Chapter 16: Quinn's Gamble….
Quinn kept his eyes low…. Watching the dirt and rocks pass underneath him seemed to keep him from thinking too much about Kendal….. and…..
He glanced up at the hornet low on his shocks….letting the dirt and rocks scrap his undercarriage….then his eyes lowered back down on the ground….. seeing the Hudson Hornet… not so fabulous…..
The silence was just….. intense….painful even…..
Quinn glanced up again at him, just in time to see the hornet sigh a shaking sigh…. If anyone took it the hardest…. It was Doc….if he could….He'd stay by her side….and just savor every last moment with her till Mater came to pick her up ….. Quinn knew…. He would have done the same thing ….if it was Alice…..
Quinn swallowed hard as his eyes watered up again…. Picturing that twisted mangled up frame… with blue/green paint…and a twisted mustang symbol….
He found himself shuddering … he wouldn't leave her alone….not like that…. Not after all of that…..
A plan started to form from his grieving mind as he found himself building up the courage to speak….
…. "d-doc..?"…. Quinn barely choked from his shaking voice…..
The ever building silence shattered causing the Hornet to jump. Quinn flinched…. "Sorry…."
The Hornet just lightly shook his head…. "It's alright… What is it?"
Quinn found himself forming his words carefully… "….is….. is it wrong…. Just to leave her like that…?"….
The taillights light up in front of the Dodge, causing him to slowdown with the hornet…. Coming to a complete stop…
The hornet just sat there, letting the wind just brush up his slightly crumpled side…..
"…..What am I suppose to do…?" his low empty voice rumbled from him…
Quinn found it hard to talk… "Ah…..I just…. I don't know…Never mind..…." his confidence just draining from him…
The hornet backed up slightly to face him, his eyes still red, his face….. expressionless….. "Just say what's on your mind Quinn…"….
Quinn shook his grill… "no.. no it's nothing… just …"… he found his sentence to be falling with his confidence…..
Doc's frames on his windshield narrowed his eyes in frustration…. "just say it."….
Quinn looked at Doc with a slightly unsure expression…
"Just Say It!" Doc snapped at him, tears welding up again back in his hurt eyes…. Some birds were found scared out of the trees… Silence crept back in…. Quinn shut his eyes wincing from his sudden outburst…. "Say what you need to say!... Just say it….."…. His eyes watered up even more as he jaw tightened…His normally calm eyes where full of pain and frustration as he turned away from him again.
"sometimes…. The worst thing you can do to anyone…. Is not saying…what needs to be said….."….the Hornet paused…. Turning away more, sinking on his shocks….. "….don't…don't make that same mistake….."
Quinn just looked at him, "Make what mistake?"
Doc sighed heavily, swallowing hard…. "nothing…."
Quinn rolled up to him, resting a tire comfortingly on his side…. "your contradicting yourself…"
Doc looked over at Quinn, smiling very weakly…then… then smile fell…. "I never told Kendal a few things….. I didn't say a few things…. That could of…prevented this…."…..
Quinn gave a very small encouraging smile….. "It's not your fault…. I don't think anyone would have prevented this…." His eyes were kind and caring… as he patted his side gently….
Doc nodded slowly at that state of fact… …"yeah…"…. He looked over at Quinn… "You're a good kid, Quinn…. Got a lot of heart…."
Quinn very weakly forced a chuckle… "Dad says it's the Momma in me….."…
Doc found a smile tug on the good side of his face… "… She must be one heck of a lady then…"
Quinn found it comforting that Doc was strong enough to change the point of view on the subject to his Mother… "She was... She's kind of reminds me of…. "…. Quinn paused thinking of something else…. "Ah… l-like the town…. Always strong, a team player…. Very caring…. Nurturing…. And had this… endless courage…"
Doc weakly nodded… "was?"
Quinn nodded slowly, "Yeah… she passed away from complications… "
Doc raised a brow at him…. "Complications? from pregnancy?..." His spirit weakly started to show back in his eyes…
Quinn gave a weak nod…. "after having me and Skyler…. Her body kind of weakened due to the stress of bearing twines… she only discovered that she was having twins when she went into premature labor…..That's when both of them knew… they were having two… "…. Quinn paused….. "… then… a few years after that….. she was expecting another child…..and…. well… because of the previous pregnancy, her body couldn't handle carrying again…. "… a light pause came across the story… "Doctors… did everything they could…. But sometimes… good isn't good enough….." …..
