by D L Jones
“I Haven’t! I’m scared, that’s why I’m calling. What is going on?” Said Rebecca.
“Chauncy is in a lot of trouble… How is he able to do the things he has been doing? Do you know anything about that?” Officer Ford asks.
“I don’t know anything about any of the things he’s been doing… All I know is his friend, Tracy Jones, told me to stay hidden, that Chauncy wasn’t in his right frame of mind. That I should stay away…” Rebecca explained.
“Tracy Jones? What does he have to do with any of this?”
“I don’t know, Chauncy said that he is the one that caused everything. Shit is crazy, I don’t know what to think.”
“Where is Tracy, we probably need to question him. I didn’t know he was still in town.”
“I hadn’t heard from him in a few days, I haven’t tried to contact him.” Rebecca said.
“Have you heard anything about Jeff? The man Chauncy attacked when this all started?” Rebecca added.
“Yes, Jeff is home now, he is doing fine. He took quit a beating. Do you know what that is about?” Asks Officer Ford.
“Yes… I was having an affair…”
“An affair, is that what all of this is about?”
“I think so… or part of it? Chauncy seems to think that Tre set him up or something…”
“Does Jeff know anything?”
“I don’t think so, other than he is the one I was having an affair. But everything else that is going on, Jeff doesn’t know.” Rebecca explained.
“Ok, is this a good number to reach you… when… if we get more information?”
“Yes, this is my friend Lisa’s phone, I’m with her.”
“Ok, I will keep in touch if anything happens. And please, if Chauncy contacts you, let me know.” Said officer Ford as she ends the call.
“She have anything?” Asks Lisa.
“No, she hasn’t heard anything more than we have.” Rebecca replied.
“You going to call Tre?”
“The more I think about it, the more I think I shouldn’t call Tre. I don’t think I want him to know where I am.” Rebecca said.
Chauncy wakes to darkness. He is still in the room on the roof where he passed out. It has been 3 days. He has awakened a couple times during those three days but drifted back to sleep each time. He sits up and leans against the wall. He checks his surroundings. He looks for his backpack and phone. He grabs a soda from his backpack and opens it to take a drink. The soda has been in his backpack several days so it was warm. The taste disgusted Chauncy but he was thirsty. He drank the whole can.
He brought himself to his feet. Fumbled around in his pocket to find several vials of Hypo. After he stands, he straps his backpack on his back. He grabs his phone and slowly opens the door. The sun was bright on his eyes. He squinted. He walked out of the small dark room onto the roof, letting his eyes adjust. He looks around and finds the door that leads to the stairs. He goes inside and starts making his way down the stairs.
He was about a mile from the HD shop, but he had to get back there. That’s where his car was parked and he needed to get to Rebecca. Once he made his way out of the building, he started walking towards the store. He carefully watched his surroundings, trying to avoid the police. Or anyone that could alert the police. It took him about 30 minutes to get back to the HD shop, but he was able to do so without being seen. Rodney’s car was still there. He checked his pockets to make sure he still had the keys.
After entering the car, he just sat for a while, thinking about all that has happened.
“Tre set me up. He arranged the kidnapping as a way to use me as a real-world test for HYPO.” He thought to himself.
“Now I’m addicted to it. I can’t stop thinking about it. I want to take it right now…”
He picks up his phone and dials Rebecca.
“Chauncy?” Rebecca answers.
Chauncy doesn’t say anything.
“Chauncy, if this is you, you need to turn yourself in.” Rebecca said.
“I’m so sorry…” She added.
Chauncy ends the call.
Across town, Tre’s phone gets an alert. He looks on his phone and sees Rebecca’s location. He had her phone tracked and just needed Chauncy to call so that her location was transmitted.
Chapter 23
Tre is driving through a neighborhood. On the corner is the apartment building where Rebecca and Lisa are staying. He drives by and check the layout of the land, the parking lot, the building itself and the street. He looks to the passenger seat to see his boxes of HYPO. He circles the block then pulls up in front of the building.
