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Disclaimer : I don't own the Boondocks
Tuesday morning.
There was still no movement on Rome's end, the doctors had sedated him and he was in an induced state but they were not sure if he would come out of it. He had a broken jaw and nose and his cheek bone and skull were fractured. It didn't even matter anymore, Huey could still say hello that that GBH charge, and their best bet was that Rome just stayed in a coma forever.
This is what made Jazmine flop back on her bed, blowing out a breath. She reached out to her beside desk and retrieved her phone; mixed feelings were the only thing she could feel at the point in time. She picked one name, then decided against it and dialled another.
"Hello" she greeted
"What up yo" Cindy said loudly into the phone, Jazmine had to hold the phone just a little bit away from her ear, when Cindy yelled.
"Nothing" she said dryly
"No shit, how's the party planning going" Cindy asked in her normal loud self
"It's ok I guess, hey Cindy can I ask you a question" she the conversation in a more serious direction. Fiddling with her necklace, as she thought about how her friend would respond.
"Yeah shoot" Cindy replied
"Is it wrong for me to feel sympathy for Rome and angry at Huey," Jazmine asked, out loud it sounded ridiculous as well.
"What, that don't make no sense" Cindy replied confused, she sighed deeply
"I know, but when I think about the damage he caused you know, the state he's in. it wasn't really necessary" Jazmine said quietly, maybe she was too nice and maybe she felt worse after learning Rome was her cousin so it was like Huey hurt her family. Even though she hated him equally, no one deserved that.
"Huey was just protecting you and are you forgetting Rome killed a little girl so Rome caused damage and Huey was just cleaning it up" Cindy
"He did a sloppy job" Jazmine retorted, then continued guiltily
"But Cin, there's ways to do that without putting people near the white pearly gates"
"Diddys house" Cindy asked in response, Jazmine rolled her eyes
"No stop, I mean death Cindy, it was a euphemism" Jazmine explained
"Eupho-what, ay I don't know that nerd shit you speak, but you sound like you need some sort of intervention, let me call Sash" Cindy suggested
"No, she's too biased against Huey for this" Jazmine admitted
"Exactly, if she agrees with what Huey did then your just being to damn nice again" Cindy explained in a bored tone.
"Do you think" she asked, she didn't wonder if her capacity for forgiveness was making her stupid again.
"I think Huey was protecting you, the same way Caesar was protecting you but I guess I don't know. He probably didn't need too give him the full can of whoop ass but damn if I thought there was a small chance I may regret easing up, don't forget he was packing" Cindy informed her thoughtfully. She considered this.
"I mean I get you may be a bit shaken up, that night was mad but it aint like Huey be beating dudes up in front of you before" Cindy reasoned
"I guess, but he's been real rowdy lately. Huey doesn't go around just hurting people" Jazmine protested, Cindy could be heard tapping away on her keyboard, maybe she had her on loudspeaker.
"But Jazzy he wasn't, he was doing it to stop Rome from hurting you" Cindy stressed, she knew this to an extent but it still didn't sit right with her. She couldn't help but feel guilty
"I know but Huey's strong, he knows he's strong he knows what he's capable of and well in your house that night it just looked to me like he was capable of murder…romes state doesn't prove me wrong either" she told her.
"He could have been the bigger man, you know dismantle the gun. Tie him up wait for the cops to come something smarter than the brutality he showed" Jazmine told her trying to get her point across.
"Hey that could fly if Rome didn't have a gun pointed at people, we didn't plan that, Huey didn't. But girl don't trip yo cuz gonna be alright" Cindy added in.
"Don't call him that" Jazmine said sharply. Cindy chuckled a little
"Sorry girl, I had too. That some shit though, Toms cold yo, he put his cuz in jail"
"My dad said it wasn't his fault" she weakly defended her father
"Yeah well, I don't know about all of that but all I know is your family is crazayy" Cindy said
"Extended family" Jazmine corrected sharply, Rome was in no way close to her and the fact she felt guilty had nothing to do with him but more to do with Huey.
"your daddy weird as hell. What's he saying about you and Huey"
"He hasn't said anything, I think he's too worried about what Rome's dad might try do to him and then obviously Huey's case on Friday…at the point I don't even feel like having a party I'm tired" Jazmine told her, just the thought of a party made her head hurt.
