Abbi had left soon after her declaration, she had a mission she was meant to be preparing for but had only stopped by to yell at me for not answering her texts. I truly didn't deserve her in this crappy life, but I will be forever grateful that she is.
Which had left me with no choice but to go and see my supervisor about my next mission. I needed to keep calm and stay level, the slightest tip off that I was going rouge could mean a quick snap for my neck. Something I'd always hoped to avoid, if I was going to be killed it was going to be on my own terms.

All that had led me to where I was now, standing in front of my supervisor's office door. I held my breath, slowly released it then knocked.

A muffled "come in," could be heard from the other side. I hurriedly opened the door and walked in knowing how much he hated to wait, even for something as trivial as walking into a room.

"Ah, yes. I was waiting for you, Eve. You know how much I hate to wait." He angerly spat through gritted teeth. He was always like this- angry, impatient and bitter no doubt.

In the entire time I've had Henry as my supervisor I don't think I've ever seen him in a 'good' mood so to speak. The only time he's ever has anything good to tell me or about me, was when I either completed a task before the deadline or when a kill was particularly, gory.
He was quite sadistic when it came to kills, even his own were so gruesome they could hardly ever identify the body afterwards. Our assignments were usually seen in the news a few hours after they had been completed- it was how the boss knew that we were successful.

"My apologies, Sir." I said with no inflection.

"Sit." He spat out. He dropped whatever he had been looking at down on his desk, to give me his full affection.

I promptly sat down in the dark teal velvet chair that sat in front of his dark stained desk, I held his gaze the entire time not daring to say the first word. We'd played this game many times before and each time felt like the first.

"Now the reason you weren't in our morning meeting would be...?" Henry began, making his first move just like we were playing a game of chess. The first move was the most important it set the tone of the game.

"I overslept."

He seemed to think over my answer for a second, before aa hideous smirk appeared suddenly. "Bullshit." I must've paled or reeled back ever so slightly because his smile got even wider, seemingly something out of a horror film. "Almost everyone knows you're an insomniac, its one of the reasons you get so many assignments at night. Would you like to try that answer again?" Henry asked his voice dripping with condescension.

"Not really." I whispered under my breath unable to help myself. Id always had a smart mouth on me, it was one of the few things that had to be 'beaten' out of me during my earlier years of training. I blocked out those horrifying memories and focused back to the present.

"What was that? I couldn't quite hear you, Eve." It was a threat, don't give in to it.

"My apologies, Sir. It won't happen again." I spoke up this time, making sure to be loud and clear.

"You're not going soft on me now, are you?" He was in front of me now, leaning down towards where I was sitting in the chair, he was using one of his usual interrogation techniques. By now though I had gotten used to all interrogation techniques it was a part of my training after all. There was nothing he could say or do in this room that would ever get me to crack or tell him the reason I hadn't shown up this morning.

On some level I think he knew that because he backed away ever so slightly now leaning back against his desk staring me down. I tried to keep my expression level, calm. Knowing that the slightest thing could possibly give me away.

"Was there something else you wanted to speak to me about, Sir?" My first move in this game, we were never to speak back to our supervisors.

"Yes, actually there was, another assignment came in and the boss explicitly requested you be on it." He said while returning to his seat behind the desk. Returning us to the natural hierarchy that had formed within the confinement of our cell.

I waited a moment, my silence urging him to continue. Though after a moment when he said nothing, I began to open my mouth then promptly snap it shut. Why did the boss know who I was? She didn't know who anyone was and if she did that meant you messed up badly enough for her to take note of it.

"You'll be leaving tomorrow night; your location is somewhere in Rio we trust that you can get it done in a timely fashion. This one unlike your enemy other assignments has no deadline." He then passed me the envelope that contained my assignment, and more importantly my intended target.

"Will that be all you require of me?" I asked out of courtesy rather than caring.

"For now, yes I expect to see you in tomorrow morning's meeting, am I understood eve?" Henry asked and the threat was very clearly marked in his voice.

"Perfectly, Sir."

With my final comment I got up from the seat and woke gracefully out of the room, closing the door silently behind me. I took one final deep breath and nearly started running down the hall. I needed to get to Abbi's house immediately. We had things to discuss, if I was being sent away on an assignment to Rio no less than my plan would need to go into act tonight because by tomorrow night I would be gone.

With so little time to prepare for this that means several mistakes would be made, ones that if we had more time could be avoided. But I'd already made-up my mind this little girl, Dakota would be my redemption, I was a horrible terrible person I'd killed and slaughtered innocent people and I was so sick of this life, in fact I was done with it. I couldn't sleep anymore and even if I did was an empty sleep, a dreamless sleep filled with nothing. There is nothing I could say or do to myself or anyone around me anymore. When I was younger, he would smile, laugh and talk freely but as I've gotten older can barely say 5 words. I don't know what my smile even looks like anymore. This isn't a life worth living and I can't believe it's taking me all this time to finally figure that out, I don't know how Abbi is able to be so cheerful and happy doing what we do, but I suspect copious amounts of alcohol have something to do with that, but I've never been one to drink. This is my final chance to do something good once in my life to save a life rather than destroy it. So even though it may cost me my own we're going to help this little girl because I didn't deserve the life that I got, and she doesn't deserve the one that she got. She's not some pawn to be used- perhaps that's why I feel so close to her I see myself in her taken doctor thrust into a new dark and dangerous world where they only way to survive is to kill or be killed.

