Return of Ana By Littlesilverstar, silverstar222b@yahoo.com Female assassin Anastasia returns for another adventure Anastasia sat in her converted office in the comfortable three-bedroom home in suburban Seattle that her handlers had acquired for her, glancing out the window at the blue sky. It was May and the rain had finally stopped. She took a sip of wine before turning back to her laptop and her next assignment. She thought about the one she had just completed, stealing a massive amount of classified data on the F-35 fighter jet from a local aerospace company where she had gotten a job as a temp, framing one of the employees, a poor sap named Chet Warren, and bumping Chet off and disposing of the corpse. The cops had questioned her, of course, like they had questioned everyone else, but they hadn't given her any more attention than they had given any other employee. No one really paid attention to temps. Her assignment at the company had ended soon after that. Temps came and went all the time. And of course, Chet Warren had never been found. She looked over the information file on her next target. His name was Cody Fleming, and he was a software engineer for another of the many aerospace companies with defense contracts in the Seattle area. He had access to a special key that was inserted into his computer at work. When the key was inserted and the correct password was entered, it gave the user access to a massive amount of classified data on U.S. missile defense systems. She looked through Cody's personal information. He was 37 years old, single, and shared a two-bedroom apartment with a roommate. Glancing at his picture, she saw that he was athletic-looking and kind of cute, not like the stereotypical software engineer. She smiled to herself. She might actually enjoy the flirting part of her assignment. Not like how she'd had to suffer through it last time with the overweight and unattractive Chet Warren. One of Anastasia's best assets as a secret agent and assassin was her looks, and she took pride in it. She was a very attractive woman, with long brown hair, green eyes, and an elegant, high-cheekboned, model-like face. Her 5'6", 125-pound figure was slender, muscular, athletic, and feminine. By changing the way she dressed and the amount of makeup she wore, she could play anything from a 6 who blended into the background to a 10 who could seduce any guy. She could also use fashion and makeup changes to vary the appearance of her age. She was 32 years old, looked about 25 in her "normal" look, but could play anything from an 18-year-old high school girl to a 40-year-old soccer mom. She went through her large collection of fake IDs, selecting one. "Lisa Applegate. That sounds good for my next alter ego. I was Penelope Lawrence last time, this time I'll be Lisa Applegate. And the ol' get hired as a temp routine should work great for this mission too." She quickly sent a message to her comrades at the temp agency with her new details. This well-established, well-respected local temp agency, through a hostile (and violent) takeover, was now under the control of Anastasia's handlers and allies. Just a few quick removals and replacements of some high-ranking people at the company, and it was theirs. The grunts and paper-pushers didn't suspect a thing. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss, was all they thought. But for Ana and her comrades, what an asset it was for inserting agents into companies they needed to target. She continued studying the information about Cody Fleming and the company he worked for. A short while later, she received a message from her friends at the temp agency. She was all set to start at the company on Monday morning. Ana nodded to herself and downed the rest of her wine, planning out her weekend. She could spend the rest of her Friday night relaxing, maybe go out to a bar and pick up a guy for a one-night stand. Then tomorrow, she would do some recon at Cody's apartment. Her handlers had already gathered extensive information on him, but she always liked to see things for herself and gain as much extra intel as she could. Sunday would be a day of rest, and then on Monday her new assignment would officially begin. SATURDAY Anastasia stood on the roof of the high-rise apartment building, dressed in her window washer's uniform, complete with all the necessary accessories. She thought briefly about the one-night stand she'd had last night. Physically fulfilling - he was cute and skilled enough, and she had came twice - but emotionally unfulfilling. At least she had made some lucky guy's night. Lucky in more ways than one. He was just a fuck on her own time, so he was still alive. The guys that she fucked as part of her missions typically died gruesome deaths. Turning her mind back to the present, she gracefully slid down the rope she had prepared. Stopping herself at the eighth floor, where Cody's apartment was, she casually looked inside while beginning to wash the windows. Cody wasn't home, she knew, he had gone out with his buddies, likely to a sports bar. She looked at the posters on his bedroom walls, his large-screen TV, his video game system. A