BoonDocks FanFiction

Carina Hawkins Presents:

"Oxygen"

Chapter 11: She's Out Of My Hands

In this life, you never know what moments could be your last. That's why it's best to make the most of it. For years of ones life, they seem to take advantage of what have been given to keep. Cherish that thing you were given, for you never know when the sudden brush with death will be your last.

Even with the blood splatters on the once cheerful walls, the people that had witnessed the massacre that had befallen them, had sobbed. They sobbed in thankful hopes that they were still living. Sobbing with greef of the two who had been wounded. Sobbing in hope that may will never have to witness something so bloody again. Running through their minds as they inspect the fresh, maroon colored liquid that stained the friendly carpet. "Mommy, d-did those two p-people died?" A little blond boy would gently tug on his mother's long white skirt that had been splattered with blood; for she was the woman who was sitting in the table behind Riley, when he had been shot.

The troubled mother looked down to her nearly heartbroken child and placed and shaky hand on the top of the boy's head. "I-I'm not really sure sweetheart." Her voice was a cross between sadness and want. "I hope they are honey...I hope they are. God protect them." The woman whispered while a soft and lonely tear slid down her pale cheek and dripped off of her chin. The water drop fell and mixed with the puddle of blood beneath her shoes.

Police Sirens pierced through the night air like a knife to butter. So loud that they could be heard a mile or so on the same side of the road pulled to the left or right allowing the cars with flashing lights to speed by like bats out of hell.

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Two.

Lights of the red and blue hue colored the inside of the black shadow cars illuminating the semi frightened faces. Whispers among the drivers were possibilities of what might have happened. "I heard it was gang violence." One driver whispered. "It's probably those new niggers that moved into the mansion down the way." An elderly lady said with a look of disgust. Rolling her blood shot green eyes, she shook her head making her snow white hair bounce. "This is why niggers shouldn't be allowed to leave their shacks.

"MOTHER!" The driver woman shouted looking to the elder. "Shut. The. Hell. Up." Averting her younger green eyes, she looked toward the read and blue lights gripping the leather steering wheel tighter.

"We're losing him!" A red haired medic said sending electric charges through Riley's limp body. He would rub the metal paddles together and press them against Riley's bare chest. "CLEAR!" He yelled and suddenly, Riley's body jerked upward then relaxed back down. The blood from his wound was still drenching the white cot below him with red pain. The EKG machine had sounded with a long beep sound that sounded like a dog whistle. A long white line slid across the green screened box. "Up the levels!" The man ordered. "We are not losing a young life tonight!" This medic was determined to save Riley's young life. "Clear." Another jolt shock was sent running through the boy's aching body. The sound of his hidden heart beat was ringing through the back of the car. "One. More. Shock."

In Riley's black mind, everything seemed to go slow. Time, moving, voices. It all stopped.

"Riley..." his own tin foiled name rang through his ear drums. "Riley please wake up!" To his unconscious mind, it was only an echo of the voice he use to know. "For the love of God Riley please!" But, it sounded like a distress call. His eyelids fluttered open like a new born child's. His brown eyes took in the white walls making his eyes hurt a bit. Riley's head was aching but not as much as the gun shot wound located above his navel. The lightening like pain shot through his limbs causing his to groan a bit.

"Boy, you betta open them eyes and stop causing this little baby so much pain." Roberts voice rang out.

"Damn Granddad." Riley groaned. "You can't even let a nigga sleep in peace when he's been shot...damn."

Seani felt the stinging of her tears flood down her cheeks. "Oh, RiRi!" She cried and laid on his body wrapping her shaky arms around his neck. Riley grunted a bit because she had landed on his wound. "S-Sorry RiRi." She sat up. Reaching up toward her with his shaking hand, Riley gently touched her freezing cheek. "I love you RiRi." She choked out. Riley would move over slowly a bit so she was able to lay beside him as they cuddled. Lifting his first layer of blanket, he allowed her to get under the warmth and hold her close to him. Gently, he would run his fingers through her dark hair.

"Shhh, I know Seani." He whispered as she closed her eyes. His warmth felt good on her cold skin.

Seeing that he was intruding in a certain moment, Robert took a chance to escape the room to go flirt with the nurses.

