The Dark Streets

Chapter Ten

I awake and look beside me and see an empty spot on the bed, I get up and get dressed, I open the door and I see Tony,
"Hey, good morning Jack, I was just about to get you up, Lucas is wanting to discuss his plan with us... By the way, nice job scoring Maria man, I saw the smile she was giving, guys have told me how enticing it is and how it's like she's inside of their head... My sister was always like that." My eyes grew wide,
"Sister!? What about that nice ass comment you made?" He smiled,
"She's my step sister... Her dad married my mom and first night living under the same house, she came into my bedroom and started sucking me off, I wanted to tell her to stop but by the time I could even muster the words, I was cumming in her mouth." I laughed,
"Jesus man! How long did you and her do that?" He rubbed his chin,
"I think the whole year our parents were together, we shared a room." We walked into Lucas' office,
"Come in and take a seat guys." We sat down in front of Lucas,
"So what's the plan you got?" Do you even know where their hideout is?" Lucas shook his head,
"Well no not really, but I know someone who might."
"And who might that be?" Lucas looked at Tony,
"You're not going to like it."
"Why's that?"
"Well because it's Mark Thompson."
"Of course of all the fucking people, it's him." I looked at Tony,
"Who's Mark Thompson?"
"He was an old friend of mine in highschool... After highschool, when I went to college, we stopped hanging out but after my first semester, on my summer break, I went back home and we met up and it's like no time passed at all, he was the one that got me into drugs, around when I started taking drugs, I dropped out of college and he led me down the bad path... But after a while me and him became hostile towards each other, he almost killed me, shortly after that I was in the cult... But if anyone knows where the Blue Brothers are hiding, it'd be him." I looked at Lucas,
"Do you know where he is?" Lucas nodded,
"Yes I do, so the plan is to go to him and find out where the Blue Brothers hideout is and come back here and we can plan our attack." Me and Tony nodded,
"So are you coming with us cuz?" Lucas shook his head,
"No Maria is going with you guys, I can't risk getting killed right now."
"Why would you die?"
"Well it's because Mark lives in Yakuza Killas turf, a bunch of crazy fucking Japs."
"You must be fucking kidding me!"
"Nope, Maria!" After a while, Maria came in,
"Yes Lucas?"
"You're going with Tony and Jack to find and talk with Mark Thompson."
"I hope this isn't an issue, with him being your ex?" She shook her head,
"No, I've been putting off talking to him, this gives me a reason to go to him."
"Okay well, I think you guys should leave asap, so we can have our plan rolling into motion as quickly as possible." We nodded and left Lucas' room and started walking down the hallway,
"What the fuck sis! You dated that fucker knowing what he did!?" She looked at Tony,
"I'm sorry, we just kind of hooked up."
"So is that what happened to you and Jack last night!?" Maria looked at me,
"You told him about last night!?" I shook my head,
"No, he already knew, he saw the smile and look you gave me and Tony, I thought it was okay, I thought we were cool, we are aren't we?"
"No, it's okay, I'm not mad about last night, just this whole situation, why the fuck does it have to be Mark, I thought I'd rid him from my life... I guess not but I never once thought you, Maria would ever be with him, I just..." Maria looked at me,
"He has feelings for me, always has even when he was fucking that Elizabeth bitch, he was thinking of my cunt." She looked at Tony, "don't think I didn't have the same feelings for you, as you do for me but I never told you and when I was going to tell you, I...I was too late, you were already with her, so I went to the bar and I met Mark Thompson and we had a one night stand but he kept coming back for more, so we started dating but then after only four months of dating, he broke up with me and I never heard from him since... One thing that goes through my mind though, in the last month of our relationship, he was acting paranoid and he would be so scared and paranoid that we didn't even have sex." We opened the door and left the 47's hideout and walked towards the truck,
"I wonder why he was so paranoid?" I looked at Tony,
"Maybe he was being followed by the Blue Brothers, Maria did he say anything about the Blue Brothers?" We got into the truck and I turned the truck on and started driving out of the parking lot and down the street,
"No he actually thought because he lived in Yakuza Killas territory, that it was them but thinking back it makes sense that it was actually the Blue Brothers because he knows where their hideout is."
