Aaron: OK.
I make my way to Nell’s to see what the fuck is going on with this nurse. Parking my hog outside the front of Nell’s, I’m not surprised when she opens the front door and signals for me to head inside.
Once sitting in the kitchen with a cup of Nell’s chamomile tea with a hint of honey, I listen as she tells me about the guy they had from us.
“He was a weak link to whoever is doing this, but from what Tank found from the asshole it’s all linked to the brother owing something to the up-and-coming senator. They want Victoria to use her skills on a system. What system we don’t know. When she refused, they decided she was a liability and had to be removed. Hence, the assassins, who are not real assassins. They are just assholes trying to make big money.” Nell takes a seat beside me, pushes a plate of cupcakes towards me and leans back, waiting for my response.
“Let me call Stitch and see if he has an answer to what the fuckers had in the syringe they both brought.” I take out my phone and make the call, waiting impatiently I may add, for him to answer.
“Hi, Chaos, what’s up?” Stitch asks.
“Do you know what was in the syringe yet?”
“Oh, yeah, the report came back an hour ago. It was a mixture of drugs, and the result would have been stress on the heart until the heart stopped. Making it look like heart failure,” Stitch snarls. “Who has the one the nurse had?”
Nell grins. “I do.”
Oh, now that look on Nell’s face could be bad for the nurse. But you know I’m not really bothered about that because anyone that would hurt someone else for dollars isn’t worth my feelings.
“Do you want to come with me to speak with this nurse?” Nell asks, and I can see she’s not really worried if I do or don’t.
“Yeah, I’ll come with you.”
The back door opens and Graham walks inside the kitchen, gives Nell a quick hug, which she rolls her eyes at, before slapping my shoulder and giving me a fist bump. “Okay, sister dearest, are we going to sort out the bitch downstairs?”
“Come on, Graham,” Nell pushes Graham out of the way and makes her way out of the kitchen, with Graham and myself right behind her.
“Well, it seems our little lady friend here doesn’t want to impart any information,” Graham states as he leans against the wall in the cell where Nell is holding the fake nurse.
I have said and done nothing since we came down to the cells, but I’m losing my cool. Nell has removed all the woman’s jewelry. Cut her hair so it’s close to her head and even removed her pinky finger. As yet she has said nothing regarding who sent her.
Standing to my full height I squat in front of where she’s tied to the wall in the cell. “So, let’s see, Victoria is friends with Bethy, and Bethy is Art’s sister. Art is in trouble for something and needs his sister's best friend to get him out of that trouble. How am I doing so far?”
The woman is doing her best to stay calm, but with each name I throw out it is obvious she knows them. Her eyes widen right before she looks away to the side or at the ground.
“Now, moving along. Art is in debt to the up-and-coming Senator Joe Tizwald,” I say it slowly so she doesn’t miss the fact I’ve made the connection.
A tear falls down her cheek and Nell smirks. “See we are not fools. You are the fool for taking on a job you don’t know how to do. Assassins are trained to do the job. Get in and out without being seen. Do the job cleanly so no evidence is found. Now this was an easy way of getting rid of Victoria’ until you blundered that is.”
I didn’t see it coming, but Nell stuck that syringe needle into the woman and hit the plunger, sending the drug into her system. Pulling out the syringe, Nell looks at the woman with a blank face. “Now you will find out what you were going to do to another person. An innocent person.”
The fake nurse is now blubbering and begging for mercy, saying she wants us to find an antidote and fast. Get her to the hospital, and other bullshit that isn’t going to happen.
Nell looks at me and Graham. “We’ll have to burn this one because I’m not risking this shit with Jaws, Shark, Teeth and Jingle. My boys are more important.”
“Come on, Chaos. Graham can watch over our nurse here and we’ll go have another cup of tea, this time Earl Grey. How about that?” Nell saunters out of the cell. I give the nurse one last look and shake my head at the wailing she’s doing. Graham takes outhis phone and starts playing a game while he waits. I follow Nell and go for a cup of tea.
It’s only half an hour or so before Graham walks into the kitchen and gives both Nell and I a nod. “Well, that is that done then. But I reckon we may need to take a brief road trip. Graham, what do you think?”
“I’m up for a trip. I think Tank and Richie may be up for it, too.” Looking at Nell, Graham changes his mind. “I should say Tank or Richie.”
Nell rolls her eyes. “I can look after myself if you all want to go on a road trip. Nothing to worry about here at all. I don’t want Freddy and Jason to turn up either!”
Nodding, Graham grins. “It could be fun and a change of scenery.”
“Yeah, speak to Tank and Richie and let me know. I’ll be ready whenever you are. We can go fuck up some up-and-coming senator's campaign.” I chuckle as I kiss Nell’s cheek and head out to my hog, whistling more than a little happy tune.
