by D L Jones
“FREEZE!”
A nearby police officer see’s the beating and attempt to put a stop to it. He stands with his gun drawn on Chauncy who is now completely hysterical. Chancy looks at the cop and lets out a yell, almost a roar. He then runs towards the cop.
“FREEZE OR I’LL SHOOT!” the police officer yelled.
Chauncy kept coming. The police officer noticed his rate of speed and reacted.
BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM!
He let off 4 shots from his pistol. The first one missed, the second bounced off Chauncy’s arm. The third and fourth hit Chauncy square in the chest. Neither shot stopped or even slowed him down. Chauncy kept coming. The police officer watched as the bullets bounced off Chauncy’s chest. He decided he would turn and run… but it was too late. Chauncy was on him. He swung his fist wildly, hitting the cop in the side of his face. His head turned and he went stumbling into a parked car. Chauncy grabbed the police by his bicep with one hand, tossing him to the other side of the sidewalk, into the glass window of a nearby store.
Another police officer ran over to Chancy with his baton drawn and cracks Chauncy to the back of the head, the baton breaks. Chauncy turns and kicks the police officer in the chest, sending him into a parked car. More cops show up with their guns drawn. Chauncy looks at them then leaps. He lands on the third-floor fire escape and leaps again, this time landing on the top of the building. He runs and hops off the edge of the building onto the next building. He keeps going like this till he is no longer in site. Other police run to their vehicles to take up chase but Chauncy was nowhere to be found.
Chapter 20
Rebecca has been at Lisa’s house ever since Tre dropped her off the night Chauncy got arrested. It has been a few days since then. She has heard about Chauncy attacking the police on the news. She has spent most of this time crying and confused about what could be wrong with Chauncy.
“Maybe Chauncy is the one that got you pregnant. I mean… weren’t you two screwing like rabbits for the last couple months?” Said Lisa.
“That doesn’t matter, He knows I’ve been with someone else…its over.” Becca replied.
“Well he’s been on a rampage, he’s on the news again. Looks like he attacked more police officers. Then he attacked that guy outside of the restaurant the other day.” Lisa said.
Rebecca focused her attention to the TV to see a mugshot of Chauncy on the screen. Rebecca starts crying again.
“Its my fault. Tre said something wasn’t right with him, and I saw it coming… what I did is what set him off!” said Rebecca.
Lisa goes to hug Rebecca again and she pushes her away.
Rebecca’s phone starts ringing, she looks and don’t recognizes the number but answers anyway.
“Hello?” Said Rebecca.
“Becca! Its me, Chauncy.”
“Chauncy?” She said as she motions to Lisa. “Where are you calling from?”
“A burner… I can’t call you from my phone.” Chauncy said.
“Chauncy…Why are you calling me?” Rebecca said.
“Where are you Becca, I need to talk to you.”
“Tre told me you aren’t yourself.”
“That fucking Tre… where the fuck are you Becca!!!”
“What’s going on Chauncy? I’m not telling you where I am.” Rebecca said.
She could hear Chauncy rustling around in the background while he is talking to her. She could hear the sound of the safe, from his office in the HD shop opening.
“Are you at the shop?” She asks.
“Yes, and the police are outside of the store. I snuck in through the side entrance. I needed some money. Where are you Becca, I’m going to pick you up. I need to tell you something.” Chauncy said.
“Chauncy, I’m scared of you! I’m not telling you where I am!”
“You have to believe me Becca! Its Tre. He’s behind all of this!”
“I don’t want to hear it Chauncy. You are all over the news! You half killed a guy on the street. You are out there attacking police officers. Not to mention Jeff…” Rebecca said.
“Fuck Jeff, and Fuck that guy at the restaurant. That was one of the kidnappers… that’s what I’m trying to tell you.”
“I don’t want to hear it! You’ve lost it!” Rebecca said.
“Look, When Tre came to visit… the kidnapping… it was all a plan… a setup!” Chauncy said.
