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“No,” he hissed back.
“Can I at least use the restroom?” the woman surprised me by asking. “My baby is kicking my bladder.”
Len stared at her and her large abdomen. “Fine.”
She looked immediately thankful but then struggled to get to her feet. I went to get to my feet and felt the muzzle of the gun at my forehead.
“I’m just going to help her get off the ground,” I said.
“Sit your ass down; Chuck can help her up.”
And just like that, Numbnuts had a first name. I sank back to the ground, and Chuck held out a hand to the woman. I took her other hand and helped the best that I could being seated on the ground. She waddled herself to the bathroom and disappeared behind the door.
I sat there, trying to figure out the best way to play this. How long would it be before Len spoke with authorities?
Chuck was pacing and turned on Len. “How are we gonna get out of this?”
“I’m thinking,” he said as the bathroom door opened and the woman emerged, looking slightly distressed.
She shuffled back to my side, and I helped her get down to the ground. “Are you alright?”
She shook her head and threw a look in their direction. “No, I’m bleeding, and I’m having some small contractions.”
Damn. “How far along are you?”
“Eight months,” she said.
Len turned his attention toward us. “No talking.”
“Look, you have to let this lady leave,” I said. “She’s going into labor right now.”
Len’s expression didn’t change a bit, but Chuck grinned beside him. “Really? That’s cool.”
The guy was obviously short a few screws, and Len glared at him. “She’s not going anywhere.”
“Then can you at least see if there are any medical employees in here to help her out?”
“I’m a nurse,” a woman on the far side of the room under a table called out.
“Fine,” Len finally relented, and the nurse slowly got to her feet. She was wearing light-purple scrubs and kept her head down as she approached us, going to her knees beside the woman.
“Hi, I’m Carol.” I listened to her ask a few questions about the pregnancy and quickly learned that this was a high-risk pregnancy. When a contraction began to hit her, I took her hand and let her squeeze hard.
Chuck seemed enthralled with what was going on. Len, on the other hand, looked pissed off at the world as he leaned against the wall and scrutinized all of us.
I glanced at Maggie; she was watching the pregnant woman but glanced my way and tried to smile.
“Do you want to sit next to her?” I asked, and she nodded. I started to move and saw the booted feet coming toward me.
“Stay right where you are!” he hissed at me as he put the muzzle to my head. “I don’t trust you one bit. You’re up to something.”
“No, sir, I’m not. I was just trading places with the lady so she could help them. I’m not looking for trouble.” This guy was itching to get into it with someone. I already had a few pieces of shrapnel in my body, but I didn’t think a bullet in the brain would be good for the collection.
“You just sit. Don’t talk, don’t move. If you make one more move or say one more word, I’m going to put a bullet right between your eyes.”
I lifted my face, the muzzle of the gun dragging over my scalp, down my forehead until it was lined up right between my eyes. “Understood, sir.”
He hissed, “Crazy motherfucker.” He dropped the gun from my head and stepped quickly back from me. Had he not moved so fast, I might have shown him just how crazy I was. Maybe he wasn’t as dumb as I thought he was.
