Family Ties 2: Forever
Chapter 2
Back at HQ, Mr Granger was led to a small interrogation cell, with a bag over his head and handcuffed to the chair. There was a metal table bolted to the floor in the centre of the room which he was sat in front of. The main effects of the tranquilliser had worn off but he was still groggy and the soldiers and left him to himself while his head cleared so that he was clear headed to speak to them.
Colonel David Richardson was the officer in charge of the on-going operation to find the nuclear bomb that was being hidden somewhere in London. Three hours after Mr Granger had arrived; Colonel Richardson strode into the cell with a thin manila file on Mr Granger.
He sat down opposite the large man and opened the folder. He pulled out several pictures of dead bodies of those that had been killed working for the small organisation. "Not only is this murder Mr Granger, this can be treachery, possession of an illegal weapon and I do not think that you will live through jail itself. At least not the jail we'll be sending you to. How do you fancy taking a vacation to Guantanamo Bay?" He asked. He kept his voice low and threatening. "Or you could simply tell us where the bomb is and when it's set to go off." The man before him stayed silent, he was sweating profusely. He looked down at the metal table, tracing the scratches with his eyes.
"I do not know." He said simply, keeping his eyes locked on the table. The man had a thick Croatian accent.
"How can you not know? It's your organisation; you had the people that work for you design and create it while you sat idly in your cosy little office. WHERE IS IT!?" He shouted.
There was silence for several moments before the man told him that he didn't know where it was.
"You do not understand! I do not know where it is!" The colonel glared at him. There was something that he wasn't telling him.
He snapped up the folder and left the interrogation room, nodding to the soldier who saluted him at the door, keeping watch. He went to the communications room, where there were several soldiers awaiting their next orders.
"Harrington-Rider!" He shouted into the small crowd of soldiers.
"Sir!" A man shouted back. The young man walked up to the Colonel and saluted him.
"Mr Granger, when you found him, did anything feel," He paused, thinking for the correct word. "Off?" He asked.
"No sir, I do not believe so." He said.
"He's in the interrogation room. There is something he is not telling us. Find out what it is."
"Yes sir."
"Oh, and use any means necessary." The colonel gave him a stern look and walked off to speak to one of the other officers.
Alex didn't really understand why he'd thought anything had been off. Surely this was the guy they had been after all this time. He entered the room. The loud entrance of the solider startled the man. Alex noticed he look a lot more tired than when he had been tranquilised by Tiger. There were large dark circles round his eyes and he genuinely looked terrified to see the soldier stood in front of him. He dropped the manila file of the table and it made a soft slapping sound, the man jumped.
"A little edgy are we?" Alex asked. The man shook his head. "Then why are you sweating so much, you clearly haven't slept. You're shaking, are you scared?" Once again the man shook his head.
"I don't know nothing!" He told his new interrogator.
"So, if you don't know nothing, you must know something. Double negative is a positive Mr Granger." Alex knew the Croatian man's English wasn't that good.
"No."
"Tell me where it is then… Mr Brajković
. That is your real name, yes? Dubravko Brajković?" The Croatian began to breathe harder, like he was out of breath.
"I do not know. I swear!" The man's eyebrows furrowed and he looked down at the table. Alex moved the chair that was opposite and then moved the table. Any means necessary…
Challenges:
1) Does Dubravko Brajković know where the bomb is?
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