Revive (Book Two)

Chapter Seven: Sabotage

My eyes shot open, my mouth drew a deep inhale due to the panic overcoming me. My lungs instantly filled with water as I swallowed gallons. I gasped for air but was met with nothing but liquid, struggling to keep fighting against the feeling of being tied to an anchor. Looking above, the surface graced my eyes as the sun shined down on me. I reached above, swimming aimlessly toward the top, but never making any progress to get there. When the acidic feeling overcame my throat, I knew the familiarity. I stopped trying to find a way out, and instead began to search for my peace. Twirling in a circle while my skin faded into a blue, I was met with nothing but darkness. She never came.

It was hard to do my job sometimes. Not because I was bad at it or the overwhelming feeling of guilt suffocated me, but because of my damn eyes. Eyes that captured too much. Eyes that saw what they didn't want to see and saw what others didn't see at all. My eyes were too observant; It was a blessing and a curse. But it wasn't keen observation that made my job difficult. It was the fact that because of my eyes, I had to do the majority of my missions in the dark to shield them away.

It wasn't that I particularly hated doing work in the dark, and to my advantage, I much preferred it. But I had to be careful not to be seen too closely. Especially if the stakes rose against my favour.

The fact of the matter was I wished my eyes were both blue like my mothers. She had beautiful eyes; her pair was one of the most beautiful I've seen - Coming extremely close to another pair of eyes that I missed greatly. It was unfortunate that I only had one eye that was like hers. It made my life frustrating when I had to make sure no one notice that I in fact also had a green eye. What an extremely obvious, dead giveaway of who the criminal was.

I fixed my hat low on my head to cascade a shadow on the upper half of my face. Luckily, in certain lighting they could just look grey to someone who wasn't paying attention. Most people didn't in my industry.

The instructions were clear. Get in, get what I came for, and get out. Nash made it sound so easy when he explained it. Although, he didn't know that I had other flies on the wall, feeding me the answers that he would never present me with.

Don't show your face, don't get caught. The reason I'm here isn't for what I think, and I must be careful.

Did Nash really think I'd believe his sob story that the phony I was meeting was really here to make amends? No - It couldn't be. He was meeting me to come to an agreement to which if he didn't find it satisfactory, it'd start a war. Reconciliation wasn't apart of Nash's vocabulary unless it was within his rights to plaster he's the one that came out on top - Nash was never in the wrong, but always wronged.

The house was dirty and smelled of nothing but cigarettes and weed. I needed a smoke, maybe three and by the look of the yellowing walls, I didn't think this guy would give two fucks on whether I smoked in his house or not. Lighting one, I stepped in slowly, as if glass was shattered on the floor beneath me and I was barefoot. I hated this feeling.

Don't get caught.

I cleared my grey smoked up lungs as a warning to the lowlife to make an appearance before I get too impatient. I flicked some ashes on the floor, beside my feet.

There was a creak across the floorboard on the other side of the room, down the hallway where it was blackened. I resided in the living room where the curtains were drawn shut and the lamp lighting was dim.

The man that came into my view looked a lot different than I expected. I repressed a smirk while I took another drag of my smoke at the pure sight of his scrawny composure. Nash sent me to threaten a weakling.

I raised an eyebrow when the man raised his hand to his stubbled head and wipe the sweat away. He looked at me with nerves but he attempted to mask it away with a wicked grin. He had horse teeth and I was mad at myself that of all things, that was all I could think about in that moment.