Issue 38: Have You Ever Danced with the Devil in the Pale Moonlight?

"Honestly, I'm quite surprised it took you this long to find me." Recon said as she smiled at me. She had the faintest accent that I couldn't put my finger.

"I've been preoccupied with other things." I said.

"Like making sure your friend didn't bleed out? I told you she'd live." She said with her arms folded.

"Speaking of, I have some questions for you and you're going to answer them." I said.

"Of course." She said leaning against a wall. "But I have two conditions. One, you take that ridiculous mask off."

"What's the second one?"

"We'll cross that bridge when we get there. But I'm not going to start talking until we're actually face to face, like civilized people." She said. I hesitated before pulling off my mask, making her smile.

"First question, why did you shoot Prodigy?" I said. She scoffed.

"That's your first question, Huh? I thought you were friends with Anonymous. You should be better at interrogations." She said. "I told my employer I wasn't happy with being bait and someone was dying the night I 'attacked' the governor. As I'm sure that bot told you, I wasn't actually going to kill him, so my employer added to the deal that I'd get to kill either you or your friend. But there was something about you that made me decide not to kill you and I thought you wouldn't appreciate me killing your friend so I opted to just simply injure her."

"What was that something?"

"Eager, aren't you? Not even going to ask for my employer's name. Instead," She said before letting out a quiet laugh. "Instead you'd rather hear what I personally think of you. I'm flattered." She said before answering the question. "I know you saw me kill that peacekeeper and you're the first person to ever see me work. For the split moment we looked at each other, even through your mask, I felt something. Maybe I'm equally as fascinated with you as you are with me. And why would I kill you before I got what I wanted? Later, on the night we first met met, that curiosity peaked when you actually did find me. If you were at 100% you might have stood a chance but I saw you favoring your shoulder. To be completely honest, I was hoping to have this conversation later that night but... you had other plans." She said the last part disappointingly. "But, allow me to answer one of your questions before you ask it: I was hired by a girl who goes by 'L3ss Th4n Thr33', or simply: Heart. I don't know much about her, but I do know she paid me a lot of money to distract you while she did what she needed to do and also paid me more to help her break out Bot Brain."

"You broke out C-1?"

"No." She said walking closer. "You had her captive in your house. If I went, I'd know where you live. Riddles aren't fun if someone just gives you the answers. And the greatest riddle is someone who's just as mysterious as I am." We were now extremely close. "And that's why that's the last question for tonight."

"What!? No, that's not how we're doing things." I said.

"Fine, then how about this: I'll answer one more question if you follow through on my second condition." She said.

"You never told me what it was." I said. She smirked before she walked back with something in her hands. I reached into my pockets and realized my phone was missing. She stuck something into the charger input and then started going through it without putting in a password. "Hey!"

"Relax, I'm not going to do anything that would reveal anything personal about you." She said before she typed something in. She looked up at me and smirked as a violin started playing. She put out a hand in front of me. "Care to Dance?" She asked. I hesitated by taking her hand. "Let me guess, you're never danced like this before?"

"How did you know?"

"It's written all over your face. It's either confusion on why I asked you to Dance or confusion on how to Dance." She said.

"Ever think of becoming a detective?" I asked her.

"Ahahah." She whispered before saying "Is that really the question you want me to answer? Now, follow my lead." She said. It was automatic after she said that. It was like the dance had been choreographed for weeks and months instead of impromptu between two people who were basically strangers. "So, last question, what's it going to be?" She asked. I thought of it for a while before asking

"What's your name?"

"Sorry, too early for that one."

"Bullshit. You said one more question, whatever I wanted." I said.

"I'll tell you mine if you tell me your's." She said.

"Like I'm going to trust a shooter with my real name."

"And like I'd trust a guy who's friends with Anonymous with my real name." She said. "But answer me this: when can I see you again?"

"...Too be honest, my life's been kind of hectic lately. I don't know if I can do anything for the next couple of weeks." I said.

"Understandable. How about this, next time I get hired, I'll make just enough commotion for you to find me, k?" She said before she stopped dancing with me. She tossed me my phone back and picked up her sniper. She disassembled it and resembled it into a grappling hook. "If the Freak asks, we never talked." She said glaring at Nix. She looked back at me and smiled. "I'll see you around." She said before shooting her grappling hook at the roof and zooming up.

Left night with more questions than answers despite being able to ask three questions. Not how I expected this to go.

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