Clockwork Assasins

Bodyguard

Xena's POV

Music blasted through my headphones as I shoot the target dummy. Damn him. How dare he make me a babysitter for a spoiled kid. Mission? You've got to be kidding me. Its just because of my other mission. How can I know that my dumb partner has an ego the size of the milky way. Who would be in their right mind will jump in the third floor just because he can't accept that a girl can do it with such ease. Just because I can jump in the third floor he can too. The jump hurt like hell you know.

-Flashback-

"Mitchell go through the back while I run after him to lure him at you." I ordered him.

"Don't order me around Cross." He said but follow my instructions. I roll my eyes. Oh dear lord,why do you create the species called man with such a big ego? With our job the most ego or pride you have the more chance you will get killed.

I saw our target turn to the right and saw that it leads to the stairs. I cursed and press the device in my ear to communicate with Mitchell while running to catch the annoying target.

"Mitchell. The target is in the stairs intercept him when he got to the third floor. We need information so don't kill him...yet."

"Damn it Cross! I said don't order me aro--" I cut off the communication and concentrate on running in the stairs so I don't fall on my ass. Ha! It will be the gossip of the month in the organization. The great and deadly assassin tripped on the stairs. How lame.

"Stop!!" I heard Mitchell yell from below and the target stop and look around for escape. He saw the window as the same time as me and follow him as he run and burst through the window. I know he's crazy from jumping in the window of the third floor but I'm much more crazier because...I jumped too. Lucky me because there are garbage bags to cushion my fall or else.

The target is holding his leg limping faster as he see me. I tackle him to the ground and pointed my gun to his head.

"Don't move or I'll shoot you,then your brains will be scattered here. We don't want that do we,Phantom?" I said as he struggle to shake me off. He turn his head to glare at me but I just smile at him. Then I heard a grunt then a whimper. I look back and saw Mitchell on the ground with a bleeding head and he's holding his arm and his leg is in a weird position.

"What are you doing there?" I ask him even though I already know what happened. He glare at me and I shook my head at his stupidity. I took out my phone and call the Cleaning unit to clean the evidence and also told them to get an ambulance because Mitchell is injured.

-End of flashback-

At the end we caught the Phantom and take care of him but Mitchell is still on the hospital because of his broken leg and arms. But because of the little stunt Mitchell did I'm being chewed off by Matthew for being reckless and given me a 'mission'.

Someone tap me on the shoulder and I take off my head phone to look at Matthew. He's the one who mentored me when I first came here in Clockwork. Apparently Matthew didn't find it important to tell me that he's the head of the organization. I only found out after my third year here. Oh sorry I should tell you what this organization is right? Right. So Clockwork is an organization that trained the most deadly assassins all around the world. There are two more organization that trained assassins,the Blackwell and the Hawthorne organization. This three group is considered the triangle. But what makes us different from these two is we have me. Nah,just kidding. Were different because the only people we assassinated is the most vile and evil human being ever walked on earth while the other two is assassinating in cold blood as long as there's money involved. You can distinguish us assassins when you know what to look for. Clockwork assassins have a golden pocket watch given to them,I know old fashioned while Blackwell have rings with a cross etched on the black stone in the middle and the Hawthorne gives their assassins a free tattoo of rose in anywhere in their body so their the most difficult to find.

I put on my headphone again and aim at the target. I heard him sigh.

"Come on Xena its not babysitting. You have to be her body guard because the Blackwell is hired to assassinate her while her father hired us to guard her."

I put down the gun and took off my headphone then turn back to glare at him. Other people would probably cowered under my glare but this is Matthew were talking about so he just smile at me. Its been twelve years since that accident and the lines of aging is showing in his face.

"Why me? Is it because of Mitchell? I swear I didn't know he will jump." I said defensively. Its not my problem that,that man has a brain the size of a peanut.

"And as I already said its not about that. Its because your our best here and you're her age so you can practically guard her anywhere without raising suspicion in the Blackwell. Also you being close to her age is like a bonus. When you go somewhere together the others will just see it as two friends going somewhere."

I glare at him some more.

"Come on do it for me."

I glared harder.

"Please?"

I sigh. I can't say no to that. Matthew is practically a father figure for me ever since that day and I'm practically a daughter to him. He just loosen up around a select few people but when he's with me he showed me a side of him that the others even his closest friends don't see.

"Fine I'll be her bodyguard just because you say please." He ruffled my hair and smile.

"Thanks kiddo." He kissed my forehead and walk out of the room.

"No problem dad." I said.

"I heard that!" He yelled outside. I smile and go back to shooting the target. Tomorrow I'll be a bodyguard for the spoiled brat princess named Cassandra.

Thanks for reading. Votes and comments are welcome.

Casanova.