In The Dead of Night Book 1 & 2

Chapter Eleven

                                                                Chapter 11

My eyes crusty and vision blurred, as I began to regain consciousness my head was pounding; my body in immense pain. My limbs felt as if they were boulders, I hadn’t enough strength to lift them. I struggled to see my surroundings, but my vision was not seeming to clear enough to gain enough detail to identify where I was or what exactly had happened.

I remembered the explosion, I had not even thought about the gas main to the house being a danger to my proximity. With the immense distraction of deputy dip shit pointing his gun at me and the utter confusion of why Stacey would turn on me like that, I did not see that coming at all with everything we have gone through together.

My head turns quickly to my right as I hear a distorted groan, trying to get my eyes to focus on what was making the sound. It was deep and struck me as a man at first thought, but my damn eyes just won’t clear up. My head still throbbing and also a burning sensation, I must have been burnt in the explosion. I feel a bone chilling cold against my back, like I were laying on concrete or steel, last thing I remember was feeling the deputy lock handcuffs on my wrist and then a ton of weight hit me as I blacked out.

Could I be in jail? It would make sense with the feel of cold concrete underneath me, however with the injuries I have clearly sustained, I would think I would have been taken to the emergency room and while surely being monitored by police. I would be in a warm hospital bed and clearly I am not, so I must be in jail though. I always expected it to be much more noisy in here, and besides the groan I heard moments ago there has been nothing but silence.

Stacey, I bet that bitch is safe at home hugging up on her family like she was an innocent victim in all of this, nice and warm with people flauking all around her to hear her story. How she was the only one that managed to survive, she certainly was not innocent in all of this, that bitch was just as twisted as me; if not more. I would like to see everyone’s faces if they could have seen what she did to the forest ranger, one thing is for sure she is lucky that house exploded, cause given half the chance I would have killed that deputy and her back stabbing bitch ass as well.

Wait she was not the only survivor, what about the daughter I had taken from the house? What happened to her? I am sure she is fine as well and already booking interviews of her traumatic experience as well, I should have killed her like her family. If I had, chances are I wouldn’t have been so distracted and seen the deputy and things would have gone a lot differently. I could have finished what I started.

So much left undone, I had so many plans for this town and the evil manipulative bastards that dwell in it. Someone has to stop them from ruining the lives of everyone else, their only breeding more hate, more cruelty, another entire generation of lying manipulative deceptive evil bastards, just like them and Stacey was one of them. I really believed I had caught her in time, I really believed I had saved her from becoming them, but I was wrong she is just another casualty.

"Steven? Oh my god Steven, you’re awake!! Thank God."

"Stacey?" I murmured my voice gruff and dry barely able to choke up her name, complete confusion flooded my brain. What was she doing in jail here with me? What the hell happened? Then I heard another voice.

"Can you see anything son?"

A man’s voice distinctively, though it sounded fearful distraught even. I did not recognize it at all.

"No! Everything is completely blurry, I can’t make out any detail what so ever. What is going on, where the hell am I, who the hell are you Stacey? What happened?"

"Calm down son, it's ok the explosion caused flash burn to your eyes I am sure, here hold still."

I felt the man pry my eye lids open and a cool liquid drip into them, one at a time as I flinched I hated not seeing what was coming, it scared me and I despised the feeling of fear even more.

"There now just continue to blink and let the solution work around your eyes, everything should clear up shortly."

I franticly blinked my eyelids repeatedly, as I felt the cool liquid coat my eyes seemingly making my vision worse then slowly it began to clear, and the room began to take shape though detail was still minimal. For several minutes before everything totally cleared up, I panned my vision around the room to see Stacey standing to my left crying and the man on my right side wearing a white coat, almost looking like a doctors but slightly different. It looked familiar but I couldn’t place how I did not recognize the man, I peered around the room I was laying on a small metal table, the room was almost like a doctor’s office then I saw the deputy in the corner but he wasn’t standing guard but tied up in a chair and gagged. The girl I had carried from the house tied up sitting on the floor next to the deputy, still out, I struggled to sit up.

"Stacey what the hell is going on, where are we and damnit what happened? I saw you I saw you with the deputy aiming his gun at me, you turned on me, I remember that and then the explosion and I remember feeling the deputy handcuff me. Then extreme force hit me, and then everything went black."

My adrenalin began racing as I fought my way to a sitting position, and forced myself to my feet before I got dizzy and collapsed to the floor again. I looked up to see Stacey pointing a gun at the man screaming at him to help me up, he franticly rushed over to help me up it took all my strength to stand back up as he helped me back onto the table."

"I thought you said he was ok damn it, why can’t he stand up?" Stacey screamed at the man waiving the gun in his face, wildly anger erupting from her body with such intense force that she shook and began to turn a shade of red sweat pouring from the man as he trembled so clearly in fear.

"Look Stacey, I'm sorry but I am not a physician alright. I am a veterinarian and my equipment and supplies here is limited, as it's meant for animal not humans you understand that right?"

Stacey grit her teeth and lunged forward cracking the man in the face three times with the grip of the pistol till he fell to the floor, then she kicked him in the ribs several times screaming.

"Do not patronize me you ignorant over educated fat ass son of a bitch, I am not stupid, I do know enough that to be even a vet you need a medical degree, your patient of choice may be of the animal nature, however you can still examine a human being as well so stop playing stupid and answer my questions you piece of shit!!"

"Only to a certain extent alright Stacey, I can only look him over with my eyes and at best guess if he is ok alright. I don’t know for positive if he has internal damage or severe bleeding he needs a real doctor, one that treats people not animals I am sorry."

"Hey! Stop talking like I am not in the damn room, I am fine, just in extreme pain and clearly weak now. Doc I know your pretty much completely useless, but do you at least have some kind of pain killers here in your office? I know they're the same thing for animals, as they are for people just smaller doses, so just get me what you got before Stacey blows your head off, got it sparky?"

"Yeah, ok hang on."

The doc ran to a closet in the corner and scrambled to unlock it, fumbling through bottles of pills as they fell to the floor, till he found a large bottle and stumbled back over to me.

"What the hell is it?"

"It's Oxycotten about half the normal dose so you would need to take two in order to get the same effect, just don’t exceed two pills every eight hours ok?"

"Yeah fine, whatever you say doc. Stacey, I don’t know what exactly happened yet but we better get out of here and back to the cabin, then you have some explaining to do. We can’t stay in town any longer, get the deputy and the girl in the truck, then you and the doc can help me get to the truck as well.