~ Destiny Be Damned ~
by Larisa


Disclaimer: Alt/Uber. I know they look and act like you know who but their all mine, Sex/Violence you name it it's in here. The location in West Virginia is real as well as the Civil War Battleground; the rest is my imagination. If your a little kiddy go away! Don't want ta embarrass your parents by knowing more about sex than them. All hate mail to Hecate3366@frontiernet.net And thanks to Lesia and Ri for letting me terrorize them.


Destiny Be Damned
By Larisa
Hecate3366@frontiernet.net

Part 2 (Conclusion)

They waited in an open field outside of Hagerstown Maryland for her friend to show up with the jet. He was 25 minutes late and Nikita was starting to worry that maybe he had been found out. Then she picked up the sound of an engine coming from the wrong direction just as her cell phone rang. She answered it and watched the wings dip to each side.

"It's him, he had to switch planes."

Jayce watched a middle aged man jump from the jet, he was dressed in greasy Levi's and a Levi's shirt missing the sleeves. Tattoos covered his forearms and his long grayish hair was held back in a leather strap. He grinned at Nikita and caught her helmet in one hand and the keys to her hog in the other.

"Thanks Bud, I owe ya one."

They clasped forearms and parted, he looked back over his shoulder, his crystal blue eyes catching both green and ones like his own.

"Sis, Ma says to be careful. And if you get hurt she's going to kick your ass into your next life."

Nikita gave him a big smile and laughed at the look on Jayce's face. "Tell her it's a deal, I'll see ya when we get back."

Inside the jet Jayce grabbed her by her forearm to keep her from escaping her questions. "That was your brother?"

"Yep, scary ain't he? Ready to go, we have a long flight ahead of us?"

Jayce looked around at the small jet for the pilot. "Niki, who's going to fly this thing?"

"Me, is there a problem?"

"Uuhhmm, only if you don't know how to fly it."

"I have many skills." She gave her a quick kiss and climbed into the pilot's seat and motioned for Jayce to take the co-pilots. Jayce watched as she hit all kinds of buttons and switches in front of her and then heard the engine start up. Before she knew it the jet was in the air.


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Nikita brought the jet around and started their descent; Jayce had a death grip on the arms of the chair. When the jet made a whining noise her green eyes grew the size of saucers. "Are we going to crash?"

"Naah, that was the landing gear coming down, besides I've never crashed in all the years I've been flying." The last part she said with a serious look on her face.

"Niki, people usually don't survive airplane crashes when there in something the size of a beer can!"

"Oh, well I guess the chopper doesn't count either huh?"

"Oh shit! I'm gonna die a virgin!!!!!"

Nikita got up out of the seat and straddled Jay's thighs. "In that case we have about 15 minutes before we go up in a ball of flames."

"Your trying to drive me nuts aren't you?" Poking her in her chest. "You'd let us crash just to get in my pants?"

She shrugged her shoulders and gave her most charming smile. "I'd prefer to take my time but since you have your mind set on us crashing I figured why waste it."

"Get back over there before we do crash!"

Before she got up she gave Jay a sloppy kiss on the lips. "EEEWW, that was gross! Why'd you do that?" Wiping her mouth and chin off she wiped it on Nikita's arm.

"Felt like it. Ya ready ta crash, better take the crash position." Jayce covered her eyes and took a deep breath and held it. She was close to passing out when she heard Nikita ask her if she was going to get off of the jet.

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"Now tell me again what we're looking for." Nikita asked Jayce while she spun the globe of the world at 100mph.

"Will you stop that! Your like a little kid, I don't know what we're looking for, if my father was hiding something it would be in this office. He use to lock the door all the time and no matter what the emergency, he refused to open the door."

Nikita walked around the room taping on the walls with her knuckles, she came to one place that had a different sound. Using both hands she tapped in different places so much that Jayce was ready to kill her.

Her hands went to her hips, the brows dipped over her squinted green eyes. "Now what are you doing?"

"An Amazon dance beat, ya like it? I think it's kinda catchy." Her grin didn't work this time. "Ohh all right, I think there's a fake wall over here or something."

Jayce joined Nikita at the wall and they both started taping in different places. "You're off beat and flat." A blond head swung to glare at her.

"Are you feeling OK? You seem kinda I don't know...weird!"

"Stress Baby, A LOT of stress!"

"Are you always this way when you're stressed?" They were now searching the wall down at floor level.

"Nope, I usually go out and rape and pillage a small town before I have serious work to do."

"You're kidding right?" Eyes the color of cold steel gazed back at her. "Do you pick up some woman in a bar or something?"

"Usually 2 women, a case of beer and then we have one of those threesomes."

Jayce was near death; this woman would kill her in bed! She was getting excited just thinking about it. Oh no! I will not share her with anyone! If I'm not enough for her I'll have to get some of that female viagra stuff! Here we go again, I'm having a nice little conversation with myself.

"Hello! Any body there?" Nikita was snapping her fingers in front of her trying to get her attention.

"Sorry I was thinking, what were you saying?"

"I found the panel switch."

She pushed on a piece of wood trim along the floor and a small recessed area came forward. Jayce pushed on her side of the wall and the panel swung in. The room was a 12X12-foot area with filling cabinets on one wall and a large safe on the other.

"You look in the files and I'll see if I can get this safe open."

About five minutes later Nikita sat on a tabletop and watched Jayce as she was bent over a drawer. Tilting her head at an angle gave her a clear view of Jayce's tight ass. "Can ya move to your right a little bit?" Still with her head in the drawer she asked why. "Because I'm getting a kink in my neck." Jayce was silent for a minute. "How can me moving to my right..." She looked down under her arm to see Nikita looking at her ass.

"You're a dog! Aren't you suppose to be trying to open the safe?"

"I need a water glass."

Jayce straightened up and stretched her back muscles. "Does that really work?"

"Ohh yeah, use it all the time. Can we find one around here?"

"Hold on let me look, I think he had a bar in here somewhere."

