The prison was about as nice as a Titan's innards, minus the dead bodies. However, the absence of humanity in the prisoners eyes was so prominent that they might as well have been already buried. Y/N shivered, but not becuase of the cold. The people contained here were monsters. Real criminals. She was simply an assassin, a killer. Not a murderer.

The metal of her cuffs cut into her skin, and Y/N wanted with all her heart to tear them off, to free herself of the musty air and memories of another place, just as dank and dark.

The door to her cell slammed, and Y/N slumped against her bed, closing her eyes aginst the torchlight and slipping into a troubled sleep.

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"He hit you agian, didn't he?" the boy asked, eyes flashing in the darkness of the kitchen. The girl simply nodded, still hiding the side of her face.

"Here, let me-" The boy choked as he saw what the girl had been hiding. "I-" The boy pressed a hand against his mouth, looking slightly ill.

"H-how bad is it?" The girl mumbled, her small frame shaking slightly. The boy just shook his head, rubbing his eyes and looking away. He was tall yet abnormally skinny, with thick brown hair falling into his gray eyes, and couldn't have been more than eight. The girl leaned against him, eyes glinting in the darkness.

"We... you need to bind it. You've got blood everywhere..." The boy cupped her face in his palms, eyes meeting those of a girl only a year younger than him. "You can't die now..."

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The girl was older now, perhaps twelve, h/c hai swept into a low bun, maid's outfit impeccable.

"Would you like wine, sir?" The girl placed a small, fragile glass in the man's hands. He gulped it down, then threw the glass across the room. The girl did not flinch. The man slapped her. The girl did not move a single muscle.

"Dissmissed." The man waved the hand that had just stung her cheek towards the corner. The girl moved with persicion, quickly and silently, trying to avoid the eyes f the other girl who was laying on the floor, one arm bent unnaturally.

"Please..." the older girl murmered, eyes revealing the horrors she had faced in this very bedroom. The maid only shook her head, moving back and averting her eyes as the man turned back to her prey.

Yet though the girl could forbid her eyes to see, she could not stop her ears from hearing the desperate plea of the girl she thought of as sister.

"Pleas-"

~~~

Midnight. Not that night was much different than the day; not here anyway. The girl was standing in the kitchen again, wrapping up her scarf as she whispered frantically to the boy.

"I managed to steal a set. It's pretty easy to operate- we can be out of here in minutes." She muttered into the darkness where the boy stood silently.

"You shouldn't have," the boy said simply.

"I had to!" The girl spat, eyes burning in the darkness. "My sixteenth birthday is in two months, and you know he won't leave me as a maid, well, slave-maid, at that 'ripe' age." Her voice carried no hint of sarcasm, only cold facts.

The boy sighed, breath heavy in the darkness. "In only a month?" His tone begged her to reconsider.

The girl nodded, unshaken. "One month."

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"NO!" The girl screamed, the tears streaming down her face like pure fire. "N-" A sharp blow to her head sent her reeling, and the girl fell helplessly to the ground. Yet as the hunter descended, he froze. Then fell, the knife in his back hitting the ground with a thunk. The girl was pulled back into the alley, a cold hand shoved over her mouth. And from her spot on the ground, the girl watched as her only friend was beaten, broken, and pulled back to hell.

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Her trainer was kind enough. He didn't mind that she would only kill with knives, or that she merely wanted revenge. He wanted another killer on his team, and the girl was the perfect candidate.

The girl learned quickly. By the time she was eighteen, she had learned the finer arts of assassination. At nineteen, she made her second kill, her first true assassination. By the time the girl was twenty-two, she had ten kills to her name. Until the fateful night the girl decided to make it eleven...
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A/N
Sorry for the short chapter, I wasn't sure what to add.
Hope you enjoyed,
~Elana