Rogue

Chapter 2

^Silencer^

"He's pretty hot don't you think?" Gunner nods towards Silencer who's leaning against a wall with a pack off girls flocking around him but to my surprise he ignores them and continues reading a manual for god knows what. Anyway, if you'r wondering who Gunner is she is... Well I don't like to have friends it would mean I'm attached so she's just a girl I know, she's called Gunner because she's good with guns. We are sitting around in the training arena, only a few people walk around, all training had finished at 8:00pm we start at 8:00am and when we aren't training we can do whatever we want.

"If you say so" I don't want to admit it, but he is.

"You know what? Fuck it" Gunner sighs "You'r never going to get with anyone... Unless your lez---"

"Just give up" I groan "Or at least change the subject"

"Whatever... You wanna go down to the halls?" The halls is a hall (obviously) with many branches leading to shops like tattoo parlors, shops for clothes (extra combat boots, new jackets etc), weaponry shops, extra tutoring, food stores (for better food than the slop that we are normally fed) etc. When we reach the age of ten we start receiving assassinations and we get payed tokens so we can use them at the halls, but the food is limited so we don't get fat. I got my first tattoo at the age of ten, it's on the small of my back and is the symbol of fearlessness. We make our way down the packed stairway and into the halls.

"Where do you wanna go first?" I ask.

"I kneed some new underwear" Gunner mumbles eyeing a clothing store. 

"Than let's go" I push threw the crowd to the store Gunner was eyeing.

"I may as well get some while your at it" I say picking out some black bras.

"Is that seriously the only color you wear?" Gunner raises an eyebrow.

"No, I wear camo" I retort.

"That doesn't count" She sighs grabbing an ugly shade of pink, I didn't even know that they sell pink things around here. 

"You are a girl you know?" Gunner states while walking to the change rooms.

"I know, but all that distracting teenager stuff isn't right" I close the curtain to my changing room.

"Teenager stuff?" 

"Girly things that make you distracted which makes you an easy target which makes you weak" Isn't it obvious---

"Like what?" ---Well obviously not...

"Style, books, alcohol, boys..." I list.

"You mean fun?"

"No I mea---"

"What do you call all those piercings on your ears and nose? That's called style" 

"That's different" I sigh in annoyance. 

"No it's not"

"Just give up OK? Now, I kneed you opinion" Gunner opens the curtain to my dressing room and looks at the bra I'm wearing questionably.

"Yeah, it looks tight enough an---" That's when I see Silencer looking right at me hi's eyes scan my hard stomach than make their way to my chest, he's standing with a bunch of boys who seem to be looking at new tank tops. I quickly pull the curtains closed.

"What's wrong?"Gunner asks.

"I just don't want people looking at me" I lie.

"Right..." Gunner raises an eyebrow, she knows I'm not conscious about showing off skin.

"Ummm, I'll buy this" I gesture to the bra, Gunner gets out of the dressing room so I can get changed. We perches our items than make our way to a store full of weaponry.

"I kneed to get another knife, my last one broke when I threw it at that drone"

"How about a Bc-41?" Gunner suggests.

"Yeah, I'll grab that one and I also kneed another Bowie" I examine a wall of Bowie's. 

"Check this out" Gunner points to a Fixation Bowie "You should get that one, the grips so good, and the balance is perfect" Gunner makes a gesture to the perfect piece of metal.

"I'll get it tha--- Oh, I don't have enough tokens" I turn to look at another type of Bowie, that's when I see Silencer, that fucked up kid, is he stalking us or something.

"Let's go" I pull Gunner to the counter and I buy my knife.

"Where do you want to go now?" Gunner asks standing outside the shop.

"I'm just gonna do some more training" I jab my thumb towards the stairway.

"Whatever, you continue with your usual stylless, bookless alcoholless, boyless life" Gunner sighs staring at me as I leave.

"I shall do so"

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"99...100" I mutter under under my breath, I move from pull ups to push ups to planks to the shooting range to hand to hand combat than last of all, my favorite... Knives. I pull out my new knife and a few of my usual ones and attach them to my belt. I step into a glass room where censer lasers are in the shapes of humans, walls are set around the room along with platforms which makes training harder. As soon as the glass door closes behind me the first person made of laser light appears, they have a gun and start to shoot, a second person appears, I run at the second person and I knock them over, they don't disappear until they die, so I grab a knife from my belt and stab him, then I throw it at the first person, as soon as I do so another three people appear, this continues until I kill all 100 laser dummies. When I get back to the dorms it's around 10:00, so I take a quick shower and go to bed, but when I get to the bunk I find the Fixation Bowie that Gunner and I where looking at in the halls lying on my bed.

"Gunner?"

"Mmmm?" Gunner mumbles from above me where she is reading a book.

"Did you buy this for me?" I ask nodding at the Bowie.

"What?" Gunner looks over the side of the bunk to see what I'm looking at.

"Holly shit, you've got a secret admirer" Gunner laughs.

"Fuck off" I sigh in annoyance "I do not, someone probably accidentally forgot it on my bed"

"No way, no one would do that, they know you would kill them if they touched your bed" Gunner reaches out to touch it.

"Don't do that" I smack her hand away "It could be a bomb"

"You'r so cautious, no one wants to kill you that bad" Gunner picks the knife up and nothing happens to my relief.

"See" She throws it around in her hand than passes it to me.

"Damn, it's not that bad, I twist it through my fingers, when I look up again, I notice Silencer watching me from a bunk away.

"Not a bad knife huh?" It was Silencer who put it there, he was watching us, he knew I wanted it but why would he get me one?

"Want it back?" I ask but don't wait for the answer I throw it at Silencer's mattress and it sticks upright, he doesn't flinch.

"Nahhh, I've already got one" He throws it back at me, except it sinks into the metal of my bunk's post next to my head.

"Show off" I mutter and roll my eyes "I shall keep it than" I stick it under my pillow where I like to store some of my favorite knives over night. I strip until i'm left in my under clothes and tuck myself in to bed. I'm just drifting to sleep when I hear Silencers voice.

"Why do they call you Rogue?"

"Because I'm wild and free" I reply.

"What's your real name?" This question shocks me, I've never told me and no one has asked, it's too personal...

"...Rose"