Ashlynn's POV-

I was sitting on the ground and staring at the wall right in front of me.

It'd been a few hours since the beating and I was beginning to get light headed. I was pretty sure that I'll bleed to death in just a little while and all this'll be over.

I know I shouldn't have suicidal thoughts, but once you have to relive each memory of being told you're worthless, useless and a bad person in general all your life and are kidnapped by the person who planted those those things in your head, you start to believe them.

I wasn't ready to have this life back again. I didn't wanna kill all those innocent people and children.

I know I hurt and kill people, but they all deserve it. So I fell no guilt in that.

I didn't want to go through this again. I might deserve all the torture and pain I'll get, but didn't want to.

My mind also kept drifting off to thoughts about Christopher though. I am yet again the reason of his pain and suffering.

That is, if he's not dead. I don't know shit about what happened to him or anybody from the house.

Heck I don't even know why I heard screaming where everybody was back at the house.

I hope nothing bad happened to Christopher or I swear I'll never forgive myself and torture the person who hurt him till they beg me to kill them.

I'm assuming my friends have no idea where I am and are probably worried sick.

And i'mma reason for their misery as well.

Gosh I've never felt so helpless and useless in my life.

With those thoughts, I drifted off to a nightmare filled sleep.

I know I shouldn't have slept, but the chemicals of the gas were still in my body, Making it really hard to keep my eyes open.

I was also loosing a ton of blood which made it impossible for me to not pass out.

A few hours later, I woke up to the banging on my cell door.

Im assuming it was night because there was no light outside and the whole room was dark.

I was having a hard time seeing anything, but walked up to the door and stood right beside it.

I couldn't see shit, but knew this place like the back of my hand, so it wasn't that hard.

I grabbed the chain, it's one end stuck into the wall and the other end in my hands, ready to strangle whoever came through the door.

The door burst open and I braced my self for what was about to happen if this ended up badly.

The person stepped in and I immediately got in front of them, and wrapped the chain tightly around their throat.

"ASH GEEZ" the person gasped and I immediately let go.

Ace.

Wait what? What's he doing here?

"Ace?" I asked in a low hoarse voice, as my throat was really dry.

"Gosh you're gonna give me a heart attack one day" he said in a soft voice and engulfed me in a huge bear hug.

I hugged him right back, now realising how scared I really was, and how safe I felt with my big brother.

"Wait what are you doing here?" I asked him, confused.

"Wait" he said and ran off outside. What is he up to?

He switched on all the lights, making me squint my eyes and look at him, in his DS uniform.

"Well, to get you and Chris out of here, and take that motherfucker down for good this time" he explained, while checking my wounds.

"Please tell me you bought my gear" I grinned at him while pointing towards his clothes and weapons.

He checked me up and down and gave me a -are-you-serious-right-now- look.

I just looked at him expectantly with raised eyebrows.

"I did. But I don't think it's gonna be of much use though." He sighed.

I furrowed my eyebrows and pretended to look offended.

"I'll be just fine. Pweasee" I gave him my puppy eyes, and he huffed and threw the duffel bag at me, which I caught easily.

I took off my jacket and quickly got into my uniform.

I put it on top of my clothes only, because they were torn either way.

Then, I strapped all of my guns, grenades, knives and daggers on my waste and legs.

I also hid a few in my pockets and black leather combat boots.



(The uniform)

"Felix is taking down guards and Viola is finding Chris. We need to get to the hostages and take William down." Ace informed me while handing me a comm.

I nodded and put it in. I'd forgotten all about my pain now and adrenaline was rushing through my body.

I also put on my face mask. All four of us had the same one. It was a black plastic one, which covered the whole area from under the eyes to the chin.

Mine had a little 'I' on the side, as in the Italians , Ace's had a 'G' as in the Germans, Felix and Viola's had a 'R', as in the Russians.

I nodded at Ace and we took off towards the rooms. We both knew this place well and knew exactly where the hostages were being kept.

I had a gun in my right hand and shot each guard that came into view.

As we neared the rooms, we heard voices and looked like somebody was talking.

