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After their job in San Francisco, Liam and his family flew to London for the next job. They stayed at a luxury hotel for its duration. After they made themselves comfortable at their new living place they gather in the living room.
“Our target this time is the political candidate Colin Hayes, and our client is the CO of a multibillionaire company.” Liam’s father mentioned them about new target.
“It seems to be a much harder job than the previous one” Liam commented.
“Indeed, this job is unique in its own way, the client asked us, if is possible not to kill him. He will be satisfied as long as the target stays out of politics, for example if someone dear to him die.”
Said Liam’s father, and the one who answered this time was a Liam mother.
“Hmm, that’s odd, we rarely have jobs similar to this, unless we decided that is the best to kill someone else, to achieve the same result.”
“You are right, I personally would prefer to kill our intended target and this is the plan, unless killing someone else will achieve the better result. Our client is afraid of Colins connections and what may happen, if it’s found out that he is behind everything.
That shouldn’t be a problem, since we are always completely discreet and we never leave any evidence or suspicions behind, but if Colin connection don’t find satisfy answer, they will just go after anybody who will gain from Colin death. We must leave fake trail, nothing special for us, since we usually do this.”
Liam father (‘M’) explained, after he saw that other two wanted to hear more specifics about job.
“First of, our code names for this job will be Red for Emily (Liam mother), Blue for you Liam and Black for me.”
Liam nodded at his word while Emily couldn’t help but comment his words.
“Isn’t that too simple? I can’t remember when we have on color based code name not to mentions this simple colors”
“Precisely that’s why I chose them, since last time we use them was over 10 ago, and it was yellow for me and orange for you.” Black said
“Mom please give this kind of comments after father explained our specifics duties.”
“Ahh, you are not fun Liam, all right darling please explain.”
“First of it, I will go in our local base we have in this city, to hack into cameras, computers to explore and research his history to find something useful.
You Emily will follow him and note all locations and people he will met. Including those who will just pass him, because if the same people pass him a few time per week they can be used, so take picture or write down their register tables if they are in the cars.
Liam you will stay around his working place in a coffee shops and restaurant to eavesdrops and observe his partners and coworkers when they are on a break. We need as much as possible data on anyone who is in contact with Colin, so that we can make a plan. Beside that we also need to make a second plan to see if by any chance, if is to kill someone else a better solutions”.
“Didn’t you say that you only will kill someone else if you don’t find good solutions for killing the intended target?” Emily asked
“Yes, that would be a normal way, if to kill some else is better and gives the better result, then why not. But this time a client already asked us if it is possible to kill someone else. Normally I would decide during planning and simulations to find the best solution, but this time because of our client, we need to check this possibility from the beginning.
From what I saw, the best solution for now is to kill the intended target, but as always we also need to prepare other plans. Like indirectly killing him, or in this case killing someone else to make him withdraw from politics.”
Black give a detail explanation to Emily’s questions.
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After they got their specific duties, they went to do their jobs. Emily went to pursue a Colin Hayes, his father went to a secure location for monitoring and collecting information. Liam went to the coffee shop that was frequently visited by Colin’s coworkers. By this time he already got from his father basic info about his targets. He was equipped with microphone that could sense even the lowest voice, it was integrated into his phone. Since it was just upgrade of stock microphone and was using advance software the phone didn’t look any different, even if someone disassemble the phone.
In the coffee shops he mostly met the lover rankers of Colin coworkers, who didn’t have a lot information but was necessary to investigate them, because they may be usefully to their plan. After Liam investigate about ten targets he go out of coffee shop and went into restaurant, in which were the close coworkers of Colin usually have a lunch.
The most important target for observing was Colin secretary Dwayne Jarvis. Dwayne was having a lunch with few other Colin coworker, a few tables away from Liam. He also order a lunch and if someone asked him what he is doing in this fancy restaurant by himself he answered that his parent sent him to check a few restaurants and chose the best one for the family diner.
