Assassin or Agent

Chapter 9

Kate's POV

My heart was beating as I remember my first kiss, with Dan. I had never felt this way about anyone before, and of all people, Dan. I smile as I recall a memory from the training camp. Every 5 years, they take us all out on a trip, the only outing we would ever get, and when I was 10, they took us to a river. We spent hours in the water before having a barbeque dinner, followed by a game of cricket. I had just got one of the older boys out, one that was really good a cricket too, when Dan ran up and hugged me. Being a ten-year-old, I was so excited about winning that game of cricket I never let myself forget that day.

"Those ae some bruises you have here," said the nurse, waking me from my trance. On the way back to the base, Frank had insisted that we stop of at the MI9 hospital to get checked over.

"Yeah," I grunt, wincing as she applied pressure to my back.

"I'm just going to put some ointment on them, should heal up soon enough," I smiled at her when she finished and I noticed that Dan was in the medical bay opposite.

"You alright?" I asked, seeing his face properly after the blood had been washed away.

"Yeah, it's not broken so I should be fine." He didn't have to say it to for me to know he was talking about his nose.

"Good," I say smiling. He dragged me onto his lap and started playing with my hair while we waited for Frank to finish talking to the MI9 head nurse.

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Dan's POV

Kate smiled up as me as we entered the base. I was holding her hand and she squeezed it slightly before heading off to talk to Keri. Sighing, I headed over to talk to Frank.

"What do we do with Zoe?" I asked, as Frank looked up from his tablet.

"Nothing, there's no MI9 rule stating what she did was wrong," Frank seemed frustrated, and he was right to be.

"So we just let her back onto the team?" I said in frustration. How could we just let her back on the team? She was going to let Kate die. I glanced over at Kate again before Frank began talking.

"Unfortunately, yes. We will have to keep an eye on her." Swearing to myself, I walked over to Tom, hoping I would be able to take my anger out on him.

"Why did you kiss Kate," Tom said, straight out. Confused I tried to think of an answer.

"Ummm… Because…" Tom looked at me questionably, before he replied.

"She's pretty, I get that, she has some pretty neat skills, I get that, but you messed up Zoe real bad." I could see his point; Zoe had been acting differently.

"Alright team, off you go, school starts soon," Frank said before I could reply, "but Dan could you stay behind please?"

"Bye Dan! See you in maths!" Kate called, walking to the lift.

"Bye," I grunted, turning to Frank, wondering what he wanted to say.

"Take a seat, I need to talk to you," He said, sitting down in one of the desk chairs.

"What is it?" I asked, leaning my head on the chair.

"It's about the protocol," Frank said it simply but straight away I knew what he was talking about. MI9 had a protocol that states that agents can't date other agents. Sighing, I kept listening to Frank, "Until you become a senior agent, it technically isn't allowed, but if you don't let Stella see, I'm sure you will be fine."

"What do you mean become a senior agent?" I asked, confused.

"I managed to get Stella to allow it in senior agents, still working on the junior agents." I laughed as Frank smiled.

"Good luck with that," I said, standing up, "I think you'll need it." Frank shook his head, still smiling as I exited the base, thinking about how to tell Kate about the protocol.

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I walk into the maths classroom and take my seat behind Kate. I watch her red hair as she sorts through the maths textbook she had on the corner of her desk.

"Alright class, I want you to do, page 78, exercise 6.5, questions 1 to 15, now quickly or the rest is homework!" I groan as Mrs King writes out the work on the whiteboard. I opened my book to the right page and looked at the overwhelming amount of questions. I quickly look at question 1a.

Find (f∘g)(x).

f(x)=6x+5

g(x)=3x

Write your answer as a polynomial in simplest form.

(f∘g)(x)=

I have to do a whole page of these? I thought to myself as I noticed Kate had already done half a page. Groaning, I take out my pencil and start working. I had never been good at maths, and that wasn't going to make this any easier.

oOo

"Finally!" I said as the bell goes, "That was horrible!" I still had half of it to do as homework, Kate was lucky as she finished early.

"I know!" Kate said while yawning, "I might just fall asleep during this assembly."

"Make sure you lean on Keri, not me" Tom grunts, moving out of Kate's way.

"Hey!" Keri said, shoving Tom, pretty hard too.

"You guys!" Kate said, laughing. I turned around and saw that Zoe was walking by herself, not talking to anyone. The others never really paid any attention to her anymore, and she deserved it. I faced forward again as we walked into the hall for the assembly. I didn't pay attention to any of the assembly and Kate did fall asleep, her head resting on my shoulder. I wasn't going to wake her until the end but Mr Flatley was talking and I was sure that she wanted to hear it.

