Runaway 1
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I emerged from the back room when I heard Liz’s voice raise in anger. I found Jill, Stephanie and Ryan already in the room and Liz on her phone.
“That’s just too bad,” she said.
“It’s part of your contract, Liz,” a snarky voice said though the speaker. “We’re calling it a promotional appearance and you’re obligated to attend.”
“You need to get better lawyers, Mr. McHenry,” Liz shot back. “Personal and promotional appearances require 30 days notice. It’s right there in black and white. Just because I’ve acquiesced in the past does not require me to do it now or in the future. So I’m telling you flat out: Anything you have scheduled for me for the next 30 days you can cancel if you have no confirmation from my staff. Anything you schedule for me from now until the end of my contract will include my boyfriend. So, you can call Hiram Davis and tell him dinner is still on but he might want to bring a date because I’ll have one.”
“God damn it, Liz,” the voice seethed. “That guy’s a nobody. Toting him around doesn’t do you or us a bit of good!”
“Screw you, Mikey,” Liz said. She noticed I was in the room and cringed. I gave her a smile. I knew I was a nobody and it didn’t bother me to have it confirmed by someone I probably wouldn’t like very much if I met him. “I’ve told you how it is. Travis is here and I’m not going anywhere without him. And having him around has done both of us some good. I’m in a good enough mood that I only thought about how easy it would be to have you killed for a second. I usually get all the way to actually plotting it out before I get my temper in check. See? He’s already paying a dividend for you.”
“You just need to think about things from a professional prospective,” the guy said. “A large part of your popularity is the fact that girls see you with guys they would love to date. You’re living their fantasy and it gives them hope. You need to think about how trotting out a waiter affects the fans.”
“He’s not a waiter,” Liz said. “He’s a former professional baseball player with a college degree and a career. And I am thinking of my fans. The show in San Diego that you said would be a waste turned out to be a killer. You saw the reviews. Even a woman that hates country music said the show was the first she’d seen in years that she would willingly pay to see again. The fans were boss and I was dead on every time. Merch sales were through the roof and I had 3,000 fans show up just for an autograph. I could have sold out three straight nights there. You’re going to see the same thing in a couple of days. I’m riding a wave and it’s because I happened to run into Travis again.
“Aren’t you the one that always says you can’t argue with success? Well, take your own advice and shut up about it. Either way, the decision is made. There is nothing in my contract about RFN controlling my personal life. There is nothing in there that obligates me to spend time with people I can’t stand. By the way, you might want to start making calls cancelling whatever you’ve got set up at the Beverly Wilshire. I’m not there and I’m not going to be there.”
“Where are you?” the man asked urgently.
“That’s none of your business,” Ryan cut in. “I determined that you people had made plans that threatened Liz’s safety. She is staying at an undisclosed location and it will remain undisclosed to you until you learn to keep your trap shut about it.”
Liz shot Ryan a look and he nodded sheepishly.
“Liz, I have to know where you’re staying,” the man said.
“No, I’ve decided you don’t,” Liz countered. “Again, look at the contract. You are required to provide lodgings for me and my staff. I am not required to use them. I checked with my attorney on this and a few other things recently. I’m going to live up to the letter of the contract until it expires. I’m not doing a single thing for RFN that is not written down on paper and signed by me. Incidentally, the Dodgers sent a notification of logistical changes to RFN six weeks ago and my people didn’t find out until Friday. The extra costs are coming out of your pocket and I’ll sue you to make sure they do.”
“You might want to be careful about making threats like that,” the man said.
“If you want to make a run at me for breach, have at it,” Liz said angrily. “We can go back and forth on this and I think you know who will wind up paying. I’ll not only bankrupt you bastards, I’ll make sure RFN can’t sign the yodeling champion of Yazoo County to a contract.”
The man let out a long breath.
“Let’s take a step back, Liz,” the man said, his voice more conciliatory than earlier.