She came back a few minutes later with a large water glass, after handing it over she waited to see how Nikita was going to use it to open the safe. Her jaw dropped open when she saw her produce a bottle of bourbon. She slapped her in her shoulder and the side of her head.

Nikita grinned at her. "What did ya think I needed it for? To open the safe? Jay that only works in the movies." She opened the bottle and filled it half way. "Are there any cleaning ladies in this building?"

"I suppose, why?"

"Well, I got a bottle, you. So I need one more female and I'm all set." Jayce took the glass from her; slammed half of it then gave it back. Nikita was shocked, not even she would slam 50-year-old bourbon and she could drink battery acid with out any side effects.

"Ohh Baby, you shouldn't have done that!"

Jayce turned a deep red, her eyes were watering and she looked like she was going to spontaneously combust. Her jaw dropped open and she let out a deep forceful breath that had her coughing so hard she ended up on the floor. Between gasps she asked Nikita what she had just drank, when she told her she fell over on her side and lay still. "I'm gonna die!" She looked up at an amused Nikita with watery green eyes. "Niki, I don't drink."

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Jayce was passed out on a couch, her little experimentation with Bourbon didn't go well. After 5 minutes she was history. Nikita had everything from the safe on the floor in piles. She had found a lot of stuff that a congressman should not even know about let alone be involved in. With just the stuff she had seen, he would have been in jail for a least 150 years. She decided to pack it all up and take it with them, then another problem hit her, how were they going to get anywhere? They had taken a cab from the airstrip and now with Jay passed out, she couldn't very well carry her around.

"Son of bitch! Think, you're the one who always comes up with stuff against all odds!" She went over to Jackson's desk and went through the drawers. In the last one she checked she found a spare set of car keys.

"What are the chances that it's here?" She checked one last time on Jayce then headed for the basement garage. It was well past midnight so there shouldn't be any cars in the place except for security guards and cleaning crews. Then she saw it, a plaque on the wall with his name on it.

"What a ugly fucking car! Shows he had shitty taste in cars." She was looking at a Champaign colored Crown Victoria. Pulling it over to the elevator she left it to go get the papers and Jayce.

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"Ohh Gods, I'm dying!" Jayce was hugging the porcelain Goddess, her head resting on the side of it where it was nice and cold. Every time she tried to move the room spun and she tossed what little bit was left in her system. "Niki, please kill me and put me out of my misery."

Nikita sat down on the floor behind her; putting a towel with ice in it on the back of her neck she eased her into her arms. "No more drinking for you. But at least I know now that you're a cheap date."

"That's funny! You know it's your fault."

"My fault? I didn't tell ya to slam that Bourbon, anyway the way you took the glass I thought you had drank before."

"I always see these people slamming drinks and never getting drunk, so I thought there was nothing to it."

"You watch to much TV. Come on your going back to bed, I got you some Gator aid and some Pedialite for later."

"But we have all that stuff to go through."

"It's all done, I did it while you were sleeping."

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Nikita arranged the papers that needed to be scanned and put onto a CD's. They would be sent in the mail to her contact and the originals would be shredded. There were a lot of open cases that could be closed with the information she had found. She would have people owing her big time for this job. She had one last thing to do and all would be set, after booting up her laptop she transferred the virus she had asked for to the copy of the CD that everyone was after. Once they opened the file the virus would run rampid and destroy the computer along with the information on the CD. Even if they managed to be able to copy it the virus would still be there waiting for the next victim.

The other copy of the CD, her brother now had and it was to be put in a safety deposit box in her bank. It was her security in case anything happened to her or Jayce. Her eyes aching along with her back, she striped out of her clothes and got into bed with a sprawled out Jayce. At least at this Hotel they were able to get a queen-size bed. Although she didn't mind having the smaller one where they had to sleep on top of each other. As she lay on her side she realized that she hadn't had any of her normal nightmares since she and Jayce had been sharing a bed. Turning over she spooned against Jayce's warm body; with in minutes she was in the dream world with Jayce at her side.


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The next morning Nikita woke up with a heavy weight across her chest. Jayce had made her nesting area between her breasts and had a strangle hold on her ribcage. She ran her fingers through her tousled blonde hair, loving the feel of the silky strands falling through her fingers. She had never felt complete as she did when Jayce was with her, they had a connection to each other that seemed so familiar at times that it was scary. She could swear that she knew what she was going to say or the expression she would have before anything would happen.

"Baby, come on it's time to get up." Jayce mumbled as she buried her face against Nikita's left breast. "Ohh no you don't, I'm hungry and you reek like an old drunk."

"Do not."

"How would you know? Your nose is buried against me."

"Like it here, leave em here, get later."

"I kinda like my tits where they are, I'll feel a little odd without them. You asked for it!" She started tickling her ribs; Jayce kept squirming trying to get away from the fingers running up and down her ribcage.

"OK, I'll...get...up!" She pinched Nikita's nipple as paybacks. "Meanie! Just for that I'm not gonna take a shower and I'll make sure I sit REAL close to you!"

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After their showers they went down to the dinning room for breakfast, Jayce ordered enough for three people and then helped Nikita with hers. Before they left she had them bring her two eggs on a bagel for later, which she actually meant was the 2 minutes it took them to get to the elevator.

"Niki, what are we doing today?"

"I'm going to get rid of that CD and your either going to stay here or go visit your sister or Mom."

"Oohhh noo! Where you go I go!"

"Not this time, it'll be too dangerous. There's still a price on your head, I am not going to risk your life by taking you with me."

She pulled her over to the bed and sat her down in front of her. "Please do this for me, I wouldn't be able to handle it if anything happened to you."

"But what about you, they want you dead to. Who's going to watch your back if I'm not there?"

"I'll be OK, they won't do anything to me because I'll have the CD. And it's just a drop off point, I drop it off and then I call them and tell them where it is."

"Then why can't I just stay in the car while you do that?"

"Baby, please just this once." Brushing her fingers across her cheek memorizing the feel of her soft skin. "I'll need you on the outside to call my contacts, to let them know it's done. And if anything happens to me I want you to call my brother and have him get you out of here."

