Another Twist in the Tale 2
Chapter 2
Ethan Steele surveyed the scene before him. As the cops photographed the mess, dusted for fingerprints and so on. For several seconds he didn't say anything. Guy and Luke Morgan had appeared on the scene at Ethan's heels. Jason guessed that they must have been in the office when his uncle got his message.
"I can't understand it," said Ethan, "How could this have happened? We only took the job two hours ago!"
"Well I suggest you find out post haste," snapped Guy angrily, "I'm not paying you to stand around and scratch your head!"
Jason stood nearby looking things over. Something was bugging him about the whole scene, but he couldn't quite put his finger on it. Sadie's mother Laura had arrived to take charge of Sadie
Luke walked over to Katie who was standing nearby with her arms around herself and looking more than a little scared. He put his arms around her. She looked up at him and smiled.
"are you alright," he asked. She shrugged gently
"As well as I can be under the circumstances." She answered
Jason shook his head as he and his uncle walked back inside.
"That guys got better moves than batman if he snuck past our security perimeter that fast!" he thought.
Jason's uncle Ethan was even more focused now. He made some calls and doubled the amount of security guards on the job that night. He even asked Jason to stick around.
Jason stood in the wings watching the concert. Although he couldn't fully enjoy it as his uncle had him on the job so to speak. Watching for any out of place goings on back stage. His uncle figured Jason would draw less attention than a uniformed security guard and he meet see something that they wouldn't.
And there was still something bugging him about that broken window. It kept going around and around in his head!
As Katie was performing the last song of the show. Jason slowly turned all the way around scanning the area for any potential problems. Just as he was turning back to watch the stage he felt a familiar tingling in the back of his neck. Then he flashed to a vision of the main anchor cable holding up one of the light racks, over the stage, about to snap.
These "visions" were a gift he'd had for as long as he could remember. They worked kind of like Peter Parker's spider sense and warned of danger!
Turning around he hurried behind the stage and bounded up the ladder to the catwalk. He raced along the catwalk and reached the steel cable just as it snapped. He caught the cable just as it snapped, and setting his feet, held the light rack in place. This tremendous physical strength was his other gift. It had been around as long as his sixth sense. Jason had discovered early on that he could, at will, become however strong he wanted to be.
His parents said he had these gifts because he was meant to do what no one else could do. That certainly seemed to be the truth tonight as he stood there holding an eight -hundred- pound light rack in place, by the anchor cable, while Katie finished the rest of the song.
A few minutes later the song ended, Katie thanked her fans and she and her band walked off the stage. When the stage was empty Jason let go of the cable and the light rack abruptly crashed to the stage with the sickening clang of crashing metal, covered in a shower of sparks!"
Katie jumped and grabbed Luke. The whole audience recoiled like one body and there were several screams of fright!
Jason slid down the ladder from the catwalk and came running to the stage.
His uncle came running down the aisle. Ethan bounded up on stage and looked at the light rack then at Jason. He gave Jason a look as if he realized Jason must have been holding that thing all this time. Jason gave a subtle nod.
Ethan called the police and began looking over the mess. Guy showed up just then demanding to know what just happened, while Ethan tried to pacify him with the fact that the only casualty was a drum set. Jason kept looking around.
Now in the light he could see the cable a lot better. The cable had been deliberately cut part way through probably with a hacksaw. He made a mental note to go back up on the catwalk and check for filings on the floor around the other end of the cable to be sure.
The he saw something else scrawled across the main bar of the light rack itself, in blood red ink, were the same ominous words from before. KATIE GIBBS, MINE OR NOBODYS!
TO BE CONTINUED….
There it is, Chapter two of this mystery, PLEASE READ AND REVIEW.