Chapter two; Kill all which is evil.
The
next morning Lucy got out of bed her head spinning from the weirdest
dream ever.
Simone already sat at the breakfast table drinking
coffee. She looked as bad as Lucy herself did.
"How
uhm... was your drink?" Lucy asked
"The drink was
okay... Connor was fantastic." Simone replied dreamily.
"You
didn't!" Lucy put her cup down on the table and looked at
Simone who immediately knew what Lucy meant. "NO! Didn't what
do you take me for? Some hussy?"
Lucy looked at her sister.
"Well sorry but considering the dreams, ya never know."
"How
about you my dear dear Sister?" Simone said eying Lucy
"What?"
Lucy said
"I can see it in yer eyes. Spill!! Oh no need...
you kissed him!"
"How we think alike..." Lucy
said... "And now we're on the subject... Did you by any
chance..."
"Have a weird fucking dream? Aye I did. I heard
mom saying the prayer and the priest talking... and Connor."
Simone said dreamily by the last two words.
"Connor
what?" Lucy looked at Simone over the edge of her mug.
Simone
looked at her for a second. "Trust me mum, the prayer and the
priest is all the detail you want." She smiled before taking a
sip of her coffee.
"Well on that we are the same, but I
do think that my "details" would wig you out more."
Lucy smiled at the memory of her dream; she couldn't wait to see
him again.
"Hmm
I wonder." Simone said.
"I am hoping to see Connor
today. I know I know... but after my dream I have the feeling we are
allowed a life."
"Hmm maybe the PTB's (Powers that be)
finally got the point"
"Well
I have to say that they do owe us one, I mean we've done enough for
them." Simone lit a cigarette. "I say we use our PTB
advantage and go into town, maybe we'll run into the guys there."
Lucy confirmed with a smile.
Connor walked up to Murphy's door
a knocked on it, when his brother opened the door he looked sleepy
eyes and groggy. With out saying anything Connor walked in the door
and waited for his brother to put on his clothes.
After a while
they were outside walking towards the local cafe to get some
breakfast.
Murphy lit 2 cigarettes and handed one to Connor. "So
I had the weirdest fucking dream last night." He looked at
Connor.
"Aye as did I."
"Kinda
like the last one we had." They both said at the same time then
laughed.
"What do you suppose it means?"
"I
don't know but I have the weirdest feeling that we can have some
fun." Murph answered laughing
they ordered breakfast and
ate their food...
After
wards they decided to look up the man Simone had spoken about to see
if he didn't have a house they could rent.
Simone and Lucy
dragged the shopping they had done inside the house. Both of them
suffering from buyer's remorse, they had bought loads of stuff they
didn't need as compensation for swaggering round town without
running in to the guys.
There was a honk of a horn and their
landlord drove up to the gate and peered out his open window. "Hullo
girls, just popping by to tell you that you've got new neighbours.
I've rented out the house on the other side of the field." He
honked his horn again and then drove off.
"Uhm...
okay." Simone waved.
"Let's see who it is."
"Aye
okay..."
after 15 min walking they reached the house and saw two
man standing in front drinking what seemed like whiskedy, looking a
bit closer Simone saw who it were.
"Fuck me!"
Connor
whipped round and saw Simone standing with her hand covering her
mouth. He flashed a bright smile.
"Well
hello neighbour!" He waved to her as he walked up to her.
Murphy
felt his stomach give a jolt when he saw Lucy, she walked up to him
and threw him a smile. "Hiya were christening the place, want a
drink?" Murphy asked as he held up the bottle of whisky.
"Sure
ill have one, thanks." Lucy said thinking about their kiss.
"Oh
wait I have to go find a glass." Murphy said wanting to walk
off, Lucy stopped him and took his bottle from him. "No need."
She said and took a drink straight from the bottle.
Connor
looked deep into simone's eyes. "I had a dream about you
again." He said rubbing his own lip with his thumb.
"Me
too."
"It was ... interesting..." Connor said
walking up to her.
"Aye I know..." Simone grinned at the
thought of it.
Connor took her hand. "I am going to show her
the uhm garden!" Connor yelled at Murph and Lucy, who both
grinned and nodded.
"The garden ey?"
"Yeah
Simone is real into....flowers." Lucy said with a big
grin.
Connor led Simone round the house; as soon as they were
both out of view he pulled her close to him and kissed her.
"I've
been wanting to do that ever since I woke up." He said with his
hand at the side of her face.
Lucy looked at Murphy who in his
turn was till quite amazed to see a woman drinking from a bottle like
that.
"WHAT?" Lucy looked at him with question written
al over her face.
"You're..... Well something else that's
for sure." He said as she took yet another drink from the
bottle.
