Chapter 7
I got the comcis that NWA bought for me in the other day. I spent most of my time reading them or playing WoW casually. Gonna apply for a job at the bowling alley soon which should be nice, possibly the movies too. I got two new jokers shirts, and a venom shirt so expect picture spamz soon
Number 7: Pain among the Ranks.
I gasped for breath as I sat up the only words I could pronounce was the yelling of my combat mentor’s name,
“Jack!”
I looked around shaking my arms and hands to get the filth off of them, which was about the time I realized I was in the bath. I pulled myself out, and shockingly my stomach and my shoulder was still sore,
“Jack! Dr. Sam!? Anyone please!”
I slipped attempting to stand smashing my head into the hard concrete that surrounded the bath. All that ripped from my throat was, “Fuck, Shit” and a bunch of assorted racial slurs,
“Kevin, you shouldn’t be awake yet.”
That voice…That had to be Dr. Sam,
“Dr. Sam how is she? How is Jack, I should have done something, this is all my fault.”
Sam sighed a bit, moving over to help me up, and it was probably weird of me to think this at the time, but at that very moment I realized that Dr. Sam had probably seen me naked more then any other girl in my life.
“There was nothing you could do. So don’t give me this, “it’s my fault” bull shit, the best you could have done was gotten yourself killed.”
This didn’t answer my question, why do all these people always do this to me? They have a million questions for me, but I have one question, and they either don’t tell me, avoid it, or beat me up. This place is total fucking bullshit,
“Look Sam-”
“That’s Dr. Sam”
“Professor Sam, Master Sam, Queen Sam, whatever the fuck you want me to call you, I’ll do it, just tell me, how is jack?”
Sam chuckled a bit, before pointing to the bath next to mine,
“why don’t you check for yourself.”
I rushed over to that side of the bath, I ended up tripping over myself, and falling right into the bath with Jack, and as Dr. Sam laughed, I heard Jack as I resurfaced,
“I should beat your fucking ass Kevin you shit head.”
I’d never been so happy to be threatened in my life,
“You saved her life Kevin, but don’t get too excited, there’s still a problem.”
“A problem? But she’s alive right? And you said you could heal any wound right?”
“I thought I could, but Ashley has a connection that knows my medicine. I can only assume that Krystal has turned. If this is true, then I have to do some serious research, but Jack’s wounds…They’re not going to heal in time.”
I pulled myself up to the edge of the bath, and just looked at Jack, it was apparent now that her bath was tinted red,
“And the medicine is only slowing her loss of blood right?”
Dr. Sam looked at me like I had just said something completely amazing,
“How did you know?”
“I used to watch a lot of movies, I just took a good guess.”
Jack smiled a bit, before moving to stand up, the liquid covered some stuff, but I pretty much got a full frontal view of Jack in all her glory,
“So I’m good as dead right Sam?”
She winced a bit, as she moved to step out of the bath,
“Wait stop Jack you’ve got at least a good 2 and a half days before you die, I could find a solution by then I’m sure of it-”
“No Doc, I’m as good as dead. There’s no point in putting off the inevitable. I had a good run, it figured my best student would be the one to put me down.”
Jack crossed the bath to sit next to me, taking my hand in hers, and while I’m sure she had something profound to say she really didn’t have to hit me to make me pay attention,
“Look Kevin, I can’t get in trouble for this anymore so I’m going to tell you how it is. They have your brother, and they want you too. Together you would both be unstoppable, but apart it’s still possible for you both to be taken in battle. You have an innate power that we would have had to train for hundreds of years to learn, and very few of our bodies could keep up the punishment this job requires for that long, fuck.”
Jack paused gripping her side as blood started to rush more freely as the medicine dried,
“Jack you should-”
“Shut the fuck up Kevin, now look. Don’t tell Aaron what happened to me, if he knows Z traded sides he would never be the same. They’ve been friends since they joined, always trying to one up each other. If Aaron knew that Z was a fucking bottom feeder he wouldn’t fight with his head, and would only fight with anger.”
She bent over coughing up blood, and Sam rushed to her side, trying to urge her back into the bath, but Jack pushed her away,
“Fucking…Okay, look. You have to stop this, we are trying to fix everything that’s wrong, and they only want power. If not to change the world Kevin, then do it for me. Everything I ever wanted to accomplish in life is now on you, this is your debt as my replacement.”
Her arm blazed up, and just as I caught it out of the corner of my eye, my face caught the punch, and my body just rag dolled across the floor.
“Don’t you forget it…” Jack fell back, and Sam pushed her into the bath, but I knew even before passing out that it was too late.
“Jack! No Sam you fucking save her! Save her right now do something. Jack! Jack!”
His voice cut through the silence like a sonic boom. I pushed myself off the floor spitting vile tinted red saliva on the cold concrete floor as I did so. That voice was strong, I knew it from my training, but I’d never heard it so anxious. It chilled me to my bones to hear it.
“Aaron, there’s nothing I can do for her…They outsmarted me, and she knew it long before you found her.”
I covered my mouth as I coughed, attempting to stay silent as I watched Aaron hanging on to Jack’s lifeless body. He finally let her go, letting her limp body slip to the floor. His eyes fell on me, I could feel the heat from his stare, it was like he was burning holes into my body.
“Who did this to her? You were there, don’t tell me you didn’t see what happened.”
“Aaron…I don’t know…I was-”
“You were fucking worthless is what you were! You should have put your life on the line! You think this is a game kid? This is serious, we’re fighting for our survival this isn’t just about them stepping on our toes. They’re eliminating us so that they can control the outcome of our lives.”
I couldn’t do anything but hang my head. How could I get Aaron forgive me? This was blood on my hands, I could feel it. There’s nothing like someone dying on your watch. It’s the most terrible feeling you could ever have, this is someone who relied on you. Even though really I relied on her, but I should have been there, I should have done something, but I didn’t. I sat there, and I just watched. I didn’t make one move, I didn’t even try to help her, and now she’s dead because of it, because of me.
“Get out of my way.”
Aaron pushed past me, and I could only watch him walk away, he picked up his sword carelessly, though when the tip of it the concrete doorframe, he just shattered the thick wall with the weapon. I felt movement behind me, before there he was, Mr. O,
“It’s not your fault, what could you have done? Everyone has their time, and hers was now, now you know what we’re up against I didn’t ask you to join us just because I wanted more power. Quite frankly I could give a shit about power I want to make a difference, and they want to make a profit. Her blood is on your hands now, and her life is now yours to finish. That is the way of The Regulators. Until her debt is paid you will work hard, don’t you dare let her death be in vain. Welcome Kaine, do not let us down.”
This chapter is short, it hurt me to write cause I love you jack <3. But yeah trying out this whole spacing the talking away from the bulk, is this good enough neko-chan?