Doc looked at him with soft eyes, "That must have been a hard blow for the family…. you have a twin?"
Quinn a very small chuckle, "Yes, Skyler's my Twin… it's funny… Everyone says we're opposites." A slight roll of eyes….
Doc thought for a moment…then looked back at him… "Does your brother have a gift?"
Quinn smiled nodding vigorously, "Oh yes! He can-"….
The paused when they reached the road…. Quinn let the topic die…. "Doc, you know what you said about saying what you need to say?"
Doc paused... then giving a slight nod….
"Doc…..about leaving Kendal back…" Quinn paused… as he looked up at him with determined eyes… "We can't do that…. "
Doc looked at him with focused eyes… "…. You've got something planned haven't you?..."
Quinn locked eyes with him…. "I do…. "
Doc swallowed hard… giving a single nod…. "…..on who's staying with Kendal?"
"Not just her…but also about Alice... and …. Possibly ending this…." Quinn's sugar brown eyes were locked and determined..
Doc's eyes widen slightly… He thought this through the whole entire time?... Doc paused…. Giving a single nod…. "Alright, tell me what ya got…"
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She opened her eyes…. Her vision so foggy…. So burly…. Looking around her seemed like a impressionistic painting….. just splotches of colors…
Her body screamed in agony…. Engine won't start… her mind won't let her focus….. everything seemed to be …failing on her…. giving out…..
Her violet eyes looked around her blurring surroundings ….. "w-what happens next….."… she found herself swallowing hard… "if…if only…. Mom or Doc was around…."
She forced herself to try to stand…..but…no success…
A soft moan escaped from her grill…. as she looked up at the sky….. if only….
Something ruffled in the bushes….. causing the mustang to focus her vision at the bushes….. "Hello?" she called as loud as her raspy weak voice can muster…..
A low dark chuckle erupted from the bushes as the Plymouth Fury emerged from her hiding… "So…. Alice…..how are you doing? Little sick?... Tired?"
Alice weakly looked up at her… "Christine… just go away….."
Christine smirked rubbing forcefully against her side, making Alice cry out in pain…. "Oh come on, Alice, Honey, Baby….. Now… what's the fun in doing something, and not getting a chance to see it in action?"
Alice looked over at her with tear filled eyes from her 'show of affection'…. "what…?"
Christine laughed… "You silly! I get to watch you die."
Alice choked a little on her breath… "d-die?"
Christine nudged her forcefully in a playful mood, "Don't you remember? The breakfast a while ago?... how it seemed to be a lil'….. gritty"
Alice took a second… then stared…. And looked up at her… "You sadist…."
Christine huffed a laugh… "Ha! I've been hearing that so often, I should make that my middle name."
Alice swallowed hard... 'how long ago was it….how long have I been running with sugar in my tank….' Her engine pulsed causing everything inside to scream…. She gasped at the pain… 'too long…'
Christine feed off of her painful breaths and winces… "Aww, does that hurt?... Here let me make this move along ."… She crouched back, preparing to charge right into her side…
"Christine! Enough!"
Christine lowered on her shocks as she turned to the voice that caught her off guard….
"She's not the one you want…."….. The Crystal blue eyes narrowed on the Fury into view…. "I am."
The '51 Hornet stood tall from the road… His eyes focused and firm… that one side of him still a little crumpled from the last time he dealt with her…He widen the space in between his two front tires, crouching down ready to dash right into her... "Back ….off…"
Christine smiled as she turned to face him, mimicking his crouched position… "Huddy, you finally showed up… How nice to see you!"
"Enough with the fake sweet talk… back away from Alice…"
Christine raised a frame in his direction as she glanced over at the weak mustang… "That's very Forward of you… I like that in a Husband… "
She swooned at him like she did all those years ago…. But ….. this time… for the first time… it didn't faze him one bit…. In fact… it had an opposite effect on him….. a disgusted look came a crossed the Hornets features…. As he curled his lip.
