He didn't move, "I didn't turn you in, Max." he said calmly and I barked out a laugh.

"Well isn't that Funny? I mean it's not like you were the only person I told."

He winced at my betrayed tone. "You have to believe me! I came to warn you, I knew you'd be here but the door was open when I got here." He tried to reason but I was way passed reasoning. "Take my weapons, you know where I keep them." He added and I eyed him for a second.

"Fang, take the gun out of my back pocket."

"Ma-"

"Would you listen to me for once in your god damn life!" I growled and I felt him take it. "Take off the safety and aim it at his head." I ordered and then when he didn't make a move to do anything I added, "Do it!"

I heard the click of the safety and lowered my gun I removed every weapon from Iggy's body, throwing it clear across the room so he would have no hope of reaching one before I shot him if he tried.

Iggy and I stared at each other in silence for a long while until the question that had been nagging at me for a while finally came out, "Why did you do it?" I asked.

"I didn't." he stated blue eyes boring into me, "If I was the one who gave you all the answers which – might I add – is enough to get me killed before we even go into the whole hacking into the pentagon thing then why would I turn you in?" He asked, "You're my best friend Max."

I opened my mouth to reply when a soft beeping went on. I took the pager from his belt and frowned. "They're calling in you. Why would they call you?"

Iggy just grinned happily; he knew that he was right. Smug bastard.

"If you didn't tell them then who did?" I demanded.

"They must have bugged my room." He said with a shrug, "But we can discuss this on the way, they're coming." He continued urgently and I nodded.

"Where's Nudge?"

"I sent her away earlier when I decided that I was going to help you guys. She's setting up a place for us."

"Where?"

"You know at that place where that thing happened one time?"

I nodded with a smile. "Good." I turned to Fang, "Give me your phone." I ordered and he raised an eyebrow. "What you think they're not going to try and track you?" I snorted and he chucked it at me. "Nothing electronic, no I-pods, laptops, heck I don't even want an electric toothbrush ok? Now go pack."

Once Fang had gone mumbling something unintelligible that I decided to ignore I continued to question Iggy until Fang came down the stairs with a duffel bag slung over his shoulder and a frown on his face. "Oh stop looking so glum, we're here to keep you alive you know." I stated the obvious with a roll of my eyes and slipped the gun back into my boot. "Alright." I said cheerfully, "Let's get this show on the road!" I sang and the boys followed me outside. Thankfully Iggy had brought a car big enough for all of us and our things to fit into and pretty soon we were whizzing down the road at top speed. "Right, where's the nearest car dealership?" I asked no one in particular and Fang answered in a whisper from the back seat.

"Two blocks down to the right."

"Thanks, we have to dump this car ASAP before they pull a trace and then we have some minor surgery to do Igs." He nodded from the drivers seat and Fang's head appeared between the seat.
"Surgery!"

"Yeah." I shrugged, "We're bugged so we can't exactly go round with chips in our arms and just hope they don't find us." Fang eyed me in that way of his and I sighed. "Listen there isn't enough time to explain everything but I swear once we are in the clear I'll try and answer all your questions ok?" I gave him a pleading look and his eyes softened slightly.

He nodded and retreated back to his seat. The rest of the ride was silent besides Iggy singing along to the some random song on the radio.

Once we reached the dealership Iggy didn't waist any time in picking the lock and letting us in.

I eyed the cars, fingers gliding over the sleek paint. So many to choose from so little time…

"Yo Max!" Iggy called me from the opposite side of the showroom and I jogged over.

"What is it?" I asked but a grin spread across my face when I took in the sleek navy blue Kawasaki. "Dibs." I called and he chuckled.

"It would be easier if we took bikes, they'll no doubt try the vans so the bikes will be a huge advantage." He reasoned but I wouldn't have objected anyway.

"I'll take Fang."

"Who's taking me where?" Fang appeared behind me so close that I when he spoke I could feel his breath on the back of my neck. I froze fighting back the instinct to attack him and relaxed a moment later.

