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Chapter 58: Full Squad
Blythe rubbed his temples. The last thing his mind wanted to deal with was more complications, even if said complications were finally starting to be on the promising side. Blythe had gathered as many of the ‘irregulars’ as he could along with some representative officers of the regular cops/feds/military for a debrief. Sam and Mary had finished telling their story, how the ‘angel’ saved Mary before succumbing and Mary managed to drag her from the apartment and Sam had helped them both escape and a whole lot of stuff about ‘holy acolytes’ and messenger from heaven and blah blah blah.
“Ok” he said at last, raising a hand to silence Mary’s pontificating, “All the heaven. God crap aside.”
“Its not Crap! Its…”
“ASIDE!” He gave her a look, “We now have a new tactical piece, and HOPEFULLY, new strategic information. Nyx, you gotten a chance to talk to the ‘angel’ yet?”
“Uh. Well, no” Nyx admitted, “I... well there is the minor matter of”
“If this is the same one that you mugged?”
Nyx nodded, “I… uh… it could lead to interpersonal… issues” Nyx glanced over at Mary who had flashed from disbelief to staring daggers at the FBI woman.
“There’s essentially no chance of you two NOT working together so you and she will just have to hash it out.” Blythe said matter-of-factly, “If she wants to kick your ass, then just get yourself a soft chair for the aftermath.”
Nyx grimaced and tried to ignore the subtle chuckles from some of the other officers in the room, “Yes sir”
“The other point of interested is Mary here?” He said turning back to her.
“Me?” The otter said suddenly nervous again.
“Yes. Apparently, you can see the ‘angel’ and possibly the true ‘spirit’ form of the demons too from what I gather?”
“Uh well… I can see the holy form of the angel yes. The demons have bodies though, right?”
Nyx chimed in, “When you arrived at the city you came through one of the infested districts. Several of the possessed were killed on your way in. Did you see anything start to come out of them? A distorted aura? Like a ghost?”
Mary tried to think back. At the time she was mostly focusing on trying to not be dead in the next minute or two, or worse, recaptured. She felt Sam’s hand on her shoulder as she started to shake remembering her time as a captive. She managed to remain calm by focusing on the warmth, and she tried to recall the greeting they had had upon arriving at the city. The twisted monstrosities chasing them. She could practically feel their hands on her skin again, yanking at her fur and at her clothes. Her rational mind could only focus on running, but she did look over at the watcher from time to time as Kate downed their pursuers with her sword.
“There was…” Mary tried to focus, “Some sort of… Glow? Its… I didn’t get a good look”
“Well, if you CAN see then, having someone other than Nyx who can, would be a boon” Blythe said, “We’ll have someone give you some weapons training, and have the research team have a look at you”
“W-weapons?” Mary asked.
Blythe went on talking not hearing or not bothering to give her concerns time, “Now that that is sorted, on to the next business. I understand that this angel is a previous acquaintance of our research lead.”
He got some affirming nods.
“Be that as it may though, we can’t very well have the two of them locked up in her room all day.” He nodded at his de facto secretary, Alethea, “Would you mind retrieving your sister and her ‘friend’ its non-optional that we have a chat with the ‘angel’ too.”
Before she could scoot off her computer chimed in an alert. Alethea glanced at it and reported, “Atasi’s phone is getting a call”
Given her status as a potential target, her phone, along with any other phone number they were aware of the enemy using, had been cloned and loaded onto the law enforcement computers. Any call in or out of it would be recorded and traced as quickly as possible.
“Of all the timing.” Blythe started, “Fine answer it and stall, Nyx drag the nerd out here now!”
Alethea the answer button while Nyx scooted, “Hello, Atasi’s phone. This is her sister, but she’ll be here soon.” She said with a cheerful tone, before the voice on the other end made her blood freeze and heart accelerate
“Hello, Alethea” The voice said. It was synthetic sounding, like an automated answering service, but the exact tone and nature was still recognizable.