Christine dropped the act. "What's your problem….? You were like putty in my tires! What's shoved up your tailpipe?"
The Hornet's eyes were narrowed… as he looked over at Alice with very soft, warm eyes for a long moment….his eyes closed… shuddering…. Then back at the Fury…. "You did that when you killed….the love of my life…."
Alice paused… swallowing hard… "…W-What?.."
Christine a crooked smile…. "I was right all along….. You did love that piece of scrap metal….."
The Hornet snarled "You take that back!"
Alice watched the Hornet with this blank endless stare….
"You take it back right now! She had more heart in one tread than you will ever have in your cold heartless body!" The Hornet swallowed… clearing his throat from his sudden outburst… "Don't you dare disgrace her name."
Christine scowled as her eyes narrowed... "How can you defend her?"
The Hornet curled her lip, "How can you just kill her like that?"
Christine charged, crushing the good side of the Hornet as the skated a crossed the road right into a thick Oak…
The Mighty tree shook from the force of an impact, causing some of the leaves to sprinkle on the pair….
The Hornet gasped from the sudden impact…. As Christine was left …. Unmarked..
"What makes you think I won't do it again Huddy?... Huh!... What makes Alice or Kendal any different from crushing a little animal from under your own tires?"
The Hudson's eyes widened….
Christine crushed into his side even more… causing him to shout in agony….. everything in his body slowly crushed from under the pressure…His eyes frames were crumpled…his whole body started slowly being crushed….
"Finally! After all of these years!..." Her venom voice hissed from the Hudson's crumpled side…. "I get to end this!"
The Hornet's one eye was the only thing that wasn't completely disfigured from her violent blows... a single tear overflowed in his windshield as his oil spotted, crippled bumper barely formed the word …. "w-why? Why do you keep doing this?"
The Plymouth fury stood proud and strong, as that evil smirk grew…. "You never cared about what I want! What I needed! You always messed things up and just got in the way! You and that crappy crew chief of yours! Both of you just wouldn't have my way…. And just like him, You butted into my personal business and have to tell me otherwise… and just like him…and just like her...I have to take you out."
The Hudson's eye widened at her words, the old puzzle pieces finally coming together, "…it was y-you?…y-y-you're the one that killed…." A swift movement from the Fury caused the Hudson to stop dead in his weak speech…. His breath was caught short in his throat as he started coughing….gurgling….
Alice choked back sobs… "No! No! Stop Please! Have Mercy!"
Christine snapped back…Her eyes Red, full of death and insanity. "Mercy is for the weak you child!"
Alice's eyes widened as he watched the Hornet…slowly fail before her…..
Alice swallowed hard….fighting tears…. As she forced herself to drag her locked back tires…..over to his side…. "No… No… please no!..."
A quick sound from the bushes causes Alice's senses to snap herself around…. Christine disappeared….
Her attention came back to the broken cobalt blue Hudson that was almost… half wrapped around the mighty Oak….
"D-Doc?" She choked at his dying frame…. "Doc… ?..."
The Hudson looked up at the weakened Alice….. his spirit barely in his eyes…. "Alice…i…I don't think I'm gunna make it….." He shifted… gasping…. Coughing up oil…. "I can feel it…."
Alice shook her head violently…. "No… No don' t say that…. You can make it…. You… you…" She bit her lower bumper….
The hudson shook his grill…. "Listen to me….Alice…. I have a few things to tell ya…"
Alice slowly nodded…. "o-okay Doc….…."
The Hornet swallowed hard…. "That's the thing.."… His cobalt paint slowly faded to a deep dark red….his crystal eyes flooded to a sugar brown,…a golden ring pulsed around his eyes….. as the Hornet emblem faded right into the Dodge… "I took Doc's place…."
Alice's face paled….. "Q-Quinn!"
A very weak broken chuckle sounded from the disfigured Dodge… "the one and only…"
Alice let the tears fall…. "W-Why would-….W-Why?" Her voice started quivering from the emotion building up in her weakening frame….
Quinn took a minute to get enough energy… "Because… I wanted Christine to come after me…. If I was myself…. She would of never touched me…. She probably would of killed you right on the spot…."
Alice sniffled a few times… as Quinn continued… "Doc can fix you…. and as much as I want to… I can't fix you even if I tried…."
