Rescuing Atticus

What goes around...

Song: Monster- Shinedown

Two days later my phone is going off and it's my mother. I can't remember the last time that she called me. She is actually calling me, guess he never came home after all. I take a deep breath before answering it.  "This is Atticus." I say like I don't know it's her. All I hear is her sobs. I can't believe she is crying over that loser. "What is wrong...did that jerk hit you again...do you want me to come and kick his ass. I will if you want me too."

I hear her take a deep breath and then a few little sobs before talking. "No...no...it's...not that...he...he's gone...Atticus. He left and...and...never came back...Atticus I don't know what to do. The police found his car on the side of the road...and...and...he was gone."

No shit...he is gone, for good this time because I made sure that his ass was never coming back. "Mom he has to be somewhere. Maybe he stepped out to take a piss or...hell maybe he hooked up with another girl?" I roll my eyes at the thought.

"Why would he do that..." She cries out more. "We have been together for over fifteen years...why would he do that?"

"I don't know mom...because he is a drunk ass. Look I'm sorry maybe he got out to take a piss or something and got lost."

"No...Atticus...no...something is wrong. He is missing. You have to believe me...something is wrong. What if he is hurt or what if..." She lets out another whimper. "What if he is dead? Oh Atticus I can't..."

I want to slap her, wake her up, something to make her open her eyes and say that this is a fucking good thing that he is gone. "Mom just calm down. I will see what I can find out alright. I got some guys that know a lot of stuff. I will have them search into it alright."

She continues to cry. "Oh...o...k..." I hear only her sobbing and trying to catch her breath. "Atticus...I...I can't live without him he is all I have."

No mom you got me, I say to myself but I really want to tell her that. I can't even remember the last time that I was all she ever needed; her little boy. The moment he stepped into her life I was no longer apart of it and even now when he is gone all she can think about is him. "Mom do I need to come over; will you be alright."

"I will be fine. I'm just scared...what if..." She sobs more and I can visualize her having a tissue in her hand and wiping her nose and the stream of tears. I'm glad that I am not actually there in front of her because she just might piss me off for caring for him so damn much. I never understood why she cared all these years for a man that abused her but cared less for the son that loved her.

"Mom stop worrying yourself to death...he will be fine. He probably got drunk and just walked off...maybe he is lost and trying to get back home. You will see it will be alright."

"O...K...please let me know if you find out anything."I hear a few more sniffles.

"I will mom...Hey...I love you...you are going to be ok."

"I love you too." She says back but I don't believe her, that she actually really loves me. I wait for her to hang up first before I do and then I set the phone down. No one will ever find that piece of shit ever.

I walk to the workout room and exercise for a full hour with the guys and then decide to do the obstacle course three times before taking a hot shower. I glance over a few times and I know they think I am losing it, hell maybe I am but I need to get everything out of my system. I just want to wash away everything inside my head.

I get out and dry off and glare at the guy looking back at me in the mirror. I don't know who I am any more. The guy that stares back at me is not the same guy that I was months ago. I walk into the bedroom completely naked and head over to the closet. I pull out a pair of jeans and a royal blue button up shirt. And head out to go to the café. It is later than my normal time. Stella is there and her honey golden blonde hair is pulled back in a braid. She is smiling and whistling and I can hear her singing softly to the music over the speakers. She actually looks really happy. I walk up to the counter and she glances up at me with a huge smile on her face.

"Atticus...I was wondering about you this morning...thought you might have vanished off the face of the Earth."

I smirk at the thought. "Not likely anytime soon."

I love the way she smiles back up at me. "I assume you want your usual?"

"Yes." As I wait for her to fix the cup of coffee she is whistling and shaking her hips to the music. "You have a nice voice." And a freaking nice body...damn I wish I could have her like right now. "You should sing more often. So what has you in such a good mood today?" I ask her already knowing the real reason the fucking bastard is out of her life and she is finally happy.

"Oh...nothing...you know it's just me still. Mark hasn't even tried to call me it's like he just vanished."

I smile inside knowing that I had something to do with that. "You look really good today...you look happy for once. Maybe it was a good thing that he left. Maybe he realized that he needed to just move on for good."

"Maybe. I don't know though he just always acted like he couldn't live without me you know. I feel like there is so much more going on you know?"

"I don't know. I couldn't tell you. I'm just glad he left so that I wouldn't have to kick his ass again." I smirk.

"Yeah...I think you scared the shit out of him." I hear her giggle under her breath and it makes me smile.

"Good...hopefully he stays away for good." I wink at her and go over to the table to sit down and watch her for a good hour before having to leave. I wouldn't have left when I did if I hadn't got a message from Zane about the new job. I stand up and throw the cup away in the trash and then wave bye to her. "I got to get to work...hope you have a great rest of the day."

She calls out, "I'm sure I will...you do the same."

I climb in the truck and look at my phone again to see what address I need to go to. The place is in a night club. I enter from the back of the building and hear him talking. I follow the sound of his voice as he is talking with the owner. "Yeah...some guys just don't know when to stop. I just can't have the police all up in this place you know."

"I get it...we will take care of this and no one will ever have to know." Zane shakes his hand as I walk into his sight. "There you are my boy...looks like we got some cleaning to do."

From the looks of it...things must have gotten a little out of hand. The girl is completely naked, laying on her front side with her face in the floor. All you see is blood and her little ass. I walk over while placing sliding the gloves on before flipping her over. I recognize her right away. She was the one girl that was at the party a while back...the one that really didn't want to get fucked up. She was really nervous then, I can only imagine what happened in here.

There was the guy as well...lord and behold one of Kwan's friends. I think he is the one that also went into the room with them that night. I wonder who stabbed who first. I don't ask questions as we start the clean-up process. While cleaning up, I try to visualize the whole thing. The pretty young girl coming in here to only do her job to dance for him in private. I wonder how long it took her to realize who he was. In my mind I picture her straddling his lap and him whispering shit about that night. I see her starting to panic and that's when she grabs his knife and stabs him first, right into the chest. He fights her and manages to take it away from her only after she stabs him the one time and then he slaughters the shit out of her, stabbing her multiple times. After he calms down he lost so much blood and passes out on the floor only to be found hours later...both are dead. There is blood all over the small room splattered in every direction. The only blood that is his is the puddle that he is laying in. After wrapping up the bodies we take them to the van and then come back and clean up the place...making it spotless as if nothing ever happened in here.

It's funny how people can just disappear...