Finally, Finally, I'm back from london, I'm so glad to be home and be able to internet in a normal fashion outside of terribly expensive internet cafe's and Starbuckses... (London was great, but I forgot the power supply of my notebook....)
Well, here's the next chapter, hope you like it.
The ride out was quiet, when the Tahoe stopped, Greg was driving, Archie passed out headsets.
“Check if they work.”
“123”
“123”
“123”
They did.
“Archie, alert the sheriff and tell him to get the circus here.”
“But you said you didn’t want…”
“I do not, but we have plenty of time before they arrive.”
I climbed out of the truck, the warehouse in front of me.
“Wish me luck!”
I walked up to the door, and carefully applied a little amount of pressure, it flew open. Grissom entered.
It was dark inside, he couldn’t see anything. Suddenly, the PDA produced sound, it rang like a phone. The display showed a button
“Answer”
With trembling hands, Grissom pushed the button, a wound was played.
“Welcome Mr. Grissom. I can see you found the place allright.”
“Where are you! Give me Sara! Paul, stop doing this!” I freaked out! I know you should play it cool with these kind of people, but it was too much, I went too far to let!
“Mr. Grissom, please don’t let your emotions get the better part of you! It will not help you to get Sara back.”
“Where is she.”
“Near, if you follow the instructions, you’ll see her very soon.”
“If you hurt her!”
“She is fine, now, it is time for you to get on with your job. I just wanted to wish you good luck.”
“Look, I just want her back, tell me what to do.”
“Follow the instructions Mr. Grissom! The first one is to your right.”
Suddenly, a beam of light appeared and lit a sign, next to the sign there were metal stairs, leading to the top of something that looked like a huge water tank.
Climb the stairs and take a dive to the bottom to retrieve the case.
Don’t take anything off.
I knew what he was doing, he wanted the water to destroy any communication equipment I carried.
“Archie, Greg, get the hell out of here and leave me alone. After this message there will be no more radio transmissions. He isn’t forcing me to say this, and if he was you still should do what I say.”
The response followed shortly:
“Eeuhh Grissom, we don’t think it is wise to do this, but if you say so, we will leave immediately.” After the response, I climbed up the stairs to the basin and jumped in. The water was cold, very cold. On the bottom, I felt a big box, I wrapped my hands around it and took it up to the surface. Still catching my breath, I climbed down.
Suddenly, there was a large explosion, the door of the warehouse had left its original position and flew through the air, behind it someone fell to the floor. I fell down the stairs and the case landed on my head. After I realized what happened, I walked to the door with the case still in my hand. It was Archie! Archie had opened the apparently booby-trapped door and got killed in the explosion. “Get the hell out of here Greg! Take Archie with you, he needs medical care!”
“Ok Gil” he didn’t even realize that was not the version of my name he normally used. I saw him pulling Archie to the van, while I returned to the light when I opened the case. In it was a wineglass, a small bottle of red wine, a bottle of pills and a picture. A picture of Sara, strapped to a chair, covered in blood and wearing ragged clothes. As I carefully touched the picture, I could not longer fight my tears. I had to turn it over and look away, on the back of the picture, there was something written:
“Help yourself…” I sighed as I saw that the contents of the bottle of pills was the same as I expected, Rohypnol. I took the glass out, poured the wine in and opened the bottle of pills. Carefully, I emptied the whole bottle in the glass. It didn’t matter if it was too much, the will to live was taken from me a wile ago, it was only because of Sara that I hadn’t ended it a long time ago.
I swallowed the near blood red contents of the glass in one go. Only seconds later, I felt the Rohypnol kick in and my body became weak.