Born To Kill Bonus Chapter

For those of my fans who wanted to see the CinnaxNazir I wasn't able to fit into the actually story like I wanted to. Here's a story that takes place after the end of the storyline in game, but somewhat of a continuation to the ending.

!Bonus Chapter: Prison Confessions!

With Xahley handling the under construction Sanctuary along with Cicero and Babette, Cinna decided to get back to carrying out contracts and, instead of approaching the Night Mother as was per her habit, she instead approaches Nazir, requesting a contract from the Redguard she had grown so fond of in the past few weeks.

"Um, are you sure you wish to go out on a contract now?" Nazir inquires. "I mean, the Sanctuary is still under repairs, and-"

"Xahley is doing just fine looking over everything." Cinna states. "And with Babette and Cicero offering their help, I'm sure everything will be fine. I don't feel I need to stick around, and I need to start earning that coin I spent on these repairs, which I can't do just sitting around here. I need to get some contract done and start building up our treasury again."

"Well, alright." Nazir sighs in defeat, muddling through his contracts to pick one out for Cinna.

I know how eager she is to get started again, I understand completely. Nazir states in his thoughts, glancing up at the once injured shoulder of the Imperial standing beside him. But after what happened a few weeks ago and how long it took her to recover, I just don't feel right sending her out without Cicero or somebody to watch her back. But what else can I do?

He pulls out one contract, recognizing the location on it, then suddenly having an idea as he turns to the Imperial. "I think this one might interest you." He hands over the contract as he explains. "Someone wants this Dunmer mage dead, and he's hiding out in a Dwarven ruin nearby." He saw the Imperial's eyes light up at the mention of Dwarven ruin, knowing she simply couldn't turn down the contract now. "But after your close brush with death a few weeks back, I can't simply let you go alone."

"Really?" Cinna whines. "Nazir, I'm grown woman, I can take care of myself."

"A grown woman you maybe, but after what happened before, I can't trust you going into a Dwarven ruin by yourself." Nazir states, noticing the Imperial's physical displeasure. "So I'll be joining you on this contract."

"What?" Cinna gasps. "Nazir, you don't have to do that."

"Well, we both need to be out of the Sanctuary for a while." Nazir explains, looking around the currently disastrous main room. "So I'll join you this time and say I'm watching your back, this way we both get out and I don't have to hear Cicero scolding me about sending his 'dear little sister in harm's embrace'. Agreed?"

"Alright." Cinna chuckles. "Just make sure you can keep up with me."

The two make their way outside to their waiting rides, mounting the two dark horses before taking off out of Dawnstar and towards their destination: Mzinchaleft. As the two slink towards the ruin, Cinna snipes several bandits guarding the entrance, which surprisingly impresses Nazir to no ends. He never knew Cinna to be such a skilled archer given she always bragged about her knife skills while she was at the Sanctuary, but he would have never guessed her to be an archer. He was further impressed once every guard was taken out and Cinna proceeded to reclaim her arrows and reap the bodies of their valuables, noting how each shot had either landed in the neck, chest, or head, killing each instantly. Cinna was known for her quick kills, and it surely was reflected in her distant kills as well, but to do such with any bow takes a lot of time and practice, so clearly Cinna was no beginner. After looting all the bodies of any goods and any alcohol in the nearby vicinity, the two proceed into the decrepit ruins to continue searching for their target.

As they approach an area guarded by two bandits, Cinna goes for the patrolling guards and easily slits his throat while Nazir quickly killed the one still seated. They proceed down a hallway, where Cinna demonstrates her skill in sneak as she quickly ad quietly creeps up behind a bandit guarding a long corridor as she walks away and quickly grabs her, stabbing her in the chest before she could make a sound. The two continue to another chamber, with two people in the room, Cinna quietly orders Nazir to slip into the room and hide in the shadows. He hesitantly follows the orders, watching from the shadows within the room as Cinna snipes the bandit on the far side of the room, his body slumping as the other bandit rises from his seat, an arrow whizzing past his head from a missed shot. Worried he might spot Cinna, he quietly rolls behind him and stabs him in the back, letting him drop as Cinna approached, her signature I-knew-it smirk plastered on pale pink lips. She proceeds to clean the two dead bandits and their chamber of any valuables before continuing on.

Nazir never thought Cinna to be a treasure hunter either, but the way she plucked gems and gold and other valuable possessions from the bodies and rooms, certainly showed that she and her Khajiit friend had worked together at one point or another. The two soon find the room containing their target, only guarded by one bandit. Cinna easily snipes her from a distance before plucking the door key from the body.

"My, this seems almost too easy." Cinna quietly comments, looking around before quietly unlocking the door. "Usually I'd run into a trap of two by now, but this has bee my easiest time in a ruin yet."

"Don't jinx us quite yet, Cinna." Nazir warns jokingly. "You never know what that mage has prepared on the other side of this door."

"He hardly know we were coming." Cinna explains. "How could he setup anything?"

