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To Live is to Die; DarkAngel013 & Mercinus3
Topic Started: Jun 23 2009, 03:37 AM (5,845 Views)
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"Harlen...!"

He smiled, knowing that he went a bit too far with the kiss, but it was worth it. Knowing her for 5 years, he would know all the buttons to press to get her to blush, her neck being the biggest of them all. To their targets, it was a simple gesture of great love. To Ai, it was something of an annoyance. Or was it? Though he slightly doubted it was nothing else but annoyance, but there was a small feeling that it was something more than annoyance. Pushing it out of his mind, he carried on with the situation at hand. Like he was, he could see the disappointment in Ai's eyes, even if their targets didn't see it. If it was something to do, he would personally go to where Dr Harkess lived and kill him with his bare hands. Right now, he focused on the plan at hand, plotting the way that he was going to kill the CEO later.

He suddenly cocked his head as he heard Ai talking. "Dear, let me see your watch a moment, I want to see the time." Unsure at first what she was planning on doing, he followed the order, raising his arm to her open hands. It wasn't until she received another pill of poison did he realize what she was up to. Before he could think of what her idea was, she spoke again. "Goodness, is that an ice feature of the logo?" In a blinking of an eye, she managed to get the pill into the second target's drink, in which no one could have seen. As everyone drank their drinks, he noticed that she blushed again, reacting to the comment he made after his toast to Globodex. As they finished their drink, the targets picked up another, drinking it until it was halfway. His eyes widened only a fraction. Damnit! That champagne is going to make the poison act quicker than the one glass.

As Ai excused them from their host, he placed his mouth near her ear. "You know that the added alcohol is going to accelerate the rate the poison is going to work." Once the reality had reached into his head, he whispered one more thing. "We need to get out of here now." However, before they managed to get to the area near the security gates, the poison made its effect, sending both the targets to the floor. Cursing under his breath, he looked around at the panicking guests, trying to leave the building. But, knowing the drill by now, the security had locked the building down, wanting to find out who the assassins were. Mind racing, he was thinking of a way to divert the guard's attention. Remembering what he saw earlier, he moved his mouth so it was close to her ear again. "You remember the bomb that I've seen earlier. I might have to use that."
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"You know that the added alcohol is going to accelerate the rate the poison is going to work." Once the reality had reached into his head, he whispered one more thing. "We need to get out of here now."

"You don't think I know that?" she hissed, grabbing his arm just as a bunch of security guards made their way passed them, one of them purposely brushing passed her, causing her to flinch back near Harlen. The man smirked and inwardly, imprinting his face to mind, she was going to kill him later.

She ignored the strange sensation that crawled up her back from his whisper. Why all the sudden was she experiencing this? The sudden... sensation that she felt when his breath touched her ear. It was very hard to resist the emotion but she managed to.

His breath again came to her ear as he said, "You remember the bomb that I've seen earlier. I might have to use that."

"Y-yes, what about it?" she managed to ask through a rather heated breathing. She tried her best to hide it, but for him to do it twice, even in the urgency of the situation that she would feel this way. What the hell is this? she thought, almost swearing mentally.

Her fingers touched the strap, prepared to take it off... although it would be quite showy for it is her thigh here.
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"You don't think I know that?"

The hiss made him flinch slightly. Then again, he should have known that she knows about the poison. She was the one who had given him the watch in the first place, since he liked to go personal with his kills. Her body pressed against his, just as the security guards pushed into Ai as they went past. He glowered at the smirking guard, though he was going to leave the revenge killing to her, since he hit her. He didn't know why, but his mind was in a mix when she pressed against his body. Unsure what he was feeling, he pushed the thought and feeling to one side, his mind thinking on what he was going to do. Looking around the place, he searched for one place in particular. Found it, he thought, is eyes looking in one direction. The men's room. Though she would think that now wasn't time for him to take a leak, but he had other plans.

"Y-yes, what about it?"

Smirking, he turned her head slightly towards where he was looking. "I need to go." Even though it sounds genuine, he hoped that Ai got what he was planning to do.
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Ai saw him glance towards the men's bathroom and for a moment was puzzled by what he meant and why would he want to go to the bathroom at a time like...

"Yeah," she murmured, following after into the bathroom. In all the chaos, no one noticed the pair of them going in. When they got in, they checked the stalls and found no one in them. Then, quickly, she bent over, hair pulled to one side, showing a bit of her chest.

(( -coughs- ))

Her fingers quickly slipped under her dress, pushing it aside to reveal most of her leg, it not all of it and pulled down the strap before standing back up and handing it to him.

