Alex had expected him to at the very least be polite about the phone. Really, she'd expected him to the happy about it.

"Come on," she said with a smile. "Don't you wanna talk to me whenever you want? It's not really like being a spy, it's..." She almost said 'fun' in the hopes of convincing him that it was more like playing at spies than actually being spies, but stopped herself. She could practically hear Nikita's voice, shouting in the back of her mind, that this wasn't a game. "It's just a way to keep in touch," she said, more seriously, after a pause.