Once I got to the hallways that contained most of our residents, I turned into a full-blown sprint getting closer and closer to the door that I desperately needed. If I was going to put my plan into motion, I was going to need help I plan to sneak around Abbi not actually use her help she didn't deserve to die from my stupidity.

But now I think I do need her and thanks to my selfishness it's going to make me risk her life as well as my own.

"Shit, shit, shit!" I breathed under my breath, as I nearly ran down the hall towards Abbi's home.

I came to an abrupt stop- in the middle of the hallway might I add. Abbi was supposed to be preparing for a mission right now, which meant there's no way she'd be home right now. Another spew of curses slipped out and I promptly turned on my heels to return to my own home.

All I could do was pace, pace back and forth between my kitchen and my living room, the second I had burst through my doorway I'd sent Abbi a message telling her to meet me in my apartment the moment she was free.

That had been 20 minutes ago so now here I was still pacing waiting for her, now this was starting to get on my nerves rather than just irritating perhaps this is what she felt like earlier this morning waiting for me to arrive or to answer her back. I couldn't even create a plan without Abbi, she was much more cunning and sneaky than I had ever been though you'd never believe it looking at her.

After another 10 minutes I could calm down enough to make myself something to eat some leftover pizza was waiting for me in my fridge no doubt several days old, but I had no other choice right this very moment there was no way I'd be leaving my apartment without Abbi. I couldn't risk her showing up and I'd not be here. Just as the microwave had gone off a brisk knock had sounded from my door, forgetting entirely about the stale pizza, I ran to the door and flung it open with all my energy.

"Ok I'm here," she breathed, she was heavily breathing and panting and still in her training uniform.

"Thank goodness get in here," I nearly growled out I grabbed her wrist and flung her into my apartment.

"What's going on I've never seen you so riled up before?" she asked now more excited than startled.

"I'm being sent away on another segment tomorrow night- which means that all we have tonight to free the girl." I said, a slight panic in my voice.

"Oh shit," Abbi blurted out before flopping down on my couch. "What does that mean for us?" she questioned.

"It means now we have to act quick we don't have as much time to prepare so we're going to need to be stealthy swift and cover our tracks." I explained though my tone implied that I was explaining the obvious.

"Oh, so just another day at work then," Abbi jokingly said, doing her best to lighten the mood.

"Don't get cheeky with me you know how many mistakes can be made in just a short time. Whenever we get a time crunch for any assignment it never ends well, and several things get left behind." I point out, knowing she'd probably be thinking about her last mistake.

"I do know that, so have faith in me and I think you going away on assignment is just the edge we need that's going to be your cover- "

"You already have an idea." I rudely interrupted.

"Of course I do, I had to give my brain something to do while sparring with those boys- men are so weak and pathetic after all. If I don't give my mind something to focus on, training might not be as rigorous as it needs to be for me to succeed in my assignments."

"True now would you like to share your idea with the class," normally I'd be kinder about asking Abbi for her ideas and thoughts, but I was simply in no mood I was irritable, angry and stressed, but I knew she could feel all these emotions which is why she didn't give me any lip about my attitude at this very moment.

"All right listen closely because this is how this is going to go, neither one of us has access to the cells we don't have high enough clearance for that it's also not in our department so why should we have clearance for it? So, we need to convince one of the guards to allow us down there, and luckily for us there's one that's been flirting with me for quite a while. Alex. All I must do is some light flirting back and Alex will allow me down, therefore while I'm busy flirting with him I'll take him to a remote corner that's when you sneak by and free the girl. I'll keep Alex distracted for as long as possible while you get the girl as far away as possible. Now here's the tricky part you're going to go on assignment- or at least they're going to think you're on assignment you take the girl wherever she needs to go back to her family or whatever and I'll keep you updated on what's going on around here. Ta-da!"

"I don't know whether to be horrified or impressed that you came up with all that in just a few hours," I had no clue what else I could say to her, that was also the longest monologue I'd have to endure.

"Impressed I hope, now you need to get some sleep or maybe you should eat something probably, but I got to get it back to the training grounds I wasn't nearly done yet. And make it look like you're preparing for your next assignment if they get suspicious, they'll cut you." Abbi warned as if I didn't already know all that.

After Abbi had left, I went back to my now cold pizza and took a few small bites of the cheesy monstrosity. This was actually going to happen tonight; Abby was able to give me a loose overview of what needed to be done but planning it and actually doing it were two completely different things.

This is going to be one hell of a night.