"You know how I pack the straps, all of the pieces are in there," she said, holding it out.
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Harlan lead Ai through the crowd, with both of them walking into the men's bathroom. As quickly as he could, he reassembled his pistol, looking through each individual cubicle for any hiders/hitmen. Finding no one, he looked at Ai, as she was getting the straps off her leg. When he noticed something out of place, he diverted his gaze to the nearest cubicle to both of them. Once she was standing up, the strap and bombs in her hand. "You know how I pack the straps, all of the pieces are in there"

Nodding at her, he took the bomb from her. As he walked towards the furthest cubicle from the door, he turned his head towards her. "You might want to get out of here soon. I'm pretty sure that there are some men who would want to come in and inspect the bathrooms. They'll get suspicious of a woman in the men's room with another man." Once he had said his part, he started to disassemble the strap, he concentrated on making the bomb that she had brought with her. At least we were prepared.
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"You might want to get out of here soon. I'm pretty sure that there are some men who would want to come in and inspect the bathrooms. They'll get suspicious of a woman in the men's room with another man."

"Of course," she said, crossing her arms. Then she shrugged as she said, "Or I could just say I was in here wanting to do it with my own 'husband'." She smirked before she began to hear the panicked voices nearby, albeit a bit silent and the smirk was gone as she turned to look at Harlen.

"Hurry," this time, her voice was softer, as if worried for a moment. She crossed her arm across her chest and the other on her mouth as if thoughtful for another moment and seemed to wanted to say something as she opened her mouth, but nothing came out. But then she closed her mouth and turned to begin heading out.

She slipped outside and stood nearby the men's bathroom, waiting for him to come out. For some reason, she felt something might go wrong with their plan.
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"Of course. Or I could just say I was in here wanting to do it with my own 'husband'."

Without her looking, he smirked. Ai and her excuses, he concluded. Taking the casing of the wires out, he started to wire the bomb up, which shouldn't take him long. It wasn't long before he heard her speak again. "Hurry." Of course, he would have dismissed it as an urge for him to get it done and for them to leave the god forsaken building for good. The only thing that stopped him from dismissing the comment as a call of hurry was the tone that was in her voice. Is she… worried about me? This made him pause his wiring for a second, thinking about what was happening at the moment. After a few seconds of thinking, he continued to wire the bomb up, though the thought of his partner being worried. He told her not to worry too much about him, and that he wasn't going to be long until the bomb was made. Once the door closed as she left, he carried on with the bomb.
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A while earlier before Harlan and Ai went into the bathroom, two guys were examining the entire floor, as if they were searching for someone. The first guy had a broken nose, with the added scar across the bridge of it. His balding head was shining, reflecting the lighting that was in the room. His dark, brown eyes looked around, making him look like he was scowling. Like everyone else here, he was wearing a tuxedo, though it was customized to his old gang, the sleeves of the jacket torn away. Underneath the sleeve of one of its arms, a tattoo of a shark was visible underneath it. The second person was much smaller than the first, though his appearance was a complete contrast. Unlike his partner, he was wearing a shirt and a pair of shining trousers. His face, though it showed signs of scowling, it had a comical look, which was complimented with his shocking red hair and bright green eyes. The second guy looked over to the men's room, noticing a woman walking out of it. "Hey Rufus. A woman has just walked out of the men's room. Something's going on in there."

The man, who was abruptly named Rufus, looked over to the bathroom, noticing the woman leaving the general area of the loo doors. "She looks awfully familiar. Maybe one of the assassin's? What do you think, Rafael?"

The second guy looked towards the men's room, thinking about something. "I think that we should investigate. We'll confront the woman later. Right now, I want to know what is happening in there."

In agreement to the plan, both of them walked into the room, trying hard not to be noticed by the woman that had just left it earlier. As they walked into the room, they noticed a man crouching on the floor, working on something. Rafael took out his flick knife, sending the blade out of its hiding place. "I don't know what you are doing in here, mate, but I know you from a few days ago. It's time to teach you a lesson, prick." Without another word, he charged forward, the knife aimed at the man's torso.
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Harlan was ready to prime the bomb when he heard a familiar voice from behind him. He cursed under his breath, recognizing it as one of the two hitmen that he escaped from a few days ago. Drawing his pistol in a quick motion, he turned around to meet his assailants. He aimed the gun at Rafael, but the red-haired hitman knocked it out of his hand, leaving a cut on his hand. The Ruger rolled on the floor, stopping in the middle cubicle. Cursing for losing his weapon, he too took out his knife, going toe-to-toe. Slashes after missed slashes, Harlan finally got Rafael in an instant hit position, taking it without thinking. The X-Blade slashed through the red-head's chest, sending him to the floor. He next turned to Rufus, ready to take the big brute to the ground as well. Drawing a hidden blade from his white sleeve, Rufus slashed at him, the blade hissing through the air. Harlan parried the blow, stabbing the blade at the man's chest. Meeting its mark again, the big man fell to the floor, dead before hitting the ground. Pleased with the result, he put his knife away and turned to where the bomb was.

