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Thanks, Lazlo Zalezac ===== Lazlo Zalezac http://www.asstr-mirror.org/files/Authors/Lazlo_Zalezac http://www.asstr-mirror.org/files/Authors/Lazlo_Zalezac __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/ <1st attachment, "biggers3-11.txt" begin> JC: Ed Biggers Part 3: Accretion Chapter 11 By Lazlo Zalezac Copyright (C) Lazlo Zalezac, 2004 On landing at the airport, she had called the house and hadn't been able to reach anyone. She then called the police and found that Bob had been taken to the hospital, but the dispatcher didn't have any details concerning the events of that night. Calling the hospital, she had learned that Marguerite and Kelly were there as well, but not available to take her call. Convinced that everyone had been injured, she had been elated to learn that John was at the FBI office. Ling stormed into the Federal Building looking for John. They had just lost Beth and now someone was trying to kill another member of the family while she had been away. When she entered the FBI offices, she told the receptionist, "Take me to John, right now." The receptionist knew that John was in a meeting with Ann and didn't want to disturb them. She replied, "I'm afraid that I can't disturb them. If you'll wait, I'll let him know that he has a visitor." Impatient, Ling raised her voice, "Take me to him now!" Two agents, on their way to get some coffee, heard the commotion in the lobby and went in to see if they could help. The taller agent asked, "Is there a problem here?" Irritated at Ling's insistence, the receptionist answered, "She's making a scene." The agent made the mistake by grabbing Ling by the arm. Ling had worked half the night to arrange a flight home, spent two hours on the plane, and worried the entire night about her family. She wasn't in the mood to be jerked around. Over reacting, she threw the agent to the ground and put her foot on his crotch. The other agent moved in to subdue her and found himself bent over with his arm twisted behind his back. In a voice that was loud enough to carry down the hall, Ling shouted, "Take me to John right now or I'll twist your arm right off." Within seconds, John raced into the room shouting, "Stop it, Ling. I'm okay." She let go of the agent and walked over to John. Hours of worry and frustration boiled over. She slapped him across his face, the sound reverberating through the office. Anger fueled by worry drove her as she asked, "How dare you not call us? We've been worried sick." John rubbed his face in shock. "Ah, I didn't have a chance." She held up a cell phone and asked, "Don't you have one of these?" "No, I don't." They had tried to get him a cell phone earlier, but he could never keep it charged and never thought to use it. "You had better get one today! Ed and I were going crazy. No one was at home. We called the police office and they said that there had been an assassination attempt on you. The dispatcher didn't know if you were okay. She only knew that an ambulance had been called to take one of the men to the hospital." "Ling, calm down." He turned to the other agents and helped the one off the floor. The other one was standing sheepishly rubbing his shoulder. John said, "I have to apologize. She was worried about me." The agent that had been on the ground shook his hands in front of his body. He knew that he had grabbed her and triggered her reaction. "No problem. Let's just not mention it to anyone. Please." Taking a deep breath, John said, "Okay. I'll get her out of here as soon as possible." "Thanks, John. Your wife is a tiger." John laughed as he said, "You should see her when she gets mad." Ling snarled at John and then asked, "Are you done here?" Ling and John left the Federal Building after a very brief conversation with Ann. On the drive to the house, John told Ling about the events of the previous night. Dave, the security person who had replaced Ling when she married into the family, had let the intruders in the house. The men had taken the women in the house one at a time and tied them to the chairs in the dining room as bait for him. When they went to take Bob, Bob had fought like a madman getting knocked unconscious during the fight. Even though the house was quiet when they reached it, Ling was happy to see Cathy was at her post. It tore her apart to see Cathy that tired and she was pleased when John sent her to bed. It still bothered her that no one had answered the phone when she had tried to call the house. Ling went through the security office identifying the sabotage that Dave had performed. He had set the telephone switchboard in the house to route all long distance calls to the security office. That explained why she hadn't been able to get in contact with anyone in the house. Dave had removed all the security tapes before the attack so there wasn't any record of what actually happened in the house. Looking over at John sleeping in a chair in the security room, Ling realized that he had been awake all night. She shook him awake and sent him to bed. She went back to checking the security systems that she had installed. Ed had paced the room from the moment when Ling had flown out until had she called. Once he had found out the details, he was furious with himself that he hadn't taken just a few minutes to talk to Dave before leaving on this trip. One conversation and all of this could have been avoided. The villains, whoever they were, had taken advantage of Beth's death to attack John when he didn't have the full support of the family available. It was only after she let him know that everything was under control back at the house that he actually