"While we're on the topic, how does he know that information?"
"Well he found it out before we got together but he told me the story though, when he was eighteen he got kicked out of his parents house and moved in with his older brother, Jacob, he said his brother was barely home, when he was it was to grab clothes and eat, except for one night, he awoke to voices and a girl screaming and he saw three guys, he saw that their pants were around their ankles, one guy in front of the girl and the other two behind her, he found out that they were raping her, after they tied her to a chair, he opened his door and his brother asked immediately asked for him to help and he did without question because he was afraid for his life, he helped them take the girl back to their hideout and he has photographic memory, so he remembers the way to go, shortly after he moved out and found his own place." We reached Yakuza Killas' turf,
"Okay guys, we have to be careful, make sure your guns are loaded, Maria do you have a gun?" She took out a .44 revolver,
"Does this answer your question?" I nodded,
"Yes it does." She put her gun away,
"Turn left at the next set of lights and his place is the first apartment on the right." We reached the lights and it was red and I stopped the truck and waited for the light to turn green, after a while the lights turned green and I turned the truck left and I saw the apartment and parked the truck in front of it, I turned the truck off and we got out of the truck,
"How do you know he still lives here?" Maria looked up at the window at the very top,
"Because he's too paranoid to move." We started walking towards the front door, but I grabbed Maria to the side in fornt of me,
"Hey we need to talk about last night." She smiled,
"What about? I needed to have sex and your girl got kidnapped, and you wanted it as well, we both needed it, it was a one time thing, I know you love her, I could feel, I can still feel the love you have for her."
"So you never intended it to be more than a one night stand?" She shook her head,
"You're a very attractive and nice guy and if the circumstances were different, it'd be a different story, I hope we can be friends." I nodded,
"Of course we can, Maria." We walked to the front doors and opened them and we walked into the front lobby and Maria walked to the buzzer and dialed four zero three and the buzzer started to ringing after a while someone answered,
"Hello, who is this?"
"Hey Mark."
"Maria?"
"Yeah it's me."
"Why are you here? I thought you never wanted to talk to me again?"
"I didn't but our paths have... Need to come together once more."
"Why's that?"
"It seems the Blue Brothers have come out of hiding."
"I knew that already, ever since I heard about the Axeman murders."
"Can we come up?"
"We?"
"I'm here with my friend Jack Darring."
"Darring? You mean the son of Rick Darring?" Maria looked at me and I shrugged,
"Yeah."
"Come up now!" He unlocked the door and we walked to the staircase and started walking up the stairs, we reached the fourth floor and I opened the door to the hallway and we started walking down the hallway until we reached four zero three, Maria knocked on the door, "it's open!" We walked in and saw Mark sitting on the couch in his living room, he looked at Tony and got up, "what the fuck is he doing here!?" Mark pulled out a switchblade and walked up to Tony, Tony pulled out his gun and aimed it at Mark,
"Attack me with the fucking knife, I fucking dare you! I fucking shoot you!" Maria walked in between them, "Maria get the fuck out of the way! This fucker obviously wants to die!" Maria shook her head,
"No you know why we're here, put the gun away... Now!" Tony put his gun away and Maria turned around and looked at Mark, "and you Mark put your knife away, like seriously what was your plan? Slash my brother with your knife and get shot?"
"Well no... I... Don't know." Mark put his knife away, I looked at Tony than at Mark,
"You guys need to work out your issues, you guys used to be friends... What happened?" Mark sat down on his couch,
"Well I'm guessing Tony told you I was responsible for getting him addicted to drugs but he was responsible for something even worse, so bad I bet he didn't even tell you about it, did he?" I shook my head and looked at Tony,
"What did you do?"
"I... We got the idea to start stealing cars and selling them to the junkyard, well one time we stole a Yakuza Killas' car, but when we stole it we didn't know, and the guy we stole it from found us and we ran and reached a fence and I cilmbed it and Mark couldn't climb it and I just kinda of just left him there and he got beat up by the guy and his fellow gang brothers."
