Buckingham Nicks-Part II of Fritz Series

Thunder Only Happens When It's Raining

Lugging dead weight is never easy, it's made even worse when the dead weight you're carrying is currently covered in copious amounts of blood. No going back from that, too late. The quarry is deep, the waters cool, jagged rocks lay near the bottom crushing anything that has the misfortune to fall from the ledge above. Ryan is unfortunate, I tie his legs together with a length of rope. Sitting next to his lifeless body, I look down at the watery grave yard that awaits him. It's a long fall. No one would survive.

Good thing he doesn't have to worry about that.

I lift what's left of his head up by the hair grimacing. He looks a mess dropping his head back to the ground I slap his cheek repeatedly he shakes, coughs then wakes up moaning "Where-who? what is this?" he looks up at me and screams grabbing his shoulders I drag him to the edge of the quarry and toss him over the side he screams until the rope holding his feet goes taunt catching on the bumper of my car he swings back and forth like a pendulum yelling and crying as he flails over the gaping maw of death below.

"Shut up!" he croaks whimpering and I sit down next to the rope holding him "I was going to kill you...but it turns out I'm not a monster. I can't take the life of someone who's defenseless, that's not the man I am. Lucky for you." turns out firing off every round of that revolver near his head was enough to snap me out of a homicidal rage. Stevie would never forgive me if I'd done it, I'd never forgive myself. And I couldn't look Sara or Nova in the eye if I had.

Resigned to my fate I take my ski mask off and toss it over the cliff, Hunter squints up at me "Lindsey?" sitting cross legged by his dangling body I light a joint "Yeah. Remember me? The poor fucker who's family you fucked over". He laughs "You? You did all this! Bull shit, who'd you pay?" I smile down at him chuckling, pulling a bowie knife from my back pocket I tap it against the rope, he shuts the fuck up.

"Since I have your undivided attention. I'd like to ask you some questions, little things like why me? Was it worth it? Etc" sweat beads on his brow as I take a long drag "Well? Was it worth it?" he smirks up at me "She was a pretty sweet piece of pussy if that's what you're asking" nodding I take the sheath off the blade "You know Ryan, I may not be able to shoot you in cold blood but I have been deer hunting. And the one thing my uncle was sure to teach us was how to tie and snip the nuts off of the bucks...it ruins the meat otherwise" his eyes grow wide "It's very efficient, in fact they do it all the time to bulls, hogs, other animals. They're capable of surviving it by the way...though I'm sure it's painful."

"So, was it worth it?" his bravado seeps away from him at my words the glint of the cold steel in the moonlight making him less cocky "It's Luna's fucking fault, she just had to have your kid. Baby crazy bitch! We had a good thing going with those hippies, free food, dope, a bed," Con artist through and through, was there anything about them that was authentic? "Did you even love her?" he sways trying to do a sit up "Will you pull me up for fuck sake?!" Not a chance Hunter.

I shake my head taking another drag "Did you love Luna?" he sighs in agitation "Yeah sure, she was good in bed and just twisted enough to be hot without being bat shit insane." That's not an answer, but whatever. "What did she like so much about Sara?" he laughs mockingly "She thought her eyes were like mystical or some shit! She believes in all that weird magical mumbo jumbo." The pot smoke curls around my head and I scratch at my beard "So why'd you go along with it?".

"She said I could have Stevie" my blood runs cold "You took her on purpose then?" he nods veins popping out of his forehead "Will you pull me up, I cant fucking feel my face anymore I'm gonna asphyxiate" and that's my problem how? I lean back on my hands crossing my ankles "Who made the phone call?" he groans "Wolf did it, he had your wife too you know." I slide the blade across the rope some of the threads snap, Ryan screams "Fuck! Okay okay! Jesus I'm sorry!".