[i] "You didn't have to kill him though..." Riley told him, "Would you lay down with me? Please." [/i]

Alex sat down beside her on the bed first, wanting to explain something. "I did, Riley." Alex paused, "One of us had to die, I know it sounds... Rough. It's unfair of course." He began, removing his hands from his pockets gesturing with them in a pleading manner. "[b]Oliver[/b] came after me. To [b]kill[/b] me if I wouldn't go back with him to be 'reprogrammed' and turned into something where I would have killed a lot more people. Foreign politicians and soldiers, even politicians on the homeland, here." He remembered something that Archer had explained to him, the assassin who killed an American politician recently was someone like Alex, a 276 series, a more advanced version of those like Alex and Josh.

He removed his jacket and lay down beside her his skin was warm but around the abdominal area still stained in blood. He put one arm around Riley as he turned on his side.