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Title: strategic automation
Author:abby82
Artist: pattrose
Fandom: La Femme Nikita (TV)
Characters/Pairings: Nikita/Michael, Nikita/Jurgen, Adrian
Rating/Category: NC-17/Het
Genre: Android AU
Word Count: 40,500
Warnings: Acts of physical violence and talk of suicidal tendencies.
Summary: Nikita, a young woman living on the streets, was falsely accused of a hideous crime and sentenced to life in prison. One day she was taken from her jail cell to a place called Section One, the most covert anti-terrorism unit on the planet. Her trainer for two years of rigorous intelligence training is the enigmatic Michael, seemingly emotionless, strict and ruthless. Despite his emotional unavailability, Nikita finds herself drawn to Michael. After a mission that almost ends in disaster, it is revealed to Nikita that Michael is not just Section One’s most accomplished operative. He is the result of a procedure called Strategic Automation, that extracts tissue from a real operative to create a perfect android duplicate. Michael is not human.

After a year as an active operative, the emotional toll is getting to Nikita and she refuses orders to kill an innocent. She is unknowingly sent on a suicide mission along with other expendable operatives. To her great surprise, she survives. Now Nikita finds herself free of Section One but faced with the reality that life in the real world will always involve her looking over her shoulder. Her discovery by the real Michael brings additional complications. What does Nikita value most, her new found freedom or the opportunity to infiltrate Section One and help reform the very organization that had been the source of so much trauma for her?



Link to fic master post: AO3

Link to art master post: AO3