Zak's Pov:

Once I woke up, I found myself in an unfamiliar bed. As I opened my eyes, I found myself next to a man with long brown hair. Oh, now I remember. I hooked up with him last night. Now that I'm looking at him, he looks quite peaceful in his sleep. In this way, he looks like he would be someone with a sweet and soft attitude, much different to the dominant and fierce attitude I encountered last night. But then again, I guess everyone can seem peaceful in their sleep.

I carefully slip out of the duvet covers of the bed and sit up. I'm currently in my boxers. I silently get up and scavenge for my clothes, which are scattered on the floor, and put them on. I then look back to the man I hooked up with last night. He's still asleep. Now, I need to do what I do after I hookup with someone. I leave them alone and go on with my life as though nothing happened. Though, I must admit that that was probably the best hookup I've ever had.

Probably the best night since... my family's death... I don't mean that by just the hookup but rather also the sleeping part. I haven't actually had quite a comfortable sleep like last night after their deaths, even when I had hookups, which got me tired from using up my energy. You could say that I slept like a baby. I honestly thought that it wasn't possible, and yet, I slept well, and it's because of him. For a while, I just stare at the sleeping man.

Then, my eyes landed on some paper and a pen on top of a  small table in the room. I look at it for a moment and then at the sleeping man. An idea then occurs to me. Maybe I could show him at least some of my appreciation... I mean- I guess I would lie if I say I didn't feel a bit guilty when leaving those hookups alone in bed without saying any last words to them. But then again, doesn't basically everyone do that if they wake up first before their hookups? Who knows...

I walk up to the table and crouch down. I grab the pen and write on a piece of paper, "Thanks for last night's experience. I really enjoyed it. ;)"

After that, I leave the paper on the table in hopes that he reads it. I then make my way to the door and leave the room. As I make my way out of the club, I get a call. I look at my phone screen to see that its my boss calling. I pick it up to hear him say, "Skeppy, as soon as you can, come to the agency for your next mission."

I reply with, "Alright, I'll be there soon, boss."

I hang up and make my way to my car. Of course, before I head to the agency, I should first get home, shower quickly, and change clothes.

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After I got my next mission, I went to the agency's training area to see if I could sharpen my fighting skills a bit. Luckily, nobody's there today, so I won't be hearing anyone trash talking about me. I practiced on my shooting already, so now I'm preparing myself and a bot to practice fighting with. Just before I turn it on, I hear the automatic doors opening, meaning that someone is here. My anxiety spikes a bit, but my nerves quickly calm down once I look to see that it's Sapnap. He says, "Hey, Skeppy! Almost everyone has been getting new missions today. Did they give you one, too? Or have you not gone over to the boss's office yet?"

I reply with, "Yeah, I got one. Don't worry."

He nods at me. I then turn back to the tablet that I was fiddling with and turn on the bot with it. As I do this, I hear Sapnap say, "It's crazy how they've been giving out so many missions lately like it's nothing. Those enemy agencies are really becoming much more of a nuisance as time goes on, don't they?"

I hum in agreement. I make my way over to the bot, ready to fight. I start throwing punches and kicks to it without much struggle. I wanted to practice more on hand-to-hand combat as it has actually been a bit easier for me to learn that. The more I practiced, I found out that I can actually dodge quite well as I'm quite flexible. Though I know that I'll never be as good as regular agents here in combat, it's still good to get some practice in. I guess Sapnap has been watching me fight since he suddenly says, "You're getting quite good at that, aren't you?"

I just hum in response, wanting to keep my concentration on the fight. Soon, I get one final blow on the bot as I kick it on the head, knocking it out. I wipe some sweat from my brow and start cleaning everything up. Sapnap comes to help me out. He then asks, "Out of curiosity, can you tell me why you practice on your fighting even though you're never really sent on missions where you're expected to fight?"

Because I don't want to be pathetic anymore. I don't like being a useless, worthless agent who can't even fight properly. So I try to sharpen my skills so that I can find at least some sort of value in myself. Because, currently, all that I'm good at is acting. I shrug and say, "Nothing wrong with being prepared in case something happens. You can never know what might happen on a mission."

Sapnap makes a little 'oh' sound and nods at me. He helps me clean everything up. He then says, "Well, now that I'm here, might as well make use of my time and practice myself for my next mission. Wanna join me?"

"Nah, I'm fine, dude. I'm actually gonna head out for the day. All I really needed to do today was get the info on my next mission. See you later."

"Alright. Bye then!"

I wave at him as I leave the room and make my way out of the agency.