The Pleasure of Pain 2

by Shameek Speight

The short Caucasian doctor with gray hair enters the small white room with two patients in it.

  "Nurse what do we have here?" The doctor asks as he walks over to the first patient's bed and reads the chart that was attached to the foot of it.

  "These two patients have both been in comas for over five years. One has Health Plus medical insurance and is on life support and the other been shot in the head and neck and looks to be brain dead. He's a John Doe with no medical insurance. No one knows who he is. The only thing close to identification on him was a chain with a medallion covered in diamonds, with the word Bless, written in blue diamonds." The young pretty dark skinned nurse stated.

  "So he's been kept alive through feeding tubes this long without insurance. I think it's time to let him go. If there's no brain activity and no family to claim him he's part of Bellevue Hospital and is taking up space and money. We will stop the feeding today and let him pass away that way. I believe that is what's best for him." The doctor said as he signs some papers on the chart in his hands.

  "Okay nurse, remove the feeding tubes now." The doctor ordered.

  The young pretty dark skinned nurse walks over to the patient's bed. She looks down at his face, it was hairy but it looked as if the man was in a peaceful sleep.

  "Damn it's a shame to see such a handsome man have to go this way." She said out loud to herself as she put on her rubber gloves and pulls out the long tube from his nose.

  "Ahhhh! Ahhhh!" She screams as the man's body jerks and jumps.

  "What is it, nurse?" The doctor asks as he looks up from the clipboard in his hand.

  "He just moved." She replied.

  "That's nonsense, it probably was a reflex. The man is brain dead." The doctor stated.

  "I don't think so. It's like he felt me pulling the tube out of his nose." The nurse replied.

  "Would you please just do your job before I write you up, remove the last tube already!" The doctor said with an attitude.

  "Yes" The nurse said and moved closer and bends over and slowly pulls the long feeding tube out of the man's mouth. Her hands shook as the man's body twitch a little as she was pulling the last part of the tube out of his throat. He made a gagging sound. The doctor stood behind her.

  "That's all normal it's just reflexes from his body." The doctor stated.

  "I guess you're right." The nurse replied while looking down at the man. "I'm sorry she whispered."

  "Ahhhh! Ahhhh!" She screams as the man's eye lids pop open and he was now staring into her eyes.

  "Doctor, he's up! He's up!" She shouted.

  "Nurse, calm yourself down, and that can't be, move out my way and let me see." The doctor said and looks at the man in front of him now staring at them both and his lips was moving as he try to form words.

  "What is he trying to say?" The nurse asks.

  The doctor moves his ear closer to the man's mouth then he looks back at the nurse.

  "He's asking, where is Tess? He's disoriented get a cup of water now."

  The nurse quickly comes over with a paper cup filled with water and puts it to the man lips as he slowly drinks it. The doctor pulls out a small flash light the size of a pen and flashes the light in his eyes and told him to follow the light.

  "Do you know your name sir, and what year it is? Who is the president of the United States?"

  The man hesitated for a second and decided not to give his real name.

  "My name is Bless and the year is 2008 and George Bush is the President."

  The doctor wrote some things down on the chart, then looks at Bless.

  "I have some bad news to tell you sir. You have been in a coma for five years now. The year is 2013 the good news is we have a black President." The doctor said, telling a bad joke.

  "What! How can this be and where is Tess?" Bless shouted in a weak voice.

  "Sir, please clam down, your body is very weak. You will need physical training to get your strength and weight back. There's a phone in the room to call your loved ones if you have any. You been shot two times, it's a miracle you're alive. We have to call the detectives and report this. Do you remember who shot you?" The doctor asked.

  Bless eases up in the bed. He looks at his arms. They look nothing like he was uses to. He had lost so much weight from not working out and only been fed liquid foods. His mind flashed back to Iris standing in front of him pointing a gun and confessed about everything about setting all of them up with Jose and Ricardo the Santiago drug family. Then Jose's gunman creeping up behind Iris and about to kill her, but not before Bless raises his gun and puts two bullets in his chest. Just to have a bullet crash into his chest and one in his neck, then one into his head. The last thing he saw was Iris' smoking gun, as he fell backwards into the Hudson River before his world went black.

