Icarus Investigation 01 - Flapjack (v5.0) by Daniel Ganninger

Author:Daniel Ganninger
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Amazon.com
Published: 2013-12-02T08:00:00+00:00

-Chapter 36-

I stood at the door of the hospital room, trying to process what happened. All of a sudden a nurse rushed in and blew past me, yanked the nasal cannula off his face, and replaced it with a mask. I stepped back as Dr. Garcia and Galveston came rushing in.

"He’s in shock," Dr. Garcia yelled, looking at the monitors, and immediately gave the nurse orders for his care. They stabilized his erratic heartbeat quickly, and the Colonel’s breathing normalized after a few minutes.

"What are we working with?" the doctor asked us. Galveston and I looked at each other, dumbfounded for a response. I thought for a second and it occurred to me what was happening to the man in the bed.

"He doesn’t have a strain of tuberculosis," I said while Galveston’s face turned white, thinking I was going to blow our cover. "He has been poisoned." The doctor looked shocked.

"Poisoned? What kind, and how do you know that is the cause?"

"Something at his home poisoned him. We need to go there and find it." I figured this would be a good line for our escape, plus we needed to find out what was in that desk. The Colonel had probably not been truthful with them about when he got sick, most likely to cover his impropriety. Galveston was confused, but went with the story I had started.

"Yes that’s a good idea. Where can we get his address? This might be our only chance to save his life."

"Get it from the nurse. Hurry, I don’t know how long he will hang on." The doctor went back to looking at the monitors. Galveston and I quickly turned and left the room before any more questions could be asked.

We paused at the nurses’ station to retrieve our translator.

"Come on lover boy," Galveston said grabbing Manuel by the shirt collar, pulling him away from his conversation.

"I call you," I heard Manuel say as we dragged him backwards. "Oh, I was so close."

"You didn’t have a chance," Galveston retorted.

We went back through the double doors toward the elevators, but detoured down the stairs next to them.

"What’s the hurry?" Manuel yelped.

"Ask him," Galveston said pointing toward me.

"You need to drive us Manuel, I hope you know Monterrey," I said to our new colleague, but realized we had forgotten something. "Ah crap Dan, we forgot to get the address,"

"I’ll be back," Galveston shouted, already leaping back up the stairs, skipping one at a time as he went. He left Manuel and me standing in the stairwell.

"So, do you know the Monterrey streets?" I asked him.

"Pretty good. I had a senorita here. She had a brother, he don’t like me. I got to know some of the streets well while he chase me."

"I hope so. We need to get to this guy’s house quick. I tell you what. Go get the car and meet us in front. We’ll be down in a second."

Manuel nodded his head and raced down the stairs, disappearing beyond the adjacent stairwell. Just then I looked up and Galveston was already returning, a piece of paper in his hand.

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