Chapter 3: ELF

Chapter 3: ELF

“The fire started this morning when Mr Johnson arrived at work, he is believed to have been killed in the initial explosion along with two other employees. The car plant itself has been completely destroyed nothing is left intact, the gas cylinders that were kept at the back of the factory are thought to have been tampered with which then set off the petrol in the surrounding cars causing secondary explosions throughout the factory. However the police have yet to comment on the situation. This is Simon Dutchel for BBC news, Manchester.”

Nathan was walking home from school with the previous nights events on his mind. He had not had chance to look round this morning because his Dad was around and he didn’t want to risk getting caught, but his Dad always went out in the evenings so he could look then. Nathan turned into his road; he lived on a fairly wealthy street in Manchester with his Dad his Mum died 2 years ago in an accident during an environmental awareness protest at the new housing development on the other side of town. It was a peaceful protest but things turned nasty when a fight broke out between the protesters and builders, Nathan’s mother was caught in the middle and took a blow to the head and died of a brain haemorrhage two days later. His Dad never got over it and blamed the government for building the estate in the first place and then things got worse when they came back last year and started planning to finish the development. Nathan was worried what his Dad would do when they started building again next month. When Nathan arrived home his Dad was not in and so he went to look around he started in the garage but found nothing out of the ordinary so he went to his father’s room. He had a look around and didn’t find anything and was about to leave when he noticed something hanging from the bottom of the bed so he bent down and pulled it off, it was a folder. Nathan opened it and found a load of documents inside he scanned through a couple of them and noticed that three letters kept popping up ELF Nathan had no idea what this meant, he then noticed some detailed blue maps with Ford manufacturing Plant Manchester written on the top.

“Oh my God” Nathan said allowed he had just remembered the news report he had heard this morning about the explosion at the car plant his father couldn’t have had anything to do with that could he?

“Nathan, where are you” Nathan’s Dad shouted up the stairs. Nathan quickly put the folder back in place and ran to the landing.

“I’m here” Nathan replied

“Well come down and see what I’ve got you” Nathan’s Dad said. It was a PS3 and even though Nathan had wanted one he couldn’t take his mind off the file he’d found. Nathan spent the next couple of days thinking about what he should do and decided that he was going to forget he found the folder as he loved his Dad and didn’t want to get him into trouble and even if his Dad did have something to do with that fire that was all over now wasn’t it?