Special Unit 2
Fan Fic
From Darkness (Part One)
"There was a time when I had
something very special in my life. Something so beautiful, that I would lie
awake and cry knowing how lucky I was. There is no shame in crying, but there
is no honor in not recognizing how special one person can you make you feel.
That is how Lisa made me feel. There was not one day that passed that I did not
drop by work to leave a poem on her desk, or a violet, her favorite flower, or
camp out to have a nice picnic for lunch in her office. She was the first and
last thing I saw every day. She made me feel safe from horrors I would see each
day at work. My life as a police officer took its toll on me, but Lisa was
always there to support me. She was very involved in the creation of the Women
in Cop's Lives Foundation. All the women became sisters and took care of the
ones who lost their husbands or boyfriends in the line of duty. Lisa was a
truly special woman with a good heart. I love her so much; it has taken so much
out of me to try to move on. I have never forgotten her, but three days ago I
was taken on a trip down memory lane, to relive the day I lost my heart."
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Kate slight upset screams, "Nick get your
wisecracking ass over here. We have to find that Moacha Plateau Mummy before it
takes another dog."
Nick casually speaks into the cell phone. "Ok, Carl,
just make sure you have me for Sleepy Day in the third and Notting's Chance in
the Seventh."
Kate picking up a piece of the mummies wraps looks
over at Nick and just shakes her head in disgust. Thinking aloud Kate speaks
up, "I wish you were not so damn laid back. Sure you can kill things, but
you don't really care for anyone." Getting a little sarcastic she imitates
Nick and starts playing with the gun and "accidentally" discharges it blowing
up a dumpster near Nick.
Nick looks up and approaches the scene as the CSI
pull out the chainsaw to take the footprint. "Damn Mummies, never cut you any
slack. This one burns the ground with its feet. "
Nick glances at the ground while pulling out a
cigarette. Kate looks at him with disgust, "You know those things will kill
you." Nick unable to find a match, obviously not paying attention to Kate,
sticks the end of the cigarette in the footprint as the CSI agent picks it up.
Nick swiftly pulls the cigarette to his mouth, closes his eyes and takes a long
drag.
Opening his eyes, he looks over at Kate and remarks,
"Why the hell do you care? All you've done since be my partner is rag on me,
put me down, or just plain treat me like crap. If you didn't want me as a
partner, why do you put me through hell? You may respect how I kill things, but
I still haven't earned your trust, HAVE I?"
Taking another deep drag from the cigarette, Kate
looks on in total disbelief. "How can you say…"
Nick interrupts, "oh shut up already, I think it's
pretty obvious you don't give a shit about me. If you did you would tell me
what you see beyond what I see here. You always see things that are not readily
apparent, but more often than not you keep them to yourself."
Nick flicks his cigarette
allowing the ashes to drop in the puddle of water below. Kate looks around as
fellow agents look on attentively but also as if this is something normal. Now
it made sense, they had stayed clear of Nick all morning.
"… and another thing…."
Kate catches something behind Nick near the end of
the alley. Kate murmurs, "What the hell is that? Nothing could have gotten
in or out of here since we arrived." Suddenly a head emerges from behind
the dumpster. She withdraws her gun as Nick turns around. Kate takes aim with
her gun and shoots at the figure.
"DOMA RI'ORA THORA MACCA" echoes through the alley,
as the figure takes off down the alley.
" That's the link, let's go." Kate not too far
behind Nick tells teams one and three to circle around.
Kate runs down a side alley to possibly get a step
ahead of the Link and cut it off. Nick chasing the mummy stays within sight of
the brute. Huffing and puffing Nick screams, "When I catch you… I'm… gonna…
kick… damn, I shouldn't have had that breakfast burrito…."
Nick puts his .45 away as he realizes they are
approaching a crowded intersection deep downtown. The mummy ducks down another
side alley. Nick rounds the corner into the same alley, "Thank god, you can't
morph into anyone you son of a …"
Nick suddenly stops. The Mummy is lying on the
ground decapitated no more than 100 yards away. With an open door nearby Nick
withdraws his Infrared gun. The sound of the El train going by echoes through
the area.
In the distance at the other end of the alley, Nick
spots another body. Slowly approaching the Mummy, Nick looks down and kneels
over it. He puts the gun to the Mummies body and pulls out his favorite bowie
knife. Nick slowly turns the body over while scanning the alley and smelling
the stench of trash and rancid meat. "God, this place could use some Pine-Sol."
Cringing, he plunges the knife to where the heart
should be and pulls out the stun gun. A movement at the end of the alley
catches his attention, but without hesitation fires the stun gun. He waits a
second to insure the Mummy turns to ash. However, the disembodied head remains.
Nick notices this and kicks it like a soccer ball into the open doorway. "You
got off lucky, you..."
