I just don’t trust him. Carlen and the others tell us to trust our feelings. They say you probably observed something you haven’t seen yet. I don’t know what he means, but I know I always trust these feelings.”
“ You’re probably right. I’ll look into it, okay?” The kids nodded. “ In the meantime relax. I’m here now, nothing is going to happen.” She led the kids into the house to get cleaned up.
~~~>>>~~~
Nikita returned home that night tired, but she did not sleep. She had just turned on her CD and light some candles, when there was a knock at the door. Mic didn’t even wait to be invited in; he inserted a key and opened the door himself. An unfortunate move, considering it earned him a gun in the face.
“ Easy, love. “
“ The key?”
“ Need you really ask?”
“ I suppose not, just as I’m sure it’s useless to fight you on this one.” She said lowering the gun.
“ Good girl.”
“ What’s up Mic?”
“ Actually. I felt bad about what happened lately, so I thought I’d give you a little present.”
“ What’s that? Down time?”
“ Sorry, wish I could, really do, but things really suck right now.”
“ Then what?”
“ Information, and this.” He said holding up a jamming device. “ Guaranteed, to put a bee in Maddy’s bonnet.”
“ Thanks, Mic.”
“ Don’t mention it love. I wish I could do more. Get some rest.” He said starting to leave. “ Oh I did pull one more tick out of my hat. No surveillance tonight.” He shut the door.
Nikita was starting to wonder what that last comment was about when to doorbell rang again. This time the visitor was welcome. “ What are you doing here?” Nikita asked surprised and worried. Operations had been watching them closely.
“ Can I come in?"
“ Of course.” Nikita stepped aside. Glancing at Mic’s door she smiled. ‘ Why that little…’ Nikita didn’t finish the thought, she wasn’t mad at him after all.
~~~>>>~~~
“ Birkoff, will you do something for me?” Nikita asked the young man.
“ What do you need?"
“ Can you run this face through, I want to know who this guy is.”
“ Why.”
“ Can’t tell you.”
“ Nikita.”
“ Birkoff, please.”
“ I’ll see what I can do.” Birkoff muttered and turned back to his task. The things he did for the blonde haired vixen. Birkoff often questioned his sanity in doing so, he grew up in this place, he should know better. Maybe he did it because he had grown up in Section, as a sort of penance, a release, or maybe he was just a sucker for a certain blonde.
~~~>>>~~~
“ What is it?” Michael asked, finally. They were sitting down enjoying, a little indulged luxury, and coffee at a sidewalk café. Nikita though seemed miles away.
How much should I tell him? Nikita thought as she looked across at him, and then down at her cup. I can’t believe I am thinking like this. I have been doing this so long; lying so long it’s becoming an art. I can’t do that to him, but can I afford not to? Can Michael handle the truth, or will it be a distraction that gets him killed. What will he think of me? No, I shouldn’t even come into the equation on this one. This is his son, and the mother of his child we’re talking about, here! Nikita scolded herself. In that instant she knew her path and taking a deep breath she jumped.
“ Michael I have a confession to make. “ She laughed ruefully. “ Sections done its job.” This last was said almost to herself. Nikita looked up at him, telling herself he deserved to be shown that much respect in this. The look she received, was a mixture of love, possiveaness, and worries, sent her into a guilt nosedive.
“ No.” Michael said taking her hand. He was talking about her last statement, but was more concerned by the look on her face. The abject look of despair was there, the self-pity and despair, the feelings he knew. He did not want Nikita to go down that path. Nikita looked at him, she seemed to be searching for something.
“ I’ve been lying to you Michael. I didn’t want to and I don’t know how I did. Madeline cornered me awhile back. She told me that a situation was too dangerous to go unattended by Section. She showed the first signs of a heart, I had seen in a long time. ‘ I’m going to ask you to do me a favor Nikita. Operations wants the situation watched, but his plan is monstrous. I cannot let him get away with this! These aren’t numbers and variables! Contrary to popular belief I have a heart’ Now I trusted her about as much as I would a cobra, but when she told me the plan I figured I could let them use me, and still help them.”
“ Who?”
Nikita took a deep breath; looking him straight in the eye she said “ Elena and Adam.”
Michael struggled to get a hold of his emotions and his reactions. What had happened to her! The Nikita he knew would never had done this too him, all the secrets all the lies. He didn’t know what to believe how to react. He didn’t think he could trust her. She had known all along where his son was and hadn’t said a word! She had gone so far as to do Section’s bidding? What would she have done, what had she done. “ Where.”
“ I can’t tell you.”
Michael resisted the urge to lash out instead he stood and walked out.
“ Michael it’s too dangerous! Hear me out please!” Nikita said rising from her seat. Michael didn’t even look back. Nikita ran after him but by the time she reached the street he was gone. True to Section training there was no trace, no trail, no evidence he had been there. Nikita’s shoulders fell; she chose a direction at random and began walking.
Her cell phone rang and she didn’t even bother to answer it. The ring told her it was ALPHA and she was on down time. A sign Operations and Maddy were planning something, but that didn’t matter. It seemed Nikita had taken care of their little problem for them. Tears streaming down her face she didn’t notice her tail.
“ Yeah its me… I suggest toning things down a bit. Maybe its time-“ The operative caught off as the expected explosion ensued. “ Yes Sir but I want to go on record as opposing this.” The brunette closed the phone and continued to follow her charge. This time though she was doing it to protect her. Nikita was distraught and she was not going to let her fall to Section’s clutches, Jones be damned.
Nikita came to her senses when she felt arms wrapping around her and a voice saying “ Sugar what’s wrong?” Walter looked over her shoulder and the last person he had expected stepped out of the shadows. For her part M just mouthed ‘ Help her’ and walked away. Walter nodded it seems the game had been stepped up a notch.
“ Come on, Sugar get inside and tell me about it.”
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