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and the oga is back... Missed you like water ooo, i love gore too maybe the reason i wanted to be a doctor, i always wanted to poke a hand in that wound spurting blood like a tap, dunno how much of it i can take sha, heard of interns that puke and turn feverish throughout their internship :p :p

LOCATION: SOMEWHERE IN CHOKONEZE, IMO STATE
TIME: 16:00 GMT

"...Ka nwanyi a noro n'okpuru Abraham onye odubo gi ruo ebighebi"
The Priest says pouring a shovel of sand on the coffin

"Amen" Everybody choruses, as Irele takes the shovel, takes a mild quantity of the sand and pouring it in the grave.

The Priest starts a chant that everybody replies as he walks away from the grave, the altar boys follow in procession.

Irele couldn't take it anymore as her eyes grew misty and tears started rolling down her cheeks as the young men drowned the casket in drones of sand, Tessy was helping with the serving of food, Samson was organising the slaughtering of the goats for the families.

"Irele" Nakun calls out to her

"What again Nakun? What else can't i have peace during my mom's burial"

"You have to at least greet your guests" Nakun says

"Fvck them i need a drink" Irele retorts

"You have the whole evening to get drunk, just go greet the people from your late dad's company" Nakun was a collossal pain in the bvtt, but she'd organised this succesful burial with Samson when Irele said she wouldn't.
When she was through with greeting the people from her dad's company, giving excuses for her brother Charles, who wouldn't return from Rotherdam, because he was too 'busy' to make the flight home, she was about retiring to her room when her phone buzzed, she picked.

"You got it?" she asks

"What the hell have you gotten yourself into?" Mr. X replied from the other end of the line

"Have you got it?" she asked again

"Yes i cracked the codes, the algorhythm was old, as in Second World War old, so it was hard getting a software to crack it" Mr. X replied

"You're the best that's why i pay you" she says smiling

"They're co-ordinates for the location of Uranium deposits in Ogoja, a gold mine in Abraka and the rest are nuclear launch codes"

"You said the rest are what?" Irele asks again

"Nuclear launch codes" Irele ends the call

"Son of a biatch" she curses, limping into the room and seeing Samson there she mutters something to him and he storms off, going and getting James and dragging him into the room.

"You lied to me, you knew that the red paper had nuclear codes on it, you knew Daniel Akintola's greedy nature and you gave him the red paper" she said pointing her walking stick at him angrily, she was frightened, she'd lost one thing and it seemed like her purpose on earth, she had failed, she had failed her God, herself and her nation

"Yeah in exchange for your life, can i go now" James said

"You're never to come near me, my family or any of my friends again, kapish? If i do see you near me i'll kill you uncle, i will" Irele looked determined and when she mentioned the word 'kill' she looked like she had a steel heart

James leaves an angry Irele

Tessy walks in

"Hope no problem?" she asks

"There is, we're getting the red paper back"

"Why? Thought we were going to leave the greedy man to his money?" Tess queries

"Its not about the money anymore" Irele answers telling them the contents of the red paper, they were dumbfounded when they heard about it.

"We have to enroll for target practice" Tessy says, hands akimbo

"I know just the person to meet for that" Samson replies

**END OF CHAPTER 12**

Chapter 12 continues abeg money calls

Five minutes outside, no sign of the bomb, no sign of a fire, no sign of Irele people were still trooping out.

"Gawd! Where could she be" Samson says pacing around outside

"Hey calm..." Tessy was saying when the ground shook and ka boom! The hospital sank to the ground and the energy from the blast blew them across the road , they stood up dusting themselves.

"Irele! Irele!!" Samson shouted, running into the ruins, before seeing a smiling Irele dusting herself up and standing up, she couldn't help herself up Samson rushed to her hugging tightly, she returns the favour, he releases her and looks into her eyes, she breaks into a smile, he smiles too

"Hi" She says

"Hi stranger" He replies smiling

They both break into laughter and stopping abruptly.

"You smell nice" She said

"You look great with the dust all over your body" He replies, they both smile foolishly again.

The fire fighters had come to do their business the Red Cross van had just arrived, but in the middle of the commotion the two lovebirds held themselves, Irele not minding her throbbing right leg.

"I love you Irele" Samson said

"I love you too"

and not minding the bostling activity around them Tess looking for them and the dead and wounded being helped out of the rubble, an AIT correspondet was covering the disaster and somewhere in the screen behind her the two lovebirds stole the scene, they kissed and kissed till Tess found them.

"Get a room! Gosh!" She said smiling, they looked around, everybody was minding their business, pure water hawkers had come to sell, la-casera and gala too as Samson, Tessy and Irele hopped into the car and Tessy zoomed off!

**CONTINUED**

"You fool!" Irele says slapping him

"You son of a biatch!" she says slapping him on the other cheek

She raises her hand to slap him again and he holds her hand

"You think its easy being the underpaid detective? You think its easy being an 'incorruptible detective' in Nigeria? Do you think its easy being a policeman in Nigeria?...."

He drops her hand

"You think your dad was corruption free? You think he made his money the clean way?..." tears struggles down his misty eyes as he catches it midway theough his skin and dries his misty eyes with his handkerchief

"You think your dad thought of anybody but himself?" he concludes

"You know what? fvck you, fvck the decisions you had to make, fvck your experience, cos you know now, i dunno you anymore, James, Your selfish decisions has cost us the red paper, i dunno what those signatures are for, but whatever it was for, it wasn't supposed to enter the wrong hands, and Barrister Daniel Akintola screams of the wrong hand, the codes on the other side of the paper are getting cracked now and soon we'll know what this craze is all about"

She makes to leave

"I know what the codes are" James says, Irele stops in her tracks and turns

"What?"

