Consider it friendly fire

[freestyle_one]

Kate was not exactly looking forward to seeing a certain Nikola Tesla again. Seeing how their last visit had ended with her sporting an impressive bruise and being implanted with tracking chips. But all that aside, she had an opportunity, one they might not get again, and she knew she couldn't do it alone. So swallowing her pride as well as

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[nikolat3sla]

Nikola's - on the floor of the lab with a bottle of wine trying to fit together a damaged sensor - one of the roaming abnormals had gotten into it last night and had a chew - very irritating.

"It's open," he muttered.

[freestyle_one]

Kate opened the door just enough to slip through, "Sanctuary's Most Unwanted...do you have a minute?"

[nikolat3sla]

Nikola looked up at Kate peering around the door. He looks very tired and very unhappy.

"If you feel you must," he drawls, putting everything to one side and going for the bottle of wine next to him.

[freestyle_one]

"Just thought you'd want to know that 'ET phoned home', I've got a time and a place if you plan on holding up your end of the deal", she said, crossing her arms.

[nikolat3sla]

Nikola rubs his hand over his face, trying to wake himself up. He manages to get off the floor and roam over to the bench.

"Come in and close the door."

[freestyle_one]

Kate shut the door behind her, walking over to where he was sitting, but not quite joining him. She stood a safe distance away, just out of arm's length, tensely.

[nikolat3sla]

"From the beginning, if you please..." Nikola says, motioning for her to sit. He wants this play by play if he's going to construct a rescue mission for a still possibly fictional senario. Though Nikola had done some checking. Ms Freelander does have a sibling. At least that much is true.

[freestyle_one]

Kate sat down cautiously at the other end of the bench. Whether the vast population thought she deserved it or not, (or even whether she thought she deserved it or not) no one got more than one free swing at her.

She shrugged, tossing him her phone, all the texts saved, "Dana wants to meet me, you know, check in, whatever. I got her to promise to bring Thad with her. The 'Bus Stop' is a small facility just north of the river, no labs or anything. Very hush hush, low security."

[nikolat3sla]

Nikola flicks his way through the message - finding it a little unsettling how Whitcomb has decided to play 'mum'.

He slid the phone back along the bench to her and then hunted out a map of the city, setting it down in front of Kate with a pen.

"Show me where this 'Bus Stop' is," he said flatly. That in itself could be useful information.

[freestyle_one]

Kate rolled her eyes a little at how he reacted to Dana's particular moniker in their conversations,

"Yeah...she's got a sick sense of humor", Kate agreed dryly. She took the pen and map, studying it briefly before uncapping the pen. She let the tip hover over the map as she tried to connection the marks on the map with the route she remembered from the ground.

Finally, she circled a small area on the opposite side of the water from old city.

"It's set up to look like a tourist office, explains all the comings and goings, you know. But that's just the front, most of it goes on on the basement level. It's just for dropoffs, reports and processing, deliveries get brought in through the back but it's so close to the docks the trucks blend right in, then they get ferried to the labratory headquarters here."

She drew a second red line, and connected it with a larger building deeper into the city.

[nikolat3sla]

It was certainly a system that made sense, one that would draw attention to themselves.

"If we go there with intent to save your unfortunate brother - what would you say Whitcomb's security detail is? If she is as high up as you say she is - she is not going to travel alone to meet a rouge operative like you..." That would be foolish and Nikola doubts that Ms Witcomb is foolish.

"I need to know how many people to bring..."

[freestyle_one]

Kate took a moment to think on it, "Bitch is smart but cocky as hell, couldn't be sure but when we used to meet in public..."

Kate quickly qualified, "Before all this, little assignments and stuff, she probably kept three or four plainclothes ops in the local crowd nearby, probably one sniper at a good vantage point. On her home turf...well, whatever security's already on site is probably going to be concentrated at the back. If we make it look good, like I'm going in totally alone, she'll probably only bother with one or two sharpshooters on the perimeter. We meet out front, make sure Thad's okay, someone takes out the snipers while a second unit starts making trouble at the back to draw away all excess security."

What? She knew how to strategize.

[nikolat3sla]

"The sharp shooters we can take out - more difficult will be dealing with what's inside the base. If she's got any brains at all you won't see your brother until she gets you down inside the facility..."

Which meant that they'd somehow need to follow her down...

"A scuffle on the surface won't draw out all the rats. You'll no doubt be left with several down there with you and your brother..."

[freestyle_one]

"If you take out the security at the back fast and quiet you can a team right in, play things right and Dana won't know the cavalry's there until it's too late. I can cover myself until then."

It was a risky plan, too many variables to even consider if it wasn't the only chance she might get.

[nikolat3sla]

"Morgana would be ideal... she can snap people's necks without needing to get close..." Not that he likes the idea of her killing people - but this is turning into a war. "We need another... Someone who isn't working for the Cabal, preferably..."

And that's what makes it so hard - they are surounded by new faces.

[freestyle_one]

"Ashley?" Kate suggested, they knew she certainly wasn't a plant, and the girl could kick some serious ass.