Rebecca hangs up the phone in the middle of Chauncy’s sentence. She looks at the phone.
“You ok Becca.” Lisa said.
“He’s talking crazy… I may need to get out of here.” Rebecca said.
“Maybe you should call Tre…” Said Lisa.
Rebecca picks up the phone and dials Tre.
“Tre, Chauncy just called me…” Rebecca said.
“Where is he? Are you ok?” said Tre.
“I’m fine, what is wrong with him, he sounds crazy. He’s lost it Tre.”
“Did he say where he was? Did he say anything?” Tre said
“He didn’t say but I think he was at the HD shop, I could hear him going in his safe” Rebecca said.
“Ok, I’m going to call the police.”
“The police are already there.”
“Shit.” Said Tre.
“What do you mean Shit? You sound disappointed. Weren’t you just about to call them? What’s going on Tre, he kept mentioning you.”
“Mentioning me? What did he say? Never mind. You probably need to get out of Lisa’s house. Its just a matter of time before he realized that’s where you are.” Tre said as he hung up the phone.
“Shit!” Said Rebecca,
“What’s wrong?” Lisa asks.
“I don’t know, Tre is acting funny. I’m starting to think there is something he isn’t telling me.”
“Let’s get out of here for now Becca, Tre might be keeping something from you, but I believe we would listen to his warning.” Lisa said
“Where should we go?”
“We can go to my sisters place. It’s a secure building, an apartment building…remember, you’ve been there…”
“Yes… and Chauncy was with me. He knows that place.”
“But he wouldn’t know to look there for you.”
“Ok… that is probably safer than here right now.” Said Rebecca.
Lisa goes into her bedroom and grabs a suitcase out of the closet, she starts getting clothes from her dresser drawer and loads the suitcase. Rebecca start packing up the things she brought with her in her bag. As she was packing her phone rang once again.
“Hello?” Said Rebecca as she answered.
“Becca sweetie, Are you ok? I’ve been seeing your husband on the news, what is going on?” Said Lucy.
“Mom! Everything has been insane. I’m ok. Something is going on with Chauncy” Said Rebecca.
“No shit Becca, everyone knows that. But what?”
“Mom… I’m Pregnant…”
“And Chauncy is upset about that? I thought you two were trying to get pregnant”.
“I don’t think Chauncy is the one who got me pregnant…”
“What?”
“Yes, and Chauncy found out. Something else is going on with him but finding out about my pregnancy added to the problems.” Said Rebecca.
“Who do you think got you pregnant Becca?”
“It could be Chauncy, but I have been seeing someone else… it could be him. I didn’t tell Chauncy because I wasn’t sure… but he found out. Then he found out that he wasn’t the one that got me pregnant. Well… he doesn’t know for certain but he has good reason to think its not possible that it could be him.” Explained Rebecca.
“Becca baby…” Said Lucy.
“I know mom…” Rebecca said crying.
“But I need to get ready to get out of here, I’m at Lisa’s place and we need to go somewhere. Trying to avoid Chauncy…I think he knows where I am. I will call you when we get to where we are going.”
“Ok Baby… be safe…make sure you
call me.” Said Lucy.
Chapter 21
The bearded man was laying in the hospital, he had been there a few days. The beating he took from Chauncy left him with a fractured orbital. He also had some internal bleeding. The doctor wanted to keep him for observation. The nurse had come in a few minutes ago and said that the doctor will probably release him, so he waited.
While waiting, Tre walks in.
“How you holding up?” Said Tre
“What are you doing here, aren’t you scared someone will see you?” The bearded man responded.
“No one saw me come in… I’m good. What did you tell the police?”
“Nothing, they didn’t ask me anything. Too busy looking for Chauncy. Tre… this shit aint right. I didn’t sign up for this.” Said the bearded man.
“I know… You signed up to get paid. And you will get paid. As long as you keep your mouth closed.” Said Tre.
