Chapter 6: A Vision
Claire walked into the agency an hour, and quite a few drinks, later. She made her way back to the keep where she found the Official, and two of his lackeys, waiting for her.
"Where have you been?" the Official demanded
"Well, hello to you, too, sir." Claire huffed.
"Answer the question."
"Out."
"Out giving away counteragent," the Official countered.
"Just calm down, alright." Claire waved her hand to silence him. "Listen. Yes, I did give away an injection of counteragent."
"To whom?"
"Cassandra."
"What!!!!" he yelled
"Just hear me out, please, sir. I gave her counteragent, yes, but also a bit more. I placed a few nano-bugs in with the shot. We happened to be able to salvage a few from Allianora's body."
"We still have those?" the Official asked, a bit stunned at the news.
"Yes, and they should be injected into Darien's system any moment now. Which means that I should turn this computer on and get the program running."
The Official grinned. "Well then, let's let Ms. Keeply get to work boys. I'll be right back. I have to go call Hobbes and Monroe and tell them to get back here on the double."
Claire watched as the Official left. If he wasn't so obese he might have been jumping for joy. She smiled to herself at her own joke. Hold on Darien we're coming. She thought as she hit the power for her computer.
***
"Good afternoon, Ms. Blake." one of the guards said as she walked into the building.
"Yes. It is a good afternoon," Ms. Blake said as she continued on her way down the hallway. As she walked up to a highly locked, tightly secured, steel door, the guard posted outside opened it for her.
As she walked in she saw the now red-eyed Darien. He calmly looked at her and smiled.
"Hello." he said in an airy voice.
"Hello." she said as she walked to the table. She sat the small briefcase on the table and pulled out the yellow substance that lay inside. She carefully picked it up and walked over to him.
"You're not sticking that shit in me. I'm staying nice and red-eyed until I can get out of here and kick your ass!" Darien shouted.
He began to struggle against the chains that held him as she walked closer. When Cassandra saw that she wasn't going to be able to use his arm she gabbed it into his neck and pushed down. The yellow substance rushed from the needle and straight into his neck. Cassandra pulled it out and jumped back.
She looked at Darien.
He muttered 2 words before passing out.
"You Bitch."
***
When Eberts walked into the keep he saw Bobby, Alex, Claire, and the Official all seated, looking at a computer screen. Bobby was eating some microwave popcorn. As he took his seat, and Bobby offered some popcorn to Claire, the speakers crackled and Darien's voice came through.
"You bitch."
Then came Cassandra's voice. "That I might be." The screen, however, remained black.
"It worked." Claire said excitedly
"Can you find out where he is?" the Official asked
Claire thought for a second. "No probably not. It would be too hard since I couldn't plant a homing device in the nano-bugs. I didn't have the time."
"Fine, at least we can try to see where he is. Since he was just given the bugged counteragent, how long until he comes to?" Bobby asked.
"It's hard to say. It all depends on Darien's body. Probably around an hour or two if he's been beaten, which we can pretty much say is a certain thing." Claire replayed.
"So did you two find anything?" the Official asked looking over at Bobby and Alex.
"Yes, sir we did. We found out that the Chameleon's daughter is in town for a while. She arrived a little over a week ago." Bobby said, Alex nodding to confirm, not knowing how important all that information really was.
"Really? Do you think she would be after Darien?" Claire asked
"It's possible. Let's remember a QSM Darien did throw her father off a roof. So in her point of view Darien killed him. I'd have to say that's it's very likely that she's the one who took him." Bobby said frowning
"Yes, well then. Maybe we should try and learn something more about this Cassandra woman and see if she has anything related to the chameleon's daughter." Eberts said, clearing his throat.
Before anyone could congratulate or tell him to shut up, Claire's phone rang. She looked down and saw that it was Cassandra. "It's her."
"Well answer it." The Official said.
"Yes of course." She said picking the phone up and pressing talk. " Hello?"
"You tricked me! You said that it would fix him."
"It should have. What happened when you injected him?" Claire said not giving away that she already knew what had happen.
"He passed out, you bitch."
"Oh that's a common side-effect. The injection is fighting a virus in his bloodstream. He'll come to in an hour or two. He shouldn't need another shot for a while."
"Fine, but I swear to God if you're lying to me…" Cassandra began.
"I'm not. Good-bye." Claire said, and then hung up the phone.