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"Yes?" He said.
"We were just wondering if you would like to join us for a barbecue tomorrow evening?" Robert asked.
"Well, I..." Chris began but Mary interrupted him.
"It�s the new family down the street that�s having the barbecue. The Sullivan�s I believe."
"Well, I�ll ask Jennifer. Why don�t you come in?" Chris asked.
"Sure." Robert said the two of them stepping in.
"We�re all in the living room." Chris said.
"Hello Jennifer." Mary smiled when the two entered the living room followed by Chris.
"Hi Mary... Robert." Nikita said.
"Honey, the Sullivan�s who live down the street is having a barbecue tomorrow. Mary and Robert wants to know if we want to come. What do you think?" Chris said.
"The Sullivan�s?" Nikita said playing thoughtful. "It�s the widower and the son, right?!"
"Yes. Yes it is." Robert said. "They want to get to know everyone so they have arranged a barbecue."
"That sounds very nice." Nikita said. "Of course we�ll come."
"They said it would start at 6pm tomorrow." Mary said.
"We�ll be there." Chris smiled as Ezra cleared his throat. "Perhaps I should introduce our friends."
"Oh how rude of us not to!" Nikita said. "This is Peter and Lisa Austin."
"Hello." Madelaine said.
"Hi, I�m Mary Hortensen and this is my husband Robert."
"Very nice to meet you." Ezra said while shaking hands with the two.
"So we�ll see you at the barbecue tomorrow then." Robert said turning to Chris again.
"Definitely." Chris said. "It will be fun." ezra
After that Chris walked the Hortensens to the door and as he closed it behind them he heard Madelaine exclaim 'yuk!' When Chris walked back into the living room Nikita sat giggling at Madelaine. ezra
"What�s up?" Chris asked.
"I think those two freaked me out more in 5 minutes than the whole Jones gang did." Madelaine said.
"Couldn�t agree more there." Nikita said.
"So Josiah and JD�s having a barbecue tomorrow." Chris said. "This will be interesting."
"It�ll be so much fun seeing Josiah be JD�s father." Nikita said. "How long are we going to be doing this undercover thing anyway?"
"Well, Roche said that we have to catch them in the act so to speak." Ezra said.
"So... what? We stalk them? How are we going to catch them?" Nikita said.
"Well... Roche is hoping that they�ll attempt to kill you." Ezra said.
"What the hell do you mean?" Chris asked.
"Well that�s what Roche said. You are the perfect victims, according to the profile."
"You have got to be kidding." Nikita said.
"No I am sorry to say but I am telling the truth." Ezra said an apologetic look on his face.
"I�m never going to be able to sleep again." Nikita said.
"We�ll fix that." Chris said. "I take first watch, you sleep. I wake you, go to sleep, you keep watch or something like that."
"Okay." Nikita sighed.
"But you have to look like you�re sleeping." Ezra said.
"One small problem." Chris said. "We�re sleeping in separate bedrooms."
"Already!? You�ve only been married a year." Madelaine couldn�t resist the joke. "Sorry."
"It�s okay." Nikita smiled slightly. "I guess we�ll start sharing the bedroom then."
"We will?" Chris said a bit shocked and Nikita nodded. "We will."
"This will be interesting." Madelaine said under her breath. ezra
The next evening Christopher came home from work (Chris came home from the ATF office). As he came in the door he heard a melodic voice. Chris smiled to himself, he loved to hear Nikita sing, apparently she was in the shower because he heard the water running. Chris made some coffee and then he went to sit down in the porch swing out back. He sat sipping his coffee while thinking about the night�s coming barbecue. Chris admitted to himself that he kind of liked playing husband and wife with Nikita. They didn�t really talk during the day when no one was around, but as soon as there were people around Nikita was so sweet towards Chris. That�s why he knew that he would love the barbecue tonight. He would be able to touch Nikita, talk sweetly to her, generally let all his feelings out. ezra
"Christopher I didn�t realize you had come home." Nikita�s soft voice said as she came out on the back porch carrying a cup of coffee. "Thank you for the coffee."
