Runaway 1
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None of us was in a good mood when we walked out of RFN’s building. Dom and Brian led the procession with Liz and Ryan right behind them. I was a few feet behind with Jill and Skye.
I had held the door for everybody since it was about the only contribution I could make. My head jerked up at the sound of screeching tires and metal striking metal.
A white panel van had jumped the curb and knocked over one of the metal pylons that separated the sidewalk from the one-way street in front of it.
“What the...” I managed to say before the van struck Brian and sent him sprawling to the pavement. I had started to move forward when the side door opened and five men in ski masks jumped out. Dom had looked at his friend on the ground and got hit with a metal baton across his back. He went down to one knee but unleashed an uppercut right into the groin of the man that had attacked him.
A guy tried to make a grab for Dom but Brian managed to get up and tackle the guy. Both men grunted in pain. Brian hit the guy twice in the face before he and Dom managed to help each other to their feet.
Two others engaged Ryan from the front but he was showing what he learned on the football field. He was pushing them back and keeping Liz safely behind him despite the fact that they had hit him several times with the retractable metal rods. The last guy was trying to work his way around behind Ryan. I was 20 feet away and I did the only thing I could. I reached down and picked up a large rock from the planter along the walkway. I no longer could throw a bullet across a baseball diamond. But I was too far away for any other sort of offense.
I set my feet, opened my hips and unloaded with all I had. The pain in my arm made my vision go white and I gritted my teeth to keep from screaming. I don’t think it would have mattered. The brick sounded like a sledgehammer hitting a watermelon when it caught the assailant in the side of the head. I ran through the blood on the pavement but I didn’t stop to deliver a fresh kick. Ryan had taken a vicious shot to his arm and two more glancing blows to his head. He was starting to stagger.
“Get her out of here!” he ordered Dom, who had managed to get make his way over. Brian had blood on his lower leg and he was trying to hobble to us but it just wasn’t working.
Dom grabbed Liz by the arm and dragged her toward the SUV that was waiting down the block. One of the guys tried to make a grab but Ryan, disregarding his own personal safety, threw a punch that knocked the man off balance. It cost him, though. The other guy swung and caught him in the knee and Ryan went down. I was a second too slow to stop it.
My right arm was completely numb and I couldn’t move it. But my left was still good. I caught the man around the throat and tightened. The man that had made the grab for Liz lifted his baton to bring it down on Ryan’s exposed head. I pivoted, keeping my grip around the second man’s throat, ignored the fact that he was trying to claw my arm off, and drove my foot right into the outside of the first man’s knee. He crumbled and the baton clattered across the pavement. I tightened my left arm around the neck of the guy I had trapped there and lashed out with my foot again toward the guy that had just fallen. I caught him under the chin and his head snapped back.
The van driver had stayed behind the wheel during the melee but now jumped out. Ryan had made it up to one knee and he launched himself. The driver never had a chance. Ryan caught him just under the ribs and drove him into the van door. I was sure I heard bones break.
I sensed someone behind me and spun, taking my captive with me like a rag doll. Skye was standing there with her hands up. I saw her mouth moving but my ears didn’t appear to be working. My heart was pounding too loudly, I think, for words to seep through.
She reached forward and tried to pry my arm away from the man’s throat but I wasn’t budging.
“You’re going to kill him!” Skye said as she tugged frantically at my elbow. When that didn’t work she pried the fingers from my left hand away from my right shoulder where I had locked them to gain leverage. I let go and the man dropped to the ground, his head bouncing off the pavement with a sickening thud.
I sat down hard on the planter and held my face in my left hand while I cradled my right arm on my lap. I slumped forward and let the last few seconds wash away.
The next thing I knew, Liz was crouched in front of me.
“Why aren’t you somewhere safe?” I snapped.
“I’m OK,” she told me. I lifted my head and saw the area was awash in the flashing lights of emergency vehicles.
“How’s Brian?” I asked.
“Are you OK?” Liz asked.
I nodded.
“I’m good,” I said.
“You’re scaring me,” Liz said. “I’m going to get an EMT over here.”
“I’m OK,” I said. “Help the others.”
I knew Brian needed medical attention. I saw bone sticking through the fabric of his lower pant leg. Ryan had been clubbed in the head, appendages and torso any number of times. Dom had to have broken ribs from the shot he’d taken in the back.
I looked down and saw Liz had been holding my right hand. I couldn’t feel it and I couldn’t move it. The skin on my left arm was scratched raw from the man’s frantic attempts to free himself and the blood had covered my left forearm from elbow to wrist. I saw a red set of tooth marks on the underside. I looked past Liz. Ryan was sitting up and two EMTs were working on his arm. Brian was being loaded on a gurney but he appeared awake and alert. Dom had his shirt off while a woman checked his back and side.
The assailants were littered on the sidewalk with paramedics around them. The cops didn’t care that the men were in no condition to move. They had handcuffed them. A tall woman in surgical scrubs left Ryan’s side and headed toward us.
“I’m told I have you to thank for sending my husband home to me,” she said.
“This is Sondra Davis, Ryan’s wife,” Liz explained.
“He would do the same for me,” I replied.
“He’s not making any sense!” Liz said, her face going white. “He’s speaking gibberish.”
Sondra moved Liz out of the way and knelt down in front of me. She reached up to lift one of my eyelids but I shook her off. She grabbed my chin and held it still while she peered into one eye and then the other.
She frowned and then checked the pulse at my neck.
“What are you doing?” I asked as I tried to move away.