"Well then students, I would just like to let all the year 12's know, that we will be having exams soon, in 1 month, so you better get studying!" No, was all I could think as we all stood up and exited the hall.

"How are we supposed to study when we are on mission's half of the time!" I said to the others as we walked towards the caretaker's closet.

"I still have 5 years of school to catch up on!" Kate said, equally annoyed as I was.

"Surely they won't make us do this?" Keri said, sounding frustrated as Kate placed her thumb on the scanner. I glanced around to see if Zoe was coming with us but she was no where to be seen. Giving up, I followed Tom into the lift as it flew downwards, heading towards the base. I looked over at Kate when we arrived and watched her sit down and take out her book. Feeling bad that I would have to tell her about the protocol, I considered putting it off but if I did I would never get round to it. Sighing I walked up to her and tapped her shoulder.

"Can I talk to you for a minute?" I asked her as she looked up.

"Sure," She said, closing her book.

"In private," I add, motioning my head towards the others.

"Ok," She said, obviously confused. She stood up and followed me down the corridor to the only room that didn't have cameras, the bathroom.

"The bathroom?" She said, looking around.

"Only room with out cameras," I grunt, looking at the floor and scratching the back of my neck.

"What do you have to tell me?" She questioned, picking up on my discomfort.

"Well, MI9 have this protocol..." I start, not sure what to say next, "well, basically, it's against MI9 rules for us to date… Until we are senior agents anyway."

"So I can't do this?" She asked before kissing me softly. I smiled as I kissed her back, losing my self control. I knew I shouldn't being doing this as she wrapped her arms around my neck and she pulled her face back so she could see my face. "So, can I?" she repeated.

"Well, just don't let Stella see," I laughed, bringing her closer and kissing her. I loved her, I knew that now. I just wish it hadn't taken so long for me to notice.

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Kate's POV

We had all eaten lunch and we still had an hour before the next lesson. Scanning my eyes across the room, I look for something to do. Noticing the large wooden sticks in the corner I walked up to them and picked them up. They were evenly balanced. Perfect for what I wanted.

"You going to use these?" I ask Tom, who shrugged in response. I threw one of the sticks onto the floor and passed one to Dan, leaving me with the last one.

"Do you remember how to fight?" He asked me, standing up from his chair.

"I was going to ask you the same question," I say back to him. I smile as I remember our duels from when we were young. We were evenly matched, but Dan had grown stronger, and I had grown stealthier. This was going to be interesting. I lifted up the stick so it covered my face but had it on an angle, so I could easily protect my torso.

"Wait, are they sword-fighting?" Keri asked confused. I didn't answer, as I took Dan's moment of distraction to strike at his side but he was too quick, blocking it quickly. We then sparred, a steady rhythm, the beat of wood against wood. He almost got my neck but I brought up the stick and blocked it. I smiled at him as I noticed he was panting just as much as I was. I ducked under his stick and as he was unbalanced, I came up again, the stick against his throat. Except it wasn't his throat. Somehow he had managed to block my strike and pushed me away before we fell back into that same rhythm. I would strike, he would block, he would strike, I would block. We both grew tired and my arms were hurting as we kept going, hit after block after hit. As I was about to give up, Dan left an opening in his guard, on the side of his torso, were I quickly bashed my stick. I would have cut him in half had it been a real sword.

"I win!" I say, with all the energy I had left. I sat down next to Keri to catch my breath as she congratulated me.

"Nice job! You beat Dan! And how did you learn to sword fight like that?" I look at her as I reply, still panting from the effort.

"At the training camp, and I might not be beating Dan next time," It was true, our skills were still even.

"Nice one Kate!" Tom said, looking at me while patting Dan on the back.

"How does it feel to be beaten by a girl?" Aneisha asked Dan as I laughed.

"Trust me, Dan is amazing at this, I was just a little bit better today," I said, I didn't want Dan to think he was bad.

"Next time, you better watch out!" Dan said, walking up to me.

"And I will be watching," I laughed, "very closely." The five of us head to the lift without a word being spoken after we heard the bell go. Some might say it was wrong to find sword fighting fun, but I definitely enjoyed that session, I thought to my self as Dan squeezed my hand quickly before we parted, heading to our different classes.

So, here is the chapter! This story will be finishing soon and won't have too much more action. Like I said in the first chapter, this is based more around Kate than the other agents.