Nancy Lake and the Case of the First Date by Jennifer Harlow

Author:Jennifer Harlow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide, LTD.
Published: 2013-10-28T04:00:00+00:00

TWO

the government secret

Two Months Later

The plane to Wichita, Kansas, landed an hour late, delayed in Washington, DC, due to a severe thunderstorm. The storm came out of nowhere, as they often do there. In the eight weeks I was in DC, the weather ran the gamut from snow one day to clear skies with warm winds the next. Luckily, I was indoors most of the time so I only had to experience it through my window in “The Building.”

“The Building,” with capitals, just the way they said it, had been my home for the past eight weeks, located in the industrial district of Manassas, Virginia. The only way I knew where the heck I was, was that we passed the town sign. Once I was in The Building, I was only let out on training exercises to run around the woods and work on my marksmanship. The two-story dull white building looked like any other warehouse from the outside, except for the keypad needed to open the door. Inside was something out of a spy movie. There was a lab where they drew enough blood on my first day to fill another person and a gun range where my limited skills improved by all of three percent. Next to that was a gym where I got my behind kicked daily by a Marine twice my size. Upstairs were my living quarters, which looked like a thrift store expo complete with cigarette burns and water damage. The last room across from my apartment was the place I hated most: the gift room.

I still have a hard time calling it that, my gift. As if the ability to hurt people with your mind is something akin to a Barnes & Noble gift card. We began with the easy items like pencils and cups. These proved harder than I thought they would be. Besides the car and the other incident, I’d never consciously tried to use my gift. It actually took a frustrating week to get the hang of directing my psychokinesis, but all it really took was a lot of concentration. I’d just think pencil, pencil, pencil and visualize the item. Within seconds, it was up in the air. When my mind wandered, it dropped. After two weeks of this, I could just look at the thing and up it would fly. The objects they gave me got heavier and heavier, but we had to stop at a thousand pounds because I kept passing out.

Then at the end of the day, instead of curling up with a silly book or watching TCM—I missed The World of Henry Orient!—came Monsters 101. I read volumes and volumes of case files and books, everything from the Bible to Anne Rice. There are over a million different varieties of demons, monsters, demigods, psychics, and everything in between walking this earth right now. For the most part, they live under the radar, keeping to themselves. Living lives, going bowling, the usual. When they surface for either good deeds or (more often) bad, they pop up in the chronicles.

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