Chapter 12
Gary entered the tenements. He had been there a lot over the past few days making sure it was suitable for his 'meeting' with jimmy. He knew it would be clear, the greasers stopped using this place when the top floor had been partially demolished by a sledgehammer, not to mention the smell from the rotting wood and numerous items that had been discarded into the tenements by the residents of Bullworth.
Gary managed to reach the fire escape that led to the roof. Once he reached the top he stopped and took in the view.
'the world can be so beautiful at times too bad its infested with rodents' he remarked as he looked down to see the residents walking the pavement. Gary looked at the time. 'They should be here soon' he thought to himself as a smile etched on his face.
Jimmy and Pete were making there way quickly towards there destination.
"I told Russell to meet us round here…but I can't see him wait he's over there lifting that old man off his feet" Pete said with not much surprise in his voice.
They ran over towards the disturbance.
"RUSSELL NOT A DUMBASS, RUSSELL SQUASH YOU" roared Russell.
"Hey Russell what say you put the guy down I'm sure he's very sorry about what he said" said jimmy calmly trying to diffuse the situation.
"Yeah yeah I'm real sorry didn't mean a word of it didn't know why I even said it please don't hurt me" the old man panicked.
"Okay Russell let man go" Russell said as he placed the man down who quickly scurried off once he was free of the giants grasp.
"Russell you have got to learn to control your anger…now lets go kick Gary's ass." Jimmy stated.
"We should be careful Jim Gary said he wanted to see you alone he might not like seeing backup" Pete said nervously as they approached the tenements.
"Come on Pete what's he going to do"
At that moment a brick fell and smashed very close to the three. They all looked up and could just make out the silhouette of Gary.
"Hello James come on in parties on the top floor I'm afraid the other two will have to wait outside there not on the guest list"
"Screw you Gary there coming with me whether you like it or not"
"Okay suit yourself if you're willing to take the risk"
"Jimmy I'm not sure about this it could be really dangerous in there"
"Don't sweat it Pete there's nothing in there that can seriously hurt"
Just then they heard a loud bang from the second floor.
"Whoops looks like one of my traps went off prematurely I should have been more careful using that mixture." Gary shouted down with a sick sense of glee.
Jimmy noticing Pete face of horror remarked.
"On second thoughts maybe you should stay down here and call the ambulance for Gary after we are finished. You still coming Russell?"
"RUSSELL BREAK NECK FOR JUSTICE" he roared.
On the roof Gary smiled 'this is going to be fun.'
Jimmy and Russell approached the window that jimmy had used to gain entry to the tenements before. After quickly checking to make sure it hadn't been booby trapped. Opened it and went in they first challenge was getting Russell through it but the big guy simply knocked the frame off and he could fit through much easier.
The two walked cautiously throughout the building. Carefully looking round each corner to make sure it was safe, they reached the first set of steps the first floor was trap free. This made jimmy nervous what was Gary planning. They reached the second floor and jimmy peered into a room that seemed bright and saw the walls covered in a mixture and a small fire near the corner, nothing too dangerous at the moment but it could spread. Jimmy realised this was the malfunctioning trap. It struck jimmy as odd that Gary would set up a trap like this in a room of no importance. It was almost as if he hadn't planned on using it to hurt jimmy, 'maybe he wants me to make it to the top' he thought to himself as he wondered towards the second stairs deep in thought, carelessly.
"JIMMY LOOK OUT" Russell shouted.
Jimmy looked up and noticed he was standing under the giant whole in the floor from upstairs and Gary was standing at the edge next to a large pile of items, he was grinning as he kicked the pile off the edge.
Jimmy was hit by a force but it wasn't the pile but by Russell who knocked him out of harms way, but was hit by the pile himself.
Jimmy ran over to see if Russell was okay, he was lying on the floor and jimmy could see some blood but he was still conscious.
"Are you okay are you hurt?" jimmy said in shock
"Russell don't feel so good?"
"Hang in there. Russell we will get you some help soon."
Russell passed out, but was still breathing, but he would need medical assistance soon.
Jimmy walked over the area below the whole and looked up at Gary who still had an evil grin plastered on his face.
"WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING GARY, YOU COULD HAVE KILLED HIM?"
"that wasn't my intention I just wanted him out the way, for now I hardly thought it was fair for you to have the bear on your side it would have made our little final showdown a lot less fun."
"You're a sick psychopath Gary"
"Tell me something I don't know."
"I'm gonna kill you"
"Yeah sure whatever if you don't mind Jim could you hurry up so we can get this over with ive got other things to do so if you could just run up those stairs and up the fire escape and meet me on the roof that would be great" Gary said whilst look at his watch.
Gary turned and headed towards the roof, whilst jimmy looked up at him in anger before taking a last look at Russell and heading towards the stairs.
