Heavy Traffic by Katherine Kim

Author:Katherine Kim [Kim, Katherine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-12-24T22:00:00+00:00

9

“You sure it’s okay that you skip class today?”

Caroline sighed and shrugged. “Yeah, I think that my Intro to Criminology T.A. will accept part of an active Federal investigation as a valid excuse for missing class. And this afternoon’s just math. As long as I pass the tests, that guy doesn’t care about attendance.”

Besides, she felt that finding the missing students and Lucas was a bit more important than sitting in a lecture hall for a grade. Right now, they were sitting at the conference table in the tech department, hunched over a large screen tablet with a map on it. When it wasn’t being taken over by agents on a case, the table was often covered in computer parts and other electronic bits and pieces. There were small gouges and scorch marks and silvery drips of solder all over the surface that spoke to its real life as a workbench. A very expensive, once attractive workbench.

She had called Shelly an hour earlier to let her know what was going on, and that there was an official investigation on Janine’s disappearance, and the relief and hope in Shelly’s voice by the end reinforced Caroline’s determination, so here she was.

“This is the alley that Mike and Lucas disappeared from,” Greg tapped the map and a digital pin lit up again. “And this is where Shelly says that Janine disappeared. Nobody knows where Lucas’ friend Sara was, but as near as we can tell this is her last known location.” He tapped a few more locations. None of them were actually on the campus, but all of them were within a mile and a half of it, except for the abandoned van at the motel.

They’d been over this already, twice, but Greg kept going back to it. Caroline groaned and flopped back in her chair. “Yes, Greg. And there was no sign of either Lucas or the kidnappers when you made the rounds at the motel. You tracked the scent up and down the stairs and through the parking lot and then nothing. And so far we have nothing useful from the van itself.”

“Well, we have the owners, but since it was reported stolen months ago, that’s not much help,” Greg said with a grimace.

“This might help,” Shakes held up a thumb drive and grinned on his way through the door.

It was nice to put a face to the name, finally. Shakes turned out to be a small elvish mage with long, strawberry blonde hair pulled back in a braid down his back. Aside from that, he was almost too stereotypical a tech geek, with his faded video game t-shirts, glasses, and slightly superior smirk that fit oddly on his otherwise slightly nervous face.

He had been recruited by the FPAA in the wake of the Beckett fallout, when they’d needed to refill the newly opened positions quickly, and Shakes had turned out to be an unexpected gem. Caroline could tell that he still wasn’t used to the respect he was getting from just about everyone in the building, especially the more senior agents and Chief Point himself.

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