~ Part 6 ~
A few weeks later, Liz and Sark were back in their house in France. Rather than what Irina had done and buy a few places but large glorious houses, since Irina’s capture Sark and Liz had bought a large number of small incognito houses in many countries around the world.
They were currently waiting for a call from one of Sark’s contacts regarding an upcoming drug deal in which they were going to profit from
The call came and after talking for a few minutes and hanging up Sark turned to Liz
“Three days, they are making the drop in an abandoned warehouse in the south of Finland. The warehouse has security cameras but I do not know if one of the parties will have disarmed or looped them” he stated
“How much do we stand to profit?” Liz asked
“One point five” Sark replied
“And who are we turning this Bumani guy over to?” Liz asked
“What do you mean?” Sark asked, now confused
“I will not leave this man to keep doing what he does, I think we should hand him over to the CIA, anonymously of course” Liz pointed out
Sark sighed “Why do I get the feeling you will make a habit of this, Liz Derevko trying to save the world” He said making fun of her
“Well shit if we’re profiting one point five million every time we do it its worth it” Liz shot back
“The money is the only reason we are doing this in the first place Elizabeth” Sark stated
At that point he was hit in the back of the head by a cushion “What have I told you about calling me Elizabeth?”
“Yes, yes” Sark muttered before throwing the cushion back with more force than Liz had executed
“At least they won’t need any evidence Bumani’s is a wanted man I remember reading his name” Liz pointed out “You know what we need though a calling card, a name, something to call ourselves” she added as she began to think while staring into the distance
“Liz you really do astound one sometimes, you are three parts best spy I know and one part eccentric teenage girl”
Liz chuckled and glanced at the television and saw a rather stupid add for toilet paper but she saw a sign that said Authorized Personnel Only. “Julian that’s it, APO” she stated
“APO?” He questioned
“Yeah, I say we use that pen laser I’ve been dying to use, with every criminal we turn over to the CIA we’ll burn those three letters into the back of their hands or I don’t know something weird like that”
“As long as you don’t get caught you may do what you wish” Sark stated with a sigh
“Don’t sound so excited you’ll be helping me Julian, if you ever want to get into Sydney Bristow’s good books this would be a start” Liz said causing Sark to go deadly quiet
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Three days later they did as planned, the security cameras in the building had been shut down so there were no problems getting inside.
Bumani and the dealer a man by the name of Benson had come alone, it turns out they were old friends, and there was no need for back up or protection; this was greatly used to Liz and Sark’s advantage.
Liz had set up her own video camera to capture the deal between the two, once they had switched cases Liz went after Bumani and Sark after Benson. After a struggle and a great deal of fighting the two were knocked unconscious. Liz didn’t even realize the help she had gotten from someone keeping an eye on her in the shadows
Liz and Sark were able to keep them unconscious using small amounts of chloroform and get them into America no questions asked. Liz enjoyed burning the letters APO into the back’s of their hands, it was not huge or overly noticeable but it would link the two together.
After burning the video she had made to mini disc they hacked into CIA system and sent a message to the desk of Michael Vaughan. He was sent a copy of the evidence and given a pick up time and place for the criminals, the evidence and the drugs.
Everything had gone according to plan, the criminals, the drugs and the evidence were picked up as arranged and Liz and Sark kept the money. They were presently sitting in the living room of their apartment in Los Angeles.
“Now you can’t tell me that wasn’t satisfying” Liz began “Doing something that is illegal, includes kicking ass and benefits the country”
“I’ll admit you are right. I do feel a certain sense of satisfaction” Sark replied
“Ha, I told you it was a good idea” Liz said with a smirk
“So agent Derevko, what do we do next?” Sark asked
“Agent now am I ooo that has a ring to it. As to what we do next we need to go and see Sydney again, Mom wanted us to keep in touch with her and I want to know if she has spoken to Jack” Liz stated
“Very well” Sark began “Although I do need to ask why is it that you are happy to call Irina mother yet you call your father by his name?”
