Chapter 2

"What is this thing we ride on? Where are the horses?" John had a million questions for me. After I answered a few of them, I reached over and turned on the radio to drown him out.

"What the hell are you doing?" His fist went through the dash several times. Until it crushed my radio.

"Thous box is speaking."

"It's going to be a long damn ride."

We made only one stop once we were outside of town and away from prying eyes. A rest stop would have fewer people than a gas station and draw less attention to us. "Put these on." I bought him a few pairs of jeans, shirts, underwear, socks and a pair of shoes.

"What is this garb?"

"Just put it on." It was simple task. You wouldn't have thought it would need explicit step by step instructions. However, it did though.

After he got out of the truck. The hospital gown fell freely to the ground. Buck ass naked he stood there under the lamp post for all to see as a lady was existing from the restrooms.

"Oh shit." Quickly, I got out. What had I planned to do if she called the cops to us? I had no fucking clue.

"Good day." He was polite if nothing else. She stood there with her mouth open as he gave a friendly hello.

"He's from out of town. I'm sorry." It was what I offered for the excuse. As I hurried him off to the men's restroom to get some clothes on.

Finally, she got in her car and drove away. It was a chance I didn't want to take. She still might report it to the cops or she just took her time admiring his fine ass. Either way, I wanted him to hurry up.

"What do I do with this garb?" When I went inside John had them held up to the light.

"It's underwear."

"Under what?" Apparently, he had never owned a pair before. Nor knew where they went on his body.

"Just put your pants on so we can go already."

When we finally got back on the road I felt better. If we stayed on the move we might make it to the unknown destination before we got busted.

We stopped for gas a couple of times but that was pretty much it. Each time I asked him which way do we go now? He took in a deep inhale in his lungs before he gave me an answer. It became his ritual, my human compass.

"What do you want to eat?"

"Leg of dragon, buzzard eggs and wine."

"I'll pick the place." Once the words came out. I realized he probably wasn't familiar with our cuisine. I found the smallest diner possible. We were less likely to be recognized if we kept a low profile.

The waitresses fought to see which one got the privilege to serve us. Or more so, they fought to get to him. They giggled as they came by. One with glasses of water, the other with silverware and then the waitress to take our order. Hell, I'd never gotten better service. So really I didn't mind.

She was mesmerized by him. All he was concerned about was filling up his belly. She continued to flirt with him while I placed our order. "We will have a burger, fries and a coke."

John turned his head slightly, as he stared in my eyes. "Why does thou never smile?"

"I have nothing to smile about. Just eat." The timing couldn't have been better to get me out of the conversation. She set our plates down and I was starved. "What's wrong?"

He brought a single fry up to his nose. Then poked around on his burger with the knife. "What is this?"

Since he was child like in knowledge. He had to be shown almost everything. I put a plop of ketchup on his plate and mine. Took the fry dipped it and showed him he could eat it. It didn't take him long to catch on. Actually, he had it all ate in a couple of minutes. But, it wasn't until he had a taste of his Coke, it went bad. He guzzled it down to the ice.

"More." John slammed the glass down on the floor beside him. It made a loud crash as it shattered to pieces. Then he picked up his plate and done the same with it.

"Stop that." I pushed my plate in his direction. "It's okay, we can share." Before I could pick up the shards of glass from the floor. He had devoured the rest of my food.

"Hey." It wasn't until I heard that, I looked up. Only to see John at the counter eating another guy's food.

"It's okay, we shall share." John repeated what I had told him. But, the guy didn't find it amusing.

"I'm sorry. He is from out of town. I'll pay for your food and buy you more." A simple burger and fries ended up costing me over a hundred dollars. By the time I paid for our food, the guy's food, the dishes he broke and a bag of burgers to go. "This is going to be one expensive trip."

John was quiet and smiled a lot. Along with a few noises of approval while he ate. "I like this chard meat." I just kept driving and didn't comment back to him.

Until I found us a place to stay for the night, I wasn't going to make anymore stops. I was exhausted from the drive and needed to stretch for a while. Kidnapping a mental patient really took it out of you.

Everything in the room captivated John's attention. I had to take away the television remote and stop him from punching it as well. But the shower just fascinated the hell out of him.

"This waterfall is hot." He would stick his hand in the stream of water and take it out quickly.

Since, he didn't know. Which, I had to keep reminding myself before I was totally irritated. I adjusted the water for him. After I went through the effort to explain to him it was a place to bathe, he was no longer interested.

"I shall wait until I find a pond."

"Fine. Just to go to sleep."

For a few hours it was a peaceful rest. On the trip to the bathroom, I fell over something on the floor. I crawled my way to the light switch.

"Did thou stumble?"

