A/N Hello, everyone, immense apologies for the lateness of this update, things have been somewhat crazy lately.

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Don was having a hard time focusing on his assigned task of investigating the money laundering associated with Wunderkind Incorporated, when he knew that down the hall several teams of agents were working on finding Charlie and Frank. Money laundering seemed insignificant next to that.

He didn't have much to go on so far, beyond an alert from a bank that the companies transactions appeared somewhat suspicious, not as a result of extremely large cash deposits, but actually because the money deposits were too perfect.

Wunderkind was reputed to be a consulting firm that provided advice to individuals and small businesses making it difficult to actually nail down where the money was coming from and raising suspicions that the organization was a front company for illegal dealings of some sort.

Normally, Don could have found it interesting attempting to unravel it all, but right now he just found it to be a waste of time and effort when he could be helping to locate his brother and cousin as well as all the other missing geniuses.

He was certain he had never been more frustrated in his entire life.

-Story Break-

If Don thought he was frustrated he had nothing on Joe who was stuck back at the Craftsman being forced to take it easy while his mind swam with horrific scenarios of what his brother and cousin were possibly going through.

It didn't help any that he had Callie, Laura and Alan as company, although all three attempted to disguise their worry from Joe and each other it was clear that they were frantic with worry. Callie spent most of the day with Joe in the living room talking about everything except her missing husband.

Laura and Alan retreated to the kitchen early that morning and neither Joe nor Callie had seen much of them since then.

Joe really hoped he would be allowed back on the case, his father had yet to be removed but he wasn't sure whether he would be allowed to remain on it, considering that he was ostensibly a witness to two of the abductions, despite remembering nothing.

He supposed that he would simply have to wait and see. Joe was never good at waiting.

-Story Break-

Mr. Jones had arrived in Frank's room and escorted him to a conference room several minutes ago. The other captive geniuses had already been hard at work on their respective projects for at least two or three hours at that point.

Frank had been informed that Satori would be joining him shortly to explain the details of his assignment to him.

"Good afternoon, Dr. Hardy," Satori greeted strolling briskly into the room. "I'm sure you are wondering what project you will be working on, and I am happy to inform you that it is an extremely interesting one."

Frank refrained from informing his captor that he was really not at all eager to begin working on his assignment and could really care less about pleasing Satori's client. He didn't think that the other man would take kindly to such a response.

"I'm sure you know that it is a necessity for many organizations to pass on information in a coded for so that outside parties cannot crack the code, you may be aware that many people use numerical based encryptions to accomplish this, the problem with such methods being that if the key is discovered the entire message is compromised." Satori continued.

"Isn't that the problem with any coded message?" Frank pointed out. "I don't really see how I can help you with this."

"That is where you are wrong, Dr. Hardy," Satori replied amicably. "Government officials are always on the lookout for numerically encrypted messages, employing people such as your cousin to find the pattern and crack the code, but they seldom check for literature based codes."

Frank refrained from pointing out that it was probably because no one really used codes based on literature. Instead he simply said: "Literature based codes?"

"My client would like you to devise him a code based an obscure work of ancient literature of your choice, it can be relatively simple, such as using the third letter of every word or whatever else you can think up." Satori explained.

"For what purpose am I developing this code?" Frank asked warily.

"Do not look so afraid, Dr. Hardy, it is only to provide information for arms dealers on shipment dates and the like, nothing so very bad."

The private detective had held the idea that he and Satori had very different conceptions of what constituted very bad, it had now been confirmed beyond a reasonable doubt. In Frank's opinion helping dangerous people smuggle illegal weapons into the country was very bad, indeed.

"I assume that you will need to consult different works to devise an effective code," Satori continued onward. "Therefore, if you could please be so good as to follow me? I have something that I believe could be of service."

In response to that cryptic remark, Frank rose from his seat at the conference table and followed his kidnapper up a flight of stairs and down three hallways until they stopped outside a set of double doors. Satori removed a key from his pocket and opened the doors to reveal an immense library filled with shelves upon shelves of books.

Normally, he would have been excited by the prospect of so many works of literature instead he was mostly worried about his assigned task. He really hoped that one of the others would come up with a way to get them out of here soon, before they were forced to make any more contributions to Satori or his 'associates.'

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