A.N. I told you guys that I would be making a story set in the Grand Theft Auto universe. Well, here it is. I think that all my characters will be OC's, with possibly some mention or interaction with the actual characters of the series.

I should mention now, that I in no way own the Grand Theft Auto universe, nor any of the canon characters from the games. The own thing I own is the ideas of my OC's.

All that being said, I hope you enjoy the ride.

It's Just Business: Part 1- Silence and White Noise

I remember being told by a friend of mine once, that silence is supposed to be golden, yet the hustle and bustle of everyday life means that very few people recognize just what true silence is. Certainly, I thought I knew what true silence was, but that same friend showed me just how wrong I was.

Because true silence is not shutting the door to your apartment after a particularly harrowing day at work. True silence is not just silence of the world around you, it is the silence of your mind and emotions as well.

The only time I can recall experiencing true silence is immediately after I carried out my first contract killing. It was very amateurish in its execution, looking back. I was being paid twenty thousand dollars to knock off a drug dealer that had started getting a little too aggressive in his expansion of his territory. It took place in a small apartment in Broker. I had snuck in through an open window eariler in the day and injected a heavy sedative into the target's dinner which had been reheated while he watched Princess Robot Bubblegum. I hid in his bathroom while he ate and was moving towards the kitchen when the phone in his bedroom rang. I had darted back into the bathroom as he walked into the bedroom from the dining room. I had intended to wait until he had finished his phone call before I was going to snuff him, but as he walked past the bathroom door he glanced back and noticed that it was ajar. He had moved into the bathroom and had come face to face with me.

In my defense, I had been caught off guard and was too slow to stop him from pulling his gun. I was quick enough to slam the edge of my hand against his throat, however, which temporarily crushed his windpipe and knocked his aim off enough to miss me completely and hit the mirror, which splintered the glass. Even though he was fighting for breath, he still tried to fire another shot.

I say tried, because I managed to put my thumb over the hammer just as he pulled the trigger. I had twisted the gun from his grasp and had, as if automatically, stuck the muzzle into his gut and fired. As he fell back against the shower's glass door, I knew I had to finish the job, so I raised the gun and shot him twice in the chest. He began to choke on the blood in his throat, which squeezed the little sympathy I had for this guy out in the big action of me raising the gun one final time and shooting him through the head.

As I fell back against the sink, I watched the blood slowly begin to trickle down his face from the small 9mm hole in his forehead, and felt the entire world fall quiet around me. My mind and emotions completely disappeared as I watch the blood drip from his chin onto his white tank top.

How long I sat there for, I don't know. But I do know that I eventually began to hear sirens and that's when my mind kicked back into gear.

Everything screamed at me to run.

So I did.

Keeping a firm hold on the pistol, I ran from the bathroom and jumped out of the same window I'd come in through, falling about three metres onto a roof. I quickly made my way down the fire escape of the building, jumping from the final flight of stairs and rolling as I hit the ground, springing up and clamoring into my car as I pulled out onto the street, barely getting fifty metres before I saw police flying past on the other side of the road, lights and sirens blaring.

A.N. Well, that's the first chapter for you guys. I hope you enjoyed. For the next chapter, I will be shifting into Los Santos, and the present day. For those that weren't aware, this chapter takes place in Liberty City in about 2014. The next chapter will take place in 2017.

Again, I hope you enjoyed. Until next time, guys. I'm out.