relaxed. After talking to Ling, Ed hung up the phone and turned to look at Mrs. Hayes. She had sat on the couch waiting with him all night for news from the house. Although she was sitting ramrod straight in the chair looking very proper, she looked as tired as he felt. With a weak frown, he said, "Someone tried to assassinate John last night." Putting her hand in front of mouth in horror at the thought that someone would want to do that, she asked, "Oh my, is he all right?" Shaking his head in the affirmative, Ed said, "John took care of them, but Bob, our handyman, was injured." "That's terrible," replied the elderly woman. With a sigh of weariness, Ed answered, "Yes, it is. There's a lot of evil in this world." Mrs. Hayes watched as Ed walked to the window and looked down at the city below. By his posture, she could tell that the sight bothered him. She asked, "What's the matter?" "I don't like cities. The only improvement that I've seen in city life is air quality. Since John invented the fusion battery, the air is cleaner. The people are still miserable and there is no reason for it," said Ed. With low-cost and highly portable power available, it was possible to live anywhere a person might want, yet people still clung to cities as though there was some benefit to being packed together like sardines in a can. Mrs. Hayes answered, "You just don't know what the city has to offer. There are all kinds of stores, restaurants, and things to do. Cities are vibrant and alive." Smiling at her assessment of the city, Ed replied, "I guess I like my little town. I know everyone and everyone knows me. When I walk down the street, people stop and talk to me. The stores may not be set up for hundreds of shoppers, but the owners take the time to know me. They even stock stuff they think I'll like. Maybe the variety isn't the same as in the city, but the quality is just as good." She laughed and said, "I guess there are differences in people that can never be resolved. I like watching the variety of people in the city." Several days later, leaning against the limousine as he waited for Ling's arrival, Ed thought about the past ten days. The investigation had progressed nicely and the scope was now national in scale. The case was very ugly. Even listening to the details as the agents brought in the reports made Ed sick to his stomach. He couldn't wait for the case to end. His plans for the day were simple, pick up Ling and start the arrests. The case wasn't the only thing on his mind. Ed was curious to hear about this mystery man that had moved into the house. No one had provided him with any details about how it had come to be that they had a fulltime guest. The only thing that anyone said was that he would like the guy when he met him. When the plane landed, he watched as a very vibrant Ling climbed out and headed towards him. She ran to him and threw her arms around him. After a very passionate hello kiss, she cooed, "It's so good to see you." He lifted her up and swung her around as he replied, "I've missed you so much. How's John and Kelly?" Ling giggled as she said, "Oh, John is still one of the two sexiest men in the world and no one can lick a woman like a Kelly." Laughing at the answer, Ed said, "And to think that I was stuck in this horrible city horny as hell." When they climbed into the limousine, Ling settled on his lap and promised, "I'll take care of that little problem." "Little? I'm crushed!" Giggling, Ling answered, "I said that the problem was small, not the parts involved." Laughing and relaxing for the first time since she had left, Ed asked, "So tell me about the visitor that's moved into the house." Wiggling on his lap, Ling said, "John said you would be curious about Leroy." "Of course, when John calls and says he found someone that might make a good husband I have to pay attention," replied Ed as he ran a finger over one of Ling's shirt covered nipples. The lack of protest made his movements a little bolder, pinching it a little before returning to rub it. He asked, "So how did you find this guy?" As her nipple stiffened under his touch, Ling said, "John, Kelly, and I were going into Phoenix for a charity event when a drunk driver passed us going at least one fifty. He would have clipped our car, but we drove off the road." "Wow, sounds like the jerk wanted to get himself killed," replied Ed knowing that Ling was the one driving the car. She always drove when she was in a car. "Yeah, he got his wish too. After we got back on the road, we get a little further up the road and there's a car with the whole side smashed in. We stop but there is nobody in it. About a hundred yards further down the road is a second car. Now that one was in really bad shape. It was one of the old gasoline powered cars and the smell of fuel was everywhere. When we get to it, there's a guy with a broken arm trying to get the person out of the other car." Raising an eyebrow, Ed asked, "You could tell that his arm was broken?" "Big time. The bone was sticking out through his shirt," answered Ling. Grimacing at the image that invoked, Ed said, "So what was he doing?" "The door on the car was locked. Leroy was trying to kick the window out so that he could open the door to release the woman that was trapped inside." She laughed for a second. "You should have seen him. He couldn't use his arm and each time he kicked at the window he lost his balance. He wasn't going to give up no matter what." Ed nodded impressed and asked, "So what did he do when you guys showed up?" "He was very concerned about the woman in the car, particularly since she was bleeding. He wouldn't let us treat him until she was pulled out," answered