"The death squad will come for you. They hate people like you" a familiar voice spat angrily.

"And why would they come for me? They don't even know me little man. They probably have more important stuff to do than save your pathetic asses." William said, in a calm yet deadly and teasing voice.

Well he better brace himself for the storm that is about to hit him.

Ace kicked the door down and stood there intimidatingly. I did the same and scanned the room.

"Do we now?" Ace asked smugly, while tilting his head to the side teasingly as well.

I saw William pale visibly and take a small step back.

"Wh-who are yo-you?" He stuttered.

"I, for one think that you know us very well." I replied in a mocking tone.

His eyes widened and his hand immediately reached towards his pocket, where I could see the outline of a gun.

What a mistake.

I scanned around the room. Elijah and Ryder- our spy's working for the Americans- were tied up in a circle in the Middle of the room along with a few more American guards.

The rest of the room was filled up with more people, but they all had a jute sack sort of thing on their heads and faces, so I couldn't recognise anybody.

All the sacks had two small holes, in front of the eyes.

So I'm guessing these people can see everything but not say anything as they probably have duct tape covering their mouths.

Their were also three kids tied up, no more than 13, in one corner. One girl and two boys. The sight alone angered me.

These kids probably got kidnapped or something just now, otherwise they'd be in their cells.

This reminded me of how Ace and I were also just like them and how different we are now. I'm sure he was thinking the same thing because I saw him looking at them as well.

Me and Ace shared a knowing look and then stared back at William right in the eye.

"You are the black flower?" He asked in the most disbelieving voice that was even capable of making a four year old stop believing in Santa.

Huh. Guess the bitch recognised my voice. This is gonna be awesome.

"Aww you know me so well" I replied, making him see his death in my eyes.

He frantically looked between me and Ace, as if trying to comprehend what just happened.

"So you're telling me that a bunch of teenagers are the death squad? Yeah ok. I don't buy it" he scoffed and started shooting his gun at us from all directions.

I immediately grabbed Ace's arm and dragged him behind the wooden table kept near the entrance and easily dodged all the bullets.

Once he ran out of the bullets and took a short break to reload his gun, Ace began shooting at him, which he dodged and fired back.

I slowly creeped up behind him when he wasn't noticing, and twisted his arm backwards causing him to drop his gun and yelp.

I sent a kick to his face and a punch to his gut. He stumbled backwards, giving me a you-are-dead look.

Well bring it on what are you waiting for.

He lodged towards me throwing heavy punches.

Did I ever mention that he's one of the best assassins in the world as well?

Yeah, he's the one who taught me how to fight, -or more like fought me and beat me up and forced me to copy whatever he was doing, which let me tell you was NOT fun.

He doesn't only own the organisation, but is also the first assassin to live the harsh training with me being the second one alive. I can take him down if I want to, but considering I have probably like 4-5 broken ribs and a million other injuries, I'm guessing it's gonna be a little hard.

Even though I'm more flexible and faster than him, he is bigger, has more muscles and his attacks are heavy and strong.

I dodged his punches and kicked him in the chest a few times, knocking the air out of him a few times.

He pulled out a knife from his inner pocket and threw it right between my eyes.

I caught it Inches away from my face and sent a deadly look towards him.

I would have thrown the knife right back, but couldn't take the risk as there were many people present in the room and I couldn't afford them getting hurt.

Especially the kids. They've done absolutely nothing to deserve to be here.

So instead, I slid the knife towards Ace, who was helping in untying the kids and getting them out.

While I was doing that, William came over towards me and kicked me right in the chest, making me stumble back.

I punched him on the neck and kicked him on the crotch.

He caught my leg and twisted it, making me fall over.

I twisted his ankle which made him fall over as well.

I immediately got up from the ground, but regretted it because bloody pain shot up in my leg again.

I looked down and saw a dark spot on my pants. A blood patch. Meaning one of my wounds had probably reopened and started bleeding again. Great.

To top it off, William saw it as well because I saw him smirk slightly.

He pinned me down to the ground, holding me in a chokehold, cutting off my air supply, while applying pressure on my opened wound.

