Eighteen years ago, Apartment in Capital City, Country Y

Robert, having spent the last two days carefully looking through the apartment had found a number of surveillance devices hidden throughout. The government did not trust them, and now that they were not children were looking for a reason to finish them off, so no one could call them to account for their actions towards their family.

Robert said "David, I have arranged for us to have a lunch for our birthday's at a nearby restaurant. Let us head out from here."

David looked at Robert strangely, but realised by the look on his cousin's face that he knew something that he did not know. Robert picked up a backpack, handing David another which he realised was heavy but which he did not open, before heading out of the apartment to walk towards the nearby restaurant.

Once they were walking through a nearby part Robert said "The government have wired the apartment. I figured removing anything would let them know we knew that they had us under surveillance, and the last thing either of us need."

"Damn, it has been ten years since they murdered our family, now they want to get at us. They need to damn well pay for what they did."

"You are right, but the question is how do we make that happen?"

"Strike back at them in a way it hurts."

"David, we need to think, as great-grandfather always said you will fail with everything if you fail to plan to achieve your goal."

"True, but the question is how to make that happen?"

"I have thought long and hard over the last two days. We need to tackle this from both sides, from within and from outside. We must however be realistic that it will take years for us to get to a position to do anything, and then years to achieve our goal. But once we start, we will have to limit communications to protect ourselves and our plan."

"What do you have in mind?"

Robert paused and turned to David before saying "Both of us have scholarsh.i.p.s to university, so we need to use those to get skills we need, and then we can start to set ourselves up to get to where we want to be, then take down the government entities that ruined our lives."

"What do you have in mind?"

Seeing a bench that would be hard for anyone to eavesdrop on their conversation, Robert sat down and David followed him. "You are the one who has better managed all the money we have kept from the allowance that their paid us from our account. You need to focus on business to generate money to help in the takedown. But that would only be part of what you must do. The other part, will be to use the contacts we still have from great-grandfather's little black book to also carefully move into the criminal sphere, gaining a reputation that will be able to be exploited."

"My forte has always been in gathering information and its analysis. That is better suited to moving into government intelligence. The Police would be useless, as they only focus on crime prevention. The government civilian intelligence agencies focus is just on terrorism and serious criminal activity domestically and protecting the nation's interest internationally. I need to get into military intelligence, where all of those things tend to come together. I can use a position there to pass information to assist you on, and minimise the risks you face, while getting to the position that we can finally strike and bring down the government and have our revenge."

"F*ck Robert, you have thought about this. Do you realise what it will mean?"

"I am not stupid. We have said since our family was murdered that they needed to pay, and this is the best way that we can achieve it."

David paused, and said "I need to think about it. You know if we do this we will have to separate and follow the paths we have chosen."

"True, but .."

"The outcome is what will be important. Now tell me what is in the bags?"

"The jewellery and other valuables we rescued. The restaurant owner is someone great-grandfather knew when he was younger. Apparently, great-grandfather helped him establish his legitimate business so he could marry the love of his life and get out from the underworld. Over the years, the underworld members have respected the fact that he has created a neutral zone for all of them. He said he would help us with a part-time job until we start university in a few weeks but help us dispose of the items getting the best possible price we can."

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