A Leap of Faith (Part 2)

Chapter 382 - Flashback Part 3

"Nyssa? What the hell are you doing here?" Talia asks, in an annoyed and surprised voice.

"I've been following you since you left the base. I wasn't going to let you do this on your own, despite what you said." Nyssa replies.

"Nyssa, I told you I didn't want you here because I'd be worrying about you the entire time. I can't do what I need to do, and focus in the right way with you here." Talia says.

"Well, if it weren't for me, you might have just died here, so that's not true. As you wouldn't have had a chance to kill father if you died in this alley." Nyssa says.

"I would have been fine, Nyssa. It would have been a fight, but I would have won." Talia says.

"Look, I'm not leaving. I'm here with you now, and I'm not going back. Even if you send me away all I'll do is just follow you." Nyssa says, "So you might as well just accept that I'm here, and move on."

Talia now looks at Nyssa for a few moments and soon sighs.

"Fine. We can talk about this more later. We need to get out of here now, before anyone finds us." Talia says.

"Okay." Nyssa says, now growing a slight smile, "What should we do with the body?"

"Remove the blade from his back, and just leave him here." Talia says, "Hopefully I was able to poison one of the Leviathan guards in the bar, and now this one is dead too. So maybe they will just think that someone targeted them, this Leviathan agent went after the person, and just got stabbed in the back. I doubt they'll draw any conclusions from this that lead back to me."

"Alright." Nyssa nods, and now removes the blade from the Leviathan agent's body.

"Follow me." Talia says.

Talia and Nyssa now work their way back through the town, trying to move as quietly as possible, and not be spotted by anyone, as they certainly didn't want people noticing them leaving the scene of the 'crime'. Eventually though, after about 10 minutes, the two women make it back to the loft of the home which Talia is staying in, with Talia, of course, making a quick check of the place where her father and other Leviathan agents are, to confirm they are all still there, which Talia confirms.

"Okay. We are safe here. Now, we seriously need to talk." Talia says.

"I don't know what there is to talk about, Talia. I already told you everything, and I'm not leaving." Nyssa says.

"Nyssa, what the hell are you thinking?!" Talia says, "With you and I both gone from Leviathan, everyone is going to know that we left now, there is no going back from this. If I fail here, then that's it. There will be no way for you to save yourself or anything. If you had just let me do this, even if I failed, you would have been protected, as father would have seen that you were at the Leviathan base the entire time, instead of being with me."

"Do you think I care about any of that, Talia?" Nyssa says, in an angry voice, "I don't want to live in a world without you! If you die! I don't want to live! And I'm not just saying that as something a lot of sisters say to each other, but ultimately they could go on living if one of them died. I can't. I can't because I'd be left alone with father, with no hope of ever escaping, as if you can't do this now, and kill father, I certainly never will be able to. I'd be stuck. I'd be father's prisoner forever. His prisoner who he now plans to have sex with just to hopefully give him a male heir. I would rather die than let that happen to me. So, the way I see it, we are in this together, Talia. We either are victorious in this mission, or we die together in its failure. There is no other option."