Steve`s Country
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The Investigators, Inc. Mystery Of The Beginning. Chapter 10.
“John said he was taking the PI to some weird place, named Krasnoy…something,” said Melanie. “Krasnoyarsk?”, asked Kristina. “Yeah, that’s the name,” said Melanie excited, “but I don’t know where that is, and that’s the truth.” “It is in Russia, along some river, though I cannot remember the name of the river,” said Kristina, “that will be a tough place to get in.” “Yes, it sure will be tough,” said Kat, “unless we can intercept them before they get there. What kind of plane are they using, commercial or private?” “Not commercial, John leased a small jet,” said Melanie, “oh yeah, he said they might go to Poland for a couple of days before going to that other place. But I do not know why.”
“Do you know what town or city they will be at?” asked Kat. “Um, Gdansk. I am not sure if I pronounced that right,” said Melanie. “Yes, that is right,” said Kristina, “that would be a good spot to stop them if possible.” “Yes, it certainly would,” said Kat, “but John has a long head start, I doubt we could do it. It would be better to go ahead to Krasnoyarsk and wait for him there. What do you think Baldwin, can we do it?” “Well, getting in might not be hard,” he answered, “getting out might not be easy. You can fly to Berlin and I will have a different jet waiting for you. I own a company in Moscow and this is one of their jets, it is Russian so it will not be so noticeable. Hopefully there is an airport in that town or very close to it because you will not have transportation, you will have to get that yourself.”
“Okay Kristina, you are coming along on this one,” said Kat, “we need your language skills.” Melanie turns to Jennifer and says, “I’m sorry your husband is in such a mess, if I had known what John was doing I never would have gotten involved with him. But he made so many wonderful promises.” “Actually, he is my husband,” said Kat, “Jennifer and I are twins and sometimes she pretends to be me to protect me from danger and be a bodyguard to Steve.”
“Wow, now that is an amazing sister,” said Melanie, rather shocked. “Yes, she certainly is amazing,” said Kat smiling. “I do not feel amazing right now,” said Jennifer, “and I want to come along.” “Sorry Jenny,” said Kat, “but we need to leave right away, and you need to stay here for a while longer.” “No way!”, said Jennifer, “I got Steve into this mess, I am going to help get him out!”
Meanwhile, flying high in the sky over the ocean… This is not good, I’m thinking to myself. There is just no way they can follow me right now. I have to try something. “Hey John,” I said, “would it be too much to remove these handcuffs? Sitting like this with my back is causing a lot of pain.” John laughed, “take the cuffs off of him.” One of his men did so and that is sure a relief. “Lie down and get some sleep,” said John, “it is a long trip, I don’t want you to be worn out.” “Oh, you want me feeling good before you kill me?”, I asked. John laughed again.
“I don’t plan on killing you Steve,” he said, “I have something better in mind. I plan on letting you go again, but after you have had some treatments in Dr. Brodsky’s clinic.” “Do I get to know what is going to happen, or is that a secret?”, I ask. “Oh, it won’t hurt since you won’t remember anyway,” said John, “actually, you will not remember anything after driving up to that old house. You will receive treatments for a couple of days and you will be released, feeling quite normal. But, after a while things will begin to change and you will become grumpy, angry and even perhaps quite mean, with your team members and even your wife. Then you will begin to slowly go into that “nowhere” state of mind again and you will kill yourself!
The joy of watching all this take place right to the time you commit suicide, and maybe even take Kat with you! This is going to be much more fun than just killing you.” John begins laughing even more, as do his men. All except one which I figure is the doctor, he has not said one word to anyone so far, though all the others have been talking. He just sits there looking at me, probably studying me and how I act and react. “You may just end up watching all of this from inside a prison somewhere,” I say to John. “Not this time PI, not this time,” he said firmly, “this time I have won. It has been a long time coming and I am enjoying every moment!”
To Be Continued.
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Muffin’s Meows. #1😺
Hi to all my human people friends and all my cat people friends! Muffin here again with my very first post of this year! My human and I had a talk about that one already. Good thing he have those big towels to soak up all the little red fountains on his feet. I don’t even have to dig my claws in very deep. I think he have weak skin or something. My human do strange things sometimes. He moving all these glass bubbles other day, he call them instant ladders, or something like that.
He have strange names for some of his collecting things. I think he collect dust too, sure lots around here. I help him do dusting, I go swish, swish with my tail, then my human make loud roaring sound which he call sneezing. See? He have strange names for everything! Oh wait, almost forgot. Back up to those glass bubbles again, I think my name better than his name. I mean, what kind of name is instant ladders? Very strange indeed.
Anyway, he moving those things around from one shelf to another shelf. That kind of strange too. They sit on shelf. He move them. They still sit on shelf. What he gain on that? Should just leave on first shelf, save time and energy. Sometimes I worry about him. Hey, today my birthday party! It not really my birthday, that last Monday, but we not able to have party then, so we have today instead! Oh, we have so much fun! We play run around table! That work good until my human hit head on table.
Not know why he do that, must hurt. But he do human purring again, oh, so nice of him to do that for my birthday party! Then we play skiffle ball with my fuzzy ball, it going good, but my human kind of clumsy sometimes. Once when I hit fuzzy ball back to him it go off to side a bit and my human make dive for it and hit head on chair. Then he lie on floor on his tummy. He never lie on tummy, too hard for him to get up again. So not know why he do that.
So I go sit on his back, maybe that help massage back. He just mumble into carpet and wave arms. Very strange reaction. Oops, forget again, back to glass bubbles. Anyway, he moving these bubbles to other shelf and he carry 3 in one hand and 2 in other. I think maybe he should only carry one in each hand. But he not listen to me. One slip off his finger and bounce off toes! Oh, the funny faces he made!! I laugh until tummy hurt! He so funny.
And yesterday he want to make delicious cupcakes for my birthday party. So I go watch, maybe he drop egg again like last time. But no egg. Instead when he pick up cupcake pan to put in big hot box thing he drop it on floor instead. Wow, all that just for me! My human just sit down of floor with cupcake gooey stuff all over feet and legs making strange noises, kinda like, “waaaaah”! Very strange, not hear that before. And he put hands on face, filled with gooey stuff which he now have on face. Then he do very big sigh, and do more human purring. He so nice human.
Then he want picture of me today. Not like pictures, so I run, and he run behind me with phone camera thing. I run into bedroom and onto to bed. My human chase me looking into his phone camera thing and “thunk”, he kick stool, phone thing go flying, I chase. My human sit on stool and do human purring again. Wow, talk about great birthday party! Thank you everyone for reading my post! Hope your day good like mine!
Muffin. (top photo show glass bubbles) 😺
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