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Series Five - Ghost

Alright so the last full chapter I wrote for REM begins with Inika burning all the shit she has that reminds her of Ollie and moving out to Myshuno.

Cause fuck him, am I right? 

Levi sets her up in a new much nicer apartment in the city but the level of luxury is more than she’s used to. 

Then they get right to business. Levi has people tracking and doing research on Olin but a lot of the details seem suspect. 

They then discuss the event in question, taking Inika back to the day they were arrested. Inika just happened to be in his dorm room and had nothing to do with what Olin had done. 

He was not happy they were taking her in too. 

So he frees himself once they are in open air and tries to help Inika escape. 

Inika notes that she felt as though he thought if he could get her far enough away they’d stop chasing her and put all the focus on him. Unfortunately they were quickly surrounded on all sides and Nika was running out of energy. 

Author’s note: 

So I meant to put in this chapter or the next one that they end up getting caught because Olin puts Inika in a place he thinks she’ll be safe only for her to get immediately caught and taken back to the station. Olin agrees to turn himself in and explain everything if they agree to let her go. 

Anyway... back to what was actually in the chapter. Levi says it’s strange that he’s not in lockdown because blowing up a statue on a crowded university campus should warrant some serious charges. So as he understands it only one of two things happened. 

He cleaned up his act. 

Or he was recruited by an Agency. Inika disagrees with the latter assessment quite strongly. 

Eager to get back to work after weeks of leave, Inika heads out to her warehouse to meet up with her boys. 

She is weighed down by the stress of what she and Levi talked about though. While she was gone her team has been tracking Olin. They.. find the work rather boring. 

Inika explains that they’d be surprised by what the quiet ones hide. 

Then goes outside for a smoke. 

Outside in the relative quiet of the city night Inika begins to feel paranoid that she is being watched. 

That perhaps Olin might see fit to toss her out into space like Rachel once he finds out how high up she is in Idealogix. 

Her anxiety was not exactly misplaced. Olin was watching her and snagged her off the street before she could say much of anything. 

Arriving in a bathroom Inika is miffed it wasn’t somewhere nicer but mildly grateful. Olin explains she’s going to be sick soon and doesn’t want it on his furniture. 

After recovering from the trip Nika walks out of the bathroom to find herself in a rather nice space. 

And is pretty annoyed Ollie never brought her there before. 

He explains he only brought her here because it’s off world and it’d be extremely hard for Levi to track her there. Nigh impossible in fact. Then states the reason she got sick is because he pulled her through time and space and humans aren’t really equipped to handle that sort of thing. He then tells her he’ll be keeping here there for the time being. 

She accuses of kidnapping her, which he doesn’t dismiss saying that she’s probably already given up a lot of information on him to her boss. Then Inika asks if she’ll just be sitting around doing nothing until he sees fit to let her go. To which he simply says. 

Olin then uses Inika’s phone to reach out to Levi, telling him to leave he and his family alone. 

Or he’ll have to come after him. After he finishes his business he lets Nika down and in a fury she asks if he is an agent. 

“I just don’t understand how the mug shot is there but nothing about that arrest is listed.” To Inika it seemed like an obvious flag to anyone who would want to audit the records that something was amiss. Even if the Yagers had the charges cleared there’d be a paper trail of lawyer bullshit all the way through.

“Well… they do have a couple things.” Levi admitted after a few moments of silent skimming,  “There is an assault on an officer here that was eventually dropped.” 

In the meantime life carried on. Levi had allowed her some time to collect herself but had made the prudent suggestion that perhaps a change of scene would do her some good. She’d always made a point to live far from Myshuno. She wanted to avoid letting her work flood into what personal life she managed to eke out between assignments. Oasis had been a sanctuary of the privacy she liked to keep for herself but now that all didn’t seem to matter. It was all a wash. 

“So, what do you think?!” The Boss always lit up at the sight of even the slightest bit of luxury, “Absolutely fantastic right?” 

Inika wasn’t exactly sure it was a fit for her though, “Seems like a bit much to me.” 

“You say that now, but just wait until you get used to it.” He replied with a sly grin. It wasn’t often that she got to see this side of him since they mostly met at the office where annoyances were in abundance. So for the moment anyway it seemed like it’d be wise to give in to his good humor. 

“You’re right Boss, it’s perfect.” She relented as genuinely as she could muster. The thought of having to clean such a large space still weighing heavily on her mind.

“So you ready for the rundown? Or do you want to settle in first?” And just like that Levi’s mood turned faster than fall weather off The Bay. 

“Ugh… just tell me.” Inika sighed as she tossed her bag aside. 

“There’s good news and there’s bad news and unfortunately they happen to be one and the same. Turns out your little blue boytoy is clean. Like unbelievably clean.” 

“I’m sorry that’s just not possible.” Inika tried to bury her defensive tone as her mind took her back to somewhat simpler times, “There has to be some record.” 

“Oh there’s a fucking record but it’s all delinquent shit.”  Hansen exclaimed in clear frustration, “Destruction of public property, trespassing… but nothing about that damn terrorism charge.” 

“But I was fucking there Levi, I was in the room when he was arrested.”

“And naturally when you run,” The Boss had a bit of a chuckle to his tone. “You’re resisting.” 

“Honestly I believe he thought that if he could get me out of there, they’d leave me alone.” Inika explained further. She knew now of course his efforts had been in vain, just her being there evidently made her guilty of something. “He was the one they really wanted.” 

“Chivalrous motherfucker.” 

“All that considered, this shit is shiny and when you add in his habits there’s only one of two things going on.” Levi’s eyes turned grim as he began, “First, he changed his ways. Decided he got a lucky break, cleaned up his shit, and the system went easy on him. Second and by far more likely based on the evidence: the government got him.” 

“There’s no way Levi,” Inika replied dismissively. She almost let out a full bodied laugh at the thought of that. Olin? A government man? “He can’t even take friendly advice with a hint of grace. That level of authority would chafe him to the core.” 

“Listen sir.. I... I know this shit sounds bad but it really isn’t! Estra was low to no contact with her family for at least a couple years! It’s perfectly normal for her to run off, I’m sure she’ll...” 

“Turn up somewhere with my fucking idiot son?  Oh yes that would be fucking great. Minor member of the family indeed, that was one of the worst fucking options. Her dad is totally not the type to overreact and think he kidnapped her. Let’s not forget that little shit had almost five years of military training in boarding school before college and definitely could do that if he had a strong enough drive. Not saying he would... but... less than rational minds may jump to some conclusions.”

“Wait what no... I thought...” 

“Wait... you said four days ago?” 

“Roughly.. why?” 

“I had a visit from Yager men when I was still at home - they weren’t there for me... they were there for someone I was with. Someone she.. had a relationship with. Seems one of theirs went missing around then too.” 

“You had intel like this and you didn’t tell immediately?” 

“Didn’t seem important at the time. She’s just a minor member of the family.” 

“Any information about those assholes is important and how minor are we talking? One of Frankie’s? Or Leith’s air-headed youngest? She frankly seems like the type to lose her way in a crowd...”