typical red-blooded male, she decided. Into sports, into all the stereotypical guy things, attracted to athletic women who could keep up with the guys. She already began planning what she would wear on Monday and how she would interact with him as she finished up his window. She moved on to the window of the second bedroom. The intelligence report had stated that Cody's roommate was female, a young woman named Becky. Becky was home, seated at her computer, browsing through the pictures of some Instagram model. Ana looked at the posters on the pink walls. They were an odd mix of fashionistas and athletes. As her gaze traveled from the posters to Becky herself, Ana smiled and nodded, seeing what was going on. Becky was attracted to Cody, but he just wasn't into her. She was a thin, pale, mousy, unathletic girl with stringy blonde hair. She just wasn't his type. She had the interests of a stereotypical girl, but was willing to pretend to be into sports to get Cody's attention. But it wasn't working. Cody had placed her firmly in his friend zone. He probably brought home a steady stream of more attractive and muscular girls to fuck. Becky was clearly jealous, frustrated, and trying to live vicariously through the hot, athletic Instagram models she followed. Ana finished up Becky's window, then slid smoothly to the ground. Unlike for most people, Monday was going to be a fun day. MONDAY MORNING Cody stepped out of the elevator and headed down the hall towards his office. Suddenly, someone bumped into him hard, sending his briefcase flying. "Oh my God, I'm so sorry," came a female voice. Cody's eyes couldn't help widening at the sight of the very attractive brunette standing in front of him. She wore a very short black miniskirt that showed off her slim but muscular thighs, a white blouse with the sleeves rolled up, a silver man's Rolex watch that hung slightly loose on her slender left wrist, a spiked black leather bracelet on her right wrist, and knee-high black leather boots with three-inch stiletto high heels. Her heels brought her up to only an inch shorter than his 5'10" height. "Let me get that for you." She bent down to pick up his briefcase. As she bent over, her miniskirt rode up, giving him an excellent view of her round, well-muscled dancer's ass. She gave him a dazzling smile as she handed the case to him. "I'm Lisa Applegate." "Nice to meet you, Lisa. I'm Cody Fleming. I don't remember seeing you around here before. Are you new?" She nodded. "The temp agency sent me here. This is my first day. I was trying to find my way around and I guess I wasn't looking where I was going. Sorry about that." "That's okay," he said, smiling back at her. She gave him a somewhat embarrassed look. "Could you possibly direct me to Mr. McDonald's office? That's where I'm supposed to be working." "Sure. Go down the hall, take a left, then it'll be the second office on the right." "Thanks. Well, see you around!" As Anastasia, AKA "Lisa," made her way down the hall, she knew that Cody was checking her out as she walked away. She grinned to herself. The first part of the mission had gone off without a hitch. The temp agency had placed her in just the right place - on the same floor as Cody, but not working directly with him. She didn't want to attract too much attention to herself. The bait had been set. Now all that remained was to slowly reel in the fish. * * * Ana sighed as she organized stack after stack of files. Not everything about being a secret agent was glamorous. Many times, going undercover required doing mundane jobs. She looked at her watch, the oversized timepiece sliding slightly down her slim wrist as she moved it. 11:45. At least it would be lunchtime soon. There was a sudden knock on the door and Cody walked in. "Hey, Lisa," he said. "I know this might sound a little strange, since we just bumped into each other this morning, but would you like to have lunch with me? There's a nice restaurant on the top floor of the building that they have for the employees." Anastasia kept her face expressionless except for a well-practiced shy smile. "Sure, Cody. That sounds cool. But I can't go just yet, I have to finish organizing this box." She looked at her watch again. "Tell you what. Why don't you go on up and I'll meet you there in about ten minutes? I should be done with this by then." "Great. See you soon!" Ana smirked to herself as soon as she was alone agin. This was perfect. She had been ready to ask him to go to lunch (although she was going to wait until tomorrow, she hadn't wanted to look too aggressive), but she had been hoping he would ask her. And sending him up separately...the less the two of them were seen together, the better. During lunch, she used her charms on Cody, talking with him about sports, weapons, and other guy stuff, showing off her knowledge of those things. She also dropped in some stories about her own athletic accomplishments (which were all true). She could tell that he was impressed. On Tuesday, they both kept it cool, Cody because he didn't want to come on too strong and Ana because she didn't want the people in the office to associate her with Cody too much. They had