When Alec handed Astrid her drink she slipped a sedative into it, then swapped it with his drink as soon as his attention was turned elsewhere. She was sure Alec had no idea, but she had underestimated him. She was too confident, and it was that which destroyed her plan.
Alec saw the girl switch drinks through the corner of his eye. His suspicions were confirmed, whether she was one of White's lackeys or just your regular transgenic hunter, she was bad news. It wasn't hard for him to switch the drinks back back. They watched each other as they drank. Alec half hoped the powder wasn't fatal because he wasn't in the mood to dispose of a dead body. Three minutes later, after long silence the girl drooped in her chair, fast asleep.
Well at least she wasn't trying to kill me, Alec thought. He sighed as he stared at the girl, beautiful but dangerous. Now he was faced with the decision of what to do with her.
Alec found some old rope and tied the girl tightly to the chair, as he was fastening the rope around her shoulders he noticed the familiar sight of a black code. He brushed her hair to one side to get a better look at her neck, at first glance he would have taken her for a transgenic, but when he looked closer he realised that the numbers didn't represent any series he had ever heard of 'XS-006'. XS? As far as he knew there was no such division. He almost laughed, she was probably one of those obsessive transgenic wannabe's Alec had seen on the news lately, who had actually tattooed barcodes on the back of their necks. But what did she want with him, how did drugging him benefit her.
The X5 sighed as he stood up and looked down on the sleeping girl. Oh well, he couldn't get anything out of her until she woke up, he slunk down into the couch and waited.
Astrid was stuck in another nightmare. Sharp objects cut into her skin, she couldn't feel it in her dream, but she remembered the pain. She screamed but no sound came out. At first Astrid thought she was blind, everything was pitch black, but gradually tones of grey seeped through and she could make out the most hideous face she had ever seen. It wasn't that the face was ugly, actually the opposite, the face staring down at her was that of an attractive girl, only a few years older than Astrid. What made the face hideous was the intent Astid could see in the girls eyes, the intent to kill her, to drag her back to hell and let them experiment on her body. That was just what she had done to the five others like Astrid, the other slayers. Astrid was the last of their experiments left alive. She was their last liability, their last threat. They had to destroy their failure. They had released the beast to kill her.
The girl was thrashing violently, Alec was worried that one of the ropes might choke her if he didn't untie her. He struggled with the knots before giving up and slicing them loose with a carving knife, which he had never used once for carving. The second the girl was loose a flailing fist hit Alec with such force that he was flung across the room, maybe she wasn't a just transgenic wannabe after all. Alec stood up cautiously, but the girl was lying exhausted and still unconscious on the floor.