We Will Rise

Part 1

POV Jackie

       I still remember the day Lia came home from the hospital after getting shot, she pointed a gun at my head, not knowing I was just a little girl at the time. She sat me next to her and told me she wasn't gonna die, and told me that she was gonna make it through.  I ran back to my fathers call and told her goodbye.  My father died later that year, good ole pegleg caught the wrong side of a snipers bullet.  My mother was devastated.  Boss offered her a place to stay and protection, I thought she was gonna take it and we wouldn't have to leave, I was right, partially. 
        I didn't leave, but my mother did.  She fled and left me behind.  My training classes raised me, along with Lia and Cam.  Cam taught me everything she knew about strategy and about people.  She taught me about fighting in the underground, and always told me the story of when she pinned Lia that first time, always when Lia could hear of course, I can't count the amount of times Cam got whacked in the head.  Lia taught me how to be an assassin.  She taught me knife throwing and how to shoot with both hands.  Cam always helped but she let Lia do a lot of it because she knew I'd be Lias legacy.  Lia was the best tactically sound person I'd ever met.  She still went on assassinations from time to time but things have been pretty quiet for awhile.  So we trained and trained and trained, until the day we saw her wedding.  Was it in the middle of the woods at midnight, absolutely, was it still incredibly beautiful, also yes.  They left on a plane that morning, to find everything secret left in the crime world, hopefully not dying in the process.  They are staying with any allies we may have over seas.  I genuinely think they just want to be the champions in every underground they find.  Don't ask me how they're going to defend all those championships, but you couldn't talk them out of it even if you tried.  They said something about wanting to be Greek champions, gain Athenas favor, something about someone called Artemis, I really don't know.  They gave me three burner numbers to call if I wanted to talk to them, one for Cam, one for Lia, and another for emergencies.  I talk to Lia almost every night, seeing where they are now, hearing their latest exploits, and just talking to Lia like I would a mother.  There is one thing that Cam said to me, broken take better care of the broken, and that's something I'll never forget.

Thanks for reading the first chapter of my new book, see you next time, ciao.