A hurt moan echoes through the alley. Nick looks
down the alley and sees Kate approaching him, clutching at her head, when a
figure emerges behind her. With all of his strength, he runs to Kate, but the
figure grabs Kate and enters another building. Nick enters the building not too
far behind them. Nick drops the stun gun, pulling out the infrared gun. A
couple cars pull up at the end of alley as the sounds of footsteps trample
through the puddles from the previous night's rain. "I hate rain, and this damn
day…"
As if on cue, Nick thrusts his foot against the
deadbolt on the door. Splinters fly and the dust kicks up. Entering the first
room with guns blazing, the already decaying walls create a blinding smoke
screen. "If you're in here, I'm in the mood for inflicting pain on you. Dead or
alive!"
A shadow gleams across the mirror in the room and
Nick shoots it. The shards from the mirror cascade to the floor like the
sparkle of rain. Suddenly he feels a tingling sensation down his neck and tears
form in his eyes as he remembers an argument long past….
"Nick, damn it, why did you tell my dad he looked
Mike Ditka after losing to the Colts?" Lisa was genuinely concerned her father would never
let Nick marry her. They had not told Lisa's parents yet, and neither knew how
they would react. Having the blessing from them was very important to Lisa.
Nick had to be on his best behavior.
Nick stood there playing with his badge. Flipping it
open and closed in a smooth move he learned from watching T. J. Hooker.
"I don't know sweets, if you lose to the Packers you deserve to be kicked out
of the league. He shouldn't have bet against the Bears winning. The Colts
always suck. It just seemed that…."
Lisa interrupts, "Oh come on, my dad is a little
weird but you ought to look at yourself when the Cubs lose to the Mets every
time. Nick, you're not a pretty site when the Cubs don't make the playoffs
despite not making the playoffs since 1984."
Nick keeps flipping his badge, gives a little smirk
to her. "What's so funny tough guy? My dad hasn't liked you since day one.
It's hard enough the way you two keep arguing about every thing …"
Suddenly, Nick's badge flies
out his hand, knocking over Lisa's favorite crystal vase, shattering across the
floor. Lisa shrieks and immediately starts crying. Nick flying out of his chair, "Lisa, I'm so sorry."
As he tries to embrace her, Lisa starts beating on
his chest with the sounds echoing through the silent room. Nick stands still
feeling terrible over something he knew he should not have done. "I know your
mom gave that you before she died. Lisa…" Lisa interjects herself smacking him
one right across the cheek.
"You shit. You have no idea how much that vase means
to me…"
Lisa runs from the room leaving Nick standing a pool of tears….
"God I miss you."
BOOM
As a door suddenly bursts open on the next floor up,
snapping Nick back into reality. Without a second thought, he leaves the room
in a hurry. Nick looking up the stairwell and notices a cloud of dust in the
hallway. Streaks of light pour in from the boarded windows on the second floor.
Nick goes to grab the railing and it breaks right off.
"Note to self, find superintendent and wreck his
cushy apartment."
The stairs creak every step he takes. The creaks
keep getting louder and louder as he approaches the top of the stairwell. At
one end of the long hallway, a shadowy figure rounds the corner. Nick not
wanting to waste another second heads for the corner. As he approaches, the
Link comes running back and meets Nick as he rounds the corner. With a sudden
thud, Nick and the Link crash through the wall into an abandoned apartment. The
gun flies from Nick's hand, hitting the graffiti lined wall, landing near the
window leading to the fire escape.
The Link and Nick struggle to get up but Nick feels
a barrage punches to his kidneys. Nick tries to crouch into a ball to protect
himself but it does no good. The Link gets to its feet and proceeds to lay a
series to kicks to Nick's head and back. Nick screams in pain as the steel toed
boots smash against his head, when he feels something warm covering his face.
Flowing into his mouth, Nick gags and realizes he is choking on his own blood.
The sounds of the kicks against his body begin to drown out as Nick begins to
fade. The figure keeps shifting his weight and position to get as much force
out of this attack as possible. Nick opens his eyes, but all he can see or hear
is that of every drop of his blood hitting the dusty floor. The brilliant red
clashes with brown dust covering the floor.
Suddenly the scream of a woman drowns out all of his
senses
"…NOOOOOOOO! NICK, HELLLLLLLLLLPPPPP MEEEEEEEE." Surrounded by several dark
figures creeping out of the shadows, Kate reaches for her gun.
All the voices, as if in cue, speak up. "We have
your weapons. Kate … Alice … Benson."
"If you're gonna kill me, then go ahead and KILL
ME."
Swiftly, Kate leg sweeps a nearby figure and breaks it's neck as it hits the
floor. A hand comes out of nowhere and clutches her throat raising her off the
ground. Suddenly it slams her against the wall, cracking the plaster leaving an
indenture of Kate's body. As Kate slowly fades away, she looks into the eyes of
the figure and sees nothing but red, blood red eyes.
Nick realizing Kate needs him, almost as if it was
an instinct, rolls on his back and flips to his feet. With the dust flying and
the humidity in the air, the blood sticks to his face forming a crimson mask.
"Time to get your ass kicked."
Nick ducks a punch and throws his forehead forward,
head butting the Link. The cowl flies back from the hooded sweatshirt it is
wearing. Seeing the face revealed, with his own blood stamped on it's forehead
Nick looks on in shock. "You're no
Link."
