Kong Li Christmas : A Sue Story 18
By Crystalquirt
Tobue. Kong Li messes up Christmas by trying to take Sue out of the celebration for good. Scary situations, violence, mild language, action, romance, angst, oh yeah.
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"Sid - Sid Yee!"
Sid felt someone shaking his shoulder. "What . . . Sue! . . . Whats wrong? Is it Kong Li?"
The same elderly, blue haired old woman who had been kind to him earlier looked at him strangely. "My name isn't Sue sweetie."
Sid pulled himself together and realized where he was. "Sorry ma'am - is Tobey okay? Did they save his hand?"
'I'm sorry kid, your friend took off before they could put him under. They've been searching the hospital but haven't found him. They just sent me to tell you."
"Oh no . . . dammit Tobey!" Sid grumbled but looked up at her, "But they said he could loose the use of his hand if they didn't do surgery right away!"
"I can't say about that, but maybe you can help find him before he gets out of here – finding him would be sure to improve his chances of recovery."
"Well, maybe he still has his phone?"
Sid pulled his phone out and Tobey's signal was going down Smith Street, very quickly. He jumped up.
"I will bring him back."
Sid ran out of the hospital and waved down a cab. "Where to?"
"Smith Street." Sid continued to stare at his phone watching the little dot that was his friend.
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With Sue still in a choke hold, Kong Li landed lightly on his feet just in time for the last of his Specter Stew to wear off. He and Sue became visible again in front of a building that smelled of old fish. The disused warehouse had not been cleaned when it was abandoned and there were mummified fish remains all over.
Each time Sue struggled, Kong Li choked her tighter and kneed her burned leg. By the time they got in the warehouse she was very weak. She mumbled, "Sid and Tobey will come for me, Nana will come and kick your ass Kong Li!"
"Tobey and Sid couldn't have made it out of my fire ring. Mei Hua must be very sad after losing both of her reject boys at once. It should be easy to beat her now. No one will come for you, but you will help me get the cookbook back. "
"I will never help you do anything, except maybe disappear from our lives and rid Chinatown of it's greatest annoyance."
"You can keep on hoping little Sue Yee."
Kong Li pushed Sue down and roughly pulled her hands behind her back. He took a cord and put three wraps around her wrists before he tied a knot, yanking on it angrily to get it as tight as possible. Then tied her ankles together in the same way. He gagged her with old, fishy smelling burlap and dragged her to a long, low cage that looked like it had been for some kind of large animal.
Kong Li acted like he was sad. "My poor tiger didn't survive my last experiment, so her cage is available for you to live in for a little while, until I get ready for my next move."
"Make yourself at home - I will be back soon." Kong Li slammed the gate on her cage, turned out the lights and left the warehouse.
Sue rolled onto her stomach and then onto her side so she could see where she was, but the windows were all too high and too dirty to see out of. She bent her knees and kicked weakly with her bound ankles at the cage door. She soon gave up and lie still except for panting to catch her breath. The cords on her wrists and ankles were way too tight and hurt.
She moaned and struggled trying to loosen the cord that bound her hands behind her back, but found she was too weak to even keep that up for long. She could find nothing sharp in the cage to rub the cords on and nothing was even in sight of the cage that she could use to get free let alone reach somehow. Then, in the silence. the scary thoughts started parading through her mind.
What if Kong Li was right and Nana couldn't save Sid and Tobey from the fire? It spread so fast and burned so intensely it really scared her, and she wasn't the one trapped by it. The more she thought about what happened, and thought about having her first kiss with Tobey, the sadder she became. Soon she was crying, sobbing into the gag.
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Tobey finally felt and heard the hearse stop. There were only seconds between the stop and when he felt them pulling Mr. Smith out.
"Boy 'e was a biggun', huh mate?"
"Heavier than he looks." was the chitchat Tobey heard they picked him and Mr. Smith up, not knowing they were lifting two. Tobey stayed very still and waited. The zipper being open a little made him feel a little less trapped, but he still held on tightly to the zipper pull from the inside. He slowly took the oxygen mask off while he was being carried and got ready to jump out.
The voices around him were saying, lets embalm him right away, before we leave for the day. The family will want to see him tomorrow when they come to sign the papers."
Tobey felt the abrupt stop when they dropped the body bag on the table. "You get the formaldehyde, I will strip the body and get the clothes washed."
When the zipper came down and the bag was thrown open, Tobey couldn't help, but cry out as he jumped out of the bag. His body was stiff after being in the bag and lying still so long, but he landed running.
