Dark Waters - Chapter 2C - The Recruiter

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The next day Amanda didn’t feel like getting out of bed. The last few days had been amazing, terrifying, and yet the best days of her life and she was reluctant to get out of bed and go to school. Kim suddenly seemed to appear out of no where and she shook Amanda.
"Come on. You gotta get up. You have school to go to!" she said, practically pulling Amanda out of bed.
"Since when were you here?" Amanda yawns, slowly getting out of bed and slapping Kim’s hands away.
"A few hours. I had to report a few things in with Le Conseil," she says, changing out of her black outfit and into a khaki colored skirt and a blue shirt. Amanda nods, not really awake yet, but she gets dressed anyway.
After getting dressed Amanda hurries down to her classes, coming in through the doors just as the bell rings. She sits down quickly as the lecture begins and she listens carefully.
Hour later, after tons of classes and lectures, Amanda exit’s the school. She takes a deep breath of fresh air and grins.
"Finally! No more lectures for the day!" she says, finding an empty patch of grass and lying down. Suddenly Kim comes over and lays down next to her.
"So how’s it coming with Hunter?" Kim asks, startling Amanda.
"Pretty well. He took me to the zoo yesterday. It was very nice," she says. Kim chuckles and for a while the two of them just sit in silence. After a while Amanda whispers to Kim.
"So… who is this Le Conseil anyway?" she asks. Kim continues to stare up at the sky for a while before answering.
"Well… I guess you could say they’re the magical protectors of humans… from magical creatures. There are many ranks in Le Conseil. The highest being the Ancien who are magical creatures and half magical creatures who are by far the oldest still alive. A few of them are immortal. No one except the Anciens know how many Anciens there are for sure but enough that just about every group in Le Conseil has their own Ancien which commands them. There are two head Anciens though and they’re actually called Illuminata and Noir. Illuminata is the female head of Le Conseil and Noir is the male head. It’s not their real names but no one knows their real names except for them and I’m not even sure they remember them anymore. Then underneath the Anciens are the Ange Gardiens who are the protectors of the Anciens. I could continue all day, even all week, Le Conseil is that large," Kim finishes, shrugging.
Amanda frowns, thinking about what Kim had just told her. The names were all French in origin… she wondered what that meant. Suddenly Kim began chuckling and Amanda was about to ask why until she felt Hunter pick her up.
"Hunter!" Amanda says, extremely happy to have him here but also very surprised that he would pick her up. Hunter laughs, sounding extremely carefree.
"Well who else were you expecting?" he asks, closer to Amanda than she had thought, "So how would you like to meet some other shape shifters today?" Hunter asks, seeming calm but underneath the carefree tone of his voice his was very tense.
"Yeah. Sure. Sounds like fun," Amanda says, moving away as Hunter lets go of her before he takes her hand.
"Hey Kim, you going to tag along or something?" Hunter asks, looking at Kim carefully, noting the darkness of her skin and the way that her eyes were slightly cat-like.
"Perhaps I will," Kim says, sensing something strange nearby, a large power source, but choosing to ignore it. Hunter nods before leading Amanda and Kim toward Jaclyn’s club, which was the best place to meet shape shifters.
A few minutes into the walk Kim disappeared, noticing that the power source was following them. She moves onto one of the rooftops and suddenly the power source disappears as she hears a familiar voice.
"So how is the assignment coming, Kim?" A woman with crimson hair and a scarred face says, smiling.
"Incendiera!" Kim says, surprised to see her Ancien commander and the woman who saved her when she was little.
"Well who else little one?" Incendiera laughs, hugging Kim gently, "Now what about answering my question?" she teases.
"It’s not coming exactly like planned. Amanda’s powers are developing quite well and I should have brought her in by this point but… Hunter Panthera, my other charge, has sort of gotten in the way." Kim says, cringing slightly.
"How has he gotten in the way?" Incendiera asks, frowning and looking quite stern and almost angry.
"I believe he sees her as his mate…" Kim says, "And I’m almost completely sure he would try to stop me if I took her in."
"If he tries to stop you with physically hurtful means he will be labeled as rogue. You and he both know that. I don’t think he’ll risk that for someone he just *sees* as his mate," Incendiera says, "so you must bring her in. Within the next five days, Kim."
"Yes, Incendiera." Kim says, bowing her head for a moment before turning and leaping across the rooftops to catch up to Amanda and Hunter.

Kim catches up just as Hunter and Amanda enter the club and Jaclyn runs up to meet them.
"Why hello! This must be the Amanda I heard so much about!" Jaclyn says, smiling at Amanda before looking at Kim. Jaclyn’s face immediately darkens but she continues speaking with Amanda happily.
"Um… you heard about me?" Amanda asks, wondering who told Jaclyn about her.
"Well Hunter himself of course!" Jaclyn laughs, then whispering in Amanda’s ear, "He likes you quite a lot." she says, leading them farther into the club as the lights flash around the dark room.
Kim looks around carefully, feeling something strange in the room, before finally her eyes meet a pair of burning gold eyes staring straight at her. She shivers and looks away but doesn’t notice that another shape shifter has noticed her as well.
"Hey, your that bitch recruiter for Le Conseil!" the drunken shape shifter yells, alerting everyone in the club. Hunter freezes for barely half a second before pushing Amanda behind him and snarling at Kim.
"A recruiter! You!" he snarls. Though magical creatures didn’t hate all Le Conseil recruiters were despised where ever they went because quite often they took away humans and half humans who were mates to magical creatures or distant family members. Often recruiters were attacked on sight.
Kim looks around the room full of hostile magical creatures and then at Hunter’s eyes, stone cold as he snarls at her. She continues looking around, this time for a path of escape before her eyes yet again come in contact with a set of golden eyes, still blazing. Kim thought it was hatred that filled those eyes, especially when she saw the flash on a sharp tooth making her think he was also snarling.
"I’m sorry, Amanda," Kim says, turning and running out of the club, disappearing into the darkness.