Chapter 19

Two hours later Lexi, Quinn and Ash had been separated into separate interrogation rooms. It had been an hour and a half since Lexi had seen anyone. The last person she saw was a young woman who brought in a glass of water which Lex had not touched. She sat with her head on her arms on a large steel table in a small soundproof room. Lexi heard whispers from the opposite side of the large mirror in the room. Lexi then heard a small amount of laughter and she opened her eyes as the door opened. Two men walked into the room. One was carrying a coffee mug that was full of extremely strong coffee that burnt Lexi's nose. He had short brown hair and was extremely thin. His partner was his exact opposite. He had shoulder length blonde hair and was largely proportioned. He had wide shoulders and a square face. He stood over Lexi glaring down at her. She lifted her head and leaned back in her seat calmly. She smiled at both of the men in front of him.

"Let me guess, you're going to go all good cop, bad cop on me right?" she giggled slightly and flattened her hair.

"Elexis Redfern, you've been a very bad girl." Said the smaller man.

"Boutelle. It's Elexis Boutelle, oh and call me Lexi," she smiled sweetly at the man.

"Alright then… Lexi, you've been a very bad girl."

"Now what makes you say that?" Lexi asked turning to the other man who was still glaring at her. "Dude, call the dog off. I'm a seventeen year old girl, I have no weapons and have only been trained in self-defence." Lexi looked back at the smaller man who was obviously the brains of their partnership. He nodded at his friend who leaned back and supported himself with the wall.

"Now can you please explain this." The first officer said sliding a picture over. It was a picture of the bus with a dead body lying in the middle of the isle. Lexi recognised it as the man who had once been a monkey.

"It's a dead dude on a bus."

"And you had nothing to do with it?" Lexi sighed. "And what about these," he slid some more pictures in front of her. One was of the arm that had been flung onto the top of the bus. Another was of a leg, and the other was the head of the second man. "Or what about this?" he finally slid the picture of the first man in front of her. She studied the pictures then looked up at the men.

"What about them?"

"The funny thing is that you and your friends were seen to be fighting three creatures. One was a monkey, another was a bear and-" the officer looked at his friend, "well we thought you could tell me what the third one was."

Lexi paused for a second, "Well it smelt sort of like an alligator but it could have been a crocodile." She looked back at the men who were staring intently at her.

"Also can you please tell me how the bear disappeared and all of a sudden a man was threatening you with splinters and dragging you into the trees. The same man whose body was found lying a couple hundred metres from where you entered the woods with his throat torn out."

"Maybe the bear got him, I don't know. All I know is that he dragged me into the woods dropped me and ran off. I'm surprised he didn't even attempt to kill me though." She muttered to herself.

"Now why would he want to do that?" asked the second man. Lexi sighed again and leaned forwards. She made her voice deep and serious.

"Listen, my father is an extremely dangerous person. Why do you think I changed my name? Anyway he's dangerous and there are a lot more dangerous people who would want to get their hands on his "precious" daughter."

"Maybe you could elaborate more," the first man said after exchanging a look with his partner.

"I'm sorry I can't. Because then you would actually die." The second man leaned forwards and slammed his hand on the table. Lexi didn't move just looked at the man whose face was turning red.

"Don't play us! Tell us the truth!"

"I am!" Lexi shouted back. "And if you're all too stupid to see that then I'm not going to sit here and be insulted." Lexi stood and walked over to the door.

"Good job the door's locked." The first officer said calmly turning towards her.

"Good job that's never stopped me before," Lexi said before swinging her leg around and kicking the door down. She stepped through and saw two offices lift their guns to her but lower them when the other two officers grabbed her shoulders. A few seconds later Lexi heard crashing from another room. Lexi ran to the window and saw Ash was going crazy. Lexi looked at the other officers. "Let me in there." The officers stood frozen. "Do it or I'll do to you what I just did to that door." Lexi's voice became sinister and dangerous. The first officer didn't hesitate and unlocked the door for her to go through. She rushed to Ash's side and grabbed his arms before her managed to grab the officer in front of him. "This is not helping!" she yelled. She then pushed him back into his seat. "Listen if we want to get out of here we have to cooperate.

"Oh so you say kicking down a door is cooperating?" said the first officer. Lexi turned to him quickly.

"You know I'm getting pretty sick of all of you lot." Suddenly a large man walked into the room. His legs were short and plump which gave him a slight waddle when he moved.

"Let them go, Jackson," said the large man to the first officer. Lexi smiled at Jackson then turned to Ash.

"Let's go." Lexi stepped forwards to leave but the first officer wouldn't move. "Excuse me Jackson but this fine gentleman here told you to move." Lexi smiled at him as he stepped sideways and let them through. As they walked into the reception they saw Quinn was sat with Rashel and Mary-Lynette while Thierry was leaning against the coffee machine looking at Lexi.

"What did you do this time?" he asked.

"Hey it was only one door this time," Ash said stepped back from Mary-Lynette who had almost leaped at him. "And for once it wasn't me who broke it." Thierry looked back at Lexi.

"Hey I wouldn't have had to if it wasn't for him freaking out." She pointed in Ash's direction with her thumb just as the door opened behind her. Lexi turned and saw Officer Jackson step through.

"Oh God what now?" Ash asked holding Mary- Lynette again.

"How did you knock that door down?" he asked Lexi. "It's reinforced to stop things like that."

"I guess I hit a weak spot." Lexi said turning to the door. They all started to leave. Lexi was the last one to leave but when she looked back to look at the officer she saw he was right behind her. He grabbed her shoulders and shed her through the glass of the doors. Lexi felt the glass scratch against her skin. She landed on the floor below Thierry. She instantly looked at her arms and saw that the wounds were already healing. Lexi stood and moved back out of sight of the officer who was behind pulled back by several other officers. Thierry turned to her and pulled her at high speed towards a large black car. He pulled the door open and pushed her inside. Lexi pulled the last pieces of glass out of her arms just as the officer broke free and started running after the car. Ash managed to get in his way while Rashel pushed him to the floor. Thierry got into the opposite side of the car while Lexi unlocked the back doors. The other officers caught Jackson before he stood again. Ash, Quinn, Mary and Rashel all climbed into the car as Thierry sped off at high speed.

"What the hell was his problem?" Thierry asked glancing sideways towards Lexi. Lexi sat still staring out of the window. "Lexi?"

"I don't know but I thought he was the calm one." She kept staring out of the window all of the way home. When she got back she saw there was a large van parked outside of the trees she had run out of. Around it were several men wearing overalls from animal control. As Lexi stepped out of the car several people turned her way and stared. Lexi was used to people staring but these stares made her feel uncomfortable. She felt a twitch on her head and it wasn't until Ash stood in front of her that she realised why. She looked at her shadow on his back and saw two large round objects on her head. Lexi's arm flew up and she felt the fur of her cat ears. Lexi covered them as she quickly backed towards the house. When she got inside she found that when she calmed down her ears folded back down.