MrsPayne212
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so i dont know if you would class it as horror, but i think its the direction i was going .
never really had anyone read anything ive written so ill be really anxious to see what you guys think lol
please be honest! lol
River and Reese Payne, two royal pains in my ass. They were cocky and got on my nerves as kids, and the moment they walked through the door I realized that the military hadn’t changed that one bit. Sure they were taller, cleaner, and had more muscle, but camo cargos and tank tops make everyone look like an ass. You’d think that after 25 years they would stop dressing to match. Sure Reese opted for the black and River went for the not so subtle blue, but matching is matching. The only way I could tell who was who, was that Reese topped out about 6 inches taller than River, which would put River at about 5’5. Any shorter and he would start to look top heavy… poor kid. Maybe I’m just bias, I like ‘em tall.
“Hey, you know, I think that matching outfits stop being cute when your 5.”
“Just as sarcastic as always, I see,” said Reese.
“What can I say? So tell me, Reese, did you keep growing or did River start shrinking?” I’ll admit I was trying to get a rise out of River, but he was the bad one from what I remember. So what the hell.
River chimed in first. “Ha ha, very funny. But I wouldn’t say you had room to talk, you’re shorter than I am.” And with a smirk he seemed pretty satisfied that he had me… oh not even close.
“Well I’m a female, what’s your excuse?”
And with that I watched the color drain from his face. I knew I hit him hard, but I couldn’t help it. It wasn’t my fault that he was a bit effeminate growing up. I wasn’t the one who made fun of him for it. No, I was the one he took it out on… damned because our families were neighbors for my entire childhood.
“Alright, cut it out you two,” this from my Father, coming back from the kitchen with his trusty tray of refreshments. Got to love the timing in my old pops, among other things.
Yeah he was a good guy, paranoid since my step-mom died, but who the **** wouldn’t be when their wife of 15 years goes out for groceries and disappears for three days. I know what you’re thinking, “Oh, well its good she came back, right?” Well under normal circumstances, yes it would have been. But when she comes back with pointy teeth and a blood lust, that tends to cause a bit of friction. Not to mention, the newly dead are a bit feisty, and will just about anything for a drink.
Needless to say, dad survived, but not before nearly loosing his arm and having to watch as the cops blew her brains out. Thank god the neighbors heard the commotion and called it in, or he would be dead right now. He still has to go to therapy every Wednesday, and takes meds for the nightmares.
No I don’t blame him, he loved her. I think that’s how it should be, if you love someone, you should feel it when they’re gone. I guess that makes me lucky, because I didn’t love her and I don’t think she loved me. But she was good for my dad and that’s all that really mattered. I could name the reasons why I didn’t like her so you could understand where I was coming from, but I see no point in bad mouthing the dead.
“So how have you been, Mr. Taylor?” asked Reese. Glad someone is good at the small talk thing.
“Oh fine, fine. Just trying to make do. Gabbi here’s busy with her own thing now, so it gets kinda lonely, but I do what I can.” Wow, guilt trip.
“Well we’ve all grown up, sir. I don’t see my parents as much as I would like these days,” Reese said.
River came it with, “Yeah, usually when we get a chance to call, everything’s all hugs and kisses. ‘When you getting home?’ We were pretty surprised when we heard you were asking after us. Saying you needed a favor?” A favor? What?
Dad let out a sigh and took a long pause, never a good sign.
That’s it, let’s get to the point. I really don’t have the patience for this crap.
“Yeah so Dad, what’s the deal? Why are these guys here?”
“Now don’t get upset, hun, but it’s this trip of yours to Seattle.” Oh great I should have known. “I just don’t like the idea of you going so far on your own, especially across state lines. You know as well as I do about that outbreak in Oregon.”
Yes, I knew about the “outbreak” in Oregon. I also knew that the only way to catch lycanthropy was through the blood, like AIDS, but instead of loosing your white blood cells, you get furry once a month. So as far as traveling through was concerned, don’t go when there is a full moon, simple. Well, simple if that wasn’t the plan in the first place.
“Yes, I know about the lycanthropy, I’ll travel during the day. No moon when the suns out.” I could tell that would not assuage him. When a father has his mind set on something he will get it, at least mine will.
“And who will protect you then? There are maniacs and rapists, even at night someone or something could break in and you would be totally unprotected.”