"Well
that's a good thing, because I don't want to look like anyone
except for my sister."
"How about we follow her
example?"
"Hmm that sounds intriguing."
Simone
wrapped her arms round Connor and hugged him tight. "It's so
weird. I mean we just met but I feel like we have been dating
forever."
"Maybe it's the dreams." Connor
grinned at the thought of it.
"Hey, stop thinking that!"
Simone said
"What? How do you know...?"
"I am
thinking the same thing." Simone kissed him again
Lucy
followed Murphy inside; as soon as they were in the house he took her
hand and stroked it with his free hand. "You know I had a dream
last night." Murphy said as he looked up at her.
"Did ye
now?" Lucy knew what he meant; she felt a tingle in her
stomach.
"Aye I did, and what I wanted to share from it was
this." He stepped up to her and kissed her.
Connor looked
at Simone again. "Maybe we should stop this and talk a bit?"
"Yeah
we must." Simone said moving over to a fence and sitting on
top.
"So what do you want to talk about?" Connor
said standing between her legs, his hands on her thighs.
"How
about... our backgrounds?"
"Sure... I am Irish origin,
Murph's my brother... Our dad died 4 years back. And that's about
it..."
"I'm sorry about your dad." Simone thought
back to her own parents.
"So what's your story?"
"Well
I'm Irish too, Lucy's my sis. My dad left my mum and us when we were
little, I think he died. My mom, she died a year ago..."
Simone's face turned sad thinking about her.
"I'm sorry..."
Connor said giving her a soft kiss.
Lucy
and Murphy were still kissing when Lucy got a flash of images flowing
through her head. "Not NOW!" She thought but it was too
late, she saw a man being escorted through a set of big doors and led
to a car. Another flash showed her the man killing a woman with a
smile on his face.
Lucy pulled away from Murphy while holding onto
her head with one of her hands.
Simone leaned back a bit while
the images were streaming through her head, all the while Connor was
looking at her with amazement.
"What's wrong? What is going
on?" He asked now looking concerned. It looked like she was
having some kind of attack.
As sudden as it had started the images
stopped and Simone looked at him.
"I'm ok, just got a
terrible headache that's all, I'd better get home."
She
got up and walked back round the house.
Murphy looked at Lucy.
"What the fuck just happened?" Lucy was still trying to
organize the images in her head. "Nothing, have a headache. I
need to get home.
Without looking at Murphy again she walked out
the door, she needed to find Simone.
Simone
and Lucy met each other in the front yard. Not looking back... not
looking at each other.
"This has to be dealt with."
Simone said
"Aye." Lucy replied
Connor walked
into the house and saw Murph looking out of the window. "I don't
get it." he said out loud. "One moment she is so close and
suddenly she's miles away."
"Aye I know what you mean
..." Connor said.
Lucy
and Simone walked through the field, when they came to the house
Simone went in to grab two black bags and Lucy started the
car.
Simone got in and handed Lucy her bag. "Well So much for
the PTB owing us! Where are we going?" Lucy drove of the yard
while lighting a cigarette. "Into town I recognized the building
we can trace him from there."
Murphy was still staring
out of the window, because their house was higher on a hill he could
see the girls car drive of. "Headache my foot, they've just gone
of in the car!"
"What!"
Connor ran over to the window falling over a chair in the process. "I
can't believe she just did that!" Connor said.
"Maybe
they had something important to do."
Lucy
walked out of the police station with a paper in her hand.
"So
who in there is your new best friend?" Simone asked with a smile
on her face. "A man called greenly, was kind enough to tell me
the location of my ex boyfriend who still has some of my stuff."
Lucy answered with a sweet smile as she handed Simone the paper.
"That's where they are keeping him; they didn't dare put him
in a normal jail, not after what he did."
"This
wrong should be righted." Simone nodded.
"DOWN!
On yer knees!" Lucy yelled through her black mask
"Do
as she says!" Simone yelled kicking him in the back.
She
looked up as she saw two men enter the room with black masks. She
pointed her gun at them. "Who the fuck are you?"
"Simone?" Connor's voice sounded
"Connor?"
Simone asked looking confused... although they couldn't see.
The
man on his knees saw his chance and turned round hitting the gun out
of Lucy's hand and punching Simone in the face.
"Fuck!"
Simone yelled grabbing her face.
The guy grabbed the gun and
pointed it on the four of them. Connor, Murph and Simone pointed
theirs on him.
"Drop the fucking gun ass hole!" Simone
yelled. Connor and Murph both came closer.
"What are you
doing here?" Murph asked
"None of yer fucking business!"
Lucy answered.
"Simone
get out of the way, I can hit him if you move." Lucy hissed at
her sister.