"Yeah." With two double beds. John chose to make a pallet on the floor to sleep on. In the middle of the night I wasn't expecting to maneuver around a two hundred pound man.

"Thou is sort of clumsy."

Morning couldn't come fast enough for me. I was ready to get back on the road. As we drove, I began to question the decisions I made. What if John was truly insane? What if this was only real in his mind? What if he tried to hurt me?

It was too late for all of that though. I had already broken the law and went past the point of return. Lost my job in the process and had nothing left there. For reasons I didn't even know, I had to see this through with him.

But, you got smarter at somethings as time went on. I went in the drive thru for our food this time. How much trouble could he possibly cause this way?

When you asked a question, you should be prepared for the answer. Hell, I should have been more prepared for a lot of things. "John." I said his name several times as he existed the truck. He just took off without a warning. I was blocked in with vehicles in front of me and behind me.

"I will gladly trade thee three goats for it."

"Goats? What the hell is wrong with you boy?"

Well, that was a very loaded question the guy asked him. John had many things wrong with him. One more time I repeated the same. "I'm sorry. He is from out of town. I will pay for it and any damages he caused."

"Yep, one expensive damn trip." After I paid for the glass John broke and the sword he wanted. I berated myself on the way back to the truck. What if he used the weapon on me? Did I just hand a crazy man the way to kill others?

Although, he once again convinced me. It was for protection, my protection. "The evil queen will come and I shall be ready for her. I will lay down my life for thee."

Just to be on the safe side though, I had him put it behind the seat. Not that he still couldn't get it out and use it on me. But, it did make me feel better to know it wasn't in his direct possession as I drove.

"We are almost there." John closed his eyes while his lungs filled up with air he inhaled.

"This is Forks, Washington. Are you sure?"

"The entrance to the dark forest is close by."

His nose led us to LaPush beach at the ocean. Although, this was a nice area and all. I was pissed off. "This is it? I gave up my job and everything I worked for. I am fucking crazy to buy in to this crazy fucking shit." I stomped through the sand while I ranted on to myself.

When I finally regained my composer a little. "That's it. This is over. I am taking you back to crazyville and checking myself in to the loony bin too." John ignored me. "Well, get your ass in the truck." Again, he ignored me completely.

"Thous knight is coming." His head went straight up in the air taking in something. I tried it and all I could smell was the salty water around us.

The group of them came through the woods. Most in nothing but shorts with no shoes on. Other than the one girl with them, she had on a tank top and shorts like them. All of them were sort of on the big side except her. She was tiny by comparison.

"One of the hell hounds is thous knight."

"They are just children and you are fucking crazy." John went to meet them. I didn't care to. I plopped my butt down on rock. I gave up everything for him to bring to me to a bunch of kids on a beach. I continued to reprimand myself for the actions I took to get here.

"Hey." The tall tanned skinned boy stood before me. He gave me a friendly pretty smile. Yet I wasn't in the mood to socialize at this point. "I'm Jacob. What's your name?" I looked straight to the ocean and hoped he would take the hint. But, he didn't. "You're on my land, the least you can do is say hello to me."

"I'm sorry. I didn't know we were trespassing. We will go I..."

"Relax." Jacob set on the rock with me. He told me some interesting facts about his tribe and the area we were in.

Then two more of them came over with us. "Hey Jacob, what's your girlfriend's name?" They were giggling like school girls.

"Grow up you guys." Jacob seemed more mature and sensible than the others.

"So, she is not interested in you. Let me introduce myself, I'm Jared." He held out his hand and I just gave a wave back.

Then the other kid done the same. "If you need a tour guide, I am available." I learned his name was Quill.

We were interrupted with another one of them. "They wouldn't know what to do with a woman if they had one. But, I do." His name was Paul but I thought asshole fitted him better.

"Let's go." They protested when they were called to leave. But he stood his ground with them. "Now." It was a loud stern scream too.

Paul shoved something in my hand. Blew me a kiss before he trotted away. They others followed after him except Jacob.

"It's was nice to meet you, Bella."

"You too."

After Jacob left, I opened up the waded up paper. Paul left me his phone number. "Well, I won't need that shit." I threw it down by the rock.

"Thou soothed the beast."

"What?" John made no sense. Then again, really nothing he had done so far was rational.

"Thee shall meet thous mate at the bonfire tonight. Thou must determine which one is the great knight. Then consummate thees relationship."

"Consummate with them? You really are fucking nuts." This was the end of the line for me. He just pasted the point of no return if he thought I would do anything with those boys. I repeated it again to myself, they were mere children.

"They have magical powers. It is the only way to get back to the dark forest."

The more John tried to convince me those boys were special and my savior. The more I decided he need a special nut net to be locked up in. "I don't care. I will not fuck them, any of them."

"What is this fuck thou continues to speak of?"

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