“Because Mom looked for me, she wanted to find me even if it was just learning I was okay. Jack however is the reason I never knew my real parents in the first place” Liz explained
“I understand. I’ll go and make a call I have had one of my contacts keeping a close eye on Sydney for about a month now so we know her whereabouts”
“Thank you Julian” Liz said before he rang his contact
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Three days later they were on their way back to France again. It seemed Sark’s friend Simon owned the club. They walked into the club and found Sydney sitting alone waiting for them.
“Hey waiting for us?” Liz said as they sat across from her
“Hey Beth” Sydney said remembering her alias from their last encounter
“Hello Julia” Sark said
Sydney simply replied “Sark”
“So have you spoken to Jack?” Liz asked
“Yes I have he flinched when I told him Sark said I had a sister” Sydney said
“So is this club clean, we can talk?” Liz asked
“Yeah, its clean Dad has Marshall monitoring the building and destroying any listening devices the second they appear. Marshall obviously has no idea why but is intimidated by anything that moves so he doesn’t ask questions” Sydney explained with a chuckle
“Good so why the hell did you fake your own death?” Liz asked
Sydney sighed “It just sort of happened; a transmission was received from outer space. Well not so much a transmission as an energy wave was picked up. I am trying to find any information about it but it is useless no one knows a thing” Sydney stated with a sigh
Liz knew exactly what would have happened, the pod squad finally worked out how to use the communication orbs “And Jack is in on the whole thing, doesn’t mind that you left your entire life behind to do his dirty work?” Liz asked
“It’s not exactly like that, although I saw him yesterday actually. On top of running around in circles trying to link an energy wave from space with a terrorist I also have to find out about some other terrorist group called the APO. Well Dad is calling them terrorists, they captured a couple of drug dealers who are on the top ten most wanted list turned them in along with the drugs they were exchanging at the time”
“And along with evidence so that Bumani and Benson couldn’t walk free. Benson was twelfth on the list Bumani was fourth” Liz replied
“That was you!” Sydney gasped, obviously impressed
“Us” Liz said elbowing Sark in the ribs
“Liz you do know who Sark is don’t you?” Sydney said
“Complaining about me? I’ll leave you two alone then” Sark calmly stated motioning to get up
“Sit down Blondie” Liz ordered and Sark clenched his teeth before sitting back down
“Sydney I know about Julian’s past and I can guarantee he has changed, what with my old friends presuming me dead and my mother in CIA lockup he is all I have, he has became like an older brother to me. I never knew you Jack and Mom existed until a little over six months ago” Liz pointed out
“That and ninety percent of the things you hate me for were made up by Yurkov and Getski after I infected their mainframe with a slightly destructive worm” Sark muttered obviously slightly destructive was an understatement
“You did that?” Sydney asked when he nodded she put it to the back of her mind and turned to Liz
“I saw the tape Liz those were some excellent moves” She stated still not used to someone giving Sark a compliment, besides his looks obviously, he did look damn good in that tight black shirt after all
“Well Samuel did say and I quote ‘better than Sydney’” Liz said with a smirk “Sorry I have never had a sister so the whole sibling rivalry thing is getting to me a bit, some of the work you’ve done is damn impressive”
Sydney smiled and blushed before what Liz had said sunk in “Wait Samuel? In Australia?”
“Yes” Liz nodded
“How old are you?” Sydney asked looking surprised
“I’m eighteen in two weeks” Liz replied
“Now that is impressive” Sydney commented, her eyes briefly widening
“You should here what she went through before I met her” Sark stated
Sydney questioningly looked at Liz
Liz sighed “Before I met Julian My best friend was killed, I was kidnapped, rescued, only to save my rescuer from Eagle Rock Military Base before I shot congresswoman Whitaker a week later”
Sydney was momentarily speechless “Who adopted you the mafia?” She questioned with a raised eyebrow
“My friends aren’t from this planet” Liz stated seriously
“Uh whoah” Sydney replied
“Although that gets a don’t tell anyone on the end of it” Liz added
“Of course” Sydney nodded sounding confused
“So is there anything we can help with, I mean Julian here has some pretty powerful contacts” Liz pointed out
“You can try but I doubt you will find anything” Sydney began “Someone is planning something big against the US government all I know is that they go by the code name of Larek” she explained
~ Elf
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