-The door's open !

-C'mon ! They're over there !

The Fireblade Elite entered in the apartment were the gang was standing around their hostage, a poor man, bound on a chair, with a cloth bag on his head. Noah charged his gun and rushed over one man who tried to shoot him while Kenneth and April were trying to catch the attention of four other men to allow Emily to save the hostage. She tried to untie her hands behind his back, the man did not seem to do anything. Noah luckily shoot down one of them, April simply threw two of them on the ground by kicking them in their heads with her twin guns. Kenneth, on his side, blocked one guy on the ground, tying him on the radiator while the last guy was runing on Emily, on her knees, and the hostage. Emily urged wake up and pointed her gun on his leg and shoot. The bullet went through his right leg, he fell on the ground screaming. Keneth tied him on a tube where the two men April kicked were already bount. Noah rang the central police of New York City to come and take them.

-Five guys. 15th Building of Lane Street, 8th roof, 4th apartment. You'll see that the door is actually ruined.

-Received. How about the hostage ?

-We're leaving him to you.

-Right. We're coming right now.

April watched over the apartment. It was full of garbage. The ground was dirty, empty packets of pills and drugs with seringes were on the ground, the sofa's cover was torn in many ways, the lights were leaning on the ground, broken. On a pill of pornographic magazines was placed a small wallet containing several full seringes filled with liquid sedatives. Kenneth closed the wallet and hold it in his hand, while Emily was trying to untie the hostage still having the bag on his head. He wasn't moving.

-Full of drugs. Kenneth said, showing the wallet, They surely drugged this poor guy.

-I guess that it's a perfect crash pad for addicts. she said, storing her guns in their holsters

-Disgusting. Noah said while stomping on a pill on the ground, I guess they're not living there, did they ?

Emily finaly succeded to untie the man bount on the chair, but refused to get the bag off of his head due to the thing that he was not moving. In a sigh, she untied her purple hair and looked at the hostage a little while. She turned her head to Keneth and said :

-He's not able to move. the woman answered, You're right, they drugged him to this point.

-Get the bag off his head.

The woman got the bag away and looked at the face of the man sitting in front of her. He was perhaps in his thirties, his eyes were half open. He had a black eye and a small wound on his right cheek, nosebleeding. He was surely hard to snatch, because of all wounds covered him whole body, and his clothing which was torn in many parts. The man turned his eyes to Emily and closed him, slowly breathing. Emily noticed a small identity card getting out from a pocket of his sweater and said :

- " Ethan Blake ", that's his name.

-Fine. Noah said, We should let him here, he will be safer it the police brings him.

-No way, we can't leave him like that !

-The police has got things that we don't have. They can cure him.

-Are you gonna leave a poor guy who is not even able to move a thinger ? Are you gonna leave a man who is wounded in this place ? We can't do that, it's not human.

April nodded and turned her head to Kenneth. As the chief of the Fireblade Elite, he had to take the decision. Emily was a bit right in her opinion, they were not able to leave a man in this apartment with those guys who wanted to kill him some hours before, surounded by drugs and seringes, but he was not able to walk. The life of the hostage was much more important than anything, even if the hostage was not able to move any poart of his body.

-Emily, Kenneth started, If we bring this guy to the place where we're working, he will be a part of us. A part of the Fireblade Elite, and he'll be under your responsability.

-Wh... what ?! Who the hell invented this rule ?! Emily shouted

-It's a rule of the Black Cloaks, dear. If he you bring him to our place, he's gonna be a member of our Elite, and that's over. I just want to know if you're able to be responsible.

Emily turned her head at Ethan and sighed. She then looked at Kenneth and nodded, accepting the rules. Ethan would be under her care for a while, it was the best thing she would do. Save a man or leave him to another people, leaving him alone. Keneth said :

-Noah, call the police. We're taking the hostage with us.

-Ken', tell me that you're not serious ! Noah argued, He's slow, he can't walk, and we better head away from here !

-Don't contest my orders. He'll be safer with us.