Twang!

As the sound was heard in the bathroom, Harlan reached for his throat, choking on something. Rafael had managed to get back up from his attack, his knife broken by the fall. So, when his back was turned, he pulled out garrote wire out from his pocket and wrapped it around his throat.. Harlan stepped back, sending the man strangling him crashing into the wall. When he realized that the red-head didn't let go, he started to ram his elbow into his side, hoping to dislodge him from his throat. The more time that was taken to get Rafael off, the more Harlan was starting to lose his consciousness. And his life.
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Ai looked around the room and she pretended to not notice the movements of two rather large men, one bearing a shark tattoo on the side of his arm. One was bald and the other had bright red hair. They tried to make themselves unseen from her eyes but as soon as they headed into the bathroom, she immediately knew something was up.

I'll give a few minutes... maybe they're... she thought for a moment, clenching her fists. Who was she kidding, they were abnormally large for the men who attended these kinds of things and why they were trying to be discreet about entering the men's bathroom was even beyond her.

Slipping out her ceramic knife that was hidden behind her hand, she slipped into the men's bathroom again.

She almost dropped her knife when she watched Harlen flicker in and out of consciousness. For the first time, she felt her heart drop, as if she felt cold, but she focused herself, tossing it slightly, she held the blade in her hand and expertly threw at the man holding the wire around Harlen's neck.

The knife landed directly on the man's forehead, instantaneous death as he released the wire and fell over. She rushed over to Harlen's side, calling his name, wondering why she sounded so panicked... After all, they had experiences like this...

But she realized at that moment what she had been feeling; she was scared. Was she scared that she was going to lose him? Did... did she have feelings for him?

Ai held him in her arms, shaking him gently to wake him from unconsciousness. "Harlen, Harlen, are you all right?" she asked, calling his name in almost a desperate plea. It was as if she was hoping that he had not fallen to the clutches of death.

When she made sure he was fine, she was going to find a way out of here... they have to...
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Harlan couldn't see from his eyes. The excruciating pain coming from his throat was getting too much for him to hold on. Slowly, his arm that was elbowing Rafael went limp, the weight of his arms being too great for him to lift any more. He looked up again, seeing the light from the bathroom. A few seconds later, his second arm went limp, his entire body slowly sinking towards the ground. Rafael was chuckling, glad that he was finally getting his revenge on the man that had escaped from him. Before he could release the near-dead Harlan to the ground, he heard the air being cut from the other side of the room. He looked up, just to see the metal of the blade pointing an inch from his skull. "Shi…" was the only thing that he muttered before he died, the blade meeting its mark in the middle of his forehead. The garrote wire left his hands, loosening the grip that it had on the limp figure. The red-head's body simply fell, his head smacking on the tiled floor.

Harlan thought that he was dead, seeing the white light that was above him. His breathing was shallow, the oxygen quickly going away from his brain. Finally… I get to die doing… what I've always wanted to do. Before the hands of death grabbed his soul, he heard a voice call out to him in the darkness. "Harlen, Harlen, are you all right?" As soon as his name was called, he instantly came back into consciousness. He rose from his laying state, his hands reaching for his throat. Coughing and the odd spittle of blood left his mouth, finally getting the oxygen that he needed. Once the coughing fit was over, he relaxed, allowing his body to go to the floor. Or into Ai's arms, as he soon realized. Blinking wildly at her, he smiled.

"So it seems that the debt has been paid…" he said, half coughing-half chuckling at the predicament. Once his breath returned to normal, he got back up from the floor and crawled over to the bomb. He finally armed it, setting the detonator to 5 minutes. Plenty of time for us to get out of here and get us to a safe distance. Getting onto his feet, he pulled the dead bodies into the two cubicles, sitting them upright on the seat. Once done, he grabbed his gun and Ai's hand. Usually, he would grip it rather firmly. Instead, he was rather gentle with his hold. "Let's go." He walk through the door, leading Ai towards the stairs that were nearby. None of the guards noticed the couple going down into the underground car park that the building had. the only thing that they've noticed was the explosion of debris and gore erupting from the wall. By the time they went to investigate the cause of the explosion, both Harlan and Ai were in the black Corvette and left the grounds for good.
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A few minutes later, he arrived outside the doors of Ai's apartment, the keys out of the ignition. Resting his head on the headrest, he turned his head towards his partner and smiled. "Thank you for saving my life. I would have certainly died if you hadn't come in." He placed his hand around his neck, feeling the indent from the garrote wire. He slowly rubbed it, trying to get it out. While doing that, he concentrated on the feelings that he had felt earlier. Ai was worrying about me, even though I thought I was going to be fi… Slowly, the pieces of the 5 year old jigsaw puzzle fell into place. She… has feelings for me?
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When Harlan's eyes fluttered open, and then coughing, she was so relieved, that by the time his coughing fit had subsided and that he realized he had relaxed into her arms and before he spoke, "So it seems that the debt has been paid…", (although half chuckling and coughing at the same time), she had leaned over and kissed his bloody lips, not caring about the blood at all. The immediate reaction she had upon the contact was almost literally electrifying. When she pulled away, she realized that he might not think too much on it, as he was only vaguely aware of his surroundings at the moment.

