HAMERTON 2
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Hamerton. A large school offering the finest Education to the students of the state and overseas. Natalie joins this school arriving from Brooklyn and she has grief over her lost friends who were murdered in Hamerton. She teams up with Ingrid and their fellow seniors against the House of Representatives to prevent a bomb blast that could cause a large massacre.
Hallow viewers!
previously on Hamerton; Corny receives a call from an anonymous person who tells him that they have Maggie.
Mr. Bradley returns to New York from Tanzania, and breaks news to her wife that he is home for good.
Natalie and Ingrid chat with Caitlin through her new email and Natalie shares with her about Hamerton and their plans.
Please Continue;
***
Corny hovered around
the empty apartment that used to belong to his wife. He tapped the phone in his
hand, anxiously waiting for Trevor, to tell him about the call with the bad
guys.
He was pacing in front
of the apartment door and paused only when he heard Trevor’s voice at the end
of the corridor.
“Howls?” Trevor called,
running to him from the stair landing.
Corny Howls greeted him
with a worried expression.
“Howls. Tell me, what’s
the urgency and why are we meeting here?” Trevor asked, halting a few steps
from Corny.
“Trevor. We have a very huge problem in our hands. We have to get you back home. This all idea of having
you here is a bad one.”
Trevor frowned at that.
“What are you talking about? I have already made my decision. I am staying in
England till we have found Maggie.”
Corny sighed deeply at
that, shaking his head with despair.
Trevor queered his
friend’s exceeding worry. “What’s going on Howls? Tell me what’s happening.” He
asked in panic.
“Trevor. There’s no
need of finding Maggie anymore, see?” he said, as he struggled with a lump of
tears in his throat. “They have her. And they want you in exchange for her.”
Trevor’s mouth parted,
remaining silent. “What?” he gasped.
Corny evaded the
question, turning around and giving Trevor his back. He rested his hands on his
waist, a thing he did when he was very depressed.
“Howls. Who said that?
Did they call you?” Trevor asked in desperation.
“Howls!”
Trevor turned to the
end of the corridor where Millies approached, hurrying toward them.
“Millies.” Trevor
reckoned, before Corny faced them.
“Hello Trevor.” Millies
greeted him and turned to Corny. “Howls. I have to talk to you. This is a very
crucial matter.”
Corny sighed. “Alright.
Where can we talk?”
“At the van, maybe. Or
here if Trevor…” she turned to Trevor. “Will you please excuse us?”
“He is more involved
now, Millies.” Corny informed her.
Millies furrowed her
eyebrows. “What? How?” she asked quickly and then added before either of them
had the chance to reply. “Anyway, that can wait. Howls. Please?”
Corny nodded. “Maybe we
can talk inside.” He suggested,
“Yes.” She agreed and
he opened the apartment door, leading the way in.
She shut the door
behind themselves and turned to Howls who was standing behind a sofa in the
living room of the apartment.
He looked around,
clutching a fist. “This is, this is where I last saw her.
I promised her that, I would be back to take her away.” He said and paused, breaking
into a cry.
“Oh Howls.” Millies
begun, walking to him and took his hands. “Please you have to be strong.”
“I can’t Millies.” He
confessed, wretchedly. “Maggie is my life. She is everything to me.”
Millies remained
silent, looking at him with worry.
With his intelligence
knowledge, Corny immediately realized that she was keeping something from him,
especially when she suddenly released him and joined her hands, rubbing them
together anxiously.
Corny wiped his face
with his hands. “Tell me, Millies. What is that crucial matter that you had to
tell me?”
“Ah.” Millies
hesitated, scratching her head.
“C’mon Millies. You can
trust me with anything.”
Millies grimaced at him, wondering if that was
true.
“Millies?” he called
her.
She took in a deep
breath, steeling herself to tell him. “I've come from the Unit where they kept some
of Maggie’s stuff for collecting evidence. That’s where I met something that,
you... you might have missed when you came around to search the apartment.”
He narrowed his eyes,
staring at him. “What is that?”
“A pregnancy test
device. It was in the bathroom, on a sink that, your wife used.” She said and
looked at him pitifully. “The test device showed, positive. That means that,
your wife found out that she was pregnant before she was kidnapped.”
Corny froze. He also
thought that he skipped a heartbeat. He felt like somebody stabbed his chest
with a very sharp knife.
