~As One Life Ends~
Save for the glow of a full moon the streets of Dresden were unusualy dark that night, as though the city itself could taste blood in the air and had somehow shrunk back out of fear. As I looked down the lonely sidewalk, I could see, by the sporatic glow of a flickering streetlight, three male figures dressed in long brown overcoats. I vaguely recognized the first two as my former coworkers and friends Johan and Strieber. "Why the hell did they have to take this assighnment.", I angrily said to myself, as my gaze shifted to the third man. He had a bent and half ruined cigaret in his mouth and was fumbling with his lighter like it was some kind of puzzle box, this and the fact that he was being acompanied by someone as experienced as Johan told me he was an amature. I saw Strieber look down at his watch and I did the same; 11:50, it read. I didn't have much time but neither did they. Johan, Strieber, and the amature began walking down the sidewalk, away from me and toward the train station two blocks away.
As my quivering right hand closed around the semi-automatic 9mm tucked inside my waistband, one thousand pictures raced through my head, images, memories, and ideas, all of them bombarding me, filling me with nauseous anxiety but then, through the jumbled mess of half formed thoughts, came one clear name, "Elizabeth." Then that was it, she was counting on me and I couldn't let her down, not like all the others, not again. "For Elizabeth", I whispered under my breath as my, now steady, hand pulled forward infront of my body, my left rising to meet it, and my feet spreading to shoulder length. I silently took aim at the three criminals and centered on Strieber, who was standing the farthest to the right with Johan and the amature to his left. My first round peirced the back of Strieber's head and just as Johan instinctively drew and faced me, my second round passed between his eyes. This left only the amature, who I shot in the right leg.
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