DISCLAIMER: Not my characters...except for the evil dude.

Thanks to those that read and reviewed my story. Writing is such a personal thing to me so it is hard for me to put my work out there. Here is a couple of more chapters for you folks.

Chapter 4

"Agent Eppes, how good of you to call."
Don felt frozen to the floor. The voice that answered the phone was cold, calm, and calculating. It made his blood freeze.

"Who is this?" Don asked.

At the question and the sound of the sudden edge to Don's voice David and Terry heads snapped up from their work. Don was tight with tension; every fiber of his body was on alert. Instinct, training and experience told him something was not right. Terry snapped her fingers at a younger agent to hand her a recorder.

"This is a friend of Charlie's," the voice told him.

"Where is Charlie?" Don asked him.

"Oh Charlie," the voice said with a bit of amusement to it, "he is unavailable at the moment."

"Why is Charlie unavailable."

The voice laughed. Don felt his blood pressure rising again. Terry heard the laughter coming out of Don's phone and saw the muscle in his jaw twitch.

"Oh, Agent Eppes you sure to have a lot of questions. Yes, questions, question…

but not any answers, am I right?"

Don couldn't breath. With that question, what he had feared had been confirmed. He felt a whole new feeling for the first time during the whole case. He wasn't frustrated, angry, or upset…he just felt defeated.

Don took a deep breath, "Why is Charlie unavailable?"

"Still with the questions!" the voice exclaimed. "You have figured out whom you are talking to have you not?"
"Yes."

"Good, good. Smart…like your brother. But not as smart as your brother."

"Can I talk to Charlie?" Don asked.

"Oh hold on," then the voice sounded muffled as if he had turned his head. "Charlie! Charlie…no sorry he is, um, a little tied up at the moment."

Don clenched his teeth, "Tied up where."

The voice just laughed and laughed. Don knew the question sounded ludicrous, but it often is the simplest question that gets the answer. "Now Agent Eppes, I can't give away all the answers in the first phone call. Goodbye."

With that the call was over. Don looked at David and Terry. He realized that the whole office was watching with bated breath.

"He has Charlie."