I rolled my eyes, if he only knew… “Look dad I’ll be fine. But I still don’t see why you need Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum here?”
I got a look from River that plainly said that he was not amused. I just gave him the most innocent smile I could muster.
“I heard they did some work, like… bodyguard work?” He made it a question for the boys.
For some reason that made River smile, “Yeah something like that, Mr. Taylor.” Something like that, huh? The look in his face made me feel like I’d missed something. I was starting to think I should watch myself around them.
“Well, I’ll be paying of course,” Dad said with a little too much enthusiasm for my liking. “How much would it be for the job?”
“Wait, wait, wait. You aren’t actually talking about hiring them to be my bodyguards?” I couldn’t help it, I laughed.
Them protecting me? Wow that was funny. I looked over at the twins. Sure they might have been in the military. Sure they might have gotten into some scrapes, but I couldn’t have anyone following me around. I had a job to do, and it didn’t involve two people that I didn’t even know if I could trust not to get me killed. And I couldn’t even tell them that, because that would be giving away too much. You can get someone killed by talking too much.
Reese said, “Look, Mr. Taylor, I…”
“Now, now I won’t take no for an answer.” He gave me a stern look. “From either of you. I won’t be able to sleep at night thinking that my baby girl is out there all alone with god knows what kinda monstrosities that are lurking these days. Heaven knows I can’t keep up with it all. First it was the occasional vampire, god knows I couldn’t take them taking you from me too. Now we got the damn werewolves and who knows what other kind of were-whatevers. And they call it a disease… Bullshit. It’s not natural. Now I know that you keep a lot of you life from me, darling, but let me do this. Please I’m getting too damn old to be worrying about you. You’re all I got left.”
Oh, he was good. Even threw in a few tears for the effect. But I fell for it anyway, guilt’s a *****. Besides maybe I could ditch them in the middle of the night. I took his hand in mine.
“Alright, alright let’s hear how much, then I’ll make a decision.” I gave him a little smile and a squeeze, which he returned, eyes glowing. Ugh, I hate caring so much sometimes.
My attention was brought back the others when I heard a deep sigh. It came from Reese.
“Alright, Mr. Taylor. What is this going to entail, exactly?”
Dad took a deep breath, “Well just to make sure she gets up to Seattle alright, and then gets back safely. Anything beyond that you would have to ask Gabbi, she hasn’t told me much other than that.”
Everyone looked at me. Good more pressure. I would like to say that I could have just come out with the truth, but you don’t generally want to tell everyone that the real reason you have to go up to Washington is that you are a hit man hired to kill someone, well a vamp, and not to mention a few hits one the way, but details details. I guess I’d have to figure that out later.
“Yeah it’s just a business trip.” That’s what I told my Dad so I had to stick with it. I didn’t say that I would be doing business at a couple stops on the way to Seattle. Hell I hadn’t even told him that it wasn’t even Seattle I was going to, but again details.
“And what business would that be? I thought you worked with computers,” said River, who I could tell was beginning to get a bit suspicious.
“I do. There is a new firm up there and I have to go up and help get everything running.”
“They don’t have someone else that can do it?”
“Nope, just me.” Yeah he was going to be annoying. So back the subject away from me, “Are you guys going to do it or not?”
The twins looked at each other, didn’t say a word. Maybe they had a twin telepathy thing going on.
“Alright seeing as we have history…. $20,000,” said Reese.
What?! No way.
“No way! That’s ridiculous.”
“Done.”
I looked at my Father about to tell him what I really thought of the absurdity of it, but he that determined look back in his eye and I couldn’t bare to see the water works again. Geez, maybe I’d just wack these guys and have done with it. But that would be breaking the rules, and that’s just not done.
“I really can’t believe this,” and the look on smug look on River’s face told me I really wasn’t going to like it either.
Dad sat up and rubbed his hands together. “So, when do I pay you guys?”
“You have a pen?” asked Reese. Obviously the brains of the two, have to remember that. He took the pen and some paper that Dad handed him and started to jot stuff down. “Alright wire the 20 Gs to this account here.”
I interrupted, “Wait a minute, shouldn’t we be doing the half now, half later kinda thing?” Not that I wanted to stick with these guys, but I didn’t want my dad cheated out of twenty thousand dollars either.
Dad just smiled, “Don’t worry, I trust these boys.”