"Girl boo, you're having one leave it to me and Sasha. Your parents still going away this weekend"
"Nope" she answered flatly. How could they go away when all this danger was looming around their family. It wasn't like her dad was even trying to protect her, he was protecting himself. It was a selfish thought but she was convinced at this. Her grandmother had been somewhat quiet and not really involved, she had been spending time at this country club. However she did hear her say to her father he should have washed his hands of his family a long time ago. Where did she get off saying that. She wondered if Rome knew they were related, he couldn't have. He wanted to, well he wanted her to do un family things to him in Cindys house.
"So we just change the location to my house" she was brought back by Cindy rambling on about her party.
"Your mom would let you have people over, after two people almost died in your house" Jazmine asked in disbelief
"My moms gone away, she said she needed stress relief" Cindy said bitterly
"Oh" was all jasmine could offer neglected friend
"Jazzy you're lucky, your man wants to defend you. At least you aint got a bitch nigga like Rome in your corner"
"That's disgusting" She said, shuddering at the thought of being romantically linked with Rome.
"What Sasha said you can do second cousins"
"That is disgusting" she repeated for her blonde friend
"Whatever" Cindy said
"I just don't want Huey using me as some reason to inflict pain on others" Jazmine said it word for word as she tried to get what her heart and head were thinking out verbally.
"You doing too much, it was a one off. Stop worrying" Cindy reassured her. Maybe she was right
"Well thanks I'll let you know about the party" she said thinking about Huey.
"Ok, I'll get facebooking" Cindy told her before the phone clicked. Great her party was going to be a tirade of the entire student body. Better Cindy house than hers she guessed.
She looked at her phone and went into messages, she saw the message he left her last night. In fact she was pretty sure she stared at the message until she fell asleep. She just didn't know how to talk to him about this.
Tom watched looked up from the kitchen counter to Jazmine walking past, Evelyn was sitting by the table drinking her coffee
"Honey where are you going", Jazmine stopped and looked into the kitchen with a bored look
"Out" she replied vaguely, he opened his mouth to say something then dismissed it. He heard his mother in law snort in the background.
"Going to see that roughneck I bet" she offered from the far side of the kitchen. He watched Jazmine roll her eyes
"When are you leaving again" Jazmine asked her eyes narrowing in irritation.
"Jazmine" Tom tried to defer the tension from the two women.
"Look whatever I don't even care, I'm just going out. I won't be long" she said without waiting for a reply, he heard the front door close.
"Your own daughter doesn't respect you" Evelyn
"Would you give it a rest" he snapped, Evelyn looked up from the table at her son in law.
"You choose the oddest times to be assertive" she explained coolly. He buried his head in his hands.
"Personally, never knew what my girl saw in you" she said as she got up
"By the way I've decided to leave early, I've come to realise this isn't the best time to renew a relationship with my granddaughter" she announced, Tom let out a relieved sigh the last week and half had been hell.
"Sorry to hear that" he mumbled.
"You don't have to leave, this is all going to blow over" Tom compensated in his default doormat behaviour.
"Really, well with your bitter family member trying to kill everyone I'd think otherwise"
"it's just a misunderstanding" he clarified, she gave him a look of disbelief
"Of course it is, always is…mistaken identities, wrong place at the wrong time sort of things right" she questioned cynically.
"Bet you're going to tell me he's innocent", she mocked as she walked past him
"No, this isn't anything you really need to be concerned with", Tom tried to remain polite even though he felt hugely insulted.
"You're endangering my family" she replied
"No I am not." Tom defended, Evelyn rolled her eyes
"You just better hope you lock that roughneck boyfriend of hers up before she gets caught in anymore cross fires" and with that the plump white woman exited the kitchen leaving Tom alone with his worries.
Tom got up; he figured maybe he could diffuse this by talking to his estranged cousin. They were men after all and they could come to a compromise, he was a lawyer he knew people. He was sure he could do something to appease this situation and return normality to his life again.
Huey looked at his phone and frowned when he still didn't see any messages from Jazmine. He had called her twice since Sunday, to which she had not replied to either. He had sent her one message the night before and still no reply. Now if he didn't know for a fact that she was just in her house avoiding him, he could have lied to himself and said she got kidnapped. He glared at his phone and jumped up and grabbed the bar hanging posted in his ceiling and begun doing his pull ups in frustration.
He didn't understand why she wasn't getting back to him, unless Tom really did buck up his ideas and confiscate all her technology. He doubted this strongly, nope she was just being that annoying awkward 10 year old he disliked back in the day. It really did annoy him though, didn't she know that when she acted like this it affected him and with all he had going on it wasn't fair.
