Chapter 5: Requesting Help

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Johnathan Argyle Steve and Robin all look at the bent up picture of the bow sitting on the middle of Joyce's dinning room table. They both sit there and look it for the longest time, expecting the answers to just pop out at them right here but it doesn't.

"So...where do we start?" Steve questions, his hands on his hips.

"We need to find every single meaningful place to this family and just go down the list. There has to be something. Maybe back to something dated to 1961." Johnathan mentions.

"How are we going to find one big list of places?" Robin questions.

Johnathan begins to walk away to the end of the dining room while Robin and Steve begin to talk. It becomes faded, Johnathan thinking and thinking before he turns around. "Robin."

"Yeah?" Robin questions, turning to look at Johnathan.

"Where did you say you and Nants went to see Victor?" Johnathan questions.

"At the Pennhurst Mental Hospital why?" Robin questions.

"You think they would store files of the patients there?"

"Well yeah it's a mental institution I would imagine..." Robin trails off, seeing both Johnathan and Steve looking at her. "Wait wait wait you all are thinking into breaking into the mental place?!"

"We need something to try and figure out what this picture means, if it even means anything." Johnathan mentions.

"Well I can't go back there me or Nancy can't we kind of got busted lying to the boss." Robin says while pointing at herself.

"Not you." Johnathan says, going to turn to Steve. "Us."

"Us? Like me and you us?" Steve questions.

"How are you all going to do that?" Argyle questions.

Johnathan looks over at Steve, Steve just giving a slight look of confusion. "It's crazy but...if we work together...we may pull it off."

"Alright...can I get what you are thinking here? Because I am at a complete lost." Steve mentions.

"Yeah how do you both plan on breaking into a storage room full of files that is probably guarded?" Robin questions.

"How do you all plan on even getting in? Do they allow visitors?" Argyle questions obliviously.

"Well Nants and Robin had like...fake GPA's and recommendation letters by some professor." Steve mentions.

"Oh right right!" Robin says.

"Is that what you are thinking about doing?" Steve questions.

"No. No if we do the exact same thing they did they might grow suspicious of you as soon as you hit the door." Johnathan answers.

"As soon as I hit the door?" Steve questions while pointing at himself. "I thought this was a two man operation why am I the only one going in then?" Steve questions. "Can you please tell me what in the hell you are thinking?"

Johnathan looks between them, yes what he is thinking about it is a risky plan and it might cause some issues later down on the line if they get caught which just means they have to do a damn great job at it.

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"This better not take long Byers I'm getting antsy here." Argyle mentions when Johnathan opens the van door.

"One minute tops." Johnathan says before closing the door behind him, making his way into the hospital.

"Goodness I cannot hang around you people for so long you all make my anxiety go up way to high." Argyle mentions, laying his head on the wheel.

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