Venus
Carmen awoke to find, other than her, the bed empty. She peered from under the sheets and perused the room. No sight of him. Duty called, no doubt. A silk night robe cascaded Carmen's bare body as she made her way to his office. She leaned at the doorway of his office to see his back to her. She clicked her manicured nails against the door to emphasize her presence. The office chair twirled to present Felix with phone pressed against his ear. As he affirmed her position, Carmen drifted off into mansion.
"Yes, good talking to you too, ambassador Jiechi." Felix hanged up the phone and turned his attention to his screen. His screen indicated an incoming call from Planet Kepler. He received the call.
"Hello old friend." Upon the screen was the face of Felix's old associate, John Tully.
"I see Venus has treated you well." acknowledged John, noting Felix's tan.
"Much like home. The weather can be quite similar."
"Ah yes indeed." John nodded. They referred to Earth's South American region, their empire's home of origin. "How is the very lovely, Ms. Amado?" he added.
"Carmen?" Felix swished his glass of cognac. "She is well. Now, I know you did not call to ask about my endearing fiancée. So I will ask you, what is the intent of this call?"
"Well, I thought you might want to know of the ghost I encountered the other day." John jested, anticipating Felix's reaction to his news.
"Ghost, you say? John, you and I both know very well the amount of skeletons in our closet." Felix spoke literal. "So enlighten me, which coffin did we not nail properly?"
"That of a dear friend." John ensued.
John was amused, to say the least, to find that Edith Rose Grimes was not dead. Though it had been a direct order from head, 2 years ago. He wondered if Felix had anything to do with such insubordination. The same Felix who helped build La Puerta to its current universal reign. John's words peaked Felix's attention and did away with his lackadaisical attitude.
"Who?" John saw that Felix grew suddenly serious. He laughed to himself.
"Your sweet prodigy, Eddy." giggled giddy John.
For a brief moment, John caught sight of Felix's eyes widen. But just as quickly as he saw them, they just as quickly regressed. Though the news of Eddy being alive stunned him, Felix remained his cool exterior.
"What are you talking about John? We dealt with that situation years ago." Felix denied.
"Are you challenging my own two eyes? Are you saying they're deceivers?"
Felix knew he should've ordered Eddy's remains back to headquarters rather than take confirmation of her death through word of mouth. He wanted to give Eddy a proper burial. A burial he deemed her worthy of. But they said no, they knew what Felix intended for her. In fact, he was, initially, ordered to kill her. Luckily, fate intervened. Felix was assigned to another matter and a group of fellow Polillas were ordered to get rid of her in his stead.
Felix swallowed the remaining of cognac. "Head did order her dead for good reason." He murmured to himself.
"She's a bounty hunter now." John raised his eyebrows. "Using her skill in a different way."
"Yeah that was her problem, she had too much of a heart for this job." Felix held on to his glass.
"Her death was under the old head's jurisdiction. He's been long dead now. So what do you say we should do, boss."
"She's an asset, John... and a risk. So she's got two options. Either one, join back with La Puerta and use what we gave her or two, die. And this time, stay dead."