  "Yes I remember who shot me." Bless replied with his facial expression twisted up in sadness.

  "Good I'm going to the detectives it's the hospital's rule on all patients." The doctor said and left the room.

  The young black nurse walked to a locker in the room and used a key to open it and removed a plastic Ziploc bag with a heavy chain with a medallion that read Bless.

  "We had to keep this locked up. It looked like it cost a lot of money." The nurse said and pulls the chain out the Ziploc bag and put it around his neck.

  "I need your help. I need to get out of here now before the police get here or my enemies find out I'm alive." Bless said.

  "You can't leave here in your condition and if I help you, I can lose my job. I have a son to feed and support." The nurse replied.

  "Please just help me into the wheel chair and I'll handle the rest. You can leave the room and act like you didn't know or seen a thing. That's all I'm asking you, please." Bless replied.

  The nurse looked him in his eyes and felt his pain.

  "Okay" she replied and pushed a wheelchair closer to the bed and helps him in to it, then pushes him out the room.

  "You're on your own from here on. The elevator is straight ahead of you. Once you get to the lobby take the back exit. The security guard is always walking around and never guards the back exit like he should." The nurse stated.

  "Thank you so much, I owe you." Bless said and used whatever strength he had in his body to push the wheels of the wheelchair and follow her directions.

  The doctor returned to the room twenty minutes later with two police officers by his side as the nurse came behind them and enters the room. They all looked around in shock.

  "Where did he go?" The doctor turned around and asks the nurse with a puzzled look on his face.

  "I don't know I went to check on another patient." The nurse responded.

  "Hahahaha!" One of the police officer's laughed.

  "So now the hospital is losing patient's that was in a coma, there isn't anything for us here." He said and left with his partner.

  "This is just crazy." The doctor said and storms off.

  The nurse smiled and went back to work.

  Find A Way

  Chapter 4

  In Washington D.C., at the J. Edgar Hoover building, Federal Bureau of Investigations, Chief Robert Han was having an early morning meeting with fifteen of his best F.B.I. agents.

  "Listen people something has to give. It's going on five years and we still haven't even gotten close to catching the Teflon Divas. For those of you, who are new to this case, read the report in front of you to get familiar with it, the Teflon Divas are four women assassins." Chief Robert Han stated.

  "Sir I don't understand why the bureau is so concerned with four female killer's with a silly name?" An overweight F.B.I. agent said.

  Chief Robert Han grilled him, staring at him with a nasty look.

  "Its agents and people like you in this department that's the reason why we haven't found them as yet and put them behind bars. It's also the reason why you will stay where you're at in your career and never rise. Now shut the fuck up for the rest of the debriefing. These women are called the Teflon Divas for th
ree reasons, they're just as strong as the metal Teflon and can't be broken and are known to use armor piercing Teflon bullets, that go through everything and they're all beautiful women. Their beauty is one of their deadliest weapons and it makes their targets underestimate them, they never suspect death can come from a woman. So agents open your folders in front of you. You will see pictures of the suspects. We have no recent photos of them, and we know they have changed their appearance, so we have to work with these for now ladies and gentlemen. We're not just talking about some serial killer these women are well organized and intelligent."

