Chapter 4 – Dark Night
The darkness sunk into the calm night. The night twinkled with the uncountable starts that lit up the whole sky. Streets were silent and the only sound was the sound of the cold wind that blew. The calmness was broken when an old mustang stopped by the end of the block with a big screech. The car waited at the corner as if it halted at a traffic signal. But the light was green and the car stood there and didn’t move even though the engine was still running and breaking the silence of the empty roads. A lightly armored truck was on its way to the Bank. It was nearly the end of the month and the money was being transferred as usual. This wasn’t any other usual day. The mustang slimed on the accelerator and jumped it forward blocking the path of the truck which was going peacefully to the bank. The shocked driver hit the brakes on his vehicle and the truck came to a stop. Out came three men in a black hooded dress wearing masks pointing the gun at the driver and the man accompanying him to open the back door. The three guys looked too big, double the size of an average human being. The man who was driving and the man accompanying him who was a police officer looked scared. But it wasn’t their job to be scared. They needed to improvise. There was another officer in the back of the truck who got alerted as soon as the truck made an unconditional stop in the middle of the road.
“Open the door”, shouted one of the masked guys with a hoarse voice.
But the men in the truck were hesitant to do so. Doing what they asked for was not their forte and they could lose their job. They didn’t look at them, but the officer sitting next to the driver moved to grab his gun. There was a gunshot in the air.
“Put your hands over your head and come out slowly”, the leader of the gang demanded loudly.
As they came out, the other masked guy grabbed the gun and hit the officer hard on his head. He was angry as they weren’t doing what they were told to do. With another punch, the masked guy knocks out the officer.
“See, we don’t want any trouble. Just open the god damn door. And if you don’t want to cooperate with us, the next thing you get is a bullet in your head”, the leader of the gang spoke a little bit impatiently.
The driver opened the door and as soon as he opened it, the officer started showering bullets, into the empty road. The masked men knew about the third person. How did they know about him?“, thought the driver. It was their job to know. They knocked out the driver in one blow. The officer in the truck was a fighter but he was no match for these three hunky guys. But still, he threw a few good blows to two of the people. And in the process of avoiding the punches, he snapped the mask covering the face of one of the intruders. But was rewarded with more punches until knocked out. But he wasn’t feeling comfortable as he had seen his face. It won’t be a pretty picture to have to be always on guard looking over the shoulder. So, he searched for his which slipped from his hand while he was fighting. The leader and the other guy who was bruised in the nose were busy loading the car with the money bags. They stopped and tried to confront him from killing the cop. A cops’ blood would attract more attention than anyone. But he wasn’t thinking about the consequences and he pulled the trigger.
The officer was woken up by the police and ambulance sirens from a mild pain in his head which he acquired while stopping them from mugging his truck. He sat up and everything was still fuzzy and a little shaken. His vision was still blurred when the saw the red and blue lights with sirens approaching him which got clearer as he slowly regained his consciousness. The police have come and have been setting up a perimeter trying to analyze what might have happened. The officer ran to check the money. It was gone, but he stopped short. He glanced over his shoulder and saw a black mustang beside which were three men covered in bruises and blood. Beside them were bags of stolen money. The officer couldn’t believe what he just saw. The only thing he could think of was, “What the hell just happened?”.
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( Nearly 10 years ago … )
Joseph came to his house late in the morning. He was caught up in the work as usual only to find young Will lying on the floor. He immediately rushed to the hospital. The medical examiner told Joseph that Will was suffering from something they didn’t even know. But it looked very serious. The main reason being that his blood cells were deteriorating all of a sudden and that led to internal bleeding. They had dome to stop the internal bleeding and concluded that this was temporary and this could happen anytime soon. Joseph was shocked and felt a little helpless but there was still hope. He knew he could save the ten-year-old Will. Joseph was in contact the dear friend who shared the similar interests which being saving Will’s life. Arthur was in contact with Joseph and was helping in develop on his research findings. He couldn’t do it all alone and also he didn’t have the required equipment. It was still experimental but he believed that it will be effective. But when he learned about Alex (Will’s) health condition, he knew that he had to make is faster and blamed himself since it was the result of his experimental cancer sure which he made a while back. It was the only possible explanation he could think of. But now, the time was running out. And this was what Joseph had been doing in the after hours, secretly improving Arthur’s work but as far as Dr. Micheal knows, it is still under process.
It took them another three years to develop. But what they discovered what more than they had asked for. The only way to prove its whether it was working or not was by testing it. And they couldn’t. Arthur was in an undisclosed place while Joseph was in the laboratory and any kind of testing would make Dr. Micheal Cage suspicious which is not a good sign at all. He is already on their back trying to achieve something he doesn’t even know about. And this discovery from him would be catastrophic in every way possible. The most dangerous part would be Alex (William) who was still dead to them and who was the first one to be treated for cancer. So, in these three years, Joseph has successfully managed to hide William from everyone. But the times are changing and the life of young Will is getting worse. Though he is under medication to prevent any imbalance in his health, but he is standing on a landmine, per say. Arthur wished he could be there to do something. But it was way too risky if William were to survive this, this new drug, which they named it Elixir.
{ To be Continued … }
The post for the fourth day of the April month is title Dark Night under “The Secret Life of Wilson”.
P.S. This fiction thingy is way too difficult than actual rambling. Oh boy. Are you still up for it?