Millies sighed.
“Howls?” she called, trying to get his attention.
Feeling his legs
weaken, Corny groped for the seat behind him and leaned on it.
“What?” Was the only
thing he could say. He did not want to believe what he just heard.
Just then, he recalled
his last encounter with Maggie.
When he arrived, she
wanted to tell him something. Before he left she also wanted to tell him
something. But, Corny said that,
he was going to return. He did not take her. He did not wait for her to finish
her bath and help her pack. He put Trevor’s life before his wife’s and now… his
baby’s.
“I have to find her.”
Corny said, drawing from the sofa and aiming at the exit.
Millies held him back.
“Howls, how? We still don’t know where she is.”
“Let me alone, Millies.
I have to find my wife.” He insisted with determination.
“Howls. I can’t let you
go anywhere like this.” Millies said, struggling to retain him in the room.
“Let me go!” he
shouted, pulling his strong arms free.
He dashed to the front
door while Millies went after him.
“Howls? Howls?” she
called but, he did not reply.
Outside the apartment,
the two met Trevor who was waiting anxiously for them.
Corny walked to him.
Before he said
anything, Trevor announced. “I am going to give myself up to SOHOT. Maggie’s
life is in danger and it’s all my fault.”
“What?” Millies asked,
baffled by his statement. “What are you talking about? Do you guys know where
the kidnappers are?”
Corny was silent,
contemplating the right decision to make. He went to Trevor to surrender himself
to SOHOT so that he could save Maggie but, now that Trevor said it, Corny did
not want to be so cruel to him.
Trevor turned to
Millies. “They called Howls and told him that he should turn me over or else,
they could do something bad to Maggie.”
Millies turned to
Corny. “They called you?” she asked, reproachfully. “Why didn't you tell me?”
Corny disregarded her
question and glanced at Trevor. “Trevor. You don’t have to do that. They
believe that you are in Los Angeles. I told them that.”
“Howls!” Millies
snapped at him.
“Millies, please? It
happened so fast. The first one that I could reach was Trevor. I wanted to warn
him that he should go back to USA.” Corny defended himself.
Millies frowned at him.
“Where is your phone? Give me your phone.” She ordered.
Unable to raise an
argument, Corny slid his hand in his coat pocket and took out his phone.
Millies snatched it from him and walked to an opposite end of the corridor to
check it.
“I am not going back to
USA Howls. And if I must, I will surrender myself to SOHOT.” Trevor said and
swallowed. “I cannot let anything bad happen to Maggie. Not to her. She is a
very sweet and lovely woman. And you. You have ever been so good to me.”
“Trevor… I know how
much you care for me and my for family but, I want to fix this, I am sure that,
there will be a way to do that without including you, giving yourself up.”
“Howls. You are not
only my friend. You’re my family. You are like a brother to me. We have been
through a lot together. I can never and I would never want to put myself first before
you or Maggie. Howls. You have to understand that, I am willing to do anything,
to keep you safe.”
“No, Trevor. That is my
job.” Corny disagreed, loudly. “I could never put your life at risk. Not only
because, of your father’s trust in me but also because, I care for you too.”
“But, Maggie-”
“I’ll find a way.”
Corny interrupted him. “Besides that, you don’t even know what the SOHOT wants
with you.”
“Maybe I don’t but, if
it will return Maggie back to you, I will do anything.”
Corny sighed, shaking his
head. He never thought that it could come to that. Choosing between his wife,
his unborn child and Trevor.
Millies came back. “I already
sent the numbers to the Unit. They will be able to locate the caller.”
“Thank you.” Corny said.
Millies nodded and turned
to Trevor. “You also have to leave this country. Get in touch with your
bodyguard and tell him that you are going back.”
“I am not going
anywhere Millies.” Trevor said to her and turned to Corny. “Please find me when
you guys find anything. I’ll get in touch with my brother.”
Corny nodded.
“Alright.”
Trevor pat Corny’s
shoulder before leaving, "We'll find Maggie." He promised.
***
Meanwhile Maggreth
Howls woke up from an induced coma. She opened her eyes and immediately
shut them after meeting very bright light coming from above her head.
When her eyelids
adapted to the light, she lifted them again. Just then, she realized that her
hands and feet were tied.
She was seated in a wooden chair. She knew that when, she heard a creak when she tried to move.
