[h2] One Year Ago [/h2]

Raven stood on the roof of the building, watching the man walk inside the hotel. He looked nervous, and his dark eyes flitted around the lobby, scanning every person in the room as if they were about to pull out guns and attack him. Her keen eyes watched him as he went up to the counter, talking with the receptionist before picking up the pink hotel phone. She knew from research; that phone called the hotel rooms, and the hotel rooms only. She was confused, why would her target be calling a room? She had been told he was alone, and he definitely had no accomplices. She had been told that he was going to the hotel to meet one of the other criminals in his business, and that guy was not staying at the hotel. She looked at her watch; the man was meant to walk in in 10 minutes. They would walk out together, and she would eliminate the target. Yet, before her eyes, her target was waiting for someone else entirely! Someone in the hotel already. She saw the elevator doors open...

She was shocked to see a woman and a small child exit. The man kissed the woman and picked up the child, but the two adults looked fearful. They gave something to the receptionist, and were obviously discussing payment of the room. Raven looked over to the roads just as the black car drove up. It was the man. He walked up to the hotel, and just before entering, looked up at her and gave her the thumbs up. [i]Wow, this keeps getting stranger and stranger,[/i] she thought. What was meant to be a simple target kill now had the supposed criminal working for her employer and the target with a small family. She had no more time to think, however, as the two parties had met. That's when the man pulled out a gun and shot the child.

[h2] Present Day [/h2]

Raven waited in the alleyway, silent and thinking. She had already discussed her plan with her 'target', and he was already in hiding in the location she had placed him. She had tracked her employer well enough to know that he came down this alley to buy drugs for personal use in exactly 10 minutes from this moment. Raven had already spoken to the drug dealer and... come to some arrangements. She smiled. This was always her favourite part of the game. The look upon their faces when they are killed by their own hire...