The night was still dark, with only the moon illuminating the sky. Nearly covered by clouds. 

Both men arrive at the top of the building and check each bag to which belonged to which client. 

“WOo! Now that was accelerating! While we dispose of the bodies, the police should be a little way far gone by now. Even if they did find us now, we can always blend in within the crowds hehe. Hard for them to find us in a place like this.” Enzo chuckled, he inhaled some fresh air and gently exhaled,

“New York.” Enzo looked back at Valentino,

“Other than that. What was the information for these bodies?” 

Valentino picked out his phone,

“Hmmmm this one should be sent right over there; body burned. And  this one should be about across from the bar; body delivered. The Address are in the texts.” Valentino exclaims.

Enzo nodded and lifted up one of the bags, it was quite a heavy one. Both men then jump off in opposite directions to deliver the deceased bodies.

Valentino landed on his feet, finding himself a perfect spot in the forest, a little away from town, to burn the body.

“Hmm…so much for a waste.”

He mumbled. There was already a small little ditch below some trees and decided to kick it down. Picking out his lighter, along with a piece of cloth, lighting it up and tossing it to the body within the ditch. Watching it go up in flames, enjoying the beautiful bright warm sight.

“Oh my, burned quicker than I thought. I wonder how different it would’ve been if this were my parents' fate. To burn.”

Black.

a faint voice spoke,

“V-Val…?” A woman spoke in struggle. Barely opening her eyes as she only saw blur in front of her, a small figure who smiled and twiddled his fingers in a term of a “goodbye”. Eventually, it got silent…

Valentino shook his head, trying not to remember that thought. He mumbles to himself continuously as he slid down the ditch to bury the body, ashes and bones, slowly being covered by the soil. 

Arriving back from where they had left off on top of a small building,  

“Ahh alrighty, delivered mine.” Enzo clasps his hands together then nudges Val on the shoulder.

Valentino nods his head in agreement indicating that the same has been succeeded for him. He bursted out an idea,

“Oh! Do you want to maybe go to the bar tonight? Take it as a night to freshen up hehe. A reward even!” He pat Enzo’s shoulder, waiting for his response, 

“Sure! But we gotta change first before we do. We’ve got a lot of blood on us.” Enzo looked down as his blood stained clothes as Valentino held onto his hand,

 “I brought some extra clothes for us in the car! I’ll go get 'em.” Valentino jumped off gracefully, as natural as a cat's swift jump. Enzo scuffs as he jumps down some stairs near an alleyway from an apartment. Valentino then came back a few minutes later with their alternate clothes to change into and blend in. 

“They won’t expect two of the wanted assassins to kill and go to a bar afterwards hehe.” Enzo sassingly claimed as he put on his coat. 

“Alright let’s go.”

Jumping down near a dark corner and walking by into the bar, the men and women in the bar all then stare at Valentino in silence. Enzo then comes in from behind and growls, squinting, intimidating the people who daringly stared at his beloved. Made the people look away in a bit of disturbance. Valentino ran inside out of excitement,

 “Oh my gosh, it’s been a long while since we’ve been here!” He glared around in amazement from the warm colors and the cold air as he ran up to the bartender, jumping up on a wooden stool, tapping his finger on the wooden counter,

“One red wine please!” then receiving it within a few minutes. Valentino sat and drank. He sensed a touch on his shoulder, expecting it to be Enzo, instead it was a drunk man. It was Steph.

“Heyyy prettyyyy~ WhAts your name??~” He asked.

“Uhh-“

 Valentino stares in a blank face “Valentino-“ He said in an awkward tone of uninterest and annoyance. 

“Well Valen-TINE~ how ya doin?” Steph leaned against the counter, with his arm around Valentino. 

“Hey- have you uHhh perhaps seen or heard of the shooting across a few streets down? Me and my pAaallss have been uHh trying to look for them.” 

Valentino rolled his eyes. He was in a bit of discomfort from the touch of the drunk man, however, a lard shadow grew from behind him.

Enzo was behind, growling.

“What did you just call him?” He spoke In a deep and raspy angry tone, completely towering over the man, his hair slightly more puffed up than usual made him look more frightful.

Valentino inhaled and shook his head, already knowing what’s about to happen,

 “Oh boy-“

Steph slowly turned around, his breath taken from his lungs, not saying a single word. Enzo began to shout at the man in an overprotective tone, picking him up by the scruff of his clothing,

 “Listen here you piece of shit. I dunno WHO you think you are to call him by Valentine- He told you his NAME is Valentino!!”

