Inevitable

Safe house

A beeping sound resonates around the room, bouncing off the walls, it doesn't last long but it's enough to wake me and I find myself lying across a sofa in a very large, spacious room I don't recognise.

There's a blanket over me, draping me in warmth and I notice Leon a few feet away sat on a recliner at an angle from me, holding his phone out in front of him.

"Hunnigan! Sleep well I hope?"

My eyes shut again against my will, I was still fatigued and from the lighting I would guess it's early morning.

"With that tone I'm guessing I've had 5 hours more than you?" She questions sounding amused

"Only 5 hours?" Leon teases

"Yeah, tell me a day we don't work over time!" She mutters

"Yeah, you got me there, so Hun, what can I do you for?"

"I'm going to pretend I didn't hear that, I just wanted to let you know you've been given the go ahead! "

"Great"

"Although it looks like you've gone ahead with it anyway"

"You know me!"

"Also, yesterday's team found a fax with the umbrella corp logo on it, and yet, the lab didn't have a single fax machine!" She fills him in

"Makes sense, they find anything else?"

"No, nothing, apart from that fax all 5 labs have been clean, two of them a little too clean"

"Clark must have gotten word out to warn people" Leon says

"My thoughts exactly! There's a meeting taking place tomorrow to inquire about undercover agents going into labs across the globe, undercover will be our best chance, with word getting out, once the searches are done they'll let their guard down!" She explains

"And that's where agents come in!" Leon says

"Precisely! So .... how is she doing?"

Leon sighs and I feel eyes on me but my eyelids are just too heavy to open.

"She's doing as ok as anyone who's had 3 attempts at their life can be, with a broken leg!"

"Wish there was more I could do" Hunnigan admits

"You're doing plenty from your end"

"Leon, you know there's only so much you can do on zero hours sleep right?"

A soft chuckle leaves Leon and it's somewhat relaxing in lulling me back to sleep

"I'll be ok!"

"Get some rest Leon! And that's an order!"

"Geez, alright .... women!" He mutters

"Keep me updated, will ya?" He asks

"You got it"

There's another beep and silence surrounds me and a few minutes later the recliner creaks back and it's silent again and I drift back off to sleep.

When I wake again it's due to hunger and not Hunnigans video call. I'm still on the comfortable sofa and Leon is still on the matching brown recliner to my right. There's a modern black coffee table between us.

I push myself to sit up and lean my head on my hand, trying to put together the jigsaw that was last night.

There was a whole team of people at my apartment last night, they all went inside as I stayed outside, telling a man in a suit everything that happened and then answering a million questions as a medic patched up my arm in the back of an ambulance. Leon was there, listening to me explain exactly what happened. When I was told to repeat everything again incase I missed something that I might remember the second time Leon gave the poor man a mouthful saying I've been through enough. I had to tell him it was ok, he scoffed and walked off to come back a few minutes later, shutting the ambulance doors on me so I wouldn't see the body being bought outside the building, of course he didn't tell me that, it was thanks to that reason exactly I push myself up and watch as the gurney with the body bag was pushed across the car park.