April walked to Ethan and Emily and held the man under his shoulder so he would stand up. They were pretty small, Ethan was too tall for them. Noah called the main police center to tell them that the hostage was actually a part of their services and they had to bring him back to their place. Kenneth came closer to Ethan and helped him to walk bitterly to their car in the underground parking lot. He placed Ethan between Emily and April, the man was not even able to talk. On their way back to the district of their Elite's place, Noah turned his himself back from the frontseat and stared at Emily :

-I hope that you know the consequences of what you're actually doing.

-Oh, do you prefer to leave a random guy alone among his abductors ? Emily asked with an exagerated childlish voice

-You don't even know him. He's probably not able to shoot with a gun without screaming like a kid.

-Damnit guys, shut up already. April said, You're like kids whinning on a toy.

-We're taking a random man in our elite. He's maybe not be able to do anything by himself, he's maybe not be able to shoot, not able to work, but that's ok. That's nothing. We're supposed to be the super Elite of the Black Cloaks, and there we got a guy who's not able to manipulate a gun. How could it be worse ? No idea.

Kenneth sighed. Noah turned himself to the road, Emily kept staring at him, defending her own opinion. April was fine with Emily, she had the same mind as her. The protection of the hostage was the best thing they could do. Ethan opened his eyes, trying to pronounce a word, but noone heard him. He was able to understand everything which was around him, he wanted to protest, but his mind was lost somewhere. He closed his eyes once again and fainted. Noah kept talking about the Elite most of the ride. At some point, he was right. The Fireblade Elite was the best group of the Black Cloaks. They were able to do many things at one time, members of this elite were called " Multi-function guys ". Noone in their group knew Ethan, all of them were doubt toward him.

As soon as they arrived, Kenneth chose to bring Ethan to the waiting room where he would lay on a sofa next to April while he would talk to Emily in private. As April sat on a couch next with the sofa where Ethan was lying. She covered his shoulders by her oversized jacket when Luna and Andrea, two colleagues, entered and gasped as they saw the tall man on it :

-Who's that guy ? Andrea asked

-A guy Emily brought up to be a member of our elite. Noah harshly answered, taking a beer from the fridge

-He's broken in many pieces, isn't it ? Luna muttered, It's like he fainted.

-Surely. April said, I'm impatient to hear what will the boss say to Emily about him. How's my brother ?

-Bradley is at his school right now.

Bradley was the youngest member of the Fireblade Elite. He was only 9 years old when he entered in, because April and him had to move away from their house because of an abusing father. Bradley was always living around the slum with his sister, and he never had the right to enter in the local of Fireblade before his 15th birthday. Bradley was a normal teen with a strong ability to build his own machines and make his own video games while having some good grades in sports do to his physicall abilities. Bradley was never sent in missions. He was too young for it, and was always waiting to go to check how it was to be away for a crime.

Back in the conference room, Joshua Fisher, the president of the whole Black Cloaks elites was there to give his own opinion on Ethan's presence in the domain. The waiting room was able to be seen by the window separating the conference room from it. The boss was staring at Ethan while Emily and Kenneth were next to the table. Kenneth was holding a beer while the woman was sighing. Fisher stood up next to Emily and said :

-So you brought this guy over there. Did you know him before today ?

-No sir. Emily answered, crossing her arms

-Have you even prepared yourself to endure the consequences of your actions ? You know, if he's here, he'll be under your care. You'll have to teach him what you know. And he's going to live in your apartment.

-Wait... What ? Kenneth ! That's not what you told me !

-Your apartment has got two rooms. Since you kicked your ex from it I guess that you can make your new coworker live in the living room, right ?

Emily clenched her fists and stared at Kenneth. The afro-american guy smiled to her as if he planned everything. Kenneth simply crossed his arms in a sigh while smiling at Emily, hardly keeping himself from laughing at the situation. His little smirk made Emily feel even more nervous about the situation. Her apartment was a mess, she did not want to have any room-mate to make the situation be even more difficult. Fisher crossed his hands on his back and simply left a sigh :

-From now on, this guy is going to live in your apartment.

