Witch Hunter Robin Fan Fiction ❯ Ghosts of the Past ❯ Finding a needle in a large haystack ( Chapter 17 )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]

Late afternoon rolled over the STN Headquarters... it seemed like it was a very busy time. Michael was hard at work on his computer since Amon and Robin had arrived, his fingers flying across the keys like a sprinter on a track.. Hitting keys with great precision while his eyes red through a mountain of information that was coming through.

Robin sat nearby at her desk, watching the young whiz do his work on her idea. She felt nervous about how this was all going to pan out, hoping her television inspired idea was on the right track. She just kept looking at Amon who stood nearby taking to Haruto, trying not to worry so much about it. She wanted to talk to Nagira too, to distract herself from the stress... but the man had left for his home hours before they had gotten here, so she just had to sit and wait with her nervousness.

Amon came over after finishing with the young hunter lad and squatted down beside the chair she sat in. He looked at the girl’s face, and saw the amount of stress she was bottling up inside of herself.
“ If there is real solid chance with this, Michael will find it.” He said, holding her hand gently in his large palm to try and calm the girl.
“ You think there is a chance then this idea of mine just yield something that we can use?” Asked a very nervous Robin.
“ Because you had used logic to piece all of this together...” Said the man, not hesitating to reply. “ Even Michael said it was more than possible that even discovery of the area that the calls were made from could open up the search that could show us the right way to be going.”

Robin smiled, as she felt better. Amon just nodded and the two stayed there and watched as the computer lad did his work at a breakneck speed.

Karasuma suddenly appeared from out of the elevators, returning from her lunch. The woman seemed to be in good spirits as she walked into the main area of the STN, smiling as she passed into the computer room. She immediately saw Robin and Amon together, and she made a small surprised noise. She smiled and made her way over to where the two sat.

Getting to their side, Karasuma just looked at the couple, and waited until they looked over when they had realized she was there. There was something evident was going on, and she already figured it out.
“ I see you have finally gone and told her how you feel.” Said the lady, directly at Amon.
“ You knew that he felt that way for me?” Asked Robin, shocked at the young woman knowing that little bit of information.
“ I think I knew it quite awhile before Amon... long before he even admitted it to himself.” Beamed Miho with a mischievous smile. She looked at the girl that sat beside the tall man, and saw the light in those eyes. “ In fact, I think I was the one that got it to come out of the back of his head to the front.”

Amon roared and looked at Robin.
“ She made me see it, but I had to be very drunk too for me to admit it the first time.” He admitted
“ You were drunk?” Puzzled the young girl.” You...were drunk??”
“ I was more than drunk....” He laughed.
“ Drunk all over me?” Robin said, aghast at her boyfriends reaction to her disappearance.
“ That I was.” He said. “ I tried to hide my feeling, plying myself with the alcohol all of the time, but I guess I could not escape what I was feeling, ad finally had to admit it.”

Dojima who had been nearby came over and looked at the three. She was smirking, obviously she had overheard everything. Robin looked blonde girl with her big green eyes, as she figured out that the lady had been eavesdropping in on Miho, Amon and her conversation..
“ Your dating Amon then?” Yurika asked of the youngest Hunter, a smirk of understanding painting her face.
“ I am.” Robin said, looking at the man beside her who nodded, and bursting forth with a shy smile..
“ I can just imagine the two of you... cooped up all day in that small motel with only time on your hands. Have you done the mattress mamba yet?” Said Yurika, always being the extremely blunt one that worked there. “ Tell me...Did you do the naked hoochie-coo?”
“ Hoochie-coo?” Said the young craft user with a wrinkling of her brow, as that term she had never heard before.
“ She means have we have had sex yet.” Clarified Amon, with a low and resounding snicker.

Robin’s face suddenly went beet red, and she fell silent as she lowered her face a little in response to the girl’s teasing her. Yurika automatically saw at the girl’s facial expressions, and her jaw fell open... her mind grasped what that look was telling her.
“ You... You already did??” Dojima spluttered loudly, obviously this was not quite what she expected her teasing would reveal... she was just trying to tease the girl. “ Um... well...”

Blushing really brightly by then, Robin looked at the girl and give a nod of her head, wishing that she could lie about it right then and there. She worried that Amon would be mad that she was admitting this to Dojima like this, but she felt deeply that she could not lie about it or hide it either... no matter how embarrassed she was going to feel

Miho gave a nervous smile, never in a million years thinking that Robin would have responded to the teasing that Dojima did. Not really knowing what to say after the girl’s silent bluntness, she turned quickly and just walked off whistling back to her workstation. Dojima had already hurried off without a single word. It appeared the impossible had happened...Dojima had been rendered quite speechless with the youngest hunter’s admission..

Robin just looked over at Amon and bowed her head, her blushing face was still very seriously red. The girl felt bad that she had responded to the girl’s kidding like that, and had simply admitted to what had happened between her and Amon... and now she was feeling very embarrassed with it.
“ I’m sorry... I could not lie to her.” Softly explained Robin, looking deeply into her lover’s eyes.
“ Robin, Don’t be ashamed of not being able to lie.... I would not ask you to lie anyway..” He said, then adding with a playful type of chuckle.” I am not mad at all, with you telling... although a little more tact might have been a better way to handle it.” He shook his head and chuckled again, looking at the girl. “ Heck, you should think of it like this...Maybe Dojima is jealous because she is not getting any in her life.”

