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In this story, Lizzie is one of the most wanted criminals and Red is an FBI agent.

Alternative Universe!

I know that there are other fics with this topic, but I wanted to write my own version.

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Elizabeth Keen was sitting in an interrogation room, her wrists were in shackles that were bolted to the table and her ankles were cuffed, too.

The FBI had caught her after being on the run and living in the shadows for eight years. Although she was a woman, she was no. 5 of the FBI's most wanted list. She was great at manipulating people, making them do whatever she wanted, and especially making them do things they didn't want to do. She knew how to hide her feelings and put on a mask. She was famous and feared in the criminal world because the police had only chased her ghost for so many years.

Today, however, the FBI had taken her down in Washington. She had known it was a bad idea to show up there, but she had business that couldn't be done anywhere else. Her client had insisted on meeting in Washington and because she wanted to keep her good connections to him and the people he called his 'associates', she had followed his wish to meet there.

Liz, how her few close friends called her, had just left the building where the meeting had taken place when a task force of the FBI took her into custody, handcuffed her and pushed her into a van and now, she was sitting in front of an agent who was very well known in the criminal world. He was feared and almost respected because he seemed to have an insight and an understanding of the criminal mind. Everyone who had been interrogated by him had confessed.

He was a master of breaking someone's will and making them spill out all their secrets either by just questioning them or by using more illegal ways of extracting information. He didn't shy away from breaking a few laws to get a confession and in fact, it was an open secret that the FBI used some not-by-the-book techniques during an interrogation.

Elizabeth was cold and reckless, there was no one who could make her give in. The agent sitting at the other side of the table bored his green eyes into her blue ones, his gaze was in fact intimidating, but she wouldn't show fear. Never. Not even when the FBI's most feared agent would interrogate her for hours and days.

His name was Special Agent Raymond Reddington.

Elizabeth's palms lay flat on the table because the cold metal that chained her wrists to it didn't allow a movement. If she would try really hard, she could twist her hand around, but she didn't want him to see her scar. That was her only weakness: people seeing the huge scar on her right wrist and palm. She didn't want to be asked about it, let alone explain how it happened or even let other people touch it.

xxxxx 1 hour earlier:

The agents Ressler, Reddington, Navabi, Mojtabai and their boss Cooper were standing behind the one-way glass wall of the interrogation room and watched Elizabeth Keen sitting at the table.

She didn't look uncomfortable in the least, she seemed self-confident, too sure of herself and a little impatient.

"She looks as if nothing could harm her, so strong, so confident. You'll have a hard time getting anything out of her, Reddington." said Ressler.

"Oh, I will. Look, she's uneasy. She's only putting on a mask, because deep inside, she's only a scared little girl. She may not know it, but she isn't as strong as she thinks." Reddington replied, his eyes completely focused on her.

"How can you tell she's uneasy?"

"She is rubbing her cuffed ankles together, she's biting her lips from time to time and there's something off about her right hand. She's glancing down at it and if she wouldn't be restrained, I bet she would touch it. It will be fun to make her talk."

Hm...when I cuffed her to the table, I didn't notice anything odd. Ressler thought.

"We will let her wait for another half hour and then you go in." said Cooper, looking at the fugitive his team had finally tracked down after so many years. She was the key to numerous other criminals but it would be hard to get any information out of her. "This might take days. From now on, your only task is making Elizabeth Keen talk." he told Reddington.

"I'm looking forward to it." he grinned.

"And don't be too easy on her."

"Why would I be easy on her? Because she's a woman?"

"Yes, that's what I mean. We need this confession, no matter how you do it. Don't disappoint me."

"No, Sir. I won't. Let me deal with her, I know how to break people's minds. Even if it takes days, I won't let her hide anything from us."

"Good. We will focus on the case we have right now, and you will go in there."

xxxxx present time:

Elizabeth heard the door open, she looked up and saw a man in his mid fifties in an expensive suit sit down in front of her. She knew who he was and looked up and down at him. She couldn't help licking over her lips.

"Hello, Elizabeth. I'm Special Agent Raymond Reddington."

No answer. She looked him in the eyes and smiled coldly.

He put a bottle of water with a straw in it on the table so that she could drink without moving her hands. She knew that drinking like this would look stupid, but that obviously was the purpose. Agent Reddington himself drank tea, then spoke again.

"I take it you knew me, anyway. Since you don't seem willing to talk, how about we spend an hour or two in silence. I have time."

They stared into each other's eyes for an eternity. Elizabeth glanced at her right hand from time to time, fully aware that he noticed it, but he didn't say a word. Occasionally, he followed her eyes to her hand, raising an eyebrow. He rested his arms on his elbows and put both hands under his chin, watching her and observing every little reaction.

His jacket was placed over the chair and two buttons of his white shirt were undone. She caught herself staring at his lips for a few seconds, then drew her attention back to his eyes. He looked at her like a lion watching his prey, but she held his gaze. His silence made her angry, but she was too stubborn to talk, she had imagined this differently. She had thought he would ask questions and she would be the one who would drive him insane by refusing to talk. She once again bit her lips and looked down to her right hand.

He grinned and raised an eyebrow, he knew he had her. Elizabeth would have done anything for the possibility to stroke the scar he didn't know about, there were a few tears of anger burning in her eyes and then she couldn't hold his dangerous gaze anymore. She looked down to the table for a few moments and closed her eyes. Suddenly, she felt his hand under her chin, forcing her to look at him. It felt gentle, but strong; affectionate, but dominant. Cold and calculated. She already hated him, and most of all, she hated herself for being attracted to him.

He obviously knew what was going on behind those piercing blue eyes of hers and he smiled, not removing his fingers from her chin, no, even daring to tickle her gently below it to make her more furious. Damn, his fingers felt so soft...no, she shouldn't think that. Definitely not.

She looked aside to make him let go of her, but he cupped her jaw and shook his head slightly, telling her not to look away again. She wanted to yell at him, slap him, punch him, shoot him, but the shackles around her wrists held her back and due to the chains around her ankles, she couldn't even kick him. Her anger was overwhelming her and she felt hot tears running down her cheeks. The way he just smugly grinned at her made her blush in both anger and embarrassment. She knew she either had to hold his gaze or to start talking. She decided not to talk.

Step one: make her more uneasy and angry than she was before. Agent Reddington thought and sipped his tea. He didn't care how long it would take to make her talk, he liked his job and God knew he was the best agent of the whole FBI when it came to interrogations.

Elizabeth was tough, normally she stayed calm under pressure, but soon, probably sooner than she thought, she would give in.

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