Chapter 11: Tying up loose ends

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Psymon peaked into Zoe's room, she was sound asleep. He looked at her resting peacefully, her skin was still a little red and blotchy around her eyes from letting herself have a good cry about Moby, but otherwise she looked almost angelic... in a Zoe kind of way. Psymon quietly walked to the front door and put his coat on and laced up his black Doc Martin boots. It was a little after one in the morning, and Psymon had to go and have a talk with a certain someone. He pulled his hood up over his head and faced the wind and snow. The bar was not far from the housing lodges and within moments he was kicking snow off his boots in the doorway. He walked into the lounge of the bar, everyone was there, except of course Zoe who was asleep at home, and Grif since he was just a kid. Everyone else was doing their own thing, playing pool, slamming back shots, watching the recap on television.
"Well look 'ho we got 'ere!" Psymon recognized the voice, exactly who he was looking for. Moby stumbled over to Psymon, he held a rocks glass in his hand with what appeared to be some type of whiskey that slid around in the glass. The room went relatively silent from Moby's shout.
"Moby I want to talk to you, in private if we can." Psymon spoke calmly but let Moby know he meant business. Moby looked at Psymon in a belittling fashion.
"You wanna talk to me? Piss off!" Moby laughed as Mac came up beside him and Marisol on his other side. He put his arm around Marisol as if to show her off. "'ave ya met me new woman? Since I kicked that bitch to the curb an' all." Moby's shouts had drawn a lot of attention while Marisol and Mac laughed drunkenly. Psymon didn't want to do this with everyone watching, but now he had no choice.
"Moby, I saw the bruise on her arm, and I saw the black eye." Moby waved Psymon away.
"Piss off." They turned their backs to walk away, Psymon put his hands on his hips and looked down at the floor nodding to himself. He allowed Moby to take one step before he reached out and grabbed his shoulder.
"No I don't think I'm ready to yet, you're going to listen to what I have to say." Moby handed his drink to Mac.
"Ooh, you're going to listen to what I 'ave to say! I'M Simon Morgan!" Moby strutted about in a mocking fashion, "I'm not Psymon Stark anymore! I'M Simon Morgan, I don't like to cause trouble, I just want to be everyone's friend, look at me, I'M Simon Morgan and you're going to listen to what I 'ave to say!" Psymon nodded some more while he stared down at the floor, tightening his lips together. "I was out for five years, so now that I'm back I 'ave to be the nice guy because I don't want people to be mad at me. I left my sister for five years and now I 'afta make up for it by 'ugging 'er and cuddling 'er every minute of the day! Uh oh Moby, you gave my bitch of a sister a black eye-" Moby's sentence was cut short by Psymon's right fist slamming hard into his face. In one quick straight right punch Psymon knocked Moby flat on his back and out cold. Psymon shook his shoulder and cracked his knuckles before putting his hands back in his pockets.
"That's all I wanted to say, nice talking to ya... mate." Psymon said calmly as he turned to walk back out the door. The silence was broken before he reached the door by Eddie shouting a loud 'yeah!' which caused the rest of the room to laugh, with the exception of Marisol and Mac, who were tending to an out cold Moby. Psymon looked over his shoulder and laughed with them. Eddie then got a few people to start clapping with him. Psymon shook his head with a laugh and gave a mock bow to his audience and walked out the door.

He took several steps out into the snow when he heard her call for him.
"Psymon!" He turned to see Elise daintily hopping through the snow where it was shallowest. "I just wanted to say, after what you did today at the track, helping with Grif and all." She adjusted herself once she reached him, he could smell a faint odor on her, letting him know that she probably was not entirely sober. "And then, what you just did in there to Moby because of what he did to Zoe." She laughed as she almost literally threw herself at him, he kept his hands in his pockets while she put her arms around his shoulders. "I'll just let you know, I believe you're changed now. Now why don't you come inside and have a few drinks with me and I can forgive you personally?" Psymon nodded and removed her arms from his shoulders.
"I appreciate it Elise, but I'm afraid I'll have to pass." Elise looked insulted. "Don't get me wrong, you're hot and all, and if the situation was different I may take you up on that offer, but right now there's only enough room for one special girl in my life, at least until I get used to all of this." He turned away and left her slack jawed in the snow. "Thanks anyways though." he said over his shoulder.

Psymon tossed the last backpack into the backseat of his car and slammed the rear door shut. He then checked the roof racks, making sure their bikes were firmly in place. Atomika had come to see them off, or try to talk them into not leaving, either way he was there. Zoe handed Atomika their keys to the lodge and gave him a hug.
"We'll be back, I promise." Atomika nodded sadly while he watched Zoe get into the front passenger seat of Psymon's car. Psymon walked over to Atomika, looking at the lodge.
"So you guys absolutely must leave?" he asked Psymon. Psymon nodded.
"Not for too long, maybe just three or four months, we have a lot of catching up to do though." Atomika nodded with a defeated smirk.
"So where will you go?" he asked, trying to not sound upset that he was losing two of his highest attracting snowboarders for the rest of the current circuit.
"Back home." Psymon said with a smile. "Back to Alberta, beautiful mountain biking in the summertime. We've been gone for so long, it's almost scary to go back to see what will have changed."
"Well, you're no stranger to coming back." Atomika said calmly, Psymon nodded.
"Yeah, I guess you're right. But anyways." Psymon and Atomika shook hands. "We appreciate you giving us this time off." Atomika smiled.
"Just don't let me catch you at any other snowboard circuits." They both laughed and released hands.
"It's a deal." The sound of Psymon's horn honking brought their attention to Zoe, who still sat in the passenger seat of the car.
"Well, Mr. Morgan, I guess this is so long." Psymon nodded and walked to the car. He sat in the driver seat and looked over at his little sister, who had actually managed to work her black eye into her makeup.
"Well, are we off?" Zoe asked, excited that for the first time in years she was going on a road trip with her brother, not Stark, but her brother. Psymon nodded and started the car and began to pull out to the road that would lead them to the highway.
"Yeah, let's go home."

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