Carrie 9
Chapter 9
Carrie turned and walked over to the window. As soon as she touched the glass he could hear the same heartbeat that she and Jace had heard in Sue's bedroom when she touched the poster. However, the Rhythm was slower than it had been.
"Jace," she said, "I still hear the heartbeat, Sue's still alive, but we have to hurry she's getting weaker!"
Jace took out his phone and photographed as many of the files as he could, then he and Carrie hurried outside the building.
"Hey, Carrie," he said as they emerged, "I noticed that Sue's file is missing!"
"Are you surprised?" asked Carried
"No," Jace replied
They rounded the corner of the building and found themselves standing in the parking lot looking up at Avano's window.
"How did she survive that fall?!" said Carrie
Jace glanced around and spotted something in nearby dumpster. Walking a little closer he recognized what was in it and sticking out of it.
"That's how she survived," he said pointing to the dumpster. Walking closer, Carrie saw what he meant, in the dumpster were the remnants of two heavy duty awnings.
"I'll just bet that if we check we'll find that those Awnings were underneath the window that sue was thrown through," said Jace, "But she hit those awnings and even thought they broke out from under her they slowed her fall enough to keep her alive."
"Then she must have been somehow able to pull herself to her feet and get away," said Carrie
"Right," said Jace, "But the Question which way did she go? It rained the same night that she disappeared so their probably no blood trail."
Carrie walked up to the dumpster and laid her hand on the material of the awning. She immediately saw a flash of the same form. This time she could make out blonde haired girl pulling herself up and half staggering and half dragging her left leg as she made her escape toward the nearby woods, the rain destroying the blood trail behind her. Carrie could also tell that she had something in her hand before the flash ended.
Carrie came out of the vision.
"What did you see?" asked Jace
"You were right about everything?" said Carrie, "Sue managed to survive because of the awning." She turned and pointed toward a Stand of trees on the other side of the road.
"She went that way,"
Carrie and Jace turned ran toward the stand of trees. After they got across the road they the eased their way into the woods their flashlight beams going this way and that. They went about fifty yards back into the woods when they came to a hidden sandy ravine. As soon as they peered down into the ravine they saw a figure laying motionless at the bottom of the ravine near a blackberry bush.
Jace and Carrie took one look at each other and practically dove into the ravine. When they got to her they found that she was unconscious.
Jace noticed to berry juice stains among the bloodstains on her shirt.
"Looks like she was eating blackberries to try and stay alive before she lost consciousness," he said.
"Yeah," said Carrie holding her hand above Sue's abdomen, "I sense some internal bleeding, we've got to get her to a hospital fast!"
Activating their telekinesis, they levitated Sue and themselves up into the air and back to Jace's car. After they laid her in the backseat Carrie climbed in with her and held her steady while Jace drove as fast as he could to the nearest hospital.
When Eleanor Snell received the call that Sue had been found alive. She broken down sobbing. Jace waited until she calmed down and told her to come to Atwater General Hospital. When she got there Sue was in surgery to repair the internal injuries she had suffered. The surgery was complete success but the doctor said that it was close of Jace and Carrie hadn't found Sue and gotten her to the hospital when they did she probably wouldn't have made it.
A few hours later back in her room Sue opened her eyes. The first person she saw was her mother.
"Mom!" she cried. Eleanor gently embraced her daughter. Sue hugged her back as much as she was able to with all the wires and IV's hooked to her.
"Mom," she said, "How did you find me?"
"I didn't," she said, "I hired a couple of private Investigators, they found you and brought you here."
"I'd love to meet them," said Sue
"You already know one of them." Said a familiar voice.
Sue's head jerked around at the sound of that voice.
"Carrie!" she gasped
"Hello Sue," said Carrie shyly
"You found me?!" Sue asked
"Me and My Partner Jace Pierson," she replied motioning to Jace
"Hi," said Jace
"Hi," said Sue, "And Thanks I owe both of you my life."
"Forget it," said Jace, "I'm just glad it ended this way."
"Jace," said Carrie, "I know that we were only hired to find Sue and we've done that, but we can't just stand by and let Avano get away with this. He's scamming people out of there money and he tried to kill Sue!"
"Don't worry Carrie," said Jace, "There is no way that we're going to let Avano get away. Speaking of which."
He turned to Sue.
"I'm Guessing that Avano tried to kill you because you found those dossiers in his office and realized that he was a fraud."
Sue nodded,
"I felt like such a fool when I got home after I found those files," she said, "That's when I slashed the poster of Avano in my room. I was still so angry at him and myself for being so gullible that I did very foolish thing after the next meeting I confronted him with my own dossier and that's when he attacked me and threw me out the window. I could barely believe I was still alive when I hit the ground but I knew had had to get away. So, I forced myself to my feet through the pain and a made for the trees the back weather that moved in covered my escape. Then my adrenaline wore off, the pain hit and I couldn't go any further. You know the rest."
Just as Sue finished, Detective Jackson walked in.
"Hi, Steve," said Jace shaking hands, he turned to the Snells and explained.
"Mrs. Snell," he said, "I called the police before you got here, I strongly suspect that Avano knows that Sue is still alive somewhere and is still looking for her. So, Detective Jackson is going to provide police protection until we can nail Avano."
"Well you're going to have to hurry," said Detective Jackson, "I just heard before I left the office, that those two Gulf Shore boys that we had locked up were just bailed out by their lawyer and a buddy of mine at the courthouse tells me that the lawyer that got them out works for Avano too!"
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