"Nothing is going to happen to you, I won't let it!" Tears came to her eyes. "I don't like this! Why can't you just mail it to them?"

"Because I have to make a deal with them to leave you alone, I don't want you to have to hide for the rest of your life."

"But if something happens to you, I will have to hide!"

"That's why I want you to call my brother, he'll help you."

Jayce fell into her arms sobbing, Nikita hated doing this but there was no other way.


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Nikita dropped Jayce off at her sister's house; she gave her the phone numbers she was to call with the times next to them. She left her laptop and clothes with her in case she had to ditch the car and find another way to get back to where her sister lived. Both of them had tears in their eyes as the time grew closer for Nikita to make the drop off. She pulled Jayce into her arms and held her close, she felt her body shake from her sobs.

"It'll be OK, I promise." She pulled back enough to give her a soft kiss that became passionate. Jayce's sister Lynn stood in the front window of her house and watched them. She didn't understand her sister's attraction to other women but seeing her with Nikita, she understood completely. Sparks shot between the two of them; she had never seen two people with so much chemistry.

Jayce was the first to break the kiss, she wanted to look into those blue eyes and remember the passion in them.

"Promise me you'll come back."

"I promise, if at all possible I'll come back to you. I love you Jay, always remember that."

Tears flowed rivers down Jayce's cheeks; between her sobs she told Nikita that she loved her. Then she ran into the house leaving Nikita to leave.

"I love you little one."

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Jayce ran into her sisters arms and sobbed uncontrollably. Lynn rocked her older sister in her arms giving her comfort by telling her that Nikita would be back and to not worry. When Jayce had calmed down they sat in the kitchen and for the first time since her family had disowned her, talked.

"Do you love her Jayce?"

"With everything that I am, she is my other half, my soulmate." She took a deep calming breath. "She saved my life from the same people who may have killed Dad."

"They came after you, what did they do to you? My Gods Jay, why didn't you call me." She thought a minute and sighed. "Never mind, that was a stupid thing to say after all we put you through, you would never call us." Jayce clasped her sister's hand in hers. "It wasn't safe to call anyone, Niki took care of him and he's in jail now."

"But what did he do to you? I don't see any bruises.... He didn't..."

"No, he whipped me." Lynn's brown eyes grew huge at the thought of someone using a whip on her sister. She brushed her long brown hair off of her shoulders. It was her way of collecting herself, like Jayce tipped her head back and closed her eyes. They may be sisters but their mannerisms were nothing alike.

"Is it bad, what he did to you?"

Jayce stood up and turned her back to her sister, she pulled her shirt up and heard Lynn gasp. Lowering her shirt she sat back down and took her Lynn's hands.

"The marks will fade with time, Niki only has white lines across her back now."

"Niki has the same thing? Why?"

"She says that they were punishing her for something she did when she was younger."

"I'm confused, she knows these people?"

"Yes, she works for them and she was sent to get the CD that Dad had and Kill me." Lynn jumped up from the table; her chair hit the floor with a bang, making Jayce jump in her chair.

"You mean to tell me that you fell in love with a hit woman who was sent to kill you! Are you NUTS!!!!!"

"Calm down and sit down! She couldn't do it, she told me she couldn't kill the women that she had fallen in love with."

"Was this before or after you told her that you loved her? She may have been playing on your emotions."

"It was before and she's not like that. She could have let that guy kill me and never endangered herself. They want her dead along with me, all because she didn't do her job and kill me like she was suppose to."

"Geez, this sounds like one of those bad movies. What happens after she does what ever it is she's doing?"

Jayce leaned back in her chair; she played with the piece of paper that Nikita had given her. "I don't know, maybe she'll come back to West Virginia with me.

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Nikita pulled the car to the edge of an old housing complex parking lot, she had already made the calls that she need to make so she left the cell phone laying on the front seat. She walked slowly along the edge of the building checking behind her every so often. They were to meet her on the first floor in the hallway, and she was to be unharmed and alone. She snickered at the thought of them really believing her to come without some kind of firepower. That was why she was an hour early, the black leather duster she wore had more pockets than it was made with. Finding a rumble strewn hall made it perfect for her little hiding game, she hid weapons amongst the trash in strategic places along the hall.


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Jayce and Lynn sat in front of the TV watching soap operas and what was worse was they were so involved in it that Jayce had stopped her junk food binge. Lynn watched her older sister with amazement; she had forgotten the amount of food she could consume in one sitting.

"I see something's never change." Lynn pointed to the two empty bags of microwave popcorn and twinkie and zinger wrappers covering the coffee table. She received a smirk from Jayce. "I wasn't really hungry, what time is it? I have to make some phone calls for Niki."

Lynn checked the clock on the VCR. "It's 2'25pm, what time do you have to call?"

"In 5 minutes, I guess it can't hurt to call a little early." Unfolding the paper she checked the time of the calls, they were to be made 5 min apart. She didn't know who she was calling and all Niki had told her was to say "Green Dragon" and hang up. She made the calls then went back into the living room with her sister.

"Who did you call?"

"I have no idea, when they answered all I said was Green Dragon. You know they all use those code words to sound mysterious and all."

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Nikita was waiting in the hallway when she saw a black car drive up outside the door, four men got out, then the car pulled away. She knew that more of them were hiding at the back of the building waiting to come through the back door at the minute all Hell broke loose. Which she knew was going to happen, she hoped that Jay had made the calls for her. If she did then everything was set and it would be all over. It made her heart both ecstatic and ache at the same time.

An older Asian man with gray hair and a long fu man chu stepped in front of her, his bodyguards took their places to either side and the other stood at a distance behind him. His hands crossed over his folded arms when he tilted his head back to give her a look of superiority. He sent one of his men over to search her.

"So we meet again Nikita, I had heard that you managed to save MacKenzie from Danny Chang. That was a very stupid thing to do, especially turning him over to the FBI. He can't tell them anything, because he killed himself before they got to him." A grin came to his face when he saw the narrowed look of her pale blue eyes and her chin stick out.

