I can't say your name

Cap. 11

Brett: "So Katlin was never your real girlfriend"

Eddy: "Yup...is that the only part that shocks you?"

Brett: "ExCuSe me! I'm the one who cried on your grave for one year!"

Eddy: "And I'm the one who risked his life for two"

Brett: "Picky"

Said Brett mockingly

Eddy: "Where was I?"

The next day, Eddy woke up dizzy. Belle told him that was a possible collateral effect of the new implant. He walked into his bathroom and splashed some cold water on his face. He removed his clothes and entered the shower. The little scar was peeping from the side of his thigh.

He got dressed, and after a quick breakfast he headed out with his violin. He was closing the door of his house when he received a message

Brett: "Boba before work?"

He contemplated the question for a second before writing the answer

Eddy: "Sure, usual place?"

Brett: "Of course man"

He shoved the phone into his pocket and walked to the boba shop where they usually met. Brett was already waiting for him inside, with their orders.

Brett: "Hey Eddy"

Eddy: "Hey"

He responded sitting in front of him

Brett: "You look wrecked, too many parties Eddy, too many! Bad boy!"

Mocked Brett while giving him his bubble tea

Eddy: "Yeah, yeah, really funny"

Brett: "Come on dude, it's our shippers' favourite video"

(Not really Brett, I prefer the video in which you do the panicked gay while Eddy threatens to land his head on your shoulder. Just saying!)

Eddy: "Don't remind me"

Brett: "On a serious note, everything alright? And don't try to answer with 'bad day' since it's still morning!"

Eddy: "I had a bad night then"

Brett: "You're incredible"

Eddy grinned, showing his crooked teeth, and took a long sip of his boba.

Brett: "Btw, wanna hear a funny story?"

Eddy: "Sure"

Brett: "I probably suffer from somnambulism because yesterday evening I went to bed perfectly fine and this morning I had a cut on the inner part of my left thigh"

Eddy nearly dropped his tea

Eddy: "Inner left thigh?"

Brett: "Yeah...are you feeling sick? you've become pale all of a sudden"

Eddy: "Just afraid of dropping the bbt"

Brett: "Oh...ok, and you won't believe it, I had even put a patch on it!"

Eddy: "On the inner thigh? Are you sure you didn't get drunk and brought home someone, playboy?"

Brett raised his chin and shook his head solemnly

Brett: "My heart is true to someone else!"

Usually, Eddy would have asked him and this conversation could have ended with them leaving the shop as boyfriends, but if there was something he had to avoid, it was this.

Eddy: "Oh, I have news on that matter too, if we hang out tonight, I'll present her to you"

Brett's eyes widened in shock. The fact is this: they knew there was something untold between them, they BOTH knew it. So, it was totally unexpected for Brett.

Brett: "Oh...is she from the orchestra?"

Eddy: "Are you talking about Nat? No, it's not her. I know you like her"

Brett: "Wait, what?"

Eddy: "It's obvious Brett"

Brett: "Hem no?!"

Eddy: "Hem yes?!"

This conversation was a torture, but loosing Brett was unacceptable for Eddy.

Seeing his beloved torn apart every time he was with Katlin was the toughest part of the whole mission. Not the entire nights spent awake assaulting the bases of the agency, not all the men he had to kill, not all the cuts and bruises he had to deal with. And from what he could perceive, Brett didn't like Katlin: not because she was his "girlfriend", but for her possessiveness, an there was nothing he could do about it, she was told to act like this, otherwise the agency would have suspected something.

It was after a year that things got worse.

Nat called all the agents in the meeting room. When all of them had been scanned, she positioned a little black box on the table and with a remote she turned it on. The hologram showed all the photos of the agents. A smaller part of the photos was not coloured.

Nat: "Who can tell me what a black and white photo means?"

The agents looked at each other a little intimidated by the red-haired woman, then a man found the courage to raised one hand

Nat: "Yes 505?"

505: "People still under the agency?"

Nat: "Right, thank you. During these years, in particular this last one, thanks especially to agent 000, we've been able to save 79% of the people under target 101. From the remaining 21% we have to remove a 2% of agents killed on the field during mission, and a 9% of agents killed by the agency. 10%. There is 10 % of those people still under the claws of the agency. And we have to have all the other people that the agency controls and still has power on: people under 103 with no physical potentiated abilities, a little part of the 102 X negative, and people under 101. People that don't know about our operations for safety reasons, and for this are considered not-safe"

She walked to the table and pinched the grey photos bringing them in the middle. With the other hand she pushed away all the others and zoomed in.

Nat: "As I said 2% dead"

And she shoved in the corner of the hologram a bunch of photos making them disappear.

Nat: "9% killed by agents or elimination"

And she shoved another bunch of photos.

Nat: "These are the men we are going to save with our final attack"