1066 Chapter 51- Reece – A Threatening Phone Call (VOLU 6)
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Reece
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As I sat there, looking at the caller ID and wondering if this was truly a coincidence, I heard Reagan call out to .
“Dad? What is it? Who is calling?” I looked up at him as I lifted the phone toward .
“It’s agent Orson. I guess he wants to try and trick the information out of . Sit down and listen if you want, but neither of you are to make a sound. I want him to think that I am alone.”
I swiped the screen to answer the phone and put it on speaker as I greeted the man on the other end of the line.
“Hello?” I didn’t use his na, even though I had known of him, and it was on the caller ID as well.
“Mr. Reece Gray?” The man spoke calmly as he greeted .
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“Yes. And who might I have the pleasure of speaking to?” I asked him, knowing full well who was on the phone.
“Did you not check the caller ID?” The man asked scornfully. “Do you really not know who I am?”
“I saw the caller ID, but that doesn’t an that I am speaking to the owner of the phone. You could be borrowing a phone. It could be stolen. How am I supposed to know that for sure? I have never t anyone by the na of Harrison Orson, and I know that I have never given my phone number, which is unlisted, to anyone by that na. Obviously, you must know , otherwise you wouldn’t have my phone number.”
“Well, Mr. Gray, there are ways of looking up an unlisted number. All you need is a connection to law enforcent, and no phone number is out of reach.” Orson spoke angrily as he responded to my accusatory words.
“So, do you have a connection with law enforcent? I know that I have not committed any cris, so I don’t see why anyone from any branch of law enforcent would be contacting like this.”
“Worry not, Mr. Gray.” Orson sneered at through the phone. I had never seen the man, but I imagined what he might look like, and it wasn’t all that pleasant. “I am Special Agent Harrison Orson of the NSA.”
“The NSA, really? And what can I do to help you today?” I looked at Reagan and Darrol as I spoke and saw that they were both grinning widely. They clearly liked the way that I was making Orson be overly blunt with . It was fun, I had to admit that. However, to let Orson know that I knew anything would be an admission of guilt, and I adamantly refused to do that.
“Well, Mr. Gray, I am calling to inform you that the noose is tightening.” His voice was angry as he said this.
“Is that a threat, Mr. Orson?” I deliberately didn’t use any title for him.
“AGENT Orson.” He nearly scread the first word as he corrected . “And it is not really a threat, Mr. Gray, rely an observation and statent of fact. You are going down Gray, and soon.” He dropped the Mr. part of that at the end of his growled words. Although, his growl was pathetic and weak. I could have shown him my growl, but I didn’t want to scare the poor NSA man. He would be too scared to call and play with again.
“I am sorry, Orson.” I deliberately left off the title again. “I don’t know what it is that you are talking about. Why is it that the NSA wants to ‘go down’?” I put emphasis on the last two words, letting him know that I didn’t really take him seriously.
“I know what you are, Gray. I know that you aren’t human. You made too many mistakes recently, and the biggest one was getting involved in that damned investigation. You exposed yourself to my inquiry, and now I get to find out what you are. I have the DNA from one of your people in my system right now. We are still analyzing it, but there was sothing curious about it. Would you care to explain why this girl had extra chromosos? And why did she have plant DNA in her blood?”
“Well, it sounds to like soone ssed up in the lab. I an, if they can’t separate plant DNA from human DNA then they are very substandard.” I was smiling right now, and I was really glad that Orson wasn’t here to see .
“I don’t think they ssed up. And not only that, Gray, but how did the girl get extra chromosos?”
“Well, Orson, I am not sure if you are aware, but that happens to people from ti to ti. You know, extra chromosos are responsible for different birth defects, like Downs Syndro and others. So, there are reasons why she had an extra one or two of them.”
“Yes, but why did she have three more of them?” He growled again and I nearly laughed.
“Oh man, did that tech of yours mix two people’s blood together? I an, what other reason would there be for soone’s results being so ssed up?” Now I was laughing. I had to tell him how ridiculous that I thought that it was. “Look, first you tell that they mixed plant DNA into the blood, now you say they had extra chromosos, which I am guessing that these extra parts of the DNA didn’t co from the plant that they mixed in there. You know, in my opinion, I would get a new lab tech. That person sounds like they are a liability waiting to happen.”
“I don’t think that they are.” Orson’s voice was back to sneering at . “You know what I think, Gray?”
