ANGEL

Young And Dumb

Pacing back in forth in my hotel suite as the woman sat on my bed with duct tape on her mouth and her feet and hands tied with rope. I was stuck in between a rock in a hard place. Shaking my head, I already expected a phone call from Mario soon. No dead bodies, No shooting, no nothing? This is not me. Are they gonna punish me? After awhile of pacing back in forth I let out a sigh. "Now if I remove this tape from your mouth, are you gonna scream? Because if you scream I have no problem with murdering you right here and sending your head to your mother. She shook her head.

I slowly walked up to her with my gun pointed directly at her soul, snatching the duct tape off her mouth. She winced in pain. Tears slowly rolling down her face, she was scared which is understandable but I need to figure out what the fuck I am doing. I pulled up a chair and sat down in front of her with my arms folded.

Are you hungry? There was silence. "Do you wanna know why you're in this position?" She nodded. "I was sent to kill you." You can tell she was about to start pleading and crying again so I put my gun to her forehead slowly. "Do NOT, I repeat, do NOT start that crying shit again."

"Kill me for what? What did I do?" She asked. "You're tracking an organization, now the organization you're tracking is very very supposedly dangerous." Sitting back I look at the ceiling for a brief moment. "I have to kill somebody."

"Don't kill me, please don't look we just know things. The police are after a group of assassins called PAO; I'm just doing my job please don't kill me." As she silently cried.

This shit is frustrating. "Do you know my name?" I asked. She shook her head no. "That's good." I was relieved. "This is what we're gonna do, we're gonna walk out this building like a normal couple. I want you to act accordingly because if you don't you will die today."

She agreed. I told her to freshen up and fix whatever she needs. Watching her every move. After she freshen up. I checked out the hotel and put her into my car. I made sure to have her hands tied up while we take this trip. To where? I don't know.

"So do you know me?" She asked. "Of course I know you."

"Why didn't you kill me? What made you stop? You could've ended me right there." I couldn't even answer that. I was still trying to figure that out myself. "You look so young." I smirked. "Your Alice Jonae Johnson, you work for a private law enforcement dealing with organizations that take on killing politicians, drug cartels, other criminals, and all of the above. You have a husband named Henry and you're stationed in Oregon."

Parking the car in the driveway I can see that she was shocked that I knew all this and she had more questions for me. I haven't been doing this for a long time but when you look at it, I actually have. Never been in this position before. Hearing my phone ring I already knew who that was.

"This might hurt a lil bit." Before she could say a word I quickly slapped her knocking her unconscious. "Marioooooo." I said in my fake Italian accent.

"What did you do with her? Did you get the job done?" He sounded so impatient and not happy.

"She's right here." I said glancing at her unconscious body slumped in the front seat. "What do you mean?"

"Mario I have her right beside me. She isn't dead but she will be." Growing irritated I quickly hung up and got out the car taking her with me inside the building.

She was knocked out for a good while until I heard a knock at the door. Opening up the door I wasn't surprised to see my big buddy Mario with his face red wondering what the hell did I do.

"You're young and dumb, you know that?" He said pointing his finger at me. I shrugged. "I said I was gonna kill her."

"It's good she's alive because your not suppose to." I was confused.

We both watched as she slowly sat up and when she realize there was nothing but us in front of her she screamed, crying for help. "Aw shut the fuck up, nobody can hear you" Mario said pulling out his luxury cigar.

"What the hell is going on?" I asked. "You know she works for a local law branch called M9 but what you don't know is her captain is my partner."

Alice and I both looked puzzled. "You know Madison?" She asked. He nodded followed by a chuckle. "I know you guys are digging into the PAO, which is very frustrating. You have to realize that some of your people are into deep with my people."

"What do you mean?" She asked. "Alice you're working for a company that's in it for the money. They don't know who's done these killings and even if they did you wouldn't be able to catch them. You were sent to that little gathering today to find a solution, background information but something happened."

I'm probably finding out the reason she was crying. I sat down on the nearest couch and tilted my head at her. "I got a call that some of the cases we were following were invalid it wasn't connected to the PAO cases we been following. It doesn't make sense to me. All this hard work."

She slowly looked up and realized what was going on. "Is this why you were sent to get me?" She asked looking directly at me.

"I mean I guess, shit, I don't know. Mario what are we doing? Are we gonna take her somewhere? Kill her? Or what."

Before he could make a decision he sat there puffing on his cigar. I couldn't understand none of this shit. He stood up and dug in his coat pocket, handing me a piece of paper.

"Take this and go there. It's time to see what your really made of."  I took one more glance at her. "And what about her?" He smiled. "Don't worry."

I nodded. "I'll probably see you around Alice." with a light smile, I grab my gun and head out the door.