"Yeah, I almost died and on top of that while I was in the hospital, I was visited by the Yakuza Killas and they told me that I was to be their little helper or I'm gonna die, so I helped them with a number of crimes, on a good note though, I stopped doing drugs, and after a while I stopped helping the Yakuza Killas and shortly after I became paranoid and then I met you Maria and now here we are." I looked at Tony,
"That's why he's so paranoid." Mark looked at me,
"Anyways, you Jack, your father was Rick Darring?" The famous detective?" I nodded,
"Yes I am." Mark stood up and walked up to me and looked at me,
"This may be hard to believe but we're brothers." My eyes grew wide,
"What!? No that's not true, that's impossible!" Maria looked at me and back at Mark,
"I don't know Jack, you guys look strangely similar, he could be your brother." I looked at Mark,
"How are you my brother?"
"Well firstly my brother, well the other one now I guess, he isn't Rick Darring's son, just a step father, now let's talk about what you asked, well I'm the product of a three year affair your father had with my mom." I was shocked to hear this,
"No, he wouldn't he was a very loyal father and husband, he wouldn't do that even if it meant his death."
"You were about four when it started, so do you remember his female partner during that period?" My eyes grew wide,
"Yes her name was Jessica Houston, that's your mom!?" Mark nodded,
"Yeah."
"How did you end up going down the bad path?"
"Well she died when I was about five and my brother being ten years older, he took care of me, so when he went down the bad path, I followed, we started with petty theft and moved from that to buglary and breaking and entering to murder and lastly doing drugs, my brother has been in jail for about five years because of something we both did, but he took the blame for the both of us to protect me." I nodded,
"I see, I'm sorry to hear that, so now that we have that out of the way, do you know where the Blue Brothers hideout is?" He nodded,
"Yes I do, do you want to know where it is?" I nodded,
"Yes I do, brother."
"Where is it!?"
"Okay, okay no need to yell, it's out in the country side, if you want to know the specific location, you're gonna have to take me with you."
"Well the only problem with that is there isn't enough room in my truck."
"Don't worry about that I got a van that can fit us all." I looked at Maria, she nodded and I looked at Tony, he nodded,
"Okay sounds good, let's get going." Mark nodded and got up,
"Okay, let's go." He got his shoes on and grabbed his keys and we walked out of the apartment and into the hallway, Mark closed the door and locked it, we started walking down the hallway towards the staircase, we reached the door to the staircase, I opened the door and held it open for everyone and I closed the door and we started walking down the stairs, we reached the first floor and saw a hallway going left and right, we went left the opposite direction we took coming in, we walked down the hallway and reached a door and Mark opened the door and it opened to the parking lot, he held the door open for everyone, he closed the door and we started walking towards his van, we reached his van, "so who's driving? How about you brother?" I nodded and he gave me the keys and we got in the van and I locked the van and turned it on, and I started driving towards the 47's turf, I noticed a car following us in the rearview mirror,
"Umm Somebody's following us." Mark looked back,
"Fuck! It's the Yakuza Killas, there's going to be more until we leave their turf." As soon as he said that, two more cars turned off a side street and started following us, the first car drove up on the passenger side of our car and someone pulled their arm out with an Uzi in his hand and started shooting us,
"What the Fuck is going on!"
"They're after me!" Lucas took out an sawed off shotgun and shot directly at the window the arm was coming out of and the guys arm got hit by the shotgun blast and the hand exploded and the Uzi fell to the ground and the window shattered and there was blood all over the side of the car, he then aimed at the back the tire and shot it, the tire exploded and the car flipped and smashed into the side of a building and the car bursted into flames, "one down, two to go." Another car drove up on the driver side of our car, another arm came out of a window and this time the guy had a Desert Eagle, and started shooting at me, I pulled out my Desert Eagle and carefully aimed at the guy's hand and shot at it and he dropped the gun and I aimed at the driver's head and shot the driver's head and blood splattered on the windshield and the car weabed and smashed into the other car that was following us,
"Double whammy!" Tony looked at me and then at Lucas,
"My God that was intense!" We kept driving down the street,
"So what did you exactly do to them again?" Mark looked at me,
"Well like I said, I stopped helping and left them but I also killed a lot of their people and I also beat their leader and shot him in the leg."
