CHAPTER 15

"What on earth are we doing here?" Harry asked, they were at Mrs Shey house.

"I need to get some clothes" Eve replied.

"Hold on, were you the daughter she was talking about?" Harry asked as they approached the front door.

"Her daughter died few years back from the plague, her mother had bad sight and so couldn't differentiate me from her daughter. Hence I was able to live here in disguise" she pushed open the door and it gave way.

"Were you guys too cheap to fix the door you broke down?" She asked.

"Door fixing isn't part of my jurisdiction, besides whoever buys the house at the cheap rate it would be auctioned at could start from there" Harry replied. The house was well furnished from top to bottom, not a penny was spared in its design. It even had a television, something even most executives couldn't afford.

"Can't believe I never bothered stepping inside this house" Harry said.

Eve walked into one of the rooms and came out with a pair of old clothes but couldn't find Harry, she dropped the clothes on the floor and ran towards the front door "was he trying to escape?" She wondered.

She ran outside only to be attacked by Harry, who tried restraining her on the floor.

"Who are you?! And why did you bring me here?!" Harry yelled at a now struggling Eve.

"Don't make me hurt you!" he yelled again at her. He was now sitting on her with his hands holding down both of hers.

"I won't ask again" he said

"J, its me" Eve said as she struggled to break free.

Harry wasn't sure what to make of her and suddenly as quickly as he had attacked her he got up ran towards the bike and took of with it. Eve laid there panting, unsure of what just took place.

It was already 3 hours since Harry disappeared, Eve wasn't sure of what to do. She knew going back to Solomon would spell death so she didn't even think of it. After much deliberation she decided that the only person she could talk to now was Lucy. So she went to the precinct and stood just across it, she wore a grey hood so she wouldn't be easily recognized.

Luckily for her, she saw Lucy coming out the precinct and she quickly ran to her.

"Agent Lucy..." Lucy turned to see an unexpected visitor.

"Eve? What are you doing here" Lucy took a stance as she was expecting a fight.

"I need your help" Eve said.

"And how's that?"

"Its Harry, he's gone crazy" Lucy was perplexed at her statement but after she told her everything that happened she started catching up.

"Any ideas where he might have gone to?" Lucy asked.

"None, he just went bonkers and left" Eve said, just then Lucy got a call from her communicator.

"Agent Lucy, its me"

"What is it, Sir" Lucy replied, recognizing the voice of Joshua

"We got a distress signal from the 16th outpost, the agent in charge says someone came claiming to have been kidnapped and brought to this district"

"Sounds like someone else should be taking this case, Sir"

"True but here's the thing, the someone has been identified as Mr. Fisher..... Didn't you say he was still hospitalized?" Lucy looked at Eve who overheard everything and was still as stunned as ever.

"I'll look into it Sir" she said, then turned off the communicator.

Eve and Lucy took a cab to the outpost, it was located at the market. It was basically a kiosk standing at the main entrance. Lucy, on reaching the outpost showed her ID card to the agent she saw, he didn't even bother looking at it; Lucy was popular among the agents in this district for the impossible cases she had solved.

"Where's he?" Lucy asked realizing the kiosk was empty.

"He.....ran" the agent said with a whisper, that was when Lucy realized that the agent was hurt.

" What happened" she asked as she got a seat from the kiosk and helped the agent sit down.

"He...punched me in the throat" the agent said, his words being forced out his mouth.

"Why?" She asked.

"He...he heard Joshua's voice and asked who that was...I told him and before I knew it he attacked me"

"Have you called for helped?" she asked.

"Yeah......, they are two minutes out"

Lucy left him and walked back towards the cab across the street, Eve sat in it watching her return alone.

"What happened?" Eve asked.

"He left right after assaulting the agent in charge" Lucy got in the cab and told the driver to head back to HQ.

"Wait, I can't be seen there. You know....."

"What the hell is going?" Lucy cut in, getting furious.