“No,” Liz said. “I think you need to take a step back, Mikey. I’ve been pushed as far as I’m going to be pushed. If you don’t back away immediately, I’m going to start pushing you back. You won’t like that very much.”
“I doubt things will wind up like you think they will,” the man said.
“I have no illusions about how things will happen,” Liz declared. “But I’m pretty sure you’re living in dreamland if you think I’ll go down alone. Anything you have on me, I have on you. Anyone you trot out to make allegations is going see the same allegations thrown back at them. We’ll see who the public believes. You might think I’m just some hayseed you plucked out of obscurity and, 10 years ago, you would have been right. But I’ve grown and I’ve learned. I’ve surrounded myself with people that have my interests at heart, not your bottom line. I’ve got people here that will tell me the truth even when I don’t like it. We know the games you’re playing and the steps you’ve got in the works. You seem to have forgotten something really important, Mikey. You’re a faceless corporate entity in a society that has grown to hate corporations. I’m the living, breathing embodiment of everything that civilized people hold dear.
“You might think it’s my ego talking but before you make a decision you’ll regret, you better run your plans up the ladder or you’re going to find yourself unemployed. And I’ll make sure you’re unemployable. Even without RFN, I have enough money to ruin your life and still live comfortably for the rest of mine. So, if you want to bring the lawyers in, have at it. But you make damned sure you understand that contract because I do. And if you fuck with me over things, I’m going to jam it down your throat. Do I need to say this any clearer?”
“No,” the man said in a tight voice. “I think we understand each other pretty well. I’ll have legal review your contract and be in touch.”
“I’m done with you,” Liz said. “If you have anything to say, you can contract my attorneys. And I’m going to let RFN know that your immediate dismissal is going to be the starting point of negotiations in a few months. Every time you utter a syllable, the odds on me signing again grow smaller and smaller. So you might want to remember who provides the butter for your bread.
“One more thing. Those rooms at the Wilshire are on your tab. I’ve already let the hotel know that we will be unwilling to assume responsibility for payment – or for damages. You might want to get moving on cancelling whatever you have in mind or you’ll have to deal with the fallout from a quarter million dollars in damages to the rooms and a dead donkey in the pool tomorrow. Those two cannot be trusted without adult supervision and I am never going to play the role of babysitter again. That’s my contribution to RFN’s corporate ledger today.”
Liz ended the call and put the phone down gently on the table.
The four of us in the room exchanged glances. All of us were a bit stunned.
“The gloves are off,” Liz said.
“I’m sorry about jumping in there,” Ryan said.
Liz shook her head.
“I know you were trying to keep me from doing what I just did,” Liz said. “But I’ve thought things through over the weekend. RFN must have a pretty solid indication that I’m going to look elsewhere or get market value for my talent from them. Forcing my price tag down is only a workable option if they are the only ones bidding. Otherwise, the market will set the price. McHenry didn’t provide that information to them. We all know that.”
“Uh, who is that guy?” I asked.
“He’s the vice president of artist relations for Radio Free Nashville,” Stephanie explained.
“So he’s pretty high up?” I wondered.
“Mid-level,” Stephanie replied after a moment to consider the question. “RFN is a lot like most corporations. They have a hundred vice presidents. He has 20 or 30 people above him on the food chain. His compensation is tied directly to how much money RFN earns from a particular artist. His group is the one that handles bookings and promotions. Liz is the only artist he is directly responsible for. So I would say that of the six or seven people with his title, he’s at the top. But he’s nowhere near the top of their corporate structure.”
“OK,” I said. “So ruining him is a viable option. I just wanted to assess that before we got too far along. Thanks. I’ll listen quietly again.”
“This is where I’ll want your input,” Liz said, looking at the clock on her phone. It was only 5:20. “I wish I’d had you see if we can conference in the others immediately.”
“We can,” I said. “They’re all hanging out at Rick’s today. The boys are on Spring Break and he has a pool. Eric was already home so they can take all the time you need whenever you need it.”
“Thanks, Travis,” Liz said. “I’m sorry that you heard what he said.”
