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Rings of Fate:

Chapter 9: Words Unspoken.

The dodge speed off down the road, causing Doc to clear his irritated throat from the dust that he kicked up. Doc watched his taillight streak in the shadows, even well after the dodge was out of his line of sight. Quinn was edgy…. Shook in up….. Unsettled…. Stirred up…

The irritation never subsided as he forced himself to cough up the dust… … like the dirt he breathed in

He let his mind wonder as his eyes still was fixated on those "taillights"…. Both the Dodges…. And the Chrysler 300's…. Quinn wasn't the only one that was stirred up…

'Hudson! What happened to my baby! What's going on!" Her normally warm liquid midnight eyes, were hard as they locked with Doc's. "…. Where did you take her?..."

"Kendal" Doc's gently spoke to the easily worked up mother. "She's going to be alright, she just fainted while we were at Wheel Well. It's nothing serious… I promise"

Kendal took a minute for her to connect the dots that her only living daughter was going to be okay… and let herself relax, except for her unusually hard eyes that never left Doc's. "I want to see her."

Doc looked away from her to prepare himself, then back at her as he tugged her side with a tire. "I think now's not the time…Alice needs her rest a-" he got cut off when Kendal moved closer to him, her hard eyes narrowing, burning a hole in his sentence.

"Hudson... "her words came out slowly and unusually harsh. "… Wither you like it or not… I'm going to see my baby…. No matter what condition she's in…." She paused creating another powerful sentence to add on to her speech…. "….And if you don't want to be at my side, then stay out of my way… …. She's the only baby I've got left….. and I've still got a lot of catching up to do…." Her eyes blinked slowly as she shook off Doc's tire from her side, and slowly headed towards the cozy cone.

Doc swallowed hard… and quietly followed at her side…..

Kendal rolled into the cone as she let her mother like eyes wonder around her own kin….. the paleness of her features…. The dusty sides of her travel up…. The overly relaxed tires resting on their sides… the steady quiet breaths that left her frame….. as Doc watched her with soft eyes….

Kendal slowly rolled back a little, catching the attention of her on looker…. "Did she complain of anything?... like a hood ache or something?" she asked softly in worry.

Doc's eyes cautiously looked up into Kendal's strange hard eyes again…and lightly shook his hood… "No. not at all." His voice was softer than normal, almost matching hers.

The Chrysler 300 Midnight eyes looked back over at Alice… then back at Doc… but not alone this time… A White snow ring rippled around her iris, causing the moonlight to dance in her bright glowing ring…

It took Doc a second to recognize her distinct ring…. And it took him another second to realize what she was about to do… "You're going to find out what's wrong?"…. he quietly said…. And …it took him another second… for him to realize how stupid of a question it was to ask…. he closed his eyes ,a smile tugged, waiting for her to chuckle and say something like "Are you really asking me that question Hudson?" …. But…

He cracked open his eyes, as his very weak smile faded when that chuckle was taking too long. As she still looked at him with those rings of hers, expressionless. "Yes, I am."

That ate at his heart, he hated to see her "liveliness" drained completely away to this, expressionless…ness… it wasn't like her…. w…. was she hurting? Was something bothering her?

She slowly rolled back up and rested a tire on her daughter's side… closing her eyes… concentrating….

Doc looked around the area as if he was on guard… protecting the two from being disturbed….from the gift she's going to use….

A weird noise disturbed him, causing him to roll back, facing Kendal again. Her eyes were wide as she quickly took her tire off of her side, like it burned…. Her ring quickly faded…. As she just stared at Doc, with distant eyes…..

Doc's eyes widened, as a wave of panic rippled through him… "W-What did you see?"

Kendal took a second… collecting her scrambled thoughts…. "I-I don't know…. I can't understand it…"

Doc rolled closer to her, "What do you mean you can't understand it?" He asked as gently as he could muster.

Kendal once again paused…like it was hard for her to understand what he was saying… her eyes fixated on a point…. Not moving… "it… it was bizarre… disturbing…. It just hit me all at once…."…. another long pause…. Her eyes slightly quivering back and forth over that point she zoned off on… "l-like she was dreaming…" Her eyes blinked a few times… as she looked back at him, "She really is having horrible dreams…"

Doc found himself staring at her… reflecting Alice showing him that green journal…. He looked around the room to find what he was looking for… her journal, partially opened by a pen wedged in side it rested on the nightstand that sat by Kendal's side….

Doc lifted his tire pointing at it… "Could you get that for me?"

Kendal paused, her eyes tracing a line, followed his tire to the journal… and gingerly picked up the journal and slowly opened it, wide enough so that both of them can see it, but careful enough not to let the pen slip on the floor….

Doc's eyes scanned the short hand of Alice's dreams…. the darkness of the dreams… this repeating figure that keeps haunting her….

"What…" Kendal broke the ever growing silence "What could all this possibly mean? I mean she has… death… on all of these pages…." Her eyes grew a little wider in distress…. "S-she's even got me in there…."

Doc lifted his eyes from the page… "She put, "mom's missing"…. That doesn't necessarily mean…. Well… that."

Kendal swallowed hard as her eyes just stared into the page…

Doc gently nudged her side.