  "First, there's the youngest one of the team, Layla, she was in foster homes until Tess recruited her at the age of sixteen and raised her as her own. Layla is about to be twenty-two, with the face of an angel, but the eyes of a lioness, she's an expert marksmen. Her weapon of choice is the 2.58 Heckler sniper rifle. She was trained by Tess to lay and wait for weeks without moving to go to the bathroom or nothing, just to get the perfect shot. Ladies and gentlemen the young woman has never missed a shot. If you look at the next photo, we have Vanessa. She's twenty-eight years old and one of the scariest of the team. She's a sneak killer and can creep up on anybody without making a sound, before you see her your dead, what makes her so sick is she's known for using a blow touch on her target genital area, burning it clean off. Her weapons of choice are the Tec-9mm and small sub-machines guns. She's not afraid to share her bullets of death in her victims. The next photo is of Iris, she is twenty-nine and is Tess' best friend and right hand woman. We also believe she is her lover. She's cold-hearted and will kill you in the blink of an eye. She loves C-4 explosives. This woman will put a bomb in your coffee cup without you knowing and laugh when it detonates. Her weapon of choice is the M-16 rifle, and the last picture is of the team leader herself, Tess. She is not to be taken lightly people. Not only is she a killer but also a fucking mad genius. She has a master's degree in business and a high I.Q. score. We believe she is the only reason the other team mates lasted this long without getting caught. She is the one we need to focus our energy on, without her they will fall. If you chop off the head, the body will surely fall. She has a business mentality and owned a real estate business at the age of twenty. She had owned properties all through New York City until five years ago when we seized everything. She used her sex appeal to get close to some of her targets. She's a better killer than them all and she trained the rest of them."

  "Let me make this clear, these women don't run any bubble gum operation, their technology is as good as ours or even better. They only do jobs for three million dollars and up because they are the best. The Teflon Divas didn't start off as contract killer's, they control one of the largest drug trades in the tri-state area with Andrew Web aka Bless until he was killed five years ago." Chief Robert Han said.

  "So what are you trying to tell us, these women are like the girl's in the movie 'Columbia' or the women in 'Sucker Punch'?" An F.B.I. agent said.

  "No, these women are far worse. They're the real deal not like any movie five years ago, they went against the Santiago family, Dominican drug Lords, for kidnapping Vanessa and no one made it out alive but them. Every F.B.I. agent that went into that warehouse was killed and the handful that was outside would've been killed too if back up hadn't shown up, but we lost the Teflon Divas doing through all the chaos. They have been trained in weapon tactics and military training. The Teflon Divas have three known enemies, the Asian Mafia, the Santiago family who are the Dominican Drug Lords and us. We have reasons to believe they're not in the United States, but in Europe somewhere. Every time we get close to pin pointing there location it's as if they get tipped off or just know, but now we have a new plan to catch Tess and her team alive." Chief Robert Han said while looking in the eyes of two of his best agents.

  Nowhere Is Safe Enough

  Chapter 5

  In a small town in France called Roquebrune, miles away from everywhere in a dominate valley of its own on four acres of land filled with wine, grape vines and the beautiful well-kept green grass, was a five bedroom farm house that sat peacefully. Inside the house Tess, Iris, Vanessa and Layla sat at the dining room table sipping fresh wine made a few months ago from the grapes outside. In front of each of them was a MacBook Air Laptop. Tess was has a dark skinned complexion with thick long jet black hair that stops at her back. Her tear drop shaped eyes seem to always pull people in. At 5'4" tall, 160 pounds with a voluptuous sexy body that she kept fit from working out. It was easy to tell she was West Indian by looking at her face and she was proud to be Guyanese. Iris was brown skinned, the color of caramel. She was half Dominican and half Puerto Rican with the same shape as Tess. Her hair flowed down to the center of her back with blonde high lights. Her light green eyes always seem to look like cat eyes staring at you. Vanessa was a dark honey brown complexion with hair that stopped at her earlobes that she tried to keep in different styles, her beautiful face and juicy lips always had a glow to it, she was slim built, but with a fat ass that drove men wild. Layla was what most would call red bone, with her bright light skinned complexion almost looking white. She wears long weaves and weighs 130 pounds. Not knowing who her parents were, it was hard to tell her nationality. She looked mixed with Black and Salvadorian. Her face looks innocent but her eyes showed the hardship life she had dealt her.

  "Okay I transferred your share from the last job to your Swiss bank accounts. Go online and check it. Yea special since Boss Ho-Jin gave us that extra twenty million and we didn't even have to do the job, just keep the money because he's dead any way." Iris said with a big grin on her face.

  "No Iris, we have to do the contract. He paid us so it will be done. We can't let the word get out that we don't honor any of our contracts that will be bad for our business we just won't do the job any time soon. We have to wait a few months. Japan is hot the police are looking for two colored women. So we won't be able to blend in at the moment." Tess responded, while looking at Iris as if she should have known better to think she will ever dishonor a contract.

