Once Upon a Time in the West chapter 2
Ellen was going through all the drawers. 'Where is it?' The whole house was a mess but she had to find it. "Where is that violin?" She was looking for her father's violin. She gave up and lay down on bed. "What am I going to do?" Ellen fell asleep on the bed.
The next morning Ellen got up. She had made a decision. She gathered up her stuff and opened the door. She backed up into the house followed by Elliot. He shut the door behind him. "Make me some coffee." He said. Ellen scowled and began to make the coffee. "I don't why they keep trying to arrest me. I mean there are far worse criminals than me out there."
Ellen slammed the pot of boiling coffee down on the table in front of him. "Yeah there are worse criminals than you who shot down a family of innocent people."
"If you think I shot a family than what is one more person to me?"
She took the pot and put it back on the fire. "What do you know about the Pink Cat?" She asked.
He leaned back in his chair. "Not much. He plays more than he talks and it's always that same old tune. He seemed in a good mood today. Maybe he met a lady." Ellen poured a cup of coffee for him and set it down in front of him. He sipped the coffee and sighed. "Coffee's good." Then he took another sip.
Elliot left after a little bit. Ellen went outside and looked around. 'Why did Dad decide to live here? And where's his violin?'
"Mr. Gray." Blood said
"What is it?" Gray said. He had more important issues that had to be taken care of and instead here he sat with his 'boss'.
"Miss. Kurokawa is still alive. Your two employees were found dead this morning."
"I'd like to meet the gentlemen that shot them. They were two of my best employees."
"I don't care how; just get her out of the way. I don't have much time left." Blood said. The door opened and in came Julius who carefully shut the door behind him. "Were you followed here?" Blood said.
Gray looked out the window to see a shadow of a pair of cat ears and a cowboy hat on the roof of the train. Gray pulled the start lever and the train began to move, much to the surprise of Boris on top of the train. "Julius, why are you here?" Gray asked the blue hair man.
"I wanted to let you know that Pink Cat is in town."
"Oh really?" Gray asked with as much fake amazement as he could muster.
"Yeah. Also I wanted to let you know that Ellen is still alive."
"We know that." Gray said to Julius as Gray pulled the lever to stop the train. There was a rider coming up. Gray didn't know his name and he didn't care to know it. "Get him off the roof." Gray commanded as the faceless nameless man pulled Boris off the roof and into the train car. The man tied him up.
"Now," Gray said turning to Julius "this is where you get off." Gray pushed Julius out of the car and shot him. Before Julius died he looked under the train to see Elliot hanging on tightly with a finger to hush the dying man.
"Now who are you?" He asked Boris.
"Ace." Boris replied.
"I don't have time for games now. I have business but when I come back I want your real name." Gray pushed open the door and left the car. One of Gray's henchmen pulled the lever and the train began to move again.
Boris remained calm trying to think of a way out of this situation. Just then he saw Elliot leaning down to look through the window. He gave a small nod to Boris. Elliot leaned over and tapped on the window to get one of the henchmen's attention. When he turned to look at Elliot he received a gunshot wound to the stomach. This scene repeated until Elliot, Blood and Boris were the only ones alive in the train.
Elliot slid into the car through an open window and untied Boris's hands. "We need to go to Ellen's. I think Gray is there now." Boris said trying to remain calm.
"In a second but first." Elliot said coming over to Blood and pointing to him. "What should we do about him?" Boris shrugged his shoulders as his viola rose up and down. Elliot turned to look at Blood. "If I ever see you again I'll put a bullet right through ya."
Boris pulled the lever and the train stopped. Boris and Elliot got off.
Ellen was still trying to find that violin. Finally in one chest that she hadn't seen when looked before, she found it. She pulled out the violin case and opened it. Inside there was the violin but there was also an envelope attached to the top she took the envelope off and closed the case. She opened the envelope. "It's empty?"
Slowly in front of her face a hand reached out with the contents of the envelope. "Looking for this?"
Ellen looked up. Staring back at her was Gray's cold yellow eyes. Ellen's golden eyes studied his face as she slowly stood up and said to him "Who are you and why are you in my house?"
"I'm the guy everyone loves to hate and hates to love." He moved closer to her. "Now we can do this two ways. I can kill you now or I can kill you later."
Ellen stepped forward and replied "Live now and die later or die now?" Ellen stood transfixed in place.
"Make your choice or I'll make it for you."