Just take the shot

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Leo

I look through the scope to find the target walking out of the building. He starts to head towards east drive unaware he's being watch from the roof tops. I study the man I was to kill one last time. He was in his mid-thirty's or so. He lived a normal life or as normal as the kings tax personnel could. I take a steady breath then a silent bang rings.
Hi, my name's Leo and I'm a seventeen year old sniper for the rebel organization, Chaos. Today we took out the kings personal financial advisor. He deals with the kingdoms money. No advisor, less spending money for the kingdom.
Me and two other rebels were assigned to kill him. A sniper (me), a leader, and a tech person. Everyone else is in a room in the hotel below me. I came to the roof to take my shot.
"Ace, come in." Ace is my code name.
"I'm, here. Whatcha need."
"Eagle needs you back in here." Eagle is the leader of the mission, aka Alex my brother.
"On it. Be right there Glitch." Glitch is the best computer hacker on the planet. She's also my brother's girlfriend. Talk about a team.
I shoulder my gun and take the stairs to the top level rooms. We book every single one of them on this level so no one would see us. We used different names for each room so it didn't look to suspicious, but still it's weird.
I walk up to the room and knock. Alex opens the door and lets me in.
"Alright, now that the slowpoke is here we can report back to HQ." Alex announces.
"Give me a sec. I need to put my gun up." I walk to the couch which has my gun case laying on. I safely put my gun in. My gun is my most prized possession. Given to me by my father and leader of Chaos, it holds a lot of memories. Once my gun is secure I stand up.
"Let's go." We leave everything here for some other rebel to pick up later.
Outside the hotel everyone is a mess. They want to know who shot Mr. Owen. If only they knew the killer walked among them. What would they do? We walk towards the crime scene to make sure he is in fact dead.
"Ow!" I loom in front of me to find a very annoyed looking girl, about my age.
"Sorry." I blurt out, not really knowing why I'm sorry.
"It's fine. Just watch where you're going next time." I nod my head not being able to form words. The girl, who is definitely my age, seems to be looking right at me. Where I'm all dark colors she's bright with the blonde hair and crystal blue eyes. I have black hair and brown eyes. She breaks the unusual silence, "you coming to look at the body?"
"Yeah, just wanted to know if it was true."
"Oh, it is. Mr. Owen is dead. Shot straight through the chest just like the others. I wonder if it's a set up? Or if someone is planing these deaths?"
"Hmm." Is all I say. Whoever this girl is, she definitely is smart but then again Chaos hasn't tried to hide the deaths. We do them in public for a reason.
"Hey, Leo. Are you coming or not? We got to get home." My brother yells at me, clearly annoyed I stopped to talk.
"Yeah, I'm coming."
"It was nice meeting you Leo. I'm Alice."
"You too. Maybe will meet again."
"Maybe." With that she walks away towards the chaos of the crowd.
"Who was that?" Alex asks from beside me.
"I don't know, but her name is Alice and I think she's on to us."

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