by Smith, I. J.
“Let her go!” Kat shouted at him.
He turned to see Kat holding one of her samurai swords towards him. “Really?” Jack laughed. “Please, this isn’t you Jack!” Kat replied.
“Or maybe it is. Maybe I am sick and tired of pretending to care about you fucking idiots!” Jack paused as he focused on Kat. “Look at you, thinking I am some kind of big brother to you!” He chuckled. “Your grandad Ray was a fucking idiot; he should have left me at the roadside.”
Kat suddenly swung her sword at Jack; he quickly he slid to one side, grabbing her wrist and slapped her across the face. Kat hit the ground hard. “Now kid, if you don’t mind, I gotta sexy lady waiting for me!” Jack said with a grin on his face.
Kat looked up to see Jack dragging Raven into one of the stone rooms.
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
SHOCK
Watching Jack throw Raven into the room scared Kat. Kat wiped the blood from her split lip and rushed to find Jacob and the others.
In the stone room, a single bed sat. There were supplies of tinned foods and water piled along the walls. Jack threw Raven onto the bed. As she fell back, she looked directly into Jack’s eyes. For the first time as friends; Raven was afraid of him. He had become a monster; more feared than the Zombies. Raven held back her emotions.
Raven reached out and grabbed the first thing that came to hand; a tin of beans. She threw the can hard at Jack; hitting him in the head and causing a cut to open up. Jack simply laughed as he approached Raven.
“Go ahead! Do it! Become everything you despise.” Raven screamed out at him.
Jack rubbed his head, wiping the blood that began to drip down his face. He looked at her with a gaze of hurt.
“You really think I’m capable of that?” he asked.
Raven noticed that the tone of his voice changed. She shook her head in disbelief. “You’re not telling me a bang to the head brought you back to us?”
For the first time in almost a month Jack gave his half smile as he sat at the end of the bed.
“There is a traitor amongst us,” Jack stated.
Raven looked at Jack, as he stared at the stone walls. She shuffled forward to sit next to him.
“A traitor? How? Who?” Raven asked.
Jack looked at her and replied, “If I knew that, they would already be dead.”
“Are you sure? I mean, really sure?” Raven asked in surprise.
“I had my doubts to begin with when Banks told me that Oasis was communicating with someone.” Jack paused for a moment. “When we lost Zoe, The Butcher said something that only could have come from one of us.”
Jack looked deeply into her eyes. “You need to take over, you need to banish me!”
“YOU BASTARD!” Raven shouted in reply. “You planned all of it! Let me guess Jacob is in on it too?”
“Yeah, but in his defense, I didn’t tell him until after I broke his nose.” Jack told her.
Raven stood up angrily, she paced around the room. Then without warning she slapped Jack multiple times. “You scared me!” Jack grabbed her by the wrists. “That was the point; I needed those closest to me…. Well I needed them to turn on me.”
Raven slumped back down. “So, Banks and Jacob know there is a traitor?” She shook her head. “Now I know too, so what makes you think I am not the traitor?”
Jack took her hand and held it against his beating heart; “Because if you were, this would be broken!”
She pulled her hand away. “Don’t tease me.” Raven began to cry. Jack stroked his hand across her cheek; wiping away the tears and moved in to kiss her.
Outside Kat found Jacob still with the others at the meeting. “Come quickly, it’s Jack. He has Raven; I think he might rape her.” Kat said breathlessly.
“Come on, Jack would never….” Sarah began to say; until she noticed Jacob pull a handgun from his belt.
“You all stay here!” Jacob ordered them.
Tommy rushed over to Kat; he looked at the blood on her lip. “How did that happen?” She looked at him emotionally. “Jack is not himself anymore, Tommy!” Kat said sadly.
Raven and Jack were still kissing; when the door was suddenly kicked in. Jacob walked in holding the gun high; slamming the door shut behind him.
“I always wanted to do that!” Jacob said with a smiled.
“Great, Dirty Harry is here!” Jack joked.
Raven jumped from the bed and began slapping Jacob. “You made me think he was a complete psycho!”
Jacob backed off, “To be fair, he kind of is!”
Jack nodded in agreement. “He’s right!”
Raven turned back to Jack. “OK, we have a traitor; then we need to flush them out!”
Jack stood up; he placed his hands in Raven’s. “And you will, but not with me here. I need Oasis and The Black Angels to think we’re no longer family!” He paused to look at Jacob. “I have thought of every possible way. But, the Angels are coming and they will kill all of you, just to get to me!”
Raven pulled away from Jack, telling him, “We’re stronger together!”
“Not in this! There is so much I need to tell you about me; so much darkness inside me.” Jack replied.
Raven frowned. “What do you mean?”
“I’m not a good man, there are things I have done that have easily secured my place in Hell. Frank was being tortured, when he called me The Reaper to those bastards!” Jack paused. “But, he was right. There is a beast inside me. I can handle the Angels, but it means becoming someone I have not been in a long time. That is a person I never want you to see!”
Jacob touched Raven on the shoulder and told her, “He’s needs to do this. It protects all of us.”
“HOW? Raven asked angrily.
“Oasis will reach out; try to become friendly with you.” Jack replied.
