Chapter 2
Eric stepped out of the limo and grimaced at the sight of the warehouse. Its grungy appearance did little to help it. He slipped on his glasses with a sigh and stepped forward.
"Ric! I knew you'd come." A tall young man appeared from the door way, his features where dark but very clean cut.
Eric sighed and buttoned his suit jacket. "Markus, don't waste my time, you had something to show me."
Markus grinned and pulled out a notebook. "Always to the point huh Ric, take a look at this."
Eric glanced over the cover, it was a plain spiral notebook with only a name in the center.
Charlie Eppes
He flipped it open and glanced through the material, he raised an eye brow. "Impressive Markus, I wasn't aware that college students math notes where worth so much."
Markus smirked and led Eric to a door and opened it. "Your college student is in there."
Eric glanced at him bewildered before looking into the room, there lying on the bed was a young boy curled up in a ball.
Eric quickly looked back at Markus whose smirk had widened.
They stepped into the room and Markus shook the boy awake, he grabbed the notebook and took a pencil from his pocket and shoved them in to the boys hands.
He then stepped back and Eric watched as the boy quickly began scribbling away in the notebook and slowly a math formula began to take shape.
Eric turned to Markus.
"I've got some eager buyers, its not everyday you have a math genius on your hands. I'm starting at 1 mill."
Eric glanced at the boy, his eyes where red and blood shot and his hands where shaking as he wrote. Eric crouched down in front of the boy and snapped his fingers in front of the boy. Charlie gave no reaction.
Eric glanced back at Markus. "He's damaged, I wouldn't pay more then twenty thousand for him with all the money he'd cost. It takes a lot of money to hide a genius not to mention raise one and repair them."
Markus began to sputter. "20 thou! Why I've got at least six other eager buyers all eager for a piece of the boy, and not all of them want him for his genius."
Eric grimaced, he knew there was a reason he disliked Markus.
"You called me because you knew I was the only one who could afford him and get him out of the country and not squeal on you if anything happened. So, I'll pay you fifty thousand and that will be the end of it."
Markus frowned, he had hoped to get more for the boy, but Eric was right and it was a moderately fair price.
"Deal, he's all yours."
Eric pulled off his jacket and draped it over the boy who was still scribbling away in his notebook.
"Tell Dan to bring in the bag."
Markus nodded and headed out to the limo.
While Markus was retrieving Dan Eric studied Charlie. He was in some sort of shocked state and it seemed he only responded to numbers.
Markus reentered with Dan and the bag. From the bag Eric drew a small syringe and filled it with a drug. He kept his back to Charlie during this making sure Charlie didn't see the needle. When it was ready he crouched by Charlie and lifted up his shirt a bit before inserting the needle.
Charlie gasped and for a minute glanced up at him before quickly turning back to his numbers, but Eric had seen those eyes, so broken and pained. Barely a minute passed before Charlie collapsed on the bed asleep.
Eric threw the empty syringe away and motioned for Dan to take Charlie.
Eric then turned to Markus.
"Does e have any possessions?"
"Ya" Markus grabbed a ratty back pack from beside the door and handed it over.
Eric took it.
"Nice doing business with you Ric."
Markus fell dead to the ground a bullet hole in his head.
Eric stared down at his dead body. " May God not spare you for all you've done."
He then removed any trace of his DNA from the room and left.
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In his private jet Eric looked through the bag, it contained mostly books and paper, but he had discovered one precious item, a photograph. It was of Charlie and another boy, Eric guessed from the resemblance that it was an older brother.
He glanced at Charlie who was still asleep and curled up in one of the seats Erics Jacket still wrapped securely around him.
"Your with me now kid." And he slipped the picture into his pocket.
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I decided to revise and redo so here it is and I don't know how far it will go, but enjoy and please review.