 He barked. Slowly it turned into rant, even cursing and yelling at him as if it was a sailor but in his foreign Russian language.

“Oh Enzyyy…” Valentino sighed and smiled, his head leaning down.

Steph spoke once more,

"Heyyyy I'm not tryna start anything! He's just a mighty fine lookin' man that's all---"

Enzo let’s go and grabs him by the collar of his shirt,

"DO NOT FLIRT WITH MY MAN." He shouted.

Steph looked up into his eyes,

 “Your...man-?” He stared into Enzo’s eyes, within his blurred vision, he quickly shook his head. He gasped, realizing who they were, quickly looking away,

“UHhh listen here dude I-It was an accident-“ lifting his hands in a surrendering motion.

Enzo stared longingly, not letting go.

"Okay, listen mister. I don't care that you're so drunk you'd look at a bottle and think it's a stick. But let me tell you, make ONE more smooth comment about him and you'd be too ashamed to swoon anyone else after what I'll do to your smug face, UNDERSTAND?!”

Steph nodded his head in agreement nervously, before Enzo threw him onto the ground, making a loud thump against the tines of the floor, scuffling away into a far away table from the bar. Keeping distance.

Valentino smiled, even giggled. 

“Are you done yet Enzy?”

Enzo scoffs angrily as he sits next to his beloved, still feeling protective,

“hRRr I hate that guy…I’ll shoot him the next time I see him.” He exclaims in a raspy tone. Valentino smiles warmly, asking the bartender for another drink but for Enzo, his favorite being Vodka.

 “HnhHsg thanks Val..” 

Enzo eventually calms down as he starts to gulp down the beverage while Valentino smooches him on the cheek to keep him cooled off and comforted. “Better?” 

Valentino questioned as he stared at Enzo,

 “Yeah- *Gasp* oh gosh I just remembered, we need to go get some groceries later, you wanna go?”

Valentino nodded in agreement,

 “yeah! Plus I did bring the list of the things we need to get from the car, so sure!” He exclaims as he pulls out the list.

 “When do you wanna go? Store closes in like, two hours.” 

Valentino thinks for a bit then replies,

 “Hmm right now is okay!” He took in the last drop of the drink, ready to step down off the stool to leave,however, they heard the doors slam open. It was the pair of cops who were part of the scenery earlier, sealing off the alley way, taking a look into the bar to find the culprits. Valentino And Enzo looked down. Valentino tapped on the counter once more for another small drink. Trying to be as casual as possible while the rest of the bar stood silent, the sound of heartbeats rising, un expecting the visit. One cop sat next to the couple, 

“How are you gentlemen doing?” Both men averted their faces half away from the cop, she scuffed,

“My name is Bellamy. And my partner there is Michael. Say, have you two seen anything…suspicious around here?” She stared,

“No, why? Did something happen?” Valentino softly spoke,

“Why, there was a chase not long ago. I’m sure you two would’ve noticed by now that some criminals had just caused an explosion a few streets across?” She held onto her belt, squinting. Enzo lifted his head a little, only making slight eye contact,

“Well, it is quite stuffed in here. Prolly didn’t hear it as much as the rest of the folks here. Half of them didn’t even see it, it’s a bar after all. People are always drunk here.” His eyes stood rested and calm, holding in his growls, slowly sliding his hand on top of Valentino’s, along with Bellamy noticing. She then stood up,

“Michael, find anything matching the culprits?” 

Michael stood up after inspecting a few others,

“Unfortunately not ma’am.” Bellamy held her stance, glaring at both men.

“Alright then, may I have your names?”

“Val.”

“Ez” 

“Hm, alright then. Val, Ez, let me know if you do see anything, alright? Have a wonderful night.”

She walked off with her cap adjusted, 

“Michael! Let’s go, this dump isn’t worth it anyways.” 

Both cops walked out of the bar. Both men sigh, 

“They’re really after us this time.”

Enzo groaned, Valentino responds,

“It seems as if they’re more at it than ever before. Don't you think it’s a little weird? I mean like, too specific on the places they’re going to? Unless they saw us?”

Enzo looks down at his drink,

“Yeah. I doubt they saw us though. But at least they don’t know that these murderers have a life to live. We aren’t like others. They expect us to be hidden into the shadows and never in the face of light of this city. It’s a big place afterall.”

