Shake-Up In Sparta
by Taijutsudemonslayer
A "unique" resident piques LuAnn's interests
Chapter One
Life in rural Sparta, Mississippi never really appealed to Annalee Surley, hence why she left the sleepy little town to join the Air Force, where she served as a Medical Transport Pilot until June of 1989. Now, at the age of thirty-two Annalee has come back home, with her short blonde hair cut in the "High and Tight" style didn't look feminine at all, many citizens of Sparta who knew her and the Surely family were stunned by Annalee's boyish appearance.
Annalee sighed as she walked up to her family's plantation, the family's longtime Maid, Claire Hammer answered the door, she looked at Annalee with a confused look on her face.
"Yes?" the woman said, her time-worn features still radiant.
"Miss Claire it's me, Annalee." Annalee says.
A look of total shock registers on the dark skinned woman's face.
"Lord child, what have you done to yourself?" Claire asked.
The joy that Annalee had felt all but vanished as her parents, Dixie and Gregory Surley came out of the living room,
"Claire, who was at the door?" Gregory asks.
"Miss Annalee, Sir."
At the sound of his daughter's name Gregory's head shot up, catching sight of his Daughter, though she looked much different from the last time he and his Wife, Dixie had seen her before she left to go into the Air-Force.
"Annalee."
He motions for Claire to let Annalee come in, which she does.
"How have you been, Annalee darlin'? It's been a long time." Dixie says to her Daughter.
Annalee doesn't respond to her Mother, instead, she turned to her Father, fixing him with her steel gaze.
Gregory clears his throat before beginning.
"Annalee, do you know the Mason family?" he asked.
"I do." she answers.
"Martha and Joseph have a Son, Carter, he's a Brick Mason working for his Father, he's also the star quarterback at Mississippi State."
Annalee is looking at her Father with an arched eyebrow.
"How does that concern me?" Annalee asks, shocking both of her parents.
"Carter is a fine young man, quite handsome actually. He's gonna make some young lady a fine husband." Dixie says knowingly.
"No, out of the question, Mother." Annalee quipped harshly, shifting her hard gaze to her Mother.
"And why not pray tell?" Gregory asks.
"Well, if you must pry into my personal life Father, I don't fancy the romantic company of a man," Annalee says with a heavy sigh before continuing. "I prefer to be romantic and intimate with women."
Annalee then turned and walked out of her parent's house as her Mother was sobbing uncontrollably and her Father tries and fails to console his distraught Wife.
Annalee sighed as the bartender placed a glass of Scotch on the rocks in front of her, Annalee quickly downed the drink, before setting the empty glass down on the bar and ordering a double shot of whiskey, soon, one glass of whiskey had turned into four glasses and another Scotch on the rocks.
Annalee sighed as she attempted to drown her sorrows in cheap whiskey and scotch when six men, including Carter Mason enter the bar and immediately make their way over to the bar where Annalee was sitting.
"Hey there, little lady, you're in my seat." one of Carter's friends says.
Annalee glances back at the man and rolls her eyes at him before returning her attention to her drink, undaunted, the man stupidly persists in hounding the blonde. He roughly grabs Annalee's left shoulder.
"Do you fancy that arm of yours, buddy?" Annalee asks after putting glass down on the bar, before anyone can speak, Annalee delivers a quick elbow strike to the man's face, breaking his nose. He let go of Annalee's shoulder, springing into action, Annalee took the man down with a Fujiwara Armbar and painfully broke his right arm.
"Stevie!" a woman screams, then the other two men attempted to attack Annalee and were each painfully dispatched, leaving Carter as the only member in his group to still be standing.
"Look, we're sorry OK, all we wanted was our favorite spots at the bar, you didn't have to react so violently-." Carter said, but he's cut off when Annalee charged him and delivered a brutal knee strike that broke his nose and knocked out three of his front teeth.
Ralph, the Bartender quickly called the station.
Sparta Police Officer, Sergeant Parker Williams was sitting at his desk waiting for the phone to ring, Bubba, LuAnn, Virgil, and Chief Gillespie are in the Chief's office talking about Virgil and his Wife Althea's upcoming anniversary plans.
Parker rushes into the Chief's office.
"Chief, Ralph, bartender over at the Mighty Rattlesnake says there's a bar fight going on, one woman is tangling with Stevie Lance and his friends."
"Ok, thank you Parker, tell Ralph that someone's on the way, hear?"
"Yes Sir." Parker says before rushing back to his desk.
"Bubba, you and LuAnn get over there and check things out and haul Stevie and his brew in here."
"Yes Sir, Chief." Bubba says before putting on his hat.
LuAnn and Bubba arrive at the Mighty Rattlesnake bar and head inside, when they got inside the two officers find six men lying on the floor in various positions of agony and the lone female sitting at the bar drinking a glass of beer.
"As I live and breath." LuAnn says, largely impressed.
"You said it, darlin'." Bubba says with a whistle.
LuAnn and Bubba get everyone's statements before taking Stevie, Annalee, and everybody else that was involved in the bar fight back to the station.
LuAnn has Annalee in handcuffs as she takes her into see the Chief first and to give him the eyewitness statements, no sooner had LuAnn, Bubba, and Annalee arrived at the station then Dixie and Gregory showed up.
LuAnn stood outside Gillespie's office as she waited for the interview to end, Virgil and Parker came up to her.
"Is it true that the girl in there took on six men by herself and won?" Virgil asks, not really believing what Bubba had told him.
"Apparently Detective." LuAnn replied.
"LuAnn, could you come in here and uncuff Miss Surley?" the Chief asked.
The ebony Officer went into the Chief's office and releases Annalee.
Then, it happened: LuAnn's eyes met Annalee's and there was a strange spark shared between the women in that brief glance.
LuAnn flashes Annalee a brief smile, which makes the blonde blush.
Just then, Martha and Joseph Mason stormed into the station, followed by three of their other Sons.