Chapter 2, Enjoy

Warning: Language

Disclaimer in chapter 1


Chapter 2

The Bunny List

"Heidi…." A middle aged woman said, her voice sharp, "Heidi…Oh goodness…I hope that isn't who I think that is."

"Look," Heidi said, walking up to the woman, who sat behind the reception desk, "Lola, you have to give her a guest pass, I had to bring her with me, I had the unfortunate luck to nearly get hit by her while I was being chased by a bunch of thugs, she would have been killed if I left her there, so she's here with me, write me a pass, I'll owe you a box of doughnuts from that place that requires a 100 year reservation to get in."

"100 year reservation?" Stephanie echoed, looking over to Heidi and Lola, "What the-"

"Deal," Lola said quickly, her hands whipping out a badge and tossing it into a small machine, "I want a half dozen glazed and a half dozen lemon glaze, isn't this an abuse of power?"

"Shut up, you're getting those good ass doughnuts," Heidi said, taking the badge that popped out the machine, "Let's see, Stephanie Plum, eh? It's an alright name, here, wear it at all times, and for fuck's sake, do not wander off, there are things here that'll tear you apart."

Stephanie's face paled at the thought of being torn apart, the images of saws and flying knives filled her vision. What was going on here?! Was this a weapons storage place? Or a weapon's testing site, oh god, what if there were nuclear weapons here, what if this crazy woman in front of her was a loony terrorist and she was officially a prisoner of war, or something like that. She could see it now, she'd be on youtube, holding a sign and pleading for her life! They'll call her an infidel! A member of a-

"Oh my god, your thoughts are giving me a headache…." Heidi said, grabbing Stephanie's hand and leading the panicking woman to a set of double doors, "We're not terrorist, we're an agency…that's all I can say, let's get you to my office, where you'll stay until I can get you back to your home."

Heidi led Stephanie through the doors and into a chaotic massive open floor plan office space. Stephanie let out a yelp and grabbed onto Heidi's arm as the woman led her through the chaos. Office desks covered the floor and people were behind it, writing on papers, talking on phones, typing away on computers, some were even sleeping, with pillows on their desk , on person even had a small grill on their desk, cooking steaks.

"For fuck's sake, Sharp!" Heidi snapped to the person grilling food, "Are you trying to set off the fire alarms?! Get the hell out of here with that grill!"

Sharp looked up, blinking odd neon blue eyes, "Aw, Boss, come on! They're porterhouses! I cooked you one, I'll bring it to your office!"

Heidi shook her head and then she said, "Fine, but bring the steak sauce, or I'll drop kick you," before leading Stephanie through desks, "Come on, Stephanie, let's get you off the main floor and into my office.

"Boss…." Stephanie said as Heidi lead her through another set of double doors, "Are you in charge of this office, like a manager?"

"Manager?!" Heidi yelped, looking over to Stephanie, "No way, I'm not an office manager, I'm…I'm more important! Now come on, let's go on and get you hidden away in my office, least you get your head lop off."

Heidi's office was opulent and gigantic and…white. The flooring was white, white fluffy carpet, the furniture was white, the large desk was white, the extremely comfortable office chair was white, the couches that surrounded a modern y free standing fireplace was white, as was the fire place. There was a small white kitchenette and a white door that was partly open to reveal a white bathroom. The only thing that was colored was a black picture frame and a Hello Kitty throw blanket that looked as if it had been tossed in a hurry.

Heidi let out a sigh, kicking off her high heels, and closed her office doors, "Make yourself at home, Stephanie, are you hungry? I think I have some food in the kitchen…I think…I know I have some drinks, I went and stocked up the place with some booze and non booze drinks, man, I can use a nice nap, maybe I'll get one now, make yourself at home, I'm going to take a nice long nap….."

Stephanie rose and eyebrow and watched as Heidi yawned loudly and climb on a sofa, pulling the blanket around her and was about to fall asleep when a bell went off, making Heidi growl in rage.

