Chapter 54: Threatening Words

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Ariel walked down the stairs to the dungeons. Dripping and moaning echoed against the cement walls. At the far corner of the room, the guards could sleep when they were off duty. She flung open one of the doors without knocking. Jagger lay on one of the bottom bunks and looked up groggily but did not flinch.


"Ariel, what brings you down here?" He asked propping him self up on his elbow. The muscles bulged in his arms and Ariel fought the attraction. Instead she growled at him.


"Jagger, you've been guarding here for a long time correct." She said calmly.


He stared at her. "Oh, that wasn't a rhetorical question?" He asked.


The growl rumbled in her throat again.


"Yes, the answer is yes," he rolled on his back and stared at the ceiling.


"Well," Ariel continued. "It seems to me, that every time in the past three months that your cell gets a new occupant they seem to escape, why is that Jagger?"


He stretched and cracked his knuckles, then he yawned. "I'm sorry, I have failed, I should be fired," he said.


"You've been letting them escape haven't you?" She said.


"Now why would I do a thing like that?" Jagger stretched again, his abs contracted.


Ariel did not like to be mocked. She sprang at him, her claws coming out. Jagger simply rolled off the bed and she hit the wall. He stood up and she hissed at him.


"Down kitty, put the claws back in their place," Jagger said shaking a finger at her. "What would Paul say about control?"


She jumped on him again but he grabbed her wrists and pinned her to the bed. "Let me up," she said, her eyes flashed red.


"Aw, but Ariel, if I did that, you might jump at me again, I don't want to have to de-claw you," he smiled.


"I'm warning you," she said in a sing-song voice and smiling back. "You had better get off me." She didn't give him a chance. Her eyes glowed, lightning broke through the glass, struck him and he fell against the wall. Ariel stepped on his chest, her claws out.


"Okay," he put his hands up. "Midol woman please."


She slashed his face then grabbed his shirt. "Tell me now, how have you been letting them escape?"


Jagger thought for a moment. "Okay, come closer, it's a secret."


Ariel rolled her eyes but leaned forward anyway.


"I'll never te-ell," he sang, and laughed.


She slapped him again, the claws dug into his flesh.


"Did you see that movie? Man, that kid gave me the creeps."


"Why have you been letting them go?" Ariel asked again.


"Let's just say I don't agree with some of the rules upstairs and I have a thing for blondes," Jagger replied.


Ariel walked to the door.


"What, don't have the guts to kill me?" Jagger asked standing up and rubbing his back.


"You're so simple minded," Ariel said, then walked out the door.