-'Right, fine. Emily answered

-Kenneth, help her to carry the guy to her apartment. Emily, you're going to keep an eye on him until he's awake. Discution is over.

Both members of the Fireblade went out from the conference room. The other members looked at them. They were interest to hear what was their boss' decision toward the presence of a new unknown member in their domain. Noah was the one who was actually waiting for a bad answer. He was Emily's childhood friend, they got separated when Emily moved from the suburbs to the city itself and then had the right to see each other when she entered in the Fireblade Elite three months after him. Emily was a sort of little sister for him, though she was a bit younger and loved to take her own decision without asking anybody.

-He's staying with us, and he's going to live in Emily's apartment. Kenneth said

-Damn, why in her and not in mine ? April sarcasticly laughed

-Perhaps 'cause she's the one who asked for him to come with us. Noah said while drinking his beer

Kenneth and Emily went out from the waiting room and walked in the street to finaly arrive at Emily's building. It was an old building, maybe built during the 30s, with red bricks and metallic little balconies. The outside door was related to a metallic stair going on the roof of the building. A typicall New Yorkese old bulding, but with a great view on a very dense street. Emily was lucky to have a balcony on the seventh roof of her building, having a view on the trafic, bars and other buildings shining during the night. Kenneth entered and ordered Emily to unfold her sofa to make a bed where he put Ethan.

-I'm gonna get some clothing for him. he said

-Fine, I'll go to the bathroom. I guess he's not going to move a lot right now.

Kenneth went out to pick some clothes to Ethan while Emily entered in her bathroom where she started to hide all of her pills behind the small mirror of her cupboard. Emily was a drug addict, she always needed to take some because of nothing. Her ex-boyfriend was the one who was giving everything she needed, even since they broke up. Andrea and Luna were the two only persons who knew her adiction. Noone else knew it. Emily looked herself in the mirror and noticed that her hair roots were staring to show her real chestnut brown hair color while she died her hair in a deep purple color, just like Andrea did with her hair but in blonde and black. Emily's waves were looking nice and enternained, a part of her head was half shaved. She loved this style since she was living in New York City and

-Shit... she muttered by taking a strand of her hair in her hand, Better to get some hair dye bottle. Lucky that I got one.

Emily opened a small cupboard and started to color her roots with the hair dye she bought last week. When she finished, she came back to her living room and looked at Ethan. The man was still collasping on her sofa. She sat next to him and held a cigarette between two of her thingers, switching it on.

-I hope that you like cigarettes, dude. You won't survive if you don't. But only for you, 'cause you're my guest, I'm gonna smoke outside.

The woman sneaked out from the living room to the balconny and looked at the trafic in silence. Kenneth came back with a bag filled with clothes and gave it to her in a sigh. Emily looked at him and nodded :

-Have you got some fire ? he asked

-Yeah sure.

Emily gave her lighter to Kenneth and kept smoking while looking over the great buildings. The dust was extremely beautiful, the sky was orange filled with pink clouds. A part of the sky was a bit green, strangely. Somehow, watching something like this was a pleasure to Emily. She almost always lived alone, so she barely knew how to watch a dust with someone near her. She sometimes had this show with some colleagues, but never with anyone else. The dust, or even the aurora were something she loved to watch alone. Something which was relaxing. Kenneth turned his head on Emily and said :

-You know, what you did is extremly courageous.

-Why do you say that ?

-You chose to bring a guy to your condo only to save him.

-Wait, that wasn't planned ! I had to deal with it !

-That wasn't, yeah. But... but you chosed to bring him, and you'll form him. I'm sure that you're going to be a nice mentor. I'm leaving, take care.

Kenneth smiled, patted Emily's shoulder and threw his cigarette by the balcony, leaving the apartment. Emily sat in front of the television and watched a movie alone, sometimes checking for Ethan. He was collapsing. No move, nothing. Emily got his shoes off. She forcely sniffed the smell of Ethan's socks and muttered :

-Erk ! You smell bad !