Umm… whatever Dad. I guess you never know the ignorance of your own parents until it is too late.
never really had anyone read anything ive written so ill be really anxious to see what you guys think lol
please be honest! lol
River and Reese Payne, two royal pains in my ass. They were cocky and got on my nerves as kids, and the moment they walked through the door I realized that the military hadn’t changed that one bit. Sure they were taller, cleaner, and had more muscle, but camo cargos and tank tops make everyone look like an ass. You’d think that after 25 years they would stop dressing to match. Sure Reese opted for the black and River went for the not so subtle blue, but matching is matching. The only way I could tell who was who, was that Reese topped out about 6 inches taller than River, which would put River at about 5’5. Any shorter and he would start to look top heavy… poor kid. Maybe I’m just bias, I like ‘em tall.
“Hey, you know, I think that matching outfits stop being cute when your 5.”
“Just as sarcastic as always, I see,” said Reese.
“What can I say? So tell me, Reese, did you keep growing or did River start shrinking?” I’ll admit I was trying to get a rise out of River, but he was the bad one from what I remember. So what the hell.
River chimed in first. “Ha ha, very funny. But I wouldn’t say you had room to talk, you’re shorter than I am.” And with a smirk he seemed pretty satisfied that he had me… oh not even close.
“Well I’m a female, what’s your excuse?”
And with that I watched the color drain from his face. I knew I hit him hard, but I couldn’t help it. It wasn’t my fault that he was a bit effeminate growing up. I wasn’t the one who made fun of him for it. No, I was the one he took it out on… damned because our families were neighbors for my entire childhood.
“Alright, cut it out you two,” this from my Father, coming back from the kitchen with his trusty tray of refreshments. Got to love the timing in my old pops, among other things.
Yeah he was a good guy, paranoid since my step-mom died, but who the **** wouldn’t be when their wife of 15 years goes out for groceries and disappears for three days. I know what you’re thinking, “Oh, well its good she came back, right?” Well under normal circumstances, yes it would have been. But when she comes back with pointy teeth and a blood lust, that tends to cause a bit of friction. Not to mention, the newly dead are a bit feisty, and will just about anything for a drink.
Needless to say, dad survived, but not before nearly loosing his arm and having to watch as the cops blew her brains out. Thank god the neighbors heard the commotion and called it in, or he would be dead right now. He still has to go to therapy every Wednesday, and takes meds for the nightmares.
No I don’t blame him, he loved her. I think that’s how it should be, if you love someone, you should feel it when they’re gone. I guess that makes me lucky, because I didn’t love her and I don’t think she loved me. But she was good for my dad and that’s all that really mattered. I could name the reasons why I didn’t like her so you could understand where I was coming from, but I see no point in bad mouthing the dead.
“So how have you been, Mr. Taylor?” asked Reese. Glad someone is good at the small talk thing.
“Oh fine, fine. Just trying to make do. Gabbi here’s busy with her own thing now, so it gets kinda lonely, but I do what I can.” Wow, guilt trip.
“Well we’ve all grown up, sir. I don’t see my parents as much as I would like these days,” Reese said.
River came it with, “Yeah, usually when we get a chance to call, everything’s all hugs and kisses. ‘When you getting home?’ We were pretty surprised when we heard you were asking after us. Saying you needed a favor?” A favor? What?
Dad let out a sigh and took a long pause, never a good sign.
That’s it, let’s get to the point. I really don’t have the patience for this crap.
“Yeah so Dad, what’s the deal? Why are these guys here?”
“Now don’t get upset, hun, but it’s this trip of yours to Seattle.” Oh great I should have known. “I just don’t like the idea of you going so far on your own, especially across state lines. You know as well as I do about that outbreak in Oregon.”
Yes, I knew about the “outbreak” in Oregon. I also knew that the only way to catch lycanthropy was through the blood, like AIDS, but instead of loosing your white blood cells, you get furry once a month. So as far as traveling through was concerned, don’t go when there is a full moon, simple. Well, simple if that wasn’t the plan in the first place.
“Yes, I know about the lycanthropy, I’ll travel during the day. No moon when the suns out.” I could tell that would not assuage him. When a father has his mind set on something he will get it, at least mine will.
“And who will protect you then? There are maniacs and rapists, even at night someone or something could break in and you would be totally unprotected.”
I rolled my eyes, if he only knew… “Look dad I’ll be fine. But I still don’t see why you need Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum here?”
