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"And I should be asking... who the hell do you think you are?"

I was sat down drinking from my bottle while this argument went on, and it was like I was in a teen high school movie scene. I was still sober, as there was a certain amount I could drink before getting drunk and losing my senses. I wanted to be in my senses while Dominic got his ass kicked, although little hope was all I had since he was an assassin and was going to kick Liam's instead. Or was his name Luke? Meh.

"I asked first, so you ain't getting shit outta me unless you talk"

"Wow" I started laughing, and they both whipped their heads towards me after being inches away from one another. I put up my hands "Sorry, please, carry on. I'm quite enjoying the scene."

"Hey!" The bartender walked up to us and pointed at the both of them "Why don't you take this outside? I'm not having any of this in the bar."

I raised my eyebrows and smiled at him "You know what, erm, Eugene?" I looked at his nametag and spoke "It's all this guy. He came up to me and my friend here and began throwing nasty comments at us. Luke here, was just telling him to back off." I smirked at Dominic who hadn't made a sound or a move,, but was glaring at me.

The bartender glanced at me and then moved in front of Dominic, staring him down like a bear. Luke came and stood next to me, and I smiled up at him, and then threw one leg over the other, taking a swig.

The built and tanned bartender against a built and tanned assassin... had to see what was going to happen.

"Now, you can't be causing trouble here, so how about you leave, eh pretty boy?" He slightly pushed Dominic, who moved half an inch.

"And if I don't?"

It was a tense moment between the two, me and Luke standing on the sides but intrigued (Well I was anyway).

"Then we can have the time of our lives, brother" The bartender laughed and hugged Dominic, who also started laughing

"Good to see you too, Eugene"

WHAT?!

"Come on, Dom. Let's get you a drink" he put his arm around his shoulder and walked off.

Dominic looked back at me with a nasty smirk and lifted his middle finger whilst walking off, and I let out a frustrated groan

"That was so dead"

Luke let out a chuckle, "Seems to me that you wanted a show"

"You're getting to know me aren't you?" I smiled and got up to walk away from him when he called me

"Hey, Hayley!"

I turned around "Yep?"

He nodded "Going so soon?"

I scoffed and lifted the bottle in the air "I'm just getting comfortable" and went over to the dance floor where the crowd was on its feet and dancing.

I looked over to see someone sat in the corner on the bar, and I stuck my tongue out and began dancing along to the song that was on.

Just as I began dancing, the song turned off, and I awkwardly looked around, but obviously Dominic had to be looking, and he was laughing.

I grunted as some random song came on that I didn't recognise, and realised that there was no place for me on the dance floor. I stormed over to Dominic and sat next to him.

"What's wrong with you?" He asked me, and I rolled my eyes

"It's so boring, that's what's wrong."
"So why did you come here?"
"This bar? I don't know."
"No, here to sit with me. Where's your friend Liam?"

I shrugged my shoulders "Don't know that either, but don't flatter yourself"

Dominic's shoulders shook as he laughed "Feisty" and finished his beer, calling the bartender over for another one.

"That scene you pulled earlier was clever, but it backfired" he said, and I pursed my lips

"Wasn't meant to"
"I know, you should've seen your face" he smirked.

"Why should I have? Clearly I had someone to do that for me, perv" I remarked, and he nodded

"Whatever helps you sleep at night, Hayley."
"Thanks, but I can't say the same thing about you, hope you can't sleep"

"Can't anyway" he stated, and I glanced at him, with I don't know what expression, it felt like pity, but I didn't want to feel pity towards him.

Who was he? The most annoying person in my life, I hated him with every limb, bone and vein. So why did I feel pitiful?

Do you hate him, though?

I was drunk, definitely drunk.

"Hey" he waved his hand in my face, and I snapped out of the daydream I fell into.

"All good?"

"Yeah, I just erm... Oh wait. Sh." I put my finger on my lips, and he began talking so I put my other on his lips.

I looked up and heard my favourite song come on, Walk The Moon— Shut up and dance. Realising that my finger was still on his lips, I quickly moved it and apologised awkwardly.

I got up, placing the bottle on the counter and was about to run off into the crowd but stopped and turned to Dominic.

"Oi twat. Wanna dance?"

He shook his head with a small smile "I'm good"

"I don't care. Come on."

"Nah, you go ahead. I'll watch from here."

"Fine." I rolled my eyes and ran off, feeling a little down. What the hell was wrong with me? I looked back at him for a second and he was watching me with a weird look on his face, and I turned back to see Luke making his way towards me and mouthing the song.

