"Black Rose, why not move these weapons and ammo to my shooting range and I put them in my vault."
'Is it even legal for you to own so many?'
"Only half of it plus what I already have, but a buddy of mine is a gun dealer he can sell the rest."
'Alright…but I have one question.'
"And what is that?"
'What is the street value of this stuff?'
"The drugs alone can be estimated around 2 or 3 mil, and the guns and ammo around 2 mil."
'Really?'
Jake nodded.
'Wow so I bought this house for free and I even made a profit by buying.'
Chris started to laugh.
"How much to you pay for it?" Loki asked her.
'Well I bought it for 1 mil, but was for sale for only 500K.'
'Still I made a profit and this place is going down anyway.'
'And by selling this stuff, I won't have to invest much of my own money to build my new house.'
'If I do everything correctly I got myself a place for free.'
Jake looked at Jemisha with big eyes.
'Now I'll call Pablo, why don't you guys take the guns and the ammo out.'
Jemisha was on the phone with Pablo.
'Hola Pablo, do you have any men here in Australia?'
"Jefa Rose por qué llamas!?"
"We have a gang not far from Melbourne."
'Great!, can you send a few men over to the location I will send you, and preferably at night.'
"Seguro jefa, but why?"
'Well I bought a house here and I found something you guys may be interested in so…'
"Entendido señorita."
Jemisha talked a little more with Pablo on the phone and found out that a rival gang had destroyed her villa in Mexico.
'What the f*ck!'
'Which gang? And who gave them the order to do so!?'
"Era la pandilla Chenzontle y recibió la orden del Serale."
'Alright, keep a low profile and don't bother with them for now, don't forget the Ocelot hunt's at night.'
"Si Jefa."
Jemisha ended the call but was furious at what she heard and Chris asked what was wrong.
'The Chenzontle gang destroyed my villa back in Mexico and they were order by someone from the Serale family.'
"Black Rose, do you have any business ties with the Serale family?"
'None, while on the surface they look clean, they have deep roots with the Italian mafia, and there is now way in hell I want to mingle with that group of people who kill's business partners after they made a profit.'
'They did asked me to have a collaboration with me but I refused them.'
Jack message Blake about what he had learn from Jemisha.
Jemisha was messaging Pablo and he told her they would be there at midnight.
Jake came back with his truck and they loaded up all the guns and ammo and they started to cataloging everything they found.
Jemisha's eyes fell on a Accuracy International Arctic Warfare Magnum and she picked it up.
She looked at it intensely like she was learning every inch of the rifle.
Jack took the rifle and Jemisha was snapped back to reality.
"Come with me Black Rose."
Jemisha stood up and fallowed Jack to the range.
The other stayed behind and continued.
"Do you think he going to teach her?" Loki asked Chris.
"Who knows…she still hasn't talked about shooting a men through the head at point blank."
"Yeh… but what struck me as odd was when Jack took her to the shooting range before she was hesitant about firing a gun, back in Singapore she shot a man in his leg, and now she shot one through the head."
"True…but the man in Singapore was holding a gun at her and while she managed to react and disarm the man, Jack noticed the man looked at her threatening and she panicked and shot him in the leg."
"But the psychologist just pushed her buttons and he knew she has PTSD he probably didn't take in account she could have a gun and fall in one of her episodes and shoot him."
"Hmm…so the men she killed in the woods to save your ass…"
"Jack thinks she had an episode then but she was half aware of what was going on and what she was doing."
"But Chris…aren't you afraid your girlfriend might shoot you one day?" Loki teased him.
"Nah I'm not, because the only way she can kill me is with love." Chris teased back.
"While I do envy you, I think she is better off being with you then Blake."
"But I do expect you to never make her cry, if you do that then I keep Blake of your back."
"Sure thing, but do you remember what she said on her birthday…"
….
"She said; I should just marry both of you, then I have the best of both."
Loki and Chris were laughing.
At the range Jack was with Jemisha and asked "Why are you interested in this rifle?"
'Hmm… I like how it looks.'
"Do you want to shoot a few target's with this rifle?"
