His Assassin

Chapter 7: Bruised Up Bitches

3rd Person POV

Sitting on her bed at 3AM, Vixen was messily painting Andy's fingernail, and on the phone with Veronica, telling her the story of how she and "Jesse" have known each other before.

"Girl, that's crazy! That sounds like it could only happen in a TV drama." Veronica was also wide awake. She was doing surveillance on her own target, but she doesn't mind taking a break for a couple minutes.

"I know! It's funny how the world works...I never thought we'd meet again. And I love how after we found out who we were, we instantly reconnected and we didn't treat each other as strangers." Vixen smiled as she thought back to the old days and compared them to now.

"That's so cute how you guys dated in high school. Why did y'all break up? Why haven't I heard of him before?"

"It happened a long time ago. I didn't think it was relevant to my life now, so I never told you. We broke up because I felt like I was a bad influence on him. He did very well in school...I was never good at it. We dated from the beginning of junior year to the middle of senior year. During that time, I also started skipping school and not doing a single piece of work in class. I even got suspended for speaking very rudely to teachers, and vandalism," Vixen explained.

"Ohhh, so you didn't want to rub off on him. That's understandable...so are y'all back together or what?"

"Caaallmmm down, no. He and I are different people now than before. The only thing we have in common is that we're in the same line of work. And the last relationship he was in resulted in his ex sending me to kill him. I think he needs a break from dating."

"You have a good point. If you had to pick, would you date Jesse or Jason?"

"Neither, stop trying to get me into a relationship." Vixen rolled her eyes and laughed. Veronica has been trying to find Vixen a man for a while now, but it's just not how Vixen imagines herself.

As an assassin, she trusts practically no one except for Veronica and Ace. Anyone new in her life would have to wait a while for trust to form. Vixen feels like she's perfectly fine on her own, no need for a man to take care of her. She's an independent woman. She wouldn't need a man, she'd just want one. And if that man left, that'd be fine. She can do her own thing with or without him.

"Well, who are you gonna have kids with?" Veronica asked like it was a normal question.

"Bitch, why would I want to bring a child into this world? You know that even after we retire from assassination, we're never really retired. We're just harder targets to kill. Kids are too much to work with, and it's heartbreaking if they get hurt just because they're mine," Vixen said as she blew to dry the paint on Andy's nail.

"I know we can never truly settle down...we've done too many things, finished too many jobs right from the first one. I just like to dream sometimes."

"Dream a little more realistically, it hurts less."

"But then it wouldn't be dreaming," Veronica sighed, "oh! I gotta go, target is on the move. Bye!"

"Bye." Vixen hung up.

Veronica is definitely the more imaginative one of the two. She's all about someday living a normal life when she's finished with assassination...she dreams about it at least.

Vixen knew when she accepted Ace's offer, she'd have to leave normal life behind. She knew it from the beginning and has come to terms with it.

Not many friends, no contact with biological family, no kids, a life of danger, and staying high alert at all times. It was either this life or no life, so she chose life, and she fights for it every day.