Chapter 36: While You Were Out
Jack and Mayor Thomas, none too gently, toss the screaming Anna into the abandoned house that had once belonged to Lillia. Jack bolted the door from the outside with the lock they had installed minutes prior. He sighed in relief, "Thank you Mayor Thomas. I don't think I would have been able to do it without you."
"Not a problem at all. I was glad to help. I can't believe that Anna would do something like that. I never thought her to be a violent person."
"What I can't believe is that the two of us had such a time about it! I never would have imagined it would be this tough to arrest one little Anna."
"Yeah, it took an awful lot of time, but I think we did good."
Jack suddenly remembered that he had promised Mary he would be gone only a few minutes. He looked up at the sun and saw that it had been around two hours already, "I'm sorry mayor, I really have to go." He ran away at a brisk pace and hollered back, "Thanks again."
Jack had gone to the mayor's house and they discussed what to do about Anna. At first the mayor was hesitant to believe Jack, but ultimately he wasn't able to deny the truth. Like Jack, the mayor had agreed that they had to prevent any future acts of violence by Anna. They finally decided that the best course of action would be to turn Lillia's now empty house into a temporary prison. They boarded up all of the windows and stripped the inside of all but food and a bed. There was at least enough food for one week, so they had plenty of time to make further, more permanent plans for Anna. With the affixing of a lock to the door, all they had to do was lock up Anna.
That was easier said than done. Anna was in a royal wrath. When they barged into her home to take her in, she went beserk. She yanked a knife off of the counter and had gone at them with everything she had. She swore that she would kill the bastards that sided with her daughter. The fight ended as quick as it had begun. Jack had rammed the butt of the scythe into her gut as hard as she could. Anna fell to her knees and Jack kicked her in the face. She went down hard. Mayor Thomas, wanting not to be left out of the action, stomped down hard on her knife hand and took it away from her. Somehow, Jack knew the mayor would say he had a bigger part of the action later.
Her spirit was crushed, but for just a brief instant. As soon as they had begun to restrain her, she began fighting again. Teeth, nails, fists, and feet, Anna went at them with all she had. It was a long hard fight, but they finally got her to her new prison home.
Jack slowed as he approached the hospital. How was he going to explain this to Mary? He might just have to do a bit of sweet talking so she would be angry at him for taking so long.