The cop car that came out of nowhere did not surprise him. His car and the one that was chasing him were running through rush hour traffic at break neck speeds. Ivan cursed again though under his breath as he turned trying to miss the cop car as it swerved out of the way at the last minute. Ivan turned another street and him and his pursuer lost the cops again as they had done three times already. The helicopter that had been after them as well had already lost to the car that was chasing him when one of the men in the car had blown it to bits with a rocket launcher, the cops had backed off then. This chase had been going on too long already.

Ivan looked down at his left leg where blood was still pouring out and sighed as he tried to move it and see if he could feel any movement at all. The leg was going numb and his head was getting slightly heavy from the blood loss. Ivan turned down another street and the car behind him dropped back a little bit. Ivan wasn't sure what this meant and then it happened. His car rolled over the tacks that the police had planted and then the men following him were jumping out of their car to get him on foot.

They wouldn't allow the cops to take him; if the cops got him then they wouldn't be able to reach him. Also Ivan knew that he couldn't let the cops take him in, if the cops took him in then his cover would definitely be blown for good. Right now it was only a few men within the organization that knew who he really was, if he went in with the cops and still managed to get back all of them would know. Ivan jumped out of the car and checked his holster for his gun drawing it. HE turned just as one of the men approached and fired hitting the man in the face with the shot.

Ivan moved as quickly as he could with an injured leg and headed up a set of steps leading to a small community garden of some type. They were in a subdivision of some kind, a very nice planned community. Ivan hobbled along well aware that two guys still chased after him. He could hear the two men both shouting at each other their guns drawn as he fell to the ground behind one of the garden's fences and waited. The two men moved off from one another, one of them going one way and the other one heading the other. Ivan watched as one of the men headed towards him then he moved pouncing on the man and pushing the barrel of his gun into his gut firing twice before the man grunted against him and died.

Ivan looked up standing slowly as he tried to find the third man. He cursed when he heard the gun click behind him. "Your time is up Scott Stone and I think you know it." Ivan slowly raised his hands up dropping his gun to the ground. The clanking sound of it hitting the ground was not a welcoming sound at all. The man spit on the ground, probably spitting blood from the brawl before the chase and said, "Turn around." Ivan slowly turned and the man smiled showing one missing tooth and said, "The boss is going to have an interesting time when you tell him who you really are."

This man, this idiot had made one fatal mistake. Ivan smiled and then faster than a trigger could be pulled his hand gripped onto the gun and pushed it up into the air. A bullet fired straight up into the sky and then the gun was in Ivan's hand before the man could even blink. Ivan smiled and fired shooting a bullet straight through the man's eye. The man fell down dead and as he did the sound of sirens could be heard. Ivan sighed putting the gun down and watched as the cops arrived. He wasn't going to run this time, his bosses wouldn't like that.

*

Ivan sat back on the bed he was laying in at the hospital one of his hands was cuffed to the side of the bed. His leg had been checked over and the wound was closed over now and tied together, the bullet had passed cleanly through it, he had also gotten stitches to keep the wound closed. It would hurt like a bitch for a while but he would live. He looked up when the door opened and clanged his chair down as one of the local cops walked in and tossed him the keys to the cuffs that were around his wrists. "You damned FBI people sure think you got all these rights."

Ivan undid the cuffs and said, "Its simple, really it is, those three were going to make me to their boss. Their boss is a huge man within the Russian mafia who is trafficking more than just drugs onto US soil that means that the FBI has a job to protect the nation and all of its people from this man, which means that I have to go under cover."

The cop shook his head and said, "Whatever you're free to go, I'd like it very much if you get out of my precinct and never come back. Now we got three dead bodies and two cars to explain to the damned press." He walked out of the room. Ivan collected his things and was about to get a taxi when his cell rang.

"Yeah."

"Ivan its Richard, listen Assistant Director Allen's wants to see you right away." Ivan cursed but hung up his phone after agreeing to head that way instead of heading back to his under cover position. He got a taxi to take him back downtown and arrived at the FBI offices in Miami within a few minutes. He walked into the offices and headed into his boss's office sitting at a seat on one side of the desk.

Ivan had always been a good looking man, even now in his late thirties he was still very good looking. He had dark brown eyes and sandy blonde hair. Ivan was tall and well built; he kept in shape for his job as well. He had a scar under one of his eyes that he had gotten in childhood and it had added a rough appearance to his otherwise handsome face. As he sat A.D. Allen's opened up a file and said, "The case dealing with Rusknoff is closed at least for you it is."

Ivan shook his head and said, "What do you mean, it's not closed yet. I still have to find out how he is running. . ."

A.D. Allen's held up his hand and Ivan went quiet as the man continued, "We have another agent in undercover as well and he has managed to get in further than you have within a less amount of time."

"Only because Rusknoff's men have already made him!"

Allen's shook his head, "even if they have he is in closer and we already know most everything we need to know. I am taking you off of this case Walters."

Ivan sighed and said, "Is it because of what happened today?"

"Not directly no, this came across my desk a few hours ago and I have been trying to figure it out for a few hours. This is your new case if you want to consider it that." HE passed over a file and Ivan opened it looking at it. He looked back up his eyes a little wide as Allen's nodded and said, "Yes you read it right."

Ivan shook his head and said, "Who did it?"

"That we don't know, but we know who they were working for at least. It appears that Agent Carter was caught unaware and now I seriously doubt there is any hope that she will come out of the coma. Whatever it is its dangerous and we are afraid that the little girl that was in her care is the only one who knows the whole story. She is in great danger and could be dangerous herself, that's all I really know. Someone wants her dead and will do anything to achieve it. I need you to protect her and find out who is after her as well."

Ivan nodded and said, "I can do that sir. Where do I need to go?" ......(cont)