Ethan did not answer. At when the night came, Emily walked to her room and cleaned it for a bit. She hid the picture of herself and her parents in her bedside table and stored her clothing in her closet in a sigh. She was confined in her appartment with Ethan until he would wake up, she knew that it would take a little while, but she was ready to endure everything only because she wanted to proove to her boss that she was strong. Emily was twenty three years old and was extremely contested among her elite since she entered in, seven years ago, when she was only sixteen due to a familial situation. She was, if not the youngest, the one who was always acting because of her emotions. If she disliked something, she was able to do whatever she could only to get rid with it. Emily was strong minded and refused to obbey to must of the orders which were given to her. She was always doing her job in any cases. And it seduced everyone around, that was why she was still in the elite.

Emily fell on her bed and quickly found a time to sleep. She woke up five hours after it because of a nightmare and a strong pain coming from her chest. After taking some pills, she walked in the living room to see that Ethan was still lying, but in another position. She sat on her arm chair and looked at Ethan. She switched her television on and watched a serie, sometimes checking for her guest. Hours passed, the night came, and then the morning. Emily sat on the right side of the sofa and watched over her serie when she turned her head to Ethan. He suddently switched position, lying on his right side where Emily was actually sitting. He moaned and bitterly oppened his eyes, feeling his legs. The woman noticed that he was actually moving and said :

-Oh, morning. You're finaly awake.

As he heard her voice, Ethan felt his heart beat stronger. He fully oppened his eyes and threw a glare on what was around, not recognizing the place where he was actually lying. A poor living room, urbanized, and he was on it sofa. As he recovered all of his moves, he jumped of the bed and looked at Emily with big eyes. She didn't turn her head from her serie and refused to look at her new forced roomate.

-Where the hell am I ? Who are you ?!

-Slow down, tallsie.

-Wait ! Don't call me " tallsie " ! Just tell me where I am actually !

-Fine, fine.

Emily switched her television off and stood up, throwing the controller on a pillow of the sofa. She slowly walked to Ethan and noticed how scared he was, stopping herself one metter in front of him :

-I'm Emily, and you're in my apartment. she said with a relaxed tone

-Why am I even in your apartment ?

-I guess you didn't noticed that some guys tried to kill you by filling your tallsie blood with drugs and sedatives. I kept you with me, that's all I did. For your safety, dude.

-Tell me that you're not serious when you say " I kept you with me ".

-Man, calm the f*ck down and just shut up. I'm gonna explain everything to you.

Ethan refused to sit, he kept staring at Emily who was still having her cool attitude toward him. Emily simply nodded when she turned her eyes on Ethan's ones. The tall guy chose to keep his mouth shut only to be sure that Emily would explain him what was actually going on around.

-You got snatched by some guys who just drugged you so that's normal if you don't remember anything that happened. We saved you.

-And how did I get here ?

-I just chose to bring you with me. My boss told me that I had to make you live in my apartment, so deal with it.

-Who are you working for ?

-The Black Cloaks. I'm actually a member of the Fireblade Elite, and since I brought you over there, you're a part of our job too.

Ethan gasped, Emily nodded again. He was extremely shocked about everything which was going on around him and kept quiet for a while, leaving Emily stand in front of him, still expressionless. The woman was not impressed by her guest who was around 6'4 ft, so 0'9 ft taller than her. She was annoyed, she knew that her resting time was over and that she needed to take him to keep her job.

-So I'm a part of Black Cloaks then, right ? Ethan asked

-Yes. Sorry about this little mess around you.

Emily sat back on the couch and switched the television on once again, watching her favourite serie while Ethan chose to move his legs for a bit and explore the appartment. Garbage. On the shelf above the desk, tons of books, papers, figures and diplomas on the wall with the certificaty of the Black Cloaks tool. On the desk itself, a laptop, speakers, tons of other papers with missions and a telephone surounded by keys. A picture was on the wall, of the whole Fireblade Elite, with Kenneth, Noah and Luna on behind, Andrea, Emily, Bradley and April in front. The kitchen was inclued in the living room, and it was clean compared with the room itself.

