“See I think that the perfect murder is one you don’t even need to be there for. Separate yourself out enough that you can’t be a suspect.” Sam explained, the kitchen filled with her once enemies looking at her mortified. “The problem is that so many people want to be there to see the light leave their targets eyes, and don’t get me wrong. I’ve been there. It’s a truly unique experience, if it’s someone you hate enough then it’s also worth it.”

“What does this hilariously gruesome backstory have to do with what we are trying to do?” Zoe laughed, breaking the silence as Sam slowed her talking. Realising that everyone didn’t find the situation quite as amusing as she did.

Kicking herself she decided to take a different approach. “If you want someone dead get someone else to do it. That’s it. Piss off the right people in these circles and powers will fly.”

The group weren’t looking impressed, they probably still didn’t understand the levels of how this needed to play out. Sam took a second, composing herself. Making sure her natural way of talking didn’t make her look too much like she was crazy, which wasn’t far off from the truth.

“Unless you have a way to access the mob bosses base, capture him without causing a scene and then escaping with his body. We need others to do the heavy lifting for us.” Sam explained, making a conscious effort to keep her face calm and not show the excitement at the concept of crashing a mobs hideout.

“That makes sense.” Chloe said, Sam looking between her and her twin who was smiling. Apparently Zoe liked the idea of breaking into a mob base. Ethan always said they would get along.

“Exactly. So the question now becomes how can we, a group of teenagers slash government targets, get different mobs to fight each other to such a violent degree that they escalate?” Sam said, leaning on a nearby counter, looking over an expectant audience. “Oh no no, no that wasn’t rhetorical I’m good with the ideas but the smaller details I need help.”

“Well you’re already a step above Ethan. At least you’re willing to ask for help.” Zoe laughed.

“Stubborn one, that boy.” Sam nodded in agreement.

A few of the group chuckled in agreement. Ethan was incredible at quite a few things but communication outside the battlefield or basic human emotions was basically another language to him.

“So we need to agitate the mob.” Chloe said, “that sounds to me like we just need to do things they don’t like and frame other people for it.”

Sam clapped her hands in excitement, her grin growing into a wide smile. “Now we seem to be getting somewhere.”

“It’s not quite that easy.” Shay interrupted. “To do this we would need to know of the gangs, get into them and then be trusted enough to do these things in such a way that we aren’t the ones caught or suspected.”

“God this is gonna be fun.” Sam laughed, her excitement worryingly visible to the rest of the group.