The Thunder Rolls
By: Jake Boney
Chapter 8: Brotherly Love
There were local cops all over the place, Pete and Myka had called the Thompson murder in after talking to Claudia. Forensics was not a strong suit for either one of the Warehouse agents. Pete and Myka figured that there was a good chance that the local police would find something that they might miss. While the cops were covering the murder investigation, they decided to go over to the hospital and interview the victims of the Key. Now that they had no suspects again, it seemed important to get as much information from the victims as they could. They got in their Tahoe, and took off for the hospital, Claudia had discovered that almost all of the victims were at the same one. There were about ten different hospitals in Philly, but only one had a doctor who was well versed in lightning strikes, and that was, ironically, Franklin General, and that was where they were headed.
"Yo," said Claudia, "what's up?" Pete and had Myka called in to the Warehouse to get an update about the Thompson murder.
"Have you heard anything back from the local P.D.?" said Myka, "We were hoping that they might have found something by now."
"Actually, they did send us a report with a couple of interesting items." said Claudia, "It appears that there were only four sets of fingerprints in the entire house. Two of them belonged to you guys, one to the victim, and the other belonged to a man named Leonard Krimp."
"Krimp?!" said both Pete and Myka simultaneously.
"Yeah, Krimp." said Claudia, "Do you guys recognize that name or something?"
"Krimp is the name of the owner of the machine shop that the majority of the victims worked at." said Pete. "We talked to him a few hours ago, he put us onto the scent of Thompson, and gave us the address and everything. I find it hard to believe that he would send us right to the scene of a murder that he committed."
"I see your confusion." said Artie, who had just walked in from doing some inventory in the Utah sector of the Warehouse. "The owner of the machine shop is Alan Krimp, Leonard is his older brother. Alan inherited the shop after his father's passing about three years ago. Leonard was on some pretty bad controlled substances at the time, so their father gave the company to his younger son instead of the older son. We have information that tells us that Leonard hung around with our deceased Thompson quite often."
"Wow," said Pete, "Artie has been pretty busy recently. That is a lot of good intel. How many hours have you had our poor young computer genius hacking away to find all this information?"
"Contrary to popular belief," said Artie, "I do know how to use a computer Pete. You do remember that we were able to function without the wonderful Miss Donovan. Back to the point, we may be dealing with a man trying to sabotage his brother's success. Before this week's lay-offs, Krimp's shop had some pretty costly machinery break-downs, mostly due to power surges. We think that Leonard may have stolen the Key prior to all this, and that Jerry Thompson caught him trying to put it back."
"That makes sense," said Myka, "Jerry was probably smart enough to connect the dots. When he saw Leonard in his house, with the Key in hand, he probably began accusing Leonard of the recent lightning strikes. This would have caused Leonard to need to tie up loose ends, and Jerry was the first one. He probably tossed the house to make it look like a robbery."
I would like to apologize for the delay, I have been suffering from a bad case of writer's block. I am trying to get back into the swing of things, and I hope that I haven't disappointed my readers. Again, thanks for taking the time to read.
Disclaimer: I do not own Warehouse 13 or any of it's characters. I do however own the plot of this story, and any of the original characters contained within.