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Warning: dark chapter,Swearing and vivid in parts contains a death.
Ch. 6 Returning Memories
"TK… TK are alright?" Kari replied as she shook TK's shoulder to break his paralyzed trance. Slowly turning to Kari, a fearful look trembled through TK's sapphire eyes. Reaching over to TK, Kari placed her hand onto his. "You're cold…?" Kari stammered concerned as she felt his freezing hands.
Swallowing down a dry and parched throat, TK felt memories he thought he banished from his mind reappear in vivid detail. "I… can't go out there." He faintly murmured as haunting tones materialize in his voice as he spoke.
Staring confused at someone she always looked up to for strength and hope, Kari felt bewildered at his sudden loss of aspiration. "Why… what happened, TK?" Kari evenly asked as she carefully picked her words.
Putting his left hand to his head, he braced himself against the cool leather steering wheel. Staring aimlessly at the logo of the car manufacture on the wheel, and trying to re-center his thoughts on what was readily happening; a gloom memory of the past began replaying again and again. "The snow…"
"The snow…?" Kari repeated to herself as she continued to look helplessly at TK.
Beginning to shake his head side to side, a troubled look of helpless fear became visible on his face. Taking a breath, his calm exhales became an unsteady and hurried gasps for air. "NO… NO… Noooo…" TK suddenly shouted as his eyes became blood shot and distressed.
As Kari abruptly looked at Patamon for an answer for why TK was slipping away, a shocked look of confusion was plastered across his face. "Patamon… What's… going on…?" Kari asked as an unsettling feeling was creeping into her that she might lose TK.
"I… I… don't know… TK's never acted like this in a snow storm ever before." Patamon squeaked trying to keep himself calm seeing his best friend acting like that.
Why does this have to come back…? Why now…? Come on TK get a hold of yourself. This happened years ago… TK thought as he continued to loose control of his mind. "Get out of my mind." TK shouted at the steering wheel, "GET OUT… OF MY… MIND!" He repeated again even louder, as his breathing started to calm to a normal breath and tears started pouring from his eyes. Laying his head on the top of the steering wheel, he slowly regained sanity of the world around him.
"TK…" Kari softly asked as she put her arm around his trembling body.
Slowly breathing the last few trembles from his body, TK gradually sat back up in the seat of the car. Fighting to hide the disturbing feeling, he continued to feel, he calmly looked at Kari with a tranquil face. Then taking a deep breath TK began to speak with a small quiver in his voice. "My… my junior year at college there… was a blizzard." Looking partially befuddled at TK, Kari tried to listen to his broken words. "A best friend of mind and I went out on… a little trip into the blizzard."
(Flashback)
"Hey TK, do you want to check out this blizzard." John asked as they walked out of the last class of the day for both of them.
"Sure, listening to the professor this could be one to really experience first hand. But we better get going before they close down the highway." TK replied as they walked over to John's car.
(End Flashback)
"The conditions were similar to this but… but far smaller scale. Once we hit the storm head on, a shear blast of snow hammered our car knocking us a around a little inside."
(Flashback)
Driving towards the blizzard, John drove head on through a white wall of snow. Once inside a shrieking howl exploded through out the car. "Calm down, TK. I've driven through storms worse than this." John replied as a subtle laugh came from his voice as TK grabbed on for dear life for any he could get his hands on.
(End Flashback)
"It was a total white out; the visibility was less than five to ten feet out in front of us." Then leaning back onto the steering wheel TK felt the rush of the memory hit him again.
"TK, are you ok…?" Kari asked as he slowly began slipping away slowly back into the memory.
"Here let me." Gatomon said as she crawled over by TK with a small bottle of water. Unscrewing the cap, she climbed onto the dash in front of him. Then with a flick of her wrist, she splashed the freezing cold water, over him.
Flying back into his seat a startled look filled his dripping wet face. "Thanks" he calmly replied to Gatomon, while looking at the cat Digimon who was standing with an empty bottle of water.
"No problem." She replied as she leaped back down and scurried back by Patamon.
Taking a deep breath the cool crisp air that had flown into the car, filled TK's every breath. "If it's too hard to talk about you don't need to finish." Kari serenely replied while TK began rubbing his forehead.
"…no I… I really need to get this off my chest." TK replied in an uneven tranquil voice. "The car slowly began to slip around on the icy road as we slowed down. There was a damaged parked car… on the side of the road."
(Flashback)
"Hey John, look, do you think they need some help." TK asked as he squinted though the blowing snow at a crashed vehicle at the side of he road.
"Might as well, let's check it out." John replied as he pulled right behind the car. "Come on let's go." John said while opening the driver side door, sending a winery blast raging through the warm car.
(End Flashback)
As we got out to see if every… every… one was all right… my friend climbed out of the driver side door and I on the passenger side. The wind and cold along with the snow hit us like a ton of bricks. As we slowly walked into the gale force winds, the visibility dropped along with the other noises around us besides the deafening howl of the wind. Once we made it to the car, there was movement inside."
(Flashback)
"Hey, is everyone alright." John asked into the crashed car.
Looking in the backseat of the car a small family was huddled together trying to stay warm. "We're alright but… we need a ride back to town." The father replied as he shivered from the biting cold air in the car.
"We can give you a ride back. There's more than enough room in my car." John offered as he reached his hand out to help everyone out of the vehicle.
(End Flashback)
"Then helping them out, we made our way back to our vehicle. As we let the other people climb into the back seat of his car, my friend and I were the last ones to get in…" Suddenly tears began forming back around TK's eyes. "We shouldn't have stopped; we shouldn't have ever gone on that damn trip." TK choked as he slammed his fist onto the dash.
Slowly regaining his composure TK finished. "As I got into the car my friend was slowly opening the door so the snow couldn't get inside. All of a sudden, there were blue and yellow flashing strobe lights in the distance. As the lights got closer, he never saw them."
(Flashback)
"How are you all feeling?" John asked just before he shut the door to his car.
"Thank you very, very much." The family said to John as he shut the back door. Then walking up to the front door, small flashing lights were faint in the distance. Opening the passenger side door TK quickly climbed in and looked over at John who was still standing out in the blizzard.
"Come on John we don't have all day." TK said as he turned he keys that were still in the ignition.
Opening the door quickly John stepped to the inside of the door as a loud roaring noise poured in the car. "Ok I'm… Aaaaaaaaaaaah…" John screamed as the car jumped forward after something slammed into it.
Looking up at the gaping hole where the driver side door was TK rushed out of his seat and out of the destroyed driver's side. "John… John… JOHN…" TK hollered into the blowing snow as an orange plow truck slowly disappeared into the white blanket.
(End Flashback)
"Just about… just about as he got in, an orange plow truck blew past. The car jerked violently forward, when I looked up in the direction of my friend, the door was gone along with him. The last thing I heard from him was a blood curdling scream as he was struck and sucked in by the blade of the truck."
"I… I never knew…" Kari stammered as she put her arm again around TK.
With a trembling voice, TK continued. "When they found him after the storm had cleared hours later he was… The only way they could recognize him was by dental records, his body never found intact instead scattered over miles. The driver had never seen him or felt anything. Reports of the incident put the driver going about 65-miles an hour when he struck him. The initial hit killed John… one of my fellow meteorology classmates… and best friend instantly." A tranquil feeling and relief fell upon TK as he finished talking. "Now; I'm never losing a friend to this weather again." TK replied in his usual confident voice as he zipped up his jacket. "Let's go."
Thanks again for reading my latest chapter for winter fury. Read and Review this was my first try at flashbacks. Tell me of what you think of it.
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