-So this is where you're living... Ethan muttered

-Yeah, it's a bit small, but I like it. The district is pretty quiet.

-Are you living alone ?

-Since a bit of time, yeah.

-So I'm going to bother you with my presence in your apartment.

Emily smiled and turned her head to Ethan. She shook her head and started to laugh sweetly in front of him, while he was still inspecting the living room where he slept for two nights. It was a bit different from the place where he lived before, at a motel in the suburbs. It was even better now.

-It's going to be different to have a room-mate there. And now you're here...

She switched the television off and quickly walked to Ethan to face him. There, she saw the difference between them both. Ethan was tall, too tall, but she refused to look impressed. He was almost like Keneth, a even a bit shorter, so she wasn't scared. Neither scared nor impressed. Just... indifferent.

-So you're living in my apartment now, let's apply some rules.

-Rules ? Why do we need rules ?

-Because this is MY apartment. Firstly, I'm the one who takes the decisions over there. Whatever you'll say, while I'm the one who pays for the taxes I'm going to rule this apartment. Secondly, don't ever dare to enter in my room. There's nothing to see, nothing to take care about. If you want to enter in my room 'cause you need some stuff, tell me. And I'll get it. Thirdly, living together doesn't make us a couple. You've got your habits, I've got mine. You're doing your stuff, I'm doing mine. Fourthly, we're going to be a co-workers anyway, going to missions together, and even have break times. Being with me is not an obligation. You're free to do everything you if it's not breaking the rules. Fifthly, you're going to have a double of my keys. If you loose them, you're going to pay for that. And you're going to share mine, so I'll controll you when you'll want to go home. Am I understood ?

-Y-Yes.

The man shivered. He better had to listen to Emily, he was going to be her room-mate for a long undertermined time. Ethan nodded quickly as Emily finished to expose the rules to him. He knew that this young woman was extremely rude and wanted to have the rules of her own apartment. Ethan was her room-mate, but still a guest for her. Ethan kept inspecting the kitchen, and then, the bathroom, while Emily was getting dressed in her room to go to work :

-Put some clothes on.

-Where are we going ?

-To the Black Cloaks main local.

Emily, after getting dressed, gave some clothing to Ethan. The man was impressed by her expressionless face. She just smiled once, and that was all she did. Ethan took a top and a pair of shoes and walked behind Emily in the whole apartment except when she went in her room. Ethan turned his head away to look at a picture on the wall when Emily came back and pushed him out of her way :

-Why so rude ? Ethan asked

-This is how you teach kids to not be on your way, tallsie. Oh, can you please remind me your name ?

-Ethan. Ethan Blake.

-Ah, yeah.

Ethan sighed and looked at Emily with surprise. He didn't know what to do in this situation, he refused to move on to talk to a woman who was not extremely talkative toward him. Inside, he found a sort of interest for this woman who was actually looking cold and rude, without past or future.

-Come on, we're leaving.

Ethan followed Emily. She closed the door and started to walk away to the stairs, followed by her new room-mate who refused to open his mouth. He wanted to cover her by many questions about her job, the way she was living, how she had the face with troubles of ghets... but Emily was not extremely talkative. She didn't even look at him when they were outside, she refused to turn her head. She was trying to live her life as if nothing happened, even if she knew that she was maybe living with a numbskull. As they arrived to the local, the whole Fireblade Elite showed up in front of Ethan who wanted to step away. Noah was staring at him, Kenneth was smiling. He noticed the young Bradley among adults. They were all standing like on the picture.

-Did you forced him to come today ? He looks exhausted ! April said

-I guess that's normal after two whole days of sleeping. Andrea whispered

-So, Emily started, Let me introduce you Kenneth, or Ken', Noah, Luna, Andrea, April and Bradley. We're all from the Fireblade Elite.

