An/ Hi people! Here's a second chapter. Just wanted t' warn the part in italic are Jackie (Jacky?) though and the part in italic centred are the background sound… you'll see.
The girl with a tiger tattoo – even if he now knew her name he always prefer think of her as 'the girl with a tiger tattoo' or 'the tiger girl'- had left for a few hours now. During that time-now that his head was hurting less thanks to the coffee- Hyde had first taken a good hot shower then he had start calling all his stores. Every time they had ask him 'why would you so that?' or 'Is there a problem with the store?' and a few 'Is that some kind of a joke?'. To every question he would answered that he had personal problem. It wasn't a lie, just a formulation that qualified the situation without revealing it. But when he had to abandon the one in point place it wasn't the same, instead of doing so he told them he would be gone for a undetermined time. They asked a lot of question but finally they accepted the situation.
After that Hyde decided to go inspect the place. He found out that behind the door the girl with the tiger tatt' had came out from they were a corridor. The first door on his left was leading to the bathroom in which he had taken a shower not so long ago.
The bathroom was quite small cover by with tiling. They were only a shower circle by a curtain, a washbasin, a towel rail and a medicine cabinet with mirror door. Inside the cabinet they were the basic medical kit and a make up kit, which was weird because the tiger girl didn't seemed to wear any. They were also a hairbrush, a woman shaver and two toothbrushes. If they were two people leaving here Hyde though that the second one should be the one owning the make up.
The door on the opposite side lead to a bedroom. The room was mostly white they were nothing more then a king size bed, an closer that made all the corridor side wall with sliding mirror door, a window on the opposite wall, and a desk in front of the bed. The bed was made and they were a bit of dust that made think it hadn't been use in quite a time.
The next door shown another bedroom on the same bases as the other expected that this one was a lot messier. The bed was unmade, they were close lying everywhere, an ashtray reversed on the floor. But mostly they were a huge poster of the doors up from the bed. Steven guest that this room belonged to the tiger girl.
The last door on the opposite from her room was the toilet.
It was already 1 p.m. and Hyde was starting to get angry. He wondered if the girl with a tiger tattoo would mind if he cook himself something from her fridge. A growl from his stomach made him decided. He opened the door of the fridge and fined it half full. He smirked realizing he would have say lately half empty. He looked through it and settled on a steak and some freeze bean. As he was taking them out of the fridge the front door opened.
"I knew it!" shouted the tiger tattoo girl. Hyde looked at her with a questioning look. "I knew you would stall from my fridge."
"I do need to eat" She came at him and snatch the food from his hands and put it back in the fridge before taking out a saucepan cover with greaseproof paper.
She took the paper off and light up the gas, "We finish the leftover first." And put the sauce pan one the fire. "Also you might need this." She hand him a pair of sunglasses and a black man T-shirt.
He took them gladly and put them on. Way better that way. Then he asked her "Doesn't bother your boss that you're not at work?"
"I took an afternoon off. I can I've never took any."
As they were eating Steven told her about the shops and the fact that he hadn't quit one of them.
"Well you still need a job…" she said sounding a bit disappointed.
They kept eating in silence until Hyde broke it. "Anna, who-"
"Anna Mae" she cut him "My name's Anna Mae"
"Anna Mae. Whom does the second room belong to?"
"My best friend, she's not here right now but she'll come back." When the wife of her boyfriend will
"When?" she raze her shoulder "Can I take her-"
"No." he stared at her "She doesn't like when uninvited boys come to her room"
"Fine." He went back to eating until another question popped in his mind "How are you planning on bringing me back to my old self?"
"Hum… Well…" she took a few minutes to think, then smirked "I know the first thing we need to do."
Drum roll
They were now sitting on the floor on a two-person circle smoke all around them.
"I know why I've became like that!" exclaimed Hyde "The government have find a way by subliminal image to persuade me that I wanted more money and force to work more so that I will not hamper they're plan!"
"If that's not you're older self I dunno what it is." Said the girl laughing.
Later one as they had regained a full mind state. They were drinking beers at the counter of kitchen when Steven re-asked her what she had plan for him. She answered that she needed more information to figure it out.