Murphy didn't wait for Simone to move and tried
to shoot the man as he was standing, he missed!
"What the
Fuck are you doing?" Simone turned round too look at him.
"I
was trying to shoot that prick!" Lucy came to the side of Murphy
and hit him on the shoulder. "Don't fire a gun if you don't
know how to! Idiot! You could have shot my sister!"
"Let
me handle it." Simone said putting her hand on Murph's
shoulder.
Simone didn't look at the man when she raised her
arm to point it, Lucy smiling at her sister. She kept looking Connor
in the eyes and pulled the trigger.
"Bulls eye Simone,
right between his eyes." Lucy said impressed.
Connor
didn't say a word but Murph was impressed as well
"I only
missed because I was distracted ok!"
"yeah yeah
yeah McManus. Now tell us, why were you here?"
"Only
if you tell us why you are here." Murph answered Lucy.
"Ah!"
Simone grabbed her head and screamed in agony as a Preminition hit
her. Only this time it didn't hit Lucy.
Lucy
was amazed that her sister was having a PTB moment and she wasn't.
Not that she envied her; it was like watching a tape fast-forward
while having a hot spike driven through the side of your
head.
"What's wrong?" Murphy and Connor both moved
on Simone to help her but Lucy stepped in-between them. "Back
off!" She said pointing her gun at them.
"What?"
Connor pulled off his mask.
"Leave her for a moment."
Lucy said still pointing her gun.
Simone saw images fast
forwarding. Again she screamed. Simone dropped on her knees actually
crying because of the pain.
She saw 3 people... she recognized one
as Lucy. The other two turned round and smiled at Simone. It were
Connor and Murph. Connor stuck his hand out to her. Another image
flew by. A man on his knees and the four of them pointing their guns
at him.
Another image. Home.. Connor by the fire place... Image;
Lucy and Murph laughing and talking.
The Preminition ended and
she fell forward passing out.
"That
must have been a doozy." Lucy said while bending forward to tend
to her sister.
"Ok what the fuck just happened here!"
Connor waited for an answer but Lucy was to busy tending to
Simone.
As she didn't answer Murphy lent forward and put his
hand on her shoulder, the second he touched her again he was hit by
the electrical shock.
Lucy felt someone touch her and she
loaded her gun an aimed. "Back the fuck off! That's the last
time i'm telling ya!" She grabbed hold of Simone and started to
drag her out the door.
Connor followed. "We just want to
help." He said looking at Lucy.
"Just
leave us!" Lucy yelled. Her sister got heavier by the moment.
"Connor..." Simone moaned.
"Aye?" Connor sped
over to her, making Lucy sigh.
"I saw." Simone said
opening her eyes. "What you do..." Connor widened his eyes
then looked at Lucy. 'We need to talk about this."
"Like
hell we will." Lucy picked Simone up and walked out.
"Don't
worry man. We will talk to them tomorrow." Murph said slapping
Connor on his shoulder.
Simone
was in the car leaning back with her eyes closed, that moment had
hurt like a bastard.
"Ok so you mind telling me what just
happened in there?! We never ever had preminitions apart from each
other! What did you see?"
Simon opened her eyes and
looked at her sister. "I saw Connor and Murphy doing the same
thing as we do! Difference is I think they enjoy it and are in it on
their own free will!"
"Free
will? What kind of sick people are they? It's so like us to meet
people like that."
"Aye... that wasn't all though."
"What else did you see then?"
"Us enjoying it
as well, shooting people holding hands with them. Then I saw Connor
at our place... and you and Murph sitting on the couch holding
hands."
"You saw that? Sorry but I will never enjoy it.
I hate doing this."
"Aye me too. All though I must say
it gives me sort of a kick to know we erased another evil out of this
world."
Lucy looked at her sister. "You do?"
"Aye..." Simone said, now closing her eyes again.
Trying to get that image of Connor back into her mind.
Lucy
said nothing more as she drove back to their house, enjoying what she
did? That was a hard concept to grasp. She was glad that it was only
criminals that they went after but thoroughly enjoying it wasn't
something that she would do.
Her mind went back to Simones words:
and you and Murph sitting on the couch holding hands......She liked
him but she didn't know how this would play out.
Simone just
leant back, the image of Connor smiling at her and holding pout his
hand calmed her down.
The
next morning Simone and Lucy sat at the kitchen table reading the
newspaper when their doorbell rung. "I'll get it." Simone
said standing up
outside stood Connor and Murph. "Hello."
Simone said looking at them.
"We need to talk." Connor
said taking one step forward.
Simone wanted to decline but Lucy
appeared behind her.
"Aye, I would like to hear what they
have to say."
