Notes: This is definitely not for the weak of heart. It's a winter horror story, what do you expect?
Pairings: None YET..^_~
Warnings: UBER shortness, tiny bit of language, anti-religiousness
Disclaimer: Not mine. Why not? Too crazy. Like me! ^____^
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Again and Again
Prologue
"Damn." My fist slammed into the wall as I lurched to a halt. "Where are they?" This had been the third mission in a row to be a failure. It was simple really. We were to find the missing child, kill their captors and return the chibi to their home. So? Not only had we been unable to locate the child's exact whereabouts, we had no idea who was behind the kidnappings. No bodies had even been found.
Winter was coming on quickly and Christmas nearly upon the land. There was a festive feel to the air. No child should go missing now. They should be happily at home with their family by a warm fire.
Movement. Up ahead in a dimly lit corridor. I was in an abandoned warehouse basement. There was a swish of cloth and I was running again.
"Stop!" I turned on my headset. "Weiss, I've got someone up here. I'm on it. Level C, employees' wing."
"We'll be there." was the response from the three other assassins stationed in the buildings. I ran faster, just a turn behind the dark figure swathed in shadow in front of me. I was gaining, slowly, as they kept making sudden turns to try to lose me, it wasn't working. I grimly ran faster, intent on catching this strange person.
"Stop!" They didn't even look back. I threw my katana in a heartbeat, catching them in the leg. The figure went down hard and stayed there. My weapon skittered across the floor and halted. I cautiously went to retrieve it and stood over the fallen person.
"Who are you?" I asked, prodding them with booted toe.
"If I tell you, will it hurt God?"
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