Caught In The Mission

Twenty-Four

He's in the front room, tied up. He won't stop cussing me out though." Alex said, walking into the kitchen. I was currently trying to clean my face. I brought down my magnifying mirror and a first aid kit from my room, I was perched on the bar stool in front of the island table. My nose was turning purple by the side and just under my right eye, I had dry blood rolling from my rose to my lips. If it was Halloween right now I'd be ready to go. I brought the wet cloth to my nose gently dabbing the dry blood off, bringing my glance up to Alex who had made his way to my side, leaning his back on the counter and crossing his arms.

"Did you gag him? We don't need him shouting the house down." I asked looking into the mirror, checking I got all of it. "This is karma for that pool thing right.?" I said rolling my eyes at myself. "If I didn't laugh at you, I wouldn't be rocking this look right now." I continued.

Alex chuckled, turning around and resting his arms on the Island Table. "Karma works in mysterious ways." He said smugly.

"Whatever." I simply responded, having no energy to argue with him.

"Hey." He said turning his body to me and moving his left hand to my knee, "What if you get a couple punches in him before we talk to him." I looked up at him again, a smirk growing on my face. "If you were normal person I'd be very concerned that the thought of punching someone excites you."

"Well it's a good thing we aren't normal people." I said said smiling at him. As I smiled my nose pained a little, but I took the pain. This was nothing compared to the gun shots and stab wounds I'd endured.

"Does it hurt?" He asked keeping his hand on my knee. I didn't mind it, in fact I liked it.

"I've felt worse." I answered, remembering the injuries I'd endured in this line of work. "Remember the black eye you gave me in junior year?" I smiled slightly at the memory. Alex and I were training at the time. And the Captain had paired us up for that session Alex punched me in the face to get out of the hold I had, had him in resulting in a very nasty looking black eye.

He let out a laugh. He twisted my stool so we were directly in front of each other. "Yeah I remember you fractured my arm that day too." He said, humorously. That was true, it wasn't retaliation for the black eye, I wanted to win. And to do so I may have fractured his leg. He was fine it healed quickly.

We smiled at each other, remembering that day vividly. It was crazy to think how back then we only saw each other as competition but now? Now seeing him smile at me this way was making my stomach dance. "As much as I'm enjoying this moment we have a visitor back there." He said bringing us back to earth. He was right, as much as we both wanted to bask in this moment we had work to do.

I gave my face one last look before packing up my first aid kit, "Come on, let's see what this fückers got to say." I said jumping off the stool.

Walking into the front room, snake dude was sat on one of the dining chairs, his arms bound behind his back and his legs tied together, there was duct tap over his mouth shutting him up. He had his head rested back, his eyes closed but when he heard my shoes echoing on the wooden floors he shot his head up and glared at me, his eyes turning to razor spits. "I don't know why you look pissed, I'm the one rocking the shiner you gave me." I said walking in front of him.

He muffled something, his eyes returning to normal. I looked to Alex, who was giving the guy his unemotional look. It was something we were trained to do, hide emotions and show no weakness. Alex circles around next to me and rips the duct tape off him. Snake guy hisses in pain stretching his mouth before looking up at me smirking. "I said I can give you other things if you untie me." He said eyeing me up and down. There was nothing more unattractive than a sleazy cocky bad guy.