Chapter 4: IV

Short Chapter… but necessary… a little graphic.

Chapter 5: V

A brightly lit elevator dinged as it opened to the third floor of an apartment building right outside of D.C. The carpet-lined floor of the hallway muffled two sets of footprints as two men stepped out of the elevator and casually walked down to room 337. The smell of freshly baked sausage, olive, onion, spinach and tomato thin crust pizza filled the then odorless hallway. As they reached apartment 337, the pizza delivery boy knocked on the shiny mahogany door and said

"Pizza Delivery," as the other man hid out of view from the peephole. Inside the apartment, there was foot steps nearing the door coupled with the mans shout,

"Coming!" He looked through the peephole. Seeing the familiar red hat of his favourite pizza parlor and smelling the sweet fragrance of his own creation, he unlocked the dead bolt, slid the chain off the latch and opened the door with a smile only to have it quickly turned into a worried look as he stared down the barrel of a silencer attached to a Walther's PF 38 and the pizza he ordered smashed by the body of the pizza boy and covered with blood oozing from the poor boy's forehead. There was no time for words, no time for a scream. Jump-started from the back of the gun, the bullet sprang through the titanium chamber and out through the silencer, lodging itself in the victims forehead, right between his eyebrows, making no more noise than a whisper. The killer caught the body as it started to crumple and laid it down back inside the apartment, making sure that none of the blood flowing from the fresh wound got on him. He dragged the other boy body in too. A bloodstain was left on the carpet right outside the apartment. After thinking about it for a while, he went back inside the apartment and grabbed a mat on the floor of the kitchen and placed it in front of the apartment, covering the stain. He smiled as he looked at his ingenious cover-up. He closed the door as he checked his watch, time to spare. He left the building through the side staircase and emerged on to the street through a small door on the side of the building.