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The man listened through his headphones as the young woman made dinner reservations, he recorded the time and listened in as she took a shower, dried her hair and got dressed. He had been following her for three days and the routine had been the same. She would lay out on the beach in the sun all afternoon and then return to the room and choose a restaurant from a list that the concierge had supplied that had live music or a show. Then she would go out and eat her dinner and watch the show, chatting with friends back home on her tablet during the dead times. She had flown to the Islands alone, she needed an escape from the pressure and decision making that she had inherited when her father died and left her controlling interest in a new nanobot tech company.
When she left the room he flowed her keeping his distance, after she was safely in a cab and on her way he waited an additional ten minutes in the lobby just in case she had forgotten something and returned. Back upstairs he used a master key to activate the electronic lock to her room, inside he stepped over and opened the door to a small closet. The beach bag was on the floor in the closet, he took out the expensive lotion that she had been using. He removed the cap and taking a loaded syringe out of his jacket pocket and removing the safety cap, he inserted the needle down into the thick cream and began slowing injecting the opaque liquid while moving the needle up and down, back and forth. Once the job was complete he returned the safety cap over the needle, and then screwed the cap back on the lotion. He squeezed the tube back and forth several times to mix the new ingredients as much as possible. Then he returned the tube to the bag and the bag back to the closet closing the door. He then carefully surveyed the room to make sure that he had not overlooked anything, then checking the hall to ensure that it was clear, he returned to his own room.
The next morning he listened as she ordered up a continental breakfast with juice. She listened to some news and got a weather report, then chatted for a while on her tablet before changing and heading for the beach. It was another bright sunny day, not a cloud in the sky, perfect he thought with a slight smile. This would be a nice payday, he would not have to take another job for months. When she left her room he stepped out on his balcony with his binoculars and waited for her to appear below. She was a creature of habit, which made his job much easier. She spread her towel out in almost the exact same spot as she had in the previous days, and just as before she took out the lotion and covered all of the bare skin on her body, even her face and around her eyes. He started a countdown on his watch, it would take about thirty minutes of sunlight to fully activate the chemical, but she would not actually feel anything for a couple of hours. The diagnosis at the hospital would read extremely severe sunburn over 90% of her body, cause of death sun poisoning. It would just be another story of a tourist who fell asleep out in the direct midday sun with no protection. She likely had sun sensitive skin they would surmise.
After forty-five minutes he went back to her room and removed the bug and checked for any other traces of his presence. Then he walked downstairs to the patio overlooking the beach and took a seat under an umbrella. He saw that she had turned over, after about an hour she turned over again. Her skin from the first side was already getting irritated, he could visually see the change in color. After five minutes she stood up screaming and ran down to the water. But the water only increased her discomfort and now her screams grew louder and more panicked, drawing the attention of other beachgoers. He casually walked down to her bag and retrieved the lotion and kept walking down the beach away from the crowd that was now gathering around the screaming women. Those screams indicated a job well done and he was very pleased with how easy it all had been. He would be sticking around just long enough to find out for sure that she was reported dead, then he would leave by chartered boat to another island and fly out of there being careful of his backtrail. Occasionally an employer decided to try and tie up loose ends, but if the money didn't show up in his account, or if he was being followed, then he would have to do a little free work for himself.
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**Disclaimer: I often use the freewrite prompt to tell a story instead of doing a pure freewrite, so they sometimes take longer than 5 minutes and usually have some editing. But I try to do my story straight through at one sitting without any unnecessary breaks.
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**Disclaimer: I often use the freewrite prompt to tell a story instead of doing a pure freewrite, so they sometimes take longer than 5 minutes and usually have some editing. But I try to do my story straight through at one sitting without any unnecessary breaks.
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Prompt: sunburn
Set your timer for 5 minutes.
Start writing
Use the hashtag #freewrite
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