The phone was ringing. Matthew had drank himself to sleep about 4am sitting in his chair in his office with his feet on the table. He finally woke up enough to answer his phone. It was Gary. Gary said a friend of his was able to get a hold of one of ICE’s men and was trying to set up a phone call between Matthew and ICE. Matthew was listening intensely. Gary said he would keep him updated. Matthew almost cried and found it hard to talk. He thanked Gary and said he would be waiting. He hung up the phone and looked at the time. 10:30am He had never slept in until 10:30. He decided to get a shower, go to security and see if there was any way he could help out. He wanted to know if Carl and Joey had found anything. He wasn’t getting anywhere on his computer. So off to the shower he went.
When he went in security Gary was sitting at his computer with his head down. His hair was Infront of his face so you couldn’t tell if he was asleep. Matthew sat in the chair next to him and he popped his head up right away. Gary said oh boss glad to see you. Gary looked like it had been a long time since he slept. Gary said just resting a minute while waiting for some news. Matthew said do you want me to watch your computer while you take a break. Sure that would be great Gary said. Matthew said Why don’t you take a shower and I will order you something to eat. Gary said Sounds great on the shower but food, could I have coffee and a smoothie. Matthew replied ok. Gary showed Matthew what to watch and he would be right back. Matthew called the kitchen and ordered coffee and 2 protein drinks. It wasn’t long Gary was back and smelled much better. Matthew said why don’t you sit on the couch and your drinks will be here soon. Gary sat on the couch behind Matthew. The drinks came shortly after. Gary drank his protein drink and put his head back on the couch and took a nap. Matthew hadn’t seen anything on the computers when Joey and the guy helping him came in. Joey put down a mat in the corner of the room. Sat on it, crossed his legs and started mediating. The guy who had been helping him (Jack) sat next to Matthew and told him they hadn’t found anything yet. Matthew asked how Joey was doing and he said not good. That Joey was right on the line of killing himself. That he is upset he has not found anything and keeps rechecking and rechecking things. He thinks he must be missing something. Matthew said I feel the same way. I couldn’t figure out how they know what we are doing. Just keep working with him and try and come up with anything that will help him. I don’t want to loose him. He is a great guy to have on our team. Jack responded ok, that he would try harder to help Joey. He got up, went and sat near Joey. Carlson head of security came back from lunch. Carlson sat down next to Matthew and started talking about if he had found anything and what his team had been doing. They did some brain storming about what they could possibly do to find the answers to the security problems. After 3 hours Gary woke up. Came up to Matthew looking at his 6 monitors and his lap top Gary said Dam it, nothing. He pour himself a cup of coffee and said to Matthew he was ready to go again. He said he had dreamed about some satellites he wanted to try. So Matthew got up and gave him back his chair. Matthew told Gary he was going to the gym and if he needed another break call him.
Matthew hardly slept. He exercised and drank. Matthew started spending most of his time in the gym exercising. The kitchen would sent Matthew food but the trays would come back full so they decided to send protein drinks every 4 hours. The cook tried different kinds so he could be sure Matthew was getting lots of vitamins. The glasses were coming back empty. People said he would talk to himself while exercising in the gym. Saying when he found these mother fuckers he was going to tear them into little pieces and then stomp on them. Many times people heard him scream from his room or the gym. Everybody was so depressed. Anyone who had kids kept them home from school. They decided they were going to home school their kids from now on. Everyone was worried about everyone’s safety. People stopped going to the gym mostly because it was too had to see Matthew in the shape he was in. No one was in the living room so one of the help just turned the tv off. Gary didn’t leave his computer. He knew he could find something but was coming up dry. He was going crazy that his friend hadn’t called back.
Matthew went back to his office and tried to communicate with some of his friends. His friends said they hadn’t heard anything. Some said they had heard of this guy ICE but didn’t know anything about him. They all said they would try to find any info on him they could. Around midnight Matthew and being on the drunk side he decided to go see Gary. He came in security and sat next to Gary. Gary show Matthew a monitor where he had hacked into a satellite and was searching the ocean for ICE’s sub. Matthew sat with Gary for a good hour watching the monitor with him searching the ocean for the boat or sub. Then Gary said he had to shut it off because he was worried some one would find out what he was doing and he would try again tomorrow. Matthew looked at his watch. It was 3am. He told Gary he wasn’t sleepy and wanted to know if Gary wanted to take a nap. Gary show Matthew the important things to watch for and hit the couch again.