Simone let them both inside, she felt Connor
softly brushing against her when he walked by and she had to smile.
The
four of them sat down and just looked at each other for a few
moments.
Murphy was fidgeting with his lighter and kept throwing
looks at Lucy.
Lucy was pretending she didn't see Murphy looking
at her and stared at the wall.
Simone was trying to think of a way
to start their conversation without sounding like a complete wack
job... So been shooting people long have you? The question popped up
in her head and she had to smile what if she would just go out and
ask tem that?
Connor looked at Simone, what was that smile on her
face?
Simone
decided to just ask it but Lucy cut in.
"So... tell us then."
For a moment Simone thought she was going to ask the very thing
she thought of.
"Why don't you start?" Murphy
asked
"Because we weren't the ones who wanted to talk."
Lucy said crossing her arms.
"Well we... we kill evil
men."
"Ok
you kill evil men, but why?" Lucy was now looking from one to
the other before looking at Simone.
"Well... our father
was a...he killed evil men and we kind of rolled into it a few years
back. There are men in this world who get away with things they
shouldn't, we right the wrongs that are done to innocent people"
Murphy looked at Lucy. "I think it's basically the same thing
you do."
Lucy paused for a moment; she didn't know what
too say.
Simone cut in on that point. "Actually I don't
think it's the same thing, we don't do it because we think we
have to."
"Then
why do you do it?" Connor asked.
"Because we get
these premonitions... it tells us where and when. And we go because
we have to answer to bigger powers."
"Bigger
powers?" Murph asked looking confused.
'Aye. Powers that
be." Lucy said. "But we don't enjoy doing it."
"I
don't always like it. It just gives me a good feeling to have rid the
world of yet another evil." Connor said
"But
we get the message from the PTB you decide for yourself who is evil
and who isn't! Don't you think that's a little weird? A little
psycho?" Lucy looked at Connor but before he could say anything
Murphy had to laugh out load. "That's the same thing Rocco
said!" He smiled at Connor.
"Who's Rocco?"
Simone looked at Connor. "He was our friend and he helped us out
with the cause. We lost him a few years back." Connor looked
back at her with a gloomy expression on his face
"Well
Rocco was right then." Lucy said
"Maybe he is."
"How
do you decide whose evil?" Simone asked
"Do not rape
do not steal, these are principals which every man of every fate can
embrace." Murph replied
"Only real evil men will be
sent to what ever god they wish." Connor finished
"Ok
so you quote a bible passage to see who is evil?" Lucy was
amazed "how can you take a mans life based on a pretty saying? I
don't get it!?"
Simone put her hand toward Lucy. "Calm
down, let them explain."
Lucy looked at her for a second. "I
don't need to hear any more, they go out and shoot people who they
think are evil. That is not good it makes them no more than the
common murderer!" She got up from the table and as she did so
did Murphy with an angry look on his face.
"Oh
I see and what you do is right? You're just as much as a murderer
as I am. Only difference is you get your messages from the PTB what
ever the hell that may be."
Lucy stormed out of the
kitchen into the garden, she needed fresh air. Murph followed
her.
Simone looked at the door and back to Connor.
"What
do you think of all this?" Connor asked
Simone looked
into his gorgeous eyes... Someone with eyes that beautiful couldn't
be a truly evil man.
"I don't know, I like you that is a given but i'm having a bit of trouble wrapping my head round this. This is getting way to complicated way to fats. How am I supposed to get round the fact that according to what is passes down to me I might have to shoot you one day? Lucy is right you know, according to what we have to live by you two are murderers, the powers don't make that big of a distinction when it comes to taking lives." Connor leant forward and took her hand.
Instantly
Simone received yet another Preminition.
Connor looked at her
jerking her head back. "LUCY!" Connor yelled but no
response came back. Simone fell off her chair and Connor catched her,
they sat on the floor together, Connor waited for her to come back.
Lucy fell onto the damp grass holding onto her head.
"What's wrong?" Murph asked looking at her.
Images
flowed through her mind. Connor and Murph were being attacked, 2 men
laughing as they shot them in the head. Image; Simone and lucy
screamed and cried as they watched them kill the brothers. They were
covered in blood and bruises.
Simone came back to reality.
"No..." Simone said looking at Connor.
"JESUS
FUCK! Simone!" Lucy yelled still lying on the grass holding onto
her head. Murphy crouched donw beside her and held on to her
shoulders.
Simone was still looking at Connor when she heard
her sister yell, she scrambled on to her feet and made her way
outside.
She found her sisterthere in Murphy's arms, she bent down
and looked at her sister.
"This is getting to much! i dont
know if i can take much more!" Lucy said looking ate her sister
with watery eyes. "What did we just see?"
