An Agent Named Nicolas Flint

Case Two Part 1

It was two weeks until Nick contacted me again about a second case. Even with my savings account looking pretty nice from all the extra jobs I was pulling, I still got excited seeing his number come up on my phone.

Nicolas Flint was a government agent that killed supernatural creatures. He wasn't human, but besides his unnatural hair color and blank stare he didn't appear too strange. His monotone voice was the oddest thing about him -as it made his intentions difficult to understand- but overall he was easy to get along with.

I worked as a pretty novice P.I and I doubted my skills would be of use to him. Turns out, just being human helped in some occasions. I wished he would have contacted me sooner. Still, getting an extra job through him helped a lot. I may be risking my life every time I accepted but it was well worth it.

This time we met in my office instead of my car. He brought along a case folder and I was surprised a secret government agent dealing with supernatural creatures used mundane things like case folders. I offered him some coffee which he turned down, so we got straight into the case.

"There have been several missing homeless men recently. Some bodies have turned up torn to pieces and we cannot place what kind of creature would do such damage. Also, it's difficult to determine which homeless men are victims or have just left the area for different reasons." Nick explained as he started to arrange the photos on my desk.

Each photo was fairly gruesome. I'd wanted to be a cop but in the end was unable to do so. I'd looked up things like this for my own preparation for the job I'd never gotten, but my stomach still twisted at the sight. Each person was taken apart on different ways then just left in wooded areas to be found or eaten by animals. Some scavengers got at them making it difficult to find the original damage in the bodies due to it being eaten away. I sat looking over each photo wondering why Nickie asked me to help him. I didn't know a thing about supernatural creatures. I didn't even know they were real until recently. I also wasn't a bitemark expert and couldn't tell him what had been munching on these bodies in the woods.

"I'll do my best to help but I don't exactly have the resources to be of much use." I admitted after I placed a photo back down on my desk. I would definitely be skipping lunch that day.

"This case is very low on the list of priorities. I currently do not have a partner and my supervisors will not let me work in the field without one. Unless I have someone working with me, I cannot look into this case and no one else is interested." He explained, as he started to clean off my desk of the files.

"So, just me being around is helpful?" I asked with my arms crossed.

"Exactly." He said with a small nod.

I didn't know how I felt about that. It didn't help my self-esteem in the slightest knowing I was just there to look pretty. In fact, Nick could have gotten anyone else to fill in for his partner. I was the only person free and willing to do a case no one but him cared about.

"How does your job even work? Doesn't your boss give you cases to solve? How come you can just pick the ones you want?" I asked, wondering about his work. I knew less about Nick than I did about supernatural creatures.

"At times I'm assigned to jobs that are suited to my skill set. If none comes up, I am able to pick from any open cases within reason. There are some creatures out there far too powerful for certain agents to confront. I am the only one interested in closing smaller cases. If I hadn't taken the Witch case, or been interested in this one, they would have been passed along to the Hunters." Nick said, and his voice was making me a little sleepy despite the information being interesting.