Seeing a living half-clothed boy jump out of the body bag made both of the guys scream and jump too. No one made an attempt to grab Tobey when he ran from the room and out the back door.
Only the light of dusk was left in the sky as Tobey ran down the sidewalk and turned down the first alley. Running through the alley with bare feet was taking its tole on his skin. He hated being slowed down when he had to stop and pick out shards of broken glass and little sharp pieces of metal and wood every few yards.
Tobey stopped to pull out yet some more glass and took the time to look around. "Now where am I?"
Nothing looked familiar. He got his phone out of his pocket and his GPS said he was just outside of Chinatown and had to run many blocks back to the warehouse district where Kong Li could always be found. "Oh man, I wish I had my bike! Or even my shoes." he said sadly put his phone in his pocket and cradled his splinted arm.
Tobey kneeled and then sat down next to a crate to catch his breath. Oh crud, the GPS is turned on! He quickly pulled his phone back out and turned it off. I gotta get out of here! If Sid or Nana saw my signal - they will try to stop me before I can find Sue!
He forced himself back up on his sore feet and jogged down the alley until he found himself behind a small grocery store. A small, older model truck that belonged to Mr. Chun was parked behind the store, Mr. Chun came out and walked toward the truck. Tobey ducked so he wouldn't be seen.
He was sure Mr. Chun would be going home this time of the evening and climbed in the back of the truck without being seen. Tobey rolled up right behind the cab so he wouldn't be seen in the mirrors either. It was freezing in the back of the truck and Tobey wished he had grabbed a hospital gown or something. He wrapped his arms around himself as best he could with the splint on his wrist and closed his eyes.
If Tobey had been thinking clearly at all, he would have realized Mr. Chun would have let him ride inside the truck with him, but Tobey didn't even think to ask.
Sid got to the funeral home and the staff verified that a crazy, shirtless and barefooted teenaged boy with a white streak in his hair had jumped out of a body bag, but he ran off. Sid ran in the direction they said he went, Tobey was no where in sight. Sid checked his phone again for Tobey's GPS and now it was gone!
"Oh Tobey, what are you doing?" You could have been out of surgery by now and we could have both been looking for Sue!
Instead now I have to look for you!"
Not sure what to do next, Sid called Nana and told her what was going on while he waited for a cab to go by that he could flag down.
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"Tobey, what are you doing in the back of my truck?"
Tobey startled, he didn't even realize that the truck had stopped. "I – I . . . "
"Where are your shirt and shoes? You must be freezing – come inside for some hot chocolate and I will call Mei Hua."
"No – I can't, um she isn't home, I'm meeting Nana!" Tobey jumped out of the truck and ran, but called back to him, "Thanks for the ride!"
Tobey planned on starting his search with the warehouses closest to the wharf. He turned into the next alley on his way and had to stop to catch his breath again. His wrist was throbbing with pain his feet felt like they still had glass in the bottoms of them. The fun effects of the gas had worn off so he could feel his every ache and pain, which were too numerous to count.
Tobey groaned and got up to be on his way, but found himself face to face with a smiling Kong Li!
He stepped back, limping after stepping on a nail. "Where's Sue!"
"You survived once again, you must have nine lives like a cat, but you must be running out, what are you? Down to one or two lives left? I suppose since you are here, Sid must have survived too."
"Dammit! Where's SUE!"
Kong Li still ignored his questions. "Imagine my surprise at running into you. Now you can help me get the cookbook too."
Tobey screamed in anger and charged Kong Li.
Kong Li calmly swung his staff and brought it down over his splinted wrist. Tobey screamed. That one strike enough to put him down in his condition, helpless to fight Kong Li he lie groaning, holding his injured arm across his chest. Kong Li picked him up and put him over his shoulder.
Tobey smiled hoping Kong Li would just take him to where Sue was. He let his arms and legs hang limply as Kong Li moved through the alleys taking him somewhere. Kong Li seemed unusually happy. Now he had two of Mei Hua's rejects. He was sure he could use Tobey and Sue to get him the cookbook.
"Thanks to you and Sue, I will have the cookbook and have total rule over Chinatown before the new year! The world will fall under my rule soon after that. Too bad you won't be around to see the new year, and the glorious civilization I will build, but your Nana – I will make Mei Hua my personal slave. She will serve me, grant my every whim for the rest of her days."
Tobey growled softly in anger, but forced himself to remain limp, pretending to be unconscious.
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Tobey continued . . .