"Neptune, Califonia, the town without a middleclass! That was 15 years ago, but today it is still the same, I would say it is worse. Most people have been forced out over the last years. Shops and businesses were bought out a year ago or scared away by the Neptune bomber. So the people of Neptune are now even fewer than they use to be. I have been gone from here for a year, but for the last 48 hours I have been back. I have sat by a bedside and haven't been sleeping at all. They asked if I wanted something to sleep on, but I didn't. They told me everything was now stable, that it was safe. So I relaxed and now I am here. Outside my dads house in my car, I have no idea how I got here and no plan on what to do!"
The passenger door opened and Veronica jumped up. She was tired and she had been sitting in her own world, now suddenly reality struck. Eli Weevil Navarro sat down in the passenger seat of her car, he had a brown bag with him. "What the…?" was all the words Veronica manage to get out. "You got keys to the house or do we need to break in?" He asked. "Huh?" "You have been sitting here for a long time, it's getting cold!" He said, but it wasn't cold in the car. Veronica looked outside and saw his bike, it was getting cold for him. "I...I have keys." She said. "Good, let's go inside!" He took the car keys out of the ignition and waited for her to leave the car before exiting himself, locking her car.
Veronica went slowly up the door and when she was there, she stopped, almost like she froze. "Give me the keys!" Weevil said and she picked them up, but her hands trembled and she dropped them. Weevil picked them up and unlocked the door. She went and sat on the couch. "He's going to live." She said and it was only the second full sentenced that she managed to say. "I know. Why the hell don't you have your phone on and why are you driving when you can barely talk?" He asked and she looked at him, she needed a few minutes to take in all the words. She took her phone up and put it on the table.
"Here!" He said and gave her a sandwich, from the bag. "Guessing eating hasn't been very high on your list!" "Thank you." She said, but put it on the table and stared at it. "You know how those works right, you eat them, not just look at them!" "I am actually not hungry." She said, and he sat down next to her. "Yes you are, but you just don't feel it." He said.
"I could have lost him… he could have died!" She said out loud and Weevil nodded. "But he is alive, he's will be fine!" "But he could have died, and he would have been alone!" She said. "Do you think that people won't die just because you are not around?" He asked. "No! I know they do...in fact sometimes I am the very reason they die! But this is my dad! The only person… my only family!" "No Veronica, you are not going down that road. Logan was a victim of a mad man, you can't blame yourself for scums like that! Besides the sheriff is alive, he will be fine and you are here!"
Veronica couldn't reply, she wanted to, but she didn't have the strength, she was too tired. "Just, go to bed, you may not feel the hunger, but the tiredness, that you must feel!" She agreed, she could truly feel how weak she was. "I'm gonna sleep here, I sleep better here!" Weevil nodded and got up and put a blanket on her. "I am keeping you car keys until you have slept!" He said and was about to leave. "Eli…" He turned around. "You're the reason we got this far. The cabin…" "Not now Veronica, just rest!" He said. "Can you stay?" She asked and he nodded, then took his jacket of, and sat down in the armchair. She gave him the remote control and then closed her eyes.
"Eli Weevil Navarro, where to start with him… I guess I can borrow from Facebook, it's complicated. When he was 12 years old my dad was the sheriff of Neptune, and he started to arrest him. In and out of juvie, on community service, in prison...then a straight and narrow path, even a marriage and a child. But one night changed it all. I hadn't seen him for 7 years, but on the reunion he showed up and I saw a glimpse of a new man, but only hours later it all ended. He was shot and then blamed for a crime he did not commit. He is everything you are warmed to stay away from, he can be ruthless because let's face it, you do not get to run a biker gang twice if you aren't just that. He is also loyal, and I guess he had to learn to be… in the life he lives you have to have people behind you. People who will die for you and people you will die for. He is protective and he is also, ironically, one of the most honest people I know in Neptune. It all sounds pretty strange, but if he trusts you, if he likes you and if he respects you… he will do pretty much anything you ask him to do, and after you have accused him of things over and over, he will still have your back and help you… even save your life. Me and him, we go back 15 years, but it is still what I would call complicated."