April was sitting on the floor in the locker room. Phil was trying to get ready for his tag match tonight with John. Maria was supposed to be there watching over April so Phil could go wrestle, but she had hurt her ankle a little bit during her match so she was still getting checked on by the trainers. "Who's coming in here to watch me?" April
asked.
"Sandman and Rob," Phil answered. He finished stretching one leg and started working on the other one. "Now you have to promise to behave yourself and not act too weird. I don't need them asking questions I can't give the answers to."
She glared at him. "I am not weird. You're weird. So suck on those apples, Big Brother."
Sandman, Candice and Rob came into the room before Phil could respond to that. "Hey kid," Sandman said as he ruffled April's hair.
"I'm not a kid," April protested.
"Yeah Sandman, she's not a kid," Rob said. "She's all grown up."
Candice helped April get up to her feet. "Have you been working on that dance I showed you?"
Phil groaned. "Please tell you me you're not talking about what I think you're talking about."
April started doing the sexy dance Candice had taught her to do. It was from something called a GoDaddy commercial. Now what exactly GoDaddy was, April was not sure. But the dance was supposed to be sexy and it was fun to do, so she did it anyway.
Sandman, Rob and John (who had just arrived to get Phil) clapped in appreciation for her efforts. April took a bow and then waved at John. "Hi."
"Hi," John replied. "You having fun here?"
"I'm doing my best."
Phil sighed and walked over to April. "Please be good," he said as he kissed her on the forehead. "Can you do that for me?"
April nodded. "Yeah, I guess so."
That seemed to satisfy him. He and John left, leaving her alone with three babysitters that really wouldn't be able to stop her if she wanted to do something. Not that she was planning on doing something she wasn't supposed to. She didn't want to upset Phil too much.
"You want to watch the match?" Rob asked. He was already turning on the monitor.
April nodded. She really did want to see Phil wrestle. He and Maria still were convinced that she couldn't handle it. This was her chance to prove them wrong.
"So why haven't you wrestled anymore?" Sandman asked as the wrestlers on the screen began to make their entrances. "I saw your match with Bam Neeley. That shit you did to him was awesome. You could make a lot of money beating the shit out of people like that."
"Phil doesn't think it's a good idea," April replied. She didn't take her eyes off of the monitor. "He wants me to be a normal girl."
Candice shook her head. "A normal girl? What's normal anyway?"
April shrugged. "I don't know." She watched the match intently, barely restraining herself from yelling out advice to Phil. Honestly, she saw plenty of opportunities that he could have taken advantage of and put down his opponents for good. Maybe it was a good thing she wasn't allowed to be in any more wrestling matches. All she could think about was taking down other people as quick as possible. She was obviously missing the entertaining the fans part of the wrestling match.
Phil and John won, and they came back to the locker room with Maria, who was feeling better. Candice, Rob and Sandman left, having fulfilled their duty for the night. "Hey, the brakes on my car have been giving me a lot of trouble," John said. "Can you give me a ride back to the hotel?"
"Sure man," Phil said.
April grinned. She was happy to hear that John was riding with them. It would give her a chance to talk to him.
The four of them got their stuff and went out to the parking lot. As they were walking, April noticed a white van near Phil's car. A girl no older than thirteen and a man wearing a white coat was standing by it. They looked up at her and she suddenly knew something bad was about to happen. "Go back in the arena," she told the others. "Now!"
Maria frowned. "But why? What's wrong?"
The man whispered something to the girl and the girl's whole demeanor changed. April recognized it instantly. The girl had been triggered. She was an assassin. Only she was one April had never seen before. She hadn't been in the lab April had been kept in. Which could only mean there had to be more of them out there. Doesn't this ever stop? April thought to herself.
The girl reached for a gun. April was quicker, and she shot the gun out of the girl's hands. She also shot the man while she was at it. He was going to give her some answers, whether he liked it or not.
"April!" Phil yelled. "What the hell are you doing?"
April didn't answer. She pushed the others back as the girl got up to her feet and charged at her. They fought for a few minutes, but April managed to knock her out quite easily. Either the girl's training was not as well done as hers, or the poor thing was on her first mission. Either way, it didn't matter. The girl was no longer a threat at the moment.
The man in the white coat was trying to crawl away. "Where the hell do you think you're going?" April demanded. She hit him on the back of the head with her gun. "You're coming with me you bastard." She turned around and saw that Phil, Maria and John were staring at her in shock. "What? This asshole was going to make the girl kill us. They had to be stopped."
"What, was she like an assassin or something?" John asked.
April nodded. "Yeah, she's an assassin like me. But you can't tell anybody because Phil gets all pissy."
John gave her two thumbs up. "Okay. You're secret dies with me." He looked at Phil. "I kind of wish I had an assassin for a sister. It would solve a boat load of problems."
