Investigations

Hi everyone! Thanks for the supportive posts, and I'm sorry it's been so long, I have a life too you know:-) jk, anyway, in this chapter, stuff will be revealed! Well...not too much. But it will begin to make sense. As for Miss Jasadin, I know you are still waiting, hopefully I'll soon catch up!


"Whoa whoa whoa. I still don't get a word of this stuff."

"Josh was just in his office when the bomb went off, good thing it did little damage, I'll say," Donna blurted to the lieutenant.

"Now who's Josh again?"

"Him, the man that was injured! He's in the hospital."

"Washington DC General, I believe," said Leo calmly.

"So who works with this Mosh?"

"Josh," corrected CJ, who had just walked into the room. "And Donna works with him."

"And who are you, ma'am?" asked the lieutenant.

"I'm CJ, but that's not important. Donna, where were you when it happened?"

"Who's Donna?"

Donna raised a hand, but then went on to answer CJ.

"I was passing Leo's office—"

"Who the heck is Leo?"

"—when I heard an explosion from Josh's office."

"But I don't get it. If the bomb—" started the lieutenant.

"So you weren't too close."

"Excuse me? I am a policem—"

"No, I don't think anyone was."

"Excuse me! Can I ask a few questions!"

"Hold on," said Leo. "Laura here was right near the office when it happened, right, Laura?"

"Who's Laura?"

"Yes, I was… I just…heard something loud, a bang…And I saw flames…"

"Yes, ma'am, continue with that juicy story, my police chief will love this…Get all sorts of publicity…Was it loud? Was it—"

"Wait a second," said Donna. "I heard a woman's scream after the explosion. That was you, right Laura?"

"Was it all firey and explosioney?"

"No…I wasn't the one screaming…But I did hear a scream…funny…" said Laura quizzically.

"Tell me more about this explosion—"

At this point, CJ, Leo, and Donna shouted in unison, "Get out!" to the lieutenant.

"Please go back to your chief and tell him to send someone more sensible!" yelled CJ.

The man backed off.

"Now," she continued. "We need to sort out what happened, and we're not getting close. So. Anyone involved—hi Sam, good that you made it—anyone involved will meet at four in the Roosevelt Room, and we'll get this all figured out."

Sam seemed confused.

"What happened?"

Donna started to explain as everyone filed out of the room, the lieutenant flashing his badge so that he could make way.

"Well," she started, "I guess Josh was alone in his office, and a bomb went off in here. Then we all rushed here, and found Laura already here, so we went in. Josh was lying right…there. Near the back wall, on the ground. Right near where the bomb went off."

"That's weird. What was he doing on the floor?"

"Haven't the foggiest. But he got hit bad. Luckily, it wasn't a big bomb, but he may need plastic surgery…got him right in the face. His hands were burnt too."

"It hit him in the face?"

"Yeah, I know, it's weird."

"So would you say the Josh was…looking at the bomb when it went off?"

"Yeah, maybe…"

"Just a thought. Where's Toby?"

"Oh…I don't know. Not around, I guess. I haven't seen him all day."

"Well, I need to get back to the Hill and apologize to some idiot Republicans."

"Good luck," Donna smiled.

Open…and shut. Now the room was empty. Donna wanted to investigate. The bomb had apparently been placed near the back of the room, hidden under the radiator. The carpet here was singed, and a section of the radiator black. The flames had only been recently extinguished.

But it left a mystery. Why was Josh on the floor right next to it? If he had been at his desk working, it would have hit his chair from behind, sending him flying forward. But this was different. Maybe he was looking out the window… But if the chair had been rolled over there, then the bomb would have gotten his legs. It just made no sense. What had happened in there…

Donna thought about it for a long time. Then her face went pale. She dropped down on her knees and started searching. She ran her hands under the radiator, all over the place. Then she found what she had been looking for. She grabbed it, and ran back to her office. She stuffed it in a Ziploc Bag and pushed it into the bottom drawer on her desk. Just then, CJ came in.

"Oh, hi CJ."

"Hi, Donna. I have news."