Run. Cry. Die.

I Swear

Kaiden's office looked pristine, not a speck of dust lay over anything despite the fact that he hadn't been in for months. From cases and holidays, he couldn't find the time to sit at his desk anymore, but a piece of paper lay on his desk, right in front of his computer where he couldn't miss it.
It had sat there for a few days now, written in neat handwriting and simple language, it read an exhaustive explanation of why.

Kaiden Blake,
It's been almost a year since we last spoke. That night, when you arrested my father, you missed a huge clue. He had never been the master-mind behind the super-soldier program. My mother was, but I had better ideas than her so I took it over in the past few years. You'll never be able to catch me, so I'm free to tell you this.
My father and I are on the run from every law enforcement agency in the world, but we refuse to stop. My father and I will rule this world, we will govern it how it should be.
I will not apologise for anything I do in the future as it is partly your fault, however I will apologise for not being able to bring you along. I never hid my true feeling from you, what we shared, that was real. But I could not allow that to drag me down. My future is planned out and if I die while putting my father on the throne, it will have been for a good cause.
I cannot hope for any more than forgiveness from you as I know you will never stop hunting for my father and maybe me, no matter the toll it takes on you.
I will tell you this again, you will never find him. He's a genius, running from the law, with another genius to protect him. We will not be caught.
I hope you can find some kind of peace in the way your little assignment ended, despite its incomplete finish. My brother and mother will have no idea where we are, in fact, Thomas never wanted to be a part of this anyway, I blackmailed him into helping us. He was always so bad at hiding the truth from me.
He will never give you any useful information though. He's only good for nanotechnology and brain surgery.
And yes, you may use this letter as a confession, however I will never be found so these words will never be heard by a jury.
Yours faithfully,
                 Evelyn Ryder
P.S,  Amelia and Kieran are adorable. You should keep them away from your kind of lifestyle. You wouldn't want them to get hurt, would you?
P.P.S,  Killian is out there.

When Kaiden got to read those words, he would surely throw a fit. He would blame himself for not seeing that her stutters were fake. That her almost compete silence around her family hid the truth.
He would curse himself for not being intelligent enough and for being too emotionally attached to the case. He would pour over the last line written on that page.
He had watched Killian die. Watched it with his own two eyes.

The buildings behind them looked tiny as they ran from the men, dodging through the underbrush and the trees. Kai had barely turned eighteen, Killian turned sixteen a month or so ago. Neither of them could remember the exact birthdays, just that they were a few weeks apart and in the middle of winter.
"Run faster Kai! Those guys are catching up!" Killian shouted from a few meters ahead. They rounded the corner into an alley way that led to the back entrance of a deserted building. Common Squatter's ground. Everyone knew about it, not many people dared enter.
The two boys threw themselves into the building and up two flights of stairs until they reached the room they had taken. Easy access to the floor and a small enough area that that could stay warm without needing to light a fire.
They both fell to the floor with exhaustion and pulled some food, water and powdered substances from their jackets.
"Mother's gonna be so mad." Killian laughed, looking at their haul. Having no money really didn't do them any favours but they had to pay the bills at home somehow. Stealing and selling on made the most sense to them, especially as young and uneducated young men.
"At least we'll have heating." Kai replied, pulling his jacket tighter around him.
Neither of them noticed the shuffling sound outside as the three men from before got ready to take their product back.
Guns drawn, the three older men broke down the door and shot at the boys who bolted for the window.
They both scrambled down as fast as they could with bullets raining down on them but Killian got hit in the shoulder and slipped, falling to the floor with a sickening crack.
"Killian! No!" Kai moved faster than he ever had before but his brother had already died.
The gunmen laughed and pulled down their hoods, aiming one last bullet at Kai, hitting him right in the stomach.
One dead and one dying, both boys lay on the street with nothing good in their futures.
One last glance at the three men revealed an arrow piercing a circle painted in red on the side of their necks, one of them had a black line through his arrow and circle too.