Sister Trouble
Written on August 7th, 2007 by artyfowl3Story Details
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Jordan Yet Again
I walk up the stair to my house at 11:30 pm. The captain said that Jan would be home. Said I should talk to her and report back to the captain. I was given a little doohickey that could call the captain’s phone or something.
“Why not just call your cell?” I asked.
“Because,” Captain said, “it won’t work. Stuff civilians aren’t supposed to know about.” I decided not to argue.
“Jan!” I call as I open the door.
I’m met by my mother again. “Jordan!” she cries. “Oh, my god! You had me so worried. Jan came home just a few minutes ago!”
My sister comes and joins my mom and me. She looks different. Her hair isa little messy and her eyes don’t seem right, as if she’s staring at something far away. “Hello, Jordan.”
“Uh, Jan?” I say. Time to do this. “I gotta talk to you.”
She nods and we go into my room. I sit her down on my bed. “Jan,” I say, “I heard from…a friend that you were doing something wrong. I want to know what it is you’re doing that’s making this friend think you are endangering a whole species of something. Don’t ask me what.”
“You must be mistaken, Jordan,” Jan says. Her voice is uncertain, like she’s not telling me something. “I’m not doing anything. Ruby said she had discovered a never before found piece of land. With oil underneath!”
“Uh huh,” I say. “Sure. She’s lying to you, sis. That little crook finding a whole piece of land is impossible. It’s about as real as me meeting a fairy with…with a big gun. It’s a lie.”
She frowns and I find myself very very annoyed. As usual. Jan can be so stupid sometimes! “She’s not lying. She’s a scientist. She wanted me to tell dad that there’s a lot of oil.”
I sigh. It’s no use. No use at all. She’s not going to talk. That Ruby woman has her completely in her power. Somehow, she managed to convince Jan that what she was doing was completely harmless.
Jan has left and I’m alone in my room again. I get that thing that resembles a palm-pilot and dial the number the captain told me to dial. Soon the captain’s helmeted head appears on the screen. I jump back in surprise. “Jeez!” I say. “You surprised me. I didn’t know this thing had a camera.”
“There’s a lot you don’t know, boy,” the captain says. “Now what did she say?”
“Nothing. She said that this woman, the woman that I thought kidnapped her, wanted to help us get rich.”
“Where does this woman want the company your parents work for to dig?”
I tell her exactly where, at least from what I heard from Jan. And I hear the captain take in a short, sharp breath.
“What is this woman’s name?” There was a hint of suspicion in the captain’s voice.
“Ruby. I don’t know her last name. Why?”
“Ruby? Are you sure? Is she three feet tall? Does she have dark hair and green eyes?” I answer yes to all of the questions. The captain drops her (or his) head in her (or his) hands. “Great. Just wonderful. Another Koboi back to haunt me.”
“What do you mean?”
“It’s a long story,” the captain snaps. “And confidential.”
I scratch my head and squint. “So…what do we do now?”
I hear a shout from the background. “Captain Short! You still working on that mud woman case? I hope so, because it just got worse.” Mud woman?
“Hold on Commander, just a second.” The captain turns back to me. “I have to go. I’ll get back to you later. Keep the communicator on, I don’t want to call you with something urgent just to find it off.”
“Sure thing, Captain Short,” I chuckle.
“Oh, shut up, Smyth.” And the link is terminated.
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“I tried to convince my Commander that it was really Ruby Koboi who was behind this whole thing,” the captain says over the communicator, “but-”
“He doesn’t take hunches from officers under four feet tall?” I say.
“Will you quit the short jokes? I’m not that short.”
I smile broadly. “Yeah, and my sister isn’t that annoying.” I can imagine the captain glaring darkly at me from behind that helmet and I wonder why he (or she) keeps the helmet on.
“But he said we can’t be sure unless we have real evidence,” the captain mutters. “It’s possible your sister is doing this on her own free will.”
“Oh. So he has no problem with miniature officers making guesses, Captain Short?”
The captain leans back against the chair and I hear Captain Short mutter, “I’m sooo going to kill Trouble.”
I decide to change the subject. “So what are we going to do about Jan and this ‘Ruby Koboi’?”
“We’re going on stake out tonight, and see what Koboi and your sister are planning and report back. Well, I’m going to report back. You’re going to stay put and try to get to your sister. She should believe her big brother, shouldn’t she?”
I roll my eyes. “Yeah, right.”
“Well, that’s the plan. And we’re going to go along with it.”
I rub my palms together. “Ooh, a real stake out! Just like in those cop shows. What’s plan B?”
“Um…there’s no plan B as far as I know. The back up are pretty much our plan B.”
I drop my hands by my sides and look dramatically disappointed. “Oh. Let’s go then.”
“Meet me at the corner closest to your house.”
I solute. “Aye-aye, Captain Short.”
The captain closes the link before I can pull of any more short jokes.
August 7th, 2007 at 11:33 am
omg that is sooooo good!
so good i thought i was readin a story from E.Colfer!
plz, i beg of u, add more realy quiclly.
:)
August 7th, 2007 at 1:07 pm
very good lol liked it a lot xx
August 7th, 2007 at 6:57 pm
Very good your on ff right?
August 11th, 2007 at 2:33 am
awesome!! plez write more! soon, plez!!!
August 21st, 2007 at 1:24 am
PLZ I BEG OF U!!!! WRITE MORE , I WANNA KNOW WHO SAID OH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
September 1st, 2007 at 9:36 am
just finished readin it…… Fabulouse!
November 3rd, 2007 at 11:06 pm
awesome! the characters are so cool! add more soon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
November 3rd, 2007 at 11:17 pm
REALLY good story keep going!