>>5816389>>5816418>>5816428>>5816435"If you need me, just dial 9-1-1." You say with a friendly smile.
You see her cheeks start to glow red before she giggles and withdraws the paper.
"You're funny, Officer." She says quietly. "Your food will be up in ten or so." She says before turning her darkening face from you and scuttling to the back
You let that pent up sigh out, low and slow as you head for the door, eager to get out of the heat of the pizza parlor, Question should be out back partaking in his favorite past-time.
You round the corner and find your guess extremely accurate, as now the dumpster is adorned with a very stylish light blue trench coat and fedora. Question kneels in on the dark concrete as he shines a small penlight at a styrofoam container he has open in front of him.
"Question." You say casually.
"Officer." He returns
"What are you examining this time?"
"Hot Wings. They were an over the phone order but the perp never came to pick them up."
"The perp?" You say, leaning in now to get a look as well, your police instinct triggering.
"Anyone who would waste money on food and not come to pick it up has to be into something, and I already scoped out his apartment. he isn't dead."
You frown and close the clamshell box with your foot.
"You're heading face first off the deep end now."
Question clicks his penlight off and stands to face you.
"That was a joke, Officer." He says in the same flat tone he gave you a moment ago.
"What isn't a joke is the fact ARGUS has been monitoring our communications."
You see Question nod as he slips his hands into his pockets producing a group of flip phones which he holds fanned out, like playing cards.
"I knew this day would come, Officer. I have here 7 Burner flip phones, one for each day of the week. Every day at midnight we switch to the next sequentially ordered phone. On the 7th day I will text a drop off point to the final burner. There you will be able to find a cache of seven new burners."
You stare slack-jawed.
"A new phone every day?"
"Yes and then a new set on Sundays, when the week ends, unless you're of the opinion a new week begins on a Monday though I've heard others say Friday is the final day of the week because it leads to the Week-END. But if they really are the end of the week why are there two of them? Who made the system of week-days and week-ends and what was he planning?" Question mumbles off in a stream of consciousness. You see from the darkness a small ball slams into the side of his head, leaving a small puff of powdered sugar on his cheek.
"You're much more handsome when you aren't talking." Calls a voice from the dark corner of the business. Looking over you see Huntress lounging on the hood of a decently old sedan, a small box of donut holes in front of her. She throws her legs backwards and falls off the car gracefully landing on her heels and spinning to face you both at the same time.
