Assassination Chapter 5 Just Give Me A Reason
Heyy everyone! I've written a few chapters for this before hand to keep myself ahead of schedule and may i say, I think this story is going to be my best action story so far. I dont really have much to say this time but when you finish reading this, please take a moment to check out my other story Knockout. I just updated it along with this one so please go and check it out! Also, I have one last note before I end this little message... If you didn't notice the title of the chapter, it's named after my fave song at the moment. Im completely won over by Just Give Me A Reason by P!NK Ft. Nate Ruess. I just have an abnormal love for the song and decided to fit the title into one of my stories since i was listening to it on repeat while writing. Anyways, I hope you enjoy the story so as always... REVIEW! :)
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Kim's POV
After watching Jack mess with my boss to the point he left the room, I thought to myself for a few moments as I had a stare down with Jack.
As he talked to my boss, I could tell he was doing it purposely.
I needed to figure out why.
I then told the three remaining guards watching Jack to leave.
In seconds they left the room, leaving just the two of us.
"Ok Jackson, what game are you playing?"
"What are you talking about?"
"Don't play stupid, I know you were messing with him on purposely. So why?"
"Amusement." he grinned as he wiggled his eyebrows up and down, trying to make a joke out of it.
"Well you should consider yourself a dead man since you're the first person in months to anger my boss."
"Oh really?"
"Yes really."
"You have a lot of small talk for a girl."
"You have a pretty big mouth for a boy." I countered as I slammed my arms on his wrists that were cuffed down.
A smirk gently spread across my lips as I looked him dead in the eye.
"You think you're so perfect huh?" I asked as I continued to stare into his eyes.
"Well actually since you're asking, yes, I do."
"Well, nobody's perfect Brewer, so get your facts straight."
"Who isn't perfect?"
"I could think of somebody."
"Who?"
"You'd be surprised."
"With all that's happened in my life, I doubt anything could surprise me at this point."
I then was at a loss for words.
After a few seconds of trying to get a word out, he added on "Who is it? Tell me, I'm dead in a few hours anyways."
"I'll give you a clue, they're in this very room." I said as I backed up, turning around to get a breath of fresh air due to my close proximity with him for so long.
"You? What's not perfect about you? You would think you're beyond perfect from how you acted earlier. You're my first failed mission for crying out loud!"
"You'd never get it, just forget it."
"What? The only reason I don't know what's going on is because you won't tell me!"
"What if I don't want to tell you? You tried to kill or capture me and you're asking me to explain to you my deepest feelings?"
"Yes now go on, continue." he urged as I turned to face him again.
"Why are you so intrigued with my life all of a sudden?" I asked as I raised an eyebrow at his sudden curiosity.
"Does it matter? I thought I was a dead man anyways. But to be honest, it's interesting."
"Where should I begin..?" I trailed off as he looked at me, more interested than ever.
"From the beginning, what's your family like?"
"I don't know."
"What do you mean you don't know?"
As I told him this next sentence, I felt my eyes gloss over, not threatening tears, but enough to make my eyes burn from the memory.
"From what I was told, I was abandoned."
Jack's POV
As Kim and I had out little discussion and, or debate, whatever you wish to call it, I could tell over time it started to become more personal.
When I finally convinced her to open up, I told her to start from the beginning.
After asking what her family was like, I just barely saw her eyes just enough, to tell her eyes were now glossed over.
"I don't know." she simply said as I sat there, confusedly.
"What do you mean you don't know?"
"From what I was told, I was abandoned. I was left on the streets and nearly died."
"W-what?" I stuttered confusedly, not expecting for her to say what came out of her mouth.
"Yeah, that's actually pretty much my whole life story. I don't know anything else about my family, but my boss found me, abandoned outside in the rain one night. Ever since then, he welcomed me into his life and brought me into his organization once I turned five. That's when he started training me just so I could be his little personal mercenary."
"So, when you said you didn't have a choice earlier, what did you mean exactly?"
"I owe him my life! I would probably be dead if it wasn't for him! Apparently he was the only one who wanted and cared for me."
"That's not true, there has to be others out there who care for you."
"Doubt it." I heard her mutter as she looked down at the floor.
"I know it for a fact."
"Ok then, who else cares?" she asked as she eyeballed me, awaiting my answer.
"Me."
"Yeah sure, who's to say you're just a good actor?"
"Because first of all, you specialize in profiling and I doubt you'd still be talking to me if you didn't trust me. Also, if I wanted to, I could've gotten out of here anytime I wanted."
"How?" she asked as she folded her arms across her chest, awaiting my answer once again.
"I could flip and land on the chair. It would probably hurt a lot, but it would break would it not?"
