While Jim left a trail of clues for Holmes, Seb, Aliona and I kept the guns well looked after, and kept in practice for combat.
Seb was going to be the main sniper (obviously) in the operation.
Aliona and I disabled some of the cameras around and in the building, and rewired the others so that they fed the footage to a set of screens we had set up in an abandoned house near the swimming pool where it all started. Jim was sure that Holmes would want to meet there.
And Jim is never wrong.
The pool. Midnight. Holmes wrote on his website.
"now, you stay safe, ok?" Seb said to Jim, at the door of the house we had hijacked.
"Of course I'll be safe, you're going to be there with a gun." Jim smiled. "But don't shoot unless I say, ok?"
"Only if it keeps you safe." Seb said.
"Only shoot if I get shot, promise?"
"Promise." Seb muttered unwillingly.
"And any signs of trouble, you two get out of here." Jim said to us. We nodded.
The men left, Seb leaving a few minutes before Jim.
Aliona powered up the screens, and we deactivated the cameras that we didn't want around.
"Ready?" I asked.
"It's not exactly the tec in Stark tower." She muttered, as the pool appeared on screen, the images showing it from different angles.
A man walked onto the screens. "I brought you a little getting to know you present." he said, holding something up.
Another man appeared, one I didn't recognise. From the way he and Holmes were talking, they must have been friends.
"Flatmates. And possibly lovers." Aliona said.
"How did you know that?" I asked.
"I did my homework." she handed me a file.
"There is a reason why I dropped out of school." I muttered, as I flipped through it. Aliona watched the goings on unfold on the screen as closely as she watched Doctor Who and Strictly on the weekends.
I finished with the file, to see that Jim had appeared.
"Hot chocolate?" Aliona asked.
"Yeah, sure." I said.
She didn't move, only carried on staring at the screen over her interlaced fingers. "Jim left some on the counter with some mugs."
"Sure, I'll go make it." I muttered.
I had just finished, and was carrying both mugs in, when she shrieked. "NO! Kirsty, get in here NOW!"
I handed her her mug, and looked at the screen.
That man, Holmes, was holding a gun.
"And my answers probably crossed yours." he said, pointing the gun at my brother's boyfriend.
He then lowered it just enough that it was pointing at the bomb on the floor.
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The Heart of a Sniper (MorMor)
Fiksi Penggemar"This is your heart, and you should never let it rule your head" Sebastian Moran is a criminal. A sniper for one of the worst criminals in the world. Jim Moriarty. He only has two weaknesses. His little sister Kirsty, a fellow sharp shooter, is one...
