Nine Lives of a Cat Burgler

The Agreement

A few things you should know about Leon.

1) He is 20, 4 years older than me. This is a fact he brings up often as so to put me in my place. I go on to remind him that 4 years isn't much and then hit him. Hard.

2) We fight. A lot.

3) He is actually quite funny and friendly if he wants to be, and once people get past his appearance,they can actually grow to like him.

4) He looks like the sort of punk who would murder family pets and push old ladies into the road.

5) He does not spend his time murdering family pets and pushing old ladies into the road.

6) He has a girlfriend. Called Casey. She is a bitch. We do not get on.

Leon, pushes past the open mouthed Ace into the living room where he continues to flop down on to the sofa. Ace stares at me in amazement.

"That. Is. Your. Brother!" He whispers at me. I get his point. We do not look alike. On reason is that Leon got our dad's hair, whitey blond, whereas I got the complete opposite, from our mother. He also has blue eyes whereas I got stuck with green. In fact I look more like Casey's sister than his (and that's only cause she dyes her hair red.) That reminds me...

"So how is the redheaded devil, Leon?"

"That's my girlfriend you're talking about! She is good, yeah. She is sorry she hasn't been able to come visit with me." I bet she is. She never liked me anyway and now I'm a 'notorious criminal' I am lucky she hasn't yet turned me in!

"Yeah, good. Now why are you here?" He suddenly looks sad, in fear almost, a look I have only seen once before on my brother, when I fell out the window when we were kids (yeah, we do love each other really.)

"Well, errr, O.k A.B, I'll cut to the chase. You know that camera, at your flat. Yeah? Well it was from a group called Kz."

"Another group! Well I have had enough! Tell them I say no!" I pause, "And how do you know about that?"

"Wait A.B, they are, well, we are a group formed to take down The Resistance. What they are doing is wrong and we need to stop them." He pauses. "And I was well, thinking, a great way to piss them off would be to have their number one enemy in our group. What do you say?"

I look at Fizzy. I look at Ace. They both look at one another. We nod.

"Well, dear brother. What is in it for us? Why would we want to join Kz, or whatever?"

"Well, you want to take down TR right? You made that clear in your little stunt to the camera. And we are just the team to help you! And also, we hacked the TR database. They sort of know where you are and so therefore we have to leave. Now!" Ace looks at me wide eyed and Fizzy has a look of utter fear etched across her face

Mentally, we discuss and come to an agreement.

"Alright then. Your excellent persuasive speech has persuaded me. Now where is this safe place we can go before we all get massacred by a bunch of psychopaths (no offence to your parents Ace)?"

Leon laughs. "Let me show you, dear little sister!"