  "Ummm! I know I'm the youngest here, but Tess you know I'm loyal and will die for you if need be, but how much longer do you think we are going to keep doing this. I'm not saying I don't want too. You know I enjoy what I do, but nothing lasts forever I learned that shit from you girl." Layla said.

  "She's right." Vanessa said jumping into the conversation.

  "Well I say a few more contracts and we can be done with for good. We each got fifty million in our personal Swiss bank accounts that can't be traced or messed with and twenty million in our joint business account. We need ten million more apiece. I know it seems like I'm being greedy, but it's not, we will be able to get low and stay low and go half on buying a small island. As of now I don't feel we have enough money to stay off the ratio of the Asian Mafia. I don't even know why they are after us, but they won't stop coming, but I'm more worried about the Santiago drug family. At least we know why there trying to kill us, but we're going to kill every last one of them." Tess said.

  While she was talking Iris' mind flashed back to her killing Young in the King's Plaza Mall parking lot then shooting his cousin Lee with a rifle from a roof while trying to kill Bless. Young and his cousin Lee were both part of the Asian Mafia. 'Somehow the Asian Mafia knows I killed them but how? I can't ever let Tess find out. I don't even think the Asian Mafia is after them, just me. I have to take out the rest of them before they get to me knowing that my girls will protect me.' Iris thought to herself.

  "Okay the meeting over you can go train. I'm going to spend time with my daughter then train with y'all later." Tess said as she took one more sip of wine from her glass and eases up from the table.

  "Yea I think I'll do the same thing." Iris replied.

  Layla and Vanessa looked at each other and smile.

  "Best out of ten." Layla said.

  "It's on." Vanessa replied as they got up and left the dining room and walk into a small room decorated as a shoe closet, with Loubo
utin, Jimmy Choo, Gucci and Louis Vuitton shoes on a shelf.

  Layla lifts up a pair of dark blue Louboutin red bottom shoes and one of the shoes flips around, revealing an arsenal of weapons. Layla grabs a 5.67 all chrome sniper rifle and Vanessa grabs an all-black semi-automatic sniper rifle that shoots four bullets with one squeeze of the trigger. Vanessa push back down the blue Louboutin shoes and the secret arsenal of weapons spins back around. Vanessa follows Layla to the backyard.

  They walk a mile through the grapevines into an open grass field and lay's down and set up their guns. In front of them were targets in the shape of people holding guns, some of them were ten feet away others a thousand yards away spread out, some in trees and behind rocks.

  Vanessa presses a button to a device in her hand and the targets started to move, ducking and hiding. Layla held her breath and looks through the scope and squeezes the trigger to her sniper rifle then cocks back the bolt making a bullet jump out another into the chamber of the gun and squeezes the trigger again. The bullet tore a huge hole into the second targets head.

  "That's two Vanessa I'm already kicking your ass you better keep up." She said while laughing.

  "You always win anyway when it comes to long distance shots Layla, but close up I'm a problem." Vanessa said as she aims and squeezes her trigger and four bullets flew out her sniper rifle at once and tore a target ten feet away into pieces.

  Back inside the house Tess stood by the doorway of the play room watching the nanny, Ms. Linda plays the Wii game with Ayoyna and Isis. Tess' heart melts with joy mixed with sadness. Every time she really stares at her five year old daughter she could see the Columbian of herself and Bless in her. She had Bless' sleepy eyes and loving smile but Tess' facial expressions and long thick hair with Bless' dark sweet chocolate complexion. Then there was Iris' daughter Isis, who was born a few weeks before Ayoyna. Her brown complexion let off a natural glow. You could tell she was Latina right way, her hair flowed like a river down her back. She had the same facial expressions as her mother but Bless' eyes. When she talks, you could clearly hear a deep Spanish accent. Her hair was braided in two long pig tails. Ms. Linda the nanny was in her early fifties and in great shape for her age. She had been the two young girl's nanny since they were born.