Life can be worse than death. Remember that. -Katara
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Kat stormed into her room very angrily. I flinched away from her. She sunk to the floor. For some reason, she looked weak. I walked over to her and gently touched her shoulder. She looked up at me with tear filled eyes.
"Niall, I-I can't do this for much longer." She whispered.
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"This, last night I got to bed late, woke up at 6, trained a class of second graders for an hour, i need to cook, and I still hafen't filled my quota!"
"Your quota?"
"You don't want to know. Niall, you are the only one to hafe efer seen me like this besides Pyro and Shadow. I'm supposed to be a hard-core assassin, but it's so hard to life up to their expectations. I'm not like my parents! What am I supposed to do? I was forced to kill my sister! My own friggen family!" She put her head in her hands, her body shaking. "The only side of me you hafen't seen is what eferyone else has! How messed up is that?"
I couldn't figure out what to say. "Um- Uh-"
"Niall, you've nefer seen my dark side. I don't really want you to either."
"Why not?"
"Because.... It would scare you... Seeing me express my feelings is normal for you, but for my guild..... If you told them I cried, they would laugh in your face! I'm supposed to be the rock, the unbreakable one, the one who can do anything. It is hard enough to do that. I hafen't expressed my feelings for years before this..."
"Why not?"
"I'm supposed to be the one for the kids to look up to. I'm the example for them. I can't show my feelings because it would hurt me in interrogation. The kids hafe to understand that."
"Oh."
"Yeah, you hungry?"
"YEAH!" I yelled.
A book flew at me. "No yelling."
I went quiet, and she went to the kitchen. I waited for 20 horrible foodless minutes. She finally came out with steak. What was with her and cooking steak? But as long as it tasted good, I was okay with it. I gulped it down quickly. It tasted awesome! She took my plate away quietly.
"What do you do around here for fun?" I asked when she walked back in.
"Nomally train, teach, or try to fill my quota. I have the day off today, but I need to fill my quota by tommorrow...." She trailed off worriedly.
"Why don't you ever eat?"
"Curious aren't we? My eating schedule is so messed up that I only eat once a day."
My mouth dropped open. "Only once a day?"
Somebody knocked on the door. Kat frowned.
"Niall go sit on the bed and look pretty."
I obeyed her, and she answered the door. A little girl flew at her.
"Kat don't let her pull me out of your class!" She wailed.
"Sari, sweetie, what do you mean?" Kat asked softly, kneeling to look Sari in the eyes.
"Get away from my daughter!" Someone snapped.
Kat gently pushed Sari into her room. "Go sit on the bed with Niall."
Some lady walked to the door. "Give me my daughter!"
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1D Meets the Assassin
Fanfiction[Niall was sleeping on my bed. I sat beside him. "I'm so sorry Niall. I don't know what came over me. Would you please forgive me?" A tear slipped down my cheek. I felt horrible. I had hurt him. I gently stroked his hair. I knew he'd probably not wa...
