"What kind of nightmare?" I asked the prospective client.

"in the nightmare, the consultant, or rather, your father ran after me with a chain saw!"

"Look, it was just a nightmare, there is no reason to worry" I tried to assure the man.

"I don't know..."

I talked to him some more, and he calmed down enough to promise me not to send someone to follow my Dad. I would, however, still tell my dad to keep a watch out.

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That night, as I watched TV with my Dad, Frank called me.

"I've solved the vandalism cases!" he exclaimed.

"huh?"

"I was cruising the web, and saw a website for a guerrilla artist group called The Buffalo Soldiers. They do exactly that same coding thing we saw on those two cars!"

"What's the address of the website?" I asked. He gave it to me and I looked it up. The introduction to the site had the usual anti corporate, anti government, anti establishment rhetoric, and used coded art to raise awareness and challenge 'societal aesthetics". Now I had something to go on.

I did some more reading, apparently, anyone with a nice car, or job could be a victim.

"At least I've got a culprit" I thought. With that, I wrote some notes, for Frank to write in the reports to the vandalism victims.

"You got a lead?" Dad asked.

"yeah" I grunted.

"for which case?"

"The vandalism" I wrote my notes

"How?"

"Frank found the website of some fringe group with the same M.O."

"I hope give you him extra money for his effort" Dad warned.

I groaned.

"He solved the case for you!" Dad argued.

I sighed. "I'll think about it."

"Now what?"

"I'll give the clients the information, and they'll take it up with the cops. I'm done"

"That was quick"

I grunted in agreement.

"What about the whole gang thing that you were looking into? Dad asked.

"Red herring" I shrugged.

"Oh...."

After some thinking, I gave Frank a bonus of 100 dollars in case at the office the next morning. His wide grin was all the gratitude I needed.

"Spend it wisely!" I warned.

"okay"

Just then, the phone rang,

"You know what to do." I nodded towards it, and he answered.

Then End.

Note: Thank you all for reading and for your patience! My muse is very fickle, and case fics are not my forte. There may be sequel, so keep a look out! :) I hope you enjoyed this story! Feel free to review, or tell me what you would like to see in a sequel, if there were to be one.