Toll Road, Cesar, Yang and Gunner walked into the hangar and looked at Barney.

"What is it that Church wants from us"? asked Cesar.

"He wants us to recuperate something from a guy named CallumvSchleck. He's a German businessman".

"Ok", said Gunnar, "we go to Germany, find the guy, get what Church wants without causing any trouble and you get Charlie back".

Barney shook his head. "It's not going to be that easy. He wants us to recuperate a chip. And the chip is inside Schleck's arm".

"What's on the chip"? asked Toll Road.

"I have no idea, but I'd like to find out what's so important to Church that he'd trade Charlie for it"? said Barney.

"If he trades her", said Cesar.

Barney looked at Cesar but said nothing.

"Look, this is Church we're talking about, this guy has screwed us over more than once and I don't trust him".

"I know, let's hope that Lee can get her out of Church's reach before we need to hand that chip over".

"Have you heard from him today"? asked Gunnar.

"Yeah, a few minutes ago. Apparently, he made contact with Charlie, he's trying to find a way out".

"That's already a good sign", replied Gunnar.

"Let's get everything we can on this Schleck guy; where he lives, where he works, how he gets there and then we need to head over to Germany", said Barney as he sent a message to Lee.

The rest of the day, evening and next day were quite uneventful for Lee and Charlie. They hardly talked, which in the end was normal, but hard. Even if it wasn't to discuss their potential escape plan, being able to talk about anything would have been nice, but they couldn't take the chance to seem to close, if Church was watching.

After dinner, he led her down in front of the control room, winked at the guys as he passed, and headed for the back of the plane.

He opened a door and they both entered Church's chambers.

"God! This silence is killing me"!

Lee nodded. "I agree".

"Where are we"?

"Church's chambers and in case you're worried there are no cameras here".

"How do you know that"?

"The guys gave me this idea so that we could have a bit more intimacy. I told them the shower wasn't very comfortable".

Charlie smiled and his heart skipped a beat.

She sat down on Church's bed.

"What have you managed to find out"?

"Well, our team needs to retrieve a chip inside the arm of a German guy name Callum Schleck. Name ring a bell"?

"Callum Schleck? He's not German"!

"What do you mean? You know this guy"?

"Yeah of course. He's American, of course of German origin, but that's not important".

"Who is he Charlie"?

"He's a safe".

Lee blinked a couple of times. "A safe"?

"A safe is someone who works for the CIA and guards very valuable information so that it can't be found out through hacking systems".

"What kind of information"?

"The kind that could get all covert agents killed; their photograph, a list of their names, addresses, family members".

Lee sighed. "And with that kind of information, Church has enough leverage on either the CIA or the agents themselves to reel in the big money".

"That's not what worries me. Imagine if Church were to sell this kind of information to criminals around the world, operatives who are currently undercover could get made and killed".

Lee said nothing as he thought about what she was saying.

"My name is on that list". She paused for a second. "I'm getting the impression that the first chance he gets, Church will kill me. He'll use me as an example to sell this list, to show that's it's accurate and reliable".

Lee took a step closer to her and knelt in front of her. "I'm not going to let that happen".

He lifted her chin so that she looked at him. "I'm making you that promise, that I won't let anything happen to you".

She shook her head in disbelief. "Why? Would you even risk your life for me? And don't tell me that it's because it's what you do for a living".

How could he tell her the truth? How could he break it to her that her father was still alive? How could he reveal to her that ever since he had seen her on that screen in the hangar, he was attracted to her and that having spent the past three days with her, along with their shower moment, had only increased his feelings for her, his attraction for her?

"It's the job, it's what I do".

She stood. "Bullshit! Stay here if you want, but I'm going to sleep and remember I didn't ask for you to come and save me"!

She passed in front of him. He stood and grabbed her arm firmly and pinned her against the door.

"Let go of me"!

"You know this is becoming a bit of a habit, my needing to pin you up against walls and honestly, I've had enough".

"Then let me go"!

"You want to know why? I'll tell you why"!

He leaned his body in closer to hers.

