Assigned To Kill (Luke Hemmings)

Chapter Fifteen

"Wait a minute. He actually apologised?" Claire asked, sipping her coffee Thursday afternoon.

"Yeah."

Claire and I were sat in my office, talking about last night. She had got back from the US this morning, the job taking two days. I was happy to see that she was smiling, the light was back in her eyes. She had explained how she went straight into the building without so much as a second though or a flashback, with was great. I was so happy that she seemed happier than she was before she went. Now she could truly try to move on from what she went through.

"Well, I don't fancy hanging around them again, if you don't mind?" She explained that she didn't want Calum to act weird around her, apparently he had been up for round two but she rejected him. That and the fact she didn't feel like being around Luke unless is was absolutely necessary, crucial to helping me out, then she would do me a favour and help out. Until then, she didn't want to be around him if all he was going to do was judge her for her actions. She feared that he would be trickier to get on my side than I thought it would be but I had tried to assure her that I did have 5 months to complete so as long as he was dead by the end of the 5 months, I would be fine. 

All I had to do was find out if he knew anything about Blade Agency or Andrews past, then kill him. Then I'd go and kill Andrew for working with Skull Agency. It was pretty simple when you looked at it that way. I knew it would actually take a lot of work but I knew I could pull it off.

"Oh, I forgot to mention. Blade sent me on a job last night that involved me wearing clothes that were incredibly revealing and when I got back from the job, the band were sat in my lounge waiting for me."

"WHAT?" Claire yelled.

"I had to tell them I was at a hen party to explain why I was dressed like a hooker."

"Did they fall for it?"

"Yeah."

"That's all that matters then."

We decided to go to the gym after Claire finished her coffee partly to waste time and partly because we had to make sure we could still get through the training scheme if we were to ever go through it again.

The training scheme consisted of five parts;

The first: Self Defence. We could choose what type of self defence classes we wanted to take but most chose all, just to have the upper hand on a target if they had taken self defence classes. 

The second: Strength & Fitness. This would be tested in numerous ways. This could range from being told to run around the building 20 times or even 40 times, if Blade was in a particularly bad mood.

The third: Weaponry. This was pretty much self explanatory, we would get to know each of the weapons we would be handling and we would have to learn how to use each and every one. Once we had, we would then practice, shooting targets. Of course, we'd also learn to make them too, something that had always been fun.

The fourth: Technology. This would be where we would learn how to hack different things, create fake I.D's and other various documents.

The fifth: Breaking and entering. This was always fun to learn because not only did we learn how to break into different buildings, but we were also taught how to break into a safe. Anything with a lock that prevented us from entering, we were taught how to find a way into it anyway.

The training scheme was brutal but I suppose it had to be. It went for months and even after you were accepted, you still had to continue training. We were assassins, if one person was weak then there would be no way they could work as an assassin. A lot succeeded in getting through the training but then chose to work at different floors, whether it be working with the weapons and making new ones, the technology floor or just being a lawyer. Some people did actually have to be a lawyer to keep up the façade of a law firm.