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Eclipse At Dawn
Chapter Three: Meet The Agents
Lupe wasn't sure this was a good idea, but Xavier said he and Thierry had discussed it and it was the best policy. So it meant that, for the second time in about the same number of days Lupe along with her team were stood on the podium. This time in front of total strangers.
Xavier's cell. Not her own. Great. She had no idea who they were, or, more importantly who she could trust.
Brilliant idea. But then Lupe realised it was probably the best way to get herself familiar with the cell and they with her. They might be more inclined to trust her quicker then she would find the mole. They were not getting away from her. Not after everything they had put Daybreak through.
Daybreak was her home. Daybreak had saved her life and now she was just repaying the favour. So that was why she was in a country she'd never been to before and pretending that she knew little about Daybreak other than she knew she would be safe.
Right.
She wasn't alone up there. Danny, Shell, Mary K. and Toby were there with her and a see of unfamiliar faces were glaring up at her. She gulped. Remember the accent Lupe. She told herself. That was the last thing she needed. To mess this up an hour into the mission.
She had no idea why she was so nervous. Then she realised what she was saying. Of course she knew why. Somewhere among these people was the one person who could ruin the whole of the Daybreak network. But she was going to find them.
It would be her. And she would make them pay. Despite her naturally out going attitude she was really worried about this mission.
It was the most important mission of her career. She could not screw this up.
She tried to clear her head of the depressing situations she kept seeing herself in and it just kept coming back to haunt her.
She couldn't fail.
The whole of Daybreak rested on her finding this mole. Then she came to her senses. She had never failed before why would she now? Of course she wouldn't. Too much was at stake here.
And what was more Lupe had never failed. She didn't know how to fail. She looked out over the waiting agents and mentally squared her shoulders since doing it for real might be mistaken for weakness.
And Lupe might be a lot of thins but weak and a failure she wasn't. She could do this. She would do this even if it was the very last thing she did. She would do this.
She took a deep breath and faced the see of people like she had back home. It was just the same. She would deliver the brief as if she was at home. No problem.
But of course there was. Because she didn't know who to trust in this cell. She didn't know who would cell them out at the first opportunity.
But she squared her shoulders and began her first step in trying to make it sound as truthful as she could make it.
"Hi." She began and berated herself for being so nervous. She was one of the best trackers Thierry had. She had better start acting like it.
"I'm Lupe Avecedo." She looked at the sea of faces. There were more people in this cell than she had thought. "I've just joined Daybreak." She looked around again and willed herself to stay calm. She needed to do this.
"These are my friends Danny, Shell, Mary.K and Toby and we're on the run from the Night World." There was muttering. Lupe smiled inwardly at her little victory she knew that would get them talking.
"Mary K. moved here from America on the run from a Vampire enclave and met us. Unfortunately someone from the enclave recognised not only her but us as well. Unfortunately we caused them a few problems. Damn."
Lupe cheered inwardly again as she pulled off her English accent without a mishap. She just hoped she managed to stay in accent and get the dialect right so she didn't cock it up.
She looked around as Xavier's cell laughed with her at her mockery of the Night World.
If I didn't know better I'd say they were out to take the Night World down! She thought bitterly. That was how it was meant to be. Not someone back stabbing them and reporting to the most evil being on the planet.
She didn't expect them to understand what was coming. That only came from being very close friends with the Fourth Wild Power who had seen what could happen if the Night World wasn't stopped.
But she did expect them to realise what being in Daybreak meant and to honour the promise they made when they joined.
Someone here wasn't doing that and Lupe was going to hunt them down and hopefully have enough will power to hand them over to Thierry to handle in his own way.
But that was thinking to far ahead. Right now she had to get through the speech and be accepted by the Daybreak Cell as a whole. She had to be trusted other wise all the hard work would be for nothing.
She had to get the Cell to trust her before anything else could happen. She babbled on telling their stories and how they had come to know about the Night World and why the Night World were now gunning for them respectively.
Then she stepped down and the others had their turn. Mary.K, Toby, Shell and Danny revealed that they were part of a soulmate couple and that seemed to give them foundations within the group and then it was over.
Lupe just hoped it was enough.
They had met the Agents and they had introduced themselves now she had to trust that she had done enough to make the Cell trust her and hopefully she could smoke the mole out.
She glanced at Xavier and Cammie who were stood at the back at the hall and from the brief look she wasn't the only one.
She had never felt so responsible for so many people. She realised that she really couldn't fail this mission. She had introduced herself and now she had to meet the agents individually.