I fucking got knocked out, hard.
Never saw it coming until it was happening.
I went into a coma for five days. Five days, and not a single person came to see me. No one … no one checked up on me.
I don’t know if Gary was afraid, or what. I went from the top of my game, feeling on top of the world, to busted in a hospital bed, completely alone. I wasn’t even sure if they’d let me keep the apartment now. Child services was likely involved, the cops, etc.
I had been awake about half an hour and nobody had yet come in my room. I was trying to give myself time to think before calling in the goon squad. I was working on my story, just a street fight with other kids. That’s all they needed to know.
Tilly got me some clothes to wear home, and she picked me up in a fucking Mercedes SUV. Yeah, I should have known she was loaded. Turns out, she wasn’t just an ER doctor, she was a director, and only 33 years old.“I got you a few outfits just trying to guess your size … oh, and some toiletries. I want to give you a couple more days to take it easy, then I’ll take you shopping,” she said, pulling into a long driveway.Holy … shit.These guys were seriously loaded. I’d only ever seen houses like this on TV, but never in real life.What the hell did I do right in life to deserve this?"You’ll meet Scott tonight, he is pretty much at work about 14-16 hours
I had been enrolled in school for a few months, I tested into ninth grade and I was loving it. The girls here were on another level -- rich girls, and they fucking loved me. If I dropped a little Spanish, they were losing their minds.I was getting ass in closets, under the bleachers, it was easy. I took at least three condoms with me to school a day, I couldn’t get enough and the girls, they were more than willing.The teachers kind of treated me with kid gloves, not sure how to deal with a beefed up street kid.They all expected me to be trouble, but Tilly gave me the whole “kill ‘em with kindness” lecture. I just needed to try and fly under the radar, of course I didn’t consider fucking girls at school trouble, I needed some type of release.
Three years have passed since that night, since my first real satisfaction.What I have learned from Scott is beyond words, beyond anything I could have ever imagined.Fighting was a completely distant memory, and something that will forever stay in my past. I didn’t need it now, my dark shadow now had an itch with only one thing to satisfy it.I often think I should have been counting, but I hadn’t been. If I had to guess I could say I’m up to about 50 or so kills. Some have been easy, some have been fucking intense.It is now what I live for … sure I still chase girls now and then, but I can go without for a while just thinking about my other fulfillment.I was about to
I had been tracking a few douchebags who believed they were Einsteins, trying to create a bomb, nuclear level but that wouldn’t use plutonium. They believed it was possible and weren’t going to stop until they figured it out and sold their plan to the highest bidder.Scott was going to start rounding up some nerds that could attack the idea from our side, even see if it was possible. Several bad actors had already heard about the Einsteins and were already offering encouragement, to help them in any way possible, which meant rounding up the best and brightest.Unfortunately, they’re not always going to get these people to come of their own free will.“I need you to come in, I have a girl that I think can help us, at least take a look at what we have. But she’s very you
Scott had assembled a team of mathematicians, physicists, organic chemists and more … which was impressive on short notice.“Rae is finishing up her paperwork, can you go grab her and bring her and the others up to speed, I’m deep in something here and I can’t get away,” Scott said on the phone.“Sure I love babysitting, it’s my thing,” I said.I got down to the conference room and the girl looked passed out on the table. I mean it was after 1 am and I guess she was probably normally asleep by now.I stood in the doorway watching her for a minute.“We didn’t get to meet last time, but I’m Javi.”
Scott had messaged me just before Rae's little update. He wanted to tell me that this guy Edger, a scientist from Canada we had tried to recruit was missing.We agreed that a hotel wasn’t safe for Rae, so we arranged for Toby to take her to my place. I noticed she had a necklace that she never took off, and I was going to try and find a tracker small enough to put in it.Toby already had one in her phone but anyone kidnapping her would certainly dump her phone first. I went back to my laptop and made some inquiries, it seemed like nobody knew anything about Dr. Edger.But I saw something disturbing, no less.It seemed that Dr. Khan had vastly oversold her abilities, and the Einsteins cut ties with her, annoyed that she wasn’t able to p
It had only been an hour since I landed and I already got news there was a contract out for Dr. Khan, half a million for her safe and sound. I had a tip that they did get the Canadian I was looking for …. Intercepted at the airport on his way to D.C. … fucking great.I had Marcus doing everything possible to track down Dr. Khan and I had a few guys in the area looking too. If we didn’t get her first, it wasn’t going to be pretty.Sure, they would keep her around awhile, but if she didn’t know enough to get them further along, they’d just kill her.Weeks turned into months and I was getting nowhere, but it also seemed like the interest died down.I focused my energy on getting another mole into the Einsteins so
Toby had hooked Rae’s apartment up with a pretty crazy security system, and there was a camera in the kitchen that only he and I had access to. Rae didn't know it was there.I got back to my office and went right for her camera.She was dancing around the kitchen and I found myself smiling like a dork, watching her. She was actually baking something and I was mesmerised watching the ease with which she just floated around.When her food was done she jumped on the counter and ate it with milk, cookies I assumed.I never just sat and relaxed, just enjoyed my own company, I wasn't sure I was even capable of it. I always had to be moving, reading, checking on things. I was always working, and that was all I knew. I was jealous of her innocence,