He did everything she wanted him to do, he made up with granddad, he apologised to Caesar, he dropped Romane and he protected her from near death, just like she messaged him. Why now when he was finally getting everything back in place, was she acting strange? Huey hoped it just had more to do with the fact that Tom was related to Rome, which made him Jazmines cousin. For some reason it made some sense to him, he wasn't familiar with criminals holding grudges against lawyers, except Gerald butler in Law Abiding Citizen, but normally they held grudges against the people in the streets who helped put them in jail or someone along those lines.
Yeah it was self explanatory the police weren't the. Why anyone would hold a grudge against Tom Dubois was beyond him but a family thing. He could see why his cousin may be angry. If your cousin was some flash ADA and the best he get you was 10 years behind bars, he'd be pissed too. However he wouldn't then send his stupid ass son to kill said ADAs daughter, that was stupid because look where he was now. A part of Huey did want to feel remorse for what he had done, and a part of him did. Rome was a motherfucker and he deserved to pay for his shit, in jail. He just let his anger get the better of him, again. He sighed, his meditation was pending.
"Motherfuckers" he said out loud
"Morning" he narrowed his eyes towards his door to see a Jazmine standing in the doorway her green eyes eyed him from head to toe and then rested on his eyes.
"How was mars" he asked as he did another pull up, she walked in casually and sat on his bed as if she had not been avoiding him.
"Are you going to come down and talk to me" she asked innocently, ignoring his comment. He stopped half way up and looked down at her expectant stare and found himself glaring at his girlfriend.
"No…feel free to explain yourself" Huey replied nonchalantly, he heard her sigh loudly and shift on his bed. He continued to do his pull ups and was on number 4 since she arrived when she finally spoke
"You scared me" she stated, his brows knitted together in confusion. He wanted to ask why but then decided to keep quiet and let her explain,
"You almost killed him, well could have killed him. He might not even live so that might still be valid. Huey what the hell were you thinking, you do know we have college next year. They won't accept convicts no matter how smart you are" Jazmine started to babble.
"This isn't about college" he replied in a monotone
"Huey, you don't just let out 10 years worth of emotion on one person". Huey's eyes bugged out
"What did you just say"
"I'm just saying, Rome's a moron but the way you acted was as if he did much worse than what he did" Jazmine announced
"Oh so you would have liked a bullet in your chest, my bad" he replied dryly. Letting go of the bar and landed on his feet. Their eyes met in an in conflicted exchanged
"That's not what I said, I said you went too far", Jazmine repeated
"I was just keeping him from hurting you" he defended
"I know that but Huey you weren't acting smart"
"Excuse me for not planning how quick you could die from a bullet wound" he said annoyed with her pacifist behaviour.
"What are you going to do if he dies" she asked him, Huey rolled his eyes
"He's guilty of a lot more than what they can accuse me of" Huey told her firmly.
"Well none of that is really going to matter if he's dead" Jazmine snapped back
"Jazmine you worry too much" he waved off her irrational concern
"Oh and what's going to happen on Friday" Jazmine enquired, closing in on him
"Plan on causing hell in the courtroom" He replied with a shrug, she glared at him
"Not everything is a crusade you know" she spelt out in a almost dumb tone that he didn't appreciate.
Huey couldn't believe this, after everything that had happened in the last few weeks, after he patched things up with everyone now she wanted to fall out.
"This isn't a crusade, it's the law. What do you suggest I do not go to court" he asked her
"That's not what I meant and you know it"
"I have no idea what you mean, your acting strange as hell right now" he practically yelled back at her.
"Ay you niggas pipe down, Esco tryna get some sleep damn" Riley said from the door. Jazmine and Huey both sent the Riley a deadly look,
"Whatever, don't be too loud when yall having angry sex ya hear" Riley said with a smirk and disappeared
"Huey your stupid" Huey scowled deeply, his fists tightening in frustration.
"This is childish, there is no reason for you to be upset about anything. If anything I should be annoyed with you, what was that shit you pulled at the hospital with Sasha"
"Excuse you, I was going to the bathroom" She lamely defended
"More like fleeing the scene"
"Huey I cant stand you and Sasha arguing, I've told you this already" she told him.
"So she was talking shit and you did nothing"
"She had a point" she mumbled, his eyes widened
"What"
"I said she had a point, what were you playing at you know a lot of this could have been avoided had you COM-MUNI-CATED HUEY" her voiced raised with the last part of her sentence.