He looked gently at Valentino

“Don't worry about it too much, okay Val? At least we have fun messing around with them.” He whispered, Valentino smiles, 

“Heh. Yeah you’re right. Reminds me of when we first got our chase from the cops before we came here. For now let’s go to the store!” 

Valentino jumped off the stool. Enzo also walked off as he held onto Valentino’s hand exiting the bar.

“Shit…” Steph whispered behind the seat from where he had crawled to after being thrown by Enzo. Staying hidden from the hitmen, whispering once more,

“B-boss…I think I found them…..”

An anonymous voice from the phone comes through,

“Good- make sure to keep an eye on em, Steph.”

They soon arrive at the store. 

Valentino grabs the store basket and both walk around picking out their groceries.

Valentino then spots his favorite alcohol,

 “Oh! There it is! You can add it to the basket.” 

Enzo grabs the bottle and squints at it in hesitation, 

“Mhh, but it looks expensive-“ 

Valentino nearly shouts in silence,

“Enzo, we are literally rich-“ Enzo squints at the bottle longer in a bit of hesitation then places it into the basket oddly. They continue to walk picking out more items, then Valentino silently picks out some shelves with packets of stuff in his mouth and places more things into the basket, 

“VAL! Put those back on the shelves, we have everything we need!” Enzo silently shouts in a motherly tone. 

Valentino complains dramatically,

 “Its fine it wouldn’t hurt to have some extras-“, just..male wives being male wives- 

They continue walking as Valentino looks back at the basket and goes to grab a cart since the basket was already a little full. He returns with Enzo holding pounds of meat into his arms and dropping it all over the cart, 

“Enzo…we have enough at home-“ Enzo nearly whisper-shouts, “SHHHH….WE HAVE THE MONEY-“ he claimed in defense. Valentino sighs,

 “Enzo, you’re usually the one who scolds me for buying too much…” He exclaims.

Enzo then sighs, placing some back,

"And the one you're hiding in your pockets?"

 Valentino stands with a motherly look, his arms crossed, tapping his foot with one brow lifted as he watches Enzo pulling out 2 other small packages of meat, making sure he puts them all back, though Enzo places one in the cart at least. Valentino rolls his eyes and smiles allowing it. 

“Okayy! So I think we got everything we need”

He looked over at the cart,

 “And want- heh“ As they both walked over to the self-checkout, Valentino felt a tug on his shirt. He looked down, it was a little girl who was tugging on him. The girl paused and stares, realizing it wasn’t their parent, 

“Ohh! I’m sorry mister…” 

Valentino squatted,

 “Oh, Where is your mother, dear? What does she look like?” 

As he looks around. The little girl looked by turning her head side to side, left to right, eventually pointed at her mother and sprinted straight to her. Valentino chuckles with a smile as he stood back up with Enzo staring the entire time, patting Valentino’s back,

 “Heh, you’re so damn pretty that the poor kid thought you were their mom pff” 

Valentino blushed, 

“Aw shush Enzyyyy!!” He exclaims. They both then go to check out their groceries and exit the store, placing all of the bags into the trunk of the car and driving back home. 

Arriving back home. 

Taking in all the grocery bags inside and helping each other place them in where they belong into cabinets and some into the fridge. After they finished, Valentino decided to get up and go to the bathroom.

“*sigh*What a tough night. Can't believe it’s already 2am.”

He thought to himself,

“That little girl…she, she reminds me of something. It’s like…” 

His thoughts were cut off by a loud thump in the living room. He left the bathroom andand came back with an unexpected surprise-

 “Enzo, what are you doing???” 

Valentino giggled, 

“I am a burritoooo. A blanket burrito wormmmmm.” as he tilted his body to the side with his eyes closed.

Valentino rolls his eyes.

“Okay then, Mr. Blanket Burrito worm” he smiles.

“Fear me for it is infectious…….GRAHHH!!” He drags Valentino into the blanket,

 “WAAOOHH!” Valentino squeaks before they start laughing together, he then just kisses Enzo on his head and stands up. 

“Alright, I think we have enough time to maybe practice a little on my voice again! Tomorrow we have quite the client for our next kill.” Enzo sits up on the couch doing a criss cross applesauce, with the blanket still around him as he pays attention.

Eventually as night fell deeper, both men went to bed. Ready for their next kill for tomorrow.