"When I look at you, I feel things I've never felt before not for anyone. Your smile and the way you bite your lip when you're nervous or thinking, only makes me want to kiss you. The way you put a strand of hair behind your ear, revealing your neck so naturally and unconsciously makes me want to trail it down with my fingers. And yesterday, feeling your body against mine, your skin on mine, you have no idea how I had to refrain myself from making love to you"!

Charlie looked at him.

"And I'm afraid that what I feel for you is going to get you killed because my head is not where it should be".

"Lee, we're trapped on an airplane, Church isn't here. Right now, this is probably the safest place for me to be".

He let go of her arms.

"What are you saying"?

"I trust you", she said as she placed her hand on her cheek.

She was right. There and then, she was safe, and he could let his guard down without putting her in jeopardy.

He placed his hand firmly on her back and pulled her into his body. He settled the other hand on the side of her neck and drew her face to his, their eyes locking and never straying as their lips touched. At first it was delicate but very quickly, their kissing grew into fiery passion.

She placed her hands on the back of his neck, letting him know she wanted more. As the day before, in the shower, his tongue found hers and an electric current through his body.

He pulled away and grabbed the hem of her blouse and lifted it over her head, tossing it to the floor. He kissed her neck and worked his way down to her cleavage, as he agilely unhooked her bra. He lowered the straps from her shoulders and arms and let it fall to the floor. He looked at her, this time he could; he could take the time to discover every inch her body offered to him. His lips took their time on her breasts as she shivered in extasy. His mouth cupped her breasts and teased her hardening nipples, first with his tongue than with his teeth.

He put his hands on her buttocks and lifted her so that she was straddling him. They resumed kissing as he walked over towards the bed. He laid her gently down on it and stood at the end of the bed. He removed her jeans and looked at her, she looked amazing half-naked, wearing a white thong, that contrasted with Church's black satin sheets. He stripped off all his clothes and placed himself at the bottom of the bed, letting his hands caress her legs, slowly moving upwards. His fingers curled themselves at the edge of her thong and he slid it slowly down her legs, to her feet and off completely.

She was breathing heavily, and her eyes closed as his mouth found her fold and with every stroke of his tongue, she felt closer and closer to the edge of rapture. He knew it and continued, wanting to give her as much pleasure as possible. Her moaning increased, her hands grabbed the sheets and she arched her back, letting the orgasm invade her body and accepting it wholly, abandoning herself to him.

She let his hands and fingers caress her body as she recovered. When he least expected it, she grabbed his shoulders and flipped him over, straddling him. She caressed his muscular chest before sliding her body down lower. She placed her hand and stroked him before taking him in her mouth. He closed his eyes as her hand, mouth and tongue worked on him with such craving that nothing mattered anymore aside from them.

He placed his hands on her arms and pulled her to him as they looked in each other's eyes. He penetrated her and she exhaled giving a slight moan of pleasure. Straddled on him, her hands resting steadily on his chest, she answered and echoed his every pelvic thrust, feeling it rise inside of her like a volcano under pressure, waiting to explode. She had never felt that with any other man before and it was overwhelming. The simple touch of him on her body, in her body, was enough to make her lose control of all her inhibitions.

In one brisk move, he flipped her on to her back. He took her hands and brought them to the side of her face as he intertwined his fingers in hers. He resumed his coming and going, his eyes riveted on hers, wanting to see the pleasure and orgasm build up inside of her.

"Lee"! she screamed as her body shuddered under his.

It was enough to send him past the breaking point and he joined her in one last thrust.

"Charlie", he whispered as he let his forehead touch hers and kissed her.

He placed himself next to her and pulled her in so that her head rested on his chest.

He had known many women, had had sex with many of them and never had he felt so much pleasure nor so connected with anyone before. This is what it should have been like all these years and he had missed out on it and he wanted nothing more than to feel this for the rest of his life.

"Where the hell have you been all this time"? he asked thinking out loud as he caressed her back.

"Waiting", she simply replied knowing exactly what he meant and that she could have asked him the same question.

In the perfectness of the moment, in their safe cocoon, they fell asleep not knowing that within 24 hours all of this would be put to the test.