Illium Nightmare

Chapter 5: Broker agent man

Summary: Donovan Hock starts his new job as an agent of the Shadow Broker.

Shepard awoke with a sudden jerk. The hero of the Citadel was currently in a most precarious position. Jane could feel the cool air brush up against her sex and kiss her nipples. She could not see anything as she was blindfolded. Furthermore, she could not move her arms as they were attached to something above her head. She could feel stone on her back, which led her to believe that she must be chained to a wall somewhere.

“Are we awake love, I am glad you could make it bitch. It has been so long since the party.” Hock said aloud from across the room.

“Hock….look, let me go and I will forget this ever happened.” Shepard promptly stated.

“Oh my well”, Hock answered before pausing for effect. “That does sound like a good deal love, perhaps I should just let you go then”

Shepard did nothing but turn her ears in the direction of Donovan Hock.

“But Shepard you have a much bigger problem with your proposal. You see, love, I do not want you to forget what is about to happen and will continue to happen for the rest of your life bitch. In fact I want to make sure what happens to you is never forgotten by anyone ever.” Hock said slamming his fist on a table.

“You were so fucking smug when you were in my museum. So fucking smug when that cunt Kasumi was slamming her sword through the shield generator of my gunship. You were so damn smug when you thought you blew me out of the sky.” Hock said while Shepard continued listening not saying a word.

“I was there laying in my own blood, covered in flame retardant of my pilot ejection pod looking up at the ruins of my headquarters and home. I knew what had to be done, and unfortunately for you I knew the people to make it happen. The cleaners of the world always have connections. Connections that….” Hock said before finally being interrupted by a cocky Shepard.

“Holy hell do you ever shut the fuck up!!! So you lost a box and looked bad, don’t worry many people look bad when going against me asshole, and before this is over I will make sure you look bad again” Shepard haughtily goaded.

“You are wasting your time Hock, I will never break to likes of you, might as well give up now.” Shepard continued with false bravado.

A couple of seconds passed in complete silence that was broken.

“Well you see that is your first problem, I will not have to give up anything, because I am not going to be the one that gets to give you the VIP treatment love.” Hock said while reaching forward to grab Shepard’s chin.

“Jane Shepard let me give you the pleasure of introducing to my new head of security, I believe you two have met…Zaeed!” Hock said with the most smug look on his face as he shoved her chin away hard.

“I told you I would get you back for letting Vido get away, and now I am going to get paid more than a king to have my fun with you.” Zaeed said with intense exuberance.

Shepard’s mouth immediately trembled upon hearing Zaeed voice. Shepard struggled against her bonds and pleaded with Zaeed,”Zaeed I had no choice I could not let those innocent people burn to death just to settle a grudge.”

“Innocent, and where are these innocent people now, with you naked cuffed to a wall, where?...Oh no retort? Well I want you to think of those workers over the next months, I want you to think where are those workers while this is happening to me.”Zaeed stated plainly.

“Well I will leave you two to it. I have business to attend to, make sure it is all recorded Chief Massani I much rather watch that than what is on this planets vid networks.”

“Oh it will be all recorded. Every second” Zaeed said for Shepard’s benefit.
The sound of Zaeed’s laughter was the last thing Hock heard from the room as he proceeded further down the hall and finally out of earshot.

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Donovan Hock walked through the halls of his network with an extra skip in his step. He made his way through the hallways of Azure smirking as he passed the stable of whores he now had in his employ, all Asari. He would have to change that Hock thought to himself, but one thing at a time. He had Broker business to attend to, there were much worse things than being an agent of the Shadow Broker Hock thought to himself. It would have taken at least ten years to recover from the raid on his old headquarters. As it was he now was in charge of a much larger criminal organization and it only took him weeks. The broker was a valuable ally to have, so he did not mind in the slightest in helping the broker deal with his problems.

Donovan made it to his office, and waiting for him in a seat across from his desk was the spectre Tela Vasir, another of the Brokers agents.

“Ah Tela I am glad you could come so quickly” Hock said with utmost sincerity.

“Well you are lucky I was about to head off world to investigate suspected Batarian slave fleet inside of counsel space.”

“Aria T’Loak” Hock began.

“What about her?” Tela asked.

“She has publically murdered another one of the Broker’s agents fifth one this month.” Hock said.

“Well there is only one rule on Omega, perhaps there are even some places the Broker should not worry about.” Tela postulated.

“Unacceptable, Omega is the largest black market in council space. If it is allowed to function without any information, then it presents an enormous blind spot for our organization.” Hock Explained, before continuing, "a blind spot that is unacceptable for an information broker, so we need a change in leadership of Omega, starting with a change in tactics"

“You realize if we kill Aria I will lose my Spectre status and will be on the run from every Asari commando squad in the verse.” Tela responded.

“That thought did come to mind. However, we have no intention of killing Aria no, not at all”, Hock explained.

Tela arched an eyebrow intrigued, ”Oh…what do you have in mind you sly beast” she said teasingly.

“Killing Aria is suicide for all of us, she is entirely too connected to let that slight stand, Aria in charge of Omega is a tremendous asset for the Asari government. No…the only way to change leadership of Omega is to humiliate Aria…”

“Humiliate Aria?”, asked Tela

“Yes humiliate her….make it to where it is an impossibility for her to ever regain her seat of power, make it so that your government will never waste resources on a person who will no longer be able to lead Omega.” Hock added

“Well that is great but Aria is tough one it is going to take a lot more than embarrassment to take her down Donovan,” Tela asked in great exasperation.

“Well there is one commodity not for sale on Omega, dignity.” Hock said.

“mmm what do you have mind?” Tela asked with an upturned grin her interest obviously piqued.

A couple of hours later Tela left on a shuttle followed by a team of people dressed in plain clothes.