Tre gets out of the car and walks up to the front door of the apartment building. He notices that the door is locked. On the wall is a list of names, with buttons beside each name. He searches through the name and notices a listing with Lisa’s same last name. He hears the buzzer ring as he presses the button.
“Hello…” Lisa says across the intercom.
“Hello. This is Tracy Jones. I’m looking for Rebecca Peters…”
Lisa pauses for a minute. Rebecca looks at Lisa, not knowing what to do. She’s wondering how Tre knew where she was as he doesn’t know about Lisa’s Sister, or her apartment.
“I’ll be down in a minute” Rebecca said across the intercom.
Tre walks back and forth in front of the door waiting for Rebecca. He looks back at his car a few times. It was still running and parked in the front of the building. After a few moments, the front door open and Rebecca comes out.
“Tre… Chauncy called me and was telling me some crazy things.” Rebecca said.
“Yea, I told you, he isn’t himself. Right now, you need to stay away from him.” Tre said.
“Tre…” Rebecca said slowly.
She searches the area and notices the car parked in the front of the building. The front of the building doesn’t have any place to park. It’s just the street. Tre’s car is there, still running. Rebecca walks slowly to the car. Tre walks behind her.
“Why are you here?” Rebecca continued.
Tre looked at Rebecca nervously. It was as if he was thinking his next statement over in his head before he answers. Rebecca noticed his hesitancy. She continued to watch his face as she got closer to his car.
“I just thought I’d check in on you… you know, with Chauncy in the news and all…” Tre said.
Rebecca finally gets as close to the car as she cared to. Tray walked beside her, standing so that he is blocking her view of the car.
“No… I mean why are you HERE? I didn’t tell you that I would be here, why are you here?” She said.
“Because…”
Rebecca leans over a little bit, enough to where she can see inside the car. She notices the boxes of HYPO. One box was open and the individual HYPO vials were visible. At that moment, she realizes that Tre isn’t safe to be around. She takes a step back.
Tre notices that she was pulling back and reaches into his pocket. He pulls out a Vial of HYPO and injects himself.
“Becca… What did Chauncy tell you?
What do you know?” Tre said.
Rebecca is still backing away slowly. Carefully moving towards the apartment building, trying to plot out her next move.
“I think you should stop backing away from me Becca… I’m not the one you need to be worrying about.” Tre said.
Rebecca made it half the way to the apartment building’s front door. She looks to see that Lisa is watching and waiting. Lisa can tell something isn’t right and slowly opens the door. Once Rebecca notices the door opening, she turns and runs toward Lisa.
“I Told you not to run! I didn’t want this to happen!” Tre yells.
The Hypo Injection was just starting to kick in and Tre felt his body get warm. He takes off running. His speed was incredible, shocked Rebecca as she ran to the door. She was able to get inside the building before Tre caught up to her. Lisa slams the door shut and locks it. Rebecca and Lisa both runs up the stair
s.
Tre runs back a few feet away from the building then turns. He burst into a sprint and runs towards the door, shoulder first. He knocked the door off the hinges. The heavy metal door slams into the wall as Tre comes running through. Tre runs up a flight of stairs, turns the corner and up another flight.
POW!!!
As soon as Tre turns to go up another flight of stairs, Lisa swung a fire extinguisher as hard as she could. It hit Tre in the face as he was rounding the corner. The impact knocked Tre into a glass window, breaking it. He fell out of the window and down 3 floors to the ground outside of the building. Both Rebecca and Lisa run up the stairs, not looking to see what happened to Tre.
Outside of the building, Tre hit the ground and rolls a few times across the grass. He gets himself together and stand up, brushing himself off. With Hypo active in his bloodstream, he was able to quickly recover from the fall. He looks and see an indentation where he landed in the lawn. He feels a little sore, but not enough to stop his progress. He looks at the apartment building. He takes a step towards the building…
BLAM
Chauncy came running from around the corner and throws an elbow to the side of Tre’s neck. Tre was instantly knocked back to the ground.