I tried my best to not show any pain and kneed him in the stomach, flipping him over.

I punched him in the ribs, making him groan.

But before I could do anything else, he pushed me off, sending me crashing towards the wall.

Damnit why do I weigh so light.

The crash caused my mask to come off and get crushed into the wall.

And now all these hostages know who I am. How fun.

I mentally slap myself for not paying enough attention to my mask and get up from the floor.

I look around, but don't see William anywhere. I was beginning to see Black spots in my vision but rubbed my temples, making them go away.

My head hurt like a bitch and everything in my body was screaming at me to rest, but I obviously didn't do that.

Ace was outside, getting the kids to safety and searching for more in the underground cells.

I walked over towards Elijah and Ryder and untied them.

I helped them up and they looked at me with respect and gratefulness.

"How're you guys holding up?" I asked.

"Just fine boss." Elijah replied confidently.

"What do we have to do boss?" Ryder asked, determination in his eyes.

I studied them both, and saw a huge wound on Ryder's leg. If it isn't treated soon, it'll probably get infected.

I turned towards Elijah "I need you to get Ryder outside to the medical vans and then get all these people out." I motioned towards the hostages in the room.

"Yes boss" he nodded.

"But boss-" Ryder began to protest but I cut him off.

"Get that wound treated or you're fired" I deadpanned.

He nodded defeatedly and walked out while taking Elijah's support.

I took one last glance at the room and ran out, looking for William.

I had a weird feeling about something in that room, but shrugged it off.

I walked silently, scanning the whole building for anything and everything.

A few Minutes later, I finally heard some voices and ran towards the room.

I kicked it open, and what I saw, I never wanted to see in my life.

Chris was on the ground, on his knees with his hands tied with chains from both sides and his head hanging low.

William was standing right behind him, a gun pointed towards his head and a smug smile on his face.

"Come in" he ordered.

When I didn't move, he shoved the gun further into his hair.

"I said come in." He said through gritted teeth.

I slowly and cautiously walked in, my eyes scanning the whole room for anything that'd help in me getting Chris out.

"Now now, I told you there'd be consequences if you ever pulled off something, and that's exactly what you did. So do you wanna know what the consequences are?" He asked sadisticly.

Well not really, I don't.

My eyes were glued to Chris, trying to look at his face.

"Now, do what I say and I won't have to kill this gentleman." He smirked.

I just gave him a glance, meaning I had to agree to this.

"Drop your weapons" he commanded.

I unstrapped all my weapons and kept them on the floor.

"Aww would you look at that. The black flower doing whatever I ask her to, just because I am ponting a gun towards some randomo." He chuckled, now walking forward.

Gosh this bitch.

He came and stood right in front of me.

"I missed my little weapon" he smiled smugly at me.

I just glared at him in return, looking towards the gun that was still in his hand.

He followed my gaze towards his gun.

"Ah, yes. Unfortunately for you, I didn't quite appreciate you leaving me here, so I believe there should be some sort of punishment for that. Don't you agree?" He asked.

I narrowed my eyes at him and clenched my fists. I swear to god if he hurts my dad-

But before I could say or think anything, he bought his arm back, and shot Christopher. Right in the chest.

Looking right into my eyes the entire time.

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Heyyy! Whew that was a long and crappy chapter. Hope you all didn't get bored.

And please don't hate me for the cliffhanger and the ending of the chapter...hehe.....

I'll try to update as soon as I can, but I can't promise if it'll be anytime soon because things in school have been CRAZY.

No seriously, I literally have like two geography and three English tests tomorrow not to mention the assignments I have to submit- like don't even ask- .

And like I mentioned before, I have my finals coming up and they're gonna be offline 🥲.

So yeah.......

Also, I hope this chapter doesn't seem rushed because if it does, then well it probably is because I wrote it in the car and just wanted to get it out there.

Anyways, I hope you guys are enjoying the story so far and don't forget to leave your opinions.

And please gimme some suggestions as well if you guys have any for the storyline of this book, because I seriously need some ideas.

Thankyou for reading!

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