Chapter 2: Loid

She’s following me trying to hide a limp. ‘And where do you think you are going mister?’ she asks me so I reply with ‘Away from you and your limp.’ I pause ‘Yeah I saw that too.’ I bearly hear her next sentance of ‘I hate you.’ because she says it through gritted teeth. I decied to pick up the pace causing her to limp after me and I smile to myself. ‘Yeah sure I don’t care.’ I turn down an empty alleyway and stop. She limp infront of me. I put. sedation drug in her neck and I catch her body as it falls. She is surprisingly light but still the gunshot wound in my shoulder sting. Courtesy of her. I aproach a steel door and knock in a certain pattern. The door swings open an I wald in and down the stairs. It’s noisy today I guess theres someone popular here today. ‘Great’ I mumble to myself. I walk into a medical and lay her on a medical table snapping a smelling salt in fron of her nose. Her eyes fly open and she sits up quickly. ‘Easy your safe.’ I try to reassure her, ‘Am I? Because you just kidnapped me.’ she says agitated and she has every right to be.

’Just trust m-’ she throws her arms up cutting me off when she says ‘Oh fuck no.’ She swings her legs over the side of the table. ‘Why should I trust you of all people.’ she turns her neck to look around and when she winces, I look at the floor. ‘Yeah you might want to give your neck a few days, I put th needle in pretty hard.’ I say wanting to sound unbothered but the words instead sound slighty sympathetic. ‘Why would you do that.’ she says reaching for her gun that isn’t there. ‘Yeah I took those, I’m not going to have you killing me in my sleep.’ I say as shedeath stares me and I take a step back knowing she will make good on that. ‘Look you can have them back when I know you woon’t kill me.’ I say while she starts looking around for her wepons. ‘Give them back now! And tell me why the fuck I am trapped here.’ she shouts

‘No chance.’ I say as I fold my arms and continue ‘You are here because I am saving you from your boss.’ I explain calmly.

’What makes you think I need saving?’ she asks while sliding off the table and winces slightly when she puts weight on her knee. I watch her change the way she is standing so there is no weight on it. ‘Knee still causing you problems?’ I ask even though I am not concered for her in the slightest. She glares at me and I feel a chill go down my spine. This was a bad idea I think to myself. ‘Look your boss will come looking for you in a couple of days and you are to stay here so I can talk to him face to face and if you come to your senses you will join me and quit being an assassin.’

’You don’t think I’ve tried.’ she says quietly then speaks up. ‘You don’ttink I’ve tried to quit. He keeps me locked up if I even mention quitting and he beat me when I was 15 for trying to leave.’ Shock hits me when she finishes her sentance. ‘Why would you want t becaome an assassin when you were 15?’ I ask even though she won’t give me an answer. ‘Thats none of your business.’ she says as quickly as I expected. She starts limping arounf the room. ‘You’ll make. it worse. Just sit down.’ I say wondering why I am trying to help the woman who wants to kill me. ‘No I’m fine s-’ I cut her off ‘Why don’t you say that to your protesting knee, because you may be fine but that’t not.’ she rols her eyes at me my comment. ‘Well I’m going to leave you here to come to your senses. If you need anything just shout.’ I say walking out of the room and locking the door behind me.

It’s been four days and he still isn’t here. Why isn’t he here. I push th thouhts aside and continue my daily routine of annoyin her. I need to find out her name. I look up ‘Like she is going to tell me that.’ I mumble to myself then unlock the door to the rom I have trapped her in. I find myself ducking when I enter as she has thrown her shoe towards my head. ‘Really, again?’ I ask but don’t wait for an answer before saying ‘Look all I want to know today is your name.’ She looks at me confused ‘Why would I tell you that if I don’t know your name. And why would I tel you that anyway.’ she says with such ease that it sounds rehearsed. ‘Have you rehearesed that line before?’ I find myself asking for no reason.

‘What? I thought you only wanted to know my name thats your third question now.’ she says.

‘Look just tell me your name and I’ll be on my way,’ I say getting annoyed ‘and if you really want to know my name it’s Loid.’

She laughs ‘I’m sorry what kind of a name is Loid.’ she barely says because of her laughing. ‘Well is your name any better than Loid?’ I ask more than slightly pissed. ‘Yeah it is.’ She says not giving me her name like I had hoped. ‘Well what is it then and I can decied if it is or if it isn’t.’ I say trying to reason with her.

‘Why do you want to know my name?’ She counters.

‘Because I can’t keep refering to you as “The woman I’ve trapped in the medical room” now can I?’ She rolls her eyes then quietly says ‘It’s Angel and your not knowing my actual name.’

‘Fine then you have to refer to me as Lucifer.’ I counterseeing as she won’t tell me her actual name. This time she laughs - well cackles. ‘Now what?’ I say ‘I didn’t laugh when you said your name well codenamr I’m assuming was Angel.’

‘Lucifer? Just why Lucifer?’ She asks lifting herself onto the table waiting for an explanation. ‘And why should I tell you that?’ I say mimicking her. Her gaze narrows and I smile. ‘I’m scared of you. And I’ll tell you why when you tell me your name.’ I pause ‘Think of it as a compramise.’ I turn to the door and I hear her mumble the word ‘Shura.’ I face her and see her facing the other way. I stifle a small laugh. I think she heard me as I am now ducking so her other shoe doesn’t hit my face. ‘Still fiesty I see.’ I say as I stand up. ‘How am I the feisty one when you piss me off?’ She resorts and I just look at he then laugh. ‘Whatever.’ I say once I stop laughing.

‘What’s so funny?’ she asks.

‘That you take everything so seriously.’ I pause ‘And when you do something you don’t like or get embarressed over you face away from people.’ I answer.

‘I do not.’ She says shocked.

‘Alright then. I’ll be back later.’ I say then leave locking the door behind me.

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