lunch separately, although they did say hi to each other whenever they passed by in the hall. On Wednesday, they again had lunch separately. Ana decided that she would ask him to eat with her tomorrow if he didn't ask her. It would be better if this mission could be completed in one week. Around 4:45 that afternoon, however, Cody appeared again. "Hey, Lisa. Do you want to hang out for a bit after work? We could go to the park and then maybe grab a bite to eat." She gave him her shy smile again. "Sure, I'd like that. Are you all done for the day?" He nodded. "I'm not," she said. "Life of a temp, I guess. But I just gotta finish a couple more boxes of filing, then I'll be free. I can meet you at the entrance to the park in say...fifteen minutes?" "Cool. See you then." Sure enough, "Lisa" showed up at the park right on time. Cody saw that she was holding a football. "I thought we might play some catch," she said. He looked at her, still dressed in her ubiquitous black miniskirt and black knee-high, high-heeled boots. "In those?" "Sure! I have no problem playing sports in a skirt and heels. I can even do gymnastics in them." She suddenly performed three one-handed standing back handsprings in a row, still holding the football in her other hand, finishing her tumbling sequence with a high, split-leg back layout. She landed perfectly despite her three-inch heels. "See?" "Wow," said Cody, staring. "Most girls can't even do that in flat shoes." A bulge was starting to appear in his pants. "Well, I'm not most girls. Come on, let's go." She stood at the goal line of one of the unused football fields in the park. "Go out for a pass. Go long." Cody jogged over to the 30-yard line. "I said long, silly," she giggled. "Come on, further." "Are you sure you can throw that far?" he asked doubtfully as he made his way to the 40-yard line. "Sure. Check this out." Ana threw the football in a long, perfect spiral. The ball actually sailed over Cody's head and landed just past the 45-yard line. As he ran to pick up the football, his mouth was wide open and the bulge in his pants was larger. "Oh my God. Most girls can't...In fact, most guys can't even...But you're not most girls, of course." Cody was in awe of this beautiful, feminine, skirt-wearing woman who could easily out-throw most men. "Now throw it back," she called out. Cody did so, throwing the football as hard as he could. Ana had to run forward to the 5-yard line to make the catch, a neat catch with only one hand. Cody couldn't help staring again. He could only make one-handed catches like that with gently thrown balls. "Sorry," he said. "I think that's about as far as I can launch it." "Don't be sorry. Most of the guys I've dated couldn't throw as far as me, and I've dated a lot of guys. I'll stand a little closer." They played catch for about fifteen more minutes, then sat down on a bench to talk. "Where did you learn to throw so well?" Cody asked. "Oh, I played softball on my high school and college teams. I usually played center field. I could throw all the way from the warning track right to home plate." "Wow. That's amazing." "Oh, not THAT amazing," she said casually. "Remember, a softball field is smaller than a baseball field." "Well, you're still an awesome chick." "Thanks." Anastasia patted her flat stomach. "I'm getting hungry. Let's go eat. You know a good place around here?" They went to a nearby sports bar and had chicken wings, French fries, and beer while watching the Mariners game on TV. As they ate and talked, Ana found that she was genuinely enjoying her time with Cody. She wondered if she could ever have a normal relationship...or a normal life. She thought back to when she had been a young girl in the old country, back in Belarus. Growing up in Minsk, she'd had hopes and dreams similar to any other girl. But her first dream, to be a gymnast, had been ended when everyone had said she was too tall. Then her next dream, to be a model, had been crushed when everyone had said she was too short. Her heart had been hardened by the rejections, and she'd decided not to waste her life by finding some boring, mundane office job. Instead, she had applied for the secret police. There, her intelligence, athleticism, and newfound aggression were appreciated, and they didn't care about her height. After months of harsh training, followed by proving herself in a "graduation" mission and making her first kill, she had become a full-fledged agent. She completed increasingly more difficult and prestigious missions, using her intelligence, physical strength, and beauty in equal measure, eventually being given the plum assignment of going to the United States to steal military secrets. She saw Cody smiling at her from across the table and she smiled back. Was it really necessary to keep on killing now... She stopped herself. She couldn't go soft. She remembered all the comments from male supervisors and male agents, saying that this was man's work, that women were naturally too soft for something as cold-blooded as this. She had been determined to prove them wrong, and she had succeeded. But if she went soft now, she would throw all that away. She could