Choices

Choices Chapter 1

Choices

Chapter 1

As I walked down the street I can't shake the feeling of being followed. My job at the time was to deliver "supplies" to one of our local outposts within the city. I took these side jobs of extra money not for me, but for my little boy he was dying of cancer. As I approached the gate I said the phrase "insurgent". The gates opened and I walked through with the delivery, the gates closed behind me and I knew there was no turning around. I walked up the steps, each step I climbed was an extra step to that hard earned paycheck for $100,000. I approached my boss his name was Ricxn he turned and asked me "Do you have what I asked of you?" I said "Yes here you go all 150 of each and extra weapons and ammo." "Good I would assume there was no trouble?" As my mind went through the whole trip over here I could only remember one thing that was a problem. I said "Well I couldn't shake that feeling of being followed." He then asked me "Did you see anyone suspicious on your way here?" "No the only person I saw was some old face disappear behind a building." He had a face of terror. "What's wrong?" I asked he looked at me and said its Jones. I had heard of him a couple of times amongst my co workers and it turns out he's a law man like those you see in the movies to catch the bad guy with tons of action scenes, but this man has no remorse no feeling there was no man or woman that could escape him Jones was also chief of police and head swat officer. There was only one person who got away and he was chained every which way when he got caught. Jones has received 20 different awards of best chief of police in the past 10 years and that's a hard thing to do. Ricxn yelled "Get the guns hide the supplies!" And right at that moment the Police pulled up and said "Freeze!" I was the first to shoot. The bullet went straight through the vest a high powered bullet and customized to our use that's why we bought it. I've never shot someone before but you will always remember that. I can't shake that feeling. I still feel that feeling of the life being left from him and so it began one bullet after another. During the shots Ricxn said to me "You need to take the shipment and run." " Ok I will try where do you want me to go?" "Go to warehouse 6 on the outer side of the city." As I bolted out the back door I went to the garage and grabbed my escalade and drove to the spray shop. I spend some of my money for a different color. My color was a bright neon green before to a dark black. I drove for the next 30 minutes in silence. I turned the radio on to break the silence. I heard a news woman talking she said "A drug bust happened earlier today 3 cops were injured and one was killed during the raid. After the raid was secure they searched the place for weapons and guns they found the guns but there we're no drugs at the scene. One of the perps and possibly leader of the organization has been arrested and is being held at the Rockford police station. An eye witness also saw a man running out the back door and to a garage where he then dove off in a bright neon green escalade fleeing the scene. There was no description other than white male 6ft 2in." Thoughts ran through my head wondering who saw me, did they see the bag of drugs, did I drop anything on my way out the door. I stopped the car to check for all the stuff I was supposed to have. I had the bag, I had the car everything was in check. I also realized something else. When I pulled over I saw a car disappear behind me. I wonder if it was Jones. Or if someone drove off onto another road to go home. I saw nothing amongst the darkness so I continued to the warehouse. When I arrived there was James patrolling the perimeter. He stopped me because he didn't recognize my car. " Hey hold it right there." He said "Wait Crash is that you?" Crash was my ID for the organization. James's ID was Chaw. Now let me explain why I got my name I crashed my bosses car the first time I was part of the group so he just kept calling me crash so that was my ID from then on but that crash was 2 weeks ago and Ive never shot a gun before except for the one time. Other than that I was a taxi driver that's why I drive so much. As for James he says Shaw during his marshal arts training. Which reminds me I need more training if I'm going to survive through this. "Hey Shaw what's new in the news?" "Well I've got this new patrol route." I said "Oh thats gotta suck." I said "Oh and by the way your welcome to any jobs that come your way." I said "Ok oh and one more thing." He turned "What?" " Would I be able to do some training sometime?" " Sure why not it will make youless soft." We laughed and I continued through. As I pulled up I saw many new faces since my branch had been destroyed by Jones. Out of all of those faces there was only one that I knew. It was ghillie he was second in command. He walked up to me and patted me on the shoulder and said "I heard about Ricxn." I shook my head "It's unfortunate, but we can't just stand here and do nothing we need to start doing what he hired us for." " I agree but you've been shot we need to fix that." He pointed at my shoulder. " Oh I haven't even noticed." " we'll let me go get Chaw to fix that." He picked up his cell phone and called him in to fix the bullet. He walked in and he sat me down. " So you didn't notice that?" I said " No I did notice that I had to pull a little harder when turning but no pain." He laughed " Well you'll feel this then." He dug the pliers into the hole and pulled the bullet out. "Ou stop!" "Can't it will infect your arm and we don't want you to lose that arm do we Crash." I felt the bullet leave my body. "Oh that feels a little better, but did you have to cut so much?" He said "Yes I did unless you want the bullet to rip the skin when I pulled." I replied " Well I guess so." He patched my shoulder up and said " I heard you killed someone today you ok?" " Yes I'm fine, why do you ask?" His next words surprised me. " When I took my first life it changed me." I asked " Changed you how?" His next few words puzzled me " I'm not meant to tell you, yet but you will be allowed to know when you're ready." " What do you mean when I'm ready?" He said "There is a difference between ending a life which is what you did and taking a life which is what most of us have done." " What's that supposed to mean." " It means you need to wait till your ready." I said " Ok whatever that means." I had this feeling of something I couldn't put my finger on it but it felt different like everyone had a deadly secret one is different from person to person. I asked Ghillie " Hey what do you want