Chapter 1
Charles Eppes looked at his watch in exhaustion. "Damn it," he mumbled noticing it was already 11 o'clock. He rubbed his eyes and took another sip of his coffee trying to wake himself up. After grading papers all day, Don came to tell him he needed to decipher a code they found at a crime scene.
Charlie put away his tests he finished grading and looked around for a specific book he needed. He decided to put in a CD to wake himself up. It would be a long night and longer than he knew. Charlie then realized the book he needed was on a high shelf. He groaned in frustration and went on a hunt to find a latter. Walking down the old stairs to the basement, he finally found a latter. He brought it upstairs, set it up, and climbed up it and started throwing unneeded books on the floor. Finally he saw it but right as that moment occurred, his cell phone rang. He grabbed the book and tried to hurry down the latter. On the second step he fell, and tried to catch himself. A horrible pain surged through his leg and he fell to the ground. Trying not to cry, he yelled to try to wake his father. After wailing for a few moments, he finally heard the footsteps of his father. The pain suddenly got worse and he began to cry.
"Charlie?" Alan cried trying to find Charlie.
Charlie just cried. As each second passed by, the pain got worse and worse. He laid on the ground trying not to move his leg.
"Oh my god," Alan said, finding his son on the floor, crying. He reached for the phone and dialed 911 as quickly as he possibly could. He went through the questions with the calm woman on the phone and followed her instructions carefully.
Alan held his son's head until ten minutes later when the ambulance came. Alan let the two men in and they carefully splinted Charlie's leg and carried him to the ambulance. On the way out, Alan grabbed Charlie's cell phone to call Don and Larry.