“Hallo?” she called
but, only a full minute after being conscious.
Within the sixty
seconds, she recalled what happened to her. She remembered meeting Howls and him telling her that, there were bad people coming after her and Trevor.
She also recalled that
she found out that she was pregnant.
She chose not to panic.
She knew and hoped that her husband will figure out a way to rescue her. She
trusted him with her life.
“Anyone there?” she
called again, in a lower voice like the first time.
Maggie was not looking
for her assailants, she was looking for any crew member behind the radios in
the University.
She knew that, it was almost
vain to hope that, the security crew that guarded Trevor in the University had
not left. Of course Howls would have stayed behind to look for her but, he
would not have the crew’s equipment.
“Please somebody, help
me?” she whispered when a ting sounded.
There were voices over
the receiver implanted in her ear.
Maggie sighed with
relief. Henry… she reckoned inwardly
with hope.
“No father, I just… am
not feeling well, that is why.” Henry came again, closer this time.
Where
is he? Maggie thought.
“But, Trevor my son,
you have been avoiding me ever since you returned here.”
It was Mr. Tommy’s voice.
Maggreth furrowed her
eyebrows. Father? How?
“Trevor. C’mon, tell
me, what is the problem?” Mr. Tommy asked.
Just then, Maggreth
heard footsteps into the room that she was in. Feeling scared, she begun panting.
Her breaths were
probably audible in Trevor’s or Henry’s room because a second later, Mr. Tommy
came, “Why is it that you keep the radio on son? You are already home and that
is all that matters.”
“Oh. It automatically
turns on when there is a human voice. So, I guess that, it turned on when we
came in. I’ll switch it off now.”
Maggreth wanted to
shout in disapprove, just before the receiver in her ear went dead.
“Maggreth Holws.” A
lady’s voice sounded only a few steps from where Maggie was, drawing attention from her.
Maggie gasped. She was
on her own then. She could not avoid panicking. “Who are you? What do you want
from me?”
“Sh sh. You don’t have
to shout.” The woman sounded aggravatingly. “With you, not so much.”
Maggie begun to cry.
“Please? Let me go.” She begged.
“Not yet. First, we
want you tell us about Trevor.”
We?
Maggie thought. Her and?
“Silence, hah?” the
lady came again. “Just what I like. Bucket, one.” The lady said before Maggreth
felt a lot of water poured over her body.
She cried, feeling
her robe soak and water dribbling over her face and hair. Oh my God what are they going to do to me? She wondered, silently.
“Mrs. Howls, do you
feel the cords tying you to the chair?” the lady asked. But, without waiting
for Maggie’s reply, she went on. “Well, they are uninsulated live wires, transmitting at least 500 volts of electricity. With just one shock, you could
get liquefied. Now, tell me about Trevor.”
Maggie popped her eyes
out with terror. She did not want to
die. Not now when she was going to have Howls’ baby.
“Please don’t kill me.”
She cried. “Please. Please?” she begged.
“Are you willing to
tell us about Trevor?”
“Anything, anything I
swear.” She cried.
There was a short
pause. “Good. All we need is your answer for one simple question. Is Trevor
Tommy in England?”
Maggreth froze.
She expected to have to
eulogize Trevor and not to answer a direct question.
“One?” the lady called.
“Wait!” Maggreth cried.
“I don’t know. I swear. What I know is that… we were going to leave England.
But, I was captured before that, I don’t know if he stayed or left. I swear to
you.”
“Is that so?” the lady
asked.
“It’s all I know. I promise.” Maggreth cried.
“Why did you hesitate,
then?”
Maggreth gulped.
She hesitated because, she realized that, Henry took Trevor’s place in LA and perhaps, Trevor stayed
behind to assist Howls in finding her.
There was a door that
sounded to be opened and a voice followed. “Let her be and maybe dress her up.”
Two?
Maggie thought in her head.
It was a man’s voice.
“Hannah sent a message, the boy’s in London. We’ll need the woman safe and fit
for the exchange.”
Exchange?
Maggie
thought. “You’re going to exchange my life for Trevor's?” she dared to ask.
“More than that, Mrs.
Howls. But, it’s not for you to know. Release her, one and get the guys to
clean her up.”
It was then that
signals begun transmitting in the receiver but, unlucky for Maggie, she felt
dizzy and fainted.
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