Magnolia looked down at the agent in her lap. An agent that had been asleep for an hour now, barely moving, barely twitching, sleeping calm, despite the storm of emotions that had been in the conversation beforehand. A week ago, she would have taken the opportunity to slit the woman’s throat.
Clarke stood by the windows of the conference room, a thin trail of smoke leading up from his cigarette as he tapped on his phone. ‘Um,’ Stef said as she closed the door. ‘You wanted to see me?’ Clarke lifted his head, tilted it to the left, then turned halfway towards her. ‘You’re not even […]
Taylor wiped his hand against the leg of his pants. Behind him, a circle of Grigori’s combat-capable children loaded a Solstice prisoner into a van. The man had struggled, necessitating violence. The blood was freezing on his fingers. He held onto the sensation. It was something different. Something new. Something to distract from- Grigori was […]
Without even thinking, without considering the consequences, Ryan shifted.
Magnolia felt herself wavering – hesitating – in the section of hall that lead to Taylor’s office. In the five years she had been at the agency, she’s walked in the holding pattern that trapped her feet a hundred times – but never for this reason. Never for something that could potentially lead to a […]
November 20th Magnolia stepped off the lift and onto the primary tech floor. Screen stood twenty feet down the hall, lazily swiping her finger across one of the touchscreens that lined the wall. ‘You’re late,’ the tech chided gently. Magnolia walked down the hall, and gave her best friend a kiss on the cheek. ‘I […]
November 20th Stef blinked, forcing herself back into the real world as the elevator stopped. The doors slid open, and one of the pet peeves took form. There were a cluster of recruits standing in the hall near the elevator. Too many to easily slip past. For a moment, she considered shifting past them, but […]
November 20th There was a knock at the door. Curt turned to look – no one came to bother him in his room – especially not on his day off. He didn’t have to go to Magnolia’s masochistic early-morning training; no missions, nothing to do, except drop in on Stef and argue for two hours […]
November 20th There was a hand on her face. Magnolia felt herself waking, ready to attack whoever had managed to catch her off-guard and- The hand was familiar. Fingers she would have known, even with total amnesia. Knuckles that had bruised her countless times, dragging her further and further towards fighting fit and able to […]
Taylor had- Magnolia whirled around, the walls of her bedroom seeming to swim, to become nothing but an indiscernible pink swirl. Nothing made sense. Everything made sense. Taylor had tried to kill Mimosa. Taylor had tried to execute a mistake, and now Ryan- She stopped spinning, slammed her hands against the wall, and crashed onto […]