Chapter 21

"You're doing what?!" Shouted Raye, Mina, and Lita together.

"We're breaking into UA." Darien repeated "But of course not without the help of you lovely ladies."

"What makes you think we're going to be able to help you?" Raye asked.

"Well it is your school. You guys are the best tour guides to the place. Why wouldn't you be able to help us?" Chad asked.

"Hmm I don't know… let's see… Oh I know, our organizations believe us to be dead! We can't exactly just walk in and say 'Hi did you miss us?" Mina responded harshly.

"Aww sweetheart we're not asking you to just walk in there! That's why it's called breaking-n-entry!" Andrew said sarcastically while wrapping his arm around Mina's waist. Mina on the other hand pushed him away.

"Don't be a smart ass drew! And what makes you think you can even break in!" Mina said with an angry look on her face.

"Again, that's why you all are coming with us! So we know where all the security alarms are" Andrew said while giving it a second try on wrapping his arm around Mina, this time he succeeded, but only because Mina was distracted by Raye.

"So will someone please tell me the purpose of doing this?" Raye asked.

"We're trying to see when Eric and Raven will be meeting next," Darien responded.

"And once we find that out we can corner them, get information and then put a bullet through their skull's and be done with it," Greg said.

"I don't know guys, this all sounds great when you say it out loud, but like I said its easier said than done, " said Amy while sitting down in a chair in front of Greg. Raye, Mina, and Lita nodded their heads in agreement. Silence fell over the assassins. They were torn and the tension in the room was building and Serena could feel it. She knew if she went along with Darien's plan, her friends would deem her crazy, but the plan was a good one, there was no denying that. If they got into the school and found Eric's little black book they would be closer in finding out who really wanted them dead. Eric and Raven might have thought up the idea on how to get rid of them while doing their own dirty work in the process, but something was telling her that it wasn't Eric and Raven who wanted to get rid of them, someone else had that in mind, and she was determined to find out who that person was. And with that she spoke up.

"We'll be glad to help you, Darien."

"WHAT!" The girls shouted.

"Serena, I'm official taking you to a mental institution" Raye said coming around the table towards Serena. Serena let out a short giggle and backed away.

"Listen to me. If we do this we'll be a step closer to finding the third party in this whole thing," Serena said trying to reason with her friends.

"If there's even a third party." Lita mumbled to Ken. Serena gave her a glare but ignored the comment.

"Okay, well its decided then. We leave at 0800." Darien said. Raye, Mina, Amy, and Lita grumbled something under their breaths and walked out of the room with their respective lovers. Darien turned to Serena and wrapped his arms around her waist and smiled down at her.

"Thank you." He said. She smiled back at him and he leaned down to kiss her. He captured her lips in a simple kiss and Serena loved it.

"How awake are you?" Serena mumbled into the kiss. Darien gave a short chuckle and broke the kiss.

"Why?" Darien asked with a husky look in his eyes. Serena rolled her eyes and lightly pushed Darien away.

"That's not what I had in mind. You're going to help me train." Serena said.

"What?!" Darien questioned. Serena giggled.

"You're going to help me train. Meet me in the back in five minutes," Serena said walking to the doorway and turning around. "Oh and I would put on all you gear, guns included." With that Serena turned and left the room.

Five minutes later found Serena and Darien in the backyard of Melvin's county home, dressed in all black and in full gear. Serena wore black shorts and a black wife beater with black high heels boots that came up to her knees. Darien wore black shorts with a black t-shirt.

"Okay Darien, don't go easy on me. pretend we're back at Chris's mansion and we don't know each other. You can use any weapon you want." Serena explained.

"I don't think your friends would take it too lightly if I shot you, love." Darien said with a sarcastic smirk on his face.

"One, I don't think they would care too much at the moment if you shot me Darien, I think they were planning on doing it anyway, and two I have a form fitting vast on. See." Serena said lifting up her shirt to show Darien what she was talking about. The vast looked like another shirt that fit her body nicely. "It's a new thing that the organization invented. It's saved my life a couple of times. So, if you done being a pussy we can start the training session." Darien smirked again and nodded his head.

"Okay, but let's make a little wager" Darien said with mischief laced throughout his voice. Serena nodded her head in agreement. "If I win you can find your way into my bed tonight. If you win, well you can set your own terms."

"Okay Mr. Shields if I win you have to do anything and everything I say for this entire mission. That means here and anywhere else we might be." Serena said. Darien thought this over for a moment and nodded his head. "Okay, let's begin."