"Ohh yes, he had plenty of poison with him to do the deed. So his knowledge is useless now."

Nikita knew he was lying. There was no poison left with Chang. And the only way he could possible kill himself was if he was able to get loose.

"What a pity, I'm sure the FBI would have had lots of fun with him. Anyway I'm not here to discuss what happened with your flunky, I have the CD and as soon as you get it I'm done."

"I don't think so, you see once I have the CD." He motioned his men to move in front of him. "My men are going to have some fun with you and then do what Chang wasn't able to do, rip your heart from your chest."

"Have fun finding it, I left my heart somewhere safe." She pictured a small blonde with green eyes and knew where her heart was; it was at home in Jay's hands. Reaching into her pocket she pulled out a plastic case with the CD in it. She spun it in her fingers before her eyes and wondered if it was all worth it. Yes, she decided. It was, the few lives that would be lost here were worth the billions that wouldn't have to suffer at the hands of men like the Green Dragon. With the flip of her wrist she sent the case spinning towards the Green Dragon. He caught it in mid air, after examining it he stuck it inside his pocket and walked away.

He stopped at the door and gave his men a short nod. He was gone in a second leaving Nikita to face his three bodyguards. She wasn't worried about them using guns on her, torture was their specialty then you lost your head at the end to be taken back as proof of a kill.

The first one came at her with a pair of nunchakus, spinning them in figure eight's in front of him, then to each side of his body as he advanced towards her. He spun on his back foot, extending his arm with the nunchakus in them to make a strike at her head. She blocked the strike, snapping his arm at the elbow she pulled his nunchakus from his hand and used them to smack the other in the throat with them. Still holding onto the screaming man she head butted him knocking him out then tossing him to the floor. The nunchakus were wrapped around the other guy's neck, he was struggling to get them free when the last of them came at her with Sai's. Picking up the baton she had hid earlier she blocked his swings at her. Spinning out of his way she caught him behind his knees as she passed. He stumbled forward into the other man who had freed himself from the nunchakus. Both men came at her with everything they had. She ran up the wall opposite of them and flipped over their heads to land behind them.

She heard shots being fired out behind the building, then others from Green Dragons group came charging into the hallway. Bullets flew past her as she rolled across the floor to where she had hidden her throwing daggers. Taking out the first two, she rolled to the other side of the hallway and threw a dagger over her should to penetrate the man's throat who had the Sai's. Fighting for her life she dodged bullets coming from a dozen or more men, she felt a burning sensation in her right shoulder and then the warm stickiness of blood running in between her skin and her duster. She made the decision that these guys could chase her if they wanted, she ran right at them and jumped in the air flipping over their heads, before they could turn, she was out the door. Rounding the corner she searched for the Green Dragons car. She had to take him out of the picture at all costs.

Dark blue vans showed up in the front of the building. Swat teams and men with dark blue windbreakers, with the FBI initials in bold yellow on the back. Took off running towards where all the shots were being fired.

Nikita ran towards the car she knew held the Green Dragon, before she could get to the door, the driver flung his door open and fired at her. Bullets rushed past her, one of them clipping her in her thigh and coming out at her hip. She fell to the ground when her leg gave out, reaching inside her duster she pulled a throwing dagger and flung it at the driver, the blade vibrated from where it sank into his chest. She crawled towards the car, dragging herself along the ground; She reached the rear door and pulled it open to reveal the Green Dragon sitting there with a pistol in his hand.

"You never give up do you Nikita, just like years ago when I killed your younger brother." He saw the shock go through her features. "You didn't think I knew who you were or why you so desperately wanted to work for me! Come now, I'm not stupid!" He checked the clip of his pistol. "I've been toying with you for years, but I have to admit you were a great help to me. I never had to worry that you wouldn't take care of the business I sent you on until this time." He brought the gun up and pointed it right at her chest. "To bad you had to fall for MacKenzie, I was willing to forget your treachery and let you live but now it's to late." He pulled the trigger; Nikita felt the pain travel through her chest, the wind was stolen from her lungs as she sunk slowly to her knees in front of him.

The Green Dragon stood from the car, pulling a Katana from off of the seat. "Your beautiful face will decorate my office for all eternity."

"I'm sorry Jayce, I love you." She whispered.



He brought the Katana over his right shoulder and swung in a downward sweep.

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Jayce and Lynn were watching the evening news; Lynn was just about to change it when the news team went live to location. The news reporter was standing in the middle of what looked like a war zone, ambulances, police and FBI agents were running around like maniacs. Bodies were strewn around the place with white sheets covering them.

"My Gods Jayce, what happened there?"

"I don't know but I have this bad feeling that Niki is there.

"It seems that a battle between the Green Dragon Asian Mafia and the FBI took place at this abandoned housing complex today, numerous lives were taken here today among them was the leader of the Mafia, The Green Dragon himself." The reporter turned to look at where paramedics were carrying a stretcher covered with a white sheet.

"His death was brought about by one person, one of his own people took his life. The person was Ryan Foster, she was found at his side with an ancient Samurai's Katana in her hand. She suffered a fatal gunshot wound and was declared dead at the scene. This brave woman brought about the fall of one of the strongest Mafia Leaders ever to be in the State California."

A picture of Niki came up in the left hand corner of the screen, Jayce went pale, a stabbing pain roared through her body at the picture of her soulmate on the screen. A high piercing wail came from her lips; breaking down into sobs she covered her face with her hands. Lynn pulled her into her arms and rocked her sister.

"I'm so sorry Jayce, I know your hurting right now. Just remember that what she did, she did so everyone could live and be safe from people like that man."

They never heard the rest of the report about how information that the FBI had received led to the arrests of numerous public officials and other Mafia leaders and their employees. And that the FBI was investigating a leak in their own organization.


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Jayce knew that it was now safe for her to be able to fly back home with out the fear of being killed. She sat on her bed holding Nikita's saddlebags in her arms; tears flowed down her cheeks and dripped onto the worn leather. She opened one bag and pulled out one of Nikita's T-shirts, putting it up to her nose she breathed in the scent that lingered there. It was a mixture of leather, obsession and Niki. Searching through the bag she found a piece of paper that had her name wrote across the front. More tears coursed down her face and choking sobs tore from her chest.

