The Assassin: A Short Story

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How do we handle fictional narratves? John Murdock woke up after a long night of drinking he got up and went to the kitchen and put the kettle on. Then he walked out to his boat house there was his pride and joy a 8m, aluminium hull, dark red quintrex with twin Yamaha 200hp out boards.

John walked back to the house, and poured himself a strong cup of coffee and sat down at his table as he did he caught sight of a black BMW parked about three houses down the street, he took a mouth full of his coffee and caught a quick glimpse of the car he could see two suits sitting in the front of the BMW, he drank the rest of his coffee and went to his room to get changed.

Then he crept out to the back door that lead to his boathouse and slowly opened the door so he could just see out of it he looked around and he spotted a jet black cruiser that was anchored about 500m down the mariner. John opened the door and quickly ran to the shed he knew he had been spotted, he jumped into the quintrex and fired up the twin 200s yanked the throttle lever into reverse and bored out of the boathouse. John throttled back shifted the lever into forward and threw the boat in the direction of the exit of the mariner. John glanced back to see how close the cruiser was and it was right there on his tail john pushed the throttle lever further and the twins responded with a roar and pushed on even faster. Joh...

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...ook the shot then quickly moved to the other one and shot again there was a guard that was about to come around the fence and John lined him up and shot him quicker than you can click your fingers the other to where on the other side of the compound John quickly ran out of the scrub and through the gate then up to the door of the palace he picked the lock and slowly opened the door with the muzzle of the SMG there was no guards on the inside of the door so John sneaked through and jogged down the hall John ran up the stairs pointing his gun at the next flight of stairs then he looked through the rooms until he saw the biggest room at the end of the hall John moved swiftly along the wall then he opened the door and sprayed the room with bullets and then walked in there was Zen Alcarid leing on the floor with a hole in his chest he was begging for mercy then BANG.

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