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As the Swedes made it the bottom of the stairs, they immediately separated. They were like shadows as they took different positions. Axel behind the front window so he could see who was coming out of the cars. He peaked his head out a bit to as men in black suits exited the car. One by one they were pulling out guns.
Otto hid at the entrance of the hall and Oscar remained behind the wall that separated the living room and the small space between the back door. None of them cared who these men were, all that mattered was that they all died tonight. Axel counted four cars, four men in each. He looked to his brothers and signaled to his brothers four fingers flexing them four times to show how many were coming. Otto and Oscar looked at each other with frowns before pulling out another gun so both their hands had a gun in it. Axel then moved silently toward the door and positioned himself in the space behind it, his guns held up to his face. The door would hide him once it opened. They would have to be quick for they didn't know if their guns were loud or not. Luckily they were in a perfect triangle. They just needed the majority inside. Axel looked over toward the stairs and once against at his brothers, his eyes telling them that not one intruding foot should even step foot on the bottom step. His brothers just stared back coldly before nodding. He then looked down upon noticing the doorknob was starting to jiggle some, its lock being tested.
The noise made them all tense, but they were ready. And just like that the doorknob fell onto the ground making a firm thud and the door was finally opening slowly and quietly letting in the rumbling of the storm. Axel just frowned as the door quietly covered him. None of the brothers were afraid. Their hands didn't tremble as the door opened and the mystery men began to silently flood the room like the rats they were. The only thing that mattered was the woman upstairs sound asleep dreaming peacefully. The men had their guns pointed and moving about silently as all sixteen men began to move inside taking up the majority of space. When a random hand closed the door, the Swedes had all aimed and fired. Three silent shots connected with three heads. Three bodies feel and the rest aimed and fired in the direction, but each brother ducked, rolled swiftly to the position of the other brother.
They took note of the silencers being used and they all aimed from their new positions and fired the six guns they held as a whole and six more bodies dropped from the bullets disappearing into the intruder's skulls. Nine had dropped. Seven left. The remainders quickly scattered. Oscar was the first to leave his hiding spot from the hall as he was always confident with attacking with the darkness as his ally. He removed two of his knives and as one of the men in black raised his gun to fire, he quickly sliced into the man's wrist and he dropped his gun, a yelp close to escaping him. But the youngest Swede grabbed him, spun him around and pulled him to his chest and used one hand to cover his mouth while his other hand slit his throat. Six to go. Oscar used the dead body and pushed it on another man who caught it.
Otto came out now from his position in the door and raised his gun to the back of his head and fired. Five left. The remaining five raised their guns to fire on the boys, but they forgot about the oldest brother who fired on them one by one, his hands are fast, his eyes are sharp even in the dark so he didn't miss a target. One fell. Two fired, but missed and hit the wall pissing all the brothers off now that the wall was ruined. They fired swiftly now into the bodies of the remaining four by shooting them each multiple times in the face. The brothers kept their guns raised as they looked around for a second. Axel looked back out the window to see no one was out there. Otto quietly, but quickly ran upstairs to check on the woman they love. She was sound asleep on her side and he sighed in relief.
He returned back down stairs and nodded to his brothers to confirm they were okay. Now they just looked at the bodies cutting on hallway light to finally see. The three brothers looked at the bodies on the ground thinking these guys were amateurs. Oscar looked almost disappointed as if they all died too quickly. Otto placed his hands on his hips in thought. Axel leaned over and began to search one of the bodies. He found a gold bad in the man's vest pocket and he leaned up now and observed it quietly.
Police from the city… the cop they killed long ago had the same one. Why were cops randomly showing up at their doorsteps with intent to kill?
"Well it looks like I missed the party." A low voice replied causing all three boys to turn toward the door and aim their weapons at the big man in the door way. But they didn't fire even though they all really wanted to. Hazel a lower ranked commissions assassin. Axel frowned and lowered his gun, walking up to him quickly and pushing the badge into Hazel's blue suit.
"Hey careful you're going to get blood on this and I can't get another one just yet." he warned. Axel shushed him heavily and pointed to the stairs. Hazel followed his finger and nodded understanding their escort was asleep none the wiser of what just happened. He then looked at the three brothers who just frowned. Otto and Oscar stood by their brother now waiting for an explanation as well.
"It seems these boys were planning a lynching against you three and that was my fault." he said and now the Swedes shook their heads together, eyes confused. "You know that cop you killed because he was fucking your escort well I just killed his partner not to long ago, because he was planning to be an an even dirtier cop and most likely harass your escort for answers on what happened to his partner- you know that you guys killed because you couldn't stand the fact they were fucking."
