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  Chapter 7

  Pam

  Ed heard a click on his radio, then his Deputy Matthew’s voice. “Sheriff, 10-25 Henderson hog operation, 10-33!”

  “10-4,” Ed replied into his microphone. “I got him!” Ed yelled to the state patrol officers at the abandoned patrol car. “Henderson hog farm!”

  Deputy Matthew Schultz stood inside a large steel building searching frantically for a vehicle to use to escape his captors. Instead, he found his and Pam’s guns setting on a bench unattended and empty. After the call to the sheriff he found to his amazement, row after row of what looked like horse tanks filled with seaweed. Above the tanks hung rows of fluorescent grow lights like he’d seen at indoor hydroponic marijuana operations. He stepped in close and looked down into the water trying to figure out what they were growing. Then he heard a gunshot and felt a pelt in his chest. He looked down and saw a hole in his shirt but felt only a prick.

  “Get back!” a voice called out.

  Matthew didn’t move, but spied the man who was yelling at him from across the building standing in an office doorway. “What’s this stuff?” Matthew asked.

  The man stepped out of the office and walked towards Matthew with his gun pointed at him. “How did you get in here?” the man asked. “And what happened to your arm?”

  Matthew looked down at the ground where his left arm lay still tied to his right wrist by a rope. “I chewed it off,” Matthew replied.

  “Did you call someone?” the man asked as he looked at the radio in Matthew’s right hand.

  “The sheriff.”

  “No fucking way!” the man yelled. He aimed his pistol at Matthew’s face and shot him in the forehead. Matthew didn’t budge. Since he no longer processed oxygen the same way he used to, a lack of blood supply didn’t really phase him. Noticing that the deputy was relatively unharmed, the man shot again, and again until he had three shots in Matthew’s face. “Why don’t you die?” the man asked.

  “It will take a while, but I can explain it to you if you’d like,” Matthew replied.

  “No thanks, I got to get the fuck out of here,” the man said. He then turned and took off running out the door leaving Matthew behind.

  Once again Matthew bent over and looked at the green leafy plants growing in the horse tank. He reached in and pulled some out to look at it. It looked like the kind of crap he used to clean off his boat propeller if he got too close to the shore when fishing. Nothing special. Then he heard shouting and the sound of cars rushing by the building on the way out to the road. It sounded like the rats were abandoning a sinking ship. At least now he knew something was up and the reason why Dan Henderson was always so nice to him and why his son wasn’t.

  Walking outside, Matthew saw Pam and Dr. Dorn still tied to the fence and still alive. In the distance, he could hear the sounds of sirens and the sound of a helicopter above. Shielding his eyes, he looked up and saw the state patrol chopper fly in close and touch down in a clear area between the house and the building he was standing by.

  Then he heard Pam shout out, “Untie us!”

  Matthew stepped over as he dragged his arm on the ground behind him. He could still move the fingers on the hand to his amazement, but then realized he forgot to find a knife to cut Pam and the doctor loose. “Wait a second, I need to find a knife!” Matthew yelled over the sound of the chopper blades. The wind the helicopter kicked up spread dust all over making it hard to see. It also spread the smell of the hogs which caused a huge stink.

  Before he knew it, Ed was running up to Matthew waving his arms stopping him from going back into the building. The chopper was shutting down so they could now hear each other. “What’s going on?” Ed asked.

  “We found some sort of illegal drug operation,” Matthew replied.

  “What happened to your arm?”

  “Had to chew it off to escape.”

  “What were you doing out here looking for drugs? You were supposed to be transporting the doctor back to jail,” Ed asked.

  Matthew had to scramble for a good lie. “On the way back, I noticed suspicious activity in one of the hog trucks. I decided to follow.”

  “Why didn’t you call dispatch and tell them?” Ed asked.

  Matthew knew his lie was a longshot. “I don’t know, I guess I forgot.”

  “You forgot?” Ed asked.

  “I was caught up in what I was doing.”

  “We can sort this out later, what did you find?”

  “In the building, they’re growing something in water.”

  “Show me,” Ed said.

  “What about Pam and the doctor? They’re still tied up.”

  “They can wait.”

  Realizing that the troops were on the way, Matthew decided to play along and try to make himself out to be the good guy. He didn’t know how long or if it would work at all, because he was sure Pam or the doctor would eventually tell the truth. Returning his focus to police work, he picked up his arm and led Ed into the building.

  “Holy shit!” Ed said with his jaw hanging in awe as he looked into a tank.

  “You know what this is?” Matthew asked.

  “No, but it looks big. You might have stumbled onto something gigantic.”

  Matthew smiled knowing his stock just went up. “Thanks boss.”

  “Just so you know, I don’t believe any of your story. But this does look good.”

  “What do you mean?”

  “I know about Pam’s boob job, she complained about it nonstop. And one of the janitors filled me in on her plan to kidnap the doctor. I just never thought she had the balls to follow through, especially with you in the car.”

