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Here are the next couple of paragraphs (and yeah its a novella lol)
Chapter 2:
Aaron and Stevens sat on the thread-bare arm-chairs opposite Burns, full of excitement, curiosity and thousands of other emotions – and questions.
Burns looked from agent to agent, not sure how to begin - it wasn’t an easy mission after all. He cleared his throat.
‘Fortify has recently received the news that Dr. Schroder, a close friend of the Presidents has recently been shot to death, along with his family.’ He looked at his agents, waiting for a reaction. There wasn’t one so he continued.
‘Now, Schroder wasn’t just a close friend of the presidents but he was also the number one nuclear scientist in the world, with thousands of formulas for weapons – along with their launch codes. ‘
‘You two have been chosen to find out who killed Schroder and make sure that his nuclear weapons and codes do not fall in the wrong hands. So, what do you say boys? Are you in?’
Aaron looked at Stevens who was wearing a cheeky grin, he knew what that meant.
‘Yes sir,’ Aaron replied, ‘We are in.’
‘Great! Well you, Aaron, will be going undercover as a high ranking Russian soldier –‘
‘Wait,’ Aaron interrupted, ‘You said Schroder was a German, why am I going in as a Russian?’
Burns smirked, obviously enjoying the suspense he had created,
‘We believe that the Russians killed Schroder for his nuclear formulas,’ Burns glanced at Aaron and Stevens, nearly jumping with excitement. ‘So, pack your bags and brush your hair! You’re going to Russia!’
Stevens glanced at Aaron, eyes wide with curiosity,
‘Shall we do it?’ he asked, ‘there sure is a hell of a lot of risk!’
‘Well we haven’t had a mission if ages,’ Aaron protested, before Stevens could reply, Aaron agreed and accepted the tickets, pushing Stevens out of the front door.
~Stevens scanned their passport pictures and began making more, thinking of names as he worked. Scamming was definitely his strong side. He finished and examined his work. He turned around on his swivel-chair and threw one of the finished passports at Aaron,
‘What’s this for?’ Aaron asked, reading the info in the passport.
‘You know,’ Stevens replied; ‘Just in case,’ he didn’t need to say anymore, both agents knew how missions could sometimes turn nasty. Aaron stood up and grabbed his Russian military outfit before heading for the bathroom. Before he could enter, Stevens was already at the door.
‘Sorry mate,’ he chuckled, ‘had a few too many tacos last night.’ Aaron rolled his eyes at his mate before slumping himself back on the bed. He decided to get dressed in the bedroom and took off his shirt. He pulled a face as he pulled the military shirt over his head, it stank like hell! He straightened it up and pulled on the trousers as well, before looking at himself in the mirror. He didn’t look that convincing so decided to do a little bit of tweaking. Aaron sat down on Stevens’ swivel-chair, taking a disguise kit out from one of the drawers. He rummaged through it and found what he needed – a pair of greying eyebrows. He carefully stuck them on and smiled at himself, he sure was the disguise expert! He then sat back on the bed, waiting for Stevens to come out of the bathroom.
After what seemed like hours, Stevens opened the door. Stevens was disguised as a young officer who was escorting the Russian general.
Without saying anything, the two men grabbed their passports, tickets and suitcases, before heading out the door to the airport.
~Stevens beamed up at the jet that Aaron had brought him to. He hadn’t talked all through the taxi ride, but now he seemed to be blabbing none stop!
‘What make is it?’ he asked Aaron
‘I dunno, Russian?’
‘What year was it made?’
‘Ask the pilot.’
‘Where is the pilot...?’
‘Bloody hell, Stevens, shut your trap!’ Aaron didn’t mean to snap at him but he sure was getting on his nerves. He looked behind him, hearing footsteps coming their way - he was confused when he saw a woman coming in their direction, hips gently swaying.
‘Hello lads, I’m Natalie but you can call me Nat,’ she smiled, as she pulled her cap off, letting her blonde hair fall naturally to one side.
‘Do you know where the pilot is?’ Stevens asked, eyeing her suspiciously.
‘I’m the pilot!’ she chuckled as she walked past them and climbed up the stairs. She stopped halfway,
‘So you coming or d’you want to walk to Russia?’ she raised her eyebrows, waiting for them to follow her. Aaron and Stevens glanced at each other before jogging after her.
As soon as Natalie was in the cock-pit she started the plane, shouting over her shoulder for the boys to put their belts on. After only ten minutes, they were in the air and heading for Russia.
It's missing the air of professionalism that is most probably associated it with such missions. Their dialogue seem to be as if they are being offered an everyday job, rather than a spying mission. There is no air of professionalism in them. Burns seems to be their friend instead of a supervisor. I think you should have changed the tone of it all, now that the story was moving on to a more serious part.
The characters seem to have turned kinda stony. I mean i am not reading much about what the narrator is even feeling like, its turning more into a story told from over the head than from the point of view of a character.
I'd be honest and say that the first part was much better than this one