Chapter 1

In the year 3010, two archeologists, Carole O'Bowe and Cole Jackson, received a manila colored envelope in the mailbox at their base, Carole flipped the envelope over and read aloud what was written on it;

"To whom lives at 195 Botts Ave. in Seattle, Washington."

She then walked to the back of their base where Cole was sitting in a red balloon chair, that had fringes hanging off the bottom and was lined in gold and silver, she waved the envelope in the air stating; "Look we got mail this time..." She trailed off in thought as Cole looked up from his book that he was reading; "Pardon, did you just say.... mail? We haven't had mail in...." he takes a second to think, "a couple of weeks! If I am remembering correctly." Carole stands in front of him and plops the envelope down in his lap then placing her hands on her hips with a slight pout on her lips, "Go on, open it, it's addressed to you, dear" Cole grabs the envelope and carefully, while peeking up at Carole to find her secretly sniggering, then slices it open with a pocketknife and takes out the letter inside, along with a note;

"Mr. Jackson and Ms. O'Bowe,

I am writing to you because I need your help. I heard you're the best archeologists when it comes to mysteries. My team and I were working on this one site and found something strange that isn't in our field of expertise so we decided to call you, we can give you the money that we were going to be paid for. Please hold off on reading the note till we meet. If you could meet us at the JLW station around 5:30 later today, we will be on the third floor, or in the basement, check with Margo, at the front desk when you walk in, she will tell you where I am so you don't get lost, it would be easier to discuss this in person, especially since we can't send you the file that our board of directors gave us.

Any questions or to set up another date please call us at (682)- 903- 2387.

Thank you,

Carter Folks"

Cole looks up at Carole waiting for a response, but she's looking out the window. "Fred..." she starts; "We are taking this you know? It could be fun, I mean normally we aren't called unless it's something one of the offices can't handle, but Cater Folks, I don't recall anyone by that name..." Cole interrupts; "Carole you are forgetting that they hired 10 new people at each office remember?" Carole looks back at Cole and sighs walking over to the fireplace, placing her hand on the mantel; "Fred, I know that, but should we trust this guy... The last one scammed us, and we can't afford that..." Cole gets up from his chair and struts over to the coffee table pouring himself a cup of coffee and adding sugar, "Carole, please just listen, stop saying Fred - we both know that that is a very touchy subject for the both of us, and they probably aren't likely doing this to open up old scars.... It' just I have a gut feeling that they won't scam us. I'm not sure why I know this but.... but I just do!" Carole sighs and shakes her head; "We both know that your gut feeling is never wrong, no matter what, and you know that I don't trust these people, especially after last time Fred..." as Cole looks like he is about to say something, Carole puts her hand up to stop him, "But, we should and will take this because we need the money."

She looks towards him and smiles softly as he seems to be in shock, rethinking about what she felt on how they could be trying to reopen old scars. "Cole come on we got to pack and get ready for this trip. I'll go pack the cleaning equipment and a suitcase for myself, and you pack the examining equipment and a suitcase for yourself, as well as making sure that the evidence box is cleaned out and ready for another case," she says as she walks to her room looking back at him with soft eyes and sighs softly going into her room and shutting the door. Cole takes a couple of seconds before he shakes his head and heads out to the garage and starts cleaning the evidence box, only to make sure that it cleaned, even if it was cleaned before. As, he is cleaning the evidence box he starts thinking about the mission that they were asked to take; Does it have to do anything with Fred?... Or do they just want us for a different mission...? Should I be worrying about this so much??... He shakes his head finally done with cleaning the evidence box, clearing his head from those types of thoughts so he doesn't get distracted and scolded by Carole... He shivers at the thought of being scolded by her.

She comes out carrying her suitcase and has a black backpack filled with cleaning equipment and looks toward Cole shaking her head walking over to the 3009 Black Hybrid Ford Ghost Jeep, popping the trunk and tossing in her suitcase along with the black backpack. Cole goes over to the Jeep and places the evidence box in, then heads into the house to go pack his suitcase along with the examining equipment. Carole walks to the front of the car hooking up her music and putting it on blast, hoping in the passenger side waiting for Cole to hurry up so they can get going. He finally returned to the garage with his suitcase and the brown duffle bag that has the examining equipment, tossing them into the trunk and closed it. Cole went to the driver's side and hopped in while Carole was grabbing some food and water from the back seat placing them in her lap to eat for the long trip ahead of them.