Wolf Coven – Meeting With the Feds
Saturday September 30
Terry rubbed his injured arm gingerly as he signed the discharge papers. He tried calling Mr. O’Hara at the pub, but he’d gotten little help from Marty. “Y’know the girls weren’t too clear about where they were headed specifically, just that they go back home from Dublin on the twelfth.” He’d been kind enough to invite him back to the pub…but Terry decided that it was time to head back to Dublin.
Lisa was shocked at how much Blackhorn looked like Sam Elliot. She had been summoned to the FBI’s district office in Chicago, and Debra and Solange accompanied her for the daytrip.
Blackhorn greeted each of the women amiably, asking them all to have a seat at the small conference table.
“Well now ladies, I guess you all have had a pretty traumatic experience. On behalf of the FBI, I’d like to offer my sincere apology for the actions of Dan Ramer. Lord knows that we should have caught him in a psyche profile years ago.”
“Thank you, Mr. Blackhorn, but I think you most need to apologize to the family of Deputy Enriquez. They would be suffering the most.”
Blackhorn nodded soberly. “It looks like you’re getting one of the FBI’s agents in Wendy.” Does he know about Vix, thought Debra? “I’m not sure what her plans are, but I’m going to give her a supervisory role in any position she chooses once her leave is up. As for you, you risked your lives trying to bring Ramer to justice. If there is anything we can do for you, please let me know.”
The three women exchanged looks. Lisa spoke up. “As a matter of fact sir, there are two things.”
“Okay…”
Lisa continued. “The first is this: my daughter Dita has applied to the Air Force Academy. As you know, in a few days she experiences her first transformation. Is there any way you can arrange it so that she can complete her Academy education without worrying about the full moon and without too many people knowing about us?”
“…Has she been nominated yet?”
“We found out a few weeks ago that Senator Lugar is sponsoring her.”
Blackhorn rubbed his temples. “I know Dick pretty well, but really Lisa, the only person who could give Dita the go-ahead would be the Commander-in-Chief. On the plus side, neither the President nor Senator Lugar have to worry the election in November.” He grinned wryly, “At least not their OWN elections. I’ll talk with Dick, possibly the President as well, and give your daughter the best support I can. I’ve read her file; you sure produced a smart one, ma’am.”
Lisa smiled proudly. “I sure did, thank you...”
”What does she want to do in the Air Force?”
”She’s taking flying lessons right now, she wants to be a fighter pilot.”
Blackhorn nodded. “She does realize that she won’t only be flying, she’d be an officer first, a pilot second?” Lisa agreed. “In a lot of ways, Dita is more interested in the leadership aspects. After all, if something should happen to me, Dita becomes our Alpha”
”All right Lisa, I’ll see what I can do.”
”Now, the second issue. This little contretemps with Ramer has left us more than a little insecure about our security. Mr. Blackhorn, I want a list of people who are authorized to know about the reality of lycanthropy. Should somebody not authorized uncover our secret…or should somebody pass on that knowledge to somebody else, it is now going to be our intention to pass lycanthropy onto them AND onto their immediate family.”
”WHAT?!”
”Blackhorn…we need more people. We need a self-sustaining population of werewolves. Right now it’s just a few hundred, and of our own little pack, we only have two female cubs.”
”Have you considered Match.com???”
”That’s immaterial. The security of the werewolf population is at stake.”
Blackhorn sighed. It would do no good to get the woman riled at him; eventually he knew she would get what she wanted. “All right,” he agreed. “You’ll get the list you asked for.” He then pointed a finger at her warningly. “But mind this: if you pass on your condition to anyone unwillingly who does NOT know of lycanthropy, I will use every means at our disposal to wipe you out. Is that clear?”
Lisa smiled amiably. “Oh crystal. Don’t worry John, we just want to protect ourselves.”