The Elixir of Life

The moment to strike was now.

The window of opportunity would be closing soon and if I was going to finish my right of passage I had to do it.

The lady walked up to the building, I aimed, exhaled, froze, then pulled the trigger without another thought.

I then heard the familiar thunk that I had heard during practice dozens of time, and knew that I finished my right of passage. I stayed in my hideout a little longer looking at the body I had taken the life out of. I was starting to wonder why the society wanted her dead anyways? After two weeks of studying her daily routine, like instructed, I found nothing unusual about her. She had no criminal record, no ties to convicts, none of the usual things the society usually seems to take people out for, she had quite the normal life actually. So why was it she fell victim to the society’s punishment?

I started quickly packing up my gear, realizing I stayed a bit too long for comfort. I was just about finished when I heard some loud noises coming out of the nearby alleyway, I just continued packing, thinking it was just some drunks wandering around. Then I watched silently as four men emerged. They looked like rough guys; I could easily take them all at once though. I felt slightly bad for the girl I had kill as I saw the guys approaching her dead body, then chuckled inwardly at the irony.

I had thought they were going to violate her body, or something of the sorts. I had been thinking they would do anything other then what they did.

They propped up her body against a nearby building, opened a vile and waved under her nose. Within moments she gasped, and was back amongst the living. My eyes widened in pure shock. I had just watched her die!

"Hey boss, nice of you to join us" the biggest of the guys said with sarcasm. "Yea boss, what happened? We haven't had to bring you back for a while now?" for a while now? These guys were acting like this kind of thing happened every other day!? This had to be a prank or something. Any minute Joe is going to jump out and laugh his ass off at me. It’s just like him to try and pull some kind of stunt my first assignment.

 "Looks like the society has found me boys" she said sounding unusually casual. "Oh and now I've got to find out which one of those fuckers put this bullet in me" she said reaching into her wounded chest, and pulling out my bullet.