THE MERCURIAL ??

"Are you sure this is a good idea?"

Luke whispered at Lucy, who was standing next to him. Both had their arms up in the air while they were being checked by two guards to see if they have any secret weapon. Earlier, they had been told to put all their weapons and personal belongings in a tray and will be given to them when they are about to leave.

"Talking to him is the best option because Duncan loves to make deals and I think we can make a pretty good deal with him because if he was the informant for Frederick, then using him we can get to Nicholas."

Lucy mumbled back. They both had come to meet Duncan at his building.

"You can go now."

The other guard, standing at the side stated.

Lucy and Luke then walk inside towards a giant hall. A guide was walking in front of them and soon they were led to the top floor through a lift and into Duncan's office.

"What brings you two here?"

He asked, turning his chair behind the desk to face them. He was wearing sunglasses instead of an eye-patch.

"Let me introduce ourselves first....I am..."

Lucy was interrupted by a disinterested Duncan who holds his hand in the air to stop Lucy from continuing.

"I know who you two are. You are Lucy and that is your nephew Luke, both are from The Mercurial. Now tell me, what is it that you want? Did the board members sent you or maybe it was the chairman?" He added.

"Neither....we are here on an unofficial business."

Lucy responded, holding her head high.

"Is that so? Interesting. Go on, I'm listening."

Duncan smirks, moving forward, intertwining his fingers together and putting his hands on the table.

At that moment, before Lucy could even continue, a fire alarm goes off. Water sprinkles down on all of them from the top.

Duncan gets up and fiercely calls,

"Marcus! What the hell is going on?"

Marcus, comes inside panting. He takes a deep breath to calm himself down.

"There are little fires on the ground, third, fourth and fifth floor. The problem is that the smoke is so much from the fire that we can't see properly even the cameras aren't of use."

"Take little squad teams with you and check those area out. It seems we have an....intruder..."

He commands, saying the last word while gazing at Lucy.

"It's not us. We came here for a peace pact, we wouldn't do this."

Lucy defends themselves before he could even point fingers

"I never said it was you. Those are your words not mine. I'm sorry but Miss Hill you must take your leave now. If your proposition is important for both of us then contact me later on."

He starts walking out of his office without waiting for Lucy's response.

"Let's go then..."

Luke said but his Aunt didn't budge.

"What's wrong? We should leave. We don't want to get caught up between whoever it is that's trying to get on the eye patch's bad side..."

"Nope. We are not going anywhere. This is actually perfect. Duncan hates owing people because he is a firm believer of repaying them back. We help him find whoever it is, and then we ask him for information."