Chapter 2 To meet your maker

There is a rhyme to life, you take bullshit to give bullshit.–Catch

Eloise

" Agent Baker " Eloise turned at the call of her name and grimaced when she caught sight of the owner of the voice, as an agent of the underground branch of Global Bureau of investigation GBI she should be used to seeing the director, but it never failed to exasperate her.

" Director Hiran" she nodded, he face twisted into a slight frown and she had to physically pinch herself so she wouldn't laugh. Director Hiran was a class 5 silver tag mutant and he was also a big fan of respect, and adding his name to his title was abject disrespect,one of the reasons she loved to do it.

" How is it going" he asked and she sighed

" It's going Director Hiran, but these are things that would be in my report" she replied , his brows raised in slight contempt

" You have a habit of being lax with your duties " he answered and she smiled sweetly

" I thought that's why I have Dave to be the parents I never had"

" I heard my name " Dave said sidling up to them

" Director Hiran was worried about our investigation" she drawled, Dave's brows climbed to the top if his head then he turned

" Director, it's good to see you here"

" Agent Bass what's the development"

" Forensic is taking care of it we should know more within the hour but our vic's been dead more than forty-eight hours, and he seems to have been bled dry" Dave said , the director frowned which was a reasonable reaction it wasn't every day one came in contact with drained victims mostly there were maulings or the occasional shrivelling but never a draining.

" Very well, report to command they may be archives that have information on this" Dave nodded seriously but by now Eloise was out of her mind with boredom. She watched the director hurry away hands tucked in his pocket

" Why do you antagonize him so much" he asked amused and she shrugged

" He's a self-righteous prick" he chuffed in laughter and she smiled

" Let's get to the GBI he might right" he nodded turning towards her

" Forensic seem a bit stumped this doesn't fit the MO of any of our species " he replied

" Then let's go find answers" she offered.

They took Dave's car as a silver tag werewolf with family branches tracing all the way back to werewolf royalty he hadn't been on a wait-list very long.

" Get in " he offered and she growled, he laughed

" Come on you still can't be mad " he queried and I shrugged

" I can be mad all I want, I got a bike only because the waiting time for a car was so god-damned long"

" That's discrimination, and societal class division at its finest" she grumbled as they entered the car.Dave laughed, he was used to her tirades but he got it

" You're a silver tag mutant, you got the bike cause you fell in love with it." He retorted and she mimed zipping her lips

" I will never admit to it. I will say though that I am right and societal class division sucks" Dave nodded in acquiescence, after the Decay, the world had spent over a hundred years learning their new planet, ice had covered places where it had never been. The sun had hidden behind the clouds indefinitely, water was sparse and most were poisonous by the time the world had clawed itself to civilization with new species emerging from the wood work , they had become a power balance. The more powerful were royalties in their species and then the politician and office holders had risen up, they couldn't displace royalty but they had claimed a space for themselves. That had begun the birth of the tagging system, it didn't help that violence against interspecies had increased sharply, so the government had called it an integration effort. Coloured tags were made, humans took a sky blue, mutants a navy blue, werewolves a brown and the fae a pure white. Each card was further embossed with three spiral designed colours, a gold for royalty, silver for all millionaire businessmen, the politician and government officials and a bronze for normal class citizen . Each card had the family name of the individual and the power level they were in for mutants and illnesses if necessary.

" You're awfully quiet there, plotting" he asked and she smiled sweetly

" Just thinking Dave, I wouldn't have to think too hard to kill you" he laughed. She glanced up when she realised they had arrived at the GBI building, she sat straighter pulling out her tag

" Where's yours" she asked him and he gestured to the glove box she pulled it out and stuck it out the window once they reached the guard, he plucked the tags from her hand and stared at it then he sneered

" You're a wolf boy" Eloise huffed and the guard stared at her balefully

" You're going to need to get out of the vehicle" he said and she sneered in return

" You're gonna have to make me jockhead" he flushed and embarrassed red

" Get the fuck out of the car"

" El let's just get out" Dave said and she huffed

" If the idiot had asked nicely I might've have but he's pissed me off"

Dave sighed and reached to open the door, she shot him a glare and he raised his hands in surrender.

I understand you my little red. Men like him are such a hassle.

Eloise froze at the voice, a quick survey showed that the voice was all in her head

Of course I'm in your head, I'm in every head the little man is afraid of the wolf but mostly he's afraid of you, why don't you give him a taste of what you can do.

Eloise straightened

" Look, you're probably new so I'm gonna say this once. Dave Bass and Eloise Baker,you can go ask around,I'm sure you'll be enlightened" she said for lack of words

" What's going on here " a voice called and she groaned deep in her throat, the guard turned a grin on his lips

" They refuse to get down for a check sir"

" And since when did we do that or where there changes I wasn't made aware of" the male had drawn closer, tall, with red hair that had a sprinkle of gray and green eyes that mirrored hers.

" Hello Eloise" he murmured and she sighed

" Hello dad"