Jun 30, 2005 04:07
A lot of things have happened in the last few weeks. After the shoot out I focused on getting the bar back up and runnin, getting Joey out of our lives and just starting fresh with Ev. I tried not thinkin too much about what coulda happened, how things goulda een worse. Bella is on the mend and Eric pretty much back to normal. They both say they don't hold me responsible for it, but how can they not. I think Eric isn't gonna come back to work instead take Bella up on her job offer. The only reason I know that is cause Bella apologized for stealin her almost brother from me. I honestly think its a good idea. Izzy came and talked to me a few days after Eric got outta the hospital. She was a lot nicer about it than she should have been, I made her a promise that I would look out for her brother and he got hurt on my watch, she should be pissed as hell. But she just asked me to explain what happened and I don't know how or why but afterwards she was quiet for a while and then she said that I got too much guilt for shit I got no control of. She said in the end it was the guys with the guns who made the choice to pull the trigger. But she added the next time my back was up against it, that I should give her a call, that were friends and she would help. And that was it.
As for the Joey situation, she safely medicated and locked down in a mental institution in upstate New York. I made a deal with Zane, he got to walk as long as she was kept under lock and key. The healthy gift I gave the Mayor helped with that. I went and saw her though before she left. I don't even recognize her anymore and I wonder if she was ever the person I thought I loved. She thinks that I wouldn't kill her if she ever hurt Ev, she's dead wrong. I never thought I'd would ever hate a woman like I do her, but I'd kill her in a heartbeat if she ever showed up again, cause I ain't got no doubts that she'd try and kill Ev.
Ev and I have settled into the safehouse. We had a talk after the shoot out. I was a kinda worried at the way she just risked herself cause she thought I was in danger. Like she don't matter or somethin. When I said that she seemed kinda surprised that she mattered, which in turn surprised me, she knows that it'd kill me if somethin happened to her. She talked about loosin Pat, and the bastard that her father was. I can see why she feels the way she does about certain things. I was glad she let me in. I think we agreed that we would leave each other out of the loop and try and talk out how we're gonna handle shit that gets thrown at us.
Things looked like they were settlin down when Ev got a call from Eva sayin Cristoff was missin. We went out lookin for him, but he was found a day or so later, shot possibly crazy. Ev and I went up to the hospital but didn't stay. She just got his prognosis and we went home, I don't think she was in the mood to deal with Penn or Izzy who were there waitin. Eva called again last night to say that he had took off again and Ev and I went back out to look but Izzy called back and let us know that he was found, but that he had tried to kill one a Captain Morganns men. Ev wasn't too happy that Yuffie and Izzy had thought to chain him up in the basement. Turns out he ain't crazy, that theres a demon drivin him to do these things one no one can see, don't gotta body we can kill, and we still ain't sure what the connection is, why its after Cristoff with a vengeance. We came here after dark, Eva was bitchin out Izzy and Yuffie for the chains bein tighter and Ev stepped in and took Eva somewhere, and now she's takin her turn guardin him.
I went in the kitchen and started to cook. In bad time I cook, bad habit I picked up from my Mom. Completely ruins my street cred. Somewhere in there India has shown up and is helping me in the kitchen. Everyones either researchin or guardin or basically havin breakdowns of their own. I got some feelers out about what could be doin this, but this isn't the usual kind of shit that comes through my circles. Yuffies bringin in a witch. I think everyone had it up to their eyeballs with tryin to figure this shit out and everyone just wants to fix Cristoff and kill this thing thats got a hold of him. I'm likin that plan the best.