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Date Posted: 01:20:00 04/22/11 Fri
Author: asiacheetah
Author Host/IP: ppp-71-128-204-48.dsl.sndg02.pacbell.net / 71.128.204.48
Subject: Chapter 1 Betrayal – Part 5
In reply to: asiacheetah 's message, "Trust is Never Easy - episodic" on 01:00:19 04/22/11 Fri

This chapter touches slightly on: Adrian’s Garden, End Game

Chapter 1 Betrayal – Part 5

Since I was watching Nikita so closely, I noticed right away when something was different about her. The difference in her seemed to originate around the time Operations wanted Nikita to report directly to him during the Abe Goellner mission, which effectively terminated my role as Nikita’s mentor.

After the Goellner mission, Nikita seemed even more closed off and solemn as if weighed down by too many secrets. When she disappeared and just as quickly reappeared with a hastily concocted story about how fragments of L’heur Sanguine found and grabbed her, my suspicions was on high alert. For one thing, I had checked to make sure all the remnants of L’heur Sanguine had been disbanded. Also, they were just not sophisticated enough to know about the clock, much less how to disable it and trick it to give Section false readings.

If there were any remaining doubts it was put to rest at her lack of reaction when gun fire from the aircraft came within centimeters of me. She was expecting such an attack.

I begin to follow her and caught her in a restricted level. Her story about working for Section 4 just didn’t ring true. For one thing, I wasn’t sure she even knew there were other sections.

I begin to wonder if someone is blackmailing her to perform functions against her will. The need to protect her warred with my loyalty to Section. Once again my long dormant conscience would not allow the possibility of her death. I offered her a way out twice. She refused.
It was a relief to find out she was under orders the entire time to fool Adrian. The relief turned to horror when she put Section on trial. With those simple words she had unwittingly signed her death warrant. If Adrian wins, the resulting cleansing will result in large casualties within Section. If Operations and Madeline win, Nikita would die.

Nikita: “Michael, any words of wisdom?”

I couldn’t openly give her my opinion. My need was for her to turn against Operations and Madeline so she could save herself. I hoped the fact that I told her to run twice might factor into her decision. It didn’t matter anymore that Adrian will incinerate Section and everyone within it. My only need was for her to be alive and safe.

All I could offer was a paltry “What have you seen with your own eyes?”

What have she seen in the nearly four years she’s been with Section? She’s seen Section’s inhuman treatment of its operatives. The ruthless methods Section went about taking down terrorist. At a certain point, the end truly did not justify the means. The longer I’m in Section and witness the methods Section resort to, the more I’m disillusioned.

Of course Madeline twisted my words against me. The question wasn’t whether the crimes Section committed was worse than the crimes it prevented, or that the world was a better place without the people we’ve brought down. The question was, whether by the very means Section resort to achieve its desired goal, whether we were in fact turning into terrorists ourselves. Section only saw numbers and not the people behind those numbers. It’s easy to say kill 40 to save 1,000. Those 40 people with lives, family, hopes, and a future were still lost. I don’t need the numbers to be sure of my conviction. All I have to do was to go home to the innocent mission wife and child Section and I were hurting.

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  • Chapter 1 Betrayal – Part 6 -- asiacheetah, 01:23:37 04/22/11 Fri
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