“Actually, Miu is a decent name for that. Just have to make it work for you. I mean, if w—”
“Throw me the phone. I’ll talk to her,” came the voice from outside.
“Turn our powers back on first and I’ll get the phone over. Otherwise it’ll take a while to be able to get the phone out,” Felix called in response.
A second later and Miu shivered from head to toe. Her eyes glazed over and her hands trembled.
“Miu, I need you to get in control. Now. For me,” Felix said, imploring her.
Ordering her.
If I have a crazy person in my employ, maybe I can use that crazy as a control rod?
The trembling, shivering, broken Miu froze, and then became much more like her former self.
“Yes. For you, by your command,” Miu said, her body becoming loose and fluid again.
“Punch a hole in that wall, Miu, so I can shove this thing out to them. You there, Andrea?” Felix asked into the phone.
“It’s Myriad,” said Myriad.
“No, it’s Andrea. Who is also Myriad. We’ve talked about this before. Knock it off,” Felix said.
“I… yes, dear. It’s… it’s Andrea… who is Myriad… Myriad and Andrea who love you,” said an unsure Andrea with Myriad’s voice.
“Good. Love you, too,” Felix said.
Miu promptly punched a hole in the wall with far too much force and held out her hand to Felix. Her face was hard, stony even.
Gotta remember to play down the other women in front of her crazy ass.
“See you later. Giving you to Neutralizer,” Felix said, then promptly gave the phone to Miu.
Miu shoved her hand back through the hole with the phone held out. She stared at the wall impassively.
“So… since we’re way past the point of no return. Any chance I could talk you into training me in hand to hand combat? I get the impression you’re far more lethal then you’ve ever let on.” Felix asked.
Miu’s eyes went wide and she turned her face to him. Her cheeks flushed a deep, dark crimson. Then she licked her lips, her eyes dilating slowly.
“Yes. So long as I don’t have to be in control,” she said finally.
“Alright… I can agree to that, but maybe we should talk about what that control means,” Felix said.
I wonder just how insane she’ll get at that point.
“And privately,” she amended.
“Alright, and privately.”
“I’ll be sure to wear yoga pants and a sports bra,” she said with a strange edge to her voice.
…Shit… don’t tease the crazy person.
Chapter 6 - Catching Up -
“Hello?” asked a muffled voice on the other side of the wall.
Miu retracted her hand from the hole, and took a few steps away.
“I… yeah. Neutralizer, yeah. Yeah. Wait, no. I didn’t—no, of course not. But I—you what?!” asked the man in a strangled voice.
“No, no, no, no. Not a thing. I swear. Yes! What? A frying pan…? I get it. I get it. Yes! I get it! Wait, who? Mab?” asked the voice.
“Uh, hello? Yeah. No, I already—” The man stopped talking. “I promise. I swear. Yes. I understand. I’ll make sure it happens. Yes. Tomorrow? O-ok. Yes. Goodbye.”
The silence after that strained one-way conversation was odd for Felix. He could only imagine how both Andrea and Lily had torn into the man. Felix felt a certain sick sense of pride. He wasn’t responsible for it, but he did take a certain glee in it.
“Mr—Mr. Campbell, I go by the name Neutralizer. I’m so sorry for this misunderstanding. I do hope you can forgive me for it,” said a voice from directly outside the door.
“Not a problem. I assume my people have arranged an exit strategy for me?” Felix called out.
“Yes. Yes they have. I’m going to escort you personally back to your Headquarters. Mab—ah, Mab told me to come back tomorrow when she arrives. She’d like to discuss my current… current job status with her,” said Neutralizer.
“Oh? She doesn’t take recruitment lightly. She must know something about you that she’s willing to take a chance on,” Felix said. “Alright then. Well, time to go I suppose.”
Felix didn’t like trusting this man, but the alternative really wasn’t much better.
So… trust it is.
A heavy and sudden weight crashed down on Felix’s chest.
“Felix!” shouted that weight.
Staring wide eyed and half asleep at Andrea as she nuzzled his chest, Felix tried to catch up mentally.
It was the day after their return, the previous evening being spent mostly trying to figure out what exactly happened.
Dimitry had been calling Legion HQ non-stop trying to get a hold of anyone.
Apparently his contacts had been run down in the end, the money taken, and their lives ended.
Dimitry swore up and down he had no idea what was going to happen.
For Felix’s part, he believed that. Because Dimitry had to know Kit was going to send someone over from HR to sweep his mind at some point. And there’d be no hiding the truth from them.
“H-hey Andrea. When did you get in?” Felix asked, wrapping his arms around Andrea’s shoulders.
“Two minutes ago,” she said into his shoulder. “It’s about six am. Lily wanted to leave early. I didn’t get to make pancakes.”
“Lily did?” Felix asked.
“Yes. I did,” said a voice from beside his bed.
Looking up, he saw the pale beauty staring down at him with a small smile.
“I… missed you. And I didn’t like being away from everyone. I mean, really, the only two you left behind with us were Ioana and Felicia. They’re so into each other right now, it was like they were on a different planet,” Lily explained. “Better to leave them there by themselves.”
Andrea’s face was smashed into his chest, and she was taking deep huffing breaths.
“I couldn’t smell you. Your clothes lost their scent,” she said between massive gasping inhales.
“Andrea, you’re going to faint,” Felix said, pressing at her shoulder.
With a final deep breath, Andrea nodded her head. Then she started rubbing her face back and forth on his chest.
Then several Others popped out of Andrea. Three of them immediately leapt onto Felix, while another two set off for the door that led out of his room.
“Pancakes!” the ones that were leaving shouted
“Pancakes!” replied the ones that were clinging to Felix.
Lily laughed and shook her head.
“I’m going to unpack. While Andrea unloads all that pent up Wolf Tribe stuff on you. We should talk a bit after this. Make sure everyone is on the same page,” Lily said, waving her hand at him as she left.
Great.
Felix wasn’t sure being left alone with several Andreas was a good thing right now.
Then he realized that it could be a good thing.
If he wanted it to be.
Felix sat down in the middle of the large conference table. Tapping at the display in front of him, he pressed his thumb into the scanner. Two seconds later his desktop popped to life from his office. Before he could even settle in and do some busy work, everyone began filing in.
Andrea, Lily, Kit, Miu, and Victoria all took seats around him.
Glancing at the clock, he saw it was 8:59 am.
Dismissing the desktop with a finger motion he folded his hands into one another.
“I’m sure you’ve all read the report Miu and I made after we got back. I’d like to start with questions on that. Does anyone have any?” Felix asked, looking around from person to person.
“Do you think it was targeted?” Kit asked.
“The initial attack, no. Nor was Neutralizer,” Felix said.
“And the cell signal?” Kit asked, redirecting him.