Otto frowned heavily not liking the man before him. He didn't like the way he talked. Hazel caught the look and tilted his head.
"You want to say something big guy?" he challenged. Otto's eyes flexed and he began to walk up on Hazel until Axel raised his hand stopping him. Now was not the time for another fight especially between coworkers.
"Go on." he said. Hazel looked from Otto to Axel.
"Well it seemed Barton Scull was putting together a case against her and was planning to arrest her. Well Daddy Monroe found out and well he needed that problem gone so I killed him, his wife and children the usual." he said and Axel just rolled his wrist as if wanting him to get to the main piece of information. Hazel huffed. "Well these boys are buddies on the force. They must have known he was trying to build a case, assumed someone in this house killed him and were coming to serve some "hardcore justice". You know the boys in blue don't take lightly to their own being killed. I just happened to get a message that they were on their way here."
The Swedes frowned more as their eyes accused Hazel of putting Anja in danger and Hazel just raised his free hand waving it at them.
"Oh don't look at me like that. You acted impulsively when you decided to kill the first cop and apparently the impulsiveness just kept on going and trickled from cop to cop. Commission has confirmed that with these cops dead no one else should bother you as long as you don't go killing anymore people that your girl has had relations with." he explained. The Swedes didn't look satisfied but Hazel didn't care. He just let out a big sigh. "Welp I'm off, clean up this mess and good luck on your mid-month reviews. And to send help, I got a tow truck coming to help get rid of the cars. The driver won't ask any questions." He turned and walked out onto the front porch. The brothers just stared at him as he walked, Oscar's hand pulling out a gun and just holding it up to aim it at the back of Hazel's head. Oh how easy it would be. Axel and Otto just glared at the back of his head, not caring if their brother killed the man, but they knew that would only cause the Commission to come after them.
Oscar finally lowered his gun and in seconds Hazel used his briefcase and vanished. The boys looked at each other for a moment before turning to look at the piles of bodies on the floor. They only had a few hours to act, but this was not new to them so they immediately got to work. Together they wrapped up the bodies with plastic tarps from the garage and left them all in their cars, four in each. The bleached down the living room cleaning up everything and leaving all the windows open so that the smell would air out. Axel cleaned up the wall that had been shot into.
He had fixed bullet holes in walls before and was pretty good at it. Otto used tools he had to fix the doorknob. Once everything was cleaned up, the three stood in front of the four cars now and just frowned as they noticed a large towing truck was coming up the driveway. Luckily it wasn't loud and as far as they knew it hadn't alerted Anja. The young man inside got out and just nodded at them. He was covered in tattoos from his neck down and over his knuckles. The Swedes just looked him over and silently they got all four cars connected to the tow. The young man looked at him.
"My instructions are to take this to an empty car lot and light the whole thing on fire. Peace." he merely replied and moved back into the truck and just drove away. The Swedes watched the truck leave and they all looked at each other before rain started to sprinkle down on them. They turned and headed back inside. They closed and locked the windows and door and then realized they were sweaty from killing and cleaning up a crime scene. Before they even brought too much attention, Axel cut on the lights and they expected the place. Nothing seemed out of place. Then they cut the lights back out and moved back down the halls. Axel used Otto's shower after he was done. They all scrubbed themselves clean. Axel was moving into the hallway with a towel around his waist and he moved up the stairs.
However Otto and Oscar were not too far behind as they all wanted to be near the girl they shared. Quietly they moved inside the room and slowly Axel got back inside the bed lying down quietly. Immediately Anja rolled on her side facing him and he just nuzzled the top of her head. Otto moved around the opposite side and got in behind her moving to place his hand gently on her shoulder and kissing it softly. Anja hummed ever so lightly and raised her hand to move it back and gently pat Otto's hand before pulling it around her chest of which Otto happily let her. Oscar crawled onto the bed and quietly just lied his body atop of her. He was used to sleeping without blankets and so he just rested his face on her lower stomach.
Anja could feel the pressure of the youngest on her body before her eyes opened just slightly to lazily glance about the room before nuzzling Axel again.
"Are you guys okay?" she asked sleepily yet the concern was there. Maybe she thought they were afraid of the storm outside. Axel looked over at his brothers who just smiled at him and then her before he himself looked at her.
"Perfect." he replied softly and together the four curled into one another and fell asleep in each other's embrace.