Alice swallowed hard… "…..What about Mom?"
Quinn took a long pause…. Coughing more oil out of his crushed airways….. "Kendal… she …. Well…. Christine got a hold of her….." His voice weakened…. "She…couldn't make it…"
Alice choked up at that… Quinn very weakly pulled her in close…. "Alice…." He rasped weakly … "I …. I gotta ask ya something…."
Alice was a little fearful of leaning into him but Quinn shaking tire insisted… "what is it?" she said lightly leaning into him…
Quinn took a raspy breath…. "Do you think this is a good excuse to mimic Doc? To spare his life?... 'cause if this doesn't kill me…. Doc will when he finds out.…" his eyes half closed as a smile very weakly tugged his grill….
Alice found herself very lightly laughing which at this point sounded like crying… Making Quinn weakly nuzzle her side….
Alice closed her eyes…finding herself pushing into it…. "I think… he'd understand."
Quinn grunted, shifting slightly… "yeah I hope so.."..his raspy voice choked out…. "I didn't tell him that part of the plan…."….. His breathing became labored as his breaths gurgled inside his crushed body…..
Alice opened her eyes looking at him, "Quinn?..."
Quinn moaned….as he crumpled down on the ground….. " That ain't good….." his voice weakened…. "I don't think I can hang on much longer Alice….."….
Alice stood up "We gotta get someone, Help!... Someone!... He-"
Quinn tugged her side…. "Alice…"
Alice swallowed hard… "There's gotta be a way…. There's gotta be some way!"…
Quinn grazed a tire on her side…. "…just…..just say with me… p-please…."
Alice looked at him with frightened eyes…. Quinn looked at her with very dull brown eyes…. "please…"
Alice swallowed hard as she held back her sobs… she had to be strong for him….she slowly settled down beside him….and lightly nuzzled his side…. "okay…."…..
Quinn closed his eyes, leaning on her…. "You know… there's something… I've been kind of wanting to tell you…. for quite some time….."
Alice breathed very slowly…. "What's that Quinn….?"
Quinn swallowed hard….. " Do you remember, way back in Jack's place… … when me and your mom were locked up… all that time….."
She let herself settle in… "Yes… Yes I do…"
Quinn nodded very weakly "You mom, all she talked about was her kids… Rachelle and Zeb….. talking about their gifts and stuff… and then she named her third child…. Alice…. At first…..it kind of hit me differently…. Almost as if it spiked my interest….. I have no idea why…. But… at the time it did…. "….. he took a second to cough…. Clearing his lungs once more….. " Then…. When we went looking for you…. and Jack had us against the wall… You stood there…. and….I…. couldn't believe my eyes…."
Alice forced a chuckle… "that bad?"
"No… quite the opposite…. I've haven't meet anyone around my age that's… well… a 'classic Model'…. And….i…. ah…felt… overjoyed, excited…. "… he huffed a sigh…. "I don't know…. Not really good with emotions as stuff….."
Alice's eyes watched him… Her soft Violet eyes tried reading him…..
"but… I knew… … that there was like …this …Bond I had... when you… .. almost died….. it was almost like…. I knew you my whole entire life….. I …. I felt as though…part of me went with you… I cried…"
Alice's eyes welded up with tears….
"and…. when my Dad picked me up to take me home…. i… I thought I was already home…. With you… so.. when I went home… I missed this place… I missed the town…. I missed you… so..."…
Quinn went silent…
Alice gently nudged him….. "Quinn…."
His voice came as a whisper…. "….i had to get back to you….. I knew….."
Alice blinked, fear building in her from the sound of his distant voice… "Quinn?..."
Quinn's eyes slowly closed…. "….. I knew… that I was falling for …..you…"
Her eyes flooded with tears….. "No… No Quinn don't…. Don't give out on me….."
Quinn leaned his full weight on her… "Alice….i…think…..i love you…"
Alice felt her own weakness in her body…. As she lied beside him….closing her eyes….her frame shook….. "Don't…. Don't leave….. please… Quinn….Quinn!"
A soft sigh was heard from his body…as everything crashed down onto the ground… Alice felt her sobs overbearing her self control….. she cried right into his cold crumpled frame….. "no….i didn't get the chance….to tell you…h-how I felt…"…..
