Government Hooker

Chapter 1: Sara

The CIA calling me usually meant someone had to die. I got paid well as long as I didn't ask any questions which I didn't do. Didn't really have a reason anyway. Usually these contracts could be done fairly quick. But one of those contracts backfired. It backfired massively. It was doomed from the start. But at least I learned something from it.

Work alone and you'll live. Work with a partner and you'll have it easy. Work with a friend and you'll have a help. But work with a traitor and everyone will hunt you down.

I had every one of those by my side, partner to traitor. The traitor, as is to be expected, on my last mission. I like to blame him for its failure.

Everything started about half a year ago. Someone from the CIA called to let me know that I had a new target as well as a new partner. The task would be easy. I knew that right away when they gave me the details down at HQ. however, I wasn't so sure when it came to my new partner. Her name was Aiko Michaelis. She was sweet 18 years old and like me from New York City. NYC, the city of dreams. Where so many different people meet and live. A city so diverse and accepting to everything new. Like me and my family when we moved there from London when I was like 12. Oh how I loved this town. If only I life was so simple for me everywhere as it was at home. I would have changed so much if only I would've stayed there. With my sisters and friends.

I like to remember all the times they organised my birthday parties. For my 20th they dragged me through the entire city, mind you New York is anything but small. They did all that just to pull me into a show on Broadway. My sisters Alexandra and Christina and my friends Paul, Harry, Elizabeth and Maggie were the family I loved more than anything in this world. Unfortunately, none of them knew what I did for a living. I always thought this to be the best decision. Of course there were times when I wanted to tell them but I was simply the safest choice to not tell them.

When they introduced me to my new partner I instantly knew that she was nothing like my family. While they were the textbook definition of extroverted she was the complete opposite. Aiko was very introverted which wasn't something I particularly liked. That also made me think that she wasn't really qualified for this kind of job. To kill someone, to make the conscious decision to pull the trigger you need to be more than just being able to keep things to yourself. Not that you don't need that, don't get me wrong. But Aiko was simply keeping too much to herself. To put it simple: I was just very worried about her.

Luckily I was about to be proven wrong. The last thing I could use was a partner that kept so much to themselves that their inner monologue would start talking for them. Aiko was holding back a lot. That was clear but fortunately she could also let that out as well.

The mission we got assigned was taking out the head of a drug cartel if we won't be able to take him alive. Personally I found it easier to just pull the trigger. I preferred it to running after someone while being under heavy fire yourself. I was just easier. I mean did you ever have to run after a corpse? Nope. The corpse is just lying there waiting to be picked up. I never expected anyone to understand my reasons but I suck by them nonetheless. I didn't know where Aiko stood on that but I was hoping it was close to me. after all she didn't really tell me or anyone else much about herself. Even if I didn't like her at first the more we worked together the more important she became to me. She basically was everything I could've ever asked for in a partner. She was there when I needed her, did what I asked of her the way I wanted it and she simply accepted me the way I was. Wasn't perfect, far from it actually but I never wanted to be. Everything about me was just the way it was supposed to and if someone didn't like it they could just stick it where the sun never shines. Aiko never seemed to care about my problems and bad habits. Apparently she only saw good things in me. that made her quite different from me. I was more pessimistic. I liked to see the bad things in people before anything else.

To get things started I wanted to test her abilities. I took on the majority of the planning but she had to get the target. She worked very precisely and fast meaning there was nothing for me to complain about. On the contrary I really admired and valued that. For a total of 12 missions Aiko and I had the pleasure of working together before the higher-ups assigned me new partner. Whatever their reasons were I never found out. I didn't like it. Not at all. I was devastated and I knew that Aiko didn't feel much better about it. But unfortunately there was nothing we could do about it.

My new partner was known by most simply as Bite. How he got that name I didn't know and honestly never even wanted to know. I just didn't care. Aiko was my partner and she and I were the perfect team. She became one of the few people I really cared about and if you asked me on a good day I might have gone as far as saying she was a bit like family.