"She said don't you dare look back, just keep your eyes on me, I said you're holding back, she said-"

And we both yelled along "Shut up and dance with me!"

We started jumping up and down, I had my eyes closed and my hair was flying everywhere, my laughter and adrenaline vibrating through my body.

He put pressure on my stomach as he pulled me close to him, and I yelped

"Ow."

"You okay?" He called over the music.

"Fine!" I called back and smiled.

We danced some more, and I was singing along, having the time of my life.

But there was an annoying feeling in my stomach, to which I kept looking over at Dominic, wishing he'd be there.

Okay, it was confirmed : I . WAS . DRUNK .

I saw him roll his eyes and get up, and then he disappeared as someone came in front and when she moved he wasn't there.

"I'm getting a drink" Luke yelled, and I lifted a thumb at him, continuing to slyly look around for the person I despised.

"Looking for me?" someone spoke in my ear, and I turned around to see him stood, and I did the thing I never thought I'd do. I smiled.

'NO' I mouthed.
He nodded, squinting his eyes at me.

The song had finished when he came to me, and we stood for an awkward couple of seconds before an ABSOLUTE favourite came on. Light it Up - Major Lazer.

My mouth dropped and my eyes widened as I smiled, and Dominic laughed, bobbing his head up and down with the beat.

I whooped with laughter "Seriously?! That's a move?"

"What do you want me to do? Wiggle my hips?" he smiled, and I raised my eyebrows

"I bet a million dollars you can't because you're stiff and you won't because you think you'll look like a girl!"

"We're getting to know each other, partner! "

"Whatever" I smirked and began jumping to the beat, and after a while of him just standing there watching me with a smirk on his face, I knitted my eyebrows

"What?"
"Nothing." he shook his head and started dancing along with me, and I thought 'there we go, now he's dancing' but didn't say anything to make him feel weird and stop.

Since when did you care what he thought?

Oh, get lost.

He moved close to me and twirled me around, dipping me to the extent where I felt my hair touch the ground and I yelped, digging my fingers into his strong arms that held me.

"This better?" he smirked, and I laughed
"Try that again and I'll kick your ass, now pick me up"
"And if I don't?"
"Ugh, please?" I asked, scared he'd drop me.  He smiled victoriously, and picked me up.

I didn't realise that my breath was hitched im my throat until I released it after he picked me up, and thought maybe it was because there was a chance I would've fallen and hurt myself.

Inches from the ground? You don't feel scared when you jump of buildings and bridges, Hayley frikkin Williams.

We danced for what seemed like forever as another song came on which I didn't recognise but Dominic did, and he carried on jumping to it with his hands in his pockets - so I did too.

When it was over, we went back to the bar and sat down, exhausted from all that dancing.

"You looked like a bear trying to fit into a dress" I laughed as he threw a remark about how I danced like a donkey.

"What can I get you?" Eugene asked us, and I shrugged,
"Something that'll get me drunk, please"

"Easy there, not yet." Dominic smirked, and told Eugene to get us Vodka shots.

A few minutes later we were sat talking, and he told me that we were playing some game.

"I don't get it" I made a face, and he pointed his finger in my face,

"So, listen."

It was like a confession game, except it was actually really fun. I'd tell a funny story and take a shot, and then he would too. Or then we'd confess something we hadn't told anyone before.

"So, I've never actually eaten pizza before" Dominic said, and my jaw dropped.

"What?! How the frikkin hell have you never eaten a pizza? Oh my god, you are actually a weirdo! Okay, that's on the list of things we have to do, you are going to eat a pizza for the first time... In your LIFE!"

"Your turn" He laughed awkwardly, and I was still in half shock at what his confession was.

"My confession... Is that... I'm trying to think because I'm a foodie and I have eaten almost everything" I sniggered as he murmured 'fatty' under his breath and punched him slightly on the arm.

"So, okay I have one. I confess that I've never  been able to look after fish."

"Fish? Isn't that the only pet every person can look after?"

"I've tried, and it's hard. I bought one about a year ago, and it died on the third day because I fed it birdfood by accident. I swear, it said fish on it, so I bought it."

Dominic was in a fit of chuckles by the end of it, and I shrugged

"What?"
"You fed a fish... A fish. It was bound to die"
"That hasn't ever occurred to me, to be honest" I gulped down a shot and turned to him

"Your turn"

It went on like that for two rounds before it started getting a little deep, and also serious.

"I say I don't say sorry to people, but that's a lie. I say it to every person before I kill them, I never want to do it, seeing as though I've been doing in for seven years you'd think it's easy, it's not. It gets harder." I spoke.