"They're co-ordinates to Uranium deposits in Ogoja, and a gold mine in Abraka"
Irele held herself from slapping him again

"So you handed nuclear codes to the devil?"

She says storming out of the appartment into Tess' car, shuts it and starts crying, how could it be? The one man she trusted, the brother she had, why is everything turning around? Why was everything turning sour? Why did she ever trust a man hundred percent again? This wasn't how it was supposed to end, she cleaned her eyes.

"Gold deposits in Abraka, who would have thought that" she pondered, she opened her bag for her eye liner, she pulls down the mirror in front of her and feigns a smile, then a picture of Tess, her friend and David as kids, he smiled, they looked cute together, David was not looking bad as a teenager. He wasn't looking as gruelsome as the man that brought this curse on her, her mind went back to the man that said.

"Help Tess please"

She shook visibly, that wasn't what he said, it was as if someone whispered in her ears and she shook when she remembered Daniel saying

"... I can't say the same for Samson and Tessy who would beg for this lives?"

She revved the engine to life just as James was coming out of the apartment, she zoomed off into the next street, she needed to get to Hopeville hospital and fast.

*** *** ***
In minutes she was in the garage of Hopeville Hospitals, she rushed up the stairs into the ward where Samson was admitted, she opened the door to see Tina packing and Samson trying to wear his clothes, his right arm was in a sling a nurse was with them, Irele entered

"Oh irele, just in time, the hospital discharged us" Tess said beaming with smiles at Irele, who wriggles her nose.

"Do you percieve that?"
All three eyes turn to her

"What?" Samson asks

"The smell like a lighted match" Then it occurred to her, sulphur, fire, bombs, Daniel's threat

"Fvck shitt!" She yells

"A bomb!" It was as if it had exploded already cos the room was in pandemonium, the nurse threw away the tray of drugs prescribed for Samson.

"Both of you follow me now"
she commands
They both follow her as she runs down the stairs, she picks a stone used to support a door and slamming into every fire alarm or her way, before you could know it the hospital was ringing all over like a village primary school when they reached the lobby it was full of people were rushing out the front door, Irele stopped.

"You guys should leave, there are many incapacitated people in here, i have to help the nurse get then out before it explodes" She tells them

"No way, i'm not leaving without you" Samson says holding her arm

"Aww, so sweet of you, get out and into safety" Irele says a momentarily smiling curving her lips

"You're coming with us, you're supposed to guard the red paper"

Tessy cuts in, into the romance session

"The red paper isn't that important right now, you need to take him out, he can't help me you both go... Now" Irele says

Tessy draws Samson away from the lobby

"I love you" He mutters as he's draw away.

"I love you too" Irele says almost immediately and they both smiled as she climbed the stairs of the soon to be ruined edifice.

Chapter 12
Location: RANSOME'S HOUSE
Date: February 6th 2015
Time: 10:15

Daniel Akintola comes in with two men both armed with Ak-47 rifles, Irele gasps as she clenches the box tightly against her chest, her eyes were registered with fear. Daniel Akintola wasn' t just a man, he was a powerful man rumored to have stooges working in different government parastatals as high as in the presidency. It was said that the President even had to be sanctioned by him before he was okayed as acting president during the former president's demise with all men his age and older that he is, he garnered respect wherever he went, such was the power of the principality that walked into Ransome's apartment that morning. He was a silent puppet master, he looked at both people on the sofa and scorpion on the floor, he pulled the sleeves of his elegant one thousand five over his shoulder, it was so silent that you could hear a pin drop, he looked at both men beside him and nods towards Irele and Detective James

"Get the box and the girl"
He said turning to leave

"This wasn't our deal" James calls out
Irele gasps in shock as James stands from the sofa, Daniel turns

"... You were supposed to leave my family alone, while i quitely got you the paper"
Daniel lets out a dry laugh

"I love your courage James, i didn't know you could speak for yourself , or i wouldn't have given the greedy Ransome the job to get me the paper"
Irele couldn't believe her ears

"I've worked for you a long time sir, and i've not asked anything more from you, you can take the paper sir, but please spare my sister"
Daniel stares at him from his glasses, pulls the sleeves from his one thousand five and hesitantly says

"Erm... Oya leave the girl for her demons, get me the paper"

The men swung into action grabbing the metal box and opening it, checking the contents and getting satisfied with it, they hand it to Akintola, Irele is dumfounded

"... And James?" He called

"Yes sir"

"I don't owe you anymore favours, if you get into the line of fire, you'll definitely get one, you understand?"

"Yes sir, thanks sir" he says feigning a smile

"Irele you're safe now, but make the mistake of coming after this..."
He says holding up the paper.

"Then your uncle's plea would have expired, i can't say the same for Samson and Tess, who would beg for their lives?"

"You son of a biatch, i'll kill you" Irele shouts, one of the men gives her a backand slap, Daniel shakes his head and leaves the apartment his men following him.
When they'd left. James turns aplogetically to Irele who raises a hand to stop him from talking....

*****

Oruchechuks see as you come gimme work.... typing, ma battery is down tho.

Nice job guys... Wey Kinwayne sef...

Nice job vonn... Nice job

Make no mistake fhunn i have not abandoned this story, still going to continue

Lets get this going... Shall we?