A low cackle erupted from the woods…. Causing Alice to weakly look around to find Christine staring at her, laughing.
"I just had to see this!... This was just too perfect!" She laughed again "What is this? a cheaply made soap opera?" She continued laughing her heart out…. Causing Alice to weakly stand up, her violet eyes very focused on her's…a jade ring flickered in her eyes….. "You just Shut up! Can't you see you've done enough!" She just glared at her… her anger peaking….
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Doc was almost afraid of looking at the crumpled mess… he was afraid of the pain he was about to face again…. His heart twisting to the point of breaking….
He found himself going down the familiar dirt road a long one…. Quinn was pretty determined to have Doc stay with Kendal…. Just what was that boy up too?... Doc looked up at the sky in deep thought... heaven only knows…..
But there was just something in his voice…. That just … hit home….. that just caused him to ignore his Judge like mind…. And just do what he said….
There was a tug… a pull… for him to be there for her…. or…. what is left of her…. but it's still something that was hers that he could hold on too…..just for a little while….
He felt his tears weld up again, just at the thought of what was left of her…the thought that….
He looked up to the sky blinking his tears away… Crying never solved anything….it just made your eyes sore….
He could feel himself stop breathing as he went around that familiar gloomy bend….
He couldn't believe his eyes….
The hunk of twisted scrap metal was now just a very banged up Chrysler 300, the doors were crushed in… dents everywhere... scratches left and right… but… this… he couldn't believe….
Then … something pulsed in his sore heart….. hope
He rushed over to her side, checking some vials signs… "Kendal?... Kendal, Can you hear me?" …
He rested his tires gingerly on some spots of her warm frame…. Very dully feeling a steady weak pulse…
His eyes widened… 'she's alive..'
Joy was quickly tossed aside when he discovered a problem…. ….. She was suffocating…Her ring wasn't working fast enough to fix her airways...…. his Doctor instincts took over…. Realigning the air intakes... opening the carburetor up…. Unblocking her radiator… ….and… hoping she would be able to take a breath…..
…she couldn't….
Doc swallowed hard… "Come on Kendal… you gotta breath…."
Her body just sat there….her color fading from her features….
Doc gritted his teeth….. and shook his head… "Kendal… Don't quit on me!"
He rested a tire on her side….. her weak pulse slowing…
Doc swallowed hard…. He couldn't wait any longer….
Doc rolled in front of the banged up Chrysler 300… gently parting her mouth open with his tire… he paused…. Taking a deep breath…. And gently pressed his aperture with hers….as he breathed for her…. exhaling slowly…. Filling her nearly lifeless body with a breath of life….
He paused…parted from her for a few seconds…. Breathing a few breaths for himself… watching her… waiting for a response…. None…..
"Come on Kendal…." He breathed…. "Come on…. Your stronger than this….". He swallowed hard… As he linked lips with hers again… giving her his breath…..
He pulled back just enough…. Watching her … just waiting…. Nothing….
There was a ragged breath that was drawn from the air, followed by a few coughs, and a sharp ragged breath….
Doc's eyes soften as he back up a little more, giving her room to breathe…
And… that when he realized …. Quinn must have planned that all along…..Doc was the only one that can save anyone…
Her eyes fluttered a few times as her breathing softened to a normal pace….. Then… very slowly… just barely… her eyes cracked open… showing her beautiful dark blue eyes with a snow ring that ripped around her eyes…. Doc cracked a shaking smile, his eyes rather glassy as a tear traced down his hood… "H-Hey Kendal…."
She blinked weakly… a very small smile tugged on one side…. "Hey Hudson…"… She paused as slight worry crossed her features…. "What's wrong, Hudson?"
Hudson shook his head lightly…. "nothing now… just a lil' scared is all….."
Kendal closed her eyes for a second….. then weakly opened her eyes… "I saw my kids Hudson…."
Hudson paused… then slowly nodded…. "I'm sure you did…"
Kendal slowly breathed… "wow…."
Hudson looked deep into her eyes... "Wow is right…"
Kendal looked at him…a small embarrassed smile tugged….
