TRIXIE CHAPTER 27

David put his arms round Charlie and led him to the canteen. He got both of them tonics and sat in the corner.
There were not many people in the cafeteria, some of them were staff and some utility workers just having an early lunch.

"So Charlie do you want to start now or wait for a while?"

"Now, I want to get it off my chest, before something else thing happens."

"OK, let me set the recorder on. Go on Charlie."

"OK, I came to hospital yesterday; it was quite late in the afternoon and when
I came near the lift, Oh My God!" Charlie suddenly exclaimed.

"What is it Charlie, is your hand hurting you?" David asked anxiously.

"David, I saw him, all along I saw him. When I was at CalSci gardens with Amita, I saw a man looking in my direction and I told Amita. When she looked he was gone, that's why she found it hard to believe me.
David, then I came here and as I was going to get the elevator I saw from the elevator's reflection the same blue shirt that I saw at CalSci."

"That man was following you? Charlie why didn't you tell anyone?"

'I took the lelevator purposely to the fifth floor, to confuse him.
I rushed out and ran downstairs to Don's floor.

"I, er..I..didn't think of it anymore, as Don was cleared to leave the hospital the next morning and we were all so happy for Don. In that moment I forgot about it.
I was then engrossed with Trixie, I found out that she a little genius and started giving her some math problems and did not pay attention to the attendant at all. If I had only looked up maybe, maybe I might have been suspicious. But then..

Suddenly I heard Don shouting my name and the next minute someone grabbed Trixie and I was pushed to the ground.

I tried to get up and to go to Trixie but Don again shouted and this time he said 'No! Charlie!"

Suddenly I saw him rushing to me, he tripped and he fell on top of me . Whether it was on purpose or not, Don caught the knife that was going to strike me.

Don was no match for that man and the knife was quickly descended towards his chest.
The knife was gaining and he almost stabbed Don but he managed to deflect it and it cut his hand.

All the time I was pinned down by Don and I didn't dare move for any movement might have caused Don to be stabbed.
All the time Trixie was screaming and twisting. She got free and there was a sudden shift and I was able to stretch out my hand to help Don.
Between both of us, we managed to stop the knife's descent.

In the end he still cut me twice and both of us lost the strength to hold the knife at bay.
My hand was hurting with the knife wounds and Don was not much better, the blood dripped onto his hand; it was a losing battle.

The man gave an evil look and pushed the knife down. It struck Don's shoulder, lost the momentum when we both gave up and the knife was pushed further in into Don's shoulder. I remembered Don's anguished, painful cry. He was rolling on the floor with pain. The man then ran out.

I remembered trying to stop Don from causing further damage to his knife wound and kept pushing both my hands to his shoulder, to stop the bleeding. Then the nurses came and someone led me away to the clinic.

Everything was a blur after that."

David nodded, he kept quiet when Charlie was relating the incident.

So Charlie saw the perp twice and twice he had managed to wound Don.

David thanked Charlie for his statement and switched off his recorder.
He wrote a few line of notes on his small pad and stood up.

"Thank you very much Charlie, that clears up the matter of who had attacked Don twice.
Er.. Charlie, a bit of advice, if you see things like people following you or you've picked up that perp's ID, please let me or Megan know right away.

I know because of your brother you got distracted but please try to remember the next time.
Don's and Trixie's lives, or even yours and your dad's lives might be in danger. Anything from now on, please let us know.
Until we catch the crook, we don't they are safe,
even though Trixie has a bodyguard.

Merrick has not ordered a 24/7 guard duty on Don for we do not know if Don's the target. For now we only guessed that Trixie's the one because of the way

hewas seen holding on to Trixie. We will guard Don on our own time for now until we get Merrick to order the guard duty."

Charlie said quietly, "I should have told one of you, should have."

"Charlie, as Megan said earlier, what's done is done. Now we concentrate on catching that perp. We need your help, if you can still pull out some numbers out of your hat."

Charlie brightened up immediately, "I'll get to it. I'll find out the most likely way he's going to 'kidnap' Trixie or hurt Don. We have enough data on it."

"Yes, Charlie, that's my man. Go on and do magic with your numbers. Come let's get to Don's room. Hope Megan managed to find something."

The both walked back the short distance to Don's room.

Tbc

Thanks to Mikiss..