Broken

Broken- Chapter fifty nine

It's not how big the man in the fight is, it's about how big the fight in the man is.

Play the song, for the best effect, when you see the asterix.

I sipped my coffee slowly in the silence of my living room. It was eight in the morning and I had been awake for around half an hour. I was currently in my pajama shorts and the jersey Andrew had left the night of our fight, sat on my own. Waking up early for me had become a routine and honestly, I hadn't gotten a good night's sleep since I became an agent.

None of the guys were up yet. I heard Sean snoring as I walked past his room this morning. Jacob and Connor must be asleep as well because when I got back from the mission last night, Connor wasn't watching his dumb reality show about that dumb bitch named Kylie. Connor and Jacob were both agents too.

As soon as I joined the agency, I was obviously not allowed to go home while I trained so, I moved in with Chris and his two housemates, Connor and Bradley. Bradley was also an agent but was killed on a mission around seven months after I moved in and was quickly replaced by Jacob. That was how The Organization worked. They never exceeded the number of agents of twenty but as soon as one died, they would recruit the next one in mere days.

I had been living here for the past two years. It was a five bed room house and I was surprised at how big it was when I first moved in but The Organization payed well therefore the young lads could afford a house like this. Jacob was only seventeen like me when he was recruited and you could tell he was new since the novelty of being an assassin hasn't worn off.

Jacob liked the idea of being a bad ass spy whereas the rest of our attitudes to it were a little differently. The Connor, Sean and I, it was a burden not a novelty.  But after two years of living with it, you put up with it. Sean has been in the firm now for four years and Connor beat us all by serving five years. That's pretty impressive considering that you're lucky to survive past three.

I took another sip of my coffee as I heard the footsteps approach the living room...kitchen...living room kitchen. The room was huge and on one side was a dining room table and chairs where the kitchen side was and the living room side was separated with the four seat sofa with a coffee table in front and a fifty two inch plasma screen television. There was one single seat sofa and a love seat. I know it's too many seats for four people but this house was seventy five percent male which meant the Xbox was a big part. Having different seating options gave them more of an angle when they were playing...well that's what they said.

I found it hard to belive that's I'm talking about deadly assassins.

I turned my head and looked up to see Jacob and Connor walk in, looking pretty beat up. Jacob had dried blood on one side of his face and all over his clothes, while Connor was clutching the top of his arm with arm pained expression. His short was sizzles, like it had been burnt.

"What happened to you two?"

"We went to finish the hacker job last night."

"Turns put nerds really know how to secure their place," Connor added rather sourly, wincing at the pain in his arm.

"To be fair, superman over here thought it would be a bunch of greasy haired kids with sweater vests, playing Pokémon Go."

"I didn't know they would have a trip wire!" Connor defended and I laughed shaking my head.

My laughter was cut short as I hear my phone vibrate. I lean over and grab it, opening the message.

"Ed?" Jacob asks from behind me and I nod herring to my feet and walking to the sink. I dumped the remaining coffee in there and left the cup for one of them to wash.