Who Are You?

Arc 2.14 - Grayson Hale

"Who sent you?" The same voice spoke out with tension in the air rising. Grayson could hear the tension in the muscles from the two people behind him, as if they were prepared for a fight.

"Who sent me? I'm sure you were listening to the conversation from the start. I'm just a roommate of my friend whom I wanted to visit but then suddenly heard that he went missing, so now I want to help. No one sent me."

"Bullshit! You knew of him being missing from the start!"

"Correct. Now can we start the part where you guys let me in on the fun and start telling me what you found out about Adrian Hall's current situation? For all I know he could be on deaths door." Grayson growled out, his patience was running thin by all of this back and forth without getting to the main point. He kept his calm though, he understood this took time and nothing good will come from being forceful with them.

"He's alive." The door finally opened and out walked a woman. Clad in nude high heals, light grey pencil dress paired with a darker grey blazer and long wavy blonde hair bouncing at each step. Her sharp blue eyes observed Grayson with intelligence.

"Ma'am!" The two behind Grayson chorused out.

"I've decided, he's clear. Let him in."

"But ma'am! We don't even know if this person is trustworthy! For all we know he could be a spy!"

Grayson narrowed his eyes. Then Parasite spoke out confirming his suspicions. He smirked at the irony. Spy? A corrupt cop is calling Grayson a spy? Ha!

He ignored the words and looked straight at the woman. "So then, I'm guessing you guys are the police?"

The woman also ignored the other and walked over to Grayson and held out her hand, "Detective Heidi, leading the task force solely investigating ARK to put them down once and for all. It's nice to meet you Grayson Monroe."

"Nice to meet you too." Grayson shook her hand and watched as she sat down in the seat on the right of him from the coffee table.

"Martin, Carper sit down." The two complied and sat in the sofa to the left of Grayson.

Everyone could see each other while sitting in the seats surrounding the square coffee table in front of them.

"What do you know about ARK?"

All eyes went looked straight at Grayson's form with suspicion and caution.

"A shady ass company that deals with illegal human trafficking, child selling, debt collecting and embezzlement, murder, extortion all that kind of jazz." Grayson shrugged and looked at the group indifferently.

They looked shocked. They weren't expecting him to know much much less almost every crime that company was suspected of. The group watched as Grayson reached for his bag. Martin and Carper immediately tensed and reached for their own weapons when Grayson lifted a hand.

"Calm down. It's just my laptop." He easily slipped out his laptop if front of all of them and opened it up on the coffee table. Then he took out the drive in his pocket and plugged it into the USB port.

"What are you doing?"

"A favour." Detective Heidi raises an eyebrow at him but kept watch on him curious about what he was on about.

"A favour?"

"Yup." He simply said, not elaborating in the least. His attention was more on the device. Eyes reflecting the screen light, fingers skimming over the keyboard and mouse. He glanced up and looked at each one of them before resting on Detective Heidi. He looked back at the screen and took a few minutes before finally taking his hands off and going back against his seat.