Snippet #1906631

~Carmine~

She expected the man to be slapped down the moment she swiped at him; instead he shifted back and avoided her strike. In a few swift moves she was up against the wall, her gloved hand pinned above her and the other by her side. She was a bit surprised at how quickly he moved, obviously skilled in combat, but she still didn’t like him. She was about to slap him when he put a cigarette in her mouth and held a flame up to it for her. She let it light and took one drag on it, and expelled the smoke when he let her down; she took the cigarette from her mouth and put it out on her hand. She barely felt the pain, merely because she was half focused on the man’s words, he wanted all the files of the mutants, and he was called Gabriel.

She still didn’t like him, but she slightly respected him, slightly. She tossed the cigarette in the trash, not even caring about her hand, it would heal fast and the small scar there would just add to the few that she had all over, not that she cared about hose either, or kept them very long, she would get the scars removed or softened out when she felt like it. She grumbled to herself as she started getting files together, putting all the data from her computer on a flash drive. She noticed that Peter had come back, either he was going to tell her that he had gotten the team that he needed or was going to ask another that was going to get her more frustrated than this days was getting her. Gabriel asked for the personnel files. She didn’t mind giving those; she knew there were rats somewhere, each facility had a few, but you couldn’t always keep everyone out.

She got all the files together on the flash drive and strode over to the two men there at her office door. She put the flash drive in Gabriel’s pants pocket. ”Training area? You go there; you can plan on being beaten down by Eriyk in a match. It’s a few floors down.” She glanced at Peter, he looked like he had been walking for awhile, and by the gleam in his eyes, was frustrated, meaning he didn’t accomplish what he had set out to do. She frowned a little. ”Did you get that team together? The experiment that got away under your watch needs to be brought back.”