Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
The website was one that we had seen before, but we hadn’t thought to monitor at the moment. I think that there was something that Mr. Doe wanted us to see that was extremely urgent. So, doing as he wanted, I pulled up the site and logged in.
The moment that I was on the site, I was redirected to a video that was just starting over from the beginning. It had been a live broadcast, but now it was just a replay. I focused on what images there were, and the voices that were speaking.
There was one man that was visible, a normal looking Caucasian American man with nondescript features. The other person was completely blurred out. I could guess that his hair was light brown or sandy blond, but that was about all. Other than the fact that he was also Caucasian.
The man that was blurred had his voice altered, but not properly. There were times when he was speaking too fast and frenzied for the voice changer to keep up with him.
“This is just a truly heinous and monstrous act. Those monsters not only attacked all of those humans that were at the convention today, people that we do not agree with but are humans just the same. But they then went and killed one of my DOE members. We are a peaceful folk. And yes, we would have sought to end the event, but we weren’t out to murder anyone. Not anyone that has the right to share this planet with us.” His words were so contradictory that it was already giving me a headache. “We never would have done what they did, though. We would not have gone about it this way.”
“What did they do, Colonel?” The man that was not blurred out, the leader of this site, Jeffrey Packard, asked the Colonel in a breathless exhalation.
“They murdered him.” The Colonel’s hand must have pointed and the camera panned out.
I saw that they were in some sort of underground cave, something that was much like the place that Mr. Doe and Kirk had told us about. And lying there on the stone floor was a man with a bullet wound in his head.
“What the fuck!?” I spoke vehemently, but I wasn’t the only one.
“He was clearly killed there. Look at the puddle of blood. Does he think that people are stupid? He is showing the world the body of someone that he killed, and he’s blaming it on us!”
“Shh!” David shushed Shane as he tried to listen.
“Oh my goodness.” Packard said as he looked at the body. He was even kneeling next to it, his feet in the blood. “They murdered him by shooting him in the head. Those animals.”
“Fuck you.” Joaquin growled.
“I am seeking charges against them. They will be arrested. I have contacts. I will speak with them and have them arrested before the night is over.”
“Wait a minute.” Joaquin sat up a little straighter as he heard that voice, the Colonel’s non altered words. “I have heard that voice before.”
“I will do everything in my power to make sure that this Riviana Gray is charged and executed for this crime. She is a monster, and all of her people are just like her. They will pay. They will perish. I swear to you, I will have their heads for this.”
“ORSON!” Joaquin almost bellowed the word as he shot to his feet. “I am sure of it. That is Orson, the NSA agent that was behind all of this. He is the man that tried to expose us. The one that was investigating us. Riviana, the leader of the DOE, is a member of the NSA.” There was a small amount of fear and a shit ton of anger filling his eyes at that revelation. “I am sure of it.” He said before I had the chance to question his certainty.
“Well, we will have to double check to make sure, but if you are right, then he needs to be stopped. He has a lot of power in his position, and he could come after us before the others have a chance to see that he is lying.”
“I will look into this.” Rawlynne said as she stepped backward away from the wall and the video that was still playing in the background.
“I will give Dayton a call. He works for the NSA.” Joaquin said as he turned toward my desk. “Dammit, I never would have guessed that the DOE was coming at us with this kind of force, with a man like Orson leading them.”
“This just went from bad to worse.” Dietrich shook his head.
“If he is angry that his attack failed, it might make him step up his plans. He might not be willing to play his long game anymore.” Shawn added.
“Ya think?” Shane asked. “He sounds like he and reality had a falling out a long time ago. He is fucking nuts, with a capital F and N. Damn, this isn’t good.” Shane was shaking his head in disbelief, a move that we all unconsciously mimicked.
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Riviana
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Without much of a conscious effort, I was already reaching toward my phone. I needed to call Dayton immediately. I knew that it was late, but this was something that I had to do. I needed to know what he could tell me about this situation. I needed to know what could be done to stop that psychopath. Especially now that we knew who he was.
The phone rang three times before it was answered. I could tell that Dayton hadn’t been sleeping, but he still had not expected the call that he was getting.
“Hello?” He asked apprehensively. Most likely, he was wondering if the caller id on the phone was telling him the truth or not.
“Hello Dayton, it’s Riviana Gray.” I had no time to waste here, so I was getting straight into things. “We have a problem, and we need your help.”
“Wh..what is it, Queen Riviana? How can I help? I am at your disposal.” I had already known that he was a good man, this was just cementing that fact for me.
“We received some disturbing news today, something that was far worse than the attack on the stadium.”
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“Worse?” He sounded disbelieving. “What could possibly be worse?”
“Well, for one thing, the leader of the DOE is going on an extremist site and claiming that we murdered one of his members, who was clearly killed in that room that he had the video filmed in. And, secondly, that leader of the DOE is none other than Harrison Orson.”
“Orson?” His voice rose several octaves as he said that one word. He had known that Orson didn’t like us, but I believe that, like us, he didn’t think Orson was capable of such heinous acts. “How do you know that it is him? It’s not that I do not believe you, but if I am going to go to my superiors with this, I need to be able to site the source of the information.”
“Yeah, I know. And I will send you the proof for it in a moment. We were sent a video of Orson going on that show that is on a protected site. The leader of the DOE was on there, but he was blurred out. He also had his voice altered.”
“Then there is no proof.” Dayton interrupted me and I was momentarily annoyed with him. After a moment though, I moved on and just continued to speak.