away with the explosives :: au
Her objectives had been crystal clear for years. Her plan had been laid out ages ago and thought over countless times. Her mind was a maze of preparations, facts, scenarios and outcomes. There wasn’t any time or space for anything else. Justice had to be served even if the crimes were old and forgotten by most. She had stalled for years, gathering intel and making sure her plans would not fail. Failure was not an option; mostly because she didn’t expect to survive after she had carried out her plans. If justice required sacrifice, she was glad to offer herself up as one.
Those had been her thoughts for years but as the date came closer and closer, she realised that no matter how cruely she punished those that had wronged an entire country, there would always be someone else who broke the law; who needed to be punished for their crimes. The world wouldn’t become ideal after her death. Someone needed to succeed her. And that someone became another bullet in the long list in her mind.
She searched for a long time and she found many who shared or should share the same disgust she did for the goverment and yet they all lacked in some form. She watched them all for days that turned into weeks and then into months and the list of names disappeared. Only one name remained. A good man, by all accounts, though good meant impassive these days. Impassive to the misjustice all around them. She hated that and couldn’t help but wonder just how impassive he could be if the horrors were just outside his door.
It was way after curfew but that had been her objective. She was familiar with the streets around his house; she had been watching him, after all, so she paced a few blocks away from there, her heels clicking on the pavement attracting attention in the dead silence of the night. They came crawling towards her like mice; rats to be exact. They followed her until she trapped herself in a dead end alley. She spared a look up and saw light in his window just as the men blocked her way out of the narrow street.
“Any unauthorised personnel will be subject to arrest. This is for your protection.” One man repeated the warning played out by the megahones. She turned around pretending to be startled and she stuttered an apology, “I made a mistake. I shouldn’t be out past curfew. I know that.” She went on as they came closer. Their stance alone screamed that they were Fingermen; it was evident by the way they approached her trapping her further inside the alley. “Let me pass.” She demanded, her voice a little higher, more threatening. One of them reached inside his pocket and pulled his badge out, a sly smirk on his face. “You’re Fingermen. No, no, please, I didn’t know. I’m sor-”
“No, not yet, you’re not. But you will be. You’ll be the sorriest piece of ass in London.” They got even closer and she had to control herself not to end them right there and then. But that would be pointless; that would prove nothing and she needed proof that the last name on her list was worth the trouble. “And the sorest.” The second man grabbed her and she screamed, “Please, don’t do this. I’ll go home. I’ll never do it again. Please. I swear...” They laughed and she screamed again, her voice never reached such high notes, “No, please. Help me! SOMEBODY HELP!”