Serena got into her fighting stance and Darien got into his. Serena slowly moved closer and then in one swift moment punched Darien in the jaw. Darien's head snapped backwards, but when he faced Serena again he had a smirk plastered on his.

"Come on babe, you hit like a girl." Murder raged in Serena's eyes after he had said this. She threw another punch at him but Darien easily dodge it. He quickly dropped down and swiped Serena's legs from up under her. Serena hit the ground hard. Darien laughed as he circled around her as she got to her feet. Serena suddenly lunged forward and tackled Darien onto the ground. She drew her fist to punch him but he was quicker than she had realized. Darien flipped her over so that he was now straddling her. He swiftly punched her in the face before she could even react. Serena tired to retaliate by head-butting him but again Darien predicted her movement and caught her forehead in mid but. He grabbed a hand full of her bangs and punched her in the face again. He then quickly rolled off of her and got to his feet.

"Serena you're going to have to do better than that! You need to mind your surroundings. I can predict your every movement. Once you do an attack I automatically store it and remember the stages it took to do the attack. Switch it up! gave me something different. I know they trained you well, so let me see what they've put in my lover's head." Serena climbed to her feet and quickly got into her fighting stance. Darien smirked and sprinted towards her. Serena quickly glanced to her right side to see a tree nearby. She smirked just as Darien was about to make his move she quickly darted to the tree and rebounded off of it and landed a side kick into Darien's face. Darien rebounded quickly and pulled his gun out of his holster and pulled the trigger. Serena saw the gun being pointed in her direction and did a series of back handsprings to avoid the bullets. Then, in mid-back flip she caught a bullet in the chest. She let out a yelp of pain as the bullet embedded itself in her vest and she crumpled to the ground. Darien causally put his gun back in his holster and softly whistled a tune as he walked over to Serena, who was lying face down on the ground. He rolled her over with his boot and crouched down next to her. Serena had her hand over her chest where the bullet was lodged and was panting heavily. Darien let out a long and drawn out whistle.

"You gonna be okay?" he asked with little concern his voice.

"Mother--ahhhhh!" Serena let out a painful scream as Darien stepped on her chest where the bullet had slammed into her vest. Darien sighed and put a little more pressure on the vest wound, which Serena gave a pitiful groan, as if she were on the brink of crying.

"Miss. Wilson you're in no position to be calling me anything other than sweet names." Darien said with a hint of sarcasm. Darien kindly lifted his foot from off Serena's chest, in which she gave audio sigh of relief. She then rolled over onto her side and dislodged the bullet from her vest. After a minute or so Darien spoke.

"So are you going to continue to whining or are you going to fight me? … have I won the wager that easily?" Serena looked up at Darien with rage and murder in her eyes . She pushed back onto her hands and kicked upward so she stood upright again. Serena drop down like she was going to kick Darien's legs out from under him, but when Darien reacted to this Serena flipped backward in a cat-like motion: kicking Darien in the face. Once Darien was stunned by the kick Serena ran forward and pushed hard off the ground. She soared over Darien as she took out her favorite 9mm sliver handgun from its holster. She landed behind Darien and pressed the barrel of the gun to the back of his head. Darien mockingly held up his hands and let out a short chuckle.

"It looks like I win." Serena said panting heavily with a smile plastered on her face.

"Yeah I guess your right love, great job," Darien said congratulating Serena.

"You rea-" Darien swiftly pivoted on his heels and grabbed Serena's gun from her grasp and then elbowed her in the face. Serena fell to the ground and Darien swiftly walked forward and pointed the gun in her face.

"NEVER let your guard down! Just because it's me doesn't mean you can turn off all your bells and whistles!" Darien said a little harshly. He helped Serena up and wiped the blood that was starting to run from her nose. Darien gave a sigh let his voice come to rest at a calm state. "Babe, you're better than that. You and I both know you didn't become one of the world's most deadly assassins by letting your guard down. So please, don't start now." Serena nodded head let Darien pull her into her into his embrace. They stood like this for a moment until Serena happily broke their silence.

"I guess you've won the wager." Serena said with dangerous smirk playing on the edge of her lips. Darien gave a deep laugh and smiled down at her.

"I'm going to call this one a tie." Darien said.

"Okay, well I think it's a perfect time for me to find my way into your bed." Serena said seductively. Darien smiled.

"For once Wilson, I think I'm going to agree with you." Darien said as he and Serena made their way back to the house.