Kogot

A life to make choices

"The day arrived that I would have to give them my answer, this choice would change my life forever, but if I don't do what they asked me to do it could mean that I won't have a life to live, to make choices. I grab my purse and keys and head for the door leaving my apartment, I walk towards the exit and get into my Mitsubishi eclipse. I think about getting a coffee from the cafe I glance at my watch and I realize I don't have time to get a coffee. I arrive, I put my car in park and I open the door to the place I go to the conference room and it's completely empty "Of course, this is really awkwa---"excuse me mam, are you miss Petrov?"

"Yes and you can call me ."

"Alright then Miss Scarlett, please follow me." He takes me down a hallway then we enter the elevator and head to the thirteenth floor, from there we go down another hallway then we turn right and I enter into another conference looking room and then he shuts the door behind me.

"Miss Petrov, please be seated, How are you doing?"

"I'm doing well, thank you and you?"

"Hopefully, I will know soon. I assume you gave some thought to what we discussed?"

"Of course, quite a bit."

"Miss Petrov when we came to you, I knew you were certainly someone fit for the job. So please tell me what is your answer?"

"After giving it much thought, I came to a conclusion; my answer is..."

Two months earlier...

I headed out to work on a Tuesday morning, I turned on the heat in my car since it was a cold February morning. "Of course the heater isn't working, I really just need to get it fixed. I decide to stop by my favorite cafe since I have a bit of time.

"Um Hello? Have you decided what you want?"

"Oh uh sorry, I would like a white chocolate mocha please?"

"Scarlett, you must not have had your morning coffee. You aren't all here this morning."

"Hey I was just distracted ok. Not like you don't ever get distracted, especially when Nicole comes in here."

"Haha, very funny. Here's your white mocha."

"Ok thanks, I'll see you later Jason."

"Yeah see you later Scarlett." I arrive at the C.I.A. which is where I work. I am a field agent but of course every field agent has paperwork, this is my least favorite part but it's still ok.

"Hey Scarlett, you doing paperwork? You know Hollywood never shows this part of the job in the movies."

"Of course not! You have to make the job look as if there's nothing boring about it."

Nine hours later...

"Finally my shift is over!" I sigh happily.

"Well, don't get to happy about it, because you do know that you have to come in tomorrow too." Anthony reminds me.

"Yeah I know, but it doesn't mean I can't still be happy. Besides your probably just pouting because you have another hour ."

"Yeah, yeah I know. see you later, Scarlett."

"You too, Anthony." I get to the parking lot and see that there's not to many cars left. I shut my car door and start the ignition. I arrive to my apartment door and as I'm getting my key I hear couple of muffled voices on the other side. I then decide to go back outside and climb up the metal stairs, I then reach to my apartment, I look through the window and see two maybe three shadows. I carefully slide the window open I make a little bit of noise in the process. I then carefully climb through the window and I grab my gun. I carefully tiptoe to my dining room I peer around the corner and see three men standing in my house. I walk around the corner with my gun pointing in their direction.

"May I ask who invited you into my house?"

"Well, first off this isn't a house it's an apartment and secondly Scarlett we kinda invited ourselves in."

"Who are you and how do you know my name?"

"You seriously have to ask us how we know your name?"

"You do realize that I'm the one with the gun?"

"Really? Because the way I see it, is that your offering the gun to me." And right as he said that he started grabbing the gun and I flipped over his back causing his arms to go behind him then I elbowed him in the neck and then kicking him in the knee then he started falling so I slammed his head into the floor knocking him out.

"Scarlett Petrov don't make any more of a scene or else we will take you by force and I'm sorry about him attacking you he's a little bit arrogant. And now I would like to get a bit of better start with introducing ourselves."

"It's about time someone did."

"My name is . And the dumb fellow that you knocked out is... well you know what he's just a bodyguard so his name is irrelevant. But the real reason I came here is because we might have a security threat; not just national but worldwide."

"And you came to me? I don't know if you know this or not but I'm just a field agent for the C.I.A."

"Yes I know that, but please give me the chance to explain."

"Ok, fine."

"Thank you. But first you must promise me that you won't tell anyone about this. Because it would cost you your life and perhaps someone else's life. So the reason I came to you is because this job is a one-man job. It's a group that is supported by some of the U.N. it's purpose is to eliminate any real threats that could potentially cause worldwide chaos except this time we believe that they are the threat. Oh and they are called Kogot."

"That means "claw" in Russian right?"

"Yes it does, except that they are much more dangerous than a claw. They are invincible. They are the best of the best. They can make any death seem as if it was an accident and they are invisible. You should know something though; they aren't regular humans."

"What do you mean by "they aren't regular humans"

"What I mean is they have powers. As in superpowers."

"How is that even possible?"

"Science."

"Science?"

"Yes many experiments done by a scientist who goes by the name of . He came up with the right formula to give powers. Kogot discovered him and they went behind our backs and "recruited" him so that they could have superpowers and now we presently believe that they are planning an attack on the U.N. and they might also try to start world war III."

"Why would they do that? And who's we?"

"We as in the U.N. well only France, Russia and America. And the reason why they would do that is because the leaders are power hungry, although it didn't start out like that. But what I need is someone on the inside collecting information so that we even have a chance against them. And I was hoping you could be the one on the other side collecting the needed information."

"Me? Look I know I've done some things that at the time looked impossible but this this could very well be the impossible. Trying to take down some kind of black ops group isn't going to be like any other mission. I won't do it. You have to get someone else."

"Miss Petrov, you don't have to decide right now."

"I know I don't have to decide right now, but I'm going to decide right now and my answer is no."

"Miss Petrov don't you want to be able to make atonement for the mission in Russia called 'Blue sparrow'?" When he mentioned "Blue sparrow" I could feel the anger rising so I say,

"Fine. I will think about it."

"Ok, you have two months to think about it. And I will contact you in a month."

"Ok, now get out of my apartment." In the corner of my eye I could see the bodyguard that I knocked out slowly rising to his feet at the same time grunting in pain.

"Victor, it appears to me that you might have made her angry I would suggest leaving before she beats me up again." After they left I could feel the tears running down my face and for the first time in a while I was sobbing.