THE ONLY EASY DAY IS YESTERDAY
"The Journey of Jeremy Keller"
by OldScout
Richie found the group an abandoned store front not far from
the bar. Jeremy carried Mandy in and tended her wounds. He knew
she would heal, but figured it would be quicker and cleaner if the flaps
of scalp and skin were in their natural spots.
Richie knew the area, and wasn't covered with blood, so he
went out to get supplies. Mandy woke while he was gone, and Jeremy
helped her clean up as best he could.
"Did you get a hold of Ryan's friend?" Mandy asked as soon as
they settled down to wait for Richie.
Jeremy nodded, "We're to meet him tonight."
The woman drew a sharpening stone across the edges of her
sword. "I have other business to take care of tonight."
Jeremy turned and looked at his companion. "You know where
Lynx is?"
"I know how to find him."
"Great, we'll look for him after we meet with MacLeod, or
tomorrow when you've had time to rest."
Mandy smiled softly at Jeremy. And leaned toward him
"You've done so much, I don't know how I could ever thank you."
"We have to stick together." Jeremy replied looking at her as she
approached him. He never read her intention until it was too late, she
swung around quickly, thrusting her remaining dagger into his chest.
Jeremy grasped at the wound in his chest. He heard Mandy
speaking in his sudden darkness "I'm sorry, my friend, but this is
something I must do myself."
It was early evening at Fat Fred's and Mandy saw the large
biker she'd been talking to in the bar. He sat on a bench behind the
building, tinkering with his motorcycle. Mandy was standing next to
him before he saw her, then he practically had a heart attack when he
recognized her.
"Where the hell did you come from?" he demanded, jumping to
his feet.
"We have some unfinished business." Mandy replied.
His face had gone white. "I saw you get cut up going through
that window, and get shot by that bastard Lynx."
The woman smiled, "It wasn't as bad as it looked."
"I guess not. What do you want?" the man said taking a few
steps from the Mandy.
"You know what I want, I was hoping we could do this a lot
easier this time?"
"Your still going after Lynx, great, those two people he shot
today were friends of mine. You want him, you got him."
"Why don't you go after him then?" Mandy replied, suddenly
suspicious.
"He has a mean, bad-ass friend that nobody messes with." the
biker replied "I figured I'd just bide my time until I could get him
clean."
"So you'll send me after him instead, if I get him or his friend
gets me, you've got one problem taken care of." Mandy summed up the
situation with a smile.
He saw the amusement in her face and smiled too. "That about
covers it."
"As long as we understand each other."
The old garage the biker described was easy to find, and just as
easy to get in. Lynx was sitting in a corner of the garage that had been
set up as a living area. Torn and ratty furniture was strewn about in an
attempt at order. The man was seated at an old picnic table with
several guns spread out in front of him for cleaning.
It wasn't hard to sneak up behind Lynx, though he worked on
his weapons, he was still in shock from earlier that afternoon. Mandy
stood several paces behind him, then reached into her pocket and pulled
out a penny. The coined rolled silently out of her hand and clanked to
the cement floor.
Lynx jumped to his feet at the sound, pulling a gun at the same
time. Mandy stepped forward as Lynx moved and was quickly inside
his reach and smiled up at him. His eyes went wide at the sight of her
so close, then she stabbed him.
Mandy slid her dagger deep into the tall man who had killed her
family and did such awful things to her. She pulled up on the knife and
felt the man's guts spill out of the wound. The look on his face was that
of dumb founded shock, the shock that she had gotten to him so easily.
She looked at him as his life rolled out. "What a stench!" she
said in mock disgust at the gore. "What have you been eating?"
Pain was all he felt, lighting thrusting through his body bringing
pain to the very core of his being. Then light, with subsiding pain. He
woke up very uncomfortable, his arms were stretched over his head,
and his toes barely touched the ground. He hung from a chain in the
ceiling. Then a new sensation pressed though his temple, like a rush of
electricity.
"Welcome back." came a woman's voice.
The woman was in a casual squatting position, leaning back
against a near by wall. She held a large double edge sword out in front
of here, standing it straight up with tip to the floor. It looked like a
giant twin of the dagger she had thrown at him.
"What happened? I thought I was dead." He gasped, still feeling
the pain in his abdomen.
"Look down at yourself." Mandy replied with a grin, indicating
the bloody mess on and around him.
"My god." he whispered.
"You stupid child." Mandy taunted. "Jeremy and I both came
back, you never understood you couldn't kill us."
He looked at her blankly. She continued "Jeremy said your
friend is immortal, but he never told you you were too. Did he? What a
shame."
A glimmer of a light came on. "I'm immortal?" he finally
choked out.
"That's right, after you die for the first time, you never grow
older, never get sick, heal quickly, and never die."
He understood and accepted quickly, suddenly all of the pieces
fit together and his situation didn't look so bleak. He laughed. "Then
you can't kill me. So why don't you just cut me down and we'll go on
our separate ways, pretend this never happened."
The woman laughed back at him. "You don't understand, no
matter what I do to you, you'll survive. Every wound will hurt just as
much as before, only you'll always come back for more.
"By the way." She added "You can die, if I cut your head off."
The horror of the situation suddenly set in as he watched her
spin the sword in front of her. "What do you plan to do to me." he
stammered. "You can't do this, I have rights."
Mandy laughed. "What do I plan to do? I'm not sure yet, but I
did get a pizza." she motioned toward the kitchen area. A partially
eaten pizza lay on the table he'd been working at earlier. "I do know
one thing." she added "You'll die screaming, just like your girl friend
did."
to be continued............