The Spies Who Loved - Elams (with E_musician)

Chapter 5

(John POV) 
It's around 4am and I woke up to rattling from the front door of my apartment. I try to get up to investigate but Eliza has a firm grip on me. Darn it. Why must she be so cute when I need to see whats going on!

 I finally get my way out of Eliza’s grip without waking her up then head to my front door. That’s where I’m greeted with a shadowy figure. Great, someone broke in just what I needed. I quickly grab one of my spy weapons and slowly approach the figure.

"Get out of here." I whisper intimidatingly… I hope. The shadow figure grows larger as he comes towards me until I can finally make out a certain grin I know all too well. "Get out of here Charles!" I shout and raise my gun. He did the same.

 “I’m not leaving that easy”, Charles said. That’s when I realized I had no choice. I shot Charles in the side then called the police. While I waited anxiously, a tired Eliza slowly walked out to the living room after I’m assuming being awoken by the gun shot.

"What's going on- oh my god what the heck!?" She screams, seemingly wide awake at the sight of Charles bleeding and groaning body. "John what did you do!?" She whisper-yells at me. Probably a good idea cause my neighbors are probably awake after that.

 “He broke into my house!”, I whisper back. “That doesn’t give you the right to shoot a man!”, Eliza whisper scolds me. “Well it’s too late now”, I mumble, “Just hope the police understand my motives.”

"Hopefully they understand we work for the international spy society and Chuckles here is an enemy agent." She says and clings to my arm. "Unless we're not allowed to say that-" she finished quickly, realizing her error. We aren't allowed to tell anyone about our jobs. But if we do get arrested for something that involves an enemy agent, Washington will be there to get us out.

 A couple minutes later the police arrive, and I let them in. They said they’d possibly have to bring us in for questioning later but they got Charles out of my house for me so that’s a positive. How do I get blood stains out of my carpet though. The landlord probably won’t be happy if he sees that. 

"Hot water and laundry detergent." Eliza says, most likely realizing what I was thinking about by how I was staring at the carpet. "How do you know how to get blood out of stuff?" I ask her and grab what she said. "Uh… I'm a woman…" she says awkwardly. That's when I realize what she means. "Oh shoot- I'm sorry-" I apologize. She laughs. "It's fine. Let me help you with that."

 I grab some laundry detergent and Eliza gets some hot water. We both then work to get the tainted blood of the idiot Charles out of my carpet. “Well this has been an eventful night”, Eliza says. “It sure has”, I agree, “It’s not every night that a guy breaks into your house and you end up cleaning his blood out of your carpet.”

"I hate to say it but it has happened to me before… twice.." Eliza says and finishes getting the last but of blood out. "You're a genius." I whisper and kiss her cheek. She blushes and gets up from the floor to look at the carpet. "Spotless." She says, sounding satisfied with out work.

 With that now out of the way we both go back to bed until morning this time. Tomorrow will be our first case with a third person on the team and if we’re being honest I’m not sure how I feel about it. It’s always been me and Liz, the dynamic duo. I just don’t want that to change.

…

We walk into work in the morning and I immediately notice something off with the vibe. "What's wrong?" Eliza asks me and rubs my arm. I shrug and put my arm around her waist. "I'm not sure… I just have a bad feeling about today." I whisper as we walk towards our new office with space for 3.

 “Welcome to work lovebirds”, Alex says with a sarcastic tone. Am I the only one who feels like he doesn’t want to work with us? “My dad already assigned us a case”, Alex says as he puts a file down on the desk for me and Eliza to go through. 

"Lizzy this is for Charles Lee…" I whisper and give her a worried look. She returns the look but covers it up quick when Alex clears his throat. "We have 24 hours to find him and bring him in." He says. Eliza smiles a bit. "We already found him and he's in the jails hospital wing right now." She explains. Yes! We're a step ahead of Mr. Golden Child.

 “Then I guess we don’t have a case to work through today”, Alex says. “Then maybe we can part our separate ways?”, I suggest. “I live on the base with my father, you two just chose not to live in base housing so therefore I can’t just ‘separate way’ myself off the base genius”, Alex says with slight irritation in his voice. “Ok we get the point”, I say.

"Recruits. I have another case for you once your finished with that one." Washington says as he enters, unexpectedly, into our office. "We're already done. What's the case?" Eliza asks. God, I love her but she's just as much a golden child as Alex. "Rumors have it there's a heist planned for this location at 8 tonight. Alex, you'll take the east entrance, John will take south and Eliza with take north. There is no access from the west." He explains.

 Alex waits for his dad to leave the room before saying, “Ok that’s clearly not going to work, I’m definitely not following that plan.” “But it’s Washington’s orders”, Eliza protests. “And I’m not following them I prefer roof entrances much more”, Alex argues back. Maybe he’s not such a golden child after all.