Rings of Fate
Chapter 13: Christine's Plan….. Alice.
Hudson growled "What did you do to them!"
Christine chuckled darkly which only grew into a dark cackle the echoed in the clinic… fueling his anger….
Hudson lunged forward holding her up forcefully against his clinic wall, knocking off stuff that huge on the wall….. "What. Did. You. Do. To her?"
Christine laughed even louder.
"Tell me!" The Hornets eyes were fierce, but…there was a desperation in his voice….. a weakness….a soft spot that Christine toyed with… and sunk her teeth into…. Let the games begin.
"Ha! Which one! Ones slowly killing herself… and the other…" Christine paused, looking up in thought…. "Huh, I wonder how she is?...She didn't look so good when I left her….."
Hudson stared at her, "You..-"
The double doors of the clinic swung violently open, standing a very focused and very frustrated ….Sheriff. "What in the blue Blazes! Doc! That… lady friend…. "…. He blinked a few times…. "Doc what is going on!"
Doc blinked, "Sheriff! Get a boot on her quick before she tries to escape!"
Christine's eyes went wide, "Get off of me Huddy!" She started yelling as her blood red frame kicked and thrashed around violently, trying to get out of his grasp with very little success….. "Sheriff please!"
Sheriff jolted to his dear friends side as his fished around for a boot that he always carried on him…. just in case…
"GET OFF OF ME!" She snarled as she bucked and fought even harder causing a crumpled spot on Doc's fender…. Doc shut his eyes tight from the pain….. and found himself leaning in more despite the throbbing pain…
Sheriff quickly slipped the boot over one of her tires and was just about to lock it in place when Her aggression was quickly took out on him…. She lurched forward….despite Doc's strong hold on her, causing sparks between the friction of the two metals….. Doc flinched at the heat, and for that split second, Christine lurched forward enough to leave her mark on Sheriff….
Sheriff found himself forced back despite the loud squeal of protest from his locked tires….. his wheel well was crushed in…..pinning his wheel at a funny angle….his headlight broken….. and a crack from the corner of his windshield….. caused his one eye to forcefully shut…
Christine glared at Sheriff, "You back off! You don't even touch me!"
Doc gritted his teeth, as he gunned it into her side, the pair lurched to the side and smashed Christine right into the wall…..causing Doc's crumpled spot to crush under taking out his headlight…..and crushing his chrome trim…..
Some things that were left on the wall from before came crashing down on the pair….
Sheriff grunted…. Lowerin' himself to the ground…. "Ah…. Ah…dang it…."….
Doc gritted his teeth as Christine shifted under his crushed fender… "Sheriff?... Sheriff? Are you alright?"
Sheriff shifted, causing his crushed tire to collapse and crumble underneath him, he started to yell out in pain… but quickly gritted his teeth taking in broken harsh breaths…. "I don't know…"
Doc glanced over at him….. and his eyes went wide… "Sheriff…."….. whatever was left of his calmness… disappeared….
He lurched even more, digging Christine even more into the wall, his front fender completely crumpled in…. "When are you going to stop!" He shouted at her
Christine started shaking, a low sound started growing in her core…. Then her laughter ripped through the clinic… Doc glanced down, lifting his tire over to the boot on the floor…. …..just…. barely… out of reach….. …
Doc looked over at Sheriff… then at Christine…. And then at the boot…..
He swallowed hard…. And leaped at the boot…..
Christine lurched forward out of his grasp and right to the door….
CREEEEEEEEEEEEEEET!
She blinked... the door was so close in her grasp…. She went to move forward….
CREEEEET!
She looked down to find… a yellow boot…. Hooked and locked to her wheel….. …. She wasn't going anywhere…
Doc grunted…. Resting on the floor…. A tired crooked smirk grew on the still in tacked side, winking in her direction….. "I'm still just as fast."
Christine stared….. she was caught…..
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Christine sat behind the closing fence… "You think this is funny Hudson? Huh! You Think you've won!" Her wide evil eyes seemed to turn red with fury... "Your friends are out of luck! Ha! Good luck trying to save them now! HA! So look who's losing now! Look. Who's. Losing. Now!"
Hudson grunted at the sight of her…. watching her….. examining her with his wise narrow eyes….. there was something strange about her…. but he couldn't quite put his tire on it….
