Dead Letters – Pandora Pine

Ronan knew he’d spent time with Cope the night before and had wanted to find out what they’d talked about, but there hadn’t been time. Ten seemed to have a lot on his mind and Ronan hadn’t wanted to push. He had a feeling the conversation would be lengthy. Instead of worrying about Ten, Ronan turned his thoughts to the office. Today was going to be Greeley’s first. He couldn’t wait to dive into a case with the young detective. He knew Greeley coming to work with the cold case unit was a dream come true for Fitzgibbon.

Father and son were waiting for Ronan when he walked into the office. “Hey, guys! You both look ready to rock and roll.” “Hey, yourself.” Fitz walked to the coffee pot and poured himself a to-go cup, adding cream and sugar before fitting the lid. “We started the day in Cisco’s office with Greeley being sworn in and getting his detective’s badge.” Greeley held up the shiny shield, before clipping it back to his belt loop.

“Congrats, man. I’m so happy to have you on the team.” Ronan pulled Greeley in for a quick hug. “I’ve got a couple of meetings downtown this morning, so I’m leaving Greeley with you, Ronan. Get him logged into the computer and then start looking for our next case. It’s a new year and I want to start it strong.” Ronan knew Fitz meant he wanted to prove to the chief and mayor that approving the addition of a fourth cold case detective had been money well spent.

“You got it, boss. I’ll make sure Greeley’s settled in.” “Call if you need anything.” Fitz shrugged into his jacket and walked out of the office. “I can’t believe this space used to be Carson and Cole’s apartment.” Greeley looked around the large open space, which used to serve as the living room. “You guys did an amazing job.”

“They’re running out of office space at the Salem Police Department and there wasn’t enough room to house us. Cisco offered us a conference room to work out of, but we’d all be displaced when meetings were held, so Fitz asked if we could repurpose our PI office here at West Side Magick and he said yes. Hell, we already had desks and office equipment, plus it put off needing to worry about new office space for the foreseeable future.”

Ronan pointed to Fitz’s office. “Did your Dad show you our offices?” Greeley nodded. “He gave me the empty one, but said you guys mostly work out here at the conference table.” “We do,” Ronan agreed.

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Eleven-year-old Tennyson Grimm’s full attention was focused on Miss Glendale and the algebraic equation she was writing on the board. 2x=10. Why the hell was there a letter mixed in with the numbers? He looked around the room and could see the “aha!” light come on in his classmates’ eyes. Tobey March and Kent Stevens elbowed each other and pointed to Ten. Each boy made the letter “L” with their thumb and first finger and slapped it to their forehead.

The universal sign for loser. It crossed Ten’s mind to shoot both boys the bird, but why bother? They were right. Ten hated math. His parents had bought him a scientific calculator for Christmas. It could add, subtract, multiply, and divide in a matter of seconds. Ten’s father, David, made sure it also had functions for equations, trigonometry, and calculus. Foreign words to Ten, ones he hoped he never had to learn about up close and personal. Turning his attention back to the board, Ten saw Alice Sawyer raise her hand and in her prissy voice announced that “X” was the number five.

Two times five was ten, therefore X equaled five. Ten understood it now that he heard Alice explain it, but he still felt like an absolute dope for not catching on sooner, like the rest of the class had done. Steeling his spine, Ten watched as Miss Glendale wrote a second equation on the board. He dutifully copied it into his notebook and was in the process of trying to sort it out for himself before the teacher asked for the answer, when something landed on his desk.

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