-He has to pass some tests before entering here, Kenneth said. Or else Emily, you'll going to have some extra work by having to train him.

-Very funny.

Kenneth escorted Ethan to the shooting range. There, he would be able to show his physicall abilities. He put some headphones on his hears and wore a mask to cover his eyes from the bullets. Ethan shivered, scared of this whole situation. Even if he wanted to show them who he was, he was still surprised by this place. With a microphone, he talked to him by a soft way :

-So you're going to shoot those mannequins in the head, or else they wont fall.

-I... I don't know how to shoot with a gun ! Ethan said, terrified to make a mistake

-Just try already ! April said

Ethan pointed the gun over the mannequin's head and shoot for the first time, missing his target. He tried another time and successfully touched it leg, and them it neck. I tried to do so on other mannequins, but was not extremely prepared to do such a thing. When the gun was empty, Kenneth took the mask and headphones off from Ethan's head. Noah considered everything and said :

-Leg, heart, neck... Emily, prepare yourself to extra work.

-Damn it... Emily muttered

-For now, you're going to stay here during missions to train yourself. Kenneth said, You're far from being ready to go on missions with us if you're not able to controll your gun.

-But I shoot the mannequins in the heart actually.

-That's not what I asked. I asked " in the head ".

Ethan wanted to protest, but chose to follow his new boss' rules. He nodded and looked at Emily who was covering her face by her right hand. He noticed that she was extremely bored by his attitude and chosed to turn his face down by shame. Andrea saw it and urged to take Ethan by the shoulder. She was even smaller than Emily, so small that, to touch Ethan's shoulder, she had to pull him a bit down so he would bend.

-C'mon man ! It's not that bad for a beginner !

-If you say so. Ethan smiled, turning his head to Emily

Emily refused to look at him and walked to the office. There, she started to work on her old files she left during two days to watch over her room-mate. The Fireblade Elite splitted up in the offices, Bradley went to school. Ethan was left alone in the waiting room. Luna noticed him, reading a book taken from the shelf and quited her files to sit next to him. She liked the way Ethan was looking and simply smiled to him as he turned his head to her and put the book on his side. Luna was looking extremely nice for. Her blond hair flowing on her shoulders and her blue eyes made Keneth love her the day they met for the first time. She was the stereotype of the blond lady, cold looking but extremely warm and nice inside.

-Are you alright ? she asked to Ethan, Why aren't you with Emy ?

-I guess I just annoyed her. You know, I failed up the shooting test few hours ago, and I'm under her tutoring. " Extra job ", as Noah said.

-You don't have to take yourself for an extra job for Emily. She's always been looking bored and annoyed by anything, even if she's not. You'll see that, when she is in her job, she loves to help people. Maybe that's why she always refused to have a co-worker.

-I'm scared that I'm going to be a numbskull for her. Living in her flat, not even able to defend myself with a gun... I'm a shit compared with what she expected as a co-worker.

-Don't be scared by that. I'm going to go back to my files, your training will be at 7:00PM.

Ethan sighed as Luna woke up and went back to the office. He tried to move a bit to see Emily by the glass door. She impressed him once more. She looked extremely nice, her long purple hair was tied in a ponytail, the shaved side was visible. Ethan observed her for a little time until she turned her head to the door to see him. Ethan immediatly turned his head on the book he was reading, Emily walked to him. She crossed her arms in front of the door as Ethan raised his head to see her.

-Hey, do you want some work ?

-Sure !

-Come with me.

Ethan woke up and walked behind Emily who passed between all offices to make him enter in the archive room. Ethan shivered as he saw how messy it was, and looked at Emily in a strong fear because he barely knew what to do. It was actually his first work here. Cleaning all archives, because all new members had to do this.

-All Fireblade members had this moment, dude. The cleaning of the dead room.

-Tell me that you're kidding when you say " cleaning "...

