Stolen Chances

Chapter Seven: Decoding

Spinelli spent all night and half the morning searching all throught the cyber space to see if he could trace down the signal of the piggyback text. He was growing frantic and tired as the sun began to peak out over the trees. Georgie had just woken up walking into the living area, and Stone Cold was out and about on one of his secretive missions again.

"Morning Spinelli" Georgie said with a yawn

"Morning Georgie" Spinelli rubbed his tired eyes as he tried to refix them to the computer screen.

"Have you been to bed yet Spinelli?"

"No.."

"No? and why not? You need to get some rest."

"I'll get rest when I know Maxie and my baby are safe and sound."

"You can't worry yourself like this. It's not good for you and it won't be good for maxie when we do find her."

Spinelli threw his hands up frustrated, not at georgie but at himself. He had let maxie down once again. He wasn't there to protect her when she needed him the most. All she asked him to do was stay, don't go with Stone Cold, but he refused her plee and went anyways.

"I can't just sit around and let this evil bastard do whatever he wants. He has to come down before he ends up hurting maxie."

"Spinelli I understand your mad, hell I am pissed too. I want to find this Text Message Killer just as bad, but you have to think objectively. If you put your emotions into play, things will go wrong."

"But how? How has the wise georgie been able to stay away from the people that cared about her the most for so long?"

"Don't think it wasn't hard Spinelli, cause it was. Do you know how hard it was when you passed out and I heard my sisters voice not to say hey sis, it's me georgie im alive and well. It hurt worse than a thousand knives going through my back."

Jason opened the front door walking in he walked over to Spinelli looking him over once then snapped his fingers toward the spare bedroom "Go, Now!"

"No! I can"
"You need sleep spinelli. Your eyes are bloodshot, you can barely sit up."

"I'll sleep later, I need to concentrate on the piggyback."

"Georgie and I will work on that, you get some rest. You will need it once we go out."

"Go out? Where are we going?"

"We're going to go see stan."

Spinelli sighed nodding his head "Alright, I'll go but only because you forced me too."

Spinelli made his way to the spare bedroom, opening the door he closed it behind him. He walked over to the bed laying down he closed his eyes and drifted off to sleep. Spinelli wondered around a building. It was rather dark and not alot of light was around. He tried to focus his eyes alittle more. He got to a figure dressed in black and he could see a woman's figure standing in front of him. He ran over to get a better view when he realized it was the text message killer and he had maxie gagged and her hands were tied behind her back. He wanted so desperatly to run over and hit him and take off with maxie but he knew he would risk hurting her in the process so he waited. The text message killer spotted Spinelli grinning as he looked at him then to maxie. Spinelli heard maxie wimper in fear.

"No Don't you dare hurt her!"

"HaHa! You think your going to defend her. You couldn't defend your ownself."

"I'll show you! She is my wife, the woman that I love and the mother of my child. So either give her to me or I will kill you."

"You can never kill me."

"We'll see about that!"

The text message killer drug maxie into the dark hole. Spinelli was running after them but it was like things were closing in around him and he couldn't get to them in time. Spinelli was tossing and turning on the bed speaking loud enough for georgie and jason to come in to check on him

"Spinelli! Wake up! "No! No! Come Back! Bring My Wife Back!"

"SPINELLI! WAKE THE HELL UP!"

Jason shook spinelli to wake him up. Spinelli sat straight up on the bed in tears.

"I couldn't save her.I couldn't save her stone cold."

"It was just a bad dream spinelli. We're going to find maxie."

"What if it's already to late."

"It's not."

"How do you know?"

"Trust me I just know."

Georgie sat down on the bed beside spinelli "What was the dream about?"

"Georgie, don't let him retell it, by the way he was screaming, I am pretty sure it was bad enough."

"Sometimes your dreams send you messages." Georgie looks to jason.

"Huh?"

"When I was in my phys class, we had a topic on dreams and well sometimes your dreams sends you messages like...for instance a dream can be like a cell phone."

"A cell phone? What are you getting at georgie"

"You know how a cell sends you fragments of messages called texts, well dreams do that also. But in dreams they come in codings."

"Oh like cyber like almost." Spinelli said

"Exactly." georgie looked to spinelli nodding.

"Okay so if his dream had coding to it then how do we decode it?"

"Well we have to first figure out what all went down in his dream and write it all down."

Georgie got up walking over to the table grabbing a pen and paper she walked back over to the bed sitting back down. "Okay Spinelli what was the first thing you remember seeing in your dream?"

"I remember..uh a dark building.."

"Okay a dark building..what else?" georgie writes.

"The area around the building was not very lit. It was like it was in an anbandon place somewhere."

"Okay good, so far we have dark building, very bad lighting, and secluded place."

"Hmm. that sounds like a wharehouse.Was the building very tall spinelli?"

"Yeah it seems pretty tall, why?"

"I think you may be on to something georgie. We need to head to stan's now."

Jason left out as spinelli stood up he placed his hand on georgie's arm. Georgie turned around looking at him. "Thank you."

"What for?"

"For whatever that was just now."

"Spinelli, your not the only one that wants to find maxie alive. She is my sister and I still love her."

"Yeah but you did that to calm me down also too."

"You may be married to my sister, but it doesn't stop how I feel about you. I cared alot..hell I loved you. You didn't know then because I was too chicken to say."

"I wish you had..I had to find out in emails that weren't sent."

"I am sorry spinelli, I never wanted you to find out that way."

"It's okay.." "You know In a way I am glad your with my sister now."

"You are?"

"Yeah because she needs someone like you in her life.Someone that will show her the unconditional love she deserves.Lord knows she didn't get that very much growing up."

Spinelli blushes abit "I try but sometimes the jackal fails."

"Trust me..The jackal has never failed a day in his life to me..he has just grown."

"Are you two coming or do i have to send a search and resue team in there to get you two out?" Jason yelled from the living room.

Spinelli and Georgie both laughed yelling back "We're coming."