I got a look from River that plainly said that he was not amused. I just gave him the most innocent smile I could muster.
“I heard they did some work, like… bodyguard work?” He made it a question for the boys.
For some reason that made River smile, “Yeah something like that, Mr. Taylor.” Something like that, huh? The look in his face made me feel like I’d missed something. I was starting to think I should watch myself around them.
“Well, I’ll be paying of course,” Dad said with a little too much enthusiasm for my liking. “How much would it be for the job?”
“Wait, wait, wait. You aren’t actually talking about hiring them to be my bodyguards?” I couldn’t help it, I laughed.
Them protecting me? Wow that was funny. I looked over at the twins. Sure they might have been in the military. Sure they might have gotten into some scrapes, but I couldn’t have anyone following me around. I had a job to do, and it didn’t involve two people that I didn’t even know if I could trust not to get me killed. And I couldn’t even tell them that, because that would be giving away too much. You can get someone killed by talking too much.
Reese said, “Look, Mr. Taylor, I…”
“Now, now I won’t take no for an answer.” He gave me a stern look. “From either of you. I won’t be able to sleep at night thinking that my baby girl is out there all alone with god knows what kinda monstrosities that are lurking these days. Heaven knows I can’t keep up with it all. First it was the occasional vampire, god knows I couldn’t take them taking you from me too. Now we got the damn werewolves and who knows what other kind of were-whatevers. And they call it a disease… Bullshit. It’s not natural. Now I know that you keep a lot of you life from me, darling, but let me do this. Please I’m getting too damn old to be worrying about you. You’re all I got left.”
Oh, he was good. Even threw in a few tears for the effect. But I fell for it anyway, guilt’s a *****. Besides maybe I could ditch them in the middle of the night. I took his hand in mine.
“Alright, alright let’s hear how much, then I’ll make a decision.” I gave him a little smile and a squeeze, which he returned, eyes glowing. Ugh, I hate caring so much sometimes.
My attention was brought back the others when I heard a deep sigh. It came from Reese.
“Alright, Mr. Taylor. What is this going to entail, exactly?”
Dad took a deep breath, “Well just to make sure she gets up to Seattle alright, and then gets back safely. Anything beyond that you would have to ask Gabbi, she hasn’t told me much other than that.”
Everyone looked at me. Good more pressure. I would like to say that I could have just come out with the truth, but you don’t generally want to tell everyone that the real reason you have to go up to Washington is that you are a hit man hired to kill someone, well a vamp, and not to mention a few hits one the way, but details details. I guess I’d have to figure that out later.
“Yeah it’s just a business trip.” That’s what I told my Dad so I had to stick with it. I didn’t say that I would be doing business at a couple stops on the way to Seattle. Hell I hadn’t even told him that it wasn’t even Seattle I was going to, but again details.
“And what business would that be? I thought you worked with computers,” said River, who I could tell was beginning to get a bit suspicious.
“I do. There is a new firm up there and I have to go up and help get everything running.”
“They don’t have someone else that can do it?”
“Nope, just me.” Yeah he was going to be annoying. So back the subject away from me, “Are you guys going to do it or not?”
The twins looked at each other, didn’t say a word. Maybe they had a twin telepathy thing going on.
“Alright seeing as we have history…. $20,000,” said Reese.
What?! No way.
“No way! That’s ridiculous.”
“Done.”
I looked at my Father about to tell him what I really thought of the absurdity of it, but he that determined look back in his eye and I couldn’t bare to see the water works again. Geez, maybe I’d just wack these guys and have done with it. But that would be breaking the rules, and that’s just not done.
“I really can’t believe this,” and the look on smug look on River’s face told me I really wasn’t going to like it either.
Dad sat up and rubbed his hands together. “So, when do I pay you guys?”
“You have a pen?” asked Reese. Obviously the brains of the two, have to remember that. He took the pen and some paper that Dad handed him and started to jot stuff down. “Alright wire the 20 Gs to this account here.”
I interrupted, “Wait a minute, shouldn’t we be doing the half now, half later kinda thing?” Not that I wanted to stick with these guys, but I didn’t want my dad cheated out of twenty thousand dollars either.
Dad just smiled, “Don’t worry, I trust these boys.”
Umm… whatever Dad. I guess you never know the ignorance of your own parents until it is too late.