Hudson rolled to her side, pressing himself up against her… "We gotta keep moving … can you stand?"
Kendal used him for support..as her tires shook on her shocks…..then shook, as she lost strength….Hudson quick to support her… pulling her closer to him…. "I got ya."
Kendal weakly looked at Hudson, "Just leave me here…. I'm just going to…"
Hudson shh'ed her gently…. "No…. No… Not again….. we in this together….through everything… for now on…." He nuzzled her gently… Kendal's eyes soften…. "not again….."
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"Just do us all a favor and Drop Dead!" Alice screamed at her tears just running… " Just Go away!..."
Christine laughed… "Look at you Alice! You've lost it… Your bodies failing on you, your boyfriend just kicked the bucket…."
Alice barely whispered.."He wasn't my boyfriend…"
Christine smirked as she raised a brow… "oh, my mistake…. Fiancé "
Alice choked at that…. "He wasn't that either….."
Christine laughed "Well he sure as heck acted like it! Didn't you hear that sappy story he just told?"
Alice gritted her teeth together…. "Shut up….."
"huh, could he be any more dramatic?"
Alice felt her anger build, anger tears welding up in her eyes…."Shut Up Christine!"
"If you ask me, you'd be better off with him dead….."
Alice's eyes switched to jade green…rippling intensely in her eyes…. " Take. It. Back."
"Why Alice what are you going to do!" She laughed as she enjoyed toying with her mind… "What can you possibly have left to fight for?"
Alice winced when that thought rippled through her mind.… her Ring flickering out of her eyes… ….as her body almost gave out on her…
"Ha! Just look at you Alice, Your Weak. You can barely stand! It's over!"
"Yes…. It is over…."
Both looked over at the owner of the gravel voice… "That's enough Christine…" Doc stood tall and strong as he rested a barely conscious Kendal down at his side…. Christine's eyes flared at the site of Kendal….
"What is she doing here!" she hissed through gritted teeth at the site of the banged up Chrysler.
"Kendal, is with me…" Doc said sternly… "And if you touch Her or anyone else for that matter again…. I will personally rip out every single piece of you out with my own two tires…"
Christine laughed insanely , "Is that a challenge? You think you can take me down Huddy!"
Doc shouted "Stop calling me that!" He snarled "I ain't your pet Christine…"
Christine huffed, "You want me to call you something else? I have a list of rotten names I can come up with for a piece of junk like you!"
Doc growled… "Knock it off!"
His grill curled in a snarl as he looked over at the dented Mustang weakly defending…. The crushed body of the Dodge... slightly wrapping around the tree…. …..
Alice felt her jaw tightened… as he locked eyes with Doc…. Doc glanced in slight hope over at the Dodge….. The Mustang very weakly shook her head…. Her bottom lip quivering as she shut her eyes….. tears running down her frame… Doc just stood there…. his eyes taking a minute to look at the dodge…. Then his eyes fall to the ground… slowly closing his eyes…
His body tensed up…. As he snapped his fierce eyes up at the fury "What did you do to Quinn!" He found himself uncontrollably shouting at the monster on four wheels…..
Christine rolled a little in the young pair's direction… Doc darted in front of Alice guarding the two…. "Why couldn't you just leave him alone….." he darkly growled at her….
Christine pressed closer to him, her voice just as low as his…. "I thought he was you…"
Doc paused… a random bit of a conversation flooded his mind…
'"But what if someone wanted to kidnap you, and I had to look like you to take your place to save your life?" Quinn's eyes looked into his eyes... His warm brown eyes reading his... a slight firmness behind his eyes….'
Doc looked in his side mirror... looking at the body... 'he wasn't just asking… he was being serious…' his eyes widened a little…
"I know.." Christine growled still keeping the low dark pitch in her voice… "I didn't know that lil' punk was a freak too… he caught me off guard… and I crushed him…"… an evil smile pulled on the side of her face… "Just like what I'm going to do with you…."
Doc crouched down… bracing himself at the suddenly charging fury…. She bent the nose of her hood down, smashing Doc on his good side sending her charge to a halt… Christine started growling at him for holding her back... spinning her back tires in frustration…. Doc grunted as he started to feel his locked tired sliding on the muddy terrain…
"Alice… You gotta do something…."
