The Monster Inside Me

Chapter Two

Her vision was blurry, her heart telling her to go back after him and use those three bullets she had left if she needed to protect him, but her legs were running on their own toward her destination. Elliot. That man was her biggest nightmare, he was the one behind everything. Behind the campus, Meridian, Dawkins. Her son had been in danger because of him, could still be in danger because of him. She reached the room where she was taken, she remembered it clearly. She had seen a couple boxes every here and there and now, from standing outside of the door, she saw them opened. They had something that looked like injections in them. She then saw Elliott and a guard, she needed to shoot the guard in order to talk to him.

She hated this, hated shooting at people. She knew what she was doing, knew that she was taking away lives, but she couldn't help it. It was either her or them. She felt like a monster knowing she was the one responsible for their deaths, it was one of the hardest things she had learnt to deal with when she started being an FBI agent; they had always told her that if someone was about to attack her or they were armed and dangerous she was allowed to shoot. In a leg or a shoulder if she needed to leave them alive, in the chest or the head if they could be too dangerous.

She entered the room, shooting the guards without even thinking. She couldn't risk anything.

"Don't move, put your hands where I can see them, don't scream or I shoot" she pointed the gun toward Elliott.

He was just like she had imagined, acted all brave and powerful when he had his guards around, but now there he was, acting like a scared animal.

"What's this place Elliot? You'd better start talking" she locked the door behind her and got closet to him.

She looked at the monitors in front of her, seeing everyone going around. She hoped to see Cal somewhere but she didn't have enough time to check every screen, she had to make Elliott talk once for all. With a kick she pushed him against his desk, making him understand that he did have to start talking, otherwise she wouldn't have been that gentle. It wasn't a problem for her to kill him, she still had Kai's files, safe on a chain around her neck, and the FBI would have find a way to decrypt them.

What was stopping her from killing him? Nothing. Would she? Definitely not, he needed to go to jail. She turned him around, pointing the gun to his head and reaching for her phone she saw there to call for backups. The police told her they were on their way and she tried to stay calm. Once again she asked Elliot to start talking, that his project was over, everyone would have found out soon and everyone would got arrested. She saw him thinking about it for a few seconds and then he started talking.

She had the feeling it was all too easy so she took his phone, looking for the recent calls and messages. When she saw him texting Dawkins to find her son she gripped even tighter on her gun. He made him call Dawkins, telling him to stop whatever he was planning to do and then hung up. She looked at the monitors in front of her, seeing all the guards dealing with prisoners, but then her eyes caught something. Two people were fighting, she recognized the uniform so they were two guards. One if them had a gun, the other one had a knife in his hands, she could barely see it. Her thoughts connected and she looked closer, completely ignoring what Elliott was saying. It was Cal, and that man might have been Armstrong. She looked how they fought, Cal seemed to be loosing and her heart stopped for a second, she should have gone with him. Suddenly the screens turned black.

"If I'm gonna spill every information I know at least you should be listening" she heard Elliott's voice and she tightened the grip around her gun, pointing it more toward him.

"Put them back on!" She screamed, she needed to know what happened.

"What were you interested in? The guy you were looking at is one of my best guards, the other one doesn't stand a chance against him. If he was loosing he's probably gonna be dead by the end of our conversation" Elliot grinned.