"Yeah because I wanted to have your hysterical ass in my ear all night about dying" Huey retorted. Jazmine lips scrunched up and her eyes became slits
"I am not hysterical" Jazmine defended loudly
"You're irrational, like right now for example"
"No, you're the irrational one, you hit your granddad for trying to keep the peace between you and my dad and look at you, why are you fists clenched are you going to hit me or something because I don't agree with you" Huey felt his heart strings pull, why would she even thnk such a thing. Huey unclenched his fist slowly, this was getting out of hand.
"How can you even say that, I'd never – ugh forget it you should know me by now and as for my granddad It was more than that" He looked at her, her greens eyes locked with his, anger still evident in her. She blinked as if it hurt, did she even hear what he said.
"No it wasn't, you were just being a bully" Jazmine continued, she wasn't letting this go and it was irritating and it kind of hurt a little.
"I'm not having this conversation anymore" He had enough he was turning his back on her, she was acting dumb.
"It's not a conversation it's an argument, you moron" Jazmine called him out, he turned back on her.
"Name calling, really after everything that's happened. Goddamn Jazmine you're even weaker than I thought. Rome was in the wrong, he-"
Jazmine eyes opened wide, Huey whole head bobbed to the left, she quickly reclined her hand. She looked at her boyfriend, she was just accusing him of maybe wanting to hit her and then she hits him. Why did he call her weak, she wasn't weak because she had a heart? She watched his eyes squint and then he looked directly at her, his look could kill.
"I think you should go now" he told her in a steady voice. She didn't know what to say she was at a loss for words. She opened her mouth to speak but no words came out, his cheek had started to redden and she felt an immense amount of guilt. Her body moved to comfort him. His look held the stoic quality but it was something about the way his pupils became very small, that let her know he was vulnerable. Huey moved away from her.
"You don't have to worry about me bullying anyone, you clearly feel strongly about this and I'm not apologising for anything so I think you should you leave now, we have nothing more to talk about" he finally said, his voice was even and lacked emotion.
"Huey I'm"
"Jazmine, I don't care right now" Huey cut her off quickly, and she let some tears loose.
"Fine" she said trying not to prove him right with his weak comment
She tried to apologise but if he didn't want to accept that was just fine, she guessed. Even though her stomach flopped a hundred times over and she felt like crying and begging for forgiveness. Huey had already started looking through one of his boxes for some sort of training equipment. They just needed time to calm down, she hoped. That's all she kept on thinking as she left his room silently, looking back once to see him still aimlessly pulling out small weapons and items. His words were echoing through her mind, they didn't have anything to talk about; god why he chose today to put a grey area on their relationship.
Maybe she over reacted, ok she probably over reacted. He wasn't listening to her. She walked out of the freeman house giving Mr Freeman a weak smile as he enquired about the noise. Angry sex sure did sound better than what had just happened.
"Damn him" she muttered as she wiped some tears from her eyes as she trudged back to her house, and she couldn't wait to call the one person who would gladly tell her how dumb Huey was being.
Daniel looked around the hospital room; he was getting bored of this shit. It wasn't much but it did feel good to be out of that prison, around real people again, also it was nice to sleep in a bed better than that cardboard shit they had in prison. It was nice, they put him up in some crummy hotel and he had someone to report to and also with his ankle tag he wasn't getting anywhere, after 8pm. It was still weird being in such a normal environment. He had less to think about with doctors coming in and out and checking on his son's current status. Investigators coming in fishing for information as well as threatening their sons status when he does in fact wake up. Even his ex wife spared him a few words now and again. His mind kept drifting back to Huey, niggas couldn't just beat on peoples families and not expect no repercussions it didn't work like that. That kid must know that, he twisted the paper in his hand.
"Daniel" he raised a brow at the sound of a feeble voice.
"Daniel, It's" Daniel looked up and looked Cousin Tom in the face, smirking. He was surprised to see his legit cousin standing a few metres away from him. The only sound came from the machine monitoring Rome. He stared at him and he could see the perspiration forming on the ADAs forehead.
"Thomas" he replied, Tom looked like he was torn between what to say to him.
"this needs to stop, what happened with the kids that was too far how could you be so" Tom started to go on and Daniel rolled his eyes. Just like when they were kids Tom always had a hundred reasons to not do something.