"If you want me to kill you do that again." I warned without turning. I broke the display cabinet holding the helmets and chucked a camouflage one at Iggy and a black one at Fang. I picked up the other black one and dug in the drawers until I found a bunch of keys. I held them up for Iggy to see and grinned evilly. It took me a second to find the keys for my new bike and the ones for the bike Iggy had chosen. I revved the engine and enjoyed the sound officially I heaven. I patted the back of the seat and after hesitating Fang got one. How did we get out you might be ask? Well let's just say there was a lot of glass and it's a good thing we wore the helmets.

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By the time we stopped for a break at some run down motel in the middle of nowhere past midnight that night I was so keyed up that every sound made me jump. Iggy was busy getting us a room and Fang was leaning against the bike casually but his mind was in another world.

"Fang?" I touched his arm and his head snapped over to me.

His eyes instantly locked with mine and he stared at me intensely for what seemed like forever. "You know, the last thing you said to me before all this started was When you get over you're insecurities and decide that I'm not going to hand you over to whoever killed your parents give me a call." Ah there you go, I was waiting for the accusations to begin.

"I'm a liar Fang, I've lied every single day to everyone I've met for six years so don't take it personally I was just doing my job." I told him and turned to meet Iggy halfway since he was coming back when Fang grabbed my wrist and spun me back to face him.

"And what exactly is your job?" he asked onyx eyes impenetrable but daring me to lie to him again.

"You wanna know what I do?" I chuckled, "You sure about that?"

His gaze didn't falter but his grip on my wrist tightened slightly.

I shrugged in a you-asked-for-it kinda way and went on my toes so that I could whisper in his ear, "I'm an assassin." And with that I left him frozen on the spot obviously not expecting that.

Iggy raised an eyebrow at me when I reached him and after looking at m for a second he realised what I'd done. "Aw come on Max." he sighed shaking his head.

"What? He wanted to know what I did!" I defended but I couldn't keep the smile off my face.

"You really want him to run for the hills don't you?" Iggy chuckled, "There was only one room left." He said but something about the smile looming on his face told me to be afraid. "And it's a double!"

I groaned and walked away from him, not in the mood for his disgusting pervertedness.

Fang was still as stiff as a board when I approached and glanced at me when I picked up his duffel that I had expertly strapped very tightly to the back of Iggy's bike. "You coming?" I asked gesturing up the stairs where Iggy was unlocking the door to the room.

"You're an assassin?" he asked again in a gruff voice.

I looked around the almost empty parking lot, "This isn't exactly a good place to talk about this." I tried to get him to understand without using words and he seemed to understand because he took the duffel and made his way to the stairs.

I chose to ignore the bed situation and just plopped down on the ratty old couch, Fang and Iggy following me suite obviously realising that it was time for Dr Phil. Fang took the chair to my right and Iggy just leant against the couch.

"Right." I said finally, looking directly at Fang. "What do you want to know?"

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We spent three hours explaining everything and we still hadn't even come to what I had found out in the file. I wasn't too sure how to explain that, or if I even wanted him to know. Iggy had passed out after the first hour and a half and Fang hadn't sad anything since we started unless it was to ask the occasional question so I was watching him carefully, wondering how he would take it all. I mean there was rather a lot, we'd gone through everything we knew, everything about his would-be assassination and had to go into detail about everything regarding our 'way of life' as Iggy put it and I was about to break the thick silence with another bombshell. Well I was until he spoke.

"I knew there wasn't something right about you." He whispered with a shake of his head.

I shrugged, "You're not the first." I admitted and something flashed in his eyes.

"How many people have you murdered?" he asked in that stoic voice of his and I was almost scared to tell him.

Don't ask me why but now I felt extremely ashamed of what I had done for the last six years so I told him bitterly, "it's not something I keep track of."

His eyes widened for a split second as he took in what I knew he was thinking there were enough that I couldn't remember how many. His eyes were asking me the silent question he couldn't voice and I oddly understood it because who wouldn't want to know that? I tucked a lock of my hair behind my ear and locked eyes with him, he needed to understand this first time round.

"When you do what I've done for as long as I have…you learn to not hate yourself for it, you do as you're told and shove any and all emotions away. You let that horror register and your screwed." I told him slowly, "They're cruel, they push you to limits you didn't even know you had, they turn you against the people you thought you could trust put that little doubt in your mind that you'll never be able to trust anyone. You learn to hate life to accept that it isn't worth anything. So you don't even have to blink to kill."