"Ok fine, just forget it." She said as she turned to walk towards the door.
"Wait!" She quickly turned around and waited for what I was going to say next.
"How come you don't know much about your family even though C.O.B.R.A is probably the world's largest crime organization? Shouldn't they be able to find out that kind of stuff?"
"They should, but I've never been told anything. All I get are promises that aren't kept."
After taking a few seconds to think my plan through, I asked something I didn't plan on doing at all since I got the mission in the first place.
"Come with me."
Kim's POV
Wait, what did he just say?
"Ok, what now?" I asked confusedly as I asked him to repeat what he had just said.
"Come with me. If you come with me back to the United States, you could start a new life as a protected citizen of the U.S. You wouldn't have to live this life anymore, and most of all, the CIA could track your family and your history."
Immediately then I got her full attention as she opened her mouth, unable to get words out for a few moments before she finally spoke once again.
"Even if I wanted to, you can't just walk out of an organization like C.O.B.R.A and get away with it, they'll track me down and most likely try and kill me. Plus, who's to say you won't double cross me and turn me in?"
"You're the best agent here are you not?" I nodded.
"I won't turn you in, I'll promise that and for the being caught part, since I'm the best in the CIA and you're the best in C.O.B.R.A, as a team, we'll be practically unstoppable. Now I just need to ask you something. Do you trust me?"
"Well-"
"Do you trust me?" he asked again, urging me for an answer.
"Yes-"
"Then your decision should be easy."
"Give me a reason."
"What?" he asked as his face scrunched up in confusion.
"Just give me a reason, just a little bit's enough. Prove yourself."
"I promise. Kim, I dont want anything to happen to you and even if I did manage to catch you, I couldn't pull myself to hurt you. When we were on that boat, I couldn't stop my hesitation. Something about you just forces me to act differently and I just want to see you live the life you deserve. Now please, let me help you. Please."
After explaining all that to me, it overwhelmed me greatly.
I could easily tell he meant his word.
If I were to go with him, I could finally find out what happened to my family and my history I've been searching to find out for years on end for.
A new life, no more killing or stealing!
If we successfully got to the U.S, I could start a new life, the life I've always wanted.
There were only two things that worried me...
My boss was one.
If he found out I left, especially with Jack, he would probably put an enormous bounty on my head, and a big one at that.
Secondly, how could I trust him?
He could always take back on his word and when and if we escape, he could turn me in.
From his behavior, I came to a simple conclusion that would make my decision for me.
I took a few precious seconds to think over and inspect Jack, ensuring myself that he indeed, meant his word.
After looking in his promising brown eyes, I knew he meant what he said.
He actually could've runaway whenever he pleased.
If he flipped the chairwith just enough force, he would probably break it enough to escape.
My decision was now officially made.
I quickly ran up to him, used my keys to unlock him, then whispered in his ear "I have to grab something from my room first though."
After I pulled back, he nodded as he whispered back "Let's go."
Jack's POV
She quickly unlocked me from my from my cuffs with her key just as she whispered in my ear "I have to grab something from my room first though."
As she looked directly at me, only inches away, I actually had to resist the urge to kiss her.
Yeah, I, Jack Brewer, fell for the enemy.
Somehow, she managed to make me actually fall for her.
It's not every day a United States spy falls for a foreign spy wanted for murder, theft, and so on.
There was just something about her that made her unique from anyone I've ever met.
I then finally nodded in response to her question and whispered back "Let's go."
I went to stand up when she stopped me with a firm hand to my chest, holding me down.
"The guards outside, we need to take them out. Follow my lead and pretend to be locked up still."
She explained as she put the cuffs around me again, purposely forgetting to lock them in place.
She strolled over to the door, and then knocked three times, signaling the two men to open the door.
They both saluted as the door swung open outwards into the hallway I was dragged in.
"Come in here." She ordered as they scurried inside hastily.
After saluting again in front of Kim and I, they both simultaneously said "Yes Ma'am?"
"I would like you two to have the honors of beating him senseless. I prefer not to get a bruise on my hand unless necessary."
After hearing her command, they slowly walked to me, their evil grins growing by the second.
Just seconds before they were going to attack, I saw Kim fake a smirk as she said one last thing to me.
"Hope you have fun Jackson."
"Oh I will." I beamed back as they approached me.
They were only a few feet away when I attacked first.
I kicked the one on the right in the kneecap while kicking the other on my left smack in the nose.
As they both tumbled backwards, I took the opportunity to stand up and get in a fighting stance.
The one with the currently bleeding nose arose first.
He charged at me as I caught his punch, spun him around, and then easily kicked him in the back, sending him face first into the desk Kim's boss previously sat at.
