Serial

Every few days I'll add to this. Serial.Engage.

Following
By Robin Zemek

“What are you going to do when I come knocking?”
“What are you going to do when I don’t answer the door?”
“I’ll break it down.”
“And when I’m not home?”
“I’ll wait for you.”
“And I come home to a broken door? I’d leave.”
“I’d still catch you.”
“So then you know where I am now?”
“I wouldn’t be very good at my job if I didn’t.”
“Funny... I thought I was your passion.”
The dial tone hummed into David’s ear and he placed the phone down.
“Obsession is more like it.”
He walked over to the world map mounted on the wall of his office and drove a pin into Prague.
Pins littered the map. Places like Budapest, Berlin, Naples, Rome, all had pins protruding from them, silent reminders of how close he had gotten. Their little game had all but consumed him.
“She won’t slip through my fingers again,” he twiddled the pin in his thumb and ring finger, “this time you won’t be two steps ahead. I’m catching up.”
He walked back to the mountain of paper work that hid his desk.
“Now everyone is looking for you. No more little game. Now you’re a criminal.”
He excavated some files and held them under the light.
“No one is going to hide you anymore. Tomorrow you’ll be in chains.”