"I have no idea, he just went nuts" Eve said, she knew this wasn't going well for her.

"Am sorry, but until I know what's going on you're under arrest" Lucy said. There was a brief silence it was as if the world went still then suddenly Eve swung her left fist at Lucy but she wasn't fast enough, Lucy dodged and retaliated with a punch that caught Eve on her right cheek. Lucy then caught the hand she had thrown at her and pulled her close enough to hit Eve with her left elbow. The driver had hit the brakes and stopped just in time to see Eve get hit by Lucy's elbow, Eve on the other hand wasn't giving up yet but she was no match for Lucy's speed as she soon saw herself caught in a sleeper hold, unable to breath. After what felt like 15 seconds she collapsed and Lucy went on to cuff her.

By the time Eve regained consciousness she was back in a cell, she could still feel the hits she had received from Lucy.

"Welcome back" a voice said, Lucy looked around and realized this wasn't the cell she was first detained in. Her previous cell was standing side to side with others while this one was just a single cell in the dark.

"Where am I? Where's Lucy?" She asked as she massaged her bruised face. There was no reply just silence

"Hello?" She said, fear beginning to dawn on her in a sudden realization of where this is. She had heard of a place where agents kept criminals that they kept off the record just so they could kill them without any repercussion.

"I..I...I don't know what happened to Harry, please you have to believe me" she said with tears slowly filling her eyes.

"Harry is not the only reason you are here" another voice said, Lucy recognized the voice as Lucy's.

"Lucy? Lucy please you got to believe me" she cried.

"Lets take a few steps back for a second. You said you Solomon had assigned you to Harry for a job, what was it?" Lucy asked.

"There's an assassin after Solomon, he..he wanted us to find and kill him"

"What assassin?" The other voice asked.

"Gin is cleaning his track" Eve said, suddenly the lights was turned on and Eve saw clearly where she was.

"Relax, this is a storage room, we're don't kill people...." Lucy said.

".....but I need to know everything"

"All I know is the assassin was confirmed to be here hunting for Solomon, Solomon also believes that Harry might also be on the list" Eve said sobbing.

"That doesn't explain what is up with Harry" Joshua who was also in the room along with Eddy said.

" I might have an idea.....you said Harry had amnesia but have you ever noticed that he could actually remember stuff clearly even from past weeks and months?"

"That's the point of his journals remember? We made a big deal about them when it was stolen" Eddy said.

"No, I've seen what he jots down, most of it is gibberish, he doesn't give account of his day to day activity in it all he does is write down facts that could easily be overlooked" Lucy replied.

"Are you saying he's faking the amnesia?" Joshua asked.

"I had begun to think so as well until I took the pill we always see him take. It was the same pill stolen from the pharmacy a while back. The drug itself is highly advanced and not sold anywhere in any of the 5 districts"

"So how come he has it?" Eddy asked.

"Harry said something about a deal with someone, I believe someone is supplying it to him and the ones stolen from the pharmacy was actually suppose to end up with Harry" Lucy said.

"What exactly is this drug?" Eddy asked.

"I asked Sarah what she knew, she said it was supposed to be the cutting edge of science, a drug that was suppose to treat everything"

"Including brain injuries?" Eddy asked.

"I believe so, but it is also a temporal fix. I got to witness that first hand"

"So what without his drugs he just go back to his post coma self?" Joshua asked.

"Wait, I think that's what Solomon meant by the assassin needing a edge over Harry" Eve who had been listening quietly since said.

"What do you mean?" Joshua asked.

"When we were traveling here I asked Solomon why he thought Harry was a match for the assassin, and he said the only way the assassin would win Harry was if he had an ace up his sleeve" Eve said, just then an agent ran in

"Sir we..."

"What is it?" Joshua asked.

"Harry just entered the building". The news left everyone confused as they now rushed out with the agent to go see if the news was true. As they ran out Eve could only seat in her cell nurturing her wounds.