Big brown eyes of shock and fear watched through a one way mirror. He observed the surgeons as they sliced through Lala's wound. Ripping her once lovely tan skin. Slicing every which way with a sharp, silver blade. Blood splattering around; on the surgeons, on the floor, and on the walls. Huey stared in shock, gripping his thick afro as tears streamed down his cheeks. It was like a river had over flowed in his eyes and leaked heavily until it dripped off of his perfect chin. Gripping his hair tighter, he pulled slightly until his head began to ache. Finally coming to his anger and pain, he banged on the window. "Save her Goddammit!" He shouted. Banging on the bullet proof glass with his fist, he crumpled to the ground. "Save her..." Sitting on his knees and leaning his forehead onto the white wall, he sobbed heavily. "If there is a God...just please let her live." The world around him was cracking without her. Shattering like a newly broken mirror showing a demonic reflection.

"HUEY!" Ethan shouted and ran over to the sobbing boy. "Where are my daughters!?" Ethan reached down and gripped Huey's bloody shirt pulling him upward toward him. "Where are MY children!"

"Seani's with Riley in D65 ad Lala's in there if you would open your fuckin' eyes you would see!" Huey shouted back in his face. Ethan released Huey and walked toward the glass window. Peering inside, he noticed his little girl on the operating table. His green eyes wide with fright and terror.

"Oh my God!" He shouted and turned to Huey. "What did you do to my baby!?" He shouted once more.

"Some man tried to rob the restaurant we were at and he shot my brother and Lala!" Huey argued. Ethan placed a hand on his own forehead and sat down on the ground leaning back against the wall. "By the time I wanted to do something, they were both on the ground bleeding to death. Lala got shot trying to save Seani." Huey's voice was straining. Suddenly, they heard the metal door open to reveal a blood soaked surgeon. Huey and Ethan's eyes wandered to him for a moment.

"I'm sorry." the man's voice was pitiful and hurt. "Her wound was to deep."

Hearing that his lover was gone,Huey stumbled backwards and fell to the dirty, tiled ground in shock. Shaking his head is disbelief, his river like tears began to run down his cheeks again. the color in his face flushed away as if he had just seen a ghost. "No...No!"

Ethan's mouth dropped open and tears flooded down his pale cheeks, dripped from his chin. He was at a loss for words. Jumping up quickly, he grabbed the doctor by his arms and shook him once. "YOU HAVE TO HELP HER!" He shouted.

"I'm sorry sir, there is nothing more we can do." He looked deep into the distraught man's eyes. "She's gone."

"NO!" Ethan objected. "She's my daughter! She can't die!" He argued back in a hurt voice. "She'd barely begun to live Goddammit!" His grip on the doctor began loose and shaky as the man in green scrubs walked back into the room. As Ethan looked through the foggy window, he noticed a woman placing a white sheet over his once happy daughter's limp body. The sheet bent and folded to shape to her body. He could see her bloody right hand fall from under the white sheet and become unmasked as if it were levitated above the ground. It dangled, lifeless, her palm facing him with her gentle fingers slightly closed into a fist. Red liquid dripped from her finer tips and bleaching the white floor below her. Her body as limp as a black dahlia. "You're a fucking doctor! Help her!" He shouted through the glass. His aching hands pounding profusely on the surface.

Huey's heart dropped into the pit of his empty stomach. The blood in his veins pulsed once then stopped. It froze over like he was in Alaska in nothing but his own skin. Turning to face the wall, he placed his palms on the rough surface and cried as hard as he could. Dragging his nails down the white, he nearly screamed but held it in.

Seani pushed herself up from the bed. The exhausted Riley had fallen asleep in the middle of their warm cuddling. Smiling, she slowly turned over and swung her legs lightly, touching her feet to the ground. Standing upward, she began to tip toe toward the door and crept Into the hallway. Looking down toward the O.R area, she noticed her dad banging on the glass window. Squinting a bit, she broke out into a run toward her distressed father. "Dad, what's wrong?" She placed both of her warm hands on his cold ones and cupped them gently.

Ethan stared at his green eyed daughter and silently pulled her into a sobbing embrace. "Seani," He sobbed into her neck. "Lala is..." His words were nothing but air as he tried his hardest to speak them. "Lala is d-dead Seani." Seani felt her entire body bleed out the warm Riley had given her. Her heart nearly stopped.