Christine hobbled her way closer to the gate, glaring at him… "What are you doing gawking me like that? You're not going to get me to talk!"
Doc found himself huff a single laugh….. " at the moment, I'd wish you'd shut your trap, unless you got something to say that I actually want to hear…"
Christine snarled "I. won't. talk. No matter how long I'm in this… " She paused in her speech…. Hitting the fence with her nose of her hood…. "This!"…. the fence rattled….. back and forth on the rusty pipes that held them…
Doc paused….. …. As he looked at her hood… not even a single scratch on her….
He took a few side steps….. looking at her side….. …. The trim…. The flawless red paint….. ….. flawless…
Doc glanced down at his crushed fender and chrome…and then back up at her perfect side….. … he pushed into her hard… enough to hurt himself…
His eyes looked back at her hood….. 'and if I wasn't enough to leave a mark…. Sheriff should have left something….'
"Will you stop!" Christine snapped at him, causing the Hornet to jump back a little "Your lil' eye game isn't going to do anything beside make me mad….. and….." a small curved smile…. "a lil' flattered…."
Hudson blinked and just stared at her… then looked away…. Slowly pulling away from her prison….. shookin' up…. And a lil' disgusted… he could never look at her the same way again…. The trance was broken…..
"Huddy! Darling! Where are you going!... Are You leaving me?... You'd leave your fiancé!"
Hudson grumbled to himself…. "….Drama Queen….."
He glanced up at the town all at Flo's… the gathering spot…. … Flo caught Doc's gaze and paused in her stride…..Her eyes blinking wide… "Doc?... Doc? Hon' what happen to you?" Her mother like qualities started kicking in as she slowly rolled closer to him…. the rest of the town followed their eyes over to their Doctor… their Judge…. Their friend….
"Whoa! Doc! What the heck happened to you!" Lightning's eyes went a lil' wide…. "Did ya hit a tree or something?"
Doc's narrowed his gaze…. "Kid… now's not the time for crackin' jokes…."… He paused in his speech…. "we had to restrain and arrest Christine for possible …." His jaw tightened…. "Endangerment…."
Everyone was quite…..
"Endangerment?" Lightning seemed to be the only one not understanding what was going on…..
Doc sighed in frustration… "If you think this… "he angled himself, showing his crushed fender more…. " is bad….. you should see Sheriff…."
"Sheriff?"…. "He's not too bad is he?"…. "will he be alright?" … "what did she do to him!"…. the seriousness of the situation was starting to sink in to the town folk…..
Doc lifted a tire up, "He's going to be alright… his resting safely in my clinic…" He paused in his speech, as he slowly rested a tire down…. ".. Flo..?"
Flo perked up at her name.
"Do you remember what Alice had for dinner last night?..." Doc's eyes zoned out on the floor…. Then barely glanced up at her…. weak almost fearful eyes…..
Everyone's attention went to Flo, as she paused in thought…. "She… She had her usual…Why? Do you think something is wrong with my cooking?"
Doc slowly shook his grill…. "No, you're cooking is fabulous… I was just curious…. If you still had her container? "
Again, she paused… this time deep in thought…. "I can go check…"
Doc nods slowly… "I would appreciate it…"
Flo gave Doc a single nod and left gracefully into her kitchen… The attention of the crowd shifted to the battered Hornet….
"Doc… what's going on?" Sally pulled gently from Lightning's side…. Her voice was calm and even…. Which…. Calmed Doc….
"Alice might be in trouble… I'm just eliminating my …hunches…" Doc's eyes caught something from Sally…. A sparkle…. Of a ring….around her hubcap…. Doc felt his eyes burn slightly as a soft smile grew… "When did that happen?" He said gently nodding over in the direction of the ring….
Sally paused… looked at what he was talking about… and a blush rose on her features, followed by a shy smile… "This morning… before everyone was awake….."
Lightning felt a smile grow… "it…it was nerve racking!... I thought I was gunna puke!"
Sally chuckled softly, nuzzling his side.. "But… I said yes… and well... here we are."
Lightning chuckled softly… "Yes, here we are.."
Doc looked at the pair…and..found himself humbled…. "way to go kid…" He said softly… "Did you two plan a date yet?"