He flinched.

"It's what they do to you Fang. We were all just kids, what did expect us to do? Defy them? Iggy was seven when he was taken from his family, he killed first when he was nine." I continued without hesitation, he was going to listen whether he liked it or not. "While you were being tucked into bed by your mom and dad the rest of us were locked in dog crates with these…things guarding us, taunting us." I shivered at the memory of my first year. "They brain wash you in the cruellest ways and only a handful can actually escape that." I stayed silent for a while, "You have no idea what we've been through." I shook my head and stood.

I paced the length of the room for a few minutes before sighing and glancing at Fang who was thinking again. "It's late, get some rest. We have to be up early tomorrow." I said and climbed into the big bed, the boys could sleep on the floor.

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You know when you wake up so suddenly that any and all traces of sleep are gone and you can't find out why you woke up in the first place? Well that's what happened to me the next morning.

When I shot out of bed the sun wasn't even up yet but something in my gut was telling me to run, and run fast. Now I have been known to have quite a good instinct so I slid out of bed and checked the room, Iggy was still passed out on the couch and Fang asleep in the chair. Nothing out of place. I crept over to the window and moved the curtain just enough that I could get a look at the corridor. Shit! I had crossed the room and woken Iggy before you could even blink. I tapped his head twice and he was up, eyeing me in confusion.

"What's wrong?" he asked.

"Hunters." That one word was enough to make Iggy tense and jump up so fast he was just a blur. My heart had begun to pick up speed as I shoved the few things we had unpacked into the backpack I had brought and loaded my gun. Fang was still asleep in the chair, unaware of the serious threat just a few seconds away. I shook him quickly whispering urgently "Fang you need to wake up now!" I hissed and his eyes cracked open.

I shoved the loaded gun into his hands and he blinked down at it in a sleepy daze. "You have three seconds to get into that bathroom and up through that vent before they get here." The sleep seemed to evaporate instantly and he stood, half way to the bathroom before he realised that neither Iggy nor I was following him.

He frowned and I shook my head. "No time, please just go." I begged, throwing my backpack at him. "Front pocket has directions. Don't forget. Keep. Low."

His eyes widened as he took in my words and their meaning. He glanced from me to Iggy in horror. Iggy shot him a reassuring smile. "Precaution, don't worry just go." He urged and after hesitating Fang nodded and locked the bathroom door behind him. I looked at Iggy and nodded in thanks. We both knew there was about a 98% chance of us not making it through this.

"Hey Igs."

"Yeah?" he smiled.

"Thanks for putting up with all my crap."

He chuckled, "I'm gonna have lots more to put up with after this don't worry."

I admired his way of positive thinking, while I on the other hand was ready to die.

Hi guys, hope you enjoyed the chappie, it's slightly shorter than the other one but meh. Things will be explained in chappie 14 I swear! Lol! I managed to find internet in this stupid place how kwl! So now I can update on weekends! Yay!

Happy new year for tomoz guys! Can you believe it's the end of 2010 already! it's scary.

There are just a few things I wanted to address concerning reviews.

First, i know I have a lot of spelling errors and grammar issues and it can get irritating but unfortunately I'm not going to start fixing them any time soon and, no, I won't get a Beta for the simple reason that they take too long. I update almost every day – most of the time – because I don't have to wait for someone to check over my writing and I update a few minutes after I have finished writing that chapter because I don't have the patience to wait for a beta to send it back and I hate rereading my writing. Now if my errors bother you that much then please feel free to copy the chapters, edit them and then send them back to me but I won't be sending them to anyone pre-posting the chappie.

So please, for the love of all things good in this world stop reviewing and telling me that I have spelling errors etc because I really don't care and it just ruins my day.

Second, yes I know that the first chapter's underlined stuff is boring and all but I kept it when I re-wrote Assassination for the simple reason that I didn't know how to start this fic and I still don't to be honest. If you have any better ideas on how the beginning should have gone or you wish to rewrite the first chappie then once again feel free to do so.

I am sorry because I'm not trying to be rude or anything but I needed to get this out cause it's really getting on my nerves.

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