The Facility

Chapter One

They just had to let me live, I mean they couldn't let go one of their best. I just kept thinking that until I heard a knock at the door, I looked out and there was a guy standing there in a Hawaiian shirt and khaki shorts, it was only the pin that let me know he belonged with The Agency.

"Hello 4152, I've read your file and I must say The Agency is a little sad about losing you, but at least we know their methods work now" he said setting his small brief case on the table.

"Well I could continue with my work" I said.

"Hmm I'm sorry, but you know too many incriminating secrets and we can't risk you being out there telling the world. Now you know the drill" he said as he took a gun and a silencer out the brief case.

My training told me that I couldn't touch him or I'd face consequences, but right now I was facing the ultimate consequence and they wouldn't listen to reason.

"Don't face me" he said.

If he wanted to kill me then he would have to look me in the eye, but then he hit me with the butt of the gun and my training kicked in and I just reacted, I knocked his legs out from under him and grabbed his gun and shot him in the forehead.

Then I froze realizing what I had just done had gone against all of my years of training, but they were ready to kill me without even giving me a chance.

Before I knew it I grabbed my knapsack and headed out the door, I'd let The Agency deal with him.

I hitched a ride to Israel before I decided to stop and try and decide what to do next, I could run but then I'd always be on the run and always looking over my shoulder, the only thing I thought I could do to stop all of this was to expose them to the world.

After all the reason they wanted me dead was because I had known too much, so the first thing was get a motel room and gathered everything I knew about them, it also meant though exposing myself.

But as I was going through the files they had on me, it showed me that my mother wasn't the crack whore who sold me for five hundred bucks like they had told me, in fact she and I both were carefully chosen.

You see she was in the military, one of the most decorated female soldiers in the history of the Army, she also had not only known my father but was married to him, he was also highly decorated and in the Marines.

They were both alive and living in in Virginia after having both retired from the military after years of service, they also have two other children, a girl named Alecia who was twelve and a boy who was nine.

This new information shocked me to my core, of course I should've known they wouldn't tell me the truth at The Facility, which means they most likely lied to others as well.

I got it all together on protected USB's, excluding the information about my parents and sent it to various news agencies around the world.

Then I bartered my way onto a ship heading for Barcelona, I stewed on the fact that my parents were alive and they had been watching them before they took me, it seems they experimented on me before I was even born through a specially made prenatal vitamin my mother got from her Army doctor.

They don't even know that I'm alive, they were told I died shortly after death because of under developed lungs that couldn't support me.

By the time I arrived in Barcelona a few news agencies had reported on the story wanting to have the lead, it was now the leading story on every news stations.

Just as I got off the docks in Barcelona though I was hit from above, a young novice from The Facility had found me on their orders no doubt, which means they know I've killed my handler and am on the run, also the one responsible for exposing them.

"Aren't you going to appeal to my humanity? Make me see the light so I won't kill you, tell me that I could join you in your fight to bring The Agency down" she said.

"Actually I'm surprised you're talking at all" I said.

Orders were to always just kill the intended target and get out, only need to speak to get close to our target.

She seemed upset that I wouldn't engage her talking, I knew she was trying to get to me but I've been doing this a few more years than her and I was one of the best.

So I grabbed her by the neck and snapped it, I left her body in an alley making it look like she was just another passed out drunk.

Then I went and found a cheap motel that would be easy to escape from if need be, I couldn't stop looking out the window wondering when the next one would find me.

The world was coming down on The Agency, many countries wondering if it was responsible for the deaths of some of their people or behind attacks.

People were also coming forward for the children, The Facility was shut down and all of the children taken to various foster care agencies around the city, at this point anything was better than The Facility.

I'll never forget the first time I saw them kill a peer to keep us in line, it was a way to intimidate us into not making connections with each other and also to show what would happen if we ever failed.

I was only five years old at the time as well as the others in my class, we watched as a little girl crying was forced to stand in front us.

"This is the look of failure" our teacher a female only to be referred to as teacher said in the front. "She is a gutless wonder, she won't kill anybody and so now she has to die" teacher said.

Then she held a gun to her head and shot, the girl fell to the ground blood already pooling around the wound.

"Let this be an example that we will not tolerate weakness, you will do as your told and be the best for the sake of the safety of this great nation. For God and Country" teacher said.

We always had to say 'For God and Country' whenever it was said, it was the mantra we were going to live by they told us.

They were unafraid to kill any of us and it was that reason that I became the best that went through The Facility, I never wanted to seem expendable at any point.

Then I saw my face plastered all over the news that brought me out of my internal war, they had known from the USB's that I was the whistleblower on all of this and now they wanted to talk to me.

They extended an invitation for me to come to them, but I didn't know how I was going to do that now that The Agency was looking for me.

But I made it to London instead, I contacted someone from the BBC and told them who I was and they wanted me to come in immediately, I told them it might be too dangerous for me to be there, but they assured me that everything would be fine.