Notes: Yay! I did really well in the exam, so now I'm gonna celebrate by telling you a little spoiler! There will be a character death in one of the chapters! I'll say no more, just read on.
Chapter 11: Secret Ways
"I can't believe this..." muttered Catherine as the team walked back into the crime lab, defeated and disappointed. Nick came out of one of the rooms with an anxious look on his face.
Wes shook his head and Nick sighed. Then he said,"Well, win some, lose some. I called the state jail and they said Brian Mc Cormick has been transfered out of the hospital room. So, he won't be able to give anymore messages,"
Jen said, "I doubt he has anymore means of communicating, so we're safe, for now,"
cathrine frowned,"Well, I don't know, I keep feeling that we're fogetting something important, I just don't know what..."
With that, everyone parted ways.
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Soon, Wes was in the Audio Visual room. Jen went in and saw him lookinh through the video tapes from the casino where one of their victims was found in the alleyway.
"Hey," she said.
Wes looked up and said,"I've looked through these videos four times! Yet, nothing to suggest that out masked phantom was inside,"
Jen said,"Well, she was found in the alleyway outside the casino, the attacker could have never been inside the building,"
Wes sighed,"Yeah... does Sara know about our fruitless attempt to get our guy today?"
"Nope, she's still on leave, Nick never talked to her about it, I've heard," Jen replied, shaking her head.
Wes smirked, never taking his eyes off the giant screen,"Enough about that, what about us?"
Jen grinned but asked innocently, "Us?"
"Yeah, you know, the wedding. I talked to dad, the church he and my mom got married in is still standing. He says it's a really nice place. How bout it?"
Jen grinned,"Sounds good. What about when?"
"You decide. It doesn't really matter does it?"
Jen shrugged,"The sooner, the better,"
Wes chuckled, finally taking his eyes off the creen,"You read my mind,"
They were about to kiss when Nick appeared at the door. The two of them jumped a little as they immediately broke apart.
Whether Nick noticed or cred or not, he did not show it,"This is getting sick. A bomb had just blown apart in my brother's car," (A/N: These attacks are so predictable now there have been so many, sorry! Just bear with me on this one, ok?)
"What? When?" asked Jen.
Nick replied, "Just. The bomb had been set off by timer. Ned's lucky his timing was off. He could have been killed. this is no accident,"
Wes asked,"Brian Mc Cormick?"
"Or our masked phantom, whichever way you like it," Nick replied.
Wes sighed while Jen said,"Another strike.How in the world is he managing this? He can't still be using morse code. The cell window is way too high for that,"
Suddenly, Cathrine rushed in, her blonde hair spreaded messily around.
"Look what the tornado swept in," said Wes.
Panting, Catherine said, "I just realized something we all missed!"
"Which is?" asked Nick curiously.
"It just occured to me that Brian Mc Cormick was relaying messages before getting laid up in the hospital room. And I just remembered, didn't you and Warrick see go and see Mc Cormick about something before? About letter sending?" looking at Wes.
Wes looked as if he had been strucked,"Damn it! How could I have forgotten about that?" as he shut his eyes, silently cursing himself.
Jen said,"It's not your fault. All of us forgot about that,"
Nick said half amusingly,"So many detectives and crimminalists working on this case and we all forgot about such an important lead?"
Jen said,"There wasn't enough evidence for a warrant last time. But this time, consider those letters signed, sealed," she headed out of the room, "Almost delivered."
TBC
Another short and boring chapter, damn! Gotta work better. Well, I'm off to work on chapter 12! Leave a review!