“CAT AND MOUSE”
BY P&C PRODUCTIONS
CHAPTER 5
Cassie sat in the chair crying as he placed the phone on top of the
dresser.
Then he grabbed her up by the arm and placed her back on the bed.
“You did good…I knew you would.” He told her. “Straight A student that you are I knew you wouldn’t do anything stupid.”
“How do you know that?” She asked him.
“I know everything little lady…I even know how much Starsky still owes on that flashy red hot rod of his.” He remarked.
“Well I’m glad you know so much.” She said with an attitude. “Maybe I won’t have to answer any stupid questions.”
“Oh there is one question.” He told her as he sat down on the bed near her. “Are you his real daughter…or maybe his little underage mistress.” He asked her. “I don’t recall him having you around a few years back.”
Cassie’s first urge was to tell him the truth. But why should she? He probably wasn’t telling her the truth and anyway the real truth would be a little difficult to explain…So she decided to lie.
“He’s my father.” She told him. “He didn’t know about me until just a few years ago.”
“Well that’s kinda funny.” He said as he stroked her long blonde hair and looked into her deep brown eyes. “You don’t look nothin’ like him.”
“I take after my mother.” She said quickly. “She died two years ago.”
“I don’t know if I believe you little girl.” He said with an evil smile. “How old are you…about 16 maybe?”
“Yeah.” She answered him.
“So he must have been about twenty when you were conceived.” He concluded.
“I guess so.” She answered.
“Well then I don’t see how that’s possible.” He told her.
“Why not?” She asked.
“Because he was in the army then…and you don’t look Vietnamese to me.” He said as he glared at her. “Now you want to try telling me the truth this time.”
“I don’t have to tell you anything.” She said with a tone of rebellion.
He grabbed her up in his arms angrily and placed his hand on her face squeezing the sides of her cheeks in very hard.
“You’ll tell me everything I want to know.” He said as he held her just about an inch from his face. “Or I’ll rip your pretty little head off.”
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Starsky and Hutch informed Dobey of the conversation quickly and the tape was delivered to his office. They sat down and listened to it a couple of times and Dobey held his forehead in his hand as he rested his elbow on his desk.
The tape ended for the second time and Hutch hit the stop button on the recorder.
“What time is it now?” Dobey asked not bothering to raise his head.
“10:30…” Hutch answered him.
“Well I guess we just have to wait for the next call.” Dobey said as he finally raised his head up and focused his eyes on Starsky. “Poor kid…I wonder how she’s holding up.”
“The guys obviously pretty smart.” Starsky told him. “Letting us know that she’s still alive by making her give us the instructions and at the same time by using her, he can keep his identity a secret.”
“Yeah it sounds like he’s thought this thing through carefully.” Dobey agreed.
“What else have you got to do when you’re in the slammer?” Hutch commented.
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Cassie kept quiet for the next few hours. She still hadn’t told him the truth about who she was and she wasn’t going to if she could help it. Why did he want to know anyway? It was obviously important to him. But his attention had been diverted by the other two men as they began to prepare for the first robbery. She knew he would ask her again later, but for now she had avoided it.
He was going to take one of the other two guys with him while the younger
of
the three would be left behind to stay with her. He argued about
it for a
minute but reluctantly agreed. It was just a couple minutes till
11:00 and
the four of them sat patiently waiting on the clock. At 1 minute till…he
began to dial the phone. It was again placed between them in
the same
manner as before and she was handed the notebook flipped to the next
page.
After three rings it was answered.
“Starsky…”
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