The Don's Sweetener [18+]

20

Daily dose of mental health:

Ignore.

Hades hands me a shot gun. "Do you know how to use that?"

"Uh-huh." I say, examining the gun.

It looked really expensive with a solid metal body and a rimmed cartridge.

Like some one had it made and customized.

I find AHD initials carved on to the barrel.

Hmm! Someone did got it custom made.

"Okay." He said. His hand found it's way toward my hips and held me steady. "Line your arm." He ordered. "Steady." He admonished softly as my hands literally trembled as I extended my arm.

There was no targets and to be honest I was really bad a shooting.

Like bad.

I had to take extra training for that part. I was an okay combat soldier but was terrible at fire arm.

"Easy Lucia." He warned again, his hand now softly rubbing the sides of my waist.

And did it help? Did it make it easy? No! It didn't.

And my brain didn't make anything easy either. It's dumb where it needs to work on full power.

"You're bad at this." He snickered as he helped to put my arms straight in front of me aiming at an invisible target.

"Will I get an ear muff?" I ask.

"No." He says impassively as he lets go, slowly, his touch lingering behind.

I pout. "Don't pout." He says. "Is that how you got into the academy?"

Sheesh talk about criticism!

I turn to see him sitting on a chair behind a computer pressing some buttons.

"Take your aim, Lucia. You're already bad as it is." He says not looking up.

"I want an earmuff." I demand.

"You won't have a fluffy earmuff in the battlefield." He reasons.

"Well I want to sleep and you aren't helping, and I don't want to do this." I say.

"Take your aim. I am setting you on the lowest level, now."

"What?" I snort. "I want to sleep"

"Take your aim."

And I hear a hissing sound, turn forward to see a couple of single dimensional mannequin coming out of slits that has opened up from the ground.

I shriek in surprise.

The mannequins had little dots and big dots. The bigger ones were in the middle of the chest, between the eyes, base of the throat.

"Ten points for getting through the bigger dots and one for the little dots." Hades explained coming up behind me.