My Assassin

Chapter 5 part 1

An outrageous amount of pain brought Kiara forcefully back to the waking world. Biting back a cry after a swift yank upward and Kiara was being turned over gently and settled onto the cold stone floor. She could feel blood pouring out of her shoulder, making her think she had nicked an artery. Trying to reach to her shoulder to staunch her own wound only led her to being barely able to raise her other arm. Not a good sign. Luckily for her, her Italian was kicking into overdrive, understanding everything the people were saying.

"She is losing a lot of blood quickly." the first one said to his partner. He sounded slightly panicked which did nothing to ease Kiara's own panic. As her breathing increased, she once again reached for her shoulder, only to have the man place her hand back down. “Don’t move, we are going to help you.”

"She is dressed strangely. Do you recognize the type of clothing she is wearing?" The second asked sounding completely unaware that Kiara was very near bleeding to death on the floor. She started shivering and she knew that she was starting to go into shock from blood loss. This was going to be bad.

"Quit gawking at her clothing and help me staunch the bleeding!" as he started pressing a cloth to her profusely bleeding shoulder in an attempt to slow the bleeding.  Taking off his one of his belts he made a make shift tourniquet for her arm and then a second to hold the cloth in place.

"Well we could always have the dottorie cut it off and take a hot blade to It." the second stated matter of fatly. Surely they wouldn’t. The way he said it made it sound like they did it every day. 

"Oh shut up and get over here before I throw you off a building! I will never know why they put you with me Dominic." the first said pressing a little harder on her wound, making the pain shoot up into her skull. Choking on another anguished cry she began making attempts to speak to them. 

"Because I'm special." he said as she heard a few snaps and some rustling then he too was pressing a cloth to her shoulder. Kiara began to shake harder and the force of her shaking made her words come out as a whisper.

“Please……please help me. I don’t want to die.” 

"We are doing everything we can. Just hold on, stay awake. Dominic! Lay out the stretcher! We need to get her moved now!!"

"Already done Martin."

"Thank God! Grab her legs. Gently now, and lift" Dominic said as they lifted her onto the stretcher and gently settled her down." I'm sorry miss, but we need to move you. We must get you help immediately."

"Martin." Dominic stated, slightly disturbed.

"What?!" Martin shouted at him.

"She is marked."

"Well then this should be interesting. Right now she has to survive in order to be questioned. Come on let's go. Easy on picking up the stretcher." Kiara began slipping in and out of consciousness where the pain could not reach her.

  The next sensation that she felt was floating, then excruciating pain for moments at a time. Screaming all the while and being held down and being told not to move until someone hit her and knocked her out again. She was thankful in a sense, that she didn’t have to deal with the pain, but she would have a raging headache in the morning. The times she did manage to stay awake for more than a few seconds, she took in the worried face of a doctor and an older woman pacing the room. Kiara also picked up a little on their conversation when the doctor was finally done working her.

   "Bathe her arm a few times a day to keep it limber. She will be very weak for at least a week because of the blood loss.......small meals........walking when she can handle it. Send for me if anything happens."

   "Of course. Ezio is waiting in his office to pay you for your services." and with that Kiara faded into darkness once more.

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Well everyone, this is supposed to be a longer chapter. I just dont have the stamina to type it out. like it ? love it? hate it?

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til next time, lana