Teres moved past Nico as he opened the back door for her, sitting and glancing around the interior of the car as he climbed into the driver’s seat. She wasn’t quite sure what to expect, but he wasted little time in starting the car before handing her a folder. A bemused look on her face she took it, she resisted the urge to make some joke at the prospect of ‘proposals’ and shady file exchanges in cars. Her smirk soon faded as she opened the file and glanced through the assortment of pictures and documents, seeing both her own and Knight’s face several times. 

[b]“As you can see, from reading those files, we know quite a bit about you, Miss. Wratherton...or do you prefer Wrath?”[/b] 

She looked at him as he cocked his eyebrow, it was obviously his turn to be smug now, after all – he wasn’t kidding that they obviously knew more than quite a bit about her. She flicked through her list of past addresses, records of the numerous jobs she had attempted, known aliases, and more. Nico now thoroughly had her attention, and she listened to his every word carefully as the car pulled away and into the light traffic of the morning. 

[b] “We know of your current employment and your employer. A scary man, from the sounds of it. Knight, was it? Well, you can see from the file that we have quite a bit on him as well. Information is power, after all, and if we're gonna take away his delivery girl, we need to have some precautions at least.”[/b]

He still wasn’t kidding, she flicked through the rest of the file which seemed to have just as much information on Knight if not more. There was a record of where he lived, where his safehouses were, where his supplies came from – everything about his operation and more, again personal details about him as well. “Timothy Eugene Knight?” she read with disbelief from a copy of his birth certificate. “No fucking way…”

The shock was clear in her voice, she had thought that Knight was smart, and she knew she was even smarter. But apparently whoever Nico was working for was a freaking genius when it came to finding out what he wanted to know. 

She continued to listen as Nico explained that his employer was inviting her to play some kind of game, a game involving treasures beyond her wildest dreams apparently. Normally this is where she would call bull-shit, but it was already clear with the file clasped in her hands that these guys didn’t deal in bull-shit, and so she held her tongue as he continued. 

He finished by telling her that if she were to accept this offer that Knight would be taken care of and prevented from taking any action against her, something that again normally she wouldn’t have considered possible, but was now willing to believe as she again glanced through the file.

She sat in silence for a moment as they got closer to the corner where she was supposed to be exiting the car and she thought for a few moments. She already knew that she couldn’t turn this down, and even if she could, she was pretty sure already that she didn’t want to. This was exciting and interesting, she was holding a file that could probably be used to put both her and Knight in prison or worse, and all she had to do was play some game and possibly obtain treasure beyond her wildest dreams. 

“Treasure beyond my wildest dreams?” she asked feigning uncertainty as she began to twirl the end of her hair with a finger, already knowing that the offer was far too tempting for her to pass up as her curiosity was now genuinely peaked. She decided that she would definitely hear his ‘employer’ out, and if it still sounded good to her then she would agree to take part in this game, whatever it was. Drumming her fingers on the file once she sighed and said “Okay Mr Regale” her tone showing that she was agreeable to his suggestion “you know how to make a girl say yes, though I should warn you that my wildest dreams involve more than just treasures.” 

She gave him a lingering gaze, letting him know that he had peaked her interests as well as this offer from his employer – after all it always made sense in her mind to get closer to someone in an organisation she was considering working for, and what was the harm in having some fun at the same time. 

“Take me wherever you have to take me” she said intentionally leaving her words somewhat ambiguous as she took out her phone and hit the power button. The screen faded to darkness as she made herself un-contactable before stuffing it back into her bag, along with the files, after all they’d have copies of all the information anyway and she would be interested to read through in more detail at a later time. Information [i]is[/i] power, she thought to herself mirroring Nico’s words as she smiled and leaned back in the backseat of the car, watching to see where they were going, eager to meet the person who had managed to find out so much about her.