Cinna carefully opens the door, and both notice the Dunmer was not in the room, and carefully proceed inside to search for him. Both are unaware as the doors close behind them, the Dunmer mage emerging from the shadows behind the door and launching two lightning bolt spells at the two. Caught off guard, the two are susceptible to the attacks and crumble as they lose consciousness from the sheer power of the attack. The two later find themselves waking in a strangely dark yet familiar cage, realizing it was one of the lockable rooms they had passed on the way in. As they recollect themselves from the vicious attack on them, their approached by Maluril.

"You two really thought you could sneak in here without letting one of my own know of your presence?" Maluri chuckles as he looks in through the bars at the two. "For assassins, you certainly aren't aware of your surroundings, especially a small bandit scampering away to inform me of your approach. You really do need to improve on that aspect of your jobs, then maybe you wouldn't have been captured so easily."

"Well, I can certainly see why someone would want your sorry ass dead." Cinna grumbles. "And hear I thought some Dunmer were actually good. I'm sadly mistaken."

"Indeed you are." Maluri states, turning and walking away back to his room. "Enjoy you stay for the time you have. I'll be back to take care of you two in the morning."

Cinna heavily sighs as she sits against the stone wall, glancing over at Nazir as he soon joined her side. "Maybe I should've kept my mouth shut after all."

"It's not your fault, Cinna." Nazir states. "I was joking about the jinx stuff earlier."

"Not that." Cinna sadly sighs. "I shouldn't have asked for a contract so soon, I should've waited for the Sanctuary to be finished before charging back into contracts."

"No, you had the right idea earlier. Like you said, we need to start building up the gold for the Brotherhood again, and we can only do that with contracts." Nazir explains. "I was suppose to keep an eye out from anything strange, I didn't do my job right, so here we sit. So technically it's my fault we got caught."

"Don't blame yourself, it's not your fault that you had to come along." Cinna states. "You only came along with good intentions, but I put us both in danger."

"You never had us in any danger, Cinna. You don't realize just how talented of an assassin you are, despite what the elf said." Nazir explains.

"Oh really." Cinna sadly sighs, staring at her feet like a child being scolded for being caught stealing some produce from a farm.

"More than you think." Nazir continues. "Watching you as we made our way inside, I can say you surprised me quite a few times on this one contract."

"Like how?"

"Well, for starters, I never saw you as an archer." Nazir states. "You always talked about using you dagger, so I thought you'd struggle getting past the guards. But seeing you take out all those bandits outside, all within a single shot, certainly showed how wrong I was about you. And seeing you pluck valuables from bodies and rooms with such ease, not even questioning the worth of the objects you pick up, shows that you and Xahley have certainly spent some time together between Helgen and Whiterun."

Cinna softly chuckles, brushing back a stray red hair as she spoke. "I learned a while back that it takes more than a mace to get through a bandit camp. I plucked a bow from a bandit I killed in one of the tougher camps I found and started learning. By that time I came to the Brotherhood, I knew how to kill most people with a single arrow, no poisons required either when you train enough on moving targets."

"Then what was that poison you had Babette make for your contracts before?" Nazir asks. "If you don't use poison, what was that concoction you had her concentrate?"

"It's a numbing agent." Cinna explains. "When highly concentrated, the essence of death bell can make for a potent numbing agent. Helps decrease the pain of an arrow being driven into your skull from such a distance, even more when it hits anywhere else."

"I see."

"And Xahley and I did work together a bit on the way to Whiterun, even while we were there." Cinna continues. "We both had a bit of a competition for the house in Whiterun. All together, Breezehome was about seven thousand gold to buy and decorate, so we made it a competition that the first one to earn that amount would buy Breezehome and give half of what remained to the other to set up home elsewhere. I learned all about observing value from her, but she obviously had the upper hand of prior knowledge."

"How much did you both have by the end of it?"

"I had a meager three thousand by the end of it."

"And Xahley?"

Cinna chuckles, pulling down her hood before she spoke. "She had twelve thousand gold to her name by the end of it. She gave me what remained, and then some, and wished me luck. I left for Windhelm the next day, and then all this was set into motion. You know the story, I told you and Xahley on our trip back from Riften."

"Yes, I recall." Nazir sighs. "Never thought you to be a warrior type, though you certainly have the brutal nature of one by what I've seen so far."

"Yeah, kinda funny how I go from a rough and tough warrior to the most cunning and stealthy of killers." Cinna chuckles. "But that's just how fate works really."

"I suppose so."

The two sat in silence for the longest time at that point, each retreating to their own personal thoughts for a handful of minutes, pondering over the last few months of their lives, essentially coming to the same conclusion.

"Listen, I-" The two stop, each one fluster from the united statement.

"Um, sorry. Ladies first." Nazir nervously insists.

"No, I've done enough talking for a while." Cinna uneasily chuckles. "You take this one."

