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elrhiarhodanTitle: Target Acquired
Prompt: White Collar 100 – #004: Target
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Rating: R
Characters/Pairing: Peter Burke, Neal Caffrey, Elizabeth Burke
Fandom: White Collar
Spoilers: None
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: None
Word Count: 300 Exactly!
Summary: In the line of fire
“The target’s been acquired.”
“Then fire when you have a clear head shot.”
The target and his partner were sitting in an outdoor café near Federal Plaza. It looked as if they were waiting for a third person. The crowded sidewalks, filled with tourists and office workers, made this execution difficult. The sniper was stuck in an empty fourth floor office, the muzzle of his rifle resting on a hole cut out of the window pane, waiting for the perfect moment to pull the trigger.
When it came, it came between one heartbeat then the next. The target stood up to greet a woman and as he bent down to kiss her lips, the perfect shot was there. He just had to squeeze gently on the trigger and the bullet would penetrate the skulls of both the woman and the target. His finger relaxed.
“You had perfect shot, damnit. What happened.” The voice on the other end of the radio was furious.
“That would have been a two-fer. You’re paying me for one body and no collateral.” The sniper didn’t tell his employer he didn’t kill women. At least not American women who weren’t wearing IEDs strapped to their bodies.
The radio crackled again. “If there isn’t a body on the ground in the next hour, you may want to think about finding a new line of work that doesn’t need index fingers.”
The sniper ignored the threat. The man on the other end had no clue what he looked like. When the trigger was pulled, he would just leave. He had no attachment to his weapon, and when he walked out of the building, he’d be just another anonymous office drone, a New Yorker completely blasé about the police and the sirens and the dead body on the ground.
Prompt: White Collar 100 – #004: Target
Author:
elrhiarhodanRating: R
Characters/Pairing: Peter Burke, Neal Caffrey, Elizabeth Burke
Fandom: White Collar
Spoilers: None
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: None
Word Count: 300 Exactly!
Summary: In the line of fire
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“The target’s been acquired.”
“Then fire when you have a clear head shot.”
The target and his partner were sitting in an outdoor café near Federal Plaza. It looked as if they were waiting for a third person. The crowded sidewalks, filled with tourists and office workers, made this execution difficult. The sniper was stuck in an empty fourth floor office, the muzzle of his rifle resting on a hole cut out of the window pane, waiting for the perfect moment to pull the trigger.
When it came, it came between one heartbeat then the next. The target stood up to greet a woman and as he bent down to kiss her lips, the perfect shot was there. He just had to squeeze gently on the trigger and the bullet would penetrate the skulls of both the woman and the target. His finger relaxed.
“You had perfect shot, damnit. What happened.” The voice on the other end of the radio was furious.
“That would have been a two-fer. You’re paying me for one body and no collateral.” The sniper didn’t tell his employer he didn’t kill women. At least not American women who weren’t wearing IEDs strapped to their bodies.
The radio crackled again. “If there isn’t a body on the ground in the next hour, you may want to think about finding a new line of work that doesn’t need index fingers.”
The sniper ignored the threat. The man on the other end had no clue what he looked like. When the trigger was pulled, he would just leave. He had no attachment to his weapon, and when he walked out of the building, he’d be just another anonymous office drone, a New Yorker completely blasé about the police and the sirens and the dead body on the ground.
