DICK DODGERS's blog: "BEAUTIFUL DAYS"

BEAUTIFUL DAYS CHAPTER ONE: DINNER WITH JAKE I remember that night. It rained like a bitch. The streets were too slick. It was dark. And i don't mean just regular dark dark in nature. Dark in a lot of ways. Too many to explain now. There's an even darker alley behind the old piece of shit Apex motel. A sillhouette of a trenchcoated person with a hat, medium in size, runs down this alley as if to be searching for someone. They come to the ladder of the fire escape at the motel. They climb up to the fifth floor. Peeking into the window is a beautiful brown eye. No doubt by now that the trenchcoated person is female. She spies a figure in this motel room. Tied to a chair. Head hanging towards his lap. She whispers the words through the broken window pane... PAPA... She whispers to him a second time. The man comes around. He speaks softly as if to keep his voice from being heard by outsiders... Sophie...? Is that you? By now we obviously know that the woman is Sophie and the bound man in the chair is her father. She opens the window and makes her way over to her tied father and attempts to untie him. "Where are they?", she asks. "I'm not sure.", her father responds "But they aren't far. Sophie stops her attempt to untie her father to check on the status of his captors. She creeps to the peep hole of the door of the motel and peeps out. She sees the backs of two large figures as if they were standing on guard. She rushes back over to her father... "We have to hurry." she says as she goes back to work on the ropes. "Sophie, listen to me...There's no time." he says. Sophie looks at her father with tears forming within the corners of her eyes... "What do you mean?, she asks. He looks at his daughter as if he was looking at her for the very last time and says to her... "You know as well as i do, we cannot afford to suffer the same fate. I want you to go and expose the truth. You know what needs to be done. Now it is up to you to do it." I can't leave you Papa, she says. He looks in his daughter's eyes and says... "Sophie...Go!" She kisses her father on the forehead. At that instance. We hear the two figures outside speaking to a third party. The doorknob turns and the three enter the room. Sophie narrowly makes it back out to the fire escape. She perches down out of sight and looks on. Anticipating the final fate of her father. The three figures surround the bound man. All shrouded in shadows. Two large figures on each side...with the smaller one in the middle. Their faces hidden in darkness. The thunder rumbles... The smaller figure approaches Sophie's father and speaks to him. "Dr. Figgis! Wake the fuck up!" He ends this phrase with an open handed smack to the face of Sophie's father who we now know to be Dr. Figgis. The smack knocks the good Dr. over on his side. He reaches down and grabs Dr. Figgis by his face. Then reaches into his coat to reveal a 9 inch bowie knife that he aims right at the Dr.'s eyeball. "You got a choice, doc! You can tell us where that bitch is, or i can ram this blade right through to the back of your fuckin' skull!, the man says. Dr. Figgis looks right into the shadow hidden face of the man and says... "If this is my last night on earth, I will spend my last moments knowing that i will never give her up to you. So do what you must!" The lightning crashes The man then lets out a devilish laugh. The two taller figures join in to this laughter. He says... "Well boys, looks like we have a case of either the phoney tough, or the crazy brave. Which one are you, doc? He grabs the doctor by the back of the hair... "You're a fuckin' fool old man! Ladies and Gentlemen... The doctor...IS OUT!" As he draws back the knife to draw into the doc's skull, the barell of a .38 pokes it's way through the broken glass in the window. It's Sophie on the fire escape. She gets a shot off that hits one of the taller figures in the neck... The thunder rumbles... The knife welding man shouts out to the unscathed tall figure... "GET THAT BITCH!!!" The unshot tall figure runs over to the window drawing his gun. Sophie fires a shot at him and misses. Her father yells out... "SOPHIE RUN!" At that instance, the figure fires a shot shattering the remaining glass in the window. Sophie, startled, slips and loses her balance and falls off the fire escape. The lightning crashes...revealing the face of the knife welding captor. A psychopathic man with wild hair and a patch on his right eye. He looks at Dr. Figgis and says... "See ya in hell, asshole!" He lunges the blade into the Dr.'s chest. Looking him in the eyes the whole time the life drains out of the good Dr. Benjamin Figgis. As the first tall figure lies bleeding to death from his neck on the floor. The second one looks out of the window for the fallen Sophie that he is convinced he hit with the shot he fired. As he looks down, he is greeted in the forehead with a bullet from Sophie's .38. His body falls limp back into the window. Sophie is hanging by one hand on the edge of the fire escape. After seeing the second man shot, the eye-patched man heads over to the window looking for Sophie. He looks to the left...no Sophie. The bottom...no Sophie. To the right...Sophie is running for her life down the alley. He fires two shots and misses. About a block and a half away, Is SHO'S NOODLE STAND. My favorite spot. I take my usual seat in front of the stand. I reach into my left pocket for my cigarettes. My right for my zippo. And into my pants pocket for the ten bucks i toss at Sho for my usual Chicken Lo Mein and two fortune cookies I have been getting from him the last 20 years. Tip included. The name's Reed, Jake Reed. I'm a detective, and im on dinner break. "Gimmie a cup of dat Sake, willya?", I say to Sho "Aren't you on duty?", he says back to me in that hilarious asian accent. I reply... "I'm on break!" At that instance, a figure leaps clean through the stand. Startling the customers. Nothing appears to be damaged until the second figure shows up... crashing into the stand sending my noodles flying somewhre east and Sho's daily earnings in all directions. The son of a bitch gets up and looks directly at me. Some sack of shit with a patch on his eye. He takes off after the trenchcoated figure who lept throught he stand. As i reach into my trenchcoat for my twin .45's with the infrared scopes, only one thing crossed my mind at that point...my break...was cut short. SOMEBODY'S GOIN TO JAIL ... I go in pursuit of the eye-patched man. He's in pursuit of the trenchcoated figure. The chase leads to an alley. At the end of this alley is a chained gate. The trenchcoted figure hops onto the gate to climb it... The lightning strikes... The figure looks back...she's female. Brown eyes. She's beautiful. The eye patched man draws his gun to shoot at her. I aim my .45's for his shoulders. I hold them upside down. I'm weird like that. I graze one shoulder and I hit the other one. He drops. The chick gets away. I approach the gate and i yell out... "HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEY!" She runs on. The eye patched man is lying on his stomach, I kick him over to his side. I say to him... "Guess what asshole, you cut my break short! You're goin' to JAIL!" At that moment he looked up at me as the rain hit his face. The thunder rumbled... And he spoke one word... "BULLSHIT!" A car crashes through the gate. I dive for safety. The driver reaches out as the car is in motion and grabs the eye-patched man as it speeds off. I pick up my fidora. I reach into my left pocket for my cigarettes. My right for my zippo. I light one up and say to myself... "SHIT! Now i gotta chase this cock sucka!" END CHAPTER ONE.