“Fuck McHenry,” Ryan snarled. “That asshole would be sucking farts out of seat covers to pay his rent if it weren’t for Liz. Where does he come off calling anyone a ‘nobody?’ I’ll have to find someone else to go inside with you the next time you meet with him because I plan to knock his ass out the next time I see him.”
“It’s no big deal to me,” I said. “What did you tell Millie Scott, Liz? I’ve been called worse things by better people so big fuckin’ whoop.”
Liz grinned.
“Word for word,” she confirmed. “I’m glad you’re taking this so well.”
“You told me it would be this way,” I said. “I’m going to assess the worth of the person making the statement before I give it any credence. I’m OK if some Nashville fat cat thinks I’m a nobody if he’s OK with me thinking he’s a peckerhead.”
“He’s totally a peckerhead,” Jill said. “Wait until you see him. He thinks he’s Col. Parker or something.”
I saw smiles around the room and decided I shouldn’t ask who Col. Parker might be. I could look him up later. Liz apparently noticed my blank look, though.
“Col. Parker was Elvis Presley’s manager,” she said. “He dressed sort of like Mr. Moneybags on the Monopoly game. That’s Michael McHenry.”
“Oh, and he hates to be called Mike,” Stephanie added. “I would imagine his silk drawers developed quite a nasty stain when she started to call him Mikey.”
“So he’s an officious, pretentious peckerhead,” I said.
“Exactly,” Jill said. “It says exactly that on his business card: ‘Michael ‘Mikey’ McHenry, VP of Artist Relations, Officious, Pretentious Peckerhead.’ I’m going to print one of those up and see if someone in the offices will slip it into the next batch he orders. No, I’m going to see if I can get his next batch changed to that.”
“I wasn’t kidding,” Liz said softly. “Before I open any dialogue with RFN, he’s going to be shown the door. He can call me a slut if he wants. I don’t really care. But he crossed the line and he’s going to pay with his career.”
“Don’t...” I began.
“I told you I’m going to protect you if I can,” Liz said. “I had already decided he was to be demoted as part of the package. I was never going to deal with him again in any capacity. He’s always been the type to push around the young artists. He has all the power in that relationship and he abuses it. Now he’s going to get a lesson on what happens when you push someone with the ability to push back. Don’t try to talk me out of it.”
“OK,” I said. “So long as you’re positive you’re not going to regret it later.”
“I won’t,” Liz said with certainty. “Can you get the others on the line, please?”
I nodded and dialed Rick’s number. In less than two minutes, Liz’s marketing team, such as it was, was assembled in a quiet room of the house.
“OK, Operation Debunking Myths is a go,” Liz said.
“Uh, are we supposed to know what that is?” Susan asked.
“Probably not,” Liz said. “But since your husband is some CIA commando, I thought we should start using cool code names.”
“He’s not...” Susan said. “OK, fine. The truth is, his real name is Jason Bourne and he’s a covert operative with 3,000 kills under his belt. They wrote some books about him.”
“I knew it!” Ryan said. “Didn’t I tell you he was Jason Bourne? Please tell him I apologize if I got him into any hot water at work. I didn’t do any invasive research but the Pentagon was still pretty upset at me.”
“Travis told us,” Susan said. “Chris said no one said a word to him about it.”
“It comes back to him being Jason Bourne,” Liz said. “That man can kill you with a thumbnail. I saw it a movie and we all know movies are true.”
We all got a slight laugh before getting down to business.
“First of all, I want to thank all of you for giving me the time to sort through my thoughts on revealing my past transgressions to the public,” Liz said. “I know each of you has your own thoughts on the matter but I’m glad that you kept them to yourself in this case. It won’t be often that I ask you to do that but I think I had to make the final call on this without input from anyone else.”