me to do about the 150 pounds of drugs?" He said "Give them here, oh and here's your pay check there's a little extra in there for you." I opened my paycheck and counted the bills,. There was over $500,000 in there! I was already making money for him to pay for the costs for the treatments my goal was 20,000,000. I asked him " Are there anymore jobs you want me to do?" He said " Actually there is something you could you for me." " I'm listening." "I want you to bring this cooler to the city and go into Victoria's club, go directly to her, do you understand?" I thought the job he was giving me was rather strange, but I was up for it. "Yes ok sounds good." I had no idea what to expect with Victoria no one did. I also need to be careful with this because I heard that someone opened her package and they died. From what I heard they were shot on the street early morning. As I drove to that club I wanted to open it, but I remember the story. As I pulled up to the club down the street I could see the gun fire still going on in my mind. I pushed that thought asside for a moment. As I started walking up those steps a man ran up to me he said "Don't to in there there's no turning back if you do!" " Stand back sir I don't want this to get messy." He ran off. Now I was concerned. I walked up the remaining steps and reached for the door and pushed it open. I saw people dancing and having fun. Some we're looking at the cooler I was carrying. I walked to her back room and sat in the chair in front of her desk and she walked in. She sat in her desk chair and starred at me. She looked beautiful she had dark brown hair her eyes were ocean blue. She said to me " How much do I owe you?" I said " I'm not sure just pay me whatever you think is reasonable." She had a face of interest. " Interesting." " What's interesting?" " I find it interesting that you don't care what your pay is, I like people like you." "Um ok well you can decide what you think is worthy of pay." "Well it so happens I've got a job for you." I wasn't surprised. " Oh really, well il take that job for pay if you want." " Very good, ok here's what I need you to do I need you to go and kill someone for me." " Ok well what's his name?" "His name is Jake, he's responsible for a deal gone bad." "Ok well il go do that then, oh and before I forget here's your cooler." I left without saying another word. I got in my car and drove to the place I had figured a drunk would be at. I stopped at the bar and walked in. There he was sitting like he had been sitting there since last night. I walked up to him and said "Are you Jake?" He turned and said "What do you want human?" I was shocked that he said human like he wasn't human at all. I said "Do you have a second I need to talk to you in private?" He said " Lead the way." I had him. I walked him into the backroom and shut the door when he walked by. I turned to see him push and pin me against the wall. He yelled "Who sent you?!" "No one I needed to talk." I said " Your also defiantly not human so what are you?" He let me off the wall and said nothing. I figured this was my time to pounce so I pulled a knife and stabbed him in the back. He turned and threw me across the room. He pulled out the knife and said "I figured you to be an assassin, I also figure this is your first time. So here's what il do you can stand up and fight me hand to hand or you can leave." I stood up and headed for the door then I remembered what happened to the other guy when the job wasn't done right. I turned and kicked him into a wall. He then grabbed me and threw me into the next room with no trouble he picked me up and said " I hope your ready for what is about to happen next." I said " I hope so too." I twisted his arm and pinned him against the wall and broke his leg. "Now die!" I shot the gun it went straight through his head. He was dead. I walked up to him to examin. He then grabbed me and bit my neck. I shoved him off. I felt dizzy he said " Never shoot a vampire with lead bullets. It only makes us more eager to kill you." I was shocked that he said vampire. I bleed out and lost my ability to stay awake. I awoke in a hospital bed. My little boy next to me in his. I reached for him and touched him he felt cold. I grabbed a blanket and put in on him as I struggled to do so I realized that my bed alarm went off. The nurses came is and said "What are you doing stay away from that boy!" I said " That's my son you stay away from him." The nurses said something that frightened me. "John he's dead." I fell to the ground from the news that's why he was so cold. My vision faded as I fell completely to the ground. I could here people talking faintly in the background. It was my wife she was arguing with someone I could make one sentence out. "Jake you can't separate me from him he's my husband." "Oh yes I can." I heard a violent thrash and a crack. Jake walked over to me and said "Welcome to the real world." Then I woke up in the warehouse everyone looked at me with concern. Ghillie asked " Are you ok?" I looked around "What happened?" Someone I didn't know said "You lost a lot of uh..." "What?" " Well blood." "Why is saying blood so concerning?" Then Chaw walked in and said "Well it appears that your time has come." "What do you mean?" "Well everyone in this warehouse except for a hand full people in the crowd are vampires." My mind was full of questions with no answers. "Wait I was bitten earlier does that mean..." Ghillie said "No you were drained not changed there's a difference." "So I'm not a vampire?" "No your not, but your making everyone a bit crazy, but I can assure you that they won't touch you." "Ok but why would anyone have reason?" " You're human and there are some people that go rouge near these occasions." " Wait don't touch me." "They won't, but I can't say for sure Victoria will listen." It was Victoria she walked in picked me up and put me in a different room. She said to guard the door and make sure nothing happens. She then looked towards me " Please don't be scared I'm only trying to help." I tried to scamper away but she grabbed me and pulled me towards her "Don't be scared, I'm trying to help." "What could you possibly do to help." She said "I will let you go after this, but I will give you the choice you can stay as you are a human able to get hurt, not heal as quickly or you can change become one of us. The choice is up to, but remember if you do chose to become one of us there is no turning back." She left the room for me to make my decision. I sat there thinking for the next 5 hours. They brought in food every so often. She came back in 7 hours later and asked "Have you made up your mind?"