S H I F T

Chapter 2: Dilemma

The abrupt banging on her door startled Magdalene and woke her up quickly. She trudges to the door, barely getting more than 3 hours of sleep. She opens the door to see a trooper waiting for her. "Yes?" She questions groggily. "Hux is requesting for you to convince the interrogated to speak up," They inform. Mags rolls her eyes. "Of course he says that after he says he didn't need me," She sighs, "I'll be down there in a minute." She closes the door and changes out of her pajamas into her clothes for the day. She knew once she was awake she couldn't get back to rest. That was one of things she had grown with as she trained to be the assassin she is now. She gets dressed and leaves the room quick, heading down to the interrogation rooms. Hux waits outside, his orange hair standing out from all the black. 

"They better have good information," Mags comments. Hux nods at her as they both enter the room, the same man Mags saw on Coreilla strapped in. "This is Magdalene Pierson, the First Order's greatest fighter with an estimated 23,000 kills within the past 6 months alone," Hux introduces. Mags shifts back to the harlot she appeared to him as on Coreilla. "Remember me?" She winks as she shifts back. The man groans, openly showing he was annoyed with how easily he was fooled. 

"We have reason to believe that you have very valuable information," Hux speaks. "I already told you, I don't know anything," The man says weakly. "If that were true, we wouldn't have you here," Mags says. "Please, I promise I don't have any information," The man pleads, "I just want to see my family again." Mags eyes flicker darkly, now seeing a nerve to pull. "If you truly cared about your family, what were you doing outside that bar, heavily intoxicated, and wanting to get busy with what you thought was a random whore?" Mags interrogates. 

Tears stream down the mans face. "Please," He sobs quietly, "My little girl-" "What would your little girl think of your actions? She would think you were a disappointment." Mags says coldly as she looks to the table on the side that held his belongings, a photo of his daughter on the side. She shifts into the little girl, the man's eyes growing in horror. "Why would you do that, daddy?" She asks, "Do you not love me?" The man starts screaming, his sobs echoing through the room. "Tell them, daddy," She cries, "Tell them what you know. I miss you, daddy."

The door opens behind them, but Hux hurries to shoo away whoever it was. Mags forces tears from her eyes to further motivate the man. Hux comes up behind her, bending down to her height as a little girl, whispering in her ear that she is needed. She puts up a finger to symbolize that she needs a moment. Hux stands straight behind her. The man finally snaps. "Fine!" He cries, "I'll tell you everything, just get her out of here!" Mags shifts to her normal form. "Pleasure working with you," She comments before leaving the room. 

She finds Kylo waiting outside the room for her, his figure giving off a nervous aura. "Yes?" She asks. Kylo sweats under his mask, extremely uneasy about Snoke's newest proposal for him and Magdalene. He was more so uneasy about how Mags could take it. Magdalene was an exceedingly unpredictable person and even though she'd worked for the First Order longer than Kylo had, the most people knew about her was her shifting abilities and her exceptional body count. The only people who were brave enough to speak to her were Hux and Phasma, Kylo had a mask that protected him from showing his stress. Although Mags wasn't known for lashing out, she was known to be quite mean if the situation prompted her to be. 

Mags could sense his fear, something she never really got from him before. "Snoke wants to speak with you," He comments rather quickly. Mags raises a brow. "Again?" Kylo nods. "He wishes to speak to you with me," He informs. Mags gives off a confused look, now wondering what could be going on. "What's going on?" She questions, "Why does he want to speak to us?" Kylo gulps under his mask. "Why are you acting weird?" Mags asks with a angered undertone. "He'll explain everything," He says, "I don't know why he wishes to see us." Mags huffs. "You know, for a guy who wears a mask, you're not very good at lying." She rushes ahead of him to the lift. Kylo gets angered by her words, knowing she was right.