"I want a nap!" Heidi whined sitting up and looking around, before she huffed and got up, rubbing her tired face and making her way to the office door, "Look, you stay here, alright? I gotta go to this meeting, I know I have some food around here, if you're hungry, go look for it, but you stay here, okay?

"Alright, Mother dearest," Stephanie huffed, tossing herself on a couch, "I'll behave…"

"Good," Heidi said, looking over to Stephanie, "Keep that badge on, you might not know it, but it's protecting you, making you invisible, don't ask questions, just stay in here."

Heidi opened the door and found Sharp in front of her door, holding a plate with a huge steak on it and a bottle of steak sauce in his other hand. Heidi took both, snapped at the man to go to the meeting and then was off.

Stephanie looked around and then said, "I hope she doesn't expect me to stay in here and not explore…" getting up from the couch, and making her way out the office.

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"Watts, if I wasn't hungry, I'd give you my steak," Heidi said making her way past the long table full of people and up to the front, "Your descriptor and your ultra fast USB drives worked like a charm, start mass producing them both."

"Aye aye, boss," A black haired man said from his perch on the second floor that looked below down at the long table, "Glad this prototype worked like a charm!"

Heidi sat down, smothered her steak in sauce and ate, waiting for the people to quiet down. Heidi put her fork and knife down, stood up and said, "Alright, folks, I've breached through the security of our latest Shadow and was given information about a possible event that is supposed to be happening on our planet, on my planet, I was able to go into the main computer system and hopefully the files I got will shed light on this 'event.'"

Heidi held up quotation marks as she said that, looking around the room, before she bent down to eat more steak, "Pardon me….mmm, this is good, Sharp, though, I can't overlook the fact that you brought a grill in the office."

Heidi wiped her mouth clean and said, "Watts," pulling the USB drive from her bra and then tossing it up to the man, "Put this up on the big screen and if you don't stop smelling my boob sweat, I'll drop kick you!"

Watts pouted, but then he got up and then walked over to the main computer of the meeting room. The lights in the room dimmed and then a big white screen came sliding down and on. Heidi took out a pointer and then said, "So, anyways, let's go on and look at-"

"So, I was going to go down on this girl," A voice said outside the meeting room, "But something told me to stop and bam, wouldn't you know it, my friend, There was a cock, a fucking cock, don't go to Thailand and pick up women at one of those bars, they might not be women."

The door to the meeting room and Heidi picked up her sharp steak knife and then flung it at the person walking in. The person yelped in fear as the knife went whizzing by their ear and embed itself in the wall outside in the hallway. Heidi glared at the two and snapped, "Maxim, Manoso, you two slobs are fucking late, get up here and sit the fuck down before I drop kick you!"

"You keep saying that…." Diesel Maxim leered at Heidi, who sneered at him, flipping her hair back, "I've been waiting for that drop kick, baby, come on, and drop kick me, I love it when you get all rough on me…"

Heidi's face flushed and then she was turning away from the two stragglers to look at the white screen. Heidi had the pointer pointed to the screen and then said, "Anyways, Watts, did you find anything important?"

"Yeah…I sure as hell did…" Watt muttered, fingers typing away, "I don't think you're going to like it, Boss."

An image popped up on the white screen and then Heidi looked at it. It was a simple list, with names on it. As Heidi read the list she swore loudly and rubbed her face, "Of all the fucking things to be an Event on my planet, the Bunny List, fuck me…"

"Uh, Boss," Sharp said, looking around at the group, "What's a Bunny List?"

"It's a list of women," Watts said, answering the question, "A list of women to be sold off at a huge private auction, mostly for pleasure, but some of the women on the list have powers or gifts that are deemed valuable. Oh ho, it's a big list….one of the biggest I've seen….hmm, I wonder who the Bride Bunny is?"

"Bride Bunny?" Diesel asked, looking over to Watts, who nodded his head, "Tell me, is she the main event?"

