"Make a wish when your childhood dies. Hear the knock, knock, knock when she dies. We're all alone tonight." I sang the lullaby my father used to sing to me quietly to myself as I paced outside the door. I always felt better when I heard it. "Hold your breath when a blackbird flies…'

Flashback

I sat on my bed rocking back and forth. The sky lit up as a boom shook the entire apartment causing me to sink lower into my knees. I looked out my window and saw that the sky had turned into an angry red and light cracked through it. I turned my head back to stare at the middle of my bed. I rocked back and forth. Back and forth. Another boom. Another gasp of fear.

My dad walked in then and saw my pitiful state. He looked at me, and then he looked out of the window to witness for himself the raging storm outside. Without saying a word he walked over to my bed and took a seat, wrapping an arm around me. I cuddled into his side as much as I could, trying to shut out the loud booms that came from outside. He began to sing softly.

"Hold your breath when a blackbird flies, count to seventeen and close your eyes. I'll keep you safe tonight…"

More booms. More flashes of light. I think I started to cry a little then.

"Heat burns my skin, never mind about the shape I'm in…"

Light. Boom. But I was surprised to find that I was not focused on the storm outside.

"I'll keep you safe tonight."

Before I even knew it, the storm stopped. There were no more booms or streaks of light that cracked through the sky. I was safe. It was only then that I realized that I had been safe the whole time. My dad didn't move, and I fell asleep before long.

It was times like this that you realized that even a man like my dad can still show affection.

End Flashback

I stood outside of that room. I could hear voices inside but couldn't make out what was being said. And then…

BOOM

I heard that boom and I felt myself being brought back to that night that I was so afraid. There were so many booms. I shook my head feeling extremely overwhelmed. "Hear the knock, knock, knock when she cries…" I mumbled numbly. I held my head in my hands and my legs buckled underneath me. I knelt on the floor with tears stinging the corners of my eyes.

"Blow a kiss to the methane skies…look at the world through your playground eyes." The voices kept speaking to each other. One man and one woman. Until the woman's voice died out. And that's how I knew it was over; the contract had been completed just like Benjamin Travis had asked.

"Run, run, run, bunny run… love won't stop this bomb tonight…" I sobbed out. My breathing had become labored. I slowly lowered myself to lie on my side. I pressed the side of my face into the cool marble floor. That's when the bathroom door opened, and steam came pillowing out.

"Everybody hide when the sunlight dies. Everybody hide." I whispered before I began to sob. My father knelt beside me and began to stroke my hair. He grabbed my arm and pulled me up.

"We have to go now." He said quietly. He guided me back to the exit. Travis's voice soon occupied the silence that was between us.

"47, good work. Report back to headquarters ASAP!"

My dad reached up to his ear and pulled out the communicator and without ceremony threw it on the ground before crushing it with his foot. I looked at him, confused.

"We have to leave, now." I shook my head. "To go meet with Travis?" I questioned. He looked at me with that lack of emotion. He shook his head no. Now I was really confused. "Why not?"

He just shook his head. "Get in." he commanded.