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at Valerie.
“Let’s go back to my office.”
    As much as Valerie hated the torture cell, she wasn’t
going anywhere without answers.
    “I tried your little experiment and it didn’t work,
which means you owe me a ticket home.”
    “There are other ways you can be useful to us,” Melcher said. “We need
skilled informants, people who don’t scare easily. You’ll be
perfect for the job.”
    “The hell I will. I want to go home!”
    Melcher
sighed. “Valerie, we already explained this to you. Everyone
back home thinks you’re dead and we have to keep it that way. You
are no longer Valerie Williams. Agent Crist has created a new
identity, new IDs for you. You are now Valerie Ward.”
    “We let you keep your first name and last initial,”
Crist said as though they’d moved heaven and earth for her.
    All they’d done is drag her into the pits of
hell.
    No way. No how. They couldn’t hold Valerie against
her will. She still had the knife. She gripped it as though her
life depended on it.
    “To hell with that. I’m going home!”
    “Miss Ward…” Melcher said, stepping toward her
cautiously.
    “Don’t call me that!”
    “Put down the knife,” Melcher said in a cooing voice
that made Valerie want to stab him.
    “I’ll get the guards,” Crist said.
    While Crist went for the door, Valerie locked eyes
with Melcher. Somewhere deep down in the pit of consciousness she
knew—knew they’d snatched her and trapped her and there was no
getting out.
    “I didn’t do anything wrong. You can’ t hold me here, ” Valerie said,
arguing until the bitter end, even as the guards stomped in and
closed in on her. “This isn’t La Femme Nikita.”
    “We’ll send her to boot camp first thing,” Melcher
said to Crist, ignoring Valerie completely now that it was suddenly
her with uniformed escorts, grabbing the knife away and gripping
her arms as though she were one of those vicious creatures they’d
brought in earlier.
     
    “No!” Valerie
shrieked. “ You
can ’ t make me. ”
She stomped on one of the guard’s boots, but it was as rock solid
as his grip on her arm. “I want to go home. You can’t do this to
me. You can’t!”
    Her screams followed her into the hall.
     
    FADE OUT.

 
ACT III
     
    FADE IN:
    EXT. PLANE EN
ROUTE FROM OREGON DESERT TO ANCHORAGE —DAY
     
    Boot camp was no beauty school, but it did teach
Valerie how to defend herself and fight like a Charlie’s Angel. She
may have left the base screaming, but she arrived at the remote
desert camp calm as a cat. There were other recruits and
instructors watching her. An audience was an audience, no matter
what the scenario, and those tough ass agents and instructors
running the show needed to see that Valerie had the soul of a
tigress, unlike the sniveling new recruits who arrived around the
same time.
    Some chicks weren’t cut out to be spies.
    In addition to the physical part of training, Valerie
did more reading than she’d ever done in her life. Turned out the
subject matter, vampires, held a fascination over her. It was like
the world’s biggest secret and only Valerie and a few others were
in on it.
    She pitied her sisters going about their mundane
lives in a world that held so many wonders. Good thing Val had been
the one born with AB positive blood. Her sisters couldn’t have
handled any of this.
    Once Valerie graduated from boot camp, she was flown
back to Anchorage in one of the military’s private jets.
    She leaned against her arm rest watching the terrain
turn to mountains outside the window. Mountains, mountains, and
more mountains. They went on forever like a great northern wall
blocking Alaska off from the rest of the country.
    Although it was August, the peaks were
snowcapped.
    It was gray and raining when they landed on Elmendorf
Air Force Base just outside Anchorage. Agent Melcher and Agent
Crist stood waiting on the tarmac beside a black SUV. Valerie slung
her burlap bag over her shoulder and walked towards them in a