"I understand that the end of Led Zepplin was quit hard to take but" she pause "they must be something more."
Hyde thought about it. "They're not the only one who disappeared, John Lennon then Marley… and the dam studio 54 re-open" he sighed "I felt like we had lost to Disco… have we?" he had stop listening to music after losing hope.
"No we haven't lost yet. Yes we lose a great group and a great singer" who cares 'bout Lennon " But we've gain great things like Metallica, War of U2, Synchronicity, and there's that chick who sang us an anthem. Plus we've won battle for instance Alan Parker made The Wall, a three days rock festival in California, more than 500 000 person came to see the Rolling Stone at central park. And Sexual Healing!" Oh sexual healing! "No Rock'n'Roll isn't dead. He will never die." Or I'll die with him
Hyde felt hope rising in him but "I haven't seen The Wall, I haven't listen to Metallica, War, Synchronicity, I have no idea what sexual healing or the anthem you're talking about could be."
" The anthem is I Love Rock'n'Roll by Joan Jett" the look he gave her told her he had no idea what she was talking about. She sighed and got up. She walked to her record player took a record out of a box full of many, and put it on.
They were a drum roll then the guitars and bass came alone and a woman started singing
"I saw him dancing there by the record machine,
I knew he most of been about seventeen,
The beat was going strong,
Playing my favourite sooooong.
She started walking back him.
And I can tell it wouldn't be long till he was with me, yeah me!
And I can tell it wouldn't be long till he was with me, yeah me! Singin'
She sat back in front of him. And start singing the refrain
I love rock'n'roll so put another dime in the jukebox baby!
I love rock'n'roll so come and take your time and dance with me!
Ow!
He understood why she called it an anthem
" So, sexual healing his a song by Marvin Gaye." She said
He smiled so I got up and asked for his name
"Who?"
That doesn't matter he said, 'Cause it's all the same
"Marvin Gaye"
I said can I take you home,
Where we can be alooone
Hyde though about the name, it didn't ring any bell. But he had the memory of his father mentioning it.
An' next we were moving on,
He was with me, yeah me
"No idea who that is."
Next we were mo-
"What!?" the tiger girl scream covered the music
… was with me, yeah me! Singin'
I lo-
"You have to be fucking kidding me!" she shouted and stood up. You have no idea how low you've just land in my esteem "You've own music store and you don't know who Marvin Gaye is!" she clench her fist.
I love rock'n'roll so come an' take your time an' dance with me!
"No I don't. So tell me who it is."
The guitar solo started.
"He's one of the greatest if not the greatest soul singer all time." Or simply the greatest singer all time.
Said can I take you home
where we can be aloooone
"A soul singer? Well I listen to rock"
Next we were movin' on he was-
"All the rock'n'roll musician has been inspired by soul music and especially by Marvin Gaye! Both soul and rock come from jazz and bleus they're half brothers!"
Hyde stared at her, he no idea what she was talking about from him everything started with rock'n'roll.
An' we'll be movin' on, an' singin' that same old song, Yeah with me, singin
The girl with a tiger tattoo passed her hand on her face and shook it.
I love rock'n'roll so put another dime in the jukebox baby
"I must completely re-do your musical education doesn't I?"
I love rock'n'roll so come an' take your time an' dance with me
"Seem like." He answered
I love rock'n'roll so put another dime in the jukebox baby
I love rock'n'roll so come an' take your time an' dance with
I love rock'n'roll so put another dime in the jukebox baby
I love rock'n'roll so come an' take your time an' dance with
I love rock'n'roll so put another dime in the jukebox baby
I love rock'n'roll so come an' take your time an' dance with me
This was going to be complicated, may Jimi help her in this task. "You've never wondered where rock came from?" He shook his head no. " For short let say Rock'n'roll is bleus made by jazz band and soul is a mix of gospel and rhythm and blues. You know what gospel and rhythm and bleus are?"
Hyde felt offend by that Remarque "Of course I do! Who the fuck you think I am!?"
The girl with a tiger tattoo grinned when she heard him say 'fuck'. Little piece by little piece. "Alright, came down. I didn' mean t' offend you." She got up "You know… I think we're on the good track."