just imagine the field day they would have. "Great game, huh?" said Cody as onscreen, the Mariners walked off with a victory in the bottom of the ninth inning. Base hit, runner on second, the runner sliding into home plate a split second before the throw got there, scoring the winning run. "Oh, yes, great," said Ana, trying to bring her mind back from the distractions. "Great wings, too." They exchanged phone numbers before they left, and she thanked him for dinner when they parted. "See you at work tomorrow." She watched almost wistfully as he headed out. The poor guy had no idea what he was in for. On Thursday morning, Anastasia got to work early. She slipped into Cody's office and installed a hidden camera at an angle that would show his computer keyboard, then slipped back out and went to her regular work. When Cody went for his mid-morning coffee break, she retrieved the camera. She knew he would have used his special key and password when he started work. That evening, when she got home, Ana inserted the camera's memory card into her laptop. She observed what the camera had recorded, fast forwarding until Cody came into his office. Sure enough, he inserted his key and typed in his password. She slowed the video down to confirm each entry, memorizing the password. Although it was a long, complicated sequence of letters, numbers, and symbols, with her excellent memory, she knew she had no need of writing it down. She also observed and memorized his regular computer password. For casual Friday, Ana went all black leather - skintight black leather pants, a sleeveless black leather top that showed off her muscular arms, her upper arms having visible muscle tone even when she wasn't flexing, black leather gloves, a spiked black leather bracelet on her right wrist, and of course her trademark knee-high black leather boots with stiletto high heels. Sure enough, from the bulge in Cody's jeans when he saw her, she knew he liked her outfit. At noon, Ana and Cody had lunch together again at the top-floor restaurant. After the meal, Cody turned to her, looking into her eyes. "Lisa, I've really enjoyed the time we've spent together this week. Since it's finally Friday, would you like to go out with me tonight?" "Sure. I'd love to. I'll have to go home and take care of a couple things after work, but if you'll give me directions to your place, I can meet you there around 6:30 and then we can go out." "Sounds great." Around 4:45 that afternoon, Ana knocked on the door and entered Cody's office. "Hey, Cody. Are you busy?" "No, I was just about to knock off, actually. In fact, I've already logged out of the system." She gave him her best smile. "Could you do me a huge favor? I just realized that I don't have my sunglasses, and I think I left them up in the restaurant at lunch. Could you go get them for me before the restaurant closes? I still have a lot of filing to do, and Mr. McDonald will be mad if it's not done before the weekend. I'll probably have to stay a few minutes late, in fact." "Sure, Lisa. No problem." "Thanks you, Cody. I really appreciate it." She headed out and back down the hall, listening for the sound of the elevator doors closing. As soon as she heard it, she quickly slipped back into his office, making sure no one saw her. Looking at his computer, she saw that he had left his special key inserted in his hurry to go get her sunglasses and stay on her good side before their big date tonight. She entered his password to log on to his computer, then entered the password for the special key to get into the database for the missile defense systems. She inserted a flash drive into the computer, easily overriding the security with her hacking skills. After copying the classified data onto the flash drive, she ejected it, slipped it into her pocket, logged off the database, and logged off the computer. Peeking out into the hall to make sure the coast was clear, she headed back to her filing. Cody showed up a few minutes later, sunglasses in hand. "Thanks so much, Cody. You're such a sweetheart." "Wasn't any trouble, Lisa. I'm all done with my work anyway," he replied as he handed her the sunglasses. "So I'm gonna head out. See you at 6:30?" "Right. Thanks again." Anastasia kept a casual but close eye on him as he headed back to his office to get his stuff. She counted the seconds as he went in. She just had to make sure he didn't log on to the classified database again so he didn't see the record of her going on it. There was no reason for him to, but she had to be sure. Thirty seconds later, Cody came back out, briefcase in hand. She sighed in relief, then went back to her filing. * * * Ana parked her Mercedes in the lot of Cody's apartment complex. As she walked towards the entrance, she took out her iPhone and called him. "Hey, Cody. It's Lisa. I'm here." "Great. I'll be right down." "Actually, can you buzz me in? I need to use the bathroom." "Sure. I'm in apartment 808. See you in a minute." Ana waited for the buzz, then opened the door to the building. From her recon last Saturday, she knew that there were no incriminating security cameras. She stepped into the elevator and pressed the button