Ling. She shook her head as she observed, "Since most cars use the Fusion Battery for power now, most people think that an old gasoline car blows up after a wreck." "Only in the movies," said Ed. This guy sounded like a hero and he could understand why John took him into the house. He asked, "So everything ended up okay?" "He's so much like John, that you wouldn't believe it. He was more concerned about the woman getting treated at the hospital than him," answered Ling. "It sounds like you like him." Nodding, Ling replied, "Yes, I do. He's a real nice guy. I mean, he's polite to everyone, even the staff. He's also kind." "Hmm. What does he do for a living?" asked Ed wanting to find out more about Leroy. "He's a college student working on his doctorate in animal physiology, or something like that. He explained it to me one evening over dinner. He wants to understand how individuals within the same species that live in cold and in hot environments differ based on the environment in which they live." With a mischievous grin, Ed tickled Ling as he said, "You have to watch out for those doctoral students, they are a tricky lot. I know, 'cause I used to be one." Reacting to the tickles, Ling playfully slapped his hand and said, "You stop that. First you get me all worked up by playing with my nipple and then you abuse me by tickling me." Ed laughed and stopped tickling her. Putting his arms around her, he asked, "How does he accept the rules of the house?" "He fit right in. I don't think anyone has explicitly told him the rules to tell the truth," answered Ling uncertain of her answer. She had never thought to ask if anyone had explained the rules. She said, "He didn't have a problem with nudity in the house. He never said a word about it. He hasn't hit on anyone or made any untoward advances." Impressed, Ed looked out the window for a moment. It sounded to him like the guy was pretty nice. Seeing where they were, Ed reached into his pocket and pulled out a pair of mirrored sunglasses. Ling noticed and asked, "What's with the sunglasses?" Smiling at her, he answered, "I waited for you to get back to make the busts. We're on our way there now." Torn between her happiness that he had waited for her and her disappointment that he wasn't going to ravish her, she said, "You got me all wet down there to take me to a bust?" "I'm sorry, you're just so beautiful that I couldn't keep my hands off you." Thrilled by the unexpected complement, Ling said, "I'll forgive you this time." The limousine stopped by the side of the street. Spotting Mike, Norman, Venessa, and Jimmy waiting for him by a building, Ed said, "We're here. Let's get this taken care of so that you can have a little fun." Ling glanced over at the people waiting for them and got quiet. Hesitating, she asked, "Is Jimmy Lee going to be here for a day or two?" Smiling at her, he answered with a wink, "I promised Jimmy Lee that you would have a sparring match this evening. I imagine that it is going to take all night for you two to decide who has the most stamina." Playfully, she grabbed his cheeks and said, "You're so bad." "You don't want to do that?" asked Ed with a smirk on his face. "I want," answered Ling as she looked over at the man leaning against the building. "Let's get to it. They are probably worried that we're going to miss the raid. It's scheduled to start in fifteen minutes," suggested Ed. Ling slowly climbed off his lap and took a moment to prepare herself. Opening her purse, she took out a little compact and checked that her makeup wasn't smudged. While she was checking herself in the mirror, Ed leaned over and traced each nipple with a finger. Wearing a crooked mischievous smile, he said, "Your headlights are showing!" Falling over in laughter, Ling couldn't control herself. It took her five minutes to get control of herself. Finally, they left the car and went to join the others by the side of the building. Unlike the first time that Ling and Jimmy Lee met, there wasn't any teasing on his part. He was watching the building like Tiger used to watch rabbits. The entire group was tense. Ed asked, "What's up?" Mike answered, "The night crew was picked up after leaving here this morning. The information we got out of them is really ugly." As she shivered with an inner chill that contrasted with the hot weather, Venessa said, "I'm not going in." Without taking his eyes from the building, Jimmy Lee said, "Don't make her go in. We've got five cops at the back exit in case they run. There are about twenty nurses in hazmat suits waiting for us to clear the building. None of them know what is going on." Surprised to hear that nurses were being dressed in hazardous material suits, Ling asked, "Hazmat suits? You expect to find chemicals in there?" Norman, his voice strained, answered, "No. We expect to find people in there." This sounded a lot worse than Ed had imagined. He asked, "What's the plan?" Norman said, "Mike, Jimmy, and I are going to go in there and grab them. We are going to be wearing protective masks and bulletproof vests. If anyone other than us comes out the front door, then you two take care of them. Don't bother being nice to them, they will be the bad guys." Mike came over with a radio and headset so that they could communicate with each other. As he put it on Ling, he said, "This is a reserved channel. All of the radios are live so anything anyone says will be broadcast." While Mike fitted Ling with the radio, Norman handed Ed a bulletproof vest and a jacket to put over it. When Ed finished with the vest, it was his turn to be fitted with the radio. Looking over at Ling, he noticed the troubled look on her face. He asked, "What's the