The Contract?
Dresden, Bob, and Karen Murphy, and archive all belong Jim butcher. All other characters belong to me especially the half-breed. Enjoy the story.
The dream had come again, waking up in a start his throat clutched gasping for breath and wishing for a drink. He could feel the beast slumbering in his chest, stirring straining to be released yet again. The pass of the awakenings have been picking up. He had tried just about everybody in the real world he would give one last chance before the end and his eventual rebirth. With desperation, he got up and stumbled to the bathroom. Leaning over the sink he coughed and hacked the chunk up, and watch as it dissolved another hole in to the sink. Looking around the hotel room he cussed, not an air freshener in sight. I guess the housekeepers will have something else to complain about, as the air filled with the faint sent of brimstone. A quick cold shower later, he felt that he could go out in public with out his cloths busting in to flames. A glance at the clock brought another curse from the mans lips "crap, just a few more minutes and he will be here." One final check in the mirror showed that scales had not touched the face yet, "looks like its a few more days off, thank goodness." Going from the bathroom to the duffel bag on the dresser, he quickly dressed in a fairly clean graphic shirt and black pants. A few steps to the night stand to take a pull from the bottle when a knock came at the door. "Who's there?" he asked putting down the bottle with a thump, quietly cursing the timing of the knocker. Cracking the door open and looking out. "Quickly inside" he snapped to his contract as he opened the door. The person that ducked in was a normal person that was carrying a small leather briefcase. After the door was closed and the half-breed had sit down on the bed, he stood against the dresser and tossed the briefcase to the other occupant "inside you while, find the next person for the project to advance." the half-breed opened the briefcase and removed the folder, nothing else was inside.
The target of this mission was to be Harry Dresden the files stated. The half-breed looked from the file to his contact and said "this will not be an easy task he almost never leaves Chicago any more, not since he started that whole war with the reds." The low rumble made the hotel room sound like a pack of dogs growling over a bone. "Besides" the half breed added while shifting his bulk "he might not be any help to the project, everything I have heard about him tells me that he is a front-line warrior, not a researcher. And that is what we really need right know." The government contract replied "I know and I have told them this but they want to decode that information, and we have heard that he is in position of the eternal ghost." Slamming his tail down, cracking the bed in half, the half breed surged to his feet like a wave reaching the shore "where" he hissed "did you hear that from?" Taken back by the sudden movement the contract moved closer to the door. "From before the time we got in contact with you, we knew you where looking for something old, knowledgeable and powerful. Your right he will not be easy to convince to come along so we thought that you could use that information on him. We did not know that it is what you are looking for. Everything we know about Dresden is in that file, you know the procedure." Seeing as how there was not any reply coming from the half-breed the contact let him self out of the room and went down stairs to his car.
Once there he looked back up at the hotel room and pulled out his cell phone and dialed a number "he has the file and you were right that did provoke a response, yeah just remember how much trouble he has caused us since we started working with him. Yes, of course he understands the purpose and the goal, goodbye" he hung up the phone and dropped and crunched it with his foot. Scrapping what was left under the cars tire he got in and drove off.
Standing away from the window and watching the contract drive away. With a snort, he turned back to the folder where a tall man stood and looked back at him. "well Dresden we finally get to meet, should be interesting if I can get you to talk before either one of us attacking the other."