A/N: I decided Mirage needed some luv XD

Title: The Mercenary
Summary: everyone has to earn a living somehow... only... some jobs, are more dangerous than others.
Part 1

"You ready?" a male voice asked. He was in the shadows so the client he was talking to, couldn't make out a face.

"My money?" a female voice reasoned

"Here," he spoke and slid a medium sized envelope across the brown-ish mahogany table. She picked it up and looked inside, there neatly pilled was half a million.

"There's only half here!" she growled

"Easy. You'll get the rest when I get the files I want." He responded smoothly

"And if I get caught?" she asked

"You're a smart girl; you won't get caught." He smirked showing a row of pearly white teeth in the shadows.

"I'll take that as a compliment," she narrowed her amber eyes then left the room quietly.

The female navigated through the plain white painted hallways and opened the silver door to the street then merged into the crowds, she reached into a pouch on her black belt and picked out a pair of black sun-glasses and placed them securely on her face as she passed three police officers. Moving swiftly, she crossed the road and unlocked her black jeep. She placed the keys in the ignition then merged into the traffic and was lost in the sea of cars.

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"We lost her," an officer spoke

"How could you loose her? She was just there!" another argued. They were watching the surveillance cameras from the street

"It appears that, if this girl doesn't want to be caught; she won't be caught." The chief officer cut in,

"She's a mercenary... she works for anyone who pays, she has to be caught!" one of the two officers argued

"...Be my guest," the chief motioned to the door "you'll be the first one on the body count. It seems she has a new job, a new motive to go on...What could it be this time?" he pondered, rubbing his cleanly shaved chin thoughtfully.

"Do we have a name yet?" the other officer asked frowning

"Raven, we caught it on a surveillance tape. A partner, five months ago...her name was Cyph she called the girl, Raven. Then had her life ended in a bloody massacre, be it a code name or her real name, we don't know for sure... but every time that girl gets a job, we fill a morgue with the bodies that pile in. Whoever she's after... God help them."