The young tawny haired girl just looked at the man, shocked at his more than smutty yet very humorous comment the man had let fly. Instead of going quiet when she felt embarrassed, Robin found herself starting to giggle uncontrollably at her man’s comment. Amon just laughed along as Karasuma just shook her head and began to laugh with them from where she had stepped away to.
“ Your corrupting her already, Amon...” Teased Miho.
“ That’s a good thing you know...” Suddenly said Robin, out of the blue.

Amon and Miho both snapped their heads around and looked at the girl with amazement that the usually demure girl had came out with a comment like that. All at once, all three of them burst out laughing, as this out of character thing from the girl was just too hard to ignore.
“ Perhaps I have corrupted her... but for the better.” He said, almost laughing to hard to actually say the words.

Everyone laughed again, but Robin’s face was blushing again, beet red from more than laughing too hard.

Michael put an end to the laughing suddenly when he had called out to the three from his workstation, his voice ringing out loudly throughout the computer room.
“ I think I have something here.” He said.

Amon and Robin hurried over to hear what the lad had found out. Karasuma moved quickly to followed. They were all very curious at what all the hullabaloo was about with the young computer youth. She knew by Michael’s voice, the lad had found something very interesting.

The computer whiz looked at the two.
“ I have a line on that number finally..” He smirked.
“ Well... Don’t just sit there.. Tell us what the hell it is!” Said Amon, urging the lad to spit it out.
The lad nodded and turned to his computer screen.
“ I tracked the time stamp that matched the cells found in the Witch’s possessions.” He said, then continuing. “ The signal of the unknown cell on each of the Witches came from a part of town where many large corporations have there head offices in.” He said. “ I have a friend who works for the Tokyo Phone company that will see if their system has noted on their grid if this particular signal has been pieced up on their towers.”
“ And?” Amon said, pressing for more.
“ If they have it on their computer readouts, we can triangulate the position by using these towers and will have a fairly close address on where that call had came from, provided that the person behind it was calling from the same location.”
“ Can two grids pick up the same signal?” Asked Amon, his mind following the lads explaining.
“ They do pick them up and log them down now, but if the signal is not one of the company’s cells, it will not go through and just simply redirect them off to a tower that is serviced by the proper company’s tower... or they sometimes do let it go through, and bill the other company..” The lad said.
“ So it is possible that even if it is a throw away cell, they might be able to locate it without any GPS?” Asked Amon.
“ He said that he could search those records, but he would have to sneak his way on to his own system and some of the other providers as well...and that would take some real time.”

Robin smiled, Michael had certainly gotten on the right track. She looked at the youth and nodded.
“ How long will it take for your friend to discover all of this out?? She quizzed without hesitation.
“ He said that he would have to do it covertly, so he said by maybe morning tomorrow.” Said the lad facing his two friends. “ He hopes to have the information for me sooner than that, but he is sure it will take that long.”

Amon nodded his head, as the lad finished speaking.
“ If that is the case...” The tall man said. “ We should go back to the motel for now. Nothing to gain by just sitting here.”
“ You two do that...” Michael said with a smile, but never looking up from his screen. “ I’ll phone you when I have the information.”
“ Tell the chief about it, and get him to phone us right after....” Amon commanded.
“ Can’t until later in the week... The chief has been gone since late yesterday, SOLOMON said he took vacation time.”
“ Vacation?” Amon asked, a little surprised at hearing his boss had actually taken some vacation time.
“ Vacation...”
“ He took a vacation right in the middle of a case?” Amon said, after digesting it for a few moments..

Michael nodded.
“ We always have cases... I guess that he had to take it when he could.” The computer Geek said.

Amon nodded and grunted, as that made sense. He looked over as the girl now was joining him and the spiky haired lad as well.
“ Thank you, Michael.” She said, smiling at the youth. “ I guess we have to find out how to repay you...”
“ Bring me doughnuts instead of thanking me.” The computer youth said, chuckling before he added. “ That would be the best... but I would settle for a large bag of chips instead....”
“ We’ll get you some doughnuts...” Robin said as she laughed at the young man. “Chocolate ones with nuts or filled?”.
“ The heck with most of those... I want the powdered sugar ones.” He said back, as he wiggled his eyebrows. “ I love the sugar ones!!”

Robin just nodded, as she giggled at the silliness of the hacker youth. He always wanted to have doughnuts after she had brought him some soon after her arrival to the STN. She just turned back and hurried her steps to catch up with the rather fast walking Amon who was already making a beeline to the elevators.

Amon just nodded and turned. He walked off with Robin right at his side. They just left the offices, knowing ful well that whatever will be dug up, this might be that single piece that will complete this puzzle of killers. And he hoped it was, as her life hung in the balance with it’s discovery.