"I hate being this... Built and tanned heartless guy who loves killing people and is getting a promotion after his thousandth assassination. I sound like such a prick."

"I'd agree to that, only because that's what everyone thinks of me. A badass bitch who goes around making other people's lives hell, best friend's killer, orphan who went off the hook, dead girlfriend." I put my head back and laughed at how stupid I sounded.

" I guess we only know each other how other people see us, you the bad girl and me the bad boy. "

" Yeah, sucks. " I knocked back a shot, I wasn't meant to but I did, and I smiled cheekily.

" Okay, let's change the game. Now I ask a question, you answer with complete truth, and vice versa. "

I held up my right hand how they do in court," I swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth."

He shook his head with a laugh and nodded
" Me too. "

It was my turn first, so he asked,
"Why did you choose the assassin life?"

"Erm, well, god, I have to tell the truth."

I took a deep breath and told him what happened with my dad, and how Kyle's uncle was the one who killed him, and when I found the USB drive I rang up the League and was a wreck, telling them I wanted revenge for making me an orphan. They told me I couldn't turn back from being who I was, and me, being the broken girl who loved her dad so much, changed.  I couldn't even kill a fly before that, but I had to be strong for him. He was my weakness. And now, I'm the girl who ends lives within seconds.

I started laughing and quickly wiped a tear that was going to fall, I didn't cry in front of people, and I wasn't going to. He was looking the other way anyways, so I was safe. Dominic didn't see me.

"What about you?" I took a shot and handed it to him.

"Remember Isabelle Blackthorn?"
"Your girlfriend?"
"Yeah" he scoffed and drank the shot

"She would've been my pregnant fiancé.
One day before I went work she was banging on about how she had to tell me something, and I said to her I needed to too. So, we agreed that when we come back from work, we'd go out for a drive and tell each other. That day I was at work and God, I was nervous as hell. I was going to propose, I wanted to for a couple of weeks I just couldn't bring myself to do it.

I got a phone call an hour before the day was over and it was some robotic voice, telling me I had to kill my brother or they'd kill my pregnant girlfriend. There was her surprise.

My brother used to get in a lot of trouble with the FBI, and I never knew why but after I found out that he had stolen equipment from the Base and no one could find him either. He was in trouble with the FBI because he was an assassin, and the Base because he was a runaway.

Except, he was  living with his brother and his brother's girlfriend, so who's better than his brother to do the deed?"

I watched him as he spoke, the muscles in his arms and forehead tense. This was a lot to handle. He was working for the people who threatened his family?

"As you can tell, I'm only like this now. I was a skinny lover boy seven years ago, and when I got the threat, I did the most dumbest thing ever. They said I had three days to kill him or my girlfriend and my unborn baby were going to die.

I called the cops, and I told Cole what happened. That's all it took. The next day I fell asleep in the garage trying to think what I was going to do, because I wasn't going to kill my brother, nor was I going to let Isabelle and the baby die. "

His fists clenched as he saidd the next part,

"When I woke up, I went into the house and saw that Cole wasn't there. His things were gone too. And whatever game the cops and CIA were going to play with the unknown company who had them captive... All went down the drain.

They somehow found out he ran away, and I got a phone call from the station telling me that they were sorry there was nothing they could do.

I havent seen Cole since, and most of me wishes he's dead."

But he still didn't tell why he joined the Base, and as much as I wanted to know, I left it as he looked like shit. Another day, I thought.

" Okay. Let's get out of here, before I get so drunk I get mugged on the way. "

He cleared his throat and asked "Where?"

"I have a place. Come on, we'll get wasted there and we can also order pizza for you to try."

What was going on, no idea. But I felt like something good and bad was going to happen, and until it didn't, I was going to have fun.

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"Wow. It's actually better than I expected. Seriously," Dominic spoke between bites, and I just nodded with my mouth full

"You've missed out"
"What?" He started laughing, "I can't hear you"

"I said" I swallowed the bite and let out a small giggle "You've missed out."

"Oh, okay. I thought you said 'you made off' and I was like what?" he chuckled.

We were eating pizza and drinking Whiskey on top, which proved that we were drunk. I was sober until we finished watching The Perfect Date, my choice, and we both laughed about how we hated it after.

All I remembered after that was singing at the top of my lungs as he cheered me on, but I didn't remember the part where someone with a familiar tattoo on his arm knocked on the door and asked to use the phone.

We realised three hours later when we were woken up with ice water on our faces, to see that we were chained to chairs in a stone room.

Like God, what was it with these people and stone cold rooms?

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