She unfolded the paper and read what Niki had written at some point before she left.

"I know that if your reading this that I didn't make it back to you. Please believe that I love you with all my heart and one day we will be together again. I will always carry you in my heart and even in death I will never leave you.

I love you.

Niki.

Jayce collapsed onto her bed and cried herself to sleep, the next morning she woke with her eyeballs feeling like they had been dipped in sand. She had to make it to class today, she had taken the past week off since her return from California and the Dean was not to happy with her absence. She used the family illness excuse for her time away but she knew he wouldn't go for her mourning of Niki for any more time away. He had made it very clear that he would and already had a replacement for her classes.

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She walked into her office and grabbed some folders off of her desk, she would try to concentrate on teaching today but she wasn't promising herself or any one else a damn thing. Her heart hurt too much and she knew she would never be the same. A large piece of her was missing, a piece that could never be replaced.

She stood before the podium and talked in a monotone voice, her students swapped looks with each other. Jayce was dressed in Niki's clothes; her hair was tousled from running her fingers through it numerous times. Her once expressive green eyes were dull and void; she was but a shell of her once energetic self.

After she had dismissed her class half way through, she heard the low murmur of talk coming from her students as they left. She didn't care what they thought of her; she didn't care about anything anymore. She left the folders laying on the podium and went home. Stopping on the way there she went into 7-11 and grabbed a 12 pack of Black and Tan, she figured she might as well get shit faced, it seemed the only way she could sleep. After two beers she was usually comatose until morning.

Dropping down on her couch she grabbed the remote and hit the TV on, she never saw what she was watching, it was like when you look at your watch but still don't know what time it is. What she saw were pale blue eyes smiling at her, the feel of those strong arms holding her to either comfort or in sleep. Niki's deep melodious voice caressing her ear when she would whisper comforting things to her. She could hear her now just like all the times before telling her how much she loved her.

"I love you Jay, did you miss me?"

Jay couldn't remember Niki ever saying that, so it must be her imagination making it up.

"You look like shit, and what's with the beer?"

"Jay, I think it's time you saw a doctor, now your voices are telling you what to do outside of your head!" Jay said to herself. "I'll drink as much beer as I want thank you very much!"

"OK, but I'm not going to hold your head while you toss your cookies."

Jay turned her head to look over her shoulder, there before her stood 6ft of tall dark and very much alive Niki.

"Oohh my Gods!!!" Was all she said before she passed out onto the floor.

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A warmth surrounded her; she snuggled further into it trying to pull it into her very soul. It had been a long time since she felt like this, pulling the material close to her nose she inhaled deeply. "Funny?" She thought to herself. "This smells to much like dryer sheets, I don't..." Her green eyes blinked open to see a dark blue wall in front of her. "Weird, I don't remember..." Her eyes followed up the blue to see a tanned throat then further up to pale blue eyes twinkling at her.

"This has got to be a hallucination, you're dead!"

"Hi Baby, miss me?"

Jayce ran her fingers across Niki's warm moist lips.

"Your warm and breathing!"

"Of course I am" She chuckled at the wide green eyes. "Baby, I'm not dead nor have I ever been dead." She proved her point by capturing soft lips with her own. "I missed you so much."

Jay pushed her down on the bed and crawled up her body to end up straddling her hips, holding both of Niki's hands in hers she glared down into blue eyes. "Your dead! I saw it on the news, they had your body on a stretcher covered with a sheet!"

Niki arched her back, in one fluid movement she flipped them over. Leaning down she ravaged the pink lips before her, stealing all arguments from Jay about her being a ghost. She broke the kiss to nip at the soft skin of Jay's neck, pulling the flesh between her teeth she sucked until she heard Jay moan. Pulling her shirt collar down she trailed her tongue across the warm skin. Jayce whimpered beneath her, her fingers tangled in long chestnut hair. She pushed Niki away from her and took in her appearance.

"Your hair is a different color."

Niki ran her fingers through it and grinned at her. "I dyed it back to it's original color, I figured it was a good idea since I'm making a new start of things." She brushed her fingertips across Jay's brows, pushing her hair away from sunken cheeks. "You look terrible and I know it's all my fault, I'm sorry for hurting you."

Jay pulled her into a hug; their sobs wracked both of their bodies as they both began to cry.

"Don't you ever do this to me again!" Jay mumbled into Niki's ear while she pummeled her back with her fists. "I've been through Hell the last couple of weeks, I wanted to die right along with you!"

Niki whispered into her ear calming her down until she fell into an exhausted sleep. Niki followed her moments later.


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Jayce woke up with her limbs wrapped around a familiar warmth; the heartbeat beneath her ear was slow and comforting. Inhaling the soft scent of Niki brought tears to her eyes, she had thought that she had no more to cry but this proved her wrong. Leaning up on her elbow she gazed at the relaxed face before her, dark circles showed beneath Niki's eyes and her cheeks showed a hollowness never before there. Jay then knew that she was not the only one who had suffered. She wanted to do nothing more than lay here and watch Niki sleep but knew that time was short. She eased herself free of their tangled arms and legs; stripping off her clothes she dropped them on the edge of the bed. Before she stepped into the bathroom she saw Niki roll over and hug her pillow.

She was dressed in her own clothes, granted they were a pair of worn out, faded and very torn up pair of Levi's and a thin T-shirt with the saying "The little voices told me, they don't like you. So go away!" Her hair still wet and her feet bare she sat on the bed to pull her worn out boots on. A large warm hand ran up under her shirt to caress her skin.

Niki's sleep thickened voice reached her ears, the deepness sending a shiver through her body. "Where ya going?" Leaning back against Niki's side she wrapped one arm around her and buried her face against a warm neck. "I can't miss class, if I do the Dean is going to fire me. I wouldn't care but homeless doesn't sound like to much fun." Niki wrapped an arm around her giving her a tight hug. "OK, I'll see you later." She placed a soft kiss on Jay's forehead and let her go. "I love you Jay."

