The Huntress' Name (sequel to The Huntress)

Chapter 16 -

When I went through security at the door, I was told to meet Klarke in the surveillance room. More instructions for the day's interrogation most likely.

Little boxes, all containing different pictures and sceneries, lined the walls. Some were in rooms, some showed people passing by outside. Klarke stood in front of a wall of monitors that appeared to all be of inside the building. 

"Eliza. Good to see you early."

I walked up next to Klarke and could guess which monitor he was looking at. Thomas sat in the same chair he'd been left in the day before. The only difference was where it was placed. It had been moved to the stationary side. His head bowed down, and I knew he was drugged up. 

"Good to be in, sir. You wanted me to meet you here?"

"Yes. I'm impatient."

"Sir?"

"I want answers today. Do what you need to, but he will give them today."

"Why is it important that it's today?"

"Because I've said so. And you will do good to do what I say. Is that clear?"

"Yes."

I turned to leave and Klarke stopped me.

"Put this in. That way I can be in the room with you."

He tossed me a device that looked like a Bluetooth. I put it in my ear and turned it on. I knew he didn't mean he'd actually be in there with me. It meant he would be listening in and he'd tell me what he wanted. 

"Today, Jacobson. You got that?"

It sounded like a  warning. I nodded my head once and went to the door. 

"Jaeger's already down there," he said turning back to the screens. "He'll be with you."

I left the room and made my way down the hall. My hands shook slightly, the jitters working through. Jared found his way in my head and I had to close my eyes tightly. I needed to make sure he was safe. I couldn't let Thomas give away that I was in a relationship with a werewolf. Not after I met Klarke. 

I didn't trust Klarke, not in the least little bit. His ruthlessness was all too close to that of the Klarke I new. That twinkle in his eye, the bloodlust. It was present in him. I had no idea what he would do if he found out about Jared, so I had to make sure he never found out. 

That left me with one option. Make sure Thomas couldn't speak a word about us. 

There were many ways I could make that happen, but there was only one way Klarke was looking for. I scanned my badge and opened the door. Isaac turned my way, and was about to speak when I swept my hair back, revealing the ear piece. Apparently he got the memo and stayed quiet. 

"Good to see you this morning, Jaeger," I said as I made my way to the weapons safely locked away in the cabinet. 

"You too, Jacobson. What's on the agenda today?"

I pulled out the gun, turning it over in my hands. A determination had set in when I walked through that door. The calm had taken over and the storm was about to arrive. 

I pulled the dagger down, the tip of my finger touching the point as I walked over to Thomas who still had his head down. 

I plunged the dagger deep into the fleshy part of his leg, and he let out a loud cry of pain. 

"He's going to sing like a bird," I said through gritted teeth.

Isaac was quiet, and I didn't turn to look at him. All my attention was on Thomas now. I was more than the huntress I'd been trained to be. I wasn't Electra Jaeger, hunter of the supernatural. I was Eliza Jacobson. The girl who knew how to hunt, how to interrogate, how to get what she wanted. That was this huntress' name. She wasn't the quiet girl I once thought she was. She had all the skill of a born hunter, with the ruthlessness of a jungle cat. And she was sharpening her claws.