As his unmoving body lied there, the other just barely stood up as he held onto his knee.
He instead made a slightly wiser move by circling me as I waited until he would strike.
When I saw his fist fly at me, I again quickly grabbed his fist, pulled it behind him in an arm lock, then kicked him, sending him forwards.
While he was turned around, I took the wooden chair behind me and slammed it on his back, making him collapse to the floor.
He landed on the floor with a painful thud and once he fearfully looked at me from the ground, he pleaded "Please, don't kill me!"
After chuckling at his terrified expression, I walked up to him before telling him "Night, night." then knocking him out with my foot.
As I looked back at Kim, I asked "Impressed?"
"Nah, I could do it faster." She smirked as I joined her at the doorway.
Kim's POV
After watching Jack take down the two guards, I could see why he was the best.
His exact and precise actions proved to me he was very well trained.
As the two guards were spread out on the floor unconscious, I then asked me "Impressed?"
After grinning to myself, I told him "Nah, I could do it faster." as we walked out into the hall, shutting the door behind us.
Luckily for me, I could assume most of the guards were in a meeting of some sort with the boss since the halls were literally cleared out.
I knew I still had to hurry and get out of here before they finish what they are doing.
I motioned Jack to follow me as I began to move through the halls, making sure to check every hall we passed for guards.
In mere minutes we finally came to my door and I gestured Jack to enter first.
I quickly shut the door as I began looking for some specific things.
First I grabbed my best weapons that were hidden in a panel in the wall.
I pressed a hidden button on the wall and immediately, my prized weapons came into view.
I put my knifes in their designated spots in the specially designed belt and clothes I was wearing, but as I reached for the gun, Jack's hand stopped me.
"Rule number one to be in the CIA, you aren't supposed to kill anyone unless absolutely necessary."
He explained as my eyes widened in disbelief.
"You got to be kidding me! I'm a weapons specialist! That's what I'm good at! How am I supposed to keep myself alive if I have no weapons and everyone else does?"
"Oh you can use weapons, just no deadly weapons."
"What kind of a stinkin' rule is that?"
"Just do it." He ordered as he watched me roll my eyes and search some more.
Since he said no deadly weapons, I grabbed the closest and next best thing… my special bow.
It was made especially for me.
The boss was nice and spent thousands of dollars into remodeling it just for me.
Since its design allowed it to contract to a smaller size, it could fit on my belt while the arrow pack that I slung across my back, produced more arrow tips which had different abilities by the second.
Sweet huh?
That's one of the main reasons it cost thousands and thousands of dollars.
Next, I grabbed from the next drawer a wad of cash, a small medical kit, two specially designed headsets, and a necklace.
After I handed Jack one of the headsets, he watched as I carefully handle the necklace.
As he eyed me oddly, I somewhat stubbornly asked "What?"
"Nothing, I'll ask later. Now let's go and get you out of here." He explained as I put my headset on.
Just before exiting the door, I grabbed my favorite jacket hanging up, ran out the door, and led him to the nearest vehicle hanger.
While running down the halls, I managed to put on my jacket without accidently stumbling.
As we turned the corner to the hanger, my excitement of seeing the two-person air combat plane disappeared as I heard someone's voice from behind us, along with a quiet click.
"Freeze!"
Jack's POV
Just as Kim led me to our getaway vehicle, we sprinted down the halls one by one until we made it.
We turned the final corner to see a large hanger sitting there in front of us.
Inside was a two-person air combat plane sitting in the middle of the room.
Just when I assumed we made it, Kim and I both froze in our tracks when we heard someone yell "Freeze!" and a small click.
Kim and I both turned around slowly to look at who it was, but not before sharing a quick nervous look.
Once we saw it was a guard, gun aiming directly at me, I could see the gears in Kim's head turn rapidly.
After seeing Kim, he lowered his gun and saluted her immediately as he said "Ma'am, permission to shoot hostile?"
"No you idiot! He's working as an undercover CIA agent for the boss! Do you really think I'd be running around with an enemy especially in our base?"
After taking a few seconds to think about what she said, he explained "Well, no-" he began just as Kim's eyes lit up with high rising flames.
She calmly made her way to him until she was more than close enough to strangle him.
She grabbed the collar of his uniform and muttered just loud enough for me to hear "Ok, since you've severally pissed me off, I'll give you two, and only two options. One, you can run around the entire base until your legs give out, or two, you don't run and I'll make sure you won't be able to walk, let alone move. You choose."
You could practically see him trembling in fear as she released his collar and immediately he ran off, most likely to run as she told him to.
