Opposing Sides

Chapter 4: Relax Around the Predator

      Doctor Ganashbe walks into an occupied emergency room to see a shocked Captain J. He looks at the young man on the operating table. “What is going on?” Captain J. asks. “The patient is resisting the medication,” the doctor says.

“Give him something else!”

“I do not have anything else to give your son.”

            Doctor Ganashbe does have more medications, but he does not want to waste them on keeping a healthy patient in a drug induced coma. He does not trust Tetris or her brother, Brian. He feels this is the perfect time to let him awaken.

            “Doctor, you know that he… there has to be another way.” Captain J. says. “He only kills his mother and some orphans. "That is not that bad,” the doctor says. Captain J. pulls his mask onto his short, curly, black hair. His skin tone goes from navy blue to sky blue. His eyes turn neon pink and his nails turn black. He runs up to the doctor and spew a black, sticky liquid from his mouth. "You put me in this situation. He does not belong to me or my deceased wife. You must find a way to keep this disgrace away from my son and I.

            The liquid seeps into the doctor’s eyes and his skin. The doctor feels a burning sensation on his skin and eyes as he hallucinates about worms eating his dead body. The doctor knows that the symptoms are temporary and that they will not be detrimental to his health or well being. As he is dealing with the pain, he admires the monster he created. At least the captain is not one of his wife's ceations. Captain J. looks at the doctor, who was lying on the floor with tears in his eyes. He puts his mask on his face and stomps out of the room.

            Aziri’s wife gave him the cordless, grey house phone and walked to their son’s room. “Hello,” Aziri says. His father tells him the bad news. Aziri says “, Okay. Bye.” He runs to his son’s room to find his son and his wife working on a puzzle. He will tell her tomorrow.

            Casey leaves the police department. A man with loose curls and a black suit comes up to Casey just as she is leaving the police station. “Are you Casey?” He asks. She nods and he grabs her hand. She tries to fight against his pull as he drags her to his black van. He took out a small device from his pocket that is attached to a set of keys.

            The slide doors open to show a pregnant woman cuffed to the floor. He turns to Casey and puts a handkerchief soaked with chlorophyll over her mouth and she falls onto him. He cuffs her to the floor and slams the door shut. Then he hops into the driver’s seat. Fog wraps around the van as he closes the door. Detective Monroe walks outside, just as the fog disappears along with the van.

            The next morning, Sam goes to work. He sees that Casey and Tetris are not there. He gets mad and calls his new assistant into his office. “I want you to stab yourself,” Sam says. The man takes a pen off of his desk and fakes stabbing his self. Sam gets angry and pushes all of the things on his desk on to the floor. He kicks the desk and it slides up a bit.

            He pulls a knife out of his pocket and snatches the pen out of the assistant’s hand. The assistant quivers as Sam gently drags the tip of the sharp knife down his face. Sam lifts the knife and the assistant tries to get the knife away from him. Sam laughs as they fight over the knife. The assistant punches Sam’s penis and testicles.

            Sam curls his body into the fetal position as the assistant runs away. Sam crawls to Bells’s office. He sees Bells playing with a black box. Sam opens the glass door and crawls into the office.       

”Hey, boss,” Sam says with a raspy voice. Bells ignores him and keeps trying to find ways to open the box. Sam forces himself to stand, and he snatches the box out of his boss’s hands. He throws it at a wall. The box pops open and a small microchip falls out. Bells looks at Sam.