Mexico Shy
Megan@MidnightSequel to Blue.
Agent Sheldon Jeffrey Sands wakes from nightmares with his hands over his face, screaming bloody murder. When he opens his eyes, his nice new pretty working, and above all else blue eyes he swears he'll never go near Mexico again. He dreams of darkness and pain and blood he could feel but not see. Never see again. He dreams of skeletons and sunglasses and always the dark. He sleeps with the light on so when he wakes the dark is dispelled away. He swears to never wear sunglasses again.
He's still in L.A and he can't seem to leave. He's tried to leave, to head back to his beat, southeast of his new city. The first time he got 15 miles out of Los Angeles before his hands started shaking. Five miles more and he was in a ditch, shaking so badly he couldn't hold the wheel straight. He tried to leave twice since. He's managing to get farther and farther away each time before he hits the ditch. He's really beginning to hate that damned ditch. He gotten to 48 miles last time. It's been thirteen days since he regained his eyes, well someone's eyes, but they're his now. And he plans to keep them.
He also plans to get back to Mexico. But every time he tries the fear is there. He lost his eyes, and he can't stop thinking about it. He's watched every sunset and every sunrise since, and he never really cared about them. But he can and so he does. He walks L.A the way he walked Mexico, though without the sunglasses. He looks at everything. He can't not. He won't not. He's read five books, three Vonneguts, Neverwhere, and a travel guide to Philadelphia he gotten by accident in the first frenzied rush of sight. He read it cover to cover anyway. He's gone to the movies three times, and has to suppress a twitch every time the lights go down. He goes after he gets back from his aborted road trips. He'll beat this thing. But he realizes he may be in Los Angeles a while yet.
He doesn't mind so much. He will get back to Mexico. Things to do, people to shoot, things like that. L.A.'s not so bad, really. There's lots to see.
The end