"I love you to Niki, I'll see you later."

After Jay left for school Niki found a piece of paper taped to the bathroom mirror, she pulled it down to read.

From the dark of night to the light of day.
You have always helped me to find my way.
In the times of sorrow and the times of pain.
You were the one who always kept me sane.
Our paths have crossed and then come back around.
For now I know we are destiny bound.

You are my destiny
I LOVE YOU
J
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Her students were amazed at the change in Jayce; she seemed more alive than she had been the day before. Her actions showed more energy, almost like she was before but not quite there. What really shocked them was he appearance; she looked more like one of them than a college professor.

Jayce had her back to her class; building up her emotions for the scene from one of her own plays that she was about to tell them. She lead them into it with a deep voice, her descriptions of the tomb making them feel the cold chilling atmosphere the air held, the coldness of the concrete slab where two bodies lay covered in white gauze like material. The pain and anguish of those present to care for the deceased.

The priest knelt before the two bodies. Filling his heart with all the love he felt for these two people, he placed his hands upon their foreheads and started a low chant. His head leaning back fell forward with the effort he put behind his words. A glowing blue light formed around them encompassing him and the two bodies, as he put more feeling into his chant the glowing became blinding. Thin streams of color came from his fingertips to circle around the bodies. A bright blast of color engulfed the tomb, and then just as suddenly it was gone leaving it dark and cold. The priest lay exhausted with his head upon the tomb. Fingers once cold with death twitched, then moved in slowness, seeking out the warmth of their missing companions. A blonde head turned to look at her soulmates face; the strong contours of her face white against the darkness around them her long black hair falling over her shoulders. Leaning up on one elbow she ran her hand across the high cheekbones of her lover. Blue eyes opened to look back at her. Green and blue orbs locked together in a binding of souls like none other witnessed before. They moved with a stiffness of unused muscles to sit upright next to each other. Looking around they had a feeling of being lost but a comfort that if they were indeed lost, at least they were together.

"Were back." The blonde said as she looked at her lover.

"Yeah." The stoic Warrior Princess agreed.

"We'll be together for eternity."

The scene faded to black as the two lovers leaned against each other holding hands.

Turning back around to face her students she witnessed the awe in their eyes. Some tear filled others in utter amazement at the picture their professor had painted for them. The emotions she was able to weld with words. Never had they lived a story as they just had and probably never would again. Her face showed the lasting emotions of her story, an almost calmness except for her eyes. As her students got up to leave the classroom they froze when a tall woman dressed in a black leather trench coat stood in the doorway. Her pale blue eyes had a fire in them to match what they were seeing in their professors green eyes. All eyes watched as she walked down the steps towards Jay, mesmerized at the sparks shooting between the two. They heard her say. "I got your poem. For eternity." Jay and Niki came together in a deep passionate kiss, Jay pulled herself up to wrap her legs around Niki's hips, pulling their bodies as close as possible. Her students stared with mouths hanging open, they now knew the reason behind her change in mood and thought it best to give them some privacy.

Niki walked towards the desk in the room, she turned so that she was sitting on it. Her legs were so weak she knew that if she hadn't sat down they would have fallen in a heap on the floor. Jay broke the kiss to explore the soft skin of Niki's neck, nipping the pulse point set felt a shutter pass through Niki's body, running her hand down the front of Niki's chest stopping at her firm breast. Running her palm against her nipple she felt it swell beneath her hand, becoming harder the more she rubbed it with her palm. Niki was moaning into her ear, setting her body on fire with the sound. She pulled an ear lobe into her mouth and sucked, her warm breath blowing in Niki's ear was pure torture to her.

"Jay, Gods! If we don't stop now, I'm going to take you right on this desk."

Jay murmured between nips of warm flesh. "So take me."

"Not here...ooohhh my...please Jay...lets go...ooohhh Gods...home!"

"Your no fun." She crawled off Niki slowly making sure she rubbed herself against her on her way down to the floor.

Niki sat there gasping for air, sweat trickled down her temples. She clutched the desktop trying to gain some control.

"You are a wicked wicked woman!"

"I know!" Green eyes blazed with a feral passion. "Come on I have plans for you." She grabbed her by the front of her black Levi's and dragged her on rubbery legs from the room.

"How'd you get here."

"I walked." Now I get to stumble all the way back, she wanted to add. She groaned at the throbbing between her legs. Jay grabbed the end of her belt and worked it free so that it looked like Niki was on a leash. She pulled her all the way home that way with people giving them funny looks. Jay didn't give a damn what it looked like, she had waited to long for this woman and no one was going to stop her now.


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Jay kicked her door closed, grabbing the lapels of Niki's duster she pushed the coat back over her shoulders trapping her arms in the sleeves, walking her backwards all the way to her bedroom while pulling the buttons of her shirt off with her teeth. Niki was scared shitless, she was in desperate trouble here and it all stemmed from her over active imagination.

"I want you to teach me every thing you know." Jay pulled her shirt and duster off in one swift movement then pushed her back onto her bed.

"Uuhhmm Baby..." One of her nipples was taken between a pair of hot lips. "I...oohh Gods...that feels soo...good!"

Jay unbuttoned her Levi's and pulled them down over her hips and was stunned when she found a pair of hips clad in men's briefs. "Of all the damn times for you to put on underwear!" Niki gave her a smirk as she wiggled to help Jay with her remaining clothes. "Sorry Baby, I wasn't planing on this." An eyebrow raised over green eyes. "At least not this early...you know this morning...ohhh...." She forgot what she was going to say the minute Jay's clothes hit the floor beside hers.

A warm wet tongue wiggled it's way between her toes then down across the arch of her foot, licking her way all the way up the inside of Niki's thigh and making a detour around the place she most wanted to feel her tongue. Her back was arched up off of the bed she gripped the sheets in her fingers, turning her knuckles white. Jay licked her way across the patch of dark curls and over to Niki's hip. She found a red line right below her hip bone, placing a soft kiss on it she looked up into half lidded blue eyes. Niki knew why she had stopped what she was doing.

