Notes: Thank you for the nice feedback on this. I want to plug another of my fics Lex & Chloe has been updated and I started a story called Aftermath . It’s an add on to the crap Void episode this week. Krysia that is what I was going for with Gabe and Sarah but he was sent to kill her not heal her like Leo. I hope you like the next installment. I might do a few flash back so they well be in italics.
Chapter 1 The Assignment
Memphis, Tennessee Eight Years Ago
“You have the shot Chloe take it.” Gabe spoke to Chloe as if she was there. He was speaking a loud and knew the wireless head transmitted the message.
Chloe fingered the trigger of her sniper rifle. She was hiding out in a house across the street from her mark. The owners where not home yet and she broke into the place no problem.
Her mark was a wealthy lobby lawyer that someone wanted put down before he said something to the wrong people. She was feeling nauseas since she got out of the car to break into the house.
Her father was waiting for her a few houses away keeping watch for the lawyer. This was her first kill job and she wanted him there for support.
She done a lot up to this point as far as stealing, kidnappings, and cons but she never killed anyone. She beat up a man or woman from to time to time and she’d shot someone before but they didn’t die because of it.
Her father told her this was the true test if she could be apart of the network he was under. Her first jobs where taste of the work he did and none of them compared to a strict kill. He wanted what was best for his daughter and if she wanted this life she would have to prove it tonight.
Chloe tried to breath and felt her fingers tingling and sweat forming on her brow. She was in all black leaning against the windowsill with her shot aligned on the lawyer getting out of his car. If she didn’t shoot him now she would have to wait till he was in the house next to a window or go in the house and do it personally.
Chloe wanted this life she loved the thrills from her other work but was getting more queasiness as the seconds past before she reached the point of no return.
“Chloe you don’t have to do this I can do it. Ares will understand your not ready for this yet.” Gabe spoke again seeing the lawyer reach for his briefcase out then closing the car door.
“No, I can do this.” Chloe said back transmitting to him through her wireless set. Ares headed the network he was unsure of letting Chloe in knowing she was Gabe’s daughter.
She would have to do this to stay in and not have to start over with new network or working privately which guaranteed she wouldn’t get much working being so new at this.
If she didn’t do this she wouldn’t get her goddess name and would have start over in gaining Ares’ trust.
Chloe watched the lawyer walking to the front door of his home and she would have to decided now.
She closed her eyes took in a deep breath then shot him in the back of the head. The blood shot forward once the bullet went threw his skull and he toppled over to the ground. Chloe saw him bleeding on the concrete walk way and the chunks started to rise.
She dropped her rifle and ran to the bathroom adjoining the bedroom she was in She knelt down over the toilet and let all the tension, the stress, and the guilt go along with what was in her stomach.
“Your Bastet now Chloe. Do hear me. Ares gave you your code name and your now a full member of the network. He went with an Egyptian name for you.” Gabe waited for her to say something but he only heard her dry heaving. He assumed she was vomiting and it was yet another trait of his she picked up.
He did the same thing after his first kill.
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Metropolis, Kansas Present
“This is Bastet.” Chloe answered her cell phone closing the door to her hotel bathroom.
She just arrived in Metropolis and wanted to change and shower before heading to her appointment. She had a dream on the plane about her first hit. She was dreaming about it a lot lately and didn't know why. It was still running around in mind and she didn’t want it to be.
“You did good in DC.” Ares said to her.
Ares called to check in after a job and to offer her new assignments. Chloe was expecting a call since nothing went wrong for him to call and criticize over. “Thanks. You have something for me already.”
“No if you take the job it well be a long con you know that. I am checking in on you to make sure you are ok.”
She didn’t know why he was so concerned about her. Her father wasn’t doing well when she left him in Germany and it appeared Ares know about it. He knew everything. “Look Apollo is fine if that’s why your calling. I think he has the flu.”
“I know his status. I just wanted to make sure his health is not going to disrupt this job. I suggested you personally to this woman and I can’t have any fuck ups.”
“There is no room for a fuck up when it comes to me you know that. Apollo will not effect my work. I have to go.”
Ares was the only man she was afraid of and she never even met him. Chloe tried to track him down once but never came up with any strong leads. She mind it up in her made that he was to feared if he could hide from her.
“Bastet you’re a rising star I don’t want to lose you.” He hung up and Chloe shut her cell.
She placed the phone down on the sink counter and went to turn the shower on. She was still in her suit from the conference and was ready to get out of it.
She took a quick shower looking over her scar from a job last month. She was kicked the stomach and was black and blue afterwards. It appeared she was healing but she still had a little ways to go.
Chloe dried her long blonde hair and decided not to wear a wig that day. She hadn’t been in Metropolis since she was in middle school before her mother died and knew no one would recognize her.
She threw on one of the soft white robes hanging from the room door and walked out to check out her bags. She had them shipped a week ago then delivered to the hotel this morning before she arrived. The bags where resting next to the plush sofa in the room.
She had her two travel trucks full of clothes and shoes. There were two large suitcases with computer equipment and other gadgets and then her weapons. She opened the truck of clothes and pulled out something to wear to her meeting.
She decided on a black suit and then rummaged through her second truck for the heels that went perfectly with it. The client she was meeting was a straight woman and she had no reason to dress slightly sexier. She didn’t dress sexy to have affairs with clients but for some reason it put them at easy.
Chloe went for her file on the client hidden under several layers of computer equipment. The job hadn’t been fully explained but she knew it was going to be a long con and she would have to stay in Metropolis.
She looked at the picture of Genevieve Teague and then her profile. She was a wealth woman born into money and her husband recently died. All his assets where turned over to her and she was now running his company.