for the 8th floor. "Hey, Lisa." Cody greeted her. "You look great as always." She was still wearing her black leather outfit. "Thanks. I get that a lot," she replied as she stepped inside and closed the door behind her. "Is your roommate here?" "No. She's a waitress and she's working tonight." "Great." She gave him her most seductive smile, then said, "I don't really have to use the bathroom." She removed her top as she spoke. She wasn't wearing a bra and her small, firm, round, perky 34B tits were immediately exposed. Cody's jaw dropped. He had been hoping to score with this chick eventually, but he didn't think it would happen this soon! She'd seemed like such a nice girl, not the kind of girl who would do this. But now... She giggled. "Are you going to just stand there or are you going to come get it?" "Fuck yeah!" he cheered. He moved towards her. She quickly ran around him and into his bedroom. He was right behind her. They both swiftly took off their clothes. Ana had a slender but muscular fitness model's body with an hourglass figure and a nice, even golden brown tan, with no tan lines. Her dark brown pussy hair was neatly trimmed into a heart shape. Cody, naturally, had a raging hard-on. About six and a half inches, she decided. Long enough to satisfy her. His body wasn't as toned as hers, but still athletic enough to make him attractive to her. "Lie on the bed on your back with your hard cock pointing straight up in the air," she instructed him. He eagerly obeyed. She performed a graceful cartwheel to take her onto the bed, then slid herself down onto him. "Oh yes, Lisa. You're amazing," Cody moaned as she fucked him hard. "So fucking hot and so fucking athletic. That cartwheel, so elegant, like a pro dancer..." He reached up and began playing with her perky tits with sharp, pointy nipples. She grunted with pleasure and excitement as she continued to screw him. She suddenly spun them around, rolling over onto her back and pulling him on top of her. She wrapped her thighs around his midsection. "Fuck yeah," he moaned. "Wanna know a secret, baby?" she whispered. "S...sure, L...Lisa. Unh...that's a good fucking you're giving me." "My name's not actually Lisa. It's Anastasia." "Anastasia...huh? But why would..." Cody's little head was still doing most of the thinking for him. But he realized that her voice had suddenly changed. "Your voice..." "Oh, what you've been hearing for the past week was my fake American accent. Now you're hearing my normal voice. A slight Eastern European accent. Quite sexy, yes?" Ana now slowly began clamping her thighs tighter around him. A cold sweat began to appear on Cody's forehead, despite the fact that he was still in the middle of a fuck session. "Who...What...Are you some sort of..." "Spy, yes," she finished for him. Her legs were now wrapped tightly enough that Cody began to feel real pain. "My special key," he whispered in panic as the realization dawned on him. "Exactly. Congratulations. You figured it out much more quickly than most guys do when they're being fucked." "Anastasia, urrrgghhh...I can't breathe!" "That's basically the idea, honey." "Are you going to..." he quivered, letting the sentence trail off. "Kill you? Unfortunately, yes." "No, please, Anastasia. You already have what you want..." She increased the pressure with her lethal legs, hearing the first of his ribs break with a sharp CRACK, accompanied by his cry of pain. "True. I do have what I want. In more ways than one. But there's a record of every log-on with your special key. Even if I could have erased it, which I couldn't, all log-ons are automatically sent to the central database. I can't take the chance of you going on your computer on Monday morning, seeing a strange, brief log-on for late Friday afternoon, and remembering me and the sunglasses. But if you're gone, the others at the company will think the log-on was just you. That's how we operate. No loose ends." She broke a second rib as she finished. "Aaaahhhhh! Anastasia, please! I swear, I won't tell anyone..." She smiled. "Come on, Cody. We both know you'd tell the Feds the second I let you go. Oh, and you may call me Ana. Considering how familiar we are with one another, you should feel free to use the diminutive form of my name." A third rib broke as she continued to crush and fuck him. "Ana, aaaaarrrggghhh, noooooo..." The pain from her deadly thigh muscles was now overcoming the pleasure from her skilled vaginal muscles. Suddenly, the bedroom door flew open and Becky, still dressed in her waitress uniform, charged in, wielding a baseball bat. Ana reacted swiftly. She smashed her leather-gloved fist into Cody's jaw to stun him, then easily blocked Becky's clumsy, weak swing. Knocking the bat away, she grabbed Becky by the throat, looking straight into her terrified eyes. "Wait for your turn," Ana whispered. With that, she headbutted Becky brutally hard, sending her crumpling to the floor like a rag doll. Anastasia turned her attention back to Cody, who was just coming back to his senses. He tried desperately to get free, but Ana's killer legs were far too strong. As he realized that he was doomed, tears formed in