matter?" "I don't like wearing these things." Once everyone was ready, the group waited three minutes and then headed for the door to the building. Even looking through the sunglasses at the building, the evil radiating off it was horrible and made Ed sick to his stomach. When they reached the door, Jimmy used keys taken from the pair arrested earlier to open it. Holding the door open for the other two men with his voice muffled by the mask he was wearing, he shouted, "Law Enforcement. We have a warrant to search the premises!" From the open door, a stench billowed out that threatened to make Ed and Ling throw up. It forced them to step back several paces even as the three men ran into the building. Everything was quiet until Mike shouted, "Freeze!" The volume of his shout through the radio was almost enough to hurt their ears. The shout was followed by the sound of gunfire. The radio suddenly became a jumbled mess of shouts, cries, and gunfire. Ling patted her vest, thankful that she had it. The front door burst open and a man ran out firing behind him. On leaving the building, he turned the gun towards Ling. Ed watched, as she became a whirling dervish with arms and legs whipping out at the man. It took her less than a second to render him unconscious. Standing over him, she glared at the motionless mess on the ground and spat, "Try to shoot us!" The radio was still a confused stream of shouts. Ling had returned to stand near the door in case anyone else came out. Suddenly, everything calmed down as Mike's voice came over the radio reading rights to someone. Once that was done, Jimmy shouted, "All clear, get the nurses in here. Now." Ed turned and saw a number of people in full body hazmat suits leave a building next door and head their way. The county health commissioner was with them, looking wildly around at the scene. He stopped next to Ed and asked, "What is happening here? I'm asked to bring twenty hazmat suits to the police station for training and then we end up here." Ed turned to the man and said, "Five of your health inspectors have just been arrested for taking bribes. An assistant coroner has also been arrested for covering up the deaths at this facility. The owner and all of the employees of this place have been arrested as well." The man stepped back and said, "I've had nothing but good reports about this place." Norman and Mike came out of the building. Ripping off their masks, both men raced to the side of the building. On reaching it, they bent over and retched. Jimmy Lee came out of the building pushing a woman that was bleeding from her shoulder and leg. Without any tenderness, he threw her to the ground next to the man that Ling had caught. He stood over the pair with his pistol drawn and hands shaking. Ed shouted, "Jimmy Lee. You have fulfilled your service to the God!" Jimmy lowered the gun and returned it to his holster. Ripping off his mask, he looked up at Ed with tears in his eyes. Angry, he shouted, "You have no idea what it is like in there!" At a commotion near the door, Ed saw that several of the nurses had come out of the building and joined the men in throwing up. Looking at the effect that the building had on people who had gone in, he told the commissioner, "Maybe you should go in there." The man went to the building and opened the door reeling back as the stench billowed out through the door. Closing the door, he said, "I have to get a mask. That's the worst thing I have ever smelled in my life." The sounds of sirens from all over the city filled the air as ambulances, police cars, and others poured in to the crime scene. Several police officers came over to take custody of the pair on the ground. Ling went over and said, "The unconscious one hasn't had his rights read to him." Mike came over to the police officers and, with a furious expression on his face, said, "Leave them there until everyone else has been cleared from the building." The officer looked up from the wounded woman and said, "They're wounded. The city will get sued if we don't get them to a hospital." Angry that he hadn't shot to kill, Mike shouted, "Leave them there. There are over a hundred people in that building that are in worse medical condition." Norman and Venessa came over to where Ed and Ling were standing. The health commissioner had disappeared, presumably to find a mask to wear. Jimmy Lee and Mike joined them after turning custody of the criminals over to the police officers. Ed looked at their faces and said, "I knew it was going to be bad. I don't know how bad it really is." Looking away, Norman said, "There are at least a hundred elderly people in that building. They are tied naked on wooden planks. Most of them are covered in feces and vomit. We caught the woman in one of the rooms washing off the patients with a hose." Voice quivering, Mike said, "They've been starved. Every one of them looks like a skeleton. I didn't even realize they were alive until I saw one blink." At the sound of a cell phone ringing, Norman reached into a pocket and pulled out his phone. He stepped away and talked for several minutes. The rest of the group stood around, each lost in their own thoughts. Jimmy Lee didn't say a word about his experience in the building, but continued to look back at the pair on the ground periodically. When Norman returned to the group, Jimmy asked, "Any news on the other raids?" "They all went off without a problem. It's the same story everywhere," answered Norman with a shiver. One place like this was bad enough, but learning that there were places like this all over the country made one wonder. Ed asked, "Everyone was taken?" "All two hundred and thirty two people were