Sleep When You're Dead by Chris Hollenback
Author:Chris Hollenback
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Titletown Publishing, LLC
Published: 2013-12-07T16:00:00+00:00
21
TUESDAY, JANUARY 25
Casey had a sleep attack.
“Don’t shoot!” Nell yelled. She held up her badge to the shotgun muzzle. “FBI.”
The man in the door had a comb-over, just as Sandy from the gas station had described the taxi driver. They had found Ed Plasky, driver of Cab Twelve.
He didn’t open the door. “D’respassing at night is a good way da get shot, don’tcha know,” he said through the glass. Casey recognized his Upper-Michigan accent—he was a Yooper. “Put yer hands up.”
Nell shook Casey out of the attack. They both raised their hands.
The man opened the door, aiming the gun at them. He looked Nell up and down, smiled, then pointed his shotgun at Casey. “What do yas want?”
“Mr. Plasky, I’m Agent Jenner, FBI. Can we come in and talk?”
He aimed the shotgun at her. “About?”
“The last customer you picked up by Hail Stadium,” Nell said.
He glared at her. “Oh, I don’t dake notes on my customers, sweetheart. I just drive ’em.”
Nell and Casey shared a glance.
Ed backed into his cabin, closed the door, and disappeared from view.
“He’s running,” Nell said, sprinting around the cabin, gun in hand.
“Wait!” Casey said, following her around the corner, slipping on the snow, falling, and catching himself with his hand on the ground.
Nell halted, hunched a bit, pointed the gun in front of her with her flashlight right under the pistol barrel, her elbows slightly bent. They heard a car door slam and the taxi engine turn. Headlights illuminated. “Stop!” Nell said, standing next to the vehicle, gun aimed at the front windshield. “We just want to talk.”
Ed pointed the shotgun at them. Casey froze in partial cataplexy and sleep paralysis, his head and shoulders slouching. He wished it could have been complete cataplexy so he’d be out of the line of fire, and envisioned a headline:
NARCOLEPTIC MAN NEARLY FILLS HIS PANTS
“Get out of the car!” Nell shouted. “Throw the weapon out the window. Now!”
To Casey’s surprise, Ed electronically lowered the passenger-side window, chucked the gun out and to the ground, then raised his hands.
Nell ran to him, opening the car door, pulling him out of the cab and cuffing his wrists behind his back.
“Ow. I ain’t done a ding.”
“Then why run?”
“I dought yas were da ones dat kidnapped Elena.”
Nell winced. “I showed you my badge.”
“Dey got dem badges at Halloween stores and dat. Can’t trust nobody dese days.”
“Who kidnapped Elena?” Nell said.
“I don’t know,” Eddie said. “But I read in da papers she’s missing.”
“How do we know you’re not the kidnapper?” Nell said.
“Can I explain inside? It’s freezing out here and I ain’t got no shirt on.”
Nell scoffed. “You were the one that ran out here half-naked.”
Ed walked toward the house, wearing blaze-orange hunting pants and matching suspenders. He had graying chest hair. “Am I under arrest or something?”
“No, we just have a few questions,” Nell said. “First, let’s see the trunk.”
Casey knew why she demanded that. After Jeffrey Dahmer had committed his first murder and shoved the victim in the trunk of his car, police had pulled Dahmer over but failed to check the trunk thoroughly.
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