text: [Themes: modern, serious]
  
  You continue to sit on the bed waiting for the hour to be up. Your eyes focus on the dead guard in the room and the sight makes you uneasy, which is immediately noticed by Tiffany.
  
  "You're not going lily livered on me are you?" Tiffany questions with concern.
  
  "I just...being in the same room as a dead body is not something particularly enjoy," You answer.
  
  "Look, more people are going to die before this is over and if you're not focused, you, me and your sister are fucked, not to mention you're the one who has to take care of Ivo and the brute with him."
  
  "Why do I have to do it?"
  
  "When the hour is up, he'll except you to leave, if I go downstairs he'll very quickly figure out something is up."
  
  "Killing people...I don't know if I can do that."
  
  Tiffany grabs you by the wrists. "Listen to me, those scumbags aren't people, they are monsters who do horrible things to others just to make money, if we don't do this, they are going to force your sister to fuck people."
  
  "I don't know how to use a gun or any kind of weapon," You mention.
  
  Tiffany gets up off the bed and picks the gun off the nightstand. "It's easy, the safety is off so you just aim and shot," Tiffany instructs. "Don't try for a headshot, it's much more difficult than it looks, a few shots to the torso is just as effective"
  
  Tiffany puts the gun down and picks up the combat knife. "Do you mind standing?" She requests.
  
  You stand up and face Tiffany, once again she grabs your wrist and puts the knife in your hand. "To use the knife just jam into the side of their throat, either side will do," She educates you.
  
  Still holding on to your wrist she takes your hand holding the knife and brings it dangerously close to her neck. "Like so," Tiffany concludes.
  
  "How are you so calm about all of this?"
  
  "Ben I learned a long time ago that freaking out doesn't help with anything."
  
  For the rest of the hour Tiffany gives you a few more pointers on how to properly use the knife and the gun. After the egg timer goes off, Tiffany opens the draw of the nightstand takes out a sheath and places the combat knife in it. "Alright, you can hide the knife pocket and the gun in your pants just don't wind up shooting yourself, when you get downstairs take out the guard first, he's strong but a dumbass, his reaction time should slow enough for you to get the jump on him, once he is dealt with, make Ivo tell you everything he knows, the man is a coward so it should be easy enough to get him to talk once he tells you what you need to know you can take him out, good luck," Tiffany directs.
  
  You walk out of the room, into the hallway and down the stairs. Ivo comes out of a room behind the front desk. "So was Tiffany everything you hoped she would be?" Ivo asks you as you approach the front desk.
  
  "She was something alright," You responded try to act enthusiastic in order to avoid raising suspicion.
  
  "Always happy to see a customer satisfied, as long as you got the cash feel free to come back here any time" Ivo encourages as he returns to the backroom. As you walk towards the front door you pass by the enormous guard, you have to choose how to deal with him.
  
  > use the knife
  You stop in front of the door, and pull the knife out of your pocket. Once you remove the sheath you turn around and remembering what Tiffany had taught you in her crash course, you swing the knife towards the neck of the guard. Once he figures what you're doing he grabs your arm, but by the time he does the knife is already in his neck. You feel his grip loosen as he slowly falls to the floor and bleeds to death. With the enormous man dealt with you walk towards the front desk and take the gun out of your waist band.
  
  "Ivo can you come out here?" You call out.
  
  Ivo comes out of the back room with a look of confusion on his face. This look quickly turns to dread when you point the gun at him. "Whoa, easy there boss," Ivo responds frightened. "I don't know what this is about but you don't want to do this, I'm part of Westfield's gang and he is somebody don't want to fuck with."
  
  Before you can ask Ivo about Victoria you hear footsteps coming down the stairs. Still pointing the gun at Ivo you briefly look out of the corner of your eye and see it's Tiffany. She walks over to the body of the guard and as before pulls the knife out of its neck and cleans it on the dead man's shirt. After patting down the corpse and taking a gun from a shoulder holster, Tiffany walks over to the front desk.
  
  "There is no way in hell I'm going to miss this," Tiffany says she also pulls a gun on Ivo.
  
  "Tiffany what the fuck is this?" Ivo asks with fear in his voice.
  
  "My friend here is going ask questions and you're going to answer them, if you don't I'll shoot your fucking head off."
  
  "Westfield kidnapped my sister, her name is Victoria, she's twenty with black hair and a razor bob haircut, was she brought here?" You demand to know.
  
