Fearless

♕ one ♕

♕ one: interrogation and initiation ♕

She sits with her arms bound to a chair belonging to the biggest gang leader in the world.

He paces back and forth in front of her, his dark eyes scanning the ground frantically, almost as if he is searching for something inside of himself.

Antonina Petrova was sent here to kill Marco Dragotti. While on the job, she always uses the name Fearless as well as numerous other aliases in order to disguise her true identity.

Her real name has never been discovered by the dozens of men she's killed or by the clients who paid her a hefty sum to off them discreetly. She's truly an enigma in her field, the best one at that. Those who don't guard their name as close to their chest as she does always, always end up dead after a few years in the game.

Chewed up and eventually, devoured whole.

As one may also think, Antonina assumed that when first joining the vast marketplace of underground professional assassins that all of her kills would be gang-related.

She's been surprised very few times in her twenty-three years of life, but learning how wide the range of people she'd be hired to kill was one of those.

Antonina Petrova has taken out high-level bankers, professional athletes, celebrities, corporate drones, dozens of mob members, and even a member of the royal family in England, where she now sits trapped. The same country where she tracked Marco Dragotti down a day ago.

He gazes at her with stone-cold eyes, face devoid of any emotion. Of all the people she's been hired to kill, he is the only one to ever catch her before she delivered that final shot to the heart, poisonous drink, or slice to the throat.

In fact, he caught her walking through the hallway of his expensive hotel suite, immediately drawing his pistol and ordering her to sit on chair she's bound to right now.

She played the usual role of the drunk girl who stumbled into the wrong hotel room, but he saw right through her usually convincing act.

"I'll ask you again, what's your name?" He spits out.

"Tammy Stevens," She quickly responds with the first name that pops into her head, and that happens to be the unfortunate girl who sat next to her on the plane ride from Moscow to London.

Most of the time, Antonina guards even her assassin alias close to her, only telling the people who hire her that she is in fact the one and only Fearless.

Her code name is feared throughout the criminal network of America and Europe, with only rumors of her appearance and the bodies she leaves behind as evidence of her existence.

And usually, those rumors are wrong. She's heard everything from Fearless being a large woman with the strength to pull a car uphill to a small ginger woman who has an Irish accent.

Antonina truly survives off the grid, with the number of fake IDs, licenses, bank accounts, and passports she has to her various names being in the dozens.

The only place that knows she even exists on paper as Antonina Petrova is her small hometown in Kustur, Russia, where her birth certificate is stored deep within their archives.

But when Russia is the largest country on earth and the place she was born in only having 760 total inhabitants, she doesn't have to worry much about anyone discovering her real name.

And so Antonina Petrova is a ghost that haunts and eventually murders the enemies of whoever offers her the biggest bounty.

Tonight, it just so happened to be Marco Dragotti, the man who her father has wanted her to kill for all twenty-three years of her life.