Note: ARGGG!!!! Big goof!! What are they doing in church on Sunday if the twin's party is supposed to be on Friday? Stupid me! So just replace that Sunday reference with Friday afternoon, ok? Arg!(Gives myself a whack on the head)
Chapter 14: Crash the Party
"Are you sure you won't come? Michael and Emily really want you and Warrick to be there," Nick said, his voice muffled by the poor telephon reception.
Wes said,"Sorry mate. But I really want to crack this case. For all of us,"
Nick sighed and said,"Ok, but you'll miss Sara's blueberry muffins!"
Wes chuckled,"Well then, save some for Warrick of me. Is Jen there yet? She has my gift for the twins with her,"
"Yeah, she just arrived. Where is Warrick now?" asked Nick.
Wes replied,"Oh, gone out to get some take-out dinner. We're gonna try cracking the bible code,"
Nick said,"Well, good luck, and thanks. I really wish I could be there to help both of you..."
"Hey, don't worry about it! Have fun with your kids, ok?"
Nick chuckled,"Yeah... see ya," and signed off.
Wes clicked off his cellphone too and glanced around at the layout room table. A gigantic bible for extra reference, the bible from the church itself, a laptop for internet reasearch, and a whole lot pens and paper were Warrick and his own company for the night.
Soon, Warrick popped in, carrying two packets of styrofoam boxes and two cups of coffee from the lab itself. He set it down on th table and said,"I arranged with nightshift, this room is ous for the night,"
Wes nooded. Warrick said,"Ok, two sets Chinese take-out, two cups of coffee," he paused, putting his hand in his pocket, and pulled out a small bottle of what Wes recognized as eyedrops. "And eyedrops," continued Warrick.
Wes raised his eyebrows. Warrick looked at him and said simply,"It's going to be a long night, ok?"
Wes grinned,"Ok, let's work on the bible marks first since that probably is the latest message,"
Warrick nodded in agreement, and said,"there are marks scattered on random pages. Very small marks. We have to be extreamly thorough," he said.
Wes sighed,"You flick, I write," holding up a magnifying glass.
"Na-ah, you flick, I write!" retorted the African-American man. They both knew it was going to be very tiresome flicking page to page, searching for red ink marks hardly longer than two milimeters.
Warrick pulled out a coin, "Alright then, call it," as he flipped the coin into the air.
Wes said,"Heads,"
Warrick caught it, "Tails!" he said in triumph.
Wes sunk back into his chair in mock agony and groaned. Warrick picked up a pencil and shoved the bible towards Wes,"Start flicking! Be thorough!" he instructed.
Wes scowled at Warrick, pulled the bible towars him, picked up the magnifying glass, and turned to the first page...
"Ok, Genesis, 17:19, 'v'" said Wes, squinting at the page. Warrick made a note,"Bettewr write phrase titles eh? They might be important," he said.
"Exodus, 6:20, 'e', I dunno how his accomplice can stand this kind of torture," mumbled Wes.
"Judges, 6:30, hey, it's a word this time,'son'..." a bit of worry creeping into Wes' voice.
"Samuel 17:9, 'kill'..." Warrick looked up and muttered,"Damn..."
"Samuel 23:4, 'b', can't he stick to words?"
"Nehemiah, 4:22, 'i'..." Wes paused to take a sip of coffee. The clock was ticking loudly.
"Psmalms, 142:1, 'a'," Wes looked at the clock, an hour and a half had passed. Warrick took over the bible search.
"Proverbs 31:8, 'u',"
"Isaiah, 14:9, 'p',"
"Isaiah, 36:6, 'him'," Wes took a bite from the Chinese food, which was cold already.
"Isaiah, 38:1, 'h'. He's getting lazy, they are set closer together this time," commented Warrick.
"Ok... maybe not. Jeremiah,11:2, 'a',"
"Jerimiah, 31:31, 'm'," Another hour passed, 10.pm. Wes took over again.
"Jeremiah, 33:20, 'be', word..."
"Jeremiah, 48:45, 'l'," Warrick frowned,"Not fair! What you find is always close together!"
Wes grinned. "Ezekiel, 11:9, 'will',"
"Ezekiel, 22:28, 'e',"
"Ezekiel, 31:18, 'h'. Do you really think the phrases are important?" asked Wes doubtfully.
"Don't worry about it, it's just covering the bases," replied Warrick.
"It's wasting TIME! Matthew 1:15, 'c',"
"Matthew 1:21, 'and'," It was already midnight. Warrick sighed. It was his turn to flip now. "This damn message had better be worth missing Sara's muffins!"
"Matthew, 2:1, 'the',"
"Luke, 'l',"
"John, 'i'," Wes asked,"I thought the phrases were important?"
"They were, until my eyes started hurting badly. If they are important, we can just check back, right?"
"And that's not wasting time??"
"Sush and write... John, 'e'," Wes took over again.
"Acts, 'n'," Wes could feel his eyelids drooping. 2.30 am already.
"Romans, 'd', that's it, you take over, I'm gonna take a nap,"
"WES!"
Wes ended up having to go on searching anyway.
"Romans, 'r',"
"Galatians, 'they',"
"Hebrews, 'n',"
"James, 'tomorrow',"
"James, 'k',"
"Revelation,'a', and 'l'"
After a bit more flipping, "that's it! Phew! Wake me up when you're done,"said Wes, closing his eyes. It was already 4 am.
Warrick scowled,"Hey, you gotta help me, ok?"
"I'm suffering from sleep deprevition here!"
Ignoring Wes statement, Warrick said,"Ok, here are the words we have so far: Son, kill, him, be, will, and, the, they and tomorrow,"
"Kill him and be the son tomorrow?"
Warrick tried to shoot Wes a sarcastic look but ended up laughing. "This is serious, Wes!"
"Ok, ok! But I think the letters have something to do with the words too,"
"Ok, then the letters: v, e, b, i, a, u, p, h, a, m, l, e, h, c, i, l, e, n, d, r, n, k, l and a,"
"Well, that's a lot of help," said Wes sarcastically.
"Maybe if we try and see what the words have in common. What do you do before 'kill'?"
"Sharpen murder weapon?"
"Wes..."
"What? My brain isn't working very well now!"
"How about... kidnap?"
"That's it! Nice War!" said Wes and he crossed out the letters spelling kidnap.
After half an hour, they managed to work out the sentence, 'They will be... tomorrow. Kidnap the son and kill him,'
"What will they be tomorrow? Free?" pondered Wes.
Warrick glanced at the letters and said,"Vulnerable?"
Wes looked at him and asked,"How the hell do you do that?"
Warrick merely smiled. Wes held up the paper and said,"They will be vunarable tomorrow, kidnap the son and kill him, hmm... who? Mrs Stokes sons, or Nick's son? There are letters leftover..."
Warrick said,"What do you make out of this? A, h, m, l, c, i,"
A moments silence, then Wes said,"I think that this is definately worth missing Sara's muffins. 'MICHAEL',"
Warrick's eyes widened,"this is bad... if you found this bible this afternoon, that means tonight's midnight is already 'tomorrow'...which means that 'tomorrow' is today..."
Wes frowned, not really understanding what Warrick meant. But he said,"Which means that Michael will be kidnapped anytime now..."
TBC
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