“Oh shit. Jordan.
Wait!” Alicia raced to the elevators but she was too late. Troy caught up
to her just as the doors opened again.
“Alicia, wait!”
Troy called out as the elevator doors were closing again.
Jordan chased
after Toby, catching up to him in the parking lot just before he jumped into
his car. “You mother-fucking cock-sucking
sonofabitch!” Jordan yelled as he began to pummel Toby’s face. “I’m going to tear you apart piece-by-piece.
You won’t have to worry about getting arrested for trying to kill my best
friend. There won’t be anything left of you to arrest by the time I’m through
with you”! He screamed, adding a couple of kicks to the ribs of the prone
man.
“Jordan stop! Jordan! You can’t be there for
Ethan if you’re in jail! STOP!” Alicia cried, trying to pull a very
pissed-off Jordan from Toby. She wasn’t quite strong enough to pry Jordan’s hands
from around Toby’s neck. Troy arrived and together they were able to pull
Jordan away from Toby.
The look in his
eyes startled both Alicia and Troy. Troy held tightly to the squirming,
swearing Jordan. Alicia tried to talk him down, but he just got madder and
madder, being denied the revenge he sought after for his best friend. Finally
Alicia slapped him across the face. “Jordan!
This isn’t helping Ethan. You can’t be there for him if you get incarcerated!”
Her words had the desired effect on him as the anger visibly drained from his
body.
“Believe me, I
want to do the same thing,” She said as she added another kick to the ribs,
“but we have to think of Ethan. He’s going to be fine. We need to go back in
and have your hands looked at then go back to Ethan’s room. I’m sure he’s
wondering where we all are.” As if in a daze, Jordan allowed Alicia to lead him
back into the hospital to get his hands checked out.
Troy decided
that Jordan had the right idea as he wrapped his fingers around Toby’s throat. Bending
down to speak directly into his ear, he said, “What was just done to you will
look like a simple sparring compared to what will happen to you if you or any
of those sorry sacks of shit you call friends ever come anywhere near any of us, and that includes Jordan! This I
promise you.” Troy let go and added yet another kick to Toby’s ribs, walked
away from the broken and bleeding mess of a man.
₪₪₪₪₪
Back in the sleeping
Ethan’s room, once the adrenaline starting wearing off Alicia started shaking.
“Guys,” Alicia began, addressing Troy and Jordan, “you realize we’re all in
deep shit. Jordan, you can be arrested and charged with assault and battery,
and attempted murder. We all could.”
“I don’t care. I
want that bastard dead for what he did to Ethan,” his anger still very much
evident in his voice.
“Please don’t
leave me,” Ethan implored, his voice shaking. Everyone immediately surrounded
him.
Taking one of
Ethan’s hands in his, Jordan looked directly into Ethan’s eyes, “I have been,
and always shall be your friend.” Jordan quoted from an ancient video. Ethan
chuckled. “See, you’re not the only one who can quote ancient video
expressions.” That brought a much-needed laugh to everyone.
₪₪₪₪₪
About an hour
later everyone returned to their individual homes to get some much-needed rest
and get caught up on telecommunicator calls, emails and such. A few minutes
after he got back to his apartment, there was a knock on the door. Answering
it, an enforcer’s badge and ID were shoved in his face. “Jordan Mills?” Jordan
nodded.
“Jordan Mills,
you are under arrest for the assault and battery for one Toby Sims. Come with
us, please.”
₪₪₪₪₪
“Hi, Ethan,”
Alicia said softly. “How are you feeling?”
“Okay, just a little
weak.”
“Your doctor
told us that would happen and that it will pass in time and you’ll be back to
your old self.”
“I hope so. It
bugs the shit out of me that I have to use a bedpan and a urinal because I
can’t get up and walk to the bathroom, and the sponge baths are just plain
embarrassing.”
Alicia snickered
at the image that popped into her head. “Is the male nurse giving you the
sponge bath cute at least?”
Ethan snorted, “She is younger than God but older than
dirt. Where is everyone?”
“Chris is home
letting everyone know that you’ll be here for another week or so. Troy is
taking care of some things at his office. I have no idea where Jordan is.” They
chatted for about an hour when her telecommunicator beeped. It was Chris
calling. As she listened to what he said, she fell into a chair, her face
turning pale. “Say that again? Are you sure? Okay. I’ll make some calls and see
what I can do from here.” She disconnected the call.
“Alicia? What’s
going on?”
“Last night
Jordan was arrested for assault and battery. He beat the shit out of Toby when
we found out you could have died.”
Ethan’s mouth
dropped open and his face turned red with anger. Angry that he was not told of
this, he said in a tightly-controlled voice, “When were you going to tell me
that?”
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