The whole time, I had to bite my tongue to hold back my laughter.
The look on his face was priceless especially as I saw his pants began to darken halfway into their conversation.
Starting from his "Special Area" it made its way down and started to do down to his legs, which honestly, was really gross.
After he ran out of the room, she quickly turned around, a smirk plastered across her face as she got to the plane first.
Once I reached the plane as well, she asked "Now you impressed?"
"Nah, I could do it faster." I smirked back as I restated her words she had told me earlier.
"Nice touch making him piss himself by the way." I added on as she let a laugh escape her lips.
Once her laugh quickly died, she asked "Who's gonna fly?"
"I will, you can man the gun in the back in case anyone comes after us. Deal?"
"Deal." she grinned as she hopped in an easy, yet swift motion.
As I climbed into the pilot's seat, she already began buckling herself in and got ready.
In less than a minute, I started the engine and after Kim pressed the button to open the doors, we took off.
Kim's POV
I can't believe it.
We actually got away!
I didn't see that coming…
Since I had no need to use the gun stationed in front of me, I leaned back slightly and just watched the dark, night sky pass by though the bullet- proof glass pane resting over me.
"Kim?" I quickly turned my attention to Jack who kept switching from watching the skies and me.
Once he knew he had my attention, he continued on.
"I think you should get some rest. I'll wake you up if anything happens." I slightly chuckled to myself as I tilted my head back.
"No need, I'll know."
"Ok, sure... Just get some sleep alright?"
I just simply nodded as he focused on the sky once again, the sounds of the engine and air rushing past us putting me in a light slumber.
It probably was about a half hour after our discussion when I heard something. After listening to the steady air blowing past us for so long, I heard a hiccup in the continuous pattern. I eyes bolted open and I quickly leaned close to Jack.
"There's something behind us."
"Kim, there's nothing on our radar." He stated as he pointed to the mini-radar in front of him.
"There's at least one behind us!"
Just as he was going to protest again, I shushed him and said "Listen."
"What?"
"Listen carefully, focus on the air."
After giving me a ridiculous look, he's expression changed, indicating he was concentrating deeply on the sound.
Just then there was another hiccup in the air.
If they were flying behind us, they could have passed behind out exhaust, causing the almost inaudible change.
"How did you hear that? I thought you were sleeping."
"I told you. Being trained by C.O.B.R.A is different. When I sleep, it's like I'm not sleeping, but more like in a state."
"Like a relaxation state?"
"More or less. Weird I know…"
"So how exactly you hear that? I could barely hear it and I'm the one fully awake."
"You know when you're running water in a sink for example?"
He nodded, urging me to go on with my example.
"Well, if you take your finger and move it straight through the water from the faucet, there'll be a gap. Same thing with the air, it was constant until there was a small pause. In other words, the plane passed through the exhaust of the plane just like a finger with water."
"Ok, I admit. Now I'm impressed. I just wanna know why it's not on the radar."
"Simple, advanced technology."
"Wow, the CIA has really got to catch up on this stuff…"
Jack's POV
"Does this thing have any lights I can use to get a visual on the plane?"
"Yeah, green button to your left for lights, blue for flares."
After pressing the green button, I lit the sky as I was finally able to see who was trailing us.
There were two planes that looked slightly different than the one we were currently sitting in.
"Kim, we got two on us. Recognize them?"
After she gave a glance backwards, she shook her head.
"Yeah, they look like the new model our vehicle technician was working on the other day."
"That means he knows were gone right?"
"Yep, and that is not good."
Just then as if cued to do so, they both began firing rapidly at us.
"Dang it!" I muttered angrily as I began swerving the plane, hoping to avoid the bullets being fired at us.
"Kim, can you please take care of them?"
Without a word, I glanced at her just enough to see her place her hands in place on the gun.
Now we were firing back and in seconds, she informed me one was down.
Only one to go.
"Just then, I heard something from Kim I didn't wanna hear.
"Shoot!"
She informed me as she continued to look back through the glass at the remaining plane "Jack, he's slowing down… fast."
After taking a few seconds to think straight, she turned back to me and leaned over my shoulder.
"Ok, what does that mean? I'm not exactly a professional when it comes to piloting strategies you know!"
"He's about to fire a target missile!"
My brain was now racing.
If we don't get out of here soon, we're dead.
Finally something came to mind.
"Kim, climb up here!"
"Why?"
"Just do it!"
Without saying another word, she joined me in my seat.
Since there was nowhere else to go, she sat on my lap as I handed her the steering.
I grabbed a parachute that was sitting beside me to my right and put it on.
I then searched around and found in a small box, several spare parachute items.
I quickly grabbed one of the spare clips and hooked my belt to hers.
