"Come on in"

The woman in the doorway smiled and pushed the door wide with her left arm keeping her right arm tucked behind her hip. Now call me paranoid but that instantly put me on my guard. What was in her right hand?

I stepped through the door keeping her in my line of sight; she smiled at me all the way till I was in the hall facing her, with my back to the rest of the house. It made my spine crawl not knowing what was behind me, but, unless the Intel sucked more than usual I was safe and I wasn't turning my back on this woman to check.

She looked at me, still smiling, "Who are you?" she asked. I laughed then, and even I could tell it wasn't a nice laugh. A frown crossed her face.

"What's so funny?" she sounded pissed. I have that effect on people.

"You are hon' you are."

"I don't understand?"

"Come on hon', you open the door before I've even rung the bell. You then invite me in with that sugar sweet smile on your face, and then you ask me who I am? I gotta ask hon' are you usually this dumb or am I getting special treatment?" I started laughing again.

She stood there frowning "I still don't see how that's funny?"

I smiled then and it wasn't a nice smile, but heh, I wasn't a nice person. "You will hon' you will."

And before she could even blink, I pulled my gun and shot her twice in the chest, she crumpled against the wall with a startled look on her face. She slid slowly down the wall to the floor, leaving a crimson smear on the white wall. I came to stand over her and she raised her head to look at me with such terror in her eyes. I kicked the gun from her right hand as it hit the carpet; it went spinning across the hall and hit the opposite wall.

She coughed and a trickle of blood ran from the corner of her mouth down her chin. "Why? Why?" she whispered. I leaned in closer to her so my mouth was right by her ear and whispered,

"Cause hon', paybacks a bitch and so am I." I sat back on my heels and cupped her chin with my thumb before it could fall. "Oh and hon'?" She looked at me "Mister Luthor sends his regards." I saw comprehension dawn on her as I gripped her face with both hands and with a sharp twist and a crack, snapped her neck.

I let go and stood as she slumped to the left, staring with sightless dead eyes, her face frozen forever with that look of terrifying knowledge. I turned and walked towards the front door in the deathly silence, when it was broken by a harsh ringing. I reached in to my jacket and pulled out my cell phone.

"Is it done?" demanded the dulcet tones of my employer.

"Well hello to you to hon'"

"Is it done?"

"Did you doubt me tiger?"

"This is no time for games! Is it done?"

"And dusted."

"Good. Now get back here. I have a new job for you."

"I'm on my way." I snapped the phone shut and put it away as I walked down the hall. I pulled the door shut behind me with a sigh. Another job huh? Isn't there always. As I turned to leave I wiped the moisture from my face.

"Damn rain." I muttered as I walked away under the clear starry sky.