"N-No..Dad this isn't funny!" She pulled away from him. "If this is a joke to teach me and La a lesson it isn't funny!" Seani began to beat her fists on his chest but all Ethan could do was watch in horror and sadness at his youngest and only daughter's reply. "YOU'RE A LIAR!" She screamed, letting tears stream from her now hazy green eyes. Forcefully pushing her father away, she would run into the OR without an permission. Seeing her sister's body under the white sheet, she would grab the nearest scalpel and put it to her own wrists. Before the cold blade could pierce her pale skin, her father grabbed her wrists from behind and held them over her head. "LET ME GO!" Seani kicked and screamed. "I WANT TO GO WITH HER!" It was pointless struggling in her father's grip.

"SEANI!" He shouted making the thrashing girl go still. "I am not going to lose you to Seani!" Seani's eyes shot open and she felt her body slowly fall to her aching knees. Her hands releasing the captured tool, allowing it to skim across the bloody floor. Placing her hands in a puddle of blood, she hung her head and sobbed for what seemed like an eternity. Realizing she was sitting in her sister's straying blood, she laid her body down letting her close be stained with maroon pain. Ethan placed a hand on his forehead and turned away from the gruesome scene. The scent that belong to her twin escaped into her nose. The scent she had grown to know and love, until it settled and vanished like the wind. "S-Seani get up...now." Ethan bent down, wrapping his fingers around Seani's upper arm. He would pull her up and into his arms. He was carrying her bridal style, close to his bruised chest. A liquid of a maroon hue dripped off of Seani's clothing and pale skin, leaving a trail behind them as Ethan carried her out of the OR and down the hall.

Huey sat on the hospital floor with his knees pulled to his chest and a wet stain of tears on his jeans. Huey Freeman wasn't the type of person you would see crying at any moment. He had a heart of stone that only Lala was able to pierce through. "There is no God..." He mumbled into his arms. Pushing himself up from the floor, he felt as if he were about to collapse any moment. Shoving his hands in his pockets, he strolled shaking over to his brother's resting room. Slowly, turning the handle, he pushed the door open and walked in on his laughing brother. Riley was watching Maury on television. "Riley..." Huey whispered.

Noticing his brother, he quickly turned the TV off and turned to him. "Sup Nigga.?" Riley's expression changed once he noticed the tear stains on his brother's chocolate cheeks."Damn bro,"Riley said sitting up. "What the hell happened to you Nigga?" Huey was silent as he walked over to his brother's bed and took a seat on the edge. "Huey, what's wrong?"

Taking a deep breath, Huey looked to his brother. "Lala didn't make it..."

Riley's brown eyes widened in shock. "No way dude..."

"Her wound was to deep and pierced through a major organ...so she died on the table." Huey tred his best to speak but was choking on his own words.

Riley sat back in his bed and placed his hands over his face. "I'm sorry Bro..." He whispered. Huey simply laid back horizontal to his brother. "Aye, Huey, if it makes ya feel any better...I'm sure she was holding on long enough because of you..."

"Yeah..." Huey crossed his arms over his eyes trying to imagine what Lala must look like as an angel.

"How's Seani?" Riley asked staring hard at the ceiling.

"Torn apart...she tried to kill herself next to La." Huey confessed painfully.

"Shit..." Riley gripped the white sheets below him. "She didn't do it right?" There was panic in his voice.

Shaking his head, Huey replied, "Nah." Huey turned his head to his brother for a moment. "After college, Riley, I was gonna ask La to move in with me..." He started. "I've been savin' up money for an apartmeant and a ring for her. I mean, we haven't even been datin' that long but I fell in love with her the first day I saw her..." Huey felt tears well up in his eyes once more. The slid down the sides of his pained eyes and vanished in his jungle of thick hair. "But, non of that shit matters anymore cuz she's gone." He sat up and put his face in his shaking hands.

"Nah, bro, she ain't gone," Riley sat up and placed a hand on his broken brother's shoulder. "Trust me, if there's anything I learn over the years of being a complete dumbass is that that person you lovin' ain't ever gone...they just in your heart ya know?" For a moment, the two were silent. "But did you ever notice how trouble seems to follow us around whereva we be goin'?"

"Riley, I don't think I can watch them put her in the ground..." He sobbed looking at his brother. "I'm not gonna let her go that easy...I love her so much."

"I know bro, but i'll be right there next to you." Riley smiled his best. Suddenly, Riley felt his brother's body against him as he embraced him in a heartbroken hug. "Don' worry Huey, ima be right there for ya and I ain't gonna go no where. I promise."