Mission: Sweet Revenge
(Sweet Revenge – scene takes place at the hospital)
Hutch had his
face turned away, he felt too embarrassed to show his weakness to others. Only
his best friend had seen him cry before. And now that best friend was lying in
a hospital bed, barely alive. Nothing like this had ever happened before. Death
had never been this close. How could you be prepared for something like that?
All the walls he
had build around his heart to protect himself, came tumbling down when he saw
his partner's unmoving body lying on the pavement. The world had suddenly
stopped turning.
Hutch
tried very hard to control himself. Starsky wouldn't die on him now. He
couldn't! Starsky meant more to him than his own life.
What the hell with what others would say. Hutch didn't have anymore
strength left to fight the tears that were streaming down his face now. He
slipped into his own world of grief and anger, where he felt every emotion
tearing him apart. His knees refused to carry him any longer and he sunk to the
floor. He wasn't aware of Dobey and Huggy helping him to one of the chairs. He
wasn't aware of anything but his own pain.
It seemed like an eternity had passed before he lifted his head. His
face looked pale, but the pain in his eyes was replaced by something else.
He stood up from
the chair and paid no attention to the people around him. Why would he? He had
a goal. There was something that needed to be done, for Starsky and for
himself. If he ever wanted to have peace of mind again then he needed to do it
now. No one was going to stop him, not even Captain Dobey or Huggy Bear.
"I'll be
back, Starsk..I've got a job to do, but I'll be back! Don't you go anywhere
now." Hutch whispered while he walked to the exit and stepped outside.
Detective Ken
Hutchinson was now a man on a mission.
The end.
Written by Sonja H. van Schalm
Edited by Patricia Lockard
Copyright 2000