Kendal's eyes looked over at his… now soft…and full of worry…. Causing the soft eyes to fall to the ground….

Doc pulled her in close to him, trying to ease her racing mind… "You're going to be alright. I swear by it."

She leaned on him for support…. "it's not me I'm worried about…"

Doc's eye ridge raised slightly … "then what are you worried about then?"

… Kendal paused….closing her eyes….. taking a moment before speaking….just relaxing, enjoying the closeness….. then her eyes opened… as she looked over into his eyes… "I'm worried about-" She paused…. Backing away from his comfort as she straightened herself out… "Can I help you?" She asked someone…

Doc eyed Kendal oddly, until he looked over to the Plymouth Fury that stood in the doorway… who was glaring at him…. then glaring at her…. and then her eyes relaxed a little as frustration was still present in her voice. "Yes, I'm new around here… and I was wondering if Huddy would show me a place that I can stay."

Kendal looked over at Hudson with slightly hard eyes, "Huddy?"

Doc felt the tension in the room build as both eyes were on him… "It's a long story…. You see She's…"

Christine butted in, "I'm Huddy's Fiancée, Christine." She said the words loud and clear for the word to hear…. As she stuck her tire out to shake, with her words being bitter…

Both Kendal and Doc rolled back in shock as Kendal looked over at him, "You have a Fiancée?" She looked at him… in just frustration and shock. "Why didn't you tell anyone?"

Doc blinked a few times, "Now hang on just a dang minute…. I never got the chance to propose or nothin'…." Doc's eyes locked with Christine's, "I mean I still got the dang thing in my office… and all it's been doin' is just collecting dust all of these years. You left before I even had the chance!"

Christine features softened… "But Huddy, I knew you would propose….."

Doc closed his eyes tight…. This is ripping him apart from the inside out….. "You. left. me… when I wreaked in '54….. "

"But Huddy, you knew how daddy was… Don't you remember? He was over bearing and mean…." Christine's voice was soft and pleading….

"if I recall… you didn't even care… even when….." Doc paused…. Gritting his teeth together…. "When my Crew Chief…. Passed away….."

"No no… I did Honey… I really did… I was telling you to win the race for him…. don't you remember Silly?"

Kendal curled her lip at Christine… not liking the effect She was giving off on him….. "Hudson… I think we'd better go…." She slowly guided Doc out of the cone …

Christine butted in… getting in between Doc and Kendal… "Yes Huddy I think we should… We have a lot of catching up to do…."

Kendal glared at her with an aw struck expression and looked over at Doc… His eyes looked to the ground…. Distant like….

Kendal couldn't take it, "Can't you see what you're doing to him?"

Christine's eyes were fierce "Can't you see You were never welcomed here?"

Kendal went to say something…. Then looked over at Doc… then back at her….. as she lowered herself… no one was going to back her up…..

"You're just a brokenhearted waste of scrap metal who's just desperate to find a place to stay…. to feel important…. Instead of the mutant freak you really are."

Kendal's eyes widened at her, as Christine laughed darkly, "You think I didn't see your lil' eye trick back there? Please, it's hard not to see it." She paused looking at her… "Why do you kid yourself Kendal? You're a freak, nobody wants you! When are you going to accept that and just rid yourself from everyone... heck you'd be doing them a favor..."

Kendal's eyes were hard…. As she looked over at Doc…. Who weakly looked back in return… afraid to speak….. Her eyes watered… as she crashed her lids together… "fine… I see how it is…."

She looked at the Hornet again…. "Goodbye Hudson. I won't curse your life with mine any longer…." Her eyes closed again… "Take care of Alice for me". As she quickly pulled away…. Her taillights cutting into the night….. as they faded off into the darkness….

"Kendal…" He breathed…. As he shut his eyes…. And swallowed back tears…. "I'm sorry…"

Christine looked over at him, "It's okay Huddy, you don't need to worry about her anymore…"

He looked up at her… and then back down…. Defeated… "but…."

Christine caught that….. "But… what?"

Doc kept his mouth shut… Christine… was violent when angry…. He… didn't want to … set her off… for both his… and her sake….

Christine's eyes narrowed, " You don't like you do you Huddy?" Her voice was sharp and the volume rose with her anger….

Doc paused…. Looked back at the taillight from the recent memory of her… longing to run after her…. longing to go back in time… and say something…. Despite his fear of getting her hurt…. More than she already is…..

"Huddy... answer me….."

…. Doc….closed his eyes….and spoke through gritted teeth…. "No…I don't like her at all."

Christine smiled…. And kissed him lightly on the fender. "Good boy…" she said approvingly as she moved away from his side…..

Doc's eyes looked over at Christine moving away….. and the road…. Where she took off too…. " it's true….I don't like her….." His eyes started to burn a little….. as he slowly rolled to his clinic…

Christine rolled slowly passed the open Cone…. To an open green journal on the floor…. A smile curved up on her grill…. A dark twisted smile…. As she read her dreams….. a very dark crooked smirk formed… as she shut the book…. Putting back on the night stand…. And quietly shut the door….

She rolled out from the cozy cone… and quietly chased after the Chrysler 300…. With the plan that was perfectly shaped for her… in a dream journal…..'