"I see, that would definitely piss them off." After a while we made back into 47's turf, "finally made it back, now if the Yakuza Killas come and attack us it'd be a start to turf war and I don't think that's what they want." We made it to the parking lot across the street from the 47's hideout, I parked the van and turned it off and we got out, I locked it and we started walking to the front door of the hideout. We reached the front door and Maria knocked on the door, the slit on the door opened,
"Who is it?"
"It's Maria, I'm here with Jack, Tony and Mark." The slit closed, and the door opened, we walked in and the room was half filled with 47 gangsters, we walked up the stairs and opened the door to Lucas' office,
"So I'm guessing you guys succeeded?" Mark walked up to Lucas,
"Yes they did, how's it goin' old friend?"
"Well I'm the leader of the 47's now."
"So I see, hear from my brother?" Lucas shook his head,
"Actually no I haven't, it's been months since I have heard from him, how about you?" Mark shook his head,
"No I haven't either, that's why I asked you, I haven't heard from him since a month before Rick Darring died."
"Seems a little suspicious to me, have you guys tried going to where he went to prison?" Mark shook his head,
"Not me, how about you Lucas?"
"Yes but I was told he couldn't have visitors that day and so I left."
"You didn't go back?" Lucas shook his head,
"No because then your... Our dad got murdered and the police started questioning me and my boys, I was too busy fixing my problem, I just completely forgot about him, I'm sorry Mark."
"It's okay, I wish I saw him, I fear something bad has happened to him." I looked at Mark,
"Like what?"
"He could be dead."
"Okay guys, now that we're all here, let's make a plan to attack the Blue Brothers, where is the hideout Mark?"
"It's in the country side, I can take you there." Lucas nodded,
"Okay sounds great, okay everyone me and Mark are going to come up with a plan, so everyone except Mark leave." Me, Tony and Maria left Lucas'office, I looked at Tony and Maria,
"So now what?" Tony and Maria shrugged,
"I don't know."
"I don't know either." We walked down the stairs and I walked to the fridge and it was filled with beer, I grabbed one for all of us, I walked back to where we were sitting, I passed everyone their beer, we all opened our beers and we all took a sip, I got up,
"I'm going to hang in my room for a bit." Tiny and Maria nodded, I started walking towards my room, I reached the door and opened it and got in my room and closed the door behind me and chugged the rest of my beer and put the empty on my end table,
"So Jack do you really believe that Mark's brother is dead?" I shook my head,
"No I think he escaped prison and is involved with my father's murder and the rest of the Axeman murders." Stake smiled and clapped,
"Very nice Jack, I'm proud of you."
"Do you know something?" Stake shook,
"No I don't, just a feeling."
"I think you do but just won't say anything."
"Well that would ruin the fun, my life would be quite boring."
"Well you're very helpful, why are you around again?" Stake laughed,
"Was that supposed to hurt me? Because it didn't, anyways you're going down the right path for your assumption on Mark's brother, keep it up and find the truth." Just then there was a knock on the door,
"Hey Jack, it's Maria, can I come in?" I walked to the door and opened and let her come in, I closed the door behind her,
"So what brings you to my room?"
"I'm here to say be careful of Mark, he doesn't do things to help, he usually expects something in return and he ain't very loyal, he did help the Yakuza Killas and look at what he did to them, what's to say he isn't working for the Blue Brothers, so be careful."
"Are you saying he's against us?" She shrugged,
"I'm not sure, just be careful okay?" I nodded,
"I will, did you tell Lucas?" She shook her head,
"No they used to be best friends, Lucas knows how he is, same with Tony." I nodded,
"Okay thanks for the warning Maria."
"No problem, and Lucas is ready to see us now." I nodded and started following her towards Lucas'office, I closed the door to my room, and started walking down the hallway to the lobby and we reached the stairs to his office, Maria opened the door to his office and we got in, Tony was on the left hand side of Lucas'desk and Mark on the right side, Lucas looked up at us,
"Let's discuss this plan."