Mike-O
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I lit my last cigarette, taking eigth matches to do even that while leaning on the brick wall next to the Shaman. I wanted to call this joint my local bar, but who was I kiddin', I lived six blocks from here, and now after spending pretty much all of my paycheck trying to score with just one ugly, desperate bitch and failing even at that, I decided to lighten the mood by walking all the way home down Fleet Street. I threw the empty pack away, aiming at the trash can a few feet away from me, waiting for the satisfying ruffling sound as it flew in, but it never came. After a short while standing in the same spot, swaying around like a windmill in a hurricane, I realized I had just dropped the pack on my feet. I was too fucked up to try and pick it up, so I decided to move on. This city has a cleaning crew for a purpose, any way.
I think I was three block down the way, my legs getting tired of the trudging and leaning and my mind getting agitated by the happy taxis driving past me, when I realized I could take a small detour around 6th, then cross the alley-way down to Hershel Avenue, and come out near Molly's - only a short walk home from there.
And I did, after pissing on some asshole's Mercedes, he he he! Autobahn this, you pissy dick. I stumbled around the corner of the 6th, reaching the trodden chainlink fence that I could swing under to get to the alleys. There was some weird plack hanging on the fence, with big and bright black on yellow text, but I couldn't focus on what it said, almost making me hurl just thinking about it. As I ducked under it, hearing it clang down behind me, I could hear the sounds of a racket from the alley. I closed in as silently as I could, readying my piece, releasing the safety ahead of time.
I creeped closer as it started raining like crazy, wetting my whole being, as the sounds of violence were growing louder with each step. I saw a few shadows dancing on the walls, painting me a mental picture of a large fight. Still drunk, it was hard to concentrate on the figures and situation on hand, but as I thought I would have to take action to save someone, the adrenaline started kicking in, closing out the whole picture and helping me focus on the details. Three, four, no, five persons were ganging up on one, maybe two others, them being held down on the ground and beaten with fists and kicks, furiously. The shadows reflected on the wall were very bright, reminding me of bright, white fog lights from my SUV. That's when I heard one of the victim's a woman, a girl maybe, scream.
"No...! NO! Please, please don't! NO!"
That's it. I said a Hail Mary or two, not sure, feeling the urge to piss and shit my pants from the excitement, not knowing what I was in for, but I fucking bounced up, turned the corner and yelled
"FREEZE MOTHERFUCKERS DON'T NOBODY MOVE HANDS UP SHOW ME YOR HANDS"
They all became a bit silent for just a moment, being surprised by someone they weren't expecting.
"The fuck is this?", one of them said. He was tall and black.
"Hey... hey, what's up, who are you? take it easy, man", another one said, rising up to his feet from the downed girl, who was now silent and looking at me, begging me to save her.
"DON'T YOU FUCKING MOVE MOTHERFUCKER COCKSUCKER OR I'LL FUCKING BLAST YOU LET THE WOMEN GO NOW"
The tall one put his hands up, I could only see his silhouette now as he was in front of a bright gas light, fueled by a generator humming on the corner. These sick fucks... how far are they taking the rape and snuff video game in this sorry town?!
"I SAID DON'T MOVE YOU FUCK OR I'LL KILL YOU RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW LET THE WOMEN GO"
I was shaking, seeing everything in slow motion, unable to see clearly because of the booze in my system, but somehow being able to move my body with amazing reflexes, reacting to anyth
"I'm sorry, sir, you are interrupting our sh--
I had no time to think and I shot three times as I turned back, firing at the man who had appeared behind me, splattering his head all over the alley walls, parts of grey matter bouncing from the nearby dumpster and hitting me in the face. The others started shouting.
"What the fuck, Jesus fuck! God fuck no!"
Some of them ran away while the tallest one ran towards me with full speed, shouting obscenities and swearing he would kill me, so I reacted faster than I could think, blasting four rounds in him and swerving aside as he almost fell on top of me, twitching now in his death throes. One of the girls was lying down on the ground, sobbing like a maniac and I approcahed her.
"Hey, hey, miss, lady, listen, it's all gonna be okay, okay? I'm gonna call the cops and..."
"Get the fuck away from me you fucking lunatic! No, no, nonononononon I'msorryimsorryimsorrypleasepleasedontkillmepleasepleasedontdoitpleaseletmegopleasepleaseplease..."
I couldn't understand what was going on, so I lowered my gun, and looked around. Wait a minute. Something wasn't right. The flood lights that I saw were connected to a large truck in the back of the alley, hidden from my view earlier. Most of the windows that seemed broekn from afar were actually cardboard paintings laid over the brick wall, and as I looked up slightly, I could see that the rain was coming from some kind of large pump truck, hanging over the alley. I turned around baffled, hearing the sirens coming closer and illuminating the whole alley-way in red, white and blue, shouts from officers emerging from their vehicles telling me to put down my gun, some kind of civilians running away from the trucks, with headphones and walkie talkies, one of them dropping a claffboard almost in front of me, running around in some sort of panic. I looked down at the board.
THESE STREETS ARE GAME
ACT IV
SCENE VII
TAKE 11
I heard the officers approaching me, looking at the two dead bodies in the alley, shot to shit, when I saw the camera on the opposite side of the alley, it's red light blinking, recording the event for the whole world. I looked at the camera, trying to focus on the lense and the absurdity of the whole situation.
"...huh?!"