Mrs. Teague was searching for several 17th century French paintings and hired several people to steal them for her but she lost one of them. Chloe assumed the job was to retrieve the painting but didn’t see the need to run a long con to get it.
She crumpled the file and went to the bathroom to flush it since she now it memorized. Chloe picked up her cell in the bathroom and noted the time and knew she had to get going.
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Chloe arrived at a the Teague offices and did a quick check of her self before she walked out of the elevator. She was in her black suit and did a quick up do of her hair. The gun attached to her thigh was in place and she was ready to go an meet her new client.
“Hello Miss can I help you.” The reception said to her.
“I have and appoint with Mrs. Teague. The name is Sasha Soren.” Chloe liked her new alias and repeated it over and over during the cab ride there to make sure she didn’t say the wrong name.
“Right of course go right in she is expecting you.” The reception waved Chloe to the doors leading to the office.
She walked in and Genevieve was looking over the city out of the large window in her office. “Mrs. Teague.” Chloe called to her.
Genevieve turned to look at her and held out her hand to her. Chloe took it and gave her a handshake. “It’s a pleasure to finally meet you Ms. Soren or should I call Bastet?”
“Which ever you prefer.”
“Oh perfect timing.” Genevieve she said in her British accent pointing behind her. Chloe turned around to be greeted by someone she knew from the file. “This is my son Jason.”
“Hello Ms. Soren. Ares didn’t do you justice in your description” Jason gave her a half smile and shook her hand as he eyed her up and down.
Chloe didn’t think he would be at this meeting and if she’d known she would have changed. He was wearing a nice leather jacket, dark slacks, and smile shit. His hair was a bit rumpled and he had a little stubble forming. This man was good looking and Chloe was letting her mind wonder to the possibilities of getting something inside her that didn’t run on batteries.
“I could say the same about your picture Mr. Teague...and call me Sasha” She replied to him taking her hand away after a long handshake.
“Please call me Jason.” He said to her still giving her that smile almost a smirk.
“Alright enough introductions.” Genevieve motioned for them to take a seat on the couches in the middle of the room and Chloe sat down across from her while Jason sat next to her.
“Bastet in Egyptian mythology says she was a lioness, a devourer, and protect of the pharaoh from the chief god Ra.” Genevieve said to her picking up a file on the couch next to her and handing it over to Chloe.
“Yes that’s right. That’s how she received the title Lady of flame.” Chloe opened the file and assumed the first picture in the file was of her mark. “I would love to discuss mythology as much as the next person but let’s talk about the job.”
“Right to work. Ares said you where impatient.” Jason said to her still eyeing her body in the suit.
“Jason don’t ogle her.” Genevieve rolled her eyes at him. “I am sorry for my son’s manners.”
“It’s alright. Tell me about Lex Luthor?” Chloe held up the picture of the striking bald man in the file.
“You know of him?” Genevieve said.
“Of course. Did he steal your painting?” Chloe started to flip through the file and there were profile sheets on her mark and a picture of the painting.
“Yes he did and I want it back.” Chloe could hear Genevieve grinding her teeth in frustration.
“Why did the robberies fail?” Chloe tried to keep her attention on Genevieve and not look at Jason who was still staring at her.
“Because Lex is holding the painting somewhere very secure inside one of his Luthor Corp buildings. We thought a beautiful woman could get the painting from him rather then using brute force again.” Jason smiled at her as he spoke.
Chloe had to flirt with him a little and moisten her bottom lip. The action made one of his eye brows go up and they locked eyes for a moment but it was interrupted by Genevieve.
“The painting leads to something more then just something to add to my collection Ms. Soren. It is the key to…”
“Hold it right there.” Chloe said cutting her off turning her attention back her. “The less you tell me about the painting the less inclined I’m to steal it and sell to the highest bidder.”
“I like your honesty but you need to know that there is something behind the painting. Lex knows it and I want to know it. He has a research team working on it and I want what information they have.” Genevieve said to her.
“So it all sounds very straight forward. You want me to seduce him to get close to the vault holding the painting, get the information he has collected on it and…”
“Then kill him.” Genevieve finished for her
Chloe didn’t think this was a hit type job but it appeared it was. “Are you sure? People well be very suspicion when playboy billionaire Lex Luthor turns up dead.”
“I trust you well be able to take care of that and make it look like and accident of some kind.” Jason interjected
Chloe wanted this job it was paying more money then she ever earned and it would do wonders for her reputation in the business. “I can handle it.”
“Excellent, what do you need from us.” Replied Genevieve.
“Nothing I’ll take this file and do a little surveillance of my own if you don’t mind. Is there a time limit on this?”
“No I don’t care how long you take as long as you get it what I want but as soon as possible is always best. Jason well be here for you if you need anything and we are agreed on the sum of money?”
“Yes my accounts show the down payment and the rest I’ll want transferred when the hit is done. At that time you should have your painting, research and one dead billionaire”
“I hope you are everything Ares said you would be.” Genevieve fixed her stare on Chloe and she knew that she was having doubts. The failures to steal the painting must be weighing heavy on her mind.
Chloe got up from the couch to leave. She had a lot of work to do. “I will keep you posted on my progress.”
“I’ll walk you out.” Jason stood then step back so she could go ahead of him. Chloe moved out of the office and they took a silent elevator down.
“How do you feel about dinner tonight with me?” Jason said to her stopping her from getting to close to the door heading out.
“I should prep for my surveillance tomorrow. Can you take a rain check?”
Jason leaned in close to her whispering in her ear. “I’ll hold you to that.” Then he walked back to the elevator and didn’t look back until he was inside still smirking at her.
“Damn job.” Chloe mumbled. She could had to get ready to start looking into Lex Luthor and would have to worry about dulling the ache between her legs another time.
TBC
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