She stopped in her tracks when he mentioned she didn’t look very strong. “Just because I have the physicality of a woman, a girl…” She began. “Doesn’t mean I’m not strong enough to kill a man three times my size with my bare hands… Because without my training…mentally, I was already there. I could do it now. One and off, like a switch…”
Axel laughed as she got all serious and told him of what she could do if push came to shove. “Look I didnt mean anything rude, I was hassling you. YOu know playing having fun. Joking, its something people do to others.” Axel told her as he rolled his eyes and opened the car door. “No get in before you burst a vein.”
Cara let off another bark of loud laughter. Axel really was amusing her. If he said any of this to Nerd, Nerd would flat out deny everything and then shoot Axel. Or attempt to do bodily harm, at any rate… “He wasn’t cleared by Division for ops. He just…accompanies me sometimes when I need him, that’s all. It’s more of a…favor.” She walks with him to where her car was parked on a back road. “I definitely do not need as much protection as him. I may be a genius but…I’m a tough one. I’m a bad bitch…” She winks.
He smiled as she laughed again, it made him happy every time she let out a bark of laughter instead of being so serious. “Are you sure you dont need protection. You dont look that strong.” He teased as he walked over to her car and leaned on it as he waited for her to unlock it.
“I’m…sorry to hear that…” Cara voice was soft. She didn’t like the thought of faking someone’s death at all after her experience in it. “He does…sort of. It’s more that if he’s needed in the field as a techie field hack…whatever, we drag him along.” She smirks. “He’s kind of a failure at field ops but he means well.” She chuckles.
“HOw did he even pass the test for it?” Axel asked with a laugh. “It sounds like he needs a full body shield or a body guard with him if he goes on field work.” He smirked as he looked over at her. “Tell me you dont need as much protection as him.”
The agent was surprised when he mentioned faking his own death a few times. “I’m sure that was for an entirely different reason that required it for your own sake. They forced us to do it. In essence we woke up in a little room, four walls and a roof and a horrible cot and told we could either serve our country or actually be killed.” She shrugs a bit. “He doesn’t usually because we’re almost always in the same room but sometimes…he might. In our line of work we just…never know.”
“It was for my own sake you are right, but it was not fun every time, though it is probable easier for me to do it than you. And they should not have forced it upon you.” He told her as she shrugged. “Does he go on missions with you?” He asked her, he wanted to get a better picture of how the two worked together.
Cara laughed out loud at that one. It was abrupt, a bark of laughter. She was greatly amused at the picture of Nerd this guy drew in her mind’s eye. “Mainly. He’d been trained in hand to hand combat but only enough to pass in case he needs to subdue an attacker. Mostly he can use a gun outside of a mouse and a keyboard.” She smirks, rolling her eyes. “Uh…what else would you have me tell? We both work for an organization of the government that’s very agents and members are criminals recruited from the penal system. They fake our deaths and bring us in, give us new identities, legends, force us to serve our country, train us to be assassins and spies… None of that is who we really are or want to be. Most of us just want to live out our lives in peace, given a second chance to do things differently…”
“So he is a slightly strong nerd.” Axel grinned as she spoke. “When would he ever need to subdue an attacker if you’re around?” He asked with a grin. As she spoke about her work and faking her death he listened quietly and smiled. “Faking your death can be fun sometimes.” He laughed. “Ive done it a few times myself.”
Cara’s eyes bugged out of her head. “No. Not in any terms. I’m brain and brawn, pal.” She smirks a bit. “He leaves. I leave. We all have lives it just depends…sometimes when we work we hunker down and don’t leave for days. Follow me and…we’ll get the job done for you.”
He laughed again. “But he is just brains?” He asked as they walked. “I can’t imagine you hunkering down for days on end.” Axel commented as he chuckled. “Tell me more about your friend. Actually tell more about the both of you so that I feel more at ease with trusting you.”
Cara smirked and looked back at him as he asked about her Nerd. “Yeah, Nerd… He’s a friend of mine. Genius hacker nerd. Technological mastermind. He and I are like PB&J.” She chuckles lightly. “I don’t know, I mean… Do you have a computer with state of the art security features and all the programs I’ll need?”
He laughed and smiled. “SO he is the brains and you are the brawn so to speak?” He asked with a chuckle. “DOes he ever leave his room?” THe vampire asked as he smirked at her. “And no I dont have a computer, I wouldnt even know how to use one, hence why you are here.”
“Only…a little…illegal…” Cara almost laughed back at that. “Because the nearness of legality or the lack thereof always matters when they read you your rights…” She shakes her head. “Alright, follow me and I’ll take you to the lair. Nerd has been dying to help me out and hack some shit with me.”
“It might do if you get caught.” He laughed as he followed her. “Nerd?” HE asked raising an eyebrow. “And do we really need to go back to your lair as you called it?” He was sure that she could just hack what he needed from outside of the house rather than being in a lair.
Cara’s eyes narrowed. “Axel, I might work for the most crooked organization that doesn’t exist in this government, but…I try to be not crooked when I leave for the night. This screams illegal… What the Hell are you taking if I do this for you?” She isn’t mad. She isn’t even saying no. She just wants to cover all her bases.
“Its only a little illegal.” He laughed as he looked at her. “Its just soemthing that is mine that was taken a while ago and I want it back.” He explained with a smile. “And come on you will get paid so just do this for me, please?” Axel asked giving her the sweetest smile he could.
“You know, I’ve heard a lot of really crazy excuses but ‘daytime is not my thing’ has never been close to one of them…” The agent stuffs her hands in her pockets on the leather jacket. “Yeah, I can see that… What’s going on that was so dire as to pull me out of bed then?”
“I need your help thats all, its not dire but it is something that needs to be done tonight.” He explained rubbing the back of his head as he looked at her. “I need you to hack into the security system so that I can break into this house to take something.” Axel told her.
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