Are you one of us?

1. The beginning of the end.

He held her tightly in his arms, afraid to lose her after all this time. He was genuinely scared, maybe even terrified of the unknown that had the power to take her from his arms once again.

As his eyes travelled down, he let them fall on her face, which became paler by the second. The colour was draining from her face as the blood escaped from the wounds scattered over her body. He could see how she was slowly drifting away. He kept her close to him, hoping he would stop her from floating away. She was so close to him, yet so far.

"Happy thoughts, baby... it will be okay soon." A lonely tear ran down his cheek as he whispered in her ears. His eyes were bloodshot red from the number of tears that had left his eyes. It was the whispers that comforted her in this terrifying moment, a moment of pure uncertainty. The girl who once was as fearless as a lion and as cunning as a fox had now become as vulnerable as a foundling.

He kissed her forehead and whispered softly in her right ear. "You can rest now, baby." His voice held a low tone, knowing it would break at any given time. "You have been strong for long enough." His voice eventually cracked. However, he kept himself strong enough to make her feel safe in his arms for one last time...

A small smile made its way onto her lips, once red as roses, as she closed her ocean blue eyes. The eyes that he loved to drown himself in, to lose himself in when the time was difficult. The eyes that brought him comfort were now gradually closing. He was slowly losing her, and there was nothing he could do to stop it from happening.

As she had one last look at the world she would be leaving behind, she gazed at him, the one who gave and received so much love. He had become her world, as she had become his future.

One last breath left her mouth, the mouth where so much laughter and love came from shut close forever. No more loving words, no more laughter, no more snarky remarks would leave her lips. One last tear escaped her eyes as her eyelids gave in and led her to drift into the unknown darkness. One last time, before she went away. Away on a journey unknown to the living and familiar to the dead.

He chose to love a beautiful girl that held so much more than just beauty. She was intelligent, loving, and funny, but most of all, she was brave. She came from a different part of the world and had a different culture and language, but she learned to love and accept him in the end. Even if her past and future were not that colourful, he decided that he would colour it in. They smiled at each other's faces and never cared about the consequences that would follow them behind, consequences that were bound to take them away from one another.

They loved each other till the end, maybe even after the dead parted them, because their love never died. It would continue to live on in the fairytales that would be told about them. Their story would never end. And maybe even in the afterlife, they would fall in love again, sharing more moments as they watched those who loved them.

The boys came closer to the room the two were currently in, the room where they lay on the ground holding on to one another as if their lives depended on it, which, in the end, it did. When they almost reached the room, they heard something that would haunt them for the rest of their lives. As their feet sped up, as fast as their legs could carry them, the boys reached the door but got stopped with a loud bang.

They heard a gunshot being fired...

Earlier that year.
As all the imported agents of the company had assembled in the meeting room, the boss started to speak of the missions. Many had simple jobs like assassinating a gangster boss or keeping a president safe.

The attention went towards the youngest and the best agent that the agency had since her late father. All the attention went to her because the boss had assigned all the agents a job except her. He pointed to a photograph of a man and then to her. The faces of the agents that sat on the chair in the meeting rooms fell as they understood where this was leading to.