I faded in and out of consciousness, I blink once and I was being dragged across the cobblestone streets, I blink again I'm being carried on someone's shoulder into a building.
I was swimming in a black sea for what seemed like an eternity after that. The abysmal dark only broken up by bright flashes of images; flashes of the deputies taking turns beating me. The unbridled anger on their faces and the pain throughout my broken body.
Those weren't the only images I saw, every tine I had to step to the side and stare at the ground to let a normal human pass by and get spit on or have a drink thrown in my face.
Times when I was younger and I was bullied by other students, pushed into dunpsters, beaten to a pulp, had my lunch swapped with animal shit, and worst of all beaten and embarrassed by my own brother.
'Why the fuck did I try to save those assholes…?' the thought floated around in the void, echoing until it was all that could be heard. '…All I got for helping then was War Crime killed and a broken nose…'
"Listen up folks! We got the filthy splicer that attacked the factory!" Jason's voice boomed in the darkness. I suddenly felt pain radiating in the darkness, like my skull had bounced off concrete.
'I didn't attack shit…' I thought in vain. Even if I was to speak up it wouldn't do any good. I was a splicer so people thought the worst of me regardless of the truth.
"I knew it! I knew the second I saw those evos that splicer had plotted against us!" A woman yelled through the darkness, the panic and hysteria in her voice was so thick I could picture her manic face clearly even in the darkness.
"We should have killed him years ago! Too many people died because of him.!" A man's voiced echoed next.
"Well we can all decided what to do with the little shot now!" Jason's voice echoed followed by a explosion pf pain.
My eyes snapped open and I saw that I was lying on my back in some sort of building, staring down at me were a few dozen angry eyes. I stared back at them lifelessly..
"Lets just kill the little shit! He's been stinking up our town with his splicer stench for much too long!" A deputy snapped.
"Yeah!" Came several replies from people in the audience.
"With him dead the evo"s he's controlling will stop attacking the town." Another added.
'I'm not controlling any evos dumbass…' I thought.
A large man started pushing through the crowd with urgency, going so far as to knock people over just to inch a little closer. When he broke through to the front of the crowd I saw who it was and wished the deputies had just shot me already.
Logan's ugly mug looked down at me from his position at the front of the crowd. He looked confused for a moment and surprised to see me but the confusion turned into twisted glee when he saw the state of me.
"About fucking time!" He exclaimed drawing everyone's attention. "For sixteen fucking years I've had to suffer having this worthless fuck in my home, stinking up my house, getting all the attention from dad because he was useful to him! If we're going to take him out to stop the evos then I wanna do it! I'm owed it after all these years!"
"The evos have the bridges across the river and all ways out of town, probably on his orders." Jason added, looking directly at Logan. I suddenly burst into laughter, not the "ha-ha funny" laughter but the "I'm developing multiple personalities and all of then are pretty unicorns and murder princes" laughter that rattled my chest and hurt like hell but felt so damn good at the same time.
"What the fuck is so funny!" Logan yelled as he kicked me in the ribs. I coughed for a few moments then laughed some more. It took me a while to get my laughing under control which only unsettled the deputies and everyone else stuck in the buildings with me.
"So…youz thwinks that I controlz allz thwa thrads aroundz the twon and thwat kwilling me will save youz all?" I asked, the nasally sound of my voice reminding me that my nose was broken. "If I cwood control thwem all why dwidn't I when youz were beating the shwit outta me?"
There were a few murmurs among the deputies followed by sideways glances and looks of doubt. I threw my head back and laughed manically again. Jason, feeling he was losing control of the deputies pushed Logan out of the way and drew his revolver then pressed the barrel into my forehead.
"Stop fucking laughing like that you freak or I'll fucking kill you!" He demanded.
"DO IT!" I cackled then snatched the barrel with a reservoir of strength I didn't know I had and held it to my forehead and looked Jason in the eyes. "My entwire life youz bween promizing to kwill me! DO IT! Man up and pullz thwa damn twigger or if youz too much of a bwitch then throwz me to thwa thrads! I'm dwone with thwis bullshit!"
The fear I saw in Jason's eyes as he scrambled to get away from me, letting go of hos gun entirely, pissed me off. What did he have to be scared off, I was broken, beaten, tired, and bleeding. Barely conscious and lying on the floor in front of him with barely enough strength to hold the gun. I was the least threatening person in the entire building.
"Fucking bwitch!" I spat then dropped the revolver. It bounced over to Logan who looked at it hesitantly before picking it up. He pointed the revolver at me like he was going to use it and for a split second I thought he was going to pull the trigger then I looked into his eyes and realized he wasn't. He had the same blanket look of terror in his eyes that Jason did.
The door to the building we were in suddenly burst open. Everyone jumped and spun, deputies drawing their guns, Logan aiming the revolver, and everyone else moving to hide behind something. I lazily turned my head to see what was going on and was surprised to see three familiar faces stumbling into the building.
Louie, and his heavily pregnant wife Angie leaned against the wall by the door catching their breath while Haws slammed it shut then turned to see all the guns pointed at them and scared people.
"Whoa! Don't shoot! We got a pregnant woman with us!" Haws exclaimed.
"Pleass don't shoot!" Louie exclaimed. The deputies lowered their weapons seeing that they weren't being attacked.
"Hawgs?!" I exclaimed and rolled onto my stomach. Haws looked and saw me on the ground. I saw his expression turned from surprise, to shock, then horror, and finally rage.
"CHASE!" Haws roared and rushed over to me and dropped to his knees. "By the gods what happened to you?!"
"He got what was coming to him, that's what happened." Jason spoke up suddenly finding his spine again. Haws jerked his head to look at the sorry excuse for a deputy.
"What the fuck could he had done to deserve this? The poor boy's been beaten to damn near an inch of his life by the looks of him!" Haws snapped.
"He's the reason those evos broke out of the factory and started killing everyone! Everyone that died today is because of him!" A deputy yelled. Jason smirked and nodded in agreement as did all the deputies.
Louie walked over with his wife in tow, the moment he saw my face Louie winced then looked to Angie. He curled his upper lip and everyone.
"He didn't start that containment breach!" Louie snapped.
"It was a fucking ascended thrad that broke out of that facility in New York!" Haws added. Everyone looked dumbfounded. Jason shook his head then pointed at Haws and Louie.
"How would you two know?" He challenged them. Big mistake, nobody challenges Haws. Haws stomped over to Jason, he was a whole head taller than the man and towered over him.
"I was there…I saw it with my own eyes right before its little friends killed half my workers then ate the other half…alive…" He said coldly.
"Louie, he needs medical attention now." Angie said as she squared over me. I wanted to yell at her to stand up straight before she hurt the baby but I felt a wave of nausea hit me. I turned my head and vomited, luckily missed Angie's shoes.
"Dammit!" Haws yelled then knelt down and examined me.
"Even if he didn't break those evos out he still deserved that beating for all the years we suffered his splice stench!" Logan exclaimed.
"Say one more word you pathetic excuse for a shit stain and I'll beat your ass so bad you'll wish your mama swallowed you…" Haws threatened Logan without even looking in his direction. I never seen Logan look so terrified and indignant at the same time before. I started laughing manically again, much to Haws, Louie and Angie's surprise.
I felt my consciousness slowly start to fade, Haws noticed this and started slapping my face to keep me awake. He said something but his voice sounded like it was muted. Everything soon faded to black, leaving me alone with only the echoing sound of my manic laughing until even that faded away.