Chapter 7
Down at the docks of downtown Santa Marina, Flo and Charlie lie side by side. They had obviously been falling in love again, seeing as how they had always stayed close to each other. They lie asleep with Christi close, also asleep.
Charlie's dream.
"Charlie!" cried Anne-Marie, once again from the night of 1990. That's when he dropped her. Then he pictured himself screaming at Annabelle.
"It's all your fault, Annabelle!" screamed Charlie. "I had her in my paw and you killed us all!"
"Goodbye, Charlie." said Annabelle. "You will spend eternity on the other side...And if you would've took a different road, I might've let you spend eternity with a girl like Flo or someone that would've been in your future..."
"No, Annabelle! Please forgive me! I'm sorry!" begged Charlie getting closer. But Annabelle reached out, shook his shoulder (and he could actually feel it) and yelled "Charlie!"
Charlie woke up to find that Flo had actually called his name and was shaking him.
"What?" asked Charlie and then was terrorized by the fact that Christi was being kidnapped. "We gotta follow them!" he shouted as the people got in a silver 1971 Olds Cutlass Supreme SX.
Charlie saw a black 1992-95 Ford L9000 moving van.
"We'll drive that!" said Charlie.
Red light.
"Let's go for a drive!" Carface said from the driver seat of the Cutlass.
"No!" cried Christi.
Charlie and Flo got closer to the Cutlass, but they drove off.
"No!" shouted Charlie.
Charlie gained speed and drove up to the Cutlass keeping side by side with it.
"Hey, pal!" Carface said to Charlie.
"You!" said Charlie.
"My name's Carface, best pal!" said Carface, sarcastically and rammed the Cutlass into the side of the Ford.
Charlie closed his eyes and thought about Anne-Marie. "Annabelle, please help me."
He opened his eyes and realized why he was back on Earth. It was not to fall in love. It was not to make a girl feel better (although those things were within the mission). It was a chance to fix the mistakes he made a while ago. He would do whatever it took to turn it all around.
"Not this time, scum." said Charlie to himself about Carface. "Flo, take the wheel."
Charlie and Flo traded spots and Flo took the wheel while Charlie jumped onto the Cutlass, leaving the passenger side door open. Flo put her seatbelt on.
Charlie attacked Carface through the windshield.
"Jump into the truck, Christi!" said Charlie. "Trust me!"
Flo pulled back to the back seat doors.
Pink lightning struck the truck.
"Flo...I'm from Heaven..." Annabelle began. "Let go of the wheel and help her..."
Flo shook her head and scooted over to passenger side. The truck hadn't lost control. As a matter of fact, it seemed to be driving by itself.
She helped Christi get in the truck. The lightning went back into the sky and the two got their seatbelts on and the truck hit a ramp and rolledonto its right side and onto the roof and slid.
Next, the Cutlass went through guardrails and exploded onto rock.
Ford truck.
"My arm!" Flo whined. "Christi, are you okay?"
"Yeah." cried Christi.
Flo and Christi crawled out from the windows of truck.
Flo saw two flares near the guardrails. One was pink and the other was blue.
The blue one shot through the streets until it was gone and the pink one went down close to the ground and went at the speed of someone walking. The pink light disappeared as Charlie's angel appeared.
"Hi, sweetheart." he said sorrowfully. "I love you."
"I love you too." said Flo in the same tone.
"May I please have a goodbye kiss?" asked Charlie.
"Yes." Flo said with a tear running down her cheek.
So they kissed for the final time and Charlie turned back into the flare.
"Charlie...Please don't go!" Flo cried and begged.
As the flare he seemed upset and in an echoed tone he said "It's my time, sweetheart. I'll miss you. Maybe I'll get the chance to see you again."
The flare shot into the sky.
San Francisco.
Grey fingers tapped a big cigar side to side on a table.
"I know about something called Gabriel's Horn." said Carface.
"Good. Bring it to me in three years." Red said, smashing Carface in the face with a skillet, killing him.
A purple whippet smiled at the red cat through a window.
By 1995, changes were made on how it would be if one returned to Earth. They had to have devices for people to know existence of others. Charlie hadn't got to see Flo again...until '97.
THE END...I hope you liked the epilogues.
Whatever It Takes by Lifehouse
Burt Reynolds as Charlie B. Barkin
Dom DeLuise as Itchy Itchiford
Loni Anderson as Flo
Vic Tayback as Carface Curruthers
Charles Nelson Reilly as Killer
Melba Moore as Annabelle
George Hearn as Red
Judith Barsi as Anne-Marie
All other characters (except King Gator and Belladonna) made up by me.
SOUNDTRACK:
"Love Gets Me Everytime"
written and performed by Shania Twain
"The Only Exception"
written by Hayley Williams of Paramore
performed by Paramore & Charlie Sheen
"I Believe It's So Heavenly Here"
written by rocker54
performed by Charlie Sheen, Loni Anderson & Melba Moore
"Whatever It Takes"
written and performed by Lifehouse
