Taylor heard his cell phone ringing and snatched it up before going back to work.
"Hello?"
"Hey Tay, how are you?"
"Not bad Steel. Yourself?"
"You know I think this is the first time a phone conversation between us has begun so formally."
Taylor chuckled.
"Tell me about it. What's up?"
"I was just calling to make sure you were ok."
"And...?"
"And... to see if you'd heard anything about a trial yet."
"Well no, no one's contacted me about it. But I mean trials can go for months so who knows how long it takes to get them organised," Taylor shrugged, nerves showing a little in his voice.
"Are you ok with it though?"
"I will be. Well, put it this way. I'll be glad when it's truly over with. Getting him into custody was just the beginning, you know? I know there's a lot more to it than that."
"That being why I need to know when proceedings start."
"Does Zac still have Chloe's number?"
"I didn't tell him to delete it or anything, so I guess so."
"Do you want me to call if I hear anything?"
"That'd be great."
"Otherwise I don't really know how to contact you or anything..."
"You know we're here if you need us. Just make it apparent to Joel that you do."
"How do I do that?"
"I'll... organise something with him and let you know."
"Ok. Are you still in contact with Chris?"
"Yep. Why?"
"Can you thank him for me?"
Kirk chuckled a little.
"Sure. He's not too good on the recieving end sometimes, but sure."
"Why wouldn't he be?"
"Well he's not exactly used to being thanked. For anything."
"I guess... I can understand that. But I'm sure there must be a collection of things that he should be thanked for, shouldn't there? I mean he's changed a lot since Craig..."
"Look, don't you worry about it. I'll pass your thanks on."
"Ok cool."
"And yeah, call Chloe if you hear anything."
"Will do. Bye."
"Bye Tay."
Taylor hung up and went back to working at his desk.
Tad
Tad wrote down what had overhead quickly in his little palm pilot. He only really overheard Taylor side of the coversation, but that at least gave him some interesting tidbits:
Phone call from "Steel"
Chloe - Zac has number?
Taylor - no contact w/ Chris - Steel does.
Craig?
Very interesting.