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My Dear Rose, This is a book I made for you in case one of our missions went ari. If you have this book, this is my goodbye to you, in case I couldn't say it myself. Here are a few rules to follow when i am gone and follow them closely, I really don't want you to follow in my steps.

1. You are not immortal: No matter how strong, fast and or cunning you think you are. You will die at some point, your time will come at any moment and everything will end right then and there. For all anyone will ever know though, you deserved it for being what you are. A murder willing to slaughter to anyone offering coin, so accept your fate as the killer now, and the killed later. It will make jobs easier on stress and aim better from lack of worry.


2. Morals mean little in this line of work: You are all the same in this case, a man with a weapon and a reason to kill. You will be offered jobs and if you turn them down you will be snuffed out to hide evidence. Each life you take being just another paycheck to you is a sister, or child to someone else. You have a reason to kill though, keep that reason in mind and forget old morals as they only get on in the way of you and that reason. Yes, the jobs will be hard and if you give a good reason for refusing such as the pay isn’t worth the work, you might live. You might see another day with your hands soaked in others blood, the real you lost. Yet, you might not so it’s best to keep rule 1 in mind at all times either way.

 3. Your friends will hurt you: Even if they are a hired gun like you, everyone has deep dirt they want buried. You are meant to be lone wolves, taking off easy targets and keeping fear in the minds of everyone with each crime you commit. Eventually you will piss a few people off and they will want you dead. Turning to their own hands if they have the skill of raw stupidity to try it. The smart ones will send your own kind after you, the smartest will use the dirt on you and the one they hire to help get the point across. Or maybe, your friends and fellow workers just need a little extra cash to turn on you. They may say they have your back now but they could just as easily be stabbing it the next day.

4. You’re the weapon in the end: You can let this go to your head, but in the end you’ll end up dead if you don’t pay attention. Your weapons can be turned against you, become your weakness, or just fail you. They are your trump and your Achilles heel at the same time. In order to make it out you need to be sharper then the weapon you use, able to outlast it no matter what and never lean on it when the going gets tough. Let this be your final lesson, all guns run out of bullets. All knifes, swords and metals will rust. You will run out of energy and your mind will overlook certain situations and facts. Have a backup for everything, and know when to run because of this very last and simple rule for everything.

5. Survive?: You can take a life, but can you live with everything you have done even when the job is over and the reason for becoming a hired gun is over and done. That’s up to you, just remember rule one and decide if you deserve to take your own life. Or let someone else get revenge. Well mercenaries and assassins. Your all the same but with a different title, follow your rules and remind yourself of the job at hand and whether or not you can live this life based on them.

6. Realize, the value of life: Each time you take one, ask if it was worth it in the end. Killing off doctors saving lives, the man who will never see his kid again. Or the wife you murdered for that small lump sum of cash, was killing off that amazing soul that could have done so much good. Worth it in the end, if every wonderful memory and every amazing thing they did or tried goes to waist the second you kill them off. Was it fun for you? Or was it like it should be? The means to an end, that never should have happened. The task you wish you never completed and the one reason you hate yourself. That is what you need to ask every time, if the answer is that it's a means to an end. Then you still have a soul left my friend, put it to good use.

7. Costs and pay: Jobs are not cheap, just covering your tacks and transferring money can cost ¼ of your earnings. Then there is ammo for guns, your men’s pay and information if you need it. Over all this saps most of your money so make sure of one thing and one thing only, manage your cost and only buy what you need for that job. Execution is your next task to pull it off properly, by being well trained and forming a plan you can pull off most jobs with very little cost to your wallet. Yet keep in mind all the other rules, the higher the pay the more risky it is and when you die you won’t come back.

8.Make sure you eat well, Dying from hunger is NOT a good way to go, no matter where and what you are doing.

9. Please,keep yourself alive, you need to forget about our promise, Death did do us part and when I died, I wish for the best for you, wether you continue with our works of art or not, I hope you love it.
I love you my little Rose, I wish you the best.
-Will Michaels