“Not a clue.” I told him breezily.
“What I think is that you know all about this already. You know because you spoke to Otsana. And she told you about my visit with her last month. And now you are just ssing with . You know that I am investigating you, and why I am investigating you. And now you think that you can just pretend to be calm, cool, and collected and that it will fool . No, it won’t Gray.”
“I have no idea what you are talking about.” I told him. It was a perfectly stable lie. I knew that he wasn’t going to call my bluff.
“Maybe you don’t, maybe you do. Either way, Gray, let tell you this. I will find out the truth. And I will take you down. I will see to it that you and the others like you will rot in hell. You aren’t human, Gray, I know that. And I will prove it to the world. One way or another. And I won’t let you suck anyone else’s blood.”
“Blood?” I spoke incredulously. “Eww. Why would I want to suck blood? That is just disgusting.” And that was true for . I wasn’t a vampire, so in my opinion it wasn’t appetizing.
“Uh huh, sure it is. I will learn the truth soon enough, Gray. And then I will expose it to the world.”
“Does your boss know what you are doing? Do they know you are wasting tax dollars on this?”
“Shut up.” He yelled at . “I will not let you threaten . This is my threat, not yours.”
“So, this is a threat.” I confird with him. “You know, Orson, I can go to the authorities with this.”
“I am the authorities, you moron.” He scread at . “And I will be using all my power to take you down. Just rember that.” He was pissed at , and here I was still talking relatively calmly.
“Whatever you say. I just wonder what my lawyer will have to say about this.” I wanted him to feel threatened, like he would back off or sothing. Hopefully it would work.
“They can’t touch , Gray. I am the powerful one here. And you are going down. Have a nice day.” He made his voice sickening and sweet there at the end before he hung up. It was annoying, but I actually felt good about throwing the man off.
I was still smiling in satisfaction when I set my phone aside. I wanted to laugh again, but I wasn’t. Now just didn’t seem like the right ti.
“Uhm, Dad?” Reagan called out to . “Th..that didn’t sound very good.”
“It was fine, Reagan. He was calling to try to get to entrap myself. He knows that he doesn’t have much on . He is getting frustrated that his investigation is moving so slowly.”
“If they have to resort to tactics like that, then should we go through with the reveal?” Reagan looked a little excited about the prospect of not having to do this right now.
“Yes son, we need to keep moving forward. They might catch a lucky break. And even if they don’t get the information right now, I assure you that they will continue to investigate. Even if they were told not to or if they ca up empty handed this ti around, they wouldn’t give up. This Orson guy, he would be like a dog with a bone. He would gnaw on it until he was done with it. He wouldn’t stop pestering us and trying to get things until we admitted what we are and what we were planning to do with the human race. He is scared, Reagan, and scared n are the ones that you need to be afraid of.”
“But why? Wouldn’t a scared man be too scared to do sothing to you?”
“Yes, and no. A lot of scared n turn their fear into rage. And they use that rage to destroy nations. Fear is the biggest destroyer in the world. When soone doesn’t understand another type of people, they beco scared, and then we get massacres like there were with the indigenous people of this country. That was entirely fueled by fear and misunderstandings. I don’t want that, Reagan. I don’t want to let anything like that happen again. And I refuse to let anyone on this planet suffer because of our differing species. We are all people, and we will continue to live as we always have. We just won’t be in the shadows anymore.”
“I get it now, Dad, thank you.” Reagan nodded at . “We won’t change our plans at all. And now that we know that Orson is grasping at straws, I feel like we have a lot more that we can focus on. We don’t need to worry just yet. We still have ti before the reveal, and the NSA isn’t a threat right now.”
“Exactly.” I nodded at him and crossed my arms in front of on the desk. “We will continue as planned. The reveal will be on the twenty-first.”
The three of us sat in silence for a few monts after that. The gravity of the situation was sinking in with every second that passed us by. There was nothing to worry about at the mont, and that was a good thing. The NSA wasn’t going to make a move anyti soon.
I would go and tell my Little Bunny about this conversation in a few monts, but not until I was sure that Darrol and Reagan were good. They needed to be calm and to stop worrying about what was going to happen next. We needed to focus on the mont and their tasks at hand. Yes, that was a little counterintuitive at the mont, because we were preparing for the future and all that, but there were things that were more important at tis. And sanity was one thing that they needed to be able to work efficiently. And as a good king, I would make sure that I took care of them in this way as well.
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