Author's Notes:
Double update today. Hope you guys will like it.

Chapter 5

Their father was a very influential man in the country and on the front, he was one of the top entrepreneurs dabbling in many areas that ranged from supermarkets found in many neighbourhoods to luxuries hotels that has branches all around the world. The truth was, their father was connected to many underworld figures ranging from the Italian mafia to the Chinese triads. He did many dirty deeds beneath that clean business of his and has more than half of the local town police on his payroll. He always made sure nothing could be pinpointed to him and all his tracks were covered or forcibly cleared off the surface of earth.

He had high demands in his children. Having no sons, he placed all his hopes on the 2 daughters of his and hope they could take over his business one day, taking it to new horizons. Because of this, he made his children undergo stringent exercises and the most strenuous trainings he had planned for them even before they were born. His eldest daugther Sooyoung was his pride and joy as she had excelled in all the trainings he threw at them. At the age of 7, she could speak 8 different languages, hack into the most secured websites ever created and to top it all, the trainers he has hired all spoke well of her combat abilities be it with or without weapons. On the other hand, his younger daughter was less commendable in her skills. Although she was still above average, she didn't like training and would rather spend her free time playing video games or singing.

Luckily for the them, they had a mom who truly cares for them a lot. It always breaks her heart to see them coming back from the trainings covered in bruises and scraps. She would always make them go take a shower before sitting them down on her bed and tend to their wounds no matter how small it was. Then she would take them into her arms and told them over and over again how much she loved them.

 Their mom suffered terribly under the iron rule of her husband as he thinks she disgraces him with her plain looks and drab clothings. He would bring different girls home each day and humiliate her in front of them. She suffered silently each time, crying herself to sleep at night while hearing the scraps of disturbing noises that drifted out from the master bedroom.

One day Sooyoung and Sunny returned home after training only to see their mom standing by the ledge of the window. Their dad had his arms around another beautiful girl he picked up from one of his many clubs and he waved a gun in the air screaming profanities in the direction of their mom. Looking down, she saw her kids below and smiled before taking the leap down and landing headfirst on the cold hard cement that was paved beside the new swimming pool that their dad had installed recently. Pulling Sunny into a hug, Sooyoung blocked her eyes from that tragedy and took the full impact of the trauma herself. After witnessing that incident, something had snapped inside Sooyoung as she turned her back from the place they call home and left with Sunny with just the clothes they had on their back.

For days they roamed the streets, eating leftovers found from dustbins in the back alley and sleeping in makeshift beds constructed from cardboards, pieces of wood and metal they found lying around. Throughout these days, Sooyoung never spoke a word nor was there any expression on her face. Her eyes were blank and empty, void of the sparkles and shine that they usually contain. She refused to eat or drink throughout the days and grew thinner and thinner as the days go by. No matter how much Sunny had beg or pleaded, she could not garner even the tiniest response from her. It wasn't until the 3rd day when they were found outside the backdoor of an elderly couple, sheltering themselves from the cold night air. The kind hearted couple took them right in and as they had no children of their own, they treated and cared for them like their own kids. They brought Sooyoung to a psychiatrist who diagnose her with an extremely severe post traumatic stress disorder. Under the care of the elderly couple, they nursed both of them back to health but Sooyoung was never the same again.

It took them 3 full years before Sooyoung uttered her first sentence and even though she eventually returned back to her bubbly and cheerful self, it was very different from what she previously was. Even the psychiatrist was unable to come up with a proper explanation for it. According to him, she remembers all the skills she developed from their trainings but she simply refused to grow up. She has built a wall around herself that was impregnable. The psychiatrist mentioned that the only way for her return back to her normal state would be if she was put through another trauma of a similar magnitude.

They grew up under the care of the elderly couple and when they passed away, Social workers brought them to the girls home and there was where they stayed until Ralph picked them out to join department X.