Come With Me

Chapter Seven: Shanghai, China

- Present Day - 

"James Bond never has to deal with real life. . ." Mace says as you enter the diner sneaky though the back before roughly messing your hair up one last time before coming into view, your clothes ripped.

"James Bond always ends up alone. . . " you say as they turn around in shock, you look roughed up, you limp slightly holding your side. Marie automatically pointing a gun at you. 

"Y/N??" Mace gasps as she looks at you, taking in your state as she watches you enter. 

"Any chance of a coffee, I'm a little parched. . ." you say a slight tinkle to your voice as you falls sideways into a table. Mace running to your aid, getting Marie to put down the gun and hand out the coffee. 

"I thought. . . " She looks at you as she sits you down. 

"What was it you said about letting people get close?" You say with a sigh, wiping a tear from the corner of her eye. "I'm fine now Mace." you look at her "you might want to tell the others I'm not here to kill them though. . . " you look behind Mace. Mace looks to a little laugh escaping her. 

"This is Y/N. . .  the one I was telling you about. . . " 

"How did you escape?" Marie looked at you suspiciously. 

"Elijah Clarke might be a good business man but he's also an idiot that under estimates women. . . plus I learned from the best?" You smile a little at Mace "He had a patrol of guards on me whilst I worked my magic on the computer for him, well at least he thought that was what I was doing... anyway. . . during one change over I saw an opportunity and ran... they've been tracking you, we lost you for a bit but then when we figured out where the auction was I knew you'd be here somewhere." you smile and then let your face drop "I'm so sorry about Nick. .  ." you look at Mace sadly, a tear falling from your eyes. 

"Did you see it happen?" 

"No. .  ." you shook your head " I failed him, I failed you.... I failed everything" you say sadly. 

"No you didn't" Mace looks up at you "and we have a chance to get it back" she grabs your tear stained face to look at you "you up for it, because this is the job, this is it." 

"I . . ." 

"We need all the help we can get. . ." Graciela says softly. You nod slowly at everyone. 

"Good" Marie says approvingly. 

"Its good to have you back, I'm Khadijah, this is Marie, Graciela." Khadijah smiles at you "so are plan then. . ." she continues talking to the others. 

"You're going to the action. . ." 

"Yes. . . " Khadijah looks at you for a moment and then continues "there will be security on all sides, best way in, through the front door." She turns the computer screen to face you all "in there is a closed system. "I've tried to get in their remotely but, I need physical access... Once we're all inside I can get into the cameras, the power the security system and steer you the rest of the way though. You'll have cameras in your jewellery, comms in your earrings, we'll be connected at all times." 

"How do we get past the front door?" Graciela asks, you take for granted everything Khadijah was saying you knew how to do.

"I can get us on the list" 

"I like your new friends" you smile at Mace, earning a nod of respect from Khadijah.

"What do you know about the auction?"  Marie looked at you. 

"Only that its a legitimate action for accent art and artefacts, but that someone got to the Drive before Elijah and they're using this as a cover for the real proximity auction taking place on the dark net on their phones. . .  Elijah wanted me to hack into it to find out which item they'd hidden the drive in."