It was dark and snowing. A figure in a large coat slowly approaches a grave and they sit down, setting the flowers they were carrying.
"Here lies Sasha Deathe. Traitor of the cause." the gravestone read.
The figure takes off their glove and it turns into a claw. They point and starts carving "Beloved husband and soldier." then crossed out traitor.
"I miss you. I know you told me to never come back but I had to. They found me in my last location and would have killed anyone I was linked to." She tears up a bit but forces herself not to cry. "Sasha, I found someone to love again. After you, I was just in a pit of despair and emptiness, but this one reminded me of you. I swear if you met him, you would just frown because he's part Hexenbeist but you would like him. He's one of the good royals."
She smiles slightly but then becomes sad. "I sometimes wish we had children but where you got shot...Well it was a blessing and a curse. I got to meet you because of it."
She couldn't help herself and started crying and couldn't stop.
Back in Portland...
"Dammit!" Captain Renard took the piece of paper and crumbled it as hard as he could. He sits back down in his chair and put his face in his hands. "Why? How did they find her?"
Nick became speechless as he watched his Captain getting angry and frustrated.
"Um, Captain..did you know she was being targeted?" Nick asks.
Captain sinks into his chair. "Yeah. I thought I was enough to protect her. They..." He looks at Nick. "They are part of the mob. Angela, her last hospital, a death of a mob boss happened while she was doing surgery. You understand?"
"Oh." Nick says as if he's surprised. Both of them trying to lie to cover what they really know. "I'll go check on it."
"Okay, be careful."
Nick leaves and Captain Renard waits a bit and gets his phone out and calls his contact in France.
"They are here in Portland." Renard says in French.
"Who...wait you don't mean?"
"Yes, the cheval volant, they are after her, when she found out, she left. Angela.."
"My friend, I am sorry."
"I need you to find the leader of them. I want a meeting. I am ending this once and for all." Renard says, angrily.
"I'll try my best."
He hung up and slammed his desk. "Those damn horses!"
He composed himself into a somber silence. He puts his head in his hands in frustration.
Elsewhere...
"So what did the captain say?" Hank asks Nick.
"He told us to look at the mob. He says that she was being chased after them, but we know that they are actually are well Pegasuses. We should probably ask Wu about the witnesses and then hit the books." Nick suggests.
Hank nods.
15 minutes later...
"Okay there is only one real witness. The person was walking their dog about 6 am and saw a guy wearing all white walking away from the clinic." Wu states.
"How'd you find him?"
"Well, the thing was he sprained his ankle when he got back to his house due to his dog. He didn't think anything of it until later and he went to the clinic and saw us there." Wu explains the strange tale.
"Okay, did he get a good look of the guy?"
"No, but he gave a basic outline. Tall guy, Caucasian, dark hair, fit."
"Okay that narrows down the search a bit, but still that's a lot of people. Anything with security footage?"
"The clinic doesn't have cameras. A nurse there said it scares people away. We are still checking nearby buildings." Wu finishes and then remembers something. "The nurse also says that she and the doctor were the only personnel working at the clinic for the day shift. Also where is the good doctor?"
"Um, Wu, she..."Nick didn't really know what to say.
"She had to go somewhere, but we have her contact info if we need her." Hank lies.
"Okay." Wu leans in. "Is it true the doctor is the Captain's you know?"
"That is not really our business. Why don't you ask the Captain?" Nick says.
"Uh." Wu glances at the Captain's office and sees him in a foul mood. "Maybe later." then he leaves.
"Okay, so we got a mysterious suspect, what type of Wesen he is, and what else?" Hank asks Nick.
Nick shrugs. "I don't know, but first thing is to check it out in the books." Nick gets his jacket and starts to walk out.
"Great, research." Hank says sarcastically and follows him.
Later that day, at the trailer.
"I think I found it!"Hank laughed victoriously. Nick goes over and looks at the book. "It had a picture of a creature with horse-like head and wings on its back."
"Oh thank god it's in English." Nick says and began to read aloud.
I encountered these creatures in Greece. They protected the shrines to the various Greek Gods, but the one I was at was Athena's. They seemed like a nice race at first until I witnessed them stampede someone to death. I had to intervene. I tried shooting at them but it barely worked so I had to flee and figure out another plan. I had to capture one first. It was long process. I lured one away from the group and quickly knocked him out with a sharp blow to the head. I then tied him to a chair and tried various ways of torture on him. I got information and their species are called Pegasos. They killed the person for stealing from the shrine. It took a while but I found how to kill him. I used a device made by my friend Tesla. It was an electric sort of device and it merely stuns people but when I used it on the Pegasos, he started to fidget then quickly spasmed and died. It was only a miracle that I did not get found by them...
"I guess they got to him. This is the last entry." Hank replies. "So a stun gun made by Tesla?"
"Hold a second I think I saw something like that." Nick dug through the many drawers and found what he was looking for. It looked like a ray gun for an alien but much more realistic looking. "At least we know how to kill them."
"We might find them guarding some worship place. Think about it, in this they were guarding the shrine of Athena and killed a person for stealing from them. Maybe we should look for religious places to guard or places needed to be guarded."
"That is a great idea. I can also ask the Captain for a list of places she was at. She probably visited somewhere and got spotted."
"Alright let's do this."
At Captain's Renard apartment...
He opens the door and looks glumly at his home. Everything in there reminded him of her. His contact told him it was very difficult to get a meeting and it'll take another day to find the right people to talk to.
He was furious and frustrated. He just kicks off his shoes and takes a shower and then plops on his bed.
"Has this bed always been so big and cold?" He wonders to himself, sadly. He just closes his eyes and tries to sleep, but all he could do was lay there and just wait.
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