“What are you doing here Tre!?” Chauncy said.
He kicks Tre in the stomach as he tries to stand. The kick knocked him back to the ground and he rolled a few more times.
“You set all this up… to get me addicted to this HYPO shit?!” Chauncy yelled.
Chauncy ran over to Tre and goes to kick him again, this time Tre manages to move out of the way.
“Want to see if this shit would make me crazy? Huh Tre?!
Well Guess what?
Id Did!
I am crazy!
Happy now?”
Tre stands and looks on as Chauncy pulls out another Vial of HYPO. He injects himself.
“Is that your second one? Chauncy… You can’t do two! Its never been tested!” Tre yelled.
“Now it has…” Chauncy yelled back.
Chauncy charges at Tre but he ducks under. He puts his shoulder into Chauncy’s stomach as he came charging, lifting him in the air. Chauncy goes flying over Tre and falls to his back. Tre doesn’t bother to stay and continue the fight, instead, he runs away. Chauncy hits the ground rolling but immediately stands. He chases Tre as he is heading back to the Apartment building.
Tre makes his way to the front of the building and runs through the door he broke earlier. He leaps up a flight of stairs and runs up another. Chauncy follows but by this time, Tre has put a little space between them. Tre makes it to the floor of the apt that Lisa and Rebecca were hiding. The number on the door corresponded to the number on the buzzer from when he first arrived. He runs and kicks the door, breaking it. Rebecca, Now hiding in the bedroom closet, heard the door come crashing down. The loud noise scares her and she struggles to keep quiet. She calls the police and quietly tries to tell them what is going on.
“He’s in here now, help me, I don’t know what to do.” Rebecca whispers on the phone.
“Stay calm. Lay the phone on the floor somewhere near you, but keep this call open. The police are on the way. I’m right here.” Says the 911 operator.
Rebecca lays the phone on the floor. She curls up in a ball in the back of the closet. She pulls down some of the clothes that were hanging on top of her to try to keep from being seen.
Tre is walking around the apartment, quietly. He is trying not to be seen. He goes into the room where Lisa is hiding behind a dresser. Lisa holds her breath. Tre grabs the edge of the bed near the dresser and tosses it against the wall. Lisa stands trembling with fear. Tre turns to leave. Just when Lisa was about to exhale. Tre looks in her direction… his eyes meet hers.
“I’m not looking for you… Where is Becca?
BECCA!!!”
He walks into another bedroom.
“This place isn’t that big. There can’t be too many places for you to hide!” Tre said.
He stands next to the closer door where Rebecca is hiding. Rebecca knows he is there and tries to remain silent. She looks and find that the closet door is cracked open about an inch. She can see Tre’s foot next to the door. She has a knife in her hand and thinks about stabbing his foot and make a run.
She grips the knife and focusses on his foot.
“Why is he just standing there.” She thought to herself.
She slowly looks up. Her eyes follow his foot, up to his legs. Then up to his waist then his chest. She slowly moves some of the clothes that was covering her head to get a better look. When she looks up, she sees Tre is looking at her. His eyes were focused on her face.
“NOOO!!!”
Rebecca was startled and yells uncontrollably. Tre reaches in and grabs her by her hair and drags her out of the closet. She tries to swing the knife she had in her hand but the blade wouldn’t pierce his skin. It bounced off as if it had no edge to it. Tre laughed.
“That’s the thing about HYPO, it takes a lot more to hurt me than the average man when I’m using.” Tre said.
BAM!!!
Lisa steps into the room and slams Tre in the face with the fire extinguisher. He stumbles. She revs up again and swings the fire extinguisher as hard as she can. Hits Tre in the shoulder and he falls to the ground.
After a second, Tre’s eyes open really wide. His vision starts turning white. His body goes limp and he passes out.
Chauncy runs into the room to see Tre laying unconscious. He grabs Tre by the ankles and drags him out of the apartment. He gets to the stairs and proceed to go down, now running. Tre’s head bounces on every step as they go. It eventually wakes Tre. He looks around to see himself being dragged down the stairs.