“I don’t want that fucking money, you are fucking up that man’s life. I told him everything…”
“You did what?”
“I told him everything, you hired me to kidnap him, tricking him to take the drug… he knows everything!”
Tre looks at the bearded man and shakes his head.
“This better not get back to me, I think Chauncy is so out of it right now that he probably doesn’t even know what to do with what you told him” Tre said.
“Keep your fucking money Tre… I’m out.” Said the bearded man.
Tre walked out of the room. He looked and saw a few carts lined up against the wall. It was the lunch for the patients. Tre walked up and down the carts, looking for the one that went to the bearded man. He found it. He opened the lid on the cup of juice and looked at it. He took a sip. Tre then went into his pocket and pulled out a small glass container. He opened the container and poured the yellow grainy substance inside the juice. After stirring the juice, he put the lid back on the cup. He looked back towards the bearded man’s room and saw he had his back turned to the door.
A few minutes passed and the nurse came into the room with the bearded man, with his lunch. The bearded man saw what Chauncy did, he looked over his plate. He told the nurse that he wasn’t going to eat or drink anything, that he was about to get released.
“Ok, it’s a free meal, but if you don’t want it, I’ll eat it… I’m hungry.” Said the nurse.
She picked up the sandwich from the plate and took a bite as she walked out of the room. She rolled the cart in the hall and left it by the door. The doctor came in and looked over his chart.
“Ok, you are doing well. You can go ahead and get out of here. I left a prescription for some pain killers at the front desk… take as needed, but no more than 2 in a 4-hour time frame.” The doctor said.
The bearded man got up and started getting dressed. The Nurse came by the room and picked up the juice from the cart, she took a drink. She walked down the hall with the juice. The bearded man walked out to the front desk. The receptionist was checking him out in the computer.
“Hurry!” someone yelled.
Several doctors and nurses were all running down the hall. The bearded man looked to see the nurse lying on the floor. Her whole body was jerking around and she had foam bubbling from her mouth and nose. Blood ran down her face from her eyes.
“Oh Shit!” said the bearded man.
He watched as the nurse flopped around.
She stopped moving.
“Her heart stopped!” said the Doctor.
“Hurry, start CPR.” Someone else said.
The bearded man thought that they would tie the cup of juice to him so he left the hospital.
“That fucking Tre!”
Tre is driving down the street in his car, he is in a hurry. He looks over to the passenger side at his boxes of HYPO. He has about 4 boxes. He turns on the radio to hear reports that the police have Chauncy cornered in the HD shop.
“I have to get there and stop Chauncy before things get too much further out of hand.” He thought to himself.
He turns the corner and picks up speed, heading towards the HD shop.
Chauncy sits in his office checking out the security camera’s. He is focused on the one that shows the front of the store. He can see several police cars. A few police officers are huddled together. Others are in position behind cars with their guns drawn. Chauncy grabs his backpack and opens it. He reaches in to grab a few more vials of HYPO, he puts them in his pocket.
After pacing back and forth for a few seconds, he goes back to his camera. He flips through he monitors and notice an area where there are no police.
“I can get out through the vent in the warehouse to this area.” He thought to himself.
He straps on the backpack and heads out the side door of his office. Once into the warehouse, he climbs a few boxes. He lifts the cover on one of the air ducks in the ceiling and pulls himself up. After crawling around the HVAC system, he comes to another vent cover. He carefully opens the vent cover. He can see the window that leads to the area he pointed out on the surveillance monitor. After watching for a few minutes, he climbs down from the vent and hops up to the window. There were still no police around so he lets himself drop to the ground outside. He runs down the alleyway that leads him to a different part of the shopping center. He can see the police lights flickering but they weren’t close by.
After running a few blocks, he gets to a point where he felt confident that he was in the clear. He starts walking at a slower pace.
“CHAUNCY!” Tre yells out from his car as he is driving past.