"Anything for you, dear." Chris said as Nikita sat down in the opposite chair. "Are you looking forward to tonight?"
"Yes, very much so. It will be fun to meet some new neighbors." Nikita said while mouthing that the Hortensens were out back as well.
"Yes, it definitely will." Chris said and checked his watch. "It�s only 45 minutes left, should we go get changed?"
"Yes I suppose so, unless you want me to go in my bathrobe." Nikita giggled slightly.
"I wouldn�t mind, but I�m not sure I want the other neighbors drooling over my beautiful wife." ezra
30 minutes later Nikita stood fully dressed in the bathroom, putting on some make - up. She was in a black halter neck with a bare midriff. To that she wore a pair of tight black pants. She had decided not to put her hair up, like she usually did, so her blond hair flew freely around her face. When Nikita was finished she went downstairs where she found Chris, dressed in black shorts and a sky blue short-sleeved shirt. He also wore a pair of sunglasses on his head and Nikita couldn�t help but notice how gorgeous and relaxed he looked. ezra
"Should we go?" Nikita asked grabbing the bottle of wine.
"Yes." Chris said getting up from the kitchen table. "Nikita?"
"Yes?"
"You look great." Chris said quietly.
"Thank you." She accepted the compliment with a warm smile. ezra
The two made their way, hand in hand, to the house where Josiah and JD lived. When they knocked on the door it was opened by Buck, dressed in blue shorts and a white shirt. ezra
"Hello!" He grinned. "Perhaps I should introduce myself. I�m Michael Sullivan, Mark�s brother."
"We�re Christopher and Jennifer Richmond." Chris smiled as they entered the house.
"Hi Buck." Nikita whispered giving Buck a quick kiss on the cheek.
"You look very shagadelic!" Buck laughed.
"Buck!" Nikita hissed but couldn�t help laughing. "You�ve been watching way too much Austin Powers!"
"Maybe." He smiled. "Want to meet the rest of the family?"
"Definitely." Chris said as Buck led them out back. ezra
Well there Chris immediately noticed Josiah, JD and Vin along with a couple of unknown faces. Nikita and Chris went up to Josiah and JD, Nikita handing Josiah the wine bottle. ezra
"Hello there." Josiah smiled. "Welcome, I�m so glad you could come. I�m Mark Sullivan and this is my son Derek."
"Hello, I�m Jennifer Richmond and this is my husband Christopher." Nikita smiled shaking hands with them.
"This is my friend Todd." JD smiled as Vin extended his hand.
"Pleased to meet you." Chris said shaking hands with Vin as well.
"How very nice of you to bring a bottle of wine." Josiah smiled.
"Well it was the least we could do after you invited us here." Nikita said. "Can I help out with anything?"
"No, not really. But thank you for offering." Josiah said. "But please, have a seat and dinner will be ready soon. ezra
Chris and Nikita went and sat down on a couple of chairs. Shortly thereafter Vin came and sat down beside them, chatting about the weather, the house and so on. Nikita understood that Vin and Chris really were relying information to each other. When she went out with Chris she never understood what they were talking about, they seemed to have a sort of code language sometimes. After a while the Hortensen couple came through the door. Mary immediately noticed Nikita and waved to her, Nikita waved back, already dreading having to talk to her. Nikita laid a hand on Chris� shoulder gaining his attention. Vin excused himself and went back to JD. ezra
"What is it?" Chris asked.
"They�re here." Nikita said. "I really don�t feel like talking to them."
"I don�t think it�s possible to avoid them." Chris said with a small smile. "But I�m sure we can hold them off for a while. Perhaps Derek can talk them to death."
"How can we hold them off?" Nikita asked and then she realized what Chris was thinking. "I guess we have to become engulfed in each other."
"Yeah, you think you can handle it?" Chris said pulling Nikita closer.
"Yeah, since I have to." Nikita said her words hurting Chris deep inside. "Come here, my dear husband."
