Captured for Interrogation

[bindingeagle]

He returned with snowballs. "I got you spearmint with marshmallow," he said. "All's well. Is anything important?"

 

[celestialdragon]

She handed him a piece of paper with her notes. "She's hiring mercs to look for me," she said, taking her snowball and kissing his cheek.

 

[bindingeagle]

"Did she get anyone yet?" he asked.

 

[celestialdragon]

"They're reporting back to her tomorrow night," she said.

 

[bindingeagle]

"We should take her in the morning and kill them in the evening," he said. "That way she can't hire anyone else."

 

[celestialdragon]

She nodded. She kissed his cheek. "You should get some rest," she told him softly.

 

[bindingeagle]

Nikolai climbed onto the hotel couch and fluffed up his pillow before dozing off.

 

[celestialdragon]

Alexis continued drawing up plans and diagrams for Nikolai and so she could make sure she did this right. She wasn't going to let Paige get away with this, not at all.

 

[bindingeagle]

Nikolai awoke to get a snack and saw her working. He knew he was going to get the best possible plan, with several contingencies built in.

 

[celestialdragon]

Alexis heard him get up, but paid him no mind, still working. She ignored her body's pleas for hunger and sleep, but she didn't care.

 

[bindingeagle]

Nikolai saw her weaken, so before he returned to his slumber, he made her another sandwich, ordering her to eat it.

 

[celestialdragon]

Alexis nibbled on it a little bit, feeling a bit better, and she smiled at him before returning to work.

 

[bindingeagle]

Once he saw she was eating, he decided it was safe to go to sleep and leave her to her work.

 

[celestialdragon]

By the time dawn hit, she had a very thorough plan, filled with contingencies and the like, for Nikolai to look through and memorize, and she curled up on the floor, the sandwich half eaten by her laptop.

 

[bindingeagle]

Nikolai got up and saw the sandwich half eaten. "Get breakfast while I go over these," he said, disappointed that his woman wasn't taking care of herself.

 

[celestialdragon]

Alexis groaned as she got up from the floor and made her way to the kitchenette. "Your briefing is fresh out of the printer," she mumbled, getting out a glass and some orange juice and downing that.

 

[bindingeagle]

"Solid food," he said, looking things over. "Care to illustrate the finer points to me?"

 

[celestialdragon]

She rolled her eyes and made herself a piece of toast. "Which parts do you need illustrated?" she asked, coming over to him.

 

[bindingeagle]

"Anything you find important beyond standard procedure," he said.

 

[celestialdragon]

"Well, there's this contingency. It's really for in case you get injured," she told him, pointing it out. "This one is in case you get held hostage instead- I'll figure that out, I'll have the video feed pouring in when it happens. This is in case you get drugged again."

 

[bindingeagle]

"I'll be careful," he said, loading up his tranquilizer gun.

 

[celestialdragon]

"I know you will," she said. She straightened his clothes a little bit and kissed him gently. "I know you're not happy that I've been neglecting myself for the sake of the mission," she told him softly. "I promise I'll take better care once I know she's been taken care of, okay?" She gave him a small smile.

 

[bindingeagle]

"Fine," he said, stepping out. He walked down the hall with their ice bucket, like the plan said. He jimmied the lock on her door and used a coat hanger to undo the safety latch before sneaking inside.

 

[celestialdragon]

She looked at the video feed, idly eating the rest of her sandwich.

 

[bindingeagle]

Nikolai didn't hear her moving, so he began to steal paperwork.