"Yeah, the most appealing woman, she has the most valuable gift, she'll be the one to bring in the big bucks …Oh…found it! The way they list her gifts, she extremely valuable this time around, mhmm…oh…oh…oh….I found the Bride Bunny, Boss, you're not going to like this…"

"Well, I have to deal with other things, like making Manoso and Maxim clean out the bathrooms for a week," Heidi said, waving away Watt's nervous tone, "And I've dealt with so many other things, come on now, tell me the horrible news."

"You're the Bride Bunny," Watts said looking over the railing, "The starting bid price is ridiculous."

"Let me guess, 20 cents," Diesel cackled to his friend, earning a head shake from said friend, "Come on Carlos, isn't that funny?!"

"Oh it's not funny if we're both scrubbing toilets for a month," Carlos said, but pausing and turning to the somewhat opened door, his voice dropping to a whisper, "Diesel…someone is eavesdropping …"

Heidi gave Diesel a glare and then said, "Well, that doesn't matter, what matters is that you all will pick a name off the Bunny List, find them and put them safe houses, you then shall stay with the women until the threat has been eliminated, which means our best and brightest will be given the task to find this Shadow and eradicate them. No bastard is going to come on my territory and use it to auction off souls!"

"What about you, Boss, you're on that list, shit you're the Bunny Bride," Watts said, making print outs of the Bunny List, "What about you?"

"I'll be fine, I'm well trained and-" Heidi started but stopped as a commotion in the back had them all turning to watch as Carlos jumped out his seat and grab something. There was a loud yelp, the lights were turned back up and then Carlos was holding on to an invisible force, "Oh no, don't tell me."

There was another loud yelp and then a woman appeared in Carlos's arms. Said woman turned to look at Carlos to give him a piece of her mind, but paused and said, "Ranger?!"

"Stephanie?!" Carlos asked, looking down at the woman, who smiled sheepishly and did a finger wave, "What are you doing here? How did you get here?"

"Well," Heidi said quickly, waving her hands around, "Meeting adjourn! Please pick up a print out of the Bunny List and make your way back to your desks, start planning, I shall choose the two agents to go after the Shadow myself, until then get to work!"

Heidi walked briskly over to Stephanie, grabbed her by her arm and led her out the meeting room, which exploded into chatter, once the door swung shut.

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Stephanie knew she was in trouble, the moment Heidi closed her office door. Okay, she should have listened to the woman when she told Stephanie not to wonder around, but jeez, she was curious. She hadn't seen anything but closed doors, she hadn't even dared to venture back out into the huge office area. All she did was hear strange noises and then make her way over to the Conference room that was kind of open. She had to dodge out the way as two men walked by her, talking about Thailand, oh brother. She had heard everything, about a Bunny list, a Bride Bunny, though she liked to call it the Bunny Bride.

"Uh…I know this isn't going to help my case, but I know what a Bunny Bride is and I know about the Bunny List," Stephanie said, weakly, making Heidi roll her eyes and cross her arms, "So…what's going to happen from here?"

"I don't know, I'll get a serious talking to, but I know you can't go home, you know too much about the Organization and about the Bunny List, look, I'll have no other choice, you can either be killed, or join our cause, I'll have to find something for you, but I can allow for you to join the Organization."

"Uh, I'll take door number 2," Stephanie said quickly, looking over to Heidi, who nodded her head, walking over to her desk, "So…uh, is it just light office work, you know, paper pushing?"

"Paper pushing?!" Heidi exclaimed, shaking her head, "There's no such thing as paper pushing here, we'll get you settled in, in one of the apartments, and then tomorrow we'll do your paperwork, testing and plan your training."

Heidi looked up from talking to Stephanie as her office door opened and Carlos came in, his vision zoning in on Stephanie, "Aw, it seems you know Carlos, well, Carlos, I guess you can escort her to her apartment, Manoso, have a good night, Stephanie."

Stephanie got up and went over to Carlos, who gave her a pointed look and then wrapped his arm around her waist, leading her out Heidi's office. Once the door was closed, Carlos rounded on Stephanie and said one word.

"Talk."

TBC…


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