"Gladly." Chris said and the two met in a deep kiss. ezra
As they finally separated Nikita saw that JD and Vin had started talking to the Hortensens ezra
"Thank God." Nikita gave a relieved sigh. "I know we have to catch them and stuff but I just hate them so much, they�re creepy."
"I know and I feel the same way." Chris said. "But eventually this will be all over and we get to go home."
"Yeah, I can�t wait." Nikita sighed, not really wanting to leave her role as Chris� wife, she had come to like it alot. ezra
A couple of hours later everyone had eaten and now Nikita sat chatting to Mary while Chris was talking to Robert. Nikita was hoping that Chris would come rescue her, because she was about to punch Mary. She had the weirdest opinions about everything and she was extremely curious about their house, asking if it they had an alarm. Nikita answered every question politely hoping for an exit, but Chris didn�t seem to be able to get away from Robert.
"Yeah. It�s just so difficult." Nikita answered. "Mary is the creepiest person ever. But if I suspect correctly it will be over soon."
"Why do you think that?" Buck asked.
"She started asking me all kinds of questions about the house. If we had an alarm, if we had backdoors etc."
"What the hell?" Buck was surprised. "How did she explain all her questions?"
"She said that they had a fire and that the backdoor had saved their lives. The alarm question she explained with the fact that they had been robbed once." Nikita said.
"They have never had the fire department there or the police for that matter." Buck said remembering all the records he had read while checking up on the Hortensens.
"I know, I�ve also checked." Nikita said. "So I assume she and Robert are going to kill us soon."
"You mean try to kill you." Buck said.
"Yeah." Nikita smiled.
"How are things between you and Christopher then?" Buck asked.
"Well between Christopher and Jennifer things are wonderful. But if you ask how it�s between me and Chris..." Nikita said.
"I am." Buck added with a smile.
"Things are not well. We barely talk and I hate it." Nikita said.
"You still love him." Buck noted.
"Yeah I do." She sighed. "But he broke up with me, he was the one who left."
"Chris can do stupid things." Buck said. "But leaving is you is probably the most stupid thing he�s ever done and ever will do."
"Yeah?" Nikita raised her head to look at Buck.
"Definitely. I think he still loves you too." Buck said.
"He�s just acting, he�s a very good actor I might add. Sometimes even I buy it." Nikita said.
"I don�t think he�s acting, he�s not a good actor."
"Oh well, for now I have to settle with being his wife Jennifer."
"Well that�s not so bad, is it, darlin�?" Buck grinned.
"No it isn't." Nikita giggled.
"Excuse me, Michael." A dark voice was heard and both Buck and Nikita turned to see Chris. "Can I borrow my wife for a while?"
"Of course." Buck smiled and whispered to Nikita. "Everything will be fine, darlin�."
"What did you want?" Nikita asked as Buck left.
"I wanted to dance with you." Chris said as he wrapped his arms around Nikita�s waist. "I think they�re gonna kill us soon."
"Yeah." Nikita said as she put her arms around Chris� neck resting her head against his chest.
"Robert has asked me all kinds of questions."
"Mary did the same with me." Nikita said. "I guess we�ll both be extra careful from now on."
"Yeah." ezra
Late that night Nikita and Chris were the last to leave the barbecue. After chatting some to JD, Vin, Josiah and Buck the two made their way back to the house. As they entered they noticed that the light was still on in the Hortensen house. Chris looked the door firmly behind him, checking the backdoor before he went upstairs to join Nikita in the bedroom. When he came in she had changed out of her outfit into a dark blue pajamas with golden stars on it. ezra
"You okay?" Chris asked.
"Yeah, why do you ask?" She said.
"Considering that we might me murdered tonight I was a bit worried." Chris said.
"I can take care of myself." Nikita said.
"I know that." Chris said. "Should we have some sort of a strategy in case..."
"We�ll do what we have planned. We pretend like we�re sleeping and when they�re here we attack them." Nikita said like it was the easiest thing in the world.
"Sounds good." Chris said. "Do you have your gun nearby?"
