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Date Posted: 01:23:37 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 6
In reply to: asiacheetah 's message, "Trust is Never Easy - episodic" on 01:00:19 04/22/11 Fri

This chapter touches slightly on: Looking for Michael

Chapter 1 Betrayal – Part 6

When Madeline ordered me to go home, I was convinced that this would be the last time I’ll see Nikita. I hadn’t cared that surveillance would pick up my advice to her to run and our subsequent kiss in the middle of the briefing room.

I fled Section needing to forget and I allowed myself to be lulled temporarily by the love and security offered by my mission family. I permitted myself to enjoy the company of my happy boy and the love of my gentle, innocent wife. I fooled myself into believing I’m an ordinary businessman living in the suburb with his loving family. However, Section never allows these fantasies to last long.

Madeline had downgraded the frequency of my field missions in order to strengthen the bond with Elena to pursue another attempt at reconciliation with her father. Elena was stubborn regarding the subject of her father. But I have to force myself to acknowledge the fact that I could have persuaded her to go along with my wishes earlier if I wanted to. However, from the moment Adam came into this world, I had wanted to keep him in my life. Even if that meant I would still be in Elena’s life as well. That she would be blissfully oblivious to the fact that she was in a loveless marriage to a ruthless seducer and would not have the opportunity to find a man truly worthy of her.

Elena has such a capacity for love. She loved enough for the both of us. I’m forever grateful that Adam inherited his ability to love unconditionally from his mother. Sometimes I watch Adam exuberantly running around the house and I wonder which part of me was even in him.

There must have been a time I was so full of joy and love for life. All I could remember now was my bitterness after the death of my parents, the anger I had for the authorities and the idle rich, the shock and terror of having taken so many lives in that fateful bombing, the despair and hopelessness of prison, and finally the walking death of being in Section. Not even the all too brief happiness Simone and I found in each other could erase the melancholy and sadness both of us were wrapped in.

It’s hard to keep those glum thoughts when I was being gifted with the love of my family, for they were my family, mission or not. Family wasn’t what Madeline pretends to be, the cold embrace of Section. Family does not seek to crush the soul of its members and allow their sense of self to twist in the wind. No matter how many time Madeline says it, I cannot think of her and Operations as family.

During the weeks I was away from Section, I used my sources to keep tabs on Nikita. Each time I run the check, I held my breath in fear of the news I was dreading. By some miracle Operations and Madeline did not decide to cancel her outright. I knew it was the fear of Oversight and George finding out about Adrian that kept them from openly cancelling her.

Her time was running out. I noticed her mission frequency was increasing and the profiles had placed her in more dangerous situations as time passed. I begin running scenarios on how to get her out of this situation. George was the lynchpin of my plan. However, getting a hold of him will not be easy.

*****

I heard a knock on the door and Elena answered it. Adam, ever curious, ran to see who was at the door. I followed him to retrieve him for the game we were playing and I heard the unmistakable husky sound of Nikita’s voice. I turned around, and the two halves of my life collided.

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  • Chapter 1 Betrayal – Part 7 -- asiacheetah, 01:28:31 04/22/11 Fri
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