Alice swallowed hard….as she tried to stand up on her tires with no success…..
"Alice!"… Doc shouted as he tried pushing back….. "You're the only one strong enough… You have to do something….."
Christine lurched forward forcing Doc to skid back into the mustang... pushing the mustang into the mangled Dodge….
Her eyes were barely open…. Her body was quitting on her….. she couldn't open her mouth if she tried…..
Everything blurred... everything fuzzed out…. Her hearing was really dull…. The voices were muffled in her head….
Doc slowly turned facing Alice slightly…. His eyes weaken…. "Alice?" his voice was barely heard by this ringing in her ears…..
Her heart beat pounded in her head…..…. Slowing….right ….down….. To…
Her beautiful violet eyes looked over at Doc…. Then slowly closing….
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Her body shifted…. Over…feeling her body getting crushed up against the wall…. No pain ever came…..just the very dull sound of screeching brakes… and crunching metal…
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It was kind of weird… just failing… with everything just falling apart around you…
….
Doc wasn't doing good…..she knew….. he was slowly caving in as well…
….
…. A blind light shined in her vision…..but…. the light wasn't white…. it was tinted green…..
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Everything stopped….
Alice took a moment to try to make sense out of this situation…. And she drew to two conclusions…. Either Doc or Christine quit under pressure…. Or that she was dead…..
But she couldn't be dead! It didn't feel like that cold death feeling at all….. not like at jack's place…. When she did pay heaven a visit…
She slowly opened her eyes….as she looked over at the two guys that she cared about…. Doc was crushed on her side… breathing heavily….his face twisted in pain….. her eyes skated a crossed to his bent side view mirror…. Looking at the passed out Chrysler 300 holding onto the Hudson…. Then….. her eyes looked over at her other side…. He's crushed deceased frame rested on her side…..her eyes filling with tears….. 'Quinn…. Why Quinn?... Why…. Did you have to be the one…. In my visions…. Why…. Why…. '…. She swallowed hard….. tears just running in her eyes….. 'every time I see you….. I saw my future Quinn… …Do I even have a future now ….?... I don't even know anymore…'
Doc very slowly turned over to look at her… his eyes widened at the site of her eyes…
Alice found herself choking 'WhyCan't We All Just Go Back to the Way Things Were!'
Her dull reflection from the scratched up cobalt blue paint glowed the two powerful green rings…that grew taking over her field of site with that same green light from before…
Then… Just as quickly as It came…. The light disappeared…. Leaving her in a empty darkness….
Everything was still….Her eyes opened to her strong jade ring…as everything was still in it's place… Doc was still frozen by her side… Kendal holding on to him…. Quinn…rested on her…..whatever was happening…. They were going to go through this together…. For better …or worse…
There dark surrounding blurred with bright light… showing a clip of Christine laughing at Quinn and Alice….then flashed white….. a clip of Quinn being Doc, crushed around a tree…. Then a flash of light…. It was … like a movie of memories playing backwards before them…. Alice coughing a few times,her hood smoking on the side of the road…. Doc and Quinn talking, Quinn's eyes very serious…. …. The crushed up twisted mangled frame that was Kendal's….. Christine breaking though the fence in the impound lot…..Doc looking at the oil that was Alice's breakfast, watching it glisten in the sun…. Sheriff getting crushed by Christine's aggression in the clinic….
The four didn't move… as they watched their memories being played around them…
Alice looking around her surroundings calling for her mom….. Quinn looking up to the sky "Don't give up on something that is worth fighting for…." … Doc and Christine glaring at each other in his clinic as she tugged a sicking smile " Who says revenge starts with you?"…..Alice peering through the open window of the house, looking at the old falcon that didn't move, and Christine's eyes looking up at hers… Doc's worried eyes in his clinic as he rested the picture on the ground "Alice?... Alice are you alright?", Alice looked up at him with bright jade green rings " I gotta do something….. i…gotta know… I gotta see….", Doc grabbed on to her "Alice don't do this…", Alice weakly looked at him "But I just gotta know what happened.".…Doc watched Quinn take off down the road…..Quinn pounding on Alice's door to her cozy cone "Alice, Alice! Oh please open up!"… Kendal looked over at Hudson that Christine pulled away from her, "Fine… I see how it is…. Goodbye Hudson… I won't curse your life with mine any longer…." She paused and she found her eyes welding up, "Take good care of Alice for me…"… Doc Smiled as he watched Alice look up at the night sky "Wow! Look at the stars!", "This is a site to see." He smiled while he talked, "I'd say…." Alice continued looking up at the stars in awe….
