Memory: A Girl (6 years previous to story)

Matthew hummed rather annoyingly into their coms. As a result Ivan took his out. They had a case that didn't take them away from their HQ. It was both refreshing and disconcerting. Or at least to the other three seemed rather displeased with the person going around and killing a group of sixth grade girls. Personally the 'reformed' criminal could not literally care less that something like that was happening.

However, it was his job to end these things. Yao had put together a possible profile and Matthew was currently trying to locate people to fit that. With that said, Ivan and Alfred were out on coms checking whatever Matthew found.

He was standing next to a cafe, looking at his watch when a girl approached him. She was wearing the uniform of the same school of the dead girls. He barely looked up before she asked "Do you work for the government?"

"Hmm? I suppose I do." He took a moment to really look her over. She was slight and skin looked personally kissed by the sun. Her hair was curly and fell across her shoulders. With eyes shaped like almonds and just the same shade.

"Have you ever killed someone?"

"If it were in my job."

"So, have you?"

"Have you?" He asked in return, raising a brow.

"If it were my job." She hummed.

Ivan laught through his nose. "So, have you?"

"Yes." She confessed and it made the Russian pause. Tilting his head he asked if she was sure that she had. She nodded and he asked her why. She couldn't be any older than twelve. "They were so awful. Bullying me all the time. And I learned...I learned that if you cut the head off the snake it dies."

Ivan nodded as she paused to compose herself. She sighed and said. "But i was still angry. And so I continued- it felt good! Then there wasn't any of the group left and I felt so empty and not good."

"So why are you here? No one seems to know." Ivan said.

"You do."

"Does that make you want to kill me?" He asked. She shook her head and he sighed. He held out his hand and she took it. She seemed to understand. He had to take her and she was to come with him.

That day Ivan learned that not all of the Designed were evil and deserved death. That day he met Maria Carriedo. He also learned never to trust the profile completely.

And he relearned how to keep a secret.

Memory End