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Many thanks to Techsan for editing this story. If a young man had done exactly the same thing as Melissa did in her younger days, he had been envied, admired and regarded as a popular jolly good fellow among his many friends. Everybody had regarded him as doing exactly the right thing when he collected his large number of experiences before he met "Miss Right" so he could remain faithful to her because he had learnt that "grass wasn't greener" behind the fence. But Melissa wasn't a...
Episode 1 I had just come back from a month-long vacation trip back home and I was dead-tired; I had gotten up at an ungodly hour this morning to catch my flight at St. John's, then a two hour lay-over at Toronto's Pearson Airport before the next leg to the State capital and finally, an hour and half by car to get here. Altogether ten hours' travel time ... the only advantage to flying westward is that the stores were still open; I had nothing in the fridge. I stopped off at Paco's to buy...
My name is Cuthbert Franks; yea I know I've heard them all; and I'm a 35 year old asteroid miner in the Trinity system. By the way I go by 'Cutty' so don't get to wise-assed about it. Now from time to time we have pirates raid us for our stockpiles and most of us miners have 'played' with our ships so that we aren't completely defenseless. Take mine for instance; it looks like just another old freighter converted to ore processer but, you would get a surprise if you tried to take...
Tony saw the dark clouds ahead. At a stoplight in a little northeastern Texas town he checked his phone radar. Yup, a big rainstorm with heavy downpours wasn’t far. He’d keep going though. In his 72 years he’d driven through all kinds of weather. His hotel for the night was waiting, halfway between his home in rural southwest Missouri and Houston where a periodic cancer visit would start tomorrow. Less than two miles out of town he saw a figure trudging on his side, small and with a backpack....
It was dark when I woke up and it took me a second to remember where I was. Curled up in the passenger seat of a Honda Civic. The engine was off and it was quiet. There was some light, more grey than any real color, coming from the windows and I blinked, looking around. I was in a parking garage it looked like, underground and not very full. A few cars scattered here and there, but most of them crowded against a distant wall. The light was coming from a couple ramps mostly, daylight. I...
"You move pretty fast for being so small," the woman said. "I almost caught up with you in Boise." I didn't say anything, even though I had a lot of questions. It was like I couldn't settle on just one to ask, so I didn't ask any. Or maybe I was afraid of the answers. I had been running fast, very fast and even if this woman hadn't been dead, which I was pretty sure she had been, she shouldn't ever have been able to find me. Not by herself, not without help. We got back to the...
The sunlight hurt my eyes, even the very little escaping from the drawn curtains. Just a slender fissure and I turned weakly away from it. I felt tired and empty inside, not so much hungry as just ... empty. My skin was cold and clammy and the light seemed to crawl across my flesh. I trembled and wondered if this wasn't DT, the withdrawl eating away at my brain. I hadn't fixed since I'd seen Vin and I had no idea how long ago that had been. I didn't think I was really addicted to the...
We actually drove through what there was of the town of Newrock, and pulled onto a dirt road that was even worse than the one we'd been traveling. After a mile or two there was a big silver, double wide trailer ahead of us, and Angela parked next to an old pickup truck. There were no lights and if anyone was there, apparently they hadn't been woken up by our arrival. I got out of the car, following Angela as she walked to the mobile home, which had a small wooden porch up a few short...
She was weak now, but still alive four days later. I mean Audrey, of course, who'd become something of a pet to me. We'd brought her home, to our house in Klamath Falls. It was really Angela's place, but she'd made it mine as well. We were mated now, there really was nothing of mine that wasn't Angela's as well, and so the opposite was also true. And I'd been changing. Every hour, every minute, I was becoming something else. There were obvious things, like the way I talked, the way I...
I dreamt. Everyday, sleeping in the cool dark with Angela to hold me, I was dead. And yet I dreamed. And that my dreams were bad I had little doubt, but I could never remember them. They were small snippets and fragments, all jumbled together in one confused memory. And even that much was quickly forgotten as well. But just knowing that I had them troubled me greatly. I thought there must be some meaning there, as Angela had divined me from her own dreams. She'd sought and found me, guided...