The light started glowing again… covering their field of vision... before completely blinding them one last memory was barely seen…..
"What if…" Alice thought aloud "What if the ring acts like this pen. When you think you know how it's going to react to your touch…"
The pen slowly slipped from her grasp and it clattered on the floor for the second time. "It slips in the most unpredictable of ways."
She went to grab the pen again… but hesitated. Her eyes fixated on that white, liquid, blue pen. "But… if I focus…" She slowly grabbed the pen again, holding it tightly. "The pen never falls."
The blinding light engulfed the group, numbing their senses…. Numbing everything…..
The light slowly subsided….
Alice's vision was black….as she felt the cold hard floor brush against her undercarriage causing her to shiver….
Her body didn't hurt when she shivered…
She found herself slowly opening her eyes to the homey familiar place of Doc's clinic…..The sun setting light leaked between the dusty blinds…. Her eyes looked around slightly, just enough to catch the site of a working mirror… The one Doc used before… to see herself for the first time all dented and mangled…but….
She locked her eyes with the Working Mirror just in time to see her ring still present in her violet eyes… There stood a slightly dusty Mustang…. Not even a scratch on her custom paint…
This… was too familiar…. It was almost like when she woke up from a bad dream with Quinn at her side….
She looked over at the empty lift… then in the back of the room…. … no…. Quinn….
She felt herself choke up… grief ate at her heart… …. Death was death….no magic could change it
"I couldn't save you…."… she closed her eyes…letting the tears run down her face…. Her body shook from emotion… "… I couldn't save you….."….a few sobs escaped from her stubborn nature….
Her broken breaths echoed in the small clinic, bouncing around the empty room…. "Quinn… I'm so sorry….I tried."
Her tires scooted closer to her body in an uncomfortable fashion…. She didn't feel like herself at all… She wasn't happy….she felt hollow inside….. her heart was dying…
More tears gushed down her face, her bottom lip quivering uncontrollably…. Her tank turned funny from stress…..
She swallowed hard as she backed up in the corner of the room….her body trembling…badly….She wanted to be comforted…. But she wanted to cry …. She could find Doc but…. It just will ease the pain…. Not fix it….
Her sobs caught in her throat when slow tires gliding over asphalt caught her attention… Doc must be coming back from Flo's or something….
Alice blinked a few times, sniffling a few times, trying to make herself somewhat presentable….She glanced up at the working mirror again, her ring still present in her now red, puffy eyes…. Yeah… she was a wreak…
The door slowly creaked open, a few oil cans emerged from the door, "Hey, I was wondering if you wanted a lil' something in your tank…."
Alice closed her eyes holding back tear, hiding her sore eyes from his sharp crystal… "No thanks… I don't think I can eat at the moment…"
He came through the door and paused…. "Alice?"
Alice swallowed hard… and opened her eyes….
His eyes were so soft and warm… as those eyes quickly flashed with worry a crossed those sugar brown eyes…. "Alice, What's wrong?"
Alice eyes watered up… "Quinn…" She started breaking down as she quickly rolled over to him for support and comfort…. "Quinn!. Your alive!"
Quinn held her close, savoring every second, desperately holding on to her… "Hey Alice…."
Alice buried her grill into his side… "don't leave me…."
Quinn gently nuzzled her, " never …."
Alice sighed shaky…. Then paused….. and looked up at him with her Jade Rings, slowly fading away in her Violet eyes….Her body weaken suddenly as her face pailed… "Good…" she whispered… "Good…" her body went limp at his side…
Quinn froze for a few seconds… unsure wither to call Doc in, or have Kendal heal her… but… ring exhaustion was a normal thing…. He should know….
His eyes soften as he settled down next to her scooting closer to her… as he waited for her to recover right at her side…. His body relaxed… a soft sigh escaping from his features…. "….my plan worked…."
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