CRISS ANGEL *IMAGINES* BOOK 5

~IMAGINE~{23}

You were walking all alone in the middle of the night heading back to your very trashy apartment complex on the poor side of town...when out of nowhere you see a man all beat up and staggering around trying to stay up while holding a very scared and cold toddler, begging anyone for help, but as soon as the other passerby's noticed that the local gang was the ones after him, they all moved away from him telling him that no one would help him from fear they had of the gang killing them for interfering. You knew the gang very well, but when you saw the little boy, you couldn't take it at all, and quickly ran over to him and helped him up to your apartment.

You quickly locked all the windows and the door and grabbed blankets and the first aid kit. But the man was still too nervous to set his boy down, so while he sat on his daddy's lap finding new warmth in the blanket you wrapped around him, you quickly began patching him up. By the time you were done fixing him up, the little boy was sound asleep. You went into the kitchen and found whatever you had to make something for them to eat, knowing they were probably hungry after all they been thru. The man looked around and realized what a kind-hearted girl you were, for not having anything, but determined to give whatever you had for them. You made them some warm beef stew, and a couple cups of warm hot chocolate for them.

As soon as you sat the bowls of stew on the table the little boy was wide awake looking at it as if asking if it was ok for him to eat it, while his little tummy was growling loudly. You handed him the little teddy bear cup with hot cocoa in it then added a couple of marshmallows just to make him smile, and told them both to enjoy it. The little man looked up at you and said his name was Johnny, you shook his little hand as you told him your name and that it was a pleasure to meet him. The man sat Johnny down and followed you into the kitchen and thanked you for everything, and held out his hand to you as he said he was Criss. You shake his hand, as you ask him if he knew why the gang was after him.

Criss leaned up against the counter and said that he was just traveling thru for his magic show called Mindfreak Raw, and his RV crashed on him, and the next thing he knew was his crew was being scattered from a group of thugs, and he was running trying to keep his son safe, after he got beat by a few clubs and chains. Then he changed the subject and said he hoped his friends were alright. Suddenly you both hear loud bangings throughout the apartment complex, and tell him that it was the gang doing a little search party. Then you rush into the kitchen area, and pick up his son, and tell him to follow you. You take him to the back bedroom closet, and slowly open a secret compartment that was underneath your box of shoes, and tell them both to duck in there and to be very quiet until you come back for them.

Criss gives you a hug and asks you not to do anything that would get you hurt or killed on their account, but you playfully push him in the secret cubby hole and close the hatch on them both, then you sat the box of shoes back on the trap door to keep it well hidden, and go to the door that was now being banged almost off its hinges. You open it up for the four gang bangers and let them do their usual search while they asked you the routine questions. You tell them that you weren't that fucking dumb to want to get in trouble with the gang. They tapped you on your head as they told you to keep being smart, then they were ordered to leave the premises and search elsewhere, that he couldn't have gone too far...then all went quiet.

You locked your door up and slowly went back to the closet and opened the door, and told them it was all clear. Criss thanked you again for everything as he sat his son down on your bed so he could get his legs to wake up from being cramped up in the cubby hole for so long. Criss decided that it would be safer and better if they spent the night with you, then could get a fresh start in the morning. You told him that was a great idea because the police would be doing their rounds and could get a ride with them back to safety. So You, Criss, and Johnny curled up in the bed and went to sleep. Criss made it back to his crew thanks to you and the officer...but before he left the city, he and his crew stopped by your place and decided to offer you to go with him. You ecstatically say yes, because anything was better than where you were now. Then he loaded you up with Johnny and jokingly told you to wave bye to the place because he secretly had no intentions of ever bringing you back to that hell hole.