arrested here in the states. There isn't any news from the Russians." Looking up at the news helicopters circling over the nursing home, Ed said, "It's going to be on the news any minute now. If they didn't get the Russian leaders by now, then they won't get them." The front lawn of the nursing home had turned into a zoo. Ambulances were parked everywhere, tents had been set up to treat the victims, and police officers had established a perimeter. The county health commissioner showed up looking very pale with signs that he had thrown up. He came to Ed and said, "There are a hundred and nineteen people in there." At the announcement, Venessa looked up and said, "There are supposed to be a hundred and fifty-eight." Shaking his head at the implications of the discrepancy, Ed said, "We'll have to let the detectives follow up on that." Jimmy Lee asked, "So what do we do now?" "Norman is the federal agent in charge. Mike is the LAPD detective in charge of this particular raid. So I guess the two leaders should face the press," answered Ed with a grin. For the first time since entering the building, Jimmy Lee broke out in a smile in response to the looks on the faces of Mike and Norman. He asked, "Can I leave?" "Not yet," answered Ed. The group went over to where the press had gathered. On the way, Venessa handed out the statements she had prepared about the scope and purpose of the raid. Ed stepped up to the podium and removed his sunglasses. Looking over the crowd of reporters, Ed said, "A great evil has been removed from across this country this afternoon. We can not tell the details of this case until justice has been served. We can say that this was international in scope." Pausing for effect, Ed looked across the reporters and into the cameras. In a very somber tone of voice he continued, "Over two hundred people have conspired to exploit the elderly for financial gain. Under the guise of being a nursing home, they took individuals with no family or friends. The conditions under which they were kept were horrendous and we shall not go into details about their treatment in order to preserve the dignity of the victims." Ed stepped back and let Norman take the podium. Norman outlined the national level of effort that had been undertaken. The number of government agencies that had been involved was significant, spanning the FBI, IRS, INS, the state department, and local law enforcement agencies. When Norman had finished, Mike stood up and outlined the operation that had been undertaken at the local level. He described how arrests had been timed to take place simultaneously so that no warning could be given to others. The initial reports were that all suspects had been captured. After a period of question and answer, the group split up with Jimmy Lee, Ed, and Ling heading to the limousine. Inside the car, Ed turned to Jimmy and asked, "So this was your first service to the God. What do you think?" Jimmy stared out the window at the crowd gathered around the building. In a very quiet voice, he said, "I didn't know what to expect. I'm happy to have been a part of bringing down something this evil, but I don't want to talk about it." "Yes, it is a nice feeling to know that you've made a difference," answered Ed. Glancing over at Ling and the tension in her body, he asked, "Are you happy that I didn't dive in front of any bullets?" "You were still too close to the action, but at least you let me take care of the bad guy," answered Ling with a smile. Ed said, "Drop me off at the hospital. Why don't you two work off some of that energy?" Strolling into the hospital, Ed looked around at the main lobby. No matter what they did to make a hospital look friendly, they were still depressing places. People, worrying about their loved ones sat in small groups, frowns and quiet voices filled with fear were the status quo. The woman over there was worried about breast cancer, the elderly man over there was worried about his gall bladder, and the guy coughing might have lung cancer. There were the traumatic injuries, sloppiness with a saw, a car out of control, and falls. Hospitals were places where the wall between life and death was very thin. People were always uncomfortable wherever that wall was thin. After chatting a little with the nurses at the nurse's station, he made his way to the room of Dr. Hayes. Entering, Mrs. Hayes said, "Ed, did you see the news?" "What news?" Agitated, the elderly woman answered, "About those people in the nursing home. We just turned on the news. All of the nurses are talking about it. It's so terrible." Dr. Hayes commented, "I have no idea how those animals could do that to human beings." Wondering if something had happened after he had left, Ed asked, "What happened?" He looked over at the television set, just as they started replaying the new conference that he had held. Ed said, "I know about the news conference, did something else happen after it that I need to know?" A stunned Dr. Hayes stared at Ed. His suspicions about Ed crumbled into dust. An awestruck Mrs. Hayes sat watching Ed. Finally, Dr. Hayes said, "I guess that explains your mysterious disappearances the past few days. I thought you were cheating on your family. I'm sorry about that." Maggie Hopler, looking at the television and then at Ed, slowly moved out of the room to talk to the other nurses. She knew the news would spread through the hospital within minutes. Shrugging off the accusation, Ed said, "No problem. I was just working on a case." <1st attachment end> ----- ASSM Moderation System Notice------ Notice: This post has been modified from its original format. 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