I was asleep, and I knew that because my parents were still alive. We were in the car with the darkness all around, as if we'd entered a long tunnel and we had to drive through it. I didn't want to, but in my dream I didn't seem to care as I sat in the backseat, buckled up tight and holding Edgar. I smiled in my sleep I think, because I'd forgotten him completely. Edgar the Bear, soft and stuffed and in my arms. What a nice dream, except for my shoulder. It hurt and when I looked down at...
"There's someone here," I said. "I know," Angela replied from her bath as I entered the small room. I'd been resting, just being lazy really, and talking with Natalie in her bed. "Who is it?" I asked, frowning a little. My power to sense other vampires was growing, but still weak. I had no real idea how near or far this other one was, or what the creature's purpose might be. I didn't believe in coincidence though; this other vampire, whoever it was, would have come to Sacramento...
David finished the first term of Year 10 before he left Australia but the US schools start in August not February. The different start dates and the time he missed has David unsure about what level to start at in the Window Rock High School, so he arranges to be tested by the local school board. In some subjects he tests well enough to be a Junior, what they call Year 11 in the US, and in others he tests out as a Sophomore, the Year 10 equivalent. So he registers as a Sophomore, but in the...
David waits until the Walkers leave the area before he starts to ask around about someone he can talk to in law enforcement in Texas. He’s very careful about who he asks and how he asks them because of his concerns about what he suspects from the records he’s read. On a Tuesday evening in mid December Jerry Fasthorse, the police officer who lives down the street, drops in to talk to David. He says, “I found a contact for you. To talk to them we have to attend a meeting near Albuquerque on...
In the November before his high school graduation David speaks with the trustee of his US based trust about attending university and emails him a copy of what courses he’s finished with a list of what he wishes to do for the next few years. Based on the course information from the university he can start studies in the summer after high school finishes to attend the uni for two years, plus summer classes before, between, and after those two years to have degrees in both business management...
All of David’s summer semester classes are over: the last exam is done, the last assignment is handed in, the major project is finished, he’s all packed up and ready to leave. The staff check his room and sign off on it being correct so he hands in this last piece of paperwork before heading to the car park to leave the university and Albuquerque. Four weeks ago he visited Window Rock to transfer his vehicle registration and driver’s license back to Jason’s address. While there he picked up...
The plane from Auckland, New Zealand, lands at Sydney’s Kingsford Smith Airport in Mascot just before six in the evening local time after a three and a quarter hour flight in the Emirates A380 Airbus. This isn’t the first time David has flown in an A380 but this is his first time in the Business Class of an Emirates plane, and he found it to be the most comfortable flight he’s had in Business Class of any airline he’s used. He has an easy and quick trip through immigration due to being an...
I had to depart for my afternoon workout session with Kim as soon as the call ended. We were almost to the end when Liz appeared in the room. “Come back to the office when you’re finished here, please,” she said. I grunted my assent since I was in the middle of forcing my arm outward with a stick and it wasn’t the most pleasant feeling I’d ever experienced. Liz stood and watched for a moment before smiling sadly and heading back to work. “Is she mad?” Kim asked from the...
I had almost made it to my feet but I dropped back on the couch. The fact I was wearing the soft sling didn’t do my arm any favors. “Wait!” I said. “What?” “I’m not comfortable with her working out here any longer,” Liz said. “She’s been on vacation all week!” I said. “That’s part of the problem,” Liz said. “She’s missed a lot of work recently and I ... I’m not happy with how she’s come to view her job here.” “First off, she was sick for two days,” I cut in. “The vacation has been...
Skye and Jill scattered like cockroaches when the light comes on as soon as my face appeared in the doorway. Liz looked up from her desk while I stood sheepishly in front of her. “If you want Brea gone, she’s gone,” I said. “No,” Liz said almost at once. “I was being silly.” “It’s not worth arguing with you over,” I told her. “If she’s going to be a problem then you’re right. We should let her go. But I still think we do it in a way that it doesn’t come back on her at the hospital.” “She...