When he smiled back at her, she smiled weakly back. Wiping her lips clean off the blood with a paper towel, she watched him finish up the bomb while she, in the process, was cleaning up any traces left by them behind. Burning the paper towel with Harlan's blood on it, she took out from her purse her perfume bottle and sprayed the blood that he had coughed out, leaving alone the dead bodies' blood. The blood immediately dried and she picked up the pieces, and again, burned it over the toilet. Then, taking out another perfume bottle, she sprayed the same place again, taking out gloves and using it to wipe the floor clean of Harlan's blood. She replaced them in her bag and then quickly pulled out the ceramic knife in one of the male's head. She took out a bag from her bag and dropped it in before placing it back into her purse. Ai then walked over to the toilet, burned her house-hold item gloves, and then dropped it into the toilet before she used her foot to flush the toilet of the remains as it flushed.

Just as she picked up her purse again, Harlan came and grabbed her hand, but instead of the usual firm grip he had on her hand whenever he did this, it was not as firm as it was before. "Let's go," he said, pulling her out the door. She only nodded, although she knew he couldn't see her do so. When they slipped into the car and drove away from the building, she was pretty sure she could hear the screams as the explosion went off, sending the bodies flying along with the debris.

Sitting in the seat comfortably, she felt the speed of the engine go as Harlan drove the Corvette with ease.

Resting his head on the headrest, he turned his head towards his partner and smiled. "Thank you for saving my life. I would have certainly died if you hadn't come in."

She looked over to him when the sports car pulled to the side near where she lived. Ai only smiled gently again, replaying the image of his nearly death-like image as she said softly, "You're welcome." She watched him rub where the indent of the wire still remained. It was getting late as she looked outside for a moment and she was getting caught up in the emotions she had been trying so hard to hide, to ignore. Her thoughts ran through the emotions she suddenly experienced after working with Harlan again: the tingly sensation, her blushes at the moments she usually only smiled in, and the way he... She had only realized it, but she pulled away from that idea. Harlan didn't wear cologne, so there was no way he had smelled that good to her. As she thought more about the subject, the more her heart fluttered. She...

"Harlan, you want to stay for the night at my place?" she asked, as she looked outside for the light. There was none; it was nearly eight... and usually around this time, there were other hitmen coming for them so they might as well stay put. "Just to make sure you're all right." Although, she knew he was going to be okay, she couldn't help but feel the nagging feeling of worry if she let him leave her sight, just for tonight.

Besides that though, something inside her also was beginning to wake up, although what, she didn't know. Somehow, she did know but at the same time, didn't. She remembered again what she did back in the men's bathroom and blushed a soft crimson, hidden in the dark, the streets lights barely able to make her face visible enough for Harlan to figure out what was on her face. Ai could still feel his lips on her own, too relieved to think things through before she kissed him. The sensation was brief, but electrifying, like a stronger version of the tingly sensation she had felt before when he kissed her neck; nothing like the kisses she had gotten before or the touches. It was like that, sending emotions and feelings to parts of herself she didn't know existed. All those years, she had tried to keep herself away from foolish emotions like love or relationships with anyone, being a hitman meant dangerous situations as often as a dog needed to go out. Despite that, when she was in high school, she had been one to experience crushes, but never truly experiencing the "love" until her junior year, the relationship lasting until she was 24. It was not meant to be and in the end, she ended up... killing him by accident when his drinking and gambling problems had gotten out of hand... to the point where he was going to kill her.

Ai hadn't felt the emotion of loving someone, after so many years. She gripped the seat tightly until her knuckles went white. There was just no way... there was no way, that she was in love with Harlan... even after those years of trusting each other for... so long...

I... can't be... There's just no way that I'm in love with Harlan, she thought, her heart racing and her face growing a darker crimson.
Edited by DarkAngel013, Jun 24 2009, 08:05 PM.
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