"Yeah, it�s under my pillow." Nikita said. ezra
A couple of minutes later they turned out the lights but none of them were able to fall asleep. Instead they lay silently listening after any noise. ezra
"Freeze." Nikita said in a cold voice, but Mary still lashed out with the knife, just missing Nikita.
"Give it up." Chris growled, he was also armed and Robert soon laid down his axe, surrendering.
"Mary, stop it." Robert pleaded to his wife.
"Yes, Mary, stop it. Otherwise I�ll have no choice but to shoot you." Nikita said dodging every attempt by Mary to slash her. ezra
Just as Chris put handcuffs on Robert Nikita didn�t manage to evade the knife. A sharp pain laced through her left leg. Ignoring the pain she fired one shot taking Mary down. After she had checked that Mary was out and she removed the knife from Mary�s hands, Nikita collapsed on the bed. ezra
"Call the police." Nikita said. "And the paramedics."
"Already done." Chris said. "Roche told me about a button he had installed in case of an emergency. The police and paramedics will be here shortly."
"Good." Nikita said inspecting her bleeding leg. "I think I need to tie something around this."
"Let me." Chris said as he tore up a piece of sheet of the bed and tied around Nikita�s leg. "You okay?"
"I�m fine." Nikita said. "It doesn�t hurt so bad. It�s not as I�ve been shot."
"No. Not this time." Chris smiled slightly.
"She�s insane you know." Robert suddenly spoke up.
"What?" Chris said turning to Robert.
"I didn�t want to do this, she forced me." Robert was crying.
"Are you willing to testify against her?" Nikita asked.
"Yes I am." Robert said. "We�ve done so many bad things and she needs help. I want to get her that help."
"Good." Chris said and rose from kneeling in front of Nikita. "The police are here."
"Let�s go." Nikita said.
"Oh no no no no, you stay here. Handcuff Mary while I take Robert down. I�ll send up the paramedics." Chris said after checking again that Mary really was unconscious.
"Alright." Nikita said as Chris grabbed Robert to get him downstairs. ezra
Suddenly Mary jumped up armed with a small knife and she stabbed Chris in the chest, and then she stabbed Robert as well. Nikita screamed in terror as she saw Chris and Robert collapse on the floor, both bleeding heavily from their chests. Nikita grabbed her gun and fired several shots against Mary, but she kept coming. Eventually Nikita fired one final shot aimed directly at Mary�s head. She finally fell to the floor, dead, right in front of Nikita�s feet. Nikita made her way over to Chris where he lay on the floor. She ripped his shirt open and saw that he had been stabbed in the vicinity of his heart. Nikita put her hands over the wound trying her best to stop the bleeding. ezra
"Ms? Are you okay?" One of the paramedics asked Nikita.
"Yes, you have to help Chris." She pleaded, tears in her eyes.
"If you move out of the way ma'am we will." The paramedic said. "Ma'am you have to move out of the way."
"Nikita!" A new voice called out as Josiah and JD came in.
"Miss, you have to move if we are supposed to help him." The paramedic said again.
"I�ll get her out of the way." Josiah said and simply lifted Nikita up in his arms.
"Carry her downstairs to the ambulance." The paramedic said. "She seems to be in shock."
"And bleeding!" JD exclaimed as he noticed Nikita�s leg.
"She�s tied a sheet around it, good." The paramedic said. "Get her to the other paramedics outside."
"Sure." Josiah said carrying the now crying Nikita downstairs.
"Is she okay?" JD asked as he followed them down.
"I think so." Josiah said. "Nikita? Nikita!"
"Yeah." Nikita�s answer was a whisper.
"You got them. Both of them." Josiah said.
"She stabbed Chris." Nikita sobbed.
"He�ll be okay." Josiah said as he carried her out the door to the waiting ambulance. ezra
In the ambulance a paramedic checked on Nikita�s leg and he told the waiting Josiah and JD that she needed stitches but that she would be just fine. Suddenly the paramedics came out carrying Chris on the stretcher. Chris was still unconscious and from what JD saw he was still bleeding. ezra
"Woah! Where do you think you�re going?" Josiah asked stopping her.