Hyde silently agreed. Yesterday at that moment he was combing through accounting files and now here he was having a lecture about music while drinking beers.
"Anyway" she said clapping her hand "S' already 8 p.m. we should be at a bar." And she walked out Hyde following her.
They went out of the building in which she lived, walk down the street and she stop and open a black deuce coupe. She got in while Steven simply froze and stare. Notice he wasn't climbing in she went open the window.
"You' coming o' not?"
Hyde body finally allow him to move, he pointed the car. "That's your car?!"
"No I've just climbed in for fun!"
He made his way in the car. As he sat he notice that they were no key and the wire coming out of under the steering wheel. He looked at her.
"What?" she asked coldly. Steven bothered to be in a stolen car, seriously.
"Nothing" he said and turned his head to the road. She hatched the wire and the car started.
They arrived to a downtown bar in which rock music was screaming like crazy. The tiger girl walk to the bar and state at the counter, Hyde did the same.
"Hey Jack bring me two draft beer!" she shouted at the barman that was at the other side of bar talking to a customer.
He immediately serve them as he brought them they're drinks he told them. "Hey Krieger you're usually here early. Ho hey man!" he said noticing Hyde "good to see you."
Hyde stared at him he had no idea who that man could be. "Last night he helped me bring you back to my place." Stated the girl with a tiger tattoo.
"Man you don't remember me! Well it's true you were a bit drunk but dam we had fun."
"Hum… thanks man… I guess." He answered uneasy.
"You should drink that pint 'cause fuck you need to relax." Said the tiger girl.
He did as he was told. The night went on and they stay at the bar keeping drinking and talking to the different people coming in. At some point the song 'Girl's got rhythm' and the girl with tiger tattoo jump on a table to dance. Her moves were fast, wild and full of energy. Hyde and probably all the man and lesbian in the room could say that the way she moved her waist was fucking hot.
But even if most of the audience enjoy or join the show they were a woman who didn't really liked the way her boyfriend was looking at Anna Mae. What was meant to happen happened. The woman jump on the tiger girl and pined her to the ground then started giving her punch to which she answered with a kick right in the belly that send the woman against the table on which she was previously dancing. The woman hadn't say her last word and frown her self at tiger girl who grab her by the neck and frown her on the counter that she overfly to fall on the floor unmoving. Now her boyfriend was piss of and gave the girl a punch that she gave back. As she was whipping the bleed under her nose a friend of the back, she immediately started to struggle but couldn't break free. The guy that had first attacked her took a bottle and break it against the counter, as he was coming to her Steven tackled him to the ground. The man tried to stab him but Hyde was holding strongly on his wrist. That's when Jacks decided to split the fight, he took Hyde by the back of his T-shirt and hold the to man from each other.
"In off! All of you out!" he shouted. The guy let go of the girl with a tiger tattoo, and the other one walked out. Hyde was ready to do the same when the barman said "Krieger. Back door."
She started walking to the back door and made sine to Hyde follow her.
Now in the alley behind the bar, the tiger girl took out a packet of cigarette she took one and hand the packet to Steven. He hesitated before taking one. She took out her Zippo and light her cigarette then his.
"Sorry Jacks" she said to the barman that was standing against the bar backdoor.
"S' alright this time you didn't break a window." They both chuckled "I should go back inside before I got rob. See you guys soon."
She waved him and smile.
"So it doesn't bother him that we got into a fight in his bar."
"No he's cool."
They kept smoking quietly until they had finished their cigarette. They both crushed them under their feet and went to the car. As they were driving back to the apartment the girl said. "Thanks" Hyde looked at her weirdly "For the hand earlier"
"It was nothing." He said, she smiled at him.
After that night he had a new nickname for her: the tigress.
AN/ Thank you for reading. I hope you haven't frown up everything you had eat because the low level of this fic.
Hum… tell me if you like it. I know there isn't much happening well I mean in the evolution of the story but I'm still settling the thing so… well tell me what you think.
If you don't know who Marvin Gaye is go listen to him. Now.