"I kinda got shot."

Her head hit the bed when she felt Jay's tongue trace where the sutures had been. She didn't know how much more she could take from her so-called Virgin, flames were all ready licking at her throbbing center any more of this and she was lost. She wrapped Jay up with her legs, holding her where she was kneeling on the floor.

"Hey, why'd you stop me?"

"Baby your going to fast, we have to slow down a bit." She reached down to pull her up onto the bed beside her. Jay saw the huge dark blue bruise over Niki's heart.

"What's this from? I didn't do it did I?"

"No baby, that's where I took a bullet in the chest. Damn kevlar takes the bullet but you still hurt like Hell. Jay ran her fingers across the discoloration then kissed it. "Any more spots I should know about?" Niki pointed to her shoulder where the vest hadn't protected her, then the other place on her thigh.

"How many times did you get shot?"

"Uuuhhmm 3 times, this time anyway. I'm OK doesn't hurt anymore."

"I'll kiss them and make them feel better."

Jay captured Niki's lips, it started slow and gentle the progressed as a hunger engulfed them both. Teeth gnashing and biting while hands roamed over heated skin. Jay straddled Niki's hips, pushing herself against Niki's center she brought a loud moan and shutter from her lover. Niki didn't know what to do with her hands. So she opted for grabbing Jay's firm ass to pull her in closer to her center.

Breaking away form their kiss Niki asked her. "Baby, are you sure your a Virgin?"

"Uuhh huh." She said between kisses to Niki's upper chest. "Why?" She said as her tongue ran down between her breasts licking the salty skin. "Can't you tell?"

"Jay, I've never done this before."

Jay stopped what she was doing to look into scared blue eyes. "But all the stories about bars and threesomes?"

"Uuhhmm.... Nope...fantasy.... Never went in a bar before." She gave her a lopsided grin.

"You're a Virgin?" Green eyes looked at her with amazement then warmed to pure love. She couldn't believe that this beautiful woman was giving something so priceless to her. Tears welled in both of their eyes as they thought about the gift they would give to each other. Jay moved up Niki's body, wrapping her arms around her, she buried her face against her neck. Niki ran her fingers up and down Jay's sweat moistened back, bringing shivers across her skin. She whispered into Jay's ear.

"You are my first and last, you own me heart and soul."

Jay met her eyes. "I have always been yours. For eternity." She slipped her thigh between Niki's, feeling her wetness coat her skin she moaned against soft lips. Rolling her hips forward she pushed into her. Niki raised her thigh to let Jay ride against her wet skin now coated with Jay's juices. They moved slowly together, building up to the thresh hold they so desperately wanted to reach. Jay could feel Niki's body starting to tense; she slipped one hand between them and ran her fingers between silky wet folds. Finding her center she teased her opening with one fingertip. Niki was writhing beneath her. She gasped that she wanted to feel her inside of her. With her thumb she rubbed the swollen bundle of nerves and felt Niki's body jerk, as she was going over the edge Jay entered her, sending her over in an earth shattering climax. Niki screamed out her name, her arms falling to her sides as she gasped for air. Before she had settled, Jay slowly pumped her finger back and forth taking her back up. Taking one of her nipples between her lips she teased the tip with her tongue as she pushed her own center against her lover's thigh. She could feel her own climax approaching, just before she was about to go over she tipped her finger up and hit the soft area inside of Niki. They crashed screaming out each other's names.

Niki put her fingers beneath Jay's chin, raising her face up to put a gentle kiss upon her lips. When the kiss broke. They noticed that they each had tears in their eyes. "I didn't hurt you did I?" Jay asked her lover.

"No Baby. I love you Jay."

"I love you to, with everything that I am."

They cuddled together and let sleep claim them.


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Jay tried to roll over to get away from the sunlight shinning in her eyes from the window, but there was a weight holding her down in place. She moved her hand down to the weight on her stomach and felt silky hair fall through her fingers. A bright smile came to her lips as she remembered the night before. "Who would have known?" She thought to herself about her lover. She chuckled when she remembered Niki's confession to her, she was so scared herself and was surprised it see fear in her lover's eyes.

"What's so funny?" Niki left a kiss on Jay's stomach before she moved up to snuggle against her neck.

"Oohh it's just that I was so worried last night about paling in comparison to your other lovers."

"Uhh huh, so I had you fooled?"

"There's no words I can think of." She squeezed her lover to her and placed a kiss on the crown of her dark head. "Niki, I want to know what happened that day of the drop off, I saw stuff on the news that day and it still hurts."

Niki took a deep breath and let it out slowly, she knew this day would come and she was in a way looking forward to it. Once Jay knew everything, they could move on with their lives together.

"How many hours have you got?"

"We have the whole weekend, is it that bad?"

"Yep, and it's long." She moved up into a sitting position next to her lover. Jay ran her fingers across the dark bruise on her chest and thanked the Gods that Niki had been wearing a vest that day.

"It all started 6 years ago with my brother Ryan, he was an FBI agent in deep cover with the Green Dragon Mafia. He was trying to find out how they were finding out who the agents were. The FBI was loosing three agents a month to hits. No one in the Agency knew who he was or what he was doing there; he had never been put on the rosters as an Agent. That way the Dragons couldn't find him in the database anywhere.

Ryan worked his way up through the ranks from just a drug dealer to being at the right hand of the bosses. He was so close to getting the leak in the Agency when something went wrong." She stopped to wipe the tears from her eyes; the pain that she had felt at the time all this happened came back to her. Jay comforted her by pulling her close to her, rocking her back and forth. "Someone from his past recognized him, it was a guy who had turned states evidence on another Mafia Don and had been put into witness protection. He came out of hiding to work for the Dragons, the minute he saw Ryan he ran to one of the bosses who went to the Green Dragon himself and told him who Ryan was.

The Green Dragon called him into his office and confronted him about what was said. Ryan said the guy was lying and he had never had any dealings with the FBI. What Ryan didn't know was that the guy had given his real name to his boss and the Green Dragon called his contact and had him check."