  “You left me alone with her knowing what she had planned? I could have been killed!”

  “You’re a zombie like me, we don’t die that easy.”

  “Maybe not, but we fall apart, look at my arm!” Matthew said.

  “That can be sewn back on,” Ed said.

  “It will take six months to heal!”

  “So you get six months of workers comp. Don’t complain.”

  “What about Pam?”

  “What about her?” Ed asked.

  “She is just as responsible for this find as I am.”

  “Was it was her idea to follow the truck?”

  “Actually there was no truck, I made that up. We came out here because I knew Dan Henderson, or at least I thought I did. The doctor promised to make me more human.”

  “So Pam had nothing to do with it.”

  “I guess not,” Matthew replied.

  “I think she’ll get ten years in the women’s prison,” Ed said. “Too bad, she wasn’t a bad deputy, just held too much of a grudge.”

  “So now what?”

  “First, we get Dr. Dorn back to jail, book Pam and get this, whatever it is looked at.”

  “What about me?” Matthew asked.

  “Depends on what Pam and the doc say. If they toss you under the buss, there isn’t much I can do. I can play dumb until then,” Ed replied. “As far as I’m concerned, she kidnapped you as well.”

  Back at the station Ed personally decided to book Pam. He brought along a female officer from the police department to cover him for sexual harassment claims. Once Pam was brought into the booking room, Ed told her to undress.

  “You’d like that wouldn’t you?” Pam asked.

  “What do you mean?” Ed asked.

  “You’ve been stripping me down with your eyes ever since you hired me, now you get to see it all for free.”

  “How many perps have you done the exact same thing too?” Ed asked.

  “Doesn’t matter, it’s me that you want to see. Probably jack off after we’re done, if you still have a dick.”

  “Why so hostile? I’m not out to get you,” Ed said.

  “It’s not just you, it’s all men. You all want to fuck me anyway you can,” Pam replied.

  “I know I’m going to get hell for saying this, but you do dre
ss like a dime store whore most of the time, you even had your uniform custom made so your ass would hang out as much as your tits. What do you expect?” Ed asked.

  “Just like a man to blame a woman for what she wears. I bet you think women deserve to be raped as well,” Pam said.

  “No, I don’t think anyone deserves to be raped period. But I do think you get what you put out there.”

  “See, just like a man.”

  “Take your clothes off, I have to do a full body search before I put you in a cell, you know the procedure, you’ve done it yourself,” Ed said.

  “You just want the chance to put your fingers in me,” Pam said.

  “No, Jill here is going to do that,” Ed said.

  “While you watch.”

  “Yep, while I watch, I’m the sheriff, that’s my responsibility.”

  “Like I said, an hour later you’ll be in the patrol car jerking off thinking about what you saw. You’d like nothing more than seeing a woman with another woman’s finger inside her. You fucking pervert.”

  “I’m not going to argue with you Pam, you kidnapped the doctor, and this is all on you. I’m the sheriff of Colfax County and you're under arrest. I have a female officer here to do the search and here as a witness. If you won’t comply, I’ll have you restrained while she does her job,” Ed said.

  “Fine, do what you want, you call it a search, and I call it rape. Woman or not.”

  Ed nodded to Jill to get started.

  “Please remove your uniform,” Jill said.

  Pam begrudgingly yanked off her top, then slid down her skirt. From there she removed her bra showing her different sized breasts to Jill and the sheriff. “See, I told you he screwed up my surgery!”

  “I’m not contesting that Pam,” Ed said. “I’m doing my job.”

  Pam slid off her panties and stood naked.

  “Please turn, bend over and touch your toes,” Jill said as she put on a pair of gloves.

  Pam did as Jill said and the female police officer did an anal cavity search. Then a vaginal search. Pam stood up and turned around. “Are you happy?” Pam said.

  “I’m satisfied, let’s put it that way,” Ed replied. “Now put on your jumpsuit so I can get you in a cell.”

  Pam put on the jumpsuit and was led to her cell. She stepped inside and the door was shut electronically by the dispatcher. “I want a lawyer,” Pam said.

  “I figured you would, that’s why we skipped the interview room and put you straight in the cell. Who is your lawyer?”

  “My ex sister-in-law, Susan Hanson,” Pam replied.

  “I’ll call her for you, sit tight, no hard feelings. This is strictly business.”

  In the hallway on the way back to the dispatch, the female officer stopped Ed and pulled him aside. “I need to tell you something,” Jill said. “I didn’t find anything during the cavity search, but there was something very odd going on.”

  “What do you mean?” Ed asked.

  “When I had my finger inside her, she felt cold.”

  “What do you mean cold?”

  “I can’t explain, have you ever touched her before?” Jill asked.

  “No, she’d probably sue me for harassment. She’s that kind of woman.”

  “Did you notice she seems to wear an awful lot of make up?”

  “Yeah, but I thought that was because she used to be a stripper.”

  “She’s covering up something, I’m not sure what.”