I now heard a beeping noise getting faster and faster by the second and knew we had to get out, now.
Just before she was about to say something, I pressed the large, red button that was labeled 'Emergency' and in less than a second, we were launched into the air.
As we were hurled up into the sky, I grabbed onto Kim's waist for extra support as we flew up about thirty feet before we began to descend down.
As we went upwards, we both saw the plane below us explode into pieces of scrap metal.
Then as I noticed some of the plane debris was falling too slow, which now made it something we could fall into, I yelled "Get down!"
I wrapped my other arm around her as she turned her head to the side, into my shoulder.
Kim's POV
As we fell down towards the Earth, Jack and I both saw that some of the parts from the plane were plunging downwards slowly.
In other words, it meant we were going to fall right through it.
As we gained speed and hurled towards the debris, I turned my head into Jack's shoulder as he turned his head to the side and wrapped his other arm around me as well.
Luckily for me, nothing hit me and since Jack didn't wince or make a noise indicating any pain, I assume he didn't either.
Once we passed, I looked up and watched as the ground got larger and larger.
Just then, he interrupted my thoughts and asked "Are you ok?"
"Yeah, you?"
"I'm good."
Just when I was gonna tell him to, Jack beat me and pulled the ripcord, slowing our decent until we eventually reached the floor.
Again, lucky for us, we landed on the floor and not in some tree, stream, shrub, etc.
Once we landed, we both had to use our strength in our legs to come to a stop before we could get out of the parachute.
I was released and Jack threw the parachute behind some bushes nearby.
As he did this, I took a second to look at my surroundings.
From how the landscape looked, I took a good guess and told myself we didn't get as far as we thought.
"Do you know where we might be?" he asked as he brushed the dust and dirt off of his arms and clothes.
"Nope, but I do know were not that far from C.O.B.R.A headquarters… that's for sure."
"Well we only flew for what? About a half hour?"
"Yeah which means we either figure out a way to get out of here or were both dead."
"I guess we should try and find some sort of civilization or town then. Which way you think we should go?"
"Well while we were still in the air, I swore I saw some smoke to the north, but it's just a guess."
"Well a guess is better than nothing. Let's go that way."
He then went to lead the way when I noticed something on his forehead.
The side that was blocked from the way his head was turned towards me.
"Jack, wait!"
Jack's POV
Just as I went to go in the direction of the possible smoke, I was stopped by Kim who yelled "Jack, wait!"
I quickly turned around and saw Kim jogging to me.
She looked at me with slight worry as she turned my head slightly.
She then lightly touched my forehead and when she did, I immediately winced.
"You're bleeding." She murmured to herself as she inspected it more.
"It's only a little cut, nothing bad."
"Ok, then why is it still currently bleeding down the side of your face." she objected as she removed her hands from my face.
She grabbed my hand and led me to the nearest thing, a large rock.
With an exhale of slight frustration, I laid down on the slanted rock.
It was similar to a table but was slanted just so that there was a slight tilt.
Lucky me huh?
Since the rock was rough, I intertwined my hands together and put them behind my head, providing a resting place for my head as I then watched Kim as she fished something out of her pocked.
She pulled out a small white box with a red plus sign in the middle.
She quickly opened it up and grabbed cotton balls along with a small bottle of Hydrogen Peroxide.
Again, just my luck.
She then dabbed one of the cotton balls in the liquid and moved so she was on my right side.
She stood beside the rock and leaned over it slightly so she could apply the antibiotic.
As she did, I winced again slightly which made her chuckle.
"I thought you were a man." She laughed as I gave her a look.
"Ok, like you never thought that Hydrogen Peroxide hurt like hell." I countered as her laugh died.
She has a cute laugh for a professional butt-kicker…
"I was kidding." She added as she took it off and applied a Band-Aid in its disappearance.
"All done." She grinned to herself in success as she looked at it one last time before looking back at me.
"Thanks Doc." I joked as she rolled her eyes and began to get off me.
"Wait Doc!"
"What's wrong Jacky?" she asked, talking to me as if I was a child… or even a puppy.
"Can you kiss my booboo to make it feel better?" I smirked slightly as she came back over to me.
Knowing I was joking with her, she snickered slightly before giving me a quick peck on the forehead.
"Does it hurt anywhere else?"
I then pointed to my temple on my left and said "Here."
She once again, gave it a quick peck.
Continuing on, I pointed to my cheek and told her "Here hurts a little."
Then just as she pulled away, from kissing my cheek, I pointed to my lips as I muttered "Here…"
We then took a second to look at one another before our lips met and we closed the gap between us, letting our lips dance together in harmony.