[spoilers] 8.8 - Chapter 8

[almh]

Oooh, nearly the end! Only one more chapter to go, which will be up tomorrow hopefully. This fic has sort of overrun - it's meant to be part of my Spooks Fic for a Year challenge, and the next one should be up today... Still, never mind, I'll have a bit of overlap. The Mace Chapter!!!

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The three of them sat down at the table. Mace, Sarah, and the other man.

"So, to start this meeting," Mace said firmly.

"There are only three of us, this can hardly count as a meeting. What happened to Sholto?" Sarah asked.

"Sholto?" Mace asked. "Oh, he got called back to Switzerland."

"Are we going to go back as well?" the man asked. "The mice are hardly going to let us carry on with our plans, they've foiled most of them so far -"

"If you are referring to the Muslim and Hindu twin attacks then that is only one operation. We have succeeded in removing both the Home Secretary and Ruth Evershed -"

"Section D won't take it well," Sarah pointed out.

"They're going to be out to get us, it won't take them long to figure out who is behind this. Ruth had just figured it out, they will be looking back through her work to see if she's left a hint behind, and if she has -"

"You removed the file?" Mace asked.

"-Yes but -"

"No yes buts. No one else would have known our identities, the only person who knew has since died, and the trail of information stopped at Miss Evershed -"

"Oh really?" another voice asked. The three turned round to see three intruders to their gathering standing in the doorway, guns pointed out. "Put your hands in the air," Ros said calmly, "And you're less likely to get hurt."

The three slowly put their hands up. "Well well this was unexpected," Mace said normally.

"You know what is even more unexpected?" Lucas asked. "What's more unexpected is seeing you hear, Daniel." The man stared at Lucas. "We managed to get an ID on you from your call to Mace here. Daniel Manzanedo, Spanish Intelligence -"

"Previous undercover operations include work in the Iranian Embassy and more recently 18 months in Cyprus," Ros said cooly. "I believe you met a friend of ours there."

"I don't know what you're talking about -"

"Does the name George ring a bell? George, with a son called Nico." Ros answered. "Was he even your son? Or was it just an operation?" She stared at Mace. "You found where Ruth was, and decided to set a honey trap for her. Just in case it came in useful. I'm guessing then that you were in on her attempted kidnap, along with Mani, in search for the uranium. Daniel's death would have been faked, and you all slipped under the covers. Then Ruth got too close to the truth, perhaps someone sent her some information explaining your role in it, and she went to meet them, and found out that she had been set up again by you," she glared at Mace. "So she went to go sort herself out, and when we're trying to talk to her you shoot her. You either tailed her or you tailed us to make sure that she couldn't pass any information on to us."

"Very good," Mace said. "Very good Miss Myers." He took a step forward, and the team pointed their guns at him. Daniel took his chance and ran forward, grabbing Lucas's wrist and taking the gun off him. Sarah and Mace grabbed guns from their belts and pointed them at each member of the team.

"Put your guns down," Mace said slowly. The members of Section D looked at each other, and simultaneously Lucas attempted to get free of his holder, and the other two aimed shots at Sarah and Mace.

"SHOOT HIM!" Mace yelled to Sarah, who stood with a clear shot of Lucas. Sarah looked at Mace, then back at Lucas. "SHOOT HIM OR ELSE I WILL KILL YOU." She turned to Lucas and held up the gun with shaking hands and pulled the trigger.

Lucas fell to the ground, and managed to grab hold of the gun off Daniel, pointing it at his chest. He heard a groan from Mace as a bullet hit its spot and Lucas aimed the gun backwards, pointing the gun at random and firing bullets to give him some cover. He heard another person fall to the ground. He turned around. Both Sarah and Mace were on the floor. He allowed his breathing to slow. That was the moment he realised that Sarah's bullet. That was the moment he realised he was alive. That was the moment when he realised he had heard someone else fall to the ground.

He turned his head slightly to the side, not releasing his hold on Daniel, and saw a familiar blond lying on the floor. Harry had already made his way over, trying his best to stop the bleeding. Lucas took off his belt with one hand and some how managed to put it round Daniel's hands. He wasn't entirely sure how he did it, he just knew he had to get to Ros as soon as possible. Once Daniel was secure he ran over to Ros, bringing out his mobile as well.

"Tariq? We need an ambulance now, we're at Mace's house," he said quickly, and hung up. Ros smiled weakly up at them both.

"You're going to be fine Ros," Harry said firmly. Lucas noticed his hands were shaking. Obviously what Harry said wasn't necessarily what he believed.

"Tis but a scratch," she whispered, smiling.

"Romeo and Juliet," Lucas answered.

"You make sure... you make sure Ruth is alright. Promise me," she whispered. "Both of you."

"I promise," they said quietly one after the other. She weakly smiled as they both said it. The ambulance arrived five minutes later but it was too late. Ros had allowed herself to close her eyes and drift away.

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Yes, Ros is dead. Just to confirm, because I got a review saying that Ros should now go and get Mace after this chapter. A little confused by that.

[JHyde]

It's so exciting getting to read this a few minutes before everyone else!

Really great almh and I'm hoping we'll see an HR reunion in the next? Maybe?

[almh]

Lol! A few minutes! It makes all the difference. Let me guess if I don't put a reunion you won't upload it on here?

[JHyde]

Not at all. We're at your mercy. I know whatever you write it will be wonderful. I thought this particular fan fic chapter effort deserved a +rep

[Beatriz]

That's great almh, I was going to give you a +rep for this story, too.
I want to know how it eeeends!!! Yes, please a HR reunion!!!!

[almh]

Oh wow thank you!

Yes, of course you are all at my mercy But to make up for this, I am writing some HR fluff soon

[Beatriz]

Ups that's evilish hahaha You're enjoying with this story in chapters and making us waiting for the next one

YAY for the HR!

[almh]

Erm... partly. It's actually more that I haven't written the next chapter that you're having to wait - my head now has two stories in and I'm trying to unmeld them into this story and the story for this week...

[lwhite53]

Please tell me that Mace is dead, too?????

Definitely need an H/R reunion next ep.

Yeah, almh, you go girl!