Chauncy breaks off into a sprint. He reaches in his pocket and grabs a vial of HYPO and injects himself. This time he has a different reaction. His body locks up and he falls to the ground. His eyesight gets foggy, everything goes white. He pulls himself to his knees. Tre is now running towards him, Chauncy can see him holding a syringe in his hand. Remembering the other night when Tre knocked him out with the ANTI-HYPO, He decided to try to get away. His body got warm and he could feel the effects of his injection rushing through his veins. He starts to sweat, his nose starts bleeding.
“CHAUNCY!!! DON’T MAKE ME CHASE YOU!” Tre yelled.
“You set all of this up? Tre?!” Chauncy yelled back.
“I didn’t mean for it to go this far…I’m sorry!” Tre replied.
Now Tre was close enough to try to put Chauncy out with his syringe. He lunges at Chauncy. Chauncy, already enhanced by his recent injection, moves out the way with lightning speed. Tre falls to the ground. Chauncy grabs Tre by the ankle and tossed him off into the middle of the street. He then breaks off into a sprint at his HYPO enhanced speed. Tre tried to chase but gained no ground. He ran back to his car.
Chauncy, now in a rage, runs towards Tre’s car. Tre inserts his key and starts the car but Chauncy was already there. Chauncy lifts the car’s back tires off the ground as Tre tried to drive off. The wheels spin. The police hear the commotion and runs over.
“Shit, how is he doing that?” One of the police officers said.
“FREEZE CHAUNCY! PUT THE CAR DOWN!” said another police officer.
Chauncy drops the car, the wheels were still spinning and caused the car to take off uncontrollably. The car drove up onto the curb and hit a street light. The light fell but Tre continued driving.
Chauncy looks at the police, once again they had their guns drawn on him. Chauncy reached down and picked up a manhole cover from the street and tossed it at the line of police officers. They scatter, barely getting out of the way. The manhole cover flies through the air and lands inside the windshield of a parked car. The windshield shatters and the car alarm go off, alerting the rest of the police to the commotion.
BLAM! BLAM! BLAM!
Several shots ring through the air as Chauncy runs away. Tre is no nowhere to be found. Chauncy’s speed is too great and he’s quickly out of view of the police who were shooting at him.
Chauncy ran several blocks then climbed to the top of an apartment buildin
g. He stands on the edge of the roof, looking to see if he had been followed. No one is around.
“I think I lost them.”
In the corner of the roof there was a small tin building. That building housed the breakers and other electrical equipment. Chauncy goes to open the door but it was locked. He grabs the hinge of the door and crushes it with his bare hands, causing the door to fall to the ground. He lifts the door and places it back in the frame as from the inside. He sits on the floor inside the little room. He could feel the injection starting to wear off. It’s happening a lot quicker than it has in the past.
“I must be building up a tolerance.” He thought.
Just then, he was overwhelmed with a great rush of tiredness. He feels his body getting weak. He tries to stand but his legs go limp. He falls back to the ground. His vision leaves him and he lays on his side. He passes out.
Chapter 22
A few days has gone by since Rebecca last heard from Tre. She’s been at Lisa’s sister apartment the whole time. News of Chauncy had died down, no one has seen him. The police were still looking for him but hadn’t had any clues to his whereabouts since they had him cornered at the HD shop.
“Maybe you should call Officer Ford, you are cool with her, aren’t you?” Lisa asks.
Rebecca goes through her phone to find Officer Ford’s number, she looks at it for a few minutes.
“I don’t know Lisa. I don’t even know what to say. I’m scared to call anyone.” Said Rebecca.
“Why?”
“My phone is on the same bill as Chauncy’s, maybe he can find out where I am… I don’t know…”
“Here, use my phone…” Lisa said as she hands Rebecca her phone.
Rebecca calls Officer Ford.
“Officer Ford, may I help you?” She said when she answered.
“This is Becca, Chauncy Peters wife.” Rebecca said.
“Becca, where are you? Have you heard from Chauncy?”
“I haven’t.”
“Becca, if you have, you need to tell us.”