his eyes. "Lisa," he whispered, using her old name. "What about the time we spent together? The date at the sports bar, the lunches together, throwing the football at the park. Did that mean nothing to you?" Her voice was softer this time. "To be honest, I did feel something. I genuinely enjoyed our time together. In a different world, maybe things between us could have been different. But this is the world we're in. I do have feelings. But I'm still an assassin. Duty has to come first." "Miss Ana...Is there anything...you can do for me...to spare me...please..." Cody was no longer struggling, overcome by both his multiple broken ribs and the mental breakdown. "Yes, honey, there is something I will do. I'm going to let you have one last cum before you go to meet your maker. You've been hard this whole time, now finish inside me." She reduced the pressure with her legs slightly, still keeping them tight enough that he had no chance of escape. A sudden wave of peace washed over Cody as his little head once again took over his thinking. If he was going to go, this was a damn good way to do it. He began thrusting hard, really getting into it, letting his attraction to athletic women and the strength of her thighs fuel his arousal. "Gonna...cum... urrrrgghhh!" He indeed came hard, shooting wave after wave of semen into her. Ana couldn't help smiling. She then turned on the full squeezing power again, completely cutting off his air, breaking his remaining ribs in rapid succession. She timed it perfectly, finishing him by driving a sharp, jagged piece of his final shattered rib into his heart at the exact moment she had a wild, powerful orgasm, shrieking loudly as she came in turn. She pulled herself out of him and rolled him over onto his back, looking with some regret into his dead eyes. "Goodbye, Cody," she whispered. Picking up his iPhone, she deleted the record of her call to him. Then she turned her attention to Becky, still lying unconscious on the bedroom floor. * * * When Becky woke up, she discovered that she had been stripped completely nude. Looking up, she saw Anastasia standing over her, also nude except for her black leather gloves and spiked black leather bracelet. Becky's mouth opened in alarm, but Ana quickly raised a finger to her lips. Intimidated, Becky's mouth closed. Ana helped the other woman to her feet. They stood there, facing one another. The contrast between the two female bodies was quite striking. Becky's 5'5", 110-pound body was thin, pale, and unathletic, with no muscle tone. She didn't have much of a figure, as her hips were only slightly wider than her waist, and she really didn't have any breasts, as her AA cups were just mosquito bites. Though at 5'6" and 125 pounds Ana was only slightly bigger, she looked far more powerful thanks to her well-muscled, feminine athlete's body. Her 34B tits were perfectly sized for her slim figure, her ass was medium-sized, round, and hard, and her 24-inch wasp waist was smaller than Becky's. Ana had a nice golden brown tan, her tits tanned as much as the rest of her, looking quite dark next to the other woman. Ana tossed her long silky brown hair, reached out and brushed a short strand of stringy blonde hair out of Becky's face, and looked straight into the smaller woman's frightened grey eyes with her piercing green ones. "W...what are you going to do to me?" Becky trembled. Ana simply raised her finger to her lips again, then reached out and took Becky's hand, positioning the two forearms next to each other. Although Ana's wrists and forearms weren't particularly big, they were much larger than Becky's frail ones. The contrast between Ana's bigger, darker one with well-developed muscles and Becky's weak, pale arm with no muscle development was very distinct. It was made even more extreme by the fact that Ana's bracelet was covering up the thinnest part of her wrist, making her forearm look thicker. Ana finally spoke. "You wish you had arms like mine. You wish you had a body like mine. You wish you were one of us muscular, athletic, feminine girls so guys like Cody would be attracted to you. You're ashamed that you were too weak to fight me even though you had the bat and I was unarmed. You were ashamed every time Cody brought home a fitter, more athletic girl to fuck. It must have been so embarrassing, so frustrating, almost like being cucked..." "Yes!" Becky sobbed, unable to deny it. "Why did I have to be stuck with this body? Why did I have to be cursed with a total lack of athletic ability? Why couldn't I be one of the hot, fit, muscular, popular girls..." "It's your lot in life," said Ana quietly and philosophically. "It's the role you were meant to play. If every girl was popular and strong, those words would become meaningless. Somebody has to be weak and unpopular for the opposites to exist." "It's not fair!" Becky wailed. "Well, life isn't fair. But the good news is that you won't have to deal with life's unfairness for much longer." As if hit by a sudden spark reminding her of the mortal danger she was in, Becky turned and began to run, not caring about her nudity. Ana simply smiled to herself, raised her arms, and performed