If Only he Could Claw
*This story is an attempt at Joe Jr.'s perspective on events that we will never see him react to. The opinions presented do not necessarily match the author's.
Joe Jr. wanted to avenge the death of his son, but the layer of earth above Joe's casket would forever shield Trey's killer from Joe's wrath.
If only he could claw out of his grave. If only Joe could get his cold, boney hands on that dog passing itself off as a woman.
This was the same woman who wanted to abort Joe's son, but was too cowardly to go through with it, and instead left him to die in a drawer. But Trey managed to survive that, so Connie tried to kill Trey, again, and this time she waited until Joe was dead.
Trey had collapsed on the ground at the site of the accident. His mother had hit him with her car. And she wasn't at all concerned with his condition until there were handcuffs biting at her wrists. That was when she realized that Trey was the perfect excuse for her to use to escape police custody.
She says she needs to be with her son, and she says that this is the reason why she can't go to jail.
She says all this, and Sonny backs her up. Then she runs away, leaving Trey's lifeless body alone in a hospital bed.
She runs straight to a bar called The Floating Rib. She flirts with some person that Joe has never met, a man named AJ. Then Connie sees Sonny walk in, and she wants to get a rise out of him - this woman has never grown up - and so she kisses AJ. Her dying son doesn't matter when there's an opportunity for her to rile up Sonny, and Trey somehow matters even less when there's a man like AJ willing to come within a certain distance of her.
In about nine months, Joe figures, she'll be claiming that this AJ guy raped her too, and there will be another abandoned baby in another dresser drawer somewhere.
Sonny throws a fit when AJ and Connie kiss. His anger satisfies the little witch for the time being, so Connie agrees to show up at the hospital to take Trey off the machines.
She only ever shows up to hurt Trey, or to kill him.
That bratty little daughter of Sonny's is right about one thing - Connie has no right to have any say in whether Trey's machines should be turned off. But the doctors don't see her logic, and they give Connie full permission to finish off her kill.
Joe watches his son die in a room of strangers. If Joe were still alive, this would have been what killed him.
But Joe isn't alive, and the only parent present for Trey's death is Connie. She manages to squeeze out just a few fake tears before she runs back to Sonny's house - abandoning their son - Joe's son - for the final time.
Joe would make her pay, if only he could claw out of his grave.