Sally chuckled "No not yet… But we'll keep you posted Doc."
Lightning smiled softly… "We want you to marry us…"
Doc closed his eyes… taking it all in…. then opened his eyes to the pair that sat in front of him…. "It would be an honor…"…. His eyes were very soft as was his smile….
Doc caught his eyes with the sea foam green show car… not empty handed… "This was the can from last night…"
His softness in his features quickly died…. As he reached out for the can…. "Thank you Flo."
He moved the can in front of him…. looking at it… a generic can of oil… nothing special….
"What are you looking for Hudson?" Sarge sat with his trained eyes, watching him….
Doc's glanced up at the Army Jeep…. Then back at the can…. He picked it up… and shook it….feeling the left over content slosh oddly in the can…..
Doc paused….. as he shook the can again….. it was heavy ….as it moved like molasses ….. he stared…. And started playing with the lid….
Everyone watched Doc… as he tried taking off the tightly sealed lid with no success as it slipped from his tires…. As spilt on the concrete … the warm brown liquid shined in his eyes…. But just as he feared…. It wasn't clear….. it was milky…. Foggy… and… it just didn't look right…. Flo's eyes went wide…. "Doc, I didn't make that….. I didn't make that at all!" Her voice started rising in pitch as panic grew in her voice…
Doc looked up at her, nodding reassuringly, "it's not your fault… we all know here you would never do something like that…"
Flo relaxed a little at the Judge's words….
Doc swallowed hard….sticking his tire right in the oil…feeling the gritty, granular texture….His eyes widen even more…. The vapor of the solution hit his senses…. That sickenly sweet sent made even Hudson's tank flip…. .
"…Sugar?..." He barely choked out….
Everyone's eyes widened…..
"Alice…. Drank… a half a can of sugar…pure … sugar…" Doc whispered….as he looked up at the town folk…..
Lightning paused… "Sugar?... w-what does…that do? Make her sick for a couple of days…. Her engine sputters a lil' for a couple of days …. What?"
Doc's eyes went to his protégé …. "Getting Sugared…. Is like a death sentence, if not removed quickly….. ….Sugar is not combustible… and our systems cannot handle anything that's not combustible…. It will slowly rip you apart, from the inside out… first it would clog and tear through your fuel lines…and collect in your engine…. Soon all that sugar that is accumulated in the cylinders will began to caramelize due to the heat that we produce…. And when it caramelizes…. Your engine will get tight… and it will be hard to breath…. Not too long after that…. That sugar...will make the pistons seize in the cylinders…and…. The poor victim…. Will be deceased."
Lightning's eyes stared at Doc's… then at the floor….
Doc's tires shook…. His whole frame shook…. As he looked over at the impound lot… he gritted his teeth and took off down the road again….. right to the gate….
"Your heartless witch!" He yelled his frustrations at her, "You sugared Alice? You Sugared her!" He hit the fence in frustration… "H-How can you do such a thing!"
Christine looked over at him, unfazed by his shouting…. "She was getting in the way…."
Doc growled "Getting in the way! …." He shut his eyes tight…..showing his gritted teeth…. " Couldn't you think of somethin' else to do…. You had no problem hitting us?... why-.."He winced….his voice got low and grave… "Why did you have to kill her….?"
Christine shrugged carelessly… "Never stopped me before…."
Hudson's eyes widened….pressing himself up on the fence…. "What did you do with Kendal!"
Christine looked up at him and laughed, "Ha! I knew you liked that freak of nature!"
"What did you do to her! Answer me!" His voice was thick with pure hatred…. If it wasn't for the fence separating the two…. He… He wasn't sure what he might do….
Christine laughed…. "You should see your face Huddy…. Do you realize how desperate you sound?" She forced a laugh…. "I'd never thought I'd see the day that the Fabulous Hudson Hornet would crumble at my tires…."
Doc snarled at her… "What…did you do?"
Christine smirked at his frustration, "And why the hell would I tell you that?"
Doc huffed a sigh… "You're right…..What am I doing standing here demanding answers from you...when I should be looking for them…"
As he took off down the road..… he could help but hear time mentally ticking in his head… time was running out…..if it hasn't run out already….
Doc felt his tank lurch… ….. he could only pray… and hope….. "Alice…..Kendal…. please…. Please be alright….."
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