Post by StoryGirl83 on Nov 9, 2011 14:51:40 GMT -5
Chapter Thirteen – Two Down . . .
Chris walked around the house and was relieved to see Seth’s car parked out front. He walked to the front door and knocked on the door.
Nick opened the door and looked him over. “Who are you?”
“This is my friend, Chris,” Seth said from behind Nick. “He’s the one I told you was coming over to help.”
Nick pulled the door open wider and stepped out of Chris way. “Nick Martinez. Reggie called to say you helped him out.”
“I’m just glad it worked,” Chris told him as he entered the building. “My brother and his co-workers had only been affected since this morning, your friends a lot longer than that.”
“Believe me, I know just how long that’s been,” Nick informed him as he shut the door behind Chris.
“I’ve just come from the Lawson house,” Chris informed him. “Your friend Ev is kind of creepy, almost devoid of emotions.”
“It’s how he copes,” Nick informed him. “Does that mean Ev is cured, too?”
Chris nodded.
Nick considered him for a moment. He walked across the room and grabbed up the phone.
Chris raised an eyebrow at Seth.
Seth shrugged. In a low voice he whispered, “He’s kind of paranoid or maybe he just doesn’t want to be over optimistic.”
“His friends are healed,” Chris assured Seth in a low voice. “At least those two are. I still need to get in to see Jody’s dad.”
“The guy’s waited this long, he can wait longer,” Seth assured him.
“Except I think if we wait much longer, we’ll have to wait until tomorrow.”
“You can orb in,” Seth retorted in a whisper.
“Yeah,” Chris agreed, “and I can turn invisible to avoid sensors, but I can’t force the potion down this guy’s throat. I’ll need to talk to Jarod Powell and if I do that, it better not show up on their security cameras as suspicious. I want to be done with this.”
“I understand,” Seth told him.
“No, I don’t think you do,” Chris argued. In a whispered voice he added, “I still haven’t dealt with the gem itself and until it’s gone for good, I’m going to be very apprehensive.”
Seth grimaced.
“Let’s get going,” Nick said from behind them. “We don’t have a lot of time before visitor hours are over.”
“Let’s go then,” Chris agreed as he headed toward the door.
“Wait,” Peter protested, up until then silent.
Chris looked at him, surprised. “Is something wrong, Peter?”
Peter nodded. “I’ve heard Seth say things about magic has to be kept secret.”
Chris groaned.
Nick looked at Chris, Seth, and Peter uncertain. He sighed. “Curses, magic. Same difference.”
Not really. It was all Chris could do to keep a straight face. There’s a lot more to magic than curses.
“Let’s just go get my friend uncursed,” Nick urged.
“That video you showed us earlier,” Peter pressed. “We need that.”
Nick shook his head. “It’s not a video. It’s a website.”
“Then, you need to take it down.”
Chris glanced at Seth. Peter was right. That was something they needed to deal with.
“It will automatically write over in a week,” Nick informed them. “And no one else has access to this website.”
“You never can be too sure,” Seth informed him.
“We need to go, now,” Nick urged Chris.
“I can deal with it, if you’ll let me,” Seth informed him. “I’m decent with computers.”
Chris rolled his eyes.
“He means,” Peter interrupted. “He’ll stand behind me issuing orders which I will ignore if anything is going to get done.”
Chris snorted. “Sounds about right.”
Seth gave his little brother a look.
Nick looked at them worried. “I’m not sure that’s such a good idea.”
“Give me five minutes,” Peter requested. “I can get it off.”
Nick sighed. “Fine,” he decided as he headed over to his computer. “Five minutes and then everyone is out of here, no arguments.”
“None,” Peter agreed quickly.
“We’ll be on our way,” Chris put in.
“Thank you,” Seth added.
Nick gave him a funny look as he looked up from the key board. “You’re thanking me? I should thank you.”
“And you’re welcome,” Seth informed him, “but it goes both ways. You may think we’re being silly, but this is important.”
Nick nodded, clearly not understanding why this was so important to them, but seeing that it was indeed important to them. He typed in some pass codes and brought up the web site’s admin section. He got out of the chair and turned to Peter. “Have at. Be careful not to mess up anything else though.”
Peter grinned as he slid into the chair. “No problem. All I’m going to do is get rid of all evidence of what happened when the gem was stolen out of the cave.” That said, he turned to the computer screen and got to work.