“HAHAHA… You have to be a lot more creative than that to hurt me!
I’m on HYPO Too!
My formula is a little different than the one you are on Chauncy!”
Chauncy looks at Tre then decides to toss him over the railing. They were on the 5th floor, Tre went tumbling down the staircase. Chauncy watches at first, then he leaps over the railing himself. Tre hit the ground and sees Chauncy on his way down. He rolls out of the way and Chauncy lands hard, right beside him.
“FREEZE CHAUNCY PETERS!” Said police officers from outside.
Chauncy looks to see the front entrance of the building surrounded. The police don’t take any chances, they unload into the entrance of the building.
RATATATA!
POW POW POW
“NOOOOO!!!” Rebecca yells as she heard the gunshots.
She runs to the stairwell to see Chauncy taking a barrage of gunfire from the police. She can see bullets bouncing off his body but a few starts to penetrate. Tre is laying on the ground. He is out of view of the police. Chauncy takes a few steps, tries to run, but this time, the gunfire was too much. He falls to the ground.
Chapter 24
Outside of the building, there were a whole host of police.
“Damn, all of those shots and only about 3 bullets actually did anything to him.” One officer said.
“Yea, we hit him with everything we had. How is this possible.”
Medical employees have sedated Chauncy and put him in handcuffs. They load him onto a stretcher, preparing him for a trip to the hospital. Rebecca sits at the top of the stairs watching. She cries and Lisa hugs her. She looks around and notices Tre is nowhere to be found.
“Nooo!!! TRE is the one you have to arrest!” Rebecca says hysterically.
Officer Ryan tries to calm Rebecca.
“I’m so sorry Mrs. Peters. You know your husband was a wanted man.” Said Officer Ryan.
“Right now, we need to make sure he survives.” Officer Ford added.
“What about Tre? Chauncy was trying to protect me. Tre was attacking us!”
“Tre? Where is he?” said officer Ford.
Rebecca cries and walks over to Chauncy as they are loading him into the ambulance.
“Please stand back M
a’am…” said an officer.
“That’s my Husband! I want to be with my Husband!”
Officer Ford holds on to Rebecca, who struggles for a bit then goes limp. A couple police officers that were checking out Tre’s car found the cardboard boxes and the vials of HYPO.
“Think this was the stuff he was on?” asks the police officer?
“That must be Peters car…” said another officer.
“It’s a rental, I don’t think Mr. Peters was driving it.” Said another officer.
Chauncy wakes up and tries to get out of the stretcher. Rebecca sees it and runs over to him. The police hold him down.
“5th Street…” Chauncy mumbles.
Rebecca runs to him but Officer Ford grabs her.
“Tell them your name…” Chauncy said.
“What do you mean Chauncy! I’m here baby!” Rebecca yells.
Chauncy’s body starts convulsing. The paramedics run over to see what is going on. Chauncy’s eyes start to turn a dark red with blood vessels bursting. His nose starts to bleed.
“What is going on?!” Rebecca yells.
“Get the defibrillator!” Said a paramedic.
One of the paramedic’s shock Chauncy with the defibrillator and his chest rises.
“Again!” said the paramedic as he shocks him again.
After about 4 tries Chauncy’s body stop convulsing. His eyes close and the machine he was connected to goes silent.
“I think he went into a coma…” said the paramedic.
“Nooo!” Rebecca says, distraught.
Officer Ford puts her arms around Rebecca, trying to comfort her.
The Police load the stretcher into the ambulance and close the door. The rest of the cops are walking around taking pictures. The different local news stations are all on scene now reporting what just happened. One tried to get an interview with Rebecca but Officer Ford shoved them out of the way. She Rushed Rebecca to her police car.
“Sit right here, we need to go to the station for some questioning, but you don’t need to be questioned by them right now.” Said Officer Ford.
“I have to get Lisa also, she will need to come for questioning.” She added.