"Alright." Nazir sighs heavily before continuing. "Cinna...I've been pondering this for the longest time, our interactions since you joined the Brotherhood, everything we both have been through in life, even the fact that over all the other members you could've grown close to, Cicero aside, you stuck with me and trusted me with almost everything you ever knew, thought, or did. That kind of trust is unusual among assassins, even a family of them, but in the end, it made you all the more interesting. And ever since you saved me while the Sanctuary was under attack in Falkreath, I haven't been able to really get you off my mind. I'm not sure why, but you have." Cinna sighs in relief. "But, what were you going to say? If you don't mind me asking."

"Well." Cinna chuckles. "It was right along the lines of what you just said." Nazir was surprised, even more intrigued as Cinna continued. "When I joined the Brotherhood, I didn't really think I would fit in, or really find anyone to connect to, but when I literally ran into you, I felt that there was a reasoning behind it. And the longer I stayed, the closer we seemed to slowly get, to the point where we could make jokes that no one else could understand. It was kinda funny, since I thought you be becoming more of a brother to me, considering I didn't know Cicero was so close at the time. What really changed it all was when we both found out about Cicero. Anyone else in the Brotherhood may have looked at me like I was crazy as well...but you didn't, because you knew me well enough. You even expected to come here and find Cicero alive. And despite the fact that he can annoy you to many degrees, you endure him, not for the Brotherhood or the Night Mother...but for me." She scoots closer to Nazir, laying her head on his shoulder she she continues.

"And when I saved you during the attack, I knew then that you meant more to me than anything else, maybe even Cicero. You stayed by my side through everything, even when I was plotting to destroy Astrid from the ground up, you put your loyalty in me. I knew at that point, while we were almost choking in the smoke of the fires, that fate probably led me to the Brotherhood for more than one reason." Cinna nuzzles into Nazir as she continues. "I discovered my talent of killing, I discovered I was the Listener, I even found my long lost brother...but I never expected the Gods to lead me to the one thing I needed the most in my life, and even I didn't realize it at the time."

"And...what would that be?" Nazir nervously asks.

Cinna glances up at the Redguard from his shoulder, sitting up a bit so that her chin rested on his shoulder, bringing the two nose-to-nose with almost no space between their faces.

"A soul mate." Cinna whispers before quickly closing the space between the two.

Though surprised by the sudden sign of affection, Nazir slowly leans into the kiss, allowing Cinna to shift to his lap as they continued, slender arms wrapping around his neck as he locked his around the lean waist before him. The warmth in the kiss was comparable to no fire he had ever experienced, even the flames that licked at his skin as the Sanctuary burned to the ground around him a few weeks prior. Some of the deepest curiosities of the Redguard about the Imperial beauty before him were answered in a single moment: her pale lips being soft as a warm breeze brushing through the trees, tasting of sweet nectarine honey mixing with the slight bitter taste of ale and a hint of garlic mixed with snowberries. Not as he imagined it to be given their current situation, but better than he thought it would be. As the two slowly break the kiss, light green gazes into deep brown, smiles hugging the lips of both faces.

"Glad to see you agree." Cinna sighs, nuzzling into the Redguard's neck. "Now with that in the open, we might need to figure out how to handle that mage."

"I have an idea that you may find enjoyable." Nazir states.

Cinna raises her head, a mischievous gleam in her eyes. "I'm all ears."

-Two Hours Later-

"Alright, you two, time to take care of the trash." Maluri states as he approaches the enclosed area, surprised to find only Nazir sitting in the caged space. "What? Where'd the Imperial go?"

"How should I know?" Nazir huffs irritatingly. "I fall asleep for two minutes then I wake up and she's not here. Snuck out and locked the door on me to save her own hide."

"Well, too bad for you." Maluri scoffs, charging a fireball in one hand as he unlocks the door with the other. "Look like you'll have to die alone then. Pity."

As the doors swing open, Cinna swings down from the shadows of the ceiling, swinging the Blade of Woe with flawless motion as she flips down to her feet, smirking as the Dunmer crumples to the ground, blood spilling for the single clean slice to his throat. She smirks proudly as she sheathes the large dagger, humming pleasantly from the sudden embrace from behind.

"That was quite an enjoyable kill." Cinna comments, turning to the Redguard. "And certainly have a way of fooling even the most cunning elves."

"It's a talent." Nazir chuckles, pecking the Imperial on the forehead before the two make their way out of the ruins. "So, shall we head home now?"

"Actually." Cinna giggles, eagerly pulling Nazir along to their waiting horses. "I was thinking we could have a bit of a detour, since it will be a while until the renovations on the Sanctuary are finished."

"A detour? To where?" Nazir asks with a chuckle.

"I was thinking maybe Riften." Cinna suggests. "With a one day stay at Goldenglow Estate. Xahley has somehow come into ownership of it, and offered a room to me if I ever wished to use it for a 'special occasion'."

"Then let's not waste our time."

The two eagerly climb onto their horses and thunder of towards Riften, hoping the Temple of Mara would still be open to them when they arrived.