Queen Mafia: Rising Empire

Chapter 3

After everyone had breakfast that mourning, me and Jake brought them over to the Moretti Residence. My parents had gotten home by the time everyone went to bed the previous night, so they got to meet all of our friends in the mourning, introducing themselves and saying who they were in the family. Once we arrived at Jake's parent's house, me and Jake introduced them to their trainers for the next few days. Haley, Liam, Jackson, and Zane, the security leader, were more than happy to help out with teaching our friends the basics of their specialities. We then sent them on their way with their trainers and Jake and I went to go search for Jackson in the tech room. Once we got to the room, we could see Jackson busy at work on his computers so we gave a few solid knocks on the door to gain his attention. His head immediately turned back to see us standing in the doorway.

"Come in, come in. I'm just finishing up on some information I have for you two," he said, placing what he wanted to show us on the big screen. The screen was then illuminated with light filled with files of all sorts, some with what looked like phone numbers and others with locations. Me and Jake then walked over to the front of the room to face the big screen standing beside Jackson. He then faced the both of us.

"I was able to find out how Thane got Elisa's number," Jackson said. "What he basically did, or got someone to do, was that he or they used what we call Thorough Identification Communication System or TICS for short. In short form, whoever you want to know more about, you enter their full name, where they live, where they go to school or work, basically, any common information that will help the system find more personal details and information about that person to your liking. That's most likely how Thane got your phone number in the first place without you knowing, your number must be placed in a file somewhere, either with the school or somewhere else that the system could get access to."

"And this stuff is legal?" I asked, surprised to hear what Jackson just told us.

"Oh, God no. This is one of the most illegal identification systems out there. You have to pay a pretty penny to get this software, and we all know that Thane can get whatever he pleases with his money," Jackson answered.

"Okay, so he's done this to us, so why can't we use it against him? Fight fire with fire?" Jake asked.

"As much as I would like to say that we can, in reality, we can't," Jackson said. "I mean, I'm not saying it's impossible, but that it would be extremely difficult to do. He does these things like a ghost, leaving no trail behind to connect with him, and in the end-"

"-he would make sure that he can't be reached the same way he reached to others." I finished.

"Exactly, and who knows what people he's hired to go do his dirty work. They would all for sure be professionals that he would make sure do everything without leaving a single mark in the end," Jackson agreed.

"Okay, but were you able to get the location of where it came from?" Jake asked.

"That's where I have some good news and bad news. The good news is that, yes, I did find the location on where the call came from. The bad news is that it came from a telephone booth, which can't really be traced to anyone specific. The best I can do is say which telephone booth was used specifically, and fortunately I was able to hack into some security cameras outside of a store across the street so I took a look at their feed that was there." Jackson said, going through a video on the big screen.

The video was of a busy street with a telephone booth on the opposite end of where the camera was placed. Since the video was fast-forwarded, you could clearly see how many people had actually gone into the booth that day. It wasn't until a few seconds later when Jackson slowed it down and we saw a figure we all recognized walk into the telephone booth.