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herself in midsentence with a wide open jaw as
she saw James was holding his hand in mid-air towards the direction
of the door and the door remained completely shut.
    “ I wish I knew” James
answered even more confused than she was. James lowered his arm and
the metal door budged open slightly again and he quickly raised it
again and it shut again.
    “ Hold it, man.” Tina
yelled at him.
    “ I can’t hold it like this
forever.”
    “ Right, we need a plan.
We’ll figure out this freak show later.” Tina yelled. “Uh, uh” Tina
looked up while wiping her brow then saw an air vent blocking a
shaft. “That’s it! Quick, give me a boost.”
    “ I can’t” yelled
James.
    “ Come on; just use your
free hand.”
    “ Uh OK.” James used his
free hand to hoist Tina up as she stepped up onto his hand and she
tried to grab hold of the vent grate but fell back on the wall
behind her. “Come on”, James uttered.
    “ Damn it” she said. “Try
once more, James.”
    “ Come on you have one last
try, this is our last try.” He said in a panic feeling the weight
of the door on his arms starting to give way and it wouldn’t be
long before it opened despite his efforts. She stepped up onto his
hand, took a deep breath, and jumped up grabbing the vent and hung
from it with one hand like a chimpanzee then she disengaged the
hatch on the vent with her free hand and shimmied up the shaft.
“Yes. Nice work”, James added reaching up to Tina’s free hand
reaching down.
    “ Come on boy” she reached
out to grab his hand held up high and helped pull him up as he
continued to hold the metal door shut by keeping his other hand to
the metal door until he was safely in the shaft and sealed the vent
shut. They crawled away rapidly.
    Moments later the metal door swung
open and a platoon of five uniformed officers ran in and fell in
nearly on top of one another.
    “ What the hell?” A petite
officer yelled.
    “ No one is here.” A taller
officer commented.
    “ Then who was holding the
damn door?!” Yelled a muscular built mustached officer with a gold
shield and dark sun glasses even indoors as he commanded the fear
and attention of the other officers. “Find them!!!” He took off his
glasses revealing his dark eyes as pitch black as coal and
determined as ever, “find them all.”

CHAPTER 21
    “ Who were they and how did
they escape?” Shouted the mustached man to his subordinates in his
office, the glass panel on the door read “ Michael Bromely, Lieutenant ”.
    “ I don’t know, Sir.” Spoke
a taller dark haired man, with blue stripes on his uniform, who had
a monotone and calm vernacular. “I had about seventeen men try to
open that door together but they could not even budge it. There was
a time when they thought that they had it but someone or something
on the other side shut it again and they couldn’t open it again
until they finally managed to open it. We think it was a
malfunction locking mechanism that eventually gave way due to age
what else could it be?”
    “ What else indeed?”
Bromley spoke with an agitated and condescending tone.
    “ It’s as if someone or
something released its hold on it,” said another man with a short
stature and whiney voice and long whiskers as he stood between the
other two men.
    “ Good point Sergeant
Docson.” Bromley uttered.
    “ Thank you.” Docson
replied.
    “ Well, all I know is that
someone or something better be wearing cuffs real soon because no
one makes a mockery of my department and gets away with it. I want
whoever is responsible caught.” Bromley yelled.
    “ Yes Sir,” replied the
monotone man, Sergeant Offson.
    “ Any words on the two
escapees yet?” Bromley asked his subordinates.
    “ Not yet. We cannot rule
out the possibility sir that they are somehow involved in the
disappearing act in the stairwell.” Docson replied.
    “ That is giving those two
morons way too much credit, Sergeant. Keep me posted. Search every
possible nook and