Flashback.....Farewells
*She stared into the eyes of Thad, hoping to once more see
that familiar hint of mischief, that glimmer of mirth....
something...anything that she would recognize. Yet he only stared
back, unmoving...unblinking. His pale gaze now gold and barren*
* A single drop falls on his fac as a shaky hand reaches out to
hide that gaze forever from her sight...a Shaky sigh, then
another joins its brethren, both merging to run down his
neck...more swiftly follow....was it raining?...her gaze
cutting towards the lightening sky*
*Smoke hazes the air somehow making the sunrise seem ethereal,
otherworldy...and it seemed wrong, wrong that the world can
continue...that it can go on as if nothing has happened...but
everything had happened, everything had fallen apart...her world
was gone*
*It seemed as if fate had chosen her, picked her from the myriad
of others and destroyed everything she knew or hoped to know*
*First, her gang, the Hawkz had been slowly and meticulousy
decimated...One by one they had fallen...over
dose...jail...murder...each had claimed their chosen...Then there
were those that had simply vanished, without a trace...never to
be heard from again. None of this was unusual, life otn eh
streets was harsh. But it was rare that so many would be picked
off in such a short time...few were left...those few scattered
tot he winds, each avoiding that which seemed to be hunting them
down*
*Until there were two. They had always been together...he was all
she had ever known..it was he who had given her a name, taken her
in, had taught her how to survive...He had always been there for
her, and now he too was gone...taken by fates cruel hand.*
*More droplets splash on her hand...Damn Rain...A soot
covered face looks up att he blazing inferno above her. the sound
of sirens echoing faintly in the distance...They would be here
soon, she should go.....She lookd once more at the head laying in
her lap. Damn Smoke she wipes at her stinging eyes, with
the back of her hand, leaving a whitish trail in its wake*
*A hand presses against the dark stain on his shirt, red on red,
almost comical...He had always said that he would die with that
shirt on...A skeletal head witha smoke dangling from its teeth, a
pirate patch over its eye....now a hole marked the eye, as if
someone had chosen it as a mark. A someone she didn't know....she
had vague recollections of black forms and gunshots...a single
scream...then nothing...all was blank*
*That happened when she was angry, she lost time...lost memories.
Thad had once told her that she become something else, something
he couldn't quite describe....said she was liek a stone hulk, a
massive behomoth of granite...but she didn't believe him, who
could turn to stone? ,....that was something out of a drug dream,
only comics had stone people*
*The sirens were closer now, she couldn't risk being caught, she
should be leaving....she had come to in a a smoke filled room,
disoriented, unsure how she had gotten there...Tears had stremed
down her face, blinding her, while her smoke filled lungs
struggled for a gasp of fresh air...then she stumbled over
somthing soft...a hand came up against a warm wetness...and she
had forced her eyes open to behold a fmailiar form...She didn't
even stop to see if he was alive, she simply grabbed and pulled,
dead or alive, they had to get out of there...Only vaguely had
she noticed the carnage around her.
*The sirens were close..too close...she had to go..any longer and
she'd be caught...A hand gently sweeps back his hair and lips
press to skin. Once more rain drops falling on his face...I
won't forget you...hands gently cradle his head, lifting it
from her lap to place it back onthe harsh concrete..She reaches
for the jacket her side 'his' jacket, her last momento of
him...their colours.* good bye * A tight lipped farewell as she
fades intot eh shadows, leaving behind another john doe, a
faceless victim of gang warfare*