Carrie 8

Chapter 8

It was a little after midnight when Jace was jarred out of a sound sleep by an almost hammering knock on his door. Jace was laying on his back on the couch, Carrie was laying half on the couch and half on his chest. Her head raised from it's resting spot on his collar bone. They had dozed off next to each other on the couch and had ended up in this position when they sagged over in their sleep and shifted around.

"What is it?!" she said rubbing sleep out of her eyes. She looked at the position they were in and jumped off of him when she realized where she was.

"Probably my parents," he said, "Tonight was there date night and they went to Orlando to eat at their favorite restaurant. I left a message on dad's phone about the little bit of excitement that we had here earlier tonight right before we laid down."

"And they're just now getting here to check on you?" asked Carrie.

Jace chuckled as he and Carrie sat up.

"It's not as bad as it sounds," said Jace, "Mom doesn't like to risk getting interrupted when there on their weekly date so she makes him turn his phone off while they're in the restaurant. So, he probably didn't get my message until they got home."

Jace stood up and walked over to the door, and made to pull aside the chair he was using to barricade the door.

"Wait Jace," said Carrie, "I can't meet your parents, I'm a mess! Besides, what will they say when they find a girl in your apartment."

"First you may be a mess but you're a beautiful mess," said Jace, "And as for having a girl in my apartment, my mom after me to meet a nice girl and 'settle down' ever since I moved out, so she'll be thrilled that I have a girl in here."

Jace turned and pulled the chair away the door opened and his parents came rushing in. Carrie Saw they were both on the tall side and Dark haired, Blue-eyed, and ruddy faced like their son his Mother a tall woman with dark hair like Jace wrapped her arms around her son. Jace hugged her bag.

"I'm fine, mom," he said soothingly. His dad even looked worried this time.

"Son," he said, "I know that you can take care of yourself, and I don't like to pry, but what have you gotten yourself into this time?!"

"Well, Dad," he said, "To make a long story short, it's basically a missing person's case that is mixed up with a scam that involves more than enough money to kill for."

"I know your Father and I can't expect you to back off, so please be careful!" said his mother. Jace was about to reply when she caught sight of Carrie who was sitting nervously on the couch.

"Elias," said Jace's Mother, "Do you see what I see?! It appears to be a girl!"

Jace's father turned and caught sight of Carrie. He walked over to her and appeared to study her for a minute. At first Carrie was a little uneasy but then she suddenly noticed that though he was trying to look serious his eyes were twinkling.

"Yep," he said turned back to his wife, "That's a girl all right." Carrie Blushed and suppressed a giggle.

"All right knock it off you two," said Jace rolling his eyes, "Mom, Dad, this is my new partner Carrie White. Carrie these are my Parents Elias and Amy Pierson.

"Carrie White," said his mother her eyes widening! Jace nodded to his mother's thoughts.

"Yes, Mother she's that Carrie White, the one from the Black Prom," he said, "But there's a lot about it that you don't know. If you sit down a minute I'll tell you what you don't know."

Jace's parents sat down on the couch next to Carrie and listened as she and Jace gave them a quick version of the whole story.

Jace's Mother turned and to Carrie's surprised pulled her into a hug.

"Carrie," she said, "I believe that things happen for a reason, and if you found your way to my son it was because you were meant to."

"Agreed," said Elias, "From what you've told is it sounds Like our son is the very man that you need, so Welcome to the family."

"Hey," said Jace with a chuckle, "Don't rush things we're not even in an official relationship."

"Yet," said Carrie Jace turned toward and quirked his left eyebrow. She blushed again

Carrie was so happy that she felt like she might cry. Jace thanked his parents for their understanding and acceptance of Carrie.

After they left Jace and Carrie decided it was time to clock back in. they took the elevator back down to the garage and jumped into Jace's Camaro. A little over 30 minutes later they pulled into the parking lot Avano's building.

Jace parked the car back in the shadows where it was almost invisible in the night. He and Carrie also kept to the shadows as they approached the building. When they got to the door Carrie's eyes dilated and there was a scrubbing sound followed by a click as the door unlocked. Carrie started to reach for the door handled when suddenly Jace caught her hand and stopped her.

"hold it," he said and nodded toward something in the lobby, Carrie peered through the window glass and spotted what Jace had. It was the control pad for a security system.

"If we don't enter the right security code within a certain amount of time after opening this door the alarm will go off." He said

"Well what do we do now?" asked Carrie

"I've got an idea," said Jace, "We need to get up to the roof. That's where they generally stash the power box for these private security systems. And if we can get to it we can disable it."

Carrie nodded in understanding and she and Jace walked around to the side of the building. After they checked to make sure no one was around to see them, Carrie's eyes dilated and Jace's irises began to glow white. They levitated off the ground and floated up to the top of the building.

After their feet touched the roof, it didn't take them long to find what they were looking for especially since the security company's logo was plastered all over the box. Opening the box Jace use a wire cap to lock two of the largest wires together.

"There," he said when had finished, "no opening the door will have no affect because now the alarm circuit can't be broken."

The two telekinetic detectives levitated back down and opened the door. Slipping inside they took the elevator up to the third floor where Avano's office was located. When they got there Carrie made quick work of the lock on the door.

They walked into the office and pulled out their flashlights and began looking around. Jace paused in the middle of the room as Carrie walked over and began to go through the file cabinets.

"There is something off about this room," he said half to himself, "Something is different and I can't quite put my finger on it."

"Hey," said Carrie, "here's something you can put your finger on!" Jace walked over to where Carrie was standing and looked at what she had pulled out of a previously locked file cabinet. It was a file but more specifically it was a dossier on Josie the girl they had spoken to earlier that night.

"Aha, "said Jace, "This is how Avano manages to tell his followers all about themselves, there is nothing supernatural about it. As I suspected he's investigated all of them ahead of time and has files on each of them."

Jace and Carrie started going through the rest of the file cabinet. They found, as they expected, detailed files on every one of his followers and they were all from well to do and fairly well to do families. He's methodically brainwashing to hand over control of their finances to him.

"Well were found what we suspected about Avano was true," said Carrie sounding a little discouraged, "So we really don't know anything new." As soon as these words were out of her mouth, Jace stopped dead in his tracks!

"That's it!" he exclaimed, "That's what's different in this office!"

"What?" Carrie Asked

"That window over there behind Avano's desk," Replied Jace, "the reason that it doesn't looked the same as the others is because it's not original like the other two, it's brand new!"

"you think that's the window that we saw in the telepathic flash we got from Avano!?" cried Carried

"Exactly," said Jace, "And I believe that the shadowy form we saw going through it was Sue!"

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