"I�m going with Chris." She said.
"Is that okay?" Josiah asked and the paramedics nodded. Josiah picked Nikita up and carried her over to the other ambulance.
"Is he gonna be okay?" Nikita asked the paramedic who was tending to Chris.
"I�m sure he will." The paramedic said and then went back to working on Chris. ezra
As the ambulance pulled up at the hospital Chris was wheeled off before Nikita was able to make it out of the ambulance. Shortly thereafter a nurse came with a stretcher and Nikita got on it. The whole way to the exam room she hassled the nurse to find out about Chris. ezra
"Hello Ms. Wilson. I�m Dr. Howell, I will be stitching you up."
"How is Chris Larabee doing?" Nikita asked completely ignoring what the doctor said.
"Who?"
"Chris Larabee, Team 7 ATF, he came in here 20 minutes ago. He had been stabbed in the chest."
"I don�t know." Dr. Howell said. "But as soon as I have stitched you up I will find out how he�s doing. Okay?"
"Yeah, thanks." Nikita said leaning back on the bed. ezra
20 minutes later Dr. Howell had put in the final stitch. She cleaned up after herself and then she went to check on Chris. Just as she had left the door was flung open and Madelaine and Ezra came into the room. When they saw Nikita conscious and sitting up they both breathed a huge sigh of relief. ezra
"Hi." Madelaine said and hugged Nikita. "How are you?"
"I�m fine." Nikita said.
"We�re so glad you�re okay." Ezra said kissing Nikita�s cheek. "Do you know anything about Chris?"
"No, but the doctor who stitched me up promised to find out whatever she could." Nikita said. "I�m so worried about him. He was stabbed in the chest."
"Oh my God." Madelaine said. "You saw him get stabbed?"
"Yes." She said the images flooding her mind again, she felt sick.
"Are you okay?" Ezra asked as he saw Nikita turn pale.
"I�ll live." Nikita said suddenly noticing the blood on her hands, the doctor must have missed that. "Hmm."
What?" Madelaine asked.
"There�s blood on my hands." Nikita said.
"Your blood?"
"No, it�s Chris." Nikita said suddenly feeling dizzy she passed out.
"Get the doctor back in here!" Madelaine exclaimed as Ezra ran out, soon the doctor returned.
"She probably passed out from the blood loss." The doctor calmly explained. "But just to be sure we�ll run a few tests."
"Did you manage to find out anything about Chris Larabee?" Ezra asked the doctor.
"Yes, he is in surgery as we speak, but I don�t know anything more than that. I�m sorry." She said
"I�m sure you�ll give us more information when you know more." Ezra said.
"Of course I will." The doctor smiled. ezra
A few minutes later Nikita woke up again. The first thing she saw was Madelaine's worried face. Nikita smiled slightly and asked for some water. ezra
"You okay?" Madelaine asked.
"I�m fine." Nikita said. "Chris?"
"We don�t know anything yet." Ezra said.
"I�m sure he�s fine." Madelaine said with an encouraging smile. ezra
45 minutes later Nikita was sitting up in the hospital bed surrounded by Madelaine, Ezra, Josiah, JD, Buck, Vin and Nathan. All had arrived at the hospital as soon as Ezra had phoned them, waking them up. Josiah and JD had stayed in the community talking to the neighbors about the Hortensens, but none of the neighbors had suspected a thing. ezra
"Hello, I�m Dr. Kellerquist. I am the doctor who operated on Mr. Larabee."
"How did it go?" Nikita asked.
"He made it through surgery. The knife barely missed his heart but it didn�t hurt any of the major organs. I was told that someone tried to stop the bleeding on site." The doctor said.
"That was me." Nikita said.
"Then you probably saved his life." Dr. Kellerquist said. "He has sustained major blood loss but he would have died if you hadn't managed to put pressure on the wound."
