Infiltration(ON HOLD)

Chapter three

The last thing I remembered was the pain in my shoulders and lower back when I left Derek's room.

I had woken up in my bed , and I found out from my bedside clock that I had slept for an entire day. I was out like dead. I didn't remember myself getting into bed.
I can go for a couple of days now without sleep , now that I had my fill.

I decided to go for a run. I need to think in peace. Going for a run brought me peace. Other than holding a gun running was the only time I felt strong.

I ran around the block. It was always quiet around here. There was never too much traffic , never too many pedestrians. It was like this ever since the virus. Most People stayed inside , getting out only when it was necessary, even after the restrictions were removed. People were afraid even after the danger was over, even after the vaccine. It was this fear the government and institutions like Asgrin fed on. What made them always seem right in the eyes of the people.

Not anymore. There were questions arising. Displeasure in the action of the government. Opposition expressed. All in a small scale.

Maybe groups like The Horsemen would enlarge the scale. People wouldn't be afraid anymore if they have men like them fighting in the frontline. Someone questioning the government with evidence and fearlessness would be the exact trigger ordinary people needed to see the unfairness around them.

The government wanted to destroy The Horsemen. Leave them weak and hurting. It would set the perfect example for anybody who wished to follow their path.

They wanted an assassin like me so their name wouldn't be pulled to the dirt.

I would have gladly done it. I had never liked men who claimed to right the wrong. The ones I knew who claimed so , always did it to feed their ego.

Show people their weakness. Brainwash them into believing they need you to fight for them. Make them beleive that you are good. Make them beleive in a better tomorrow. These men instilled hope in people only to crush them. Crush them till they bled.

I had been given hope and then crushed. I would gladly end anybody who wanted to do the same. But I had my weakness too. I would lose control . I would be forced into the dark place in my brain, one that I hated , if I were ever to come across that man.Vicious.

I knew Martha would probably threaten me with Alexander. I would gladly take it. It will him who'll suffer this time. I wasn't the weak ten year old who he once knew. Even if I failed it would be better than me being around Vicious. I would chose Alexander the lesser of the two evils.

I stopped my run. This should do for today.

Martha was waiting for me when I returned.

She smiled.
"Sweetheart. You disappointed me." She said.

"It wouldn't be the first time." I said.

"I am here to convince you." She says.

"Are you going to threaten me,  by telling me that you'll send me to your husband?" I challenge her.

"Nope. I didn't know you thought so less of me. I know that threat stopped working on you ever since you became strong enough to pull a trigger without blinking. My husband would be six feet under the ground if I ever send you to him now."

I smirked.

"But you know that I have something of yours. Something close to your heart or whatever remains of it. Which is why you haven't already put a gun through my and my husband's head."

I clenched my teeth.

"You wouldn't to-"

"I wouldn't. I have an offer."

This was not what I was expecting but knowing Martha I knew it wouldn't be nice.

"What would that be?"

"I'll give you what is yours. And in return you'll do this."

I scoffed.

"You wouldn't give up the control you have on me. I might stop working for you and I am the best you have got."

She would never. I'll up and leave the minute she does that. It was the thing that kept me bound to her. The thing that made me put up with her husband for 6 years. The longest 6 years.

"I'll do it. I give you what you have always wanted and I'll free you from your job as an added bonus."

"Why? Why now?"

"Let's just say that I have something I want , in line for me if you do this. Something big."

"Why me?"

"You said it yourself. You are the best I have got."

She can go fuck herself. This was bullshit. I knew there were other reasons.

"No , that's not the only reason."

" I know something. You'll do this because deep down you want to do it no matter how much you deny it. You know how pretenceous they are. At the end of this you'll do it. You'll want to put a bullet through Callypso's head
Maybe you'll enjoy some time with your old friend. Your old friend. Vicious."

Ofcourse she knows. Why wouldn't she I had emptied my hear to her that day. She knew about the man I ran from , the price of my heart and the boy I left behind the day she saved me. She had heard me. She promised me to get me what I wanted , the price of my heart and she did. But she didn't give it to me like she promised. She kept it. She used it. Just like the man did.

"He wouldn't know it's you. It's been 10 years and above all you have changed so much. He wouldn't know."

He might not. Nothing about me was the same. I was weak before. But it was a risk still. I had identified him without knowing him for ten years. He might find out its me.

"Think about it. You'll finally be free. Really free this time. And you are not taking it because of a small fear. Fear of something that has a good possibility of not happening."

"I'll do it" I said.
Bullshit. I was back at square one. Or maybe I never did move from square one.

I was doing it. Martha knew better than to trick me. She was going to stick to her part of the bargain. I knew it.

I would just have to be careful around Viscous. I'll have to avoid him without drawing attention to me. I can do that I knew , how I didn't know.

I might as well take the risk for what awaited me at the end of this. The thought of getting what I wanted filled me with euphoria. Gone was the fear.

"You need figure out how you get inside on your own. What to do once you are inside would be told to you." She said.

I decided to get onto it as soon as I was in my room. I searched every online information on them. I came up nothing helpful. All were vague theories ideas. They seemed very private and careful with their online data.

I had almost given up on online search and decided to find information the hard way.
That was when I found a blog. The writer claimed to be an ex- horsemen. I didn't buy that.

But it did have something I found interesting.

They say that you can arrange yourself a meeting with  Callypso if you ask for him here. It's said to a myth. No one had ever known to try this before. But my experience tells me not everything that sounds impossible is a myth.

Below it was the details of a Madam and where to find her.
There was a high chance that the man was bluffing. But something made me feel otherwise.

I need to talk to  this women to find out if I am right. I need to find her brothel and  talk to Magnolia Martin.