A human face looks back and winks. "It was a
three dimensional hookup display tied into a mixture of C-4 and an unknown
element that forensics could not figure out. That's how… Lisa died three years
ago today…."
A fresh streak of blood falls
from each of Nick's eyes; down his already blood and sweat soaked face. Nick
shuts his eyes when the figure suddenly charges Nick. Nick leaps up throwing
forward with all his might a thunderous kick that floors the figure in one
swift move. Nick grabs the figure by its hair and throws it against the wall.
The figure looks at Nick as the light shining down on Nick slowly fades away.
As if a higher power knew it was time to look away. Nick pulls a knife from the
bottom of his boot and brings it to the figure's neck.
"What do you
know about Lisa?"
The figure smiles at Nick.
"You better talk or…" with sarcasm firmly in toe,
the figure asks "what? You can't kill me, we are forever."
Nicks eyes quiver. Feeling no pain except in his
heart, Nick suddenly pulls the knife away and stabs the Link right through the
hand nailing it to the wall. Blood splatters against the wall and begins to
flow from the open wound down the wall. Nick withdraws the knife. "Talk or
we'll test your mortality."
The Link not even flinching and screaming in pain
casually speaks up.
"Your wife was killed by an explosion not by a drunk
driver like you were told by the department. The bomb rigged to the drunk
driver was to insure she died. Not as a failed attempt on Albert Belle's life
like the police thought it was. He was drunk already, and agreed to do this job
for us if he could be traded to the Mets."
Nick with a sickening snarl pushes the edge of the
knife just below the Adam's Apple.
"Let's relax here. You want to know why was killed,
don't you?"
Nick pulls the knife away. The Link feeling a bit
more at ease takes a deep breath and closes his eyes, when Nick grabs the Links
ear and cuts it off. The ear falls the
ground and Nick drives the toe of his boot in it and grinding it into the
floor. Blood flows over Nick's hand as he whispers into the missing ear. "Can
you hear the pain in my soul? Can you hear the heart of the man who is going to
kill you?"
Nick pulls the head of the figure to his heart splattering blood
all over his shirt and leather jacket as he screams, "CAN YOU HEAR MY PAIN?"
Nick throws the figure against the other wall, the
eyes of the Link widen with each breath it takes. "You suu…" A knife plunges into the Link's chest, stopping
his sentence…
"Talk!"
"Ok, ok, your wife was killed because…" Taking a breath, the figure
suddenly looks at Nick as a new ear forms and all its wounds heal. With a look
of pride on its face, remarks, "because I wanted to. Humanity's days are
over Nicholas."
The figure removes the knife from its chest, tosses
it to the ground and decks Nick. Nick felt the pop of his jaw dislocating. Nick
could no longer contain his pain, lets loose an inhuman shriek of pain.
"Scream for me Nick. Oh yes, scream for me."
Nick crying with tremendous pain coursing through
his body rolls through dust and cobwebs that cling the blood on his face.
"You know Nick, your wife was
just a pawn in great game. I took a lot of pride and joy in killing that tramp.
You know, she didn't really die in that wreck. We replaced her body with a
double and faked all the forensic evidence. We took her and tortured her."
Taking a second to admire his handy work on Nick,
the figure takes a deep breath.
"She held out for a long time
before her mind gave up before her body did. Oh Nick, she screamed for me. Oh
did she scream for me."
Nick, unable to withstand the sudden rush of pent up
emotion from his wife's death, starts crying uncontrollably and curling up to
cover his ribs.
"Come play the game Nick, this
game began with your wife and will end when we want it to. Humanity will bow to
us, and so will the petty monsters of this world. We have been in control since
the beginning, but now the time draws near from reclaiming our dominance over
this world. If you want to know more about your wife and why, come find us. We
love the pain we put humans through by taking away their loved ones and …"
Catching
itself before revealing too much it continues its speech.
"Oh no, no, no, that would
give too much away."
Then in an angry tone with a tear of blood coming
from its clean face speaks up. "Tell Page the Sho-Li are alive and well…."
The figure walks away.
"Come for
your partner, and you can watch her scream for me."
The Link takes a deep breath and in a very soft tone
says, "oh yes, she looks like the screaming type."
The Link leaves and starts humming as it walks away.
The sound of its boots fade until it is no more.
Nick broken down mentally by everything did not hear
Captain Page and Special Unit 2 surveying the building. A Special Unit 2 Doctor
preps Nick for transport to the classified hospital under the Sears Tower.
Captain Page approaches Nick on the stretcher. "Nick, we'll find Kate and
get those bastards."
Page seems to be hiding something, but in his
weakened condition, Nick didn't give much thought to it. Trying to speak… "Sir,
it said it was a Sho-Li."
With a
stunned look on his face, Page quickly hides it. "Nick you've had a rough
day. The Sho-Li, do not exist."
Nick tries to speak up but the medics take him away.
Page looks at the note scrawled
in Nick's blood on the wall.
"Vae Victus."
Page looks on with a tear in his eye as he thinks
aloud. "They… don't…. exist. They can't."
To be Continued…
This is the first in a 7
part series known as "From Darkness."