  "I haven't gotten any new girls in a while, although...wait I got a call earlier today, there is someone who is going to be brought in tomorrow morning around five."
  
  Tiffany walks behind the front desk placing her gun against Ivo's head. "Ivo you're not lying to my friend are you?"
  
  "No of course not, besides I had no idea she was kidnapped and being brought in here against her will," Ivo tries to explain himself. Tiffany lowers the gun from Ivo's head. He breathes a sigh of relief but before he can take another breath, Tiffany like she did with the guy upstairs, jams a knife into his throat and like his henchmen, Ivo falls to the ground and bleeds out.
  
  "Sorry for the last minute change of plan, but the opportunity to kill that piece of shit was not something I could pass up, besides I knew you were uncomfortable with the killing so I decided to meet you half way," Tiffany explains. "Now we have six hours before your sister arrives, we need to move the bodies and you need to hide, I'll deal with any johns that come in."
  
  Tiffany picks up Ivo's body by the shoulders while you grab the legs. As you're moving the body, you become uneasy once again. "Are you alright?" Tiffany worries as she sees the expression on your face.
  
  "I'm moving a fucking corpse in a brothel in the middle of the night, I'm fucking far from alright," You express yourself.
  
  "Come on Ben, we're very close to getting your sister and getting out of here don't fall apart on me at the last moment, remember freaking out doesn't help with anything," Tiffany manages to calm you somewhat as you help her move Ivo's body and then the guard's body. Once you are done moving the cadavers, you looks around the back room. There is a small bed with a small television on a TV tray. Underneath the TV tray is a shotgun.
  
  "Don't tell me I have to wait in a room with dead people again," You whine.
  
  "Yep and this time it's for six hours and you have deal with two stiffs," Tiffany informs. You sit on the bed, trying your best to ignore the bodies, as Tiffany heads out the door. Your stomach groans with pain and it dawns on you that you haven't eaten since lunch. In addition to your hunger, exhaustion is also taking a heavy toll on you. Trying to sleep proves to be a difficult task due to the events of the day, not to mention the fact the situation isn't over yet and fear of what may happen creeps into your mind. Somehow after a few hours you manage to doze off. Your peacefully break from the brutal reality you're in comes to end when you're awoken by someone shaking your arm. When your eyes focus you can see it's Tiffany.
  
  "C'mon sleeping beauty, your sister and whoever is bringing her here, are going to arrive soon." Tiffany points out.
  
  "So what's the next step?" You ask while pulling yourself up off the bed.
  
  "I'll take care of Victoria's escort, you stay hidden behind the desk, hopefully I'll able to handle it by myself but if things get dicey I need you to offer support."
  
  "Sounds simple enough," You pick up the shotgun in the room and make your way to the front desk, where you place your weapons under the counter.
  
  Before long you hear the front door open and you crouch behind the front desk. "Hey Ivo," You hear a man's voice call out.
  
  "Hi there, Ivo is busy at the moment, can I help you?" Tiffany responds as she walks towards the front door.
  
  "You can help me with a lot of thing gorgeous, but it's important we take this girl to Ivo first," Another man's voice answers Tiffany.
  
  "He's in room 207."
  
  The sounds of footsteps walks past you and you quietly lift up your head over the counter to see two men walking beside your sister while Tiffany walks behind them. As they are walking you see Tiffany take out a gun and shoot one of the men in the back of the head. The gunshot causes Victoria to scream and hit the floor as Tiffany move the gun to the second man. Before she can fire another round the man knocks the gun out of her hand. He then strikes Tiffany knocking her to the floor and pulls out a gun of his own. You need to aid Tiffany before she is killed.
  
  > use shotgun
  Picking up the shotgun, you aim and fire at the man before he can shoot Tiffany. The good news is you mange to hit him and he is sent crashing into the ground. The bad news is you forgot to take into account that a shotgun has spread and Tiffany gets hit as well and lays face down on the floor. Upon seeing this you rush out from behind the counter and run up to Tiffany. Picking her up off the ground you are amazed that she is still clinging to life.
  
  "I...told you...I was...getting...out...of here," Tiffany manages to say before dying in your arms. The guilt causes you to breakdown crying.
  
  Upon hearing you, Victoria lifts her head up. "Ben?" your sister says slightly confused. "How'd you find me, who was she?"
  
  You put Tiffany's body down, wipe your tears and turn towards Victoria. "I'll explain everything in a bit, right now we need to leave." Victoria gets up of the floor and follows you as you head out the front door.