-No I'm not. I'm coming back at 7:00PM to bring you to the training room. Be ready !

Emily walked to the door and Ethan stood still in front of the shelves on the wall. It was messy, he barely knew how to deal with all letters which were almost invisible to him. He started to clean what he was able to clean under the look of Luna who was with Emily at this time. Emily was checking her files on her computer while Luna said :

-Sweetie, are you sure that Ethan needed so much work ?

-Yeah, he was bored by sitting alone in the waiting room, so I gave him some work to do !

-This is the shit we didn't touch since more than a year.

-It will avoid him to get bored.

Luna sighed as Emily was expressionless in front of her computer. She looked at Ethan once again and walked away to her office. Ethan did his best to clean everything. Two hours after the start, he sat on the ground and took several files to alphabetize. There was around a thousand of them, he sighed as he saw that it was only one file, and on the shelves were standing more than one hundred of other files filled with other sub-files.

- " Johnson Louis, n°589573 " ... so I'll put him in the J file then... " Kendall Joe, n°124997 "... damn, why are they all thrown on the ground like that... I'm going to do the J file today...

Ethan started to make the whole J file and put it on the table. He spent more than five hours to check up for everything in the archives and alphabetize them in the J file. At 7:00PM, Emily chose de quit her work to get Ethan. She saw him, cleaning the table and cleared her throat. Ethan straighted his back to face to Emily. Emily noticed that he was a bit shy, placing his hands in his back, looking a bit embarrassed :

-Let's go to the training room.

-But I'm a shit in it...

-You can learn anything, that's just that you refuse to admit it.

He gasped. Emily was extremely cold toward him, but he saw that, inside, she wanted to help him under her " rude " shield. She turned her head to the door, Ethan immediatly chose to walk behind her. Both headed to the shooting range. Emily wore her headphones and glasses, showing Ethan how to deal with all mannequins in front of him. She pointed her gun on the mannequins head and started to shoot all of them, succesfuly touching their heads. When she finished her work, she got the headphones off and waited for some guys to clean the mess. Ethan simply left a " wow " coming from his mouth, Emily said :

-That's ok. You can do it.

-Wait, I just shot with a gun once and it wasn't extremely brilliant... and it gave you an extra work.

-Do you know that keep talking about yourself as a shit is giving me extra job because you don't want to progress ?

-Really ?

-Yeah. So now, take this gun and do your best. We won't leave before you don't shoot at least one of them in the head.

Emily sat on an armchair in the corner and watched Ethan do his best to aiming at the head of mannequins. The man shoot around seven or eight bullets with no success. Emily smiled as she saw that he was determined to touch the mannequin's head, but not enough trained to do so. Hours passed, Emily noticed that Ethan was tired. He wasn't even able to aim at the mannequin itself. She woke up and put her hand on Ethan's shoulder :

-That's fine, let's go home.

-But I didn't shoot them in the head... Ethan replied

-That's ok, you'll try again tomorow. It's already midnight, let's go home already.

Ethan nodded. In his head, he was covered by shame. Not even able to shoot in a mannequins head for a long while, Emily had to be so annoyed by him... but it wasn't true. Emily wanted to make Ethan be a member of the Fireblade Elite as fast as possible so she won't have any more extra work. Both headed to the condo were Emily quickly went to her room, closing the door. Ethan walked to the balcony and watched the background. He knew that this place was going to be the place where he would live. Emily went to the balcony and held her package of cigarettes in one hand.

-Do you smoke ? she asked

-I tried to stop, but actually yeah.

-Here, have one.

Emily switched his cigarette on. Both smoke without talking to each other, they had nothing to say. They didn't knew each other, they were only room mates who had to live together for an unknown time. As she finished her cigarette, Emily threw it out and walked to her room before saying a sweet " Goodnight " to her guest. Ethan answered and sighed, left his body lean on the sofa and fell asleep. He wanted to know more about Emily, but not for the moment. He had to improve himself before it, and he knew that his room-mate would help him to do so.