When he was observing and eavesdropping on Dwayne, he notice that at the table next to him two men in black suits were sitting, their posture indicated that they may be bodyguards. At the end of the same table he also noticed a young girl similar in age as him. She was pretty for a girl, she had blond hair with a bit of a darker hue, her skin was pretty pale but not completely and she also wore a nice black dress.
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The girl noticed the look Liam took at her, she smiled back at him and stood up from her table and moved to Liams table. When she was walking toward him he notice that her elegant way of walking didn’t match with her dress. Her dress was definitely nice and pretty expensive but the way she was walking, indicated she wasn’t just from a rich family but from a very wealthy family and for some reason, the dress she wore was a little lacking for people of her status.
She sat at Liams table directly opposite of him. She leaned a bit forward and smiled. Liam couldn’t help himself but to think that something is weird about this girl.
“Just what is a young boy like you doing here alone?” the girl asked.
“Tasting food, later I will go with my parents to diner and they asked me to check where the best food is.” Liam replied since it would be weird if he ignored her.
“So errand it is. Do you have a lot of this kind of errands?” the girl suppressed Liam with her questions.
“Yes I do, and my name is Lark”
Liam answered with the ‘truth’ since his real name didn’t exist. He didn’t have a problem giving her a false name since his real name didn’t official exist in any system, so his false identity was actually more real than his real name.
“Is that so, but looks like you don’t like those errands” the girl gave him another surprise question.
Liam chuckled a bit since those errand could also mean, his family business and it was a truth that lately he was a bored from it.
“Not exactly, but lately those errands did become a little boring, since they are much repeatable, and by the way what is your name?”
Liam again gave an answer without lie, since he have a feeling that this girl could notice his lies despite all training he had gone through. This was probably because he was still troubled by boredom and last time he even lost himself into a blind street.
This time a girl was surprised at his questions, look like she didn’t expected to be asked for a name Liam thought.
“Ah so it is boring to you, and yes my name is… a… La..ra Lara, yes my name is Lara” Lara gave her name away with big trouble and Liam was sure that she lied about it.
“Yes lately it did become a little boring”.
“If you are bored why don’t you ask your parent for something else?” Lara asked.
“I did, but those other errands weren’t much different”.
Liam answered and ‘with others errands’ he was talking about killing for practice, he was doing this from time to time, since on the job he rarely killed with his own hands. The last job was an exception and beside that he suspected that his father organized it this way, because he noticed that he wasn’t 100% into the job.
“Then, why don’t you take a break?”
“A break?” Liam confused asked back.
“Yes a break, I am also helping my family a little but I take a break whenever I want”
Lara answered and smile appeared on her face, probably because she remembered her last break. The ‘bodyguards” at her table froze for a moment when they heard her words and saw her smile. For them her last break obvious wasn’t something to smile about, Liam concluded when he saw their expression.
“Hmm, a break I will think about it”.
Liam said and noticed that Dwayne finished his lunch and went with his coworkers back to the work. ‘Damn they are already finished, lucky I was recording, if not I would have lost quite a bit of time because I let myself be distracted’.
“Sorry I need to go back home, I lost track of time so I am in a hurry.”
Liam said to Lara and went out of restaurant. He wasn’t in a hurry to go home but to observe another coworker. While he was on the way, he was in deep thoughts about the conservation he just had.
After Liam left the restaurant a black limousine came to the main entrance of the restaurant.
“Milady our ride is here” said one of ‘bodyguards’.
Lara at his word stand up and went to the limousine and sat in the back. One ‘bodyguard’ also went to the back while the other sat besides the driver.
“Milady why did you converse with that boy?” the ‘bodyguard’ asked.
“Hmm, I wonder why, he seemed out of place and something about him interested me but I don’t have words to describe it”.
“And why did you name yourself as Lara”?
“Ah that, he suddenly asked me for the name when I didn’t have any other identity prepared so I just used the first name that came to my mind”.
The ‘bodyguard’ gave a big sight at her explanation.
“As your supporter I need you to remember, don’t you use a name you came up with on the spot.”
“Yes I understood, I will make sure that I always have a backup identity with me, so I will not need to come up with the name on the spot”.
Lara or whatever her true name is, said while the limousine was driving away from restaurant.
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