The Beast of 1977 (Book 1)

Chapter 27

"I need to speak with Doctor Sanyupta, please! Doctor Benjamin Sanyupta!" Jeremiah intently shouted over the phone to the operator.

With a clutter of papers in both hands and his eyes firmly locked on the clock above the door, Jeremiah anxiously awaited the doctor's speedy response.

"Uh, yes, good morning," he jittered, dropping his papers flat on the floor beneath his feet. "Or should I say, good evening, Doctor? Sorry to disturb you. I was just calling to fill you in on a couple of patients that require some much needed attention."

"I see. What can I assist you with, Doctor?" Sanyupta replied, sounding as if he had just awoke from sleeping.

"Well, first I wanted to discuss Isaac Mercer. You won't believe this, but, Isaac was kidnapped two days ago."

First, there was a long gasp, then Sanyupta appallingly uttered, "Oh my."

"Don't worry, I believe he is fine. According to reports, somehow he managed to elude his captor. Apparently he was abducted by the B.O.D. kidnapper."

"I'm sorry, the who?"

"The Broad Open Daylight kidnapper," Levin sighed while rolling his eyes. "I apologize for the acronym usage."

"Ahh, I understand. Tell me, how was Isaac able to gain his freedom from this individual?"

"It's still unknown at this time. But, the kidnapper was found murdered inside the same home where he took and murdered his own victims."

"Murdered? By whom," Sanyupta inhaled.

"More like a what," Jeremiah said. "The police say than an animal, a very large animal, killed this man, along with six others up along the Cuyahoga Valley."

"And Isaac was able to escape unharmed?"

"That's correct. I would love to know just how he was able to do so."

"Wait a minute, just what was Isaac doing up in Cuyahoga Falls?"

"I'm not quite sure, sir."

"Are you seeing him again this month?"

"As a matter of fact, he has an appointment on the 28th. But I wanted to bring that incident to your attention, as well as a curiosity. I saw Isaac last week, and I was not aware that he was bilingual."

"Ahh," Sanyupta chuckled, "I see you have come across that phenomenon as well. I am afraid that Isaac does not speak another language, rather, he is speaking backwards."

Jeremiah's mouth grew dry at that second, trying to find the words to explain his sudden confusion.

"Backwards, you say?"

back in December, and out of nowhere, he begins to speak what I assumed at first to be a completely different vernacular. I replayed the tape

was he saying? If

"Mostly obscene words of the four letter variety," Sanyupta sighed. "Some random sayings about blood. I believe his final words that particular day were something to the effect of structures collapsing and a fateful train ride. Once again, random gibberish. Just the rants of a

paper that was

Jeremiah kept on speaking with Sanyupta. His lips were moving, but his mind was far from the conversation. Even when the subject switched from Isaac and to another

Isaac was free from his captor, Jeremiah could still see the young man in some

elevator and watched with hungry, scurvy eyes as the overweight, young white woman in front of him squirmed from side to side as

on fire. In his eyes there was really nothing attractive about the woman. He wasn't interested in looks, just smells. He inhaled her strong perfume with just about every last ounce of lung power he could muster until his nostrils began

glanced back at the young man while gripping her purse that was wrapped around her

no longer breathe in any more fumes, his body unclenched itself. Isaac leaned up against the wall and

a passing wind,

his swollen face. Realizing that he had arrived at his floor, the young man nonchalantly limped out into the

colored, block-like arrows pointing people

if he had arrived at the correct

"Isaac?" Jeremiah choked, hanging up the

a lazy smile while dropping himself onto the

of complete disorientation, sat himself down beside Isaac, took off his glasses, and with outstretched

in Levin's direction, Isaac said, "Yeah, man. I've

an understatement, my friend." Jeremiah exclaimed while examining Isaac's face. "Isaac...I

the way out here, man. I just needed someone to talk to." Isaac lethargically replied, sounding as though he were ready to fall right asleep. "I've been freebasing coffee ever since this morning. I

clock above his head, "I have an appointment with a patient in about twenty minutes or so, but I guess you and I can talk until then. I just have to ask, how were you able to escape that kidnapper? It's all over the

hearty, hapless belly laugh before saying, "Man, everyone has been asking me that same question since yesterday. Truth is, I can hardly remember anything that happened the other

was the last thing you remember? The news keeps saying that you were seen

front of the doctor. There was so much rambling chaos cluttering his brain that pulling out one thought

to see someone up there. Someone very important," Isaac carried on. "I had to see the woman

"Made you?" Jeremiah shrugged with strange

"Yeah...made me into this," Isaac pointed to himself. "Just this morning, I saw how she was made, and I needed to find her so she could tell

"I take it you're referring

the doctor a strange scowl, as if the

"Isaac, you've got to understand, there's no such

closed his eyes, inhaled the fresh new carpet smell of the office and said, "I think I'm ready to tell you

"You mean back at Leroy

"No...back

"Oh...I

into the leather couch. The very moment the man stopped moving, Isaac opened

Lynn were arguing Thanksgiving afternoon. So I got pissed

working. She and I had been messing around since October." Isaac steadily explained. "So anyways, I went over to her place, we did it, and then she suggests that we go over to some guys' pad

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