"So what, I didn't do anything in fact you can't prove shit" Daniel told him
"Its not about proving anything, you've ruined your sons life"
"I believe you did that, when you chose those cock sucking white folk over your own blood" he replied without much thought for Toms position
"You were breaking the law" Tom stressed, as if no one understood the weight of that statement
"Whatever, you supposed to get in the game to help niggas not lock em up"
"I, I"
"I, I…you still a bitch Tom I aint got a clue how you swung that white bitch"
"Don't talk about my wife like that" Tom said his voice holding a little more oomph to it but not enough
"Whatever, this shit aint done, nigga you ruined me"
"I didn't do anything, Daniel this is ridiculous. Your son is on his death bed does that not mean anything to you"
"Yeah it means that nigga who put him here is going to pay, you know like them niggas who used to bully and shit, remember that me protecting your bitch ass" Tom was quiet
"Daniel I can try and get your sentence reduced, if you leave my family alone if you leave me daughter alone" Tom offered desperately
"I don't want you half hearted deals, nigga I want my freedom"
"Daniel we are men, we both made choices. Choices that obviously didn't benefit you I was all for helping you that plea deal would have given you 3 years and 10 year probation"
"And be a snitch, you know better than that, you could have done better, I gave you one damn name" Daniel snapped
"Be rational"
"I aint got nothing to loose nigga, so whether I kill your daughter, your wife or your cat I aint got shit to loose" Tom seemed to consider this and the fear on his face registered
"Look anything, anything at all just don't hurt my family. I mean for gods sake were family it was out of my control this isn't fair. This, this is", Daniel glared, the damn water works were about to start, Tom started to sniffle, his head hanging like a dog.
"Don't, please, whatever you want I'll do my best. Maybe move you to a better correctional facility how about declare you insane move you to a ward or" Tom begun to ramble about all the possiblities for a convicted felon in his position. All of what he wasn't interested in, he knew his time was finished.
"Why the fuck would I want to stay in a ward for the rest of my life" he asked in disblief of the suggestion itself.
"I'm just saying, I can try and do something. We can come to an arrangement" Daniel thought about this, he looked at his sorry excuse for family. Then Toms face lit up.
"I'll appeal your sentence" Tom spoke up confidently at this new suggestion.
"Tamper with evidence" Daniel asked carefully, now this was sounding promising
"Umm, well I can't do that. That would be breaking the law but I have a buddy and he can definitely talk his way out of those appeals I mean one time" Tom again with his damn rambling. Daniel stood up and Tom stopped and eyed him smiling nervously, Daniel took a step towards him.
"Nigga stick to the damn subject, this aint happy hour. Nigga what can you do for me" he asked forcefully.
"Rome, he's facing all these charges. I can present his case as misguided, even the murder, it can be an accident a completely random accident and get him some counselling, we can really show how its effected him emotionally and mentally and" Daniel raised a hand to stop him.
"And what would your white friends think about that" he asked suspiciously, all of this sounded too good to be true and Tom was a sly ass lawyer he knew that from first hand experience.
"Its not only white people who work in law enforcement" Tom corrected gently and retracted when he saw his glare
"Look they want less paper work, I can do it. It'd work and for you I'd"
"So you get me moved to better facilities and get my son off" he reiterated just to be clear.
"Yes" Tom all but shouted
"Not good enough" he shut him down and Tom gaped
"What more would you want" his voice wavering between surprise and fear.
"I don't want all that 'I think I can do it' I want some confirmed shit" he told him firmly.
"I can do it, I can" Tom pleaded, Daniel eyed him carefully. He was such a bitch, always had been and probably always would be. He stared at him and thought about the situation his own son was in because of him. Maybe it wasn't the best situation to have put him in, maybe he should try this thing with Tom.
"I want the kid" Daniel uttered, the beeps seemed to get louder in the room. Tom was confused as he looked at him
"What kid, I said I'd do my best to get Romane off the hook" Tom started
"No I want the kid who did this to him" he clarified
"I have reason to believe he fucks your little girl" Daniel just played off Toms insecurities he had no idea whether or not his daughter was giving it up to the boy but it didn't matter. All this saving life shit was sure to swing her in that direction anyway.
"He is not; he is not doing that with my Jazmine" Tom voice was cracking
"Man whatever, I want him. But I can't do shit cos of this ankle tag. Now what are you Tom Dubois going to do about it" Daniel asked, Tom looked hopeless once again. Daniel grinned when he saw the defeatist expression on his cousin's face. This was better than revenge; oh this was so much better.
R&R :)
Already calling the next chapter doomsday so whenever I finish I'll post but I'll get back to that now.