Chapter 4
"Well," Mystique began, leaning back against his chair, "you used one and I'm giving you five questions. the other four are up to you."
Tamera jumped on the first question she had been dying to ask, "What's your real name?"
Quin laughed, "Seriously?" He stopped to think on how to answer. My fake ID says my name is Quinton? My friends call me Quin?
He decided on the truth, "I don't know"
The cute detective had this look that said she was going to fling herself over the table and it wasn't to have wild monkey sex with him. "You. Don't. Know." she practically spat the words at him, "What do you mean you don't know?!?!"
"Three. It means that I have no idea what is on my birth certificate and my parents aren't around to tell me" Mystique stated stoically. He couldn't show any emotion behind his mask but Tamera knew that he was hurting.
She wanted to do something, anything to offer her condolences but she couldn't say a word. He was a criminal and she could not afford any sympathy when she brought him in with with the gun she hid in the fridge.
"Next question," she said, moving on, "who were those guys that attacked us?"
Quin sighed in relief that she moved away from the personal questions, "Four. They have no known name in America, but when roughly translated in Chinese, they are the Snakes Who Devour. And they weren't after us Detective. They were only after me."
The detective gave the cutest little frown as she processed this information. He gave himself a mental shake. He could not afford relations of any kind besides his partner.
"Then why are you even here?" asked a little voice in his head.
"Shut up!" He snapped at it.
"How the heck does the government not know about this?" She wondered out loud.
"They're a small but highly skilled organization. Those three members were just lackeys. Low class members of the family. They probably thought I'd be long gone by now" responded Quin, "and that's five by the way"
"And yet you're still here" the voice pipped up again.
"I thought I said SHUT UP!" Quin said, wishing he could bash his head against a wall. And wishing that if he did it would do something other than hurt.
"Well if their so secret, how do you know so much?" Tamera demanded.
"Sorry, you ran out of questions" Mystique said quickly. The lights all of a sudden turned off. When they flickered to life again, he was gone.
"I'm really beginning to hate it when he does that" she muttered. somehow she felt left with more questions then when she started
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The Thief
AdventureHE WAS HUNTING FOR TROUBLE Quin is a master thief known to New York as Mystique. Raised as part of the Dragon Clan, he was trained in the art of thieving with integrity. As he goes after those who steal without, he is chased by the police, including...