“Then we will kill them!” Raven told him bluntly.
Jack smiled. “No! You will accept it. The traitor will tell them what happened here. Oasis will tell you what a danger I am. I want you to make them think that you believe them. Get close. This is a war on two fronts!”
Raven nodded in agreement and then suddenly says, “Wait, that’s why you attacked Ryan. That’s why you broke his leg; to stop him from going after them.”
Jack never said a word; Jacob was the one to speak, “Let’s be honest, Ryan would not have lasted a day out there with them!”
Suddenly the door was banged upon. “JACOB, WE’RE COMING IN!” A voice yelled.
“Shit.” Jack muttered.
Jack looked at Jacob, “Make it look good!” Within a split-second Jacob smashed the gun into Jack’s nose. Jack never fell down. “Oh, you enjoyed it!” Jack muttered holding his bleeding nose. Jacob approached the door when Raven stopped him. “Wait!” She ripped her top to reveal her bra and then roughed up her face; by slapping herself.
Finally, when the door opened, Jacob escorted Jack outside and threw him to the ground.
“You bastard!” Raven screamed out; as Sarah rushed to her aid.
Jack tried to stand. Jacob kicked him back down. “Stay the fuck down or I’m gonna put a bullet in your head!” Jacob shouted.
“You bunch of fucking pussies!” Jack shouted. Jacob grabbed him by the collar and dragged Jack into an empty room. This room had a padlock on the outside; which Jacob fastened. Locked away, Jack smiled to himself.
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
BANISHED
The rain was pouring down on the Fort. The ground had turned into mud; when Jack was released from his room. As he looked out he noticed the weapons that were aimed at him. Raven stood in front, Jacob beside her, both holding the rifles; aimed at him.
“Careful you two; don’t hurt yourself with those,” Jack said with sarcasm.
“You’re leaving the Fort!” Raven told him.
“The fuck I am. This is my place! The rest of you can fuck off!” Jack replied with a smirk on his face.
Raven fired a bullet above his head, “Next time I won�
��t miss,” Raven replied.
Jack stepped forward; to see everyone watching. “Oh, look, you have all come to say goodbye!” Jack said sarcastically.
Jacob pointed at a motorbike and told Jack, “There is a bag of supplies, your machetes and a full tank of gas.”
“How generous!” Jack replied sarcastically.
“You’re lucky! I didn’t want to give you anything!” A female voice said. Jack turned to see Kat standing there.
“Guess you no longer love me then?” Jack teased her.
Suddenly Tommy flew passed Raven and punched Jack in the face. The sad fact was that he hurt himself more than he hurt Jack.
“Fuck this! I’m happy leaving you losers behind!” Jack tells the crowd of people around him.
Jack walked toward the bike. As he strapped on his machetes and backpack; he sat on the bike and looked back at the crowd. “I give you idiots six weeks, before you’re all dead!” He told them as he cranked the bike and made it roared. Craig opened one side of the gate and Jack drove speeding outside. Pulling a machete, he cut down the dead that were in his way. As Jack drove off, he could hear Paige barking. He came to a stop and turned for one last look. “Stay safe. I love you guys!” He then drove away into the distance.
Jack drove for about an hour; deeper south towards the ocean. He turned into a quiet industrial area. There was nothing, not even any Zombies. He drove to a big black double door; climbing from the bike, he grabbed the lock of the door. Pulling a key from his pocket; he unlocked the door and pushed the bike inside. It was pitch black inside, but Jack felt a table and turned on some battery powered lanterns. He looked around the workshop; a black fixed up car was sitting in the middle. On the walls were guns, a box of C4 and grenades on the table; maps were pinned to another wall. The writing on the maps identified Oasis strong holds. Tinned food and bottled water was piled up. This was the project Jack was working on; all those times over the last month when he went off alone.
“TIME FOR WAR!”
∞
The Black Angels were back at the dock, entertaining their new friends.
“So, MacLeod? The Reaper really buried you alive?” Mann asked.
“Yeah, I guess he got upset when I cut his bitch’s head off with my sword,” he roared with laughter.
Miss Evans walked into the warehouse. Chambers stood up and approached her.
“New friends?” she asked.
“No, but they will come in handy. They want Jack Mason dead as much as Oasis does. We can use them.” Chambers replied.
Miss Evans smiled. “You might not need them. I just received a communication from our source inside the Fort. Jack has been banished.” She told him.
“What?” Meyers was walking past; when he heard Miss Evans’ comment.
“Turns out he tried to rape one of the women and they got rid of him.” She told them.
“Perfect time to strike, we can take them all out tonight!” Meyers replied.
“My god, you’re an idiot!” Miss Evans told Meyers.
Chambers looked at Meyers and told him, “This is a perfect opportunity to get inside, to make The Reaper’s friends our own. No point in killing them. Jack is alone and may just reach out to one of them.”
“Gentlemen, you have your war!” Miss Evens informed them.
Table of Contents
COPYRIGHT
DEDICATION
TABLE OF CONTENT
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER SEVEN
CHAPTER EIGHT
CHAPTER NINE
CHAPTER TEN
CHAPTER ELEVEN
CHAPTER TWELVE
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
CHAPTER FOURTEEN