I wake up at 7:00, and immediately text Ced to ask if we can use his training room. He answers back a few minutes lately with an enthusiastic yes. I smile while also rolling my eyes. He was always like this.

I wake Isa up, and we both walk to the kitchen to get breakfast. Isa grabs two bowls and the box of Cheerios, honey, of course, and the milk, before pouring cereal into both. She hands one to me, and we both sit down.

"So," she starts. "What exactly does training include?"

I glance up. She surprisingly doesn't look nervous. "Oh, the usual," I answer, smirking. "More practical training, like hand to hand, knife, and gun fighting. Also stuff like how to knock someone out, where to hit, stab, or shoot to kill, how to be stealthy, hacking 101."

Isa looks interested. "Wow. What are we doing today?"

"Well, you already know basic knife skills, so probably we'll work on places to stab, how to avoid too much blood, and stuff like that. Ced can help, too," I say after thinking for a moment.

After we finish eating, Isa and I go to change into workout clothes, before leaving the apartment. Ced opens the door to the warehouse- excuse me- fighting ring, after the first few knocks.

"So," he says as he lets us in. "You two wanted the training room to yourself. Why is that?"

"I want to be an assassin," Isa says before I can answer. "Tala said she'd train me, so we wanted to use your equipment."

Ced looks surprised. "Wow. I didn't know you had it in you," he says to Isa.

"Don't judge a book by it's cover," she says, and I smirk. My sassiness is rubbing off on her.

"She's right," I add. "She's already got one hell of a punch, and knows basic stabbing."

Isa snorts. "You make stabbing people sound like a college class."

"Well go right ahead and use my facilities," Ced says.

"Before we do," I interject. "Can we use that bleeding dummy you have?"

Ced goes off to get it for us, and Isa turns towards me, a weird expression on her face. "Bleeding dummy?"

"You'll see," I answer simply.

Ced comes back with a human sized, anatomically correct dummy of a man. Well, almost correct. There's no dick on the dummy, thankfully.

He brings it to the training room and we follow. He sets it down, and walks out, before turning around. "Call me if you need anything. You know where the weapons are." he says, before leaving, probably to go to his "office."

"This," I say to Isa, "Is a bleeding dummy. It's anatomically correct, and if you stab, shoot, or cut it, it bleeds, like a human would. So, let's start."

I grab a knife from the storage room. Don't ask me why Ced has them, because I have no idea, but they do come in handy. I also grab the chart Ced has of what he calls kill points. Isa and I sit on the mats, and I show her the chart.

"So here, here, and here," I start, pointing out the various locations on the paper. "These are places to hit that'll kill the victim almost instantly, either because of vital organs, or how much you bleed because of the puncture. Anywhere in the stomach is good too, because of the amount of organs there. Usually I just slit the target's throats though. That's pretty easy to do, and kills almost instantly."

Isa nods, taking it all in. After quizzing her for a minute, I set up the bleeding dummy, and have her practice on it as if it were a sleeping person. She remembered all the spots perfectly, quicky killing the dummy each time.

"Okay, that's awesome!" I exclaim. "You're a natural."

Isa smirks, something I wasn't sure she was capable of. "Thanks. Though, I'm pretty sure I should be concerned about that. On a completely different note, I'm hungry. Can we break for lunch?"

I snort at her comment, before walking with Isa to Ced's office. We eat lunch, with Isa and Ced arguing about some book they had both read. I sit back and smile. I hadn't been this happen since before... before my family was killed.

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A/N- Please don't use the small bits of information I have included to kill people. I don't think you can, but I just want to make sure, because I do not want to be the reason someone is dead. Other than that, I hope you guys like it! Things are getting interesting now that Isa wants to join the business.