a roundoff followed by a series of back handsprings, her firm 34B's bouncing slightly as she tumbled. She elegantly backflipped like a pro-gymnast, easily catching up to her target after half a dozen handsprings. She crashed into her, knocking her down. Becky's head banged hard into the wooden floor from the impact, stunning her. When she came back to her senses, she saw that Ana had gotten dressed, and was now holding a pistol with a silencer attached, aimed straight at her face. "A...are you going to shoot me?" the blonde quivered. "Actually, you're going to shoot yourself. See, Cody is lying dead on the bed. Now who could have killed him? Perhaps his jealous roommate, who was attracted to him but never got any sexual attention from him. Who had to watch while he fucked other, hotter, more muscular girls. One evening, you just couldn't take it anymore. You stripped nude and came to him, begging for sex. When he rejected you, you snapped. You grabbed this gun here, which you bought on the street with cash earlier, by the way, and forced him to strip. You then performed a sex act on him, hence the fact that he just came. Then you made him march to the open window, and shot him out of it." Ana leaned in close. "But after that, after you shot Cody in a blind, jealous rage, you were overcome with regret. You just couldn't live with yourself anymore. So you killed yourself." "No...please...why do you have to do this..." "It's nothing personal. It's just business. I have to cover my tracks. My employers are kind of strict about that. I had to kill Cody to cover up the data theft I did at his workplace, and I have to kill you to cover up Cody's death. And with you dead, everything will look like a neat little domestic murder-suicide." Ana suddenly struck her victim across the face with the pistol, stunning her. She then pressed the gun into the nearly unconscious woman's hand, pointing it at her head. "Goodbye, Becky." Ana placed her finger over Becky's and squeezed the trigger. She spent a few brief moments looking over the corpse, contemplating. Again, a feeling of regret swept over her as she looked into Becky's dead grey eyes. Anastasia then got back to work. Retrieving the pistol, she walked over to Cody and fired a single, silenced shot into his forehead. She then placed the gun back into Becky's hand and removed the silencer. Going back towards Cody, she opened the window and dragged him towards it. He wasn't too big a guy, and she was a strong girl, so she was able to handle his dead weight. Peeking out and making sure no one was looking, she pushed him out the window to land behind some bushes. The eight-story fall would explain his shattered ribs nicely. She then picked up her purse in which she'd concealed the street-purchased drop gun and quickly exited the apartment. * * * "Looks like an open and shut case," the detective reported to his supervisor. "From questioning neighbors and friends, we know that this Becky chick was attracted to her roommate, Cody, but he just wasn't into her. One night, Becky finally snapped. She took off her clothes and went into Cody's room with a gun. She apparently made him strip, got her rocks off with him, forced him to stand by the open window, and just shot him out the window. She then must have become overcome with guilt and shot herself. No forced entry, nothing missing from the apartment. The gun can't be traced, apparently Becky bought it on the street with cash. Powder burns on Becky's hand confirm she fired the gun. Neighbors can't recall hearing the gunshots to place an exact time of death, but it was a typical Friday night and there was a lot of loud partying going on. Could have been distracted, thought it was just a car backfiring, all that stuff." The supervisor nodded. "I'll file this one as solved. One less case for the chief to be on our asses on." * * * Back in her house, Anastasia was working on her fourth glass of wine. A congratulatory email from her superiors on another job well done popped up on her laptop, but she barely reacted. Where did she want to go from here? Was she losing her passion for this work? Would she ever be able to have a normal life? Would she ever be able to have a real boyfriend, a husband, become a mom? Give life instead of taking it? What should she do? And what COULD she do? No one in this line of work got to choose when they retired. That decision was made by the organization. Either an early "retirement" in the form of a tragic "accident" for those deemed incompetent or untrustworthy, or a small pension and a shitty apartment in one of the ugly, Soviet-style high-rises in Minsk when she was deemed too old to be a good seductress anymore. She had chosen this path because she'd thought it would give her freedom. And it had, for a while. But now, she found herself feeling the same thing as when all those modeling agencies had told her that 5'6" was just too short. The feeling of doors closing on her, of options being taken away. Unless she chose to open a different door... She finished her wine and poured herself another glass. THE END...for now Contact me at silverstar222b@yahoo.com if you liked this story!