"Will he be okay?" Vin asked.
"Yes, I believe so. He�s in post op and he will be waking up within the hour."
"I want to see him." Nikita said swinging her legs over the bed, ready to get out of it.
"You will. But you can�t walk over there." Buck said stopping her before she got out of the bed.
"Get me there then!" Nikita exclaimed.
"Okay." Buck said gently lifting Nikita off the bed and carrying her out of the room towards the post op area. ezra
A couple of minutes later Buck put Nikita down in a chair beside the sedated Chris. She grabbed his hand and pulled it to her mouth, kissing it gently. The remaining 6 people came in after Nikita and Buck, they soon filled the entire room. ezra
"How are you feeling, pard?" Vin asked.
"Okay." Chris said with a small smile. "How did it go?"
"Well..." Josiah began. "Mary is dead and Robert is in a coma. He probably won�t make it."
"Who killed Mary?" Chris asked.
"Nikita. She also saved your life." JD said.
"I did." Nikita said as Chris looked at her. "I had to shoot Mary after she stabbed you."
"Good." Chris sighed closing his eyes.
"I think we should leave Chris alone so he can rest." Nathan said and pushed everyone, except Nikita out of the room.
"They gone?" Chris asked as soon as the door closed.
"Yeah."
"How are you doing? I know she got you." Chris said.
"I�m stitched up, I�m fine. But I must admit 7 stitches is not that fun." Nikita said.
"I can understand that." Chris said. "I�m going to miss living with you."
"You are?"
"Yeah, I am. I miss you, Nikita."
"I miss you too." Nikita whispered taking Chris� outstretched hand.
"I was an idiot."
"Yeah you were."
"I�ll stop being an idiot. But only if I can not be an idiot together with you."
"What?" Nikita giggled.
"I want you. I love you, Kita." Chris whispered.
"I love you too, Chris." Nikita said sitting down on the bed letting Chris pull her close.
"Thank you for saving my life."
"I would do it again even if you are an idiot." Nikita smiled leaning in kissing Chris softly. ezra
Chris had been in touch with Roche during the day and Roche said that the Hortensens had to be caught in the act. Roche seemed very happy with Chris & Nikita�s work as with JD and Josiah�s. Nathan had reported that the Hortensens didn�t get any personal mail, only junk mail and bills.
Chris on the other hand had to fight back all kinds of feelings when he saw Nikita. He was so used to seeing her in her uniform or just jeans and a baggy shirt. When they had dated and he took her out to restaurants she always wore elegant but boring dresses. Chris was not used to seeing that much bare skin on Nikita, at least not when they were going out.
Suddenly a slow song came on and shortly thereafter Buck came up to Nikita. He extended his hand and asked her politely if she wanted to dance. Nikita accepted immediately letting Buck lead her to the lawn where two other couples had taken up dancing. As Buck wrapped his arms around Nikita, he felt her relax almost resting her whole body against his.
"You okay?" He whispered.
Chris changed into his black and blue pajamas and crawled into bed where Nikita lay, reading a book.
Little over an hour later Nikita heard something downstairs, she turned her head and she saw that Chris was awake as well, also hearing the noise. The two lay absolutely still breathing deeply, like they were asleep. After a while the bedroom door opened silently and Nikita saw Mary and Robert come. Mary was carrying a big kitchen knife, while Robert had an axe. Nikita had her hand under her pillow the gun in hand. When she saw Mary raise the knife to stab her Nikita jumped up and aimed it at Mary.
Suddenly the door was flung open and two police officers came in with their guns drawn. After them two paramedics came.
As they pushed Chris into the other ambulance Nikita jumped off the ambulance she was sitting in.
Nikita was placed in a small room where she was given some pain relievers even though Nikita persisted that she wasn�t in any pain. After a while a female doctor with black hair came in.
After another 45 minutes an unknown doctor came in, smiling towards the 8 people staring questioningly at him.
An hour later Chris started to stir and everyone inched closer to the bed. A while later his eyes fluttered open and he looked around the room.
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