"What was his real name if it wasn't Ryan Foster? You have me all confused with these names." Jay said in a low throaty voice, her emotions were so raw from what she had thought happened to Niki and now with hearing about her brother.

His full name was Ryan Nicholas Foster Scalani. The FBI, before the Green Dragon case knew him as Ryan Nicholas. And he was still in the computer as that. Someone forgot to take all the information out on him."

"Oh Gods Jay! Some computer geek fucked up and your brother lost his life because of it?"

"Not just some computer geek, the geek is my older brother Buddy."

"The one who got us the jet?"

"One in the same, Buddy left the FBI afterwards and disappeared for over a year before I found him."

"I'm so sorry Niki, I didn't mean to have you bring this all up." Tears filled Jay's eyes; it hit her that for them to met two people had to die for it to happen. "So are you an FBI Agent?"

"Nope, I don't work for any of the agencies officially. They paid me for my services, but that was all."

"So what are you?"

"Have you ever saw the movie Point of no return?"

"Yeah, with Bridgett Fonda. Don't tell me you work for one of those agencies!"

"No Baby, I don't work for them, I own one. Buddy does all the computer stuff and Ma is the book keeper, plus she was my point of contact."

Jay fell over on her back and groaned, she felt like she should run out and buy a trench coat and a 357 magnum. "OK, I think I can handle that...geez I'm in love with a spy!"

Niki laid down on top of her and gave her a quick kiss. "Nope, former High Tech Investigator. I'm retired, now I'm homeless and jobless. Still love me now that I'm a bum?"

"Let me think about that." Niki wiped the smirk off of her face with a hungry kiss.

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The whole weekend was spent with them making love, in the bedroom, bathroom, kitchen, living room, Niki said no to the Hog, she was too sore to sit on it for to long. They ended up falling asleep on the couch early Sunday night after watching the 6pm News where they learned that the FBI had found the leak in there Agency and he was now being held in a Federal Prison to await charges along with numerous Politicians. Jay knew then that her father would have been one of them if he had not been murdered. Niki comforted her when she broke down. Jay said that what she was thinking was cruel but she had come to the conclusion that it was better for her father to be dead than to have to go through the trial and jail time for what he did. He would never have survived the prison sentence.


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Monday morning rolled around way to early, Jay had an early staff meeting where the Dean had an announcement to make. Jay was worried that it was to tell her she was fired and to toss her out the door. She had butterflies in her stomach; it was so bad that she couldn't eat breakfast, which was a first in a very long time. Niki couldn't help but laugh when she turned green and ran for the bathroom. She waited for her outside of the bathroom door.

"Baby are you OK?"

"UUUUHHHH!!!!!! I'm gonna die!! This is worse than a hangover!" She was pale when she came out and fell into her lovers arms.

"You'll be all right once you get into the meeting, if not just throw up on the Dean, tell him your sick and come home." She felt a small chuckle vibrate against her chest. "If he was going to fire you, I don't think he would call a staff meeting."

"No, I guess your right. I gotta get going or I'm going to be running in there and making an ass out of myself." Niki gave her a soft kiss on the lips then her forehead.

"I'll meet you for lunch, OK?"

"OK, I love you Niki."

"I love you to and don't worry it'll be all right."


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The Dean stood at the head of the table in the large conference room waiting for every one to get seated. He was a short round bald headed man with small round glasses perched on his nose. He had a habit of looking at people over the tops of them. He thought that it made him look intimidating but when your 5'2" How mean can you look? He pulled a pocket watch out of his vest pocket and clicked it closed after he saw that it was time for him to start the meeting.

Walking up to the edge of the table he looked over his glasses, the professors all tried not to snicker at him. However, some failed but covered their noises by coughing, it sounded like they had the whooping cough.

"I have a very important announcement to make, with our staff problem brought to my attention, I found that there was only one thing to do."

Jay's heart fell to her feet, her face went pale and sweat broke out on her brow. If she had been able to move she would have run from the room. Instead she sunk further down into her chair. And thought "Here it comes!"

"I have hired another professor to take over."

Jay felt a darkness invading in on her vision, she was about to pass out and fall out of her chair. Then she heard him say Criminal Sciences. Her vision came back to her and so did her breathing, she hadn't noticed that she had stopped.

"Criminal Sciences. As you know Professor Robert's has left our school to teach at the FBI Academy in Quantico Virginia. So I have Hired Professor Nikita Angelique Scalani."

Jay did fall out of her chair at the mention of her lovers name, the professor next to her helped her up off of the floor only to grab a hold of her again when Niki came through the door in a black Italian cut suit. She looked like she had just come from a meeting with the Godfather but damn did she look hot. Crystal blue eyes caught Jay as she struggled to sit in her chair, her face a bright red from embarrassment and her jaw slack from shock.

"Everyone this is Professor Scalani. We welcome you to our little college."

Niki bowed her head at the rest of the staff and shocked the Hell out of Jay by thanking them with an Italian accent. She just got an evil little fantasy running her through her head involving that accent. "You are full of surprises Niki, and pay backs are a bitch!"


Jay stood outside of the conference room waiting for the Dean to finish with her lover; the minute he walked out she jumped through the door, closed it and locked it. Advancing on her lover with flames in her eyes she came to stand toe to toe with her.

"You...! I can't believe...Why didn't..."

Niki dropped her head and stopped her stuttering with a deep passionate kiss.

"Surprise Baby!"

"You're a professor? How old are you? And the accent!?!"

"UUhhmm 26. Baby you're not the only child prodigy ya know, and I'm from Sicily." A wicked gleam came to her eye along with a grin. "Is it so bad that you would be married to a lowly college professor?"

"If that's your way of proposing, the answer is yes I will. But I was so set on being a Mafia wife!"

"Destiny be damned Baby. But we can pretend I'm a God Father."

Classes were canceled that day for both English Lit and Criminal Sciences because the Professors were to busy celebrating their soon to be marriage.

The End
Destiny be Damned
By Larisa



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