Meanwhile Nyx had gotten to Atasi’s room, tossed open the unlocked door and started barking orders, “Atasi we were all called to an important meeting, and we need you... OHH my!” Nyx found herself flushing at what she had just walked in on. Specifically, Atasi and Kate cuddled up tight on the bed, apparently barely awake, and totally nude. It wouldn’t have been such a bad thing to barge in on save the pair’s collective nudity, only partially concealed from her view by the large pair of wings wrapped around and serving as a blanket for the pair. Nyx couldn’t be sure exactly what she had just walked in on, but she knew it was going to bite her momentarily.
‘I guess that means you CAN see the angel’ a part of Nyx’s detective mind noted, while she about faced as fast as she could, and tried to stamp the sudden flushing off her face and ears before it became noticeable.
“NYX WHAT THE FUCK!” Atasi wrapped her arms around her chest and her tail around her waist, “Do you not KNOCK”
“S-sorry” Nyx said trying to regain composure. Her mind though was swimming, and not just with the normal reactions one would expect from accidentally walking in on one’s coworker in a state of undress. She had gotten a pretty good look at the angel. Tall, sturdy frame, curvy body and large pure white wings. Nyx had avoided seeing, or being seen by, this creature when she heard it had arrived. The intention was to avoid having to discuss Nyx’s previous treatment of the creature the last time she had met it, er her.
That was very clearly not an option anymore, the angel hadn’t reacted angrily like Atasi but avoiding her wouldn’t be possible anymore. Also, Nyx would have to let go of the vain hope that this angel was somehow a different one than the one she had assaulted all those weeks ago. Even though she couldn’t see the angel when she had tackled her and lifted a handful of feathers, the being she had just walked in on mid snuggle visually matched what she remembered grabbing closely enough that it was definitely the same woman.
“Sorry. But it is urgent. You need to get up, now, Atasi!” Nyx managed to say with a, mostly, professional tone.
Atasi growled and staggered up, “Fine, just let me get dressed”
“Toss on a robe” Nyx said to the dark corner of the room she was staring at.
“Seriously? No time to bloody dress!” Atasi shouted.
“Someone’s on the phone, your phone, literally right now.” Nyx explained, suppressing a squeak as the angel slowly walked around to Nyx’s front to have a closer look at her. Nyx angled her head farther up and willed her eyes not to glance down… too many times.
“Fuck, damn, ok” Atasi grabbed the damp robe from her earlier shower and tossed it back on.
Meanwhile the angel was studying Nyx closely, standing right up inches from her and looking her over like she was a bug under a microscope. The scrutiny would have normally annoyed Nyx, though the angel’s apparent total disinterest in covering herself while she stood mere inches away only made the close exam fluster Nyx more.
“What are you?”
Nyx wasn’t totally sure she had heard the words. She was more focused on NOT focusing on things that focusing on what was going on. She was about to ask for clarification when Atasi announced she was decent, and the trio left for the conference room.
Back in the conference room, Alethea was shaking and having a hard time remembering how to talk. Eventually she managed, “L-Lazarus?”
“Ah you do remember.” The voice said with faux cheerfulness, “Your boyfriend ran me over If I recall.”
“W-why are you calling me.. er.. my sister… We don’t.” Alethea took a breath, “We don’t’ have anything to say to you.”
“Well, I have some things to say to you, or more specifically, WE do”
“We?”
Atasi half stumbled into the room, clearly groggy and wearing a bathrobe and followed by a flustered looking Nyx who seemed to be making a point to look away from the person she was following. Alethea might have made a snide comment about that in a normal situation if it was a normal situation.
“Yes, we. This may be hard to believe but its not just Laz anymore, and we… Might actually be able to help.”
Atasi skidded to a stop staring slack jawed at the phone. The voice had changed it wasn’t the normal calm synthetic tone with just the slightest hint of malice that it normally had. It had become suddenly much more feminine. The tone was slightly nervous, and almost pleading with them to believe her. The switch caused more than a few eyebrow raises, followed by a chorus of swivel heads turning in Atasi’s direction when she responded to it.
“Victoria?”