'No… I just like the looks of the rifle.'
"Black Rose…the way you looked at it, it looked like you were trying to learn every aspect of the rifle, and want it to become a trusted partner."
"I'm not going to lecture you, but I want you to know there is nothing wrong to learn how to snipe."
"I know we told you, you don't need to kill and leave it to us…"
"But you shot a man through the head point blank."
Jemisha was quiet for a while.
'I know I broke my promise that I would never carry a gun, and I even stole one from Jake.'
'I'm sorry…'
"Why are you apologizing?"
'I stole a gun and broke a promise.'
"Why did you steal the gun and broke your promise?"
'Because…I felt threatened, I got unease whenever that psychologist came by. He…his eyes were strange when he looked at me.'
Jack patted her head. "So you took the Desert Eagle for protection?"
Jemisha nodded.
"Well if you just explain and apologize to Jake later, he would understand I promise."
Jack took a magazine and put it in the rifle.
And took a sniper position and start to shoot a few times.
Jemisha looked and took in every move he made and even how he breathed.
"You know handling a handgun or a rifle can seriously injure and kill a person, and you already have done that, even if it was in one of your PTSD episodes. I think being conscience about it is better for you."
Jack got back up and handed her the rifle, "Remember the moment you hesitate when a gun is pointed at you, you can get killed."
Jemisha fell through her knees. 'I just wanted it all to stop…I wanted it all to end and go to Chris and go home.'
Jemisha was crying
'It was so hard for me to deal with the pain and that psychopath all alone.'
'I couldn't take it anymore…'
Jack crouched down and hugged her, "We know…"
"You held up as best as you could under the circumstance."
"You were driven in a cornered and pushed so hard, a normal adult men would have lashed out long ago, but you were biting your time so you would be fully healed, you received every punch and every threat until you snapped and lash out."
"But that is a risky move in and on itself, because it's not the physical aspect that will break you, it's the mental part."
Jack handed her the rifle and told her to shoot the target. "Let this sniper be you second thorn."
Jemisha took the rifle from Jack and he started to teach her.
He explained snipers aren't solo gunners, the always have a spotter with them, for multiple reasons and he will also train her as a spotter.
After half an hour Jemisha was completely in the zone she was calm and closed herself of from all the unnecessary sounds.
Jack noticed she had copied his every move and way of breathing.
He was now being her spotter and they both were shooting targets.
Another half an hour and she had shot the magazine empty.
When they were done she checked the chamber and the clip if there were no bullets left to be sure and she put the safety on.
Everything she did looked like clockwork to him as if she had sniper training before.
"Black Rose, you were so hesitant when I took you to a shooting range before but now you didn't hesitated whenever I told you to shoot, why is that?"
'Probably because a sniper doesn't need to shoot right away.'
"Alright, tomorrow you're going to be the spotter and I let Chris snipe a few targets."
"I think it's good for the both of you to work as a sniper team."
"Also when you were trapped at your balcony, didn't you help Chris to find the enemy sniper?"
'Well yeh… but that was because Loki was too scared to be bait.'
"Well your mirror trick was a good call on your part, it minimized you to be exposed to the sniper."
Jack patted her head and she smiled and hugged him.
Jemisha and Jack left the range and went back to the house, she turned around an looked around.
"Black Rose what's wrong."
'I feel like somebody is watching us.'
Jack looked around because he also had felt the sense that somebody was indeed watching them.
"Don't worry, it's a death sentence for them to try anything."
'Why is that?'
Jack smiled, "While Jake is a great shooter, he's also a great trapper."
Jemisha felt a little more at ease.
When she got inside she went to the kitchen and helped Jake with the cooking.
She apologized to him for taking his gun like that and she explained why she did.
He ruffled her hair and said it was fine and her reason was understandable.
He also asked her why she took a Desert Eagle and not a Glock 22.
She explained out of all the handguns, she found the Desert Eagle the most beautiful although it was on the heavier side at that moment.
'If I wasn't crippled like that, I could have handled the gun much easier.'
"Hmm…how so?"