“Sit still, God damn it,” Sondra hissed. She touched me on the throat again and then grabbed my arm and felt along the inside of it. She jumped to her feet.
“I need a gurney and a bus,” she yelled. “Right now. Call Regional Hospital and tell them you are 10 minutes out with an internal arterial bleed. See if Unesto Viggo can get there from Vanderbilt.”
“What’s going on?” Liz asked.
“He’s torn the artery in his arm and he’s bleeding internally,” Sondra said. “He’s going into shock. I’m going to ride with him to the hospital but ... it’s going to be close.”
“Oh, bullshit,” I said.
“Don’t try to stand,” Sondra said. “Just keep talking to me. OK?”
“Just let them take care of you,” Liz urged. The sight of two EMTs racing across the pavement with a gurney brought every eye in my direction. Ryan shook off his minders and limped over.
“What’s wrong?” he asked urgently.
“That rock he threw did more than save your ass,” Sondra said. “It ripped his arm to shreds. I can’t find a brachial pulse and his fingers are cold to the touch. His pupils are dilated and he’s suffering from aphasia. If I don’t get him under the knife in the next few minutes ... he’s going to lose the arm at the very least. He might not survive.”
“I’m OK,” I protested. At least my brain told me that’s what I said. It sounded a lot different to my ears.
“I’m not too banged up to put you on that bed if you make me,” Ryan said, alarm clear on his face. “My girl knows her shit. If she says you’re in bad shape, you’re in bad shape.”
I shook my head as a wave of vertigo overtook me. I remembered making it inside the ambulance and then I blacked out.
It took me a few minutes after I woke up to fight my way through the haze in my brain. The video player in my head kept showing the fight on the plaza. I saw the fear on Liz’s pretty face. I saw a dear friend hit by a van and another attacked while his back was turned. I saw Ryan doing his best to fight off three attackers.
I kept my eyes closed as the movie continued. I might have killed a guy, I thought. No, I corrected mentally, I might have killed two men – one with a rock and another with my bare hands (or at least a bare arm). I remembered the sounds and the smells. The guy I grabbed around the neck had severe body odor. I hadn’t noticed when I was choking the life out of him but I remembered it now.
I remembered Liz crouching in front of me. I smiled slightly. At the time, I didn’t pay attention to the fact that I could see up her short skirt but in my recollection I could see the white cotton panties that she’d put on that morning.
I felt a hand pat my arm gently. I opened my eyes and turned my head. I thought I’d find Liz there or maybe Ryan. I never expected the person I found.
“Mom?” I croaked. She had left for home while we were headed to the meeting at the label. I couldn’t believe somebody either caught her at the airport or made her fly right back to Nashville.
My mother gave my arm another gentle rub. My throat hurt when I tried to talk so I gave up the effort.
“You gave us quite a scare,” she said.
I struggled to get a little bit of moisture into my mouth but it just wasn’t possible.
“Why?” I asked in a whisper.
“Don’t try to talk right now,” Mom advised. “They had to put tubes into your throat. The nurse is going to get your doctor.”
I nodded and pain radiated from my right side. I looked and saw my arm encased in bandages and metal plating that ran from my shoulder to my wrist. It was suspended to the side with my elbow bent and my hand extended straight in the air. I reached over to touch it and saw my left forearm was heavily bandaged, too.
I glanced toward my mother and then put my head back on the pillow and closed my eyes.
I tried to process the visual images I’d just seen. It was pretty obvious that I’d had the surgery that I’d put off for years. The left forearm made only a little sense to me. I wondered if they had done a ligament transplant or something. I’d heard of doctors using a ligament from a pitcher’s healthy arm to repair a damaged one in his throwing arm. That didn’t make sense but I was still having trouble chasing thoughts to completion.
I heard the door open again and a woman I thought I knew came in. I just didn’t know how I knew her.
“Well, there he is,” she said brightly. She wore light purple surgical scrubs and I thought she seemed genuinely pleased to see me. The scrubs made sense to me but I had always been able to see through a doctor’s fake cheer. “Let me get you some ice chips.”
The cool wetness felt like heaven and I swallowed greedily.
“Easy, Travis,” the woman said as she sat down on the edge of the bed. My mother had arisen and moved a few feet away. “I had to intubate you in the ambulance on the way here and we kept the tubes in you until just a while ago. You went into shock and you stopped breathing. Your throat is going to be very sore for a few more days.”
“What?” I asked. The woman offered a soft smile and put a couple of more chips on my tongue.
“Do you remember how you got here?” she asked softly.
“The plaza,” I rasped.
“Good,” the woman said. “So you know that you threw a brick at one of the guys.”
“Yeah,” I said. “Is he dead?”
“No,” the woman said. “But he damned sure knows he’s been hit. He has a severe concussion along with a broken jaw and cheekbone. There’s a slight fracture to his skull but he’ll survive.”
I nodded in relief.
“The other one?” I asked.
“He’s going to heal eventually,” the woman replied. “They had to perform a tracheotomy at the scene. The surgeon that worked on him said he doubts he’ll be able to talk again. You crushed his trachea and damaged his voice box. But he’ll live.”
“OK,” I said. For some reason, I knew that Ryan, Dom and Brian were OK but I didn’t know how I knew it. But I knew all of them were hurt.
“Our guys?” I asked.
“They’re good,” the woman said, smiling at me. “Brian has a broken tibia. That’s the bone in your lower leg and he’s pretty bruised. Dom has three broken ribs ... but at least he’ll be able to have children.”
“Oh, yeah,” I said as a new memory arrived. Dom had lifted the guy off his feet when he hit him in the balls.
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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...