The Curse. Vasilios Bouzas

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      “No time Jack, just follow me.”

      They both make their way to the back of the supermarket and enter through the back door. They hear the gunman screaming, they hear a couple of shots being fired before the gunman starts firing again.

      “All you mother fuckers are going to die today,” he screams.

      He fires another shot into the roof and reloads his shotgun quickly.

      “Where’s the money, where’s the fucking money,” he shouts with a loud and angry voice at the woman hostage.

      The woman is crying hysterically and is pointing to the back of the shop where the safe is kept.

      Luke and Jack slowly and cautiously make their way down the aisle until they see the gunman who is nervously dragging the woman towards the back of the shop, frantically looking around him for cops.

      The gunman continues his crazy rant, screaming and swearing, waving his gun all over the place. His attention is at the front as he can see the flashing lights of the police car but until now he has not seen Luke or Jack.

      Luke looks around the aisle; he notices canned food next to him. He picks up the canned food; he feels the weight of the can on his hand. He looks at it, for a split second he thinks again, dialogue, get him talking, and never increase the risk with a dangerous play.

      His thoughts are broken by more screaming from the gunman.

      “How are you doing today Sir?” shouts Luke. “I am Captain Luke Whelan; I am here to help you get out of here alive and everyone else, okay?”

      “Fuck off cop, I am going to kill you and everyone else who gets in my way, that’s how I am getting out of here alive, now get the fuck out of here if you want to live,” screams the gunman.

      Dialogue just isn’t going to work here, thought Luke.

      He hunches down and signals Jack.

      In a whisper, “Jack, grab a can, let’s throw them at the windows together, when the glass shatters, hopefully he will think it’s a raid and be distracted, you go for the woman and I will jump him. Move to the side so you can get a better angle to grab her.”

      Jack moves to the side ready as Luke takes a deep breath. They steady themselves with the cans and on the count of three on Luke’s hand they throw the cans with all their might at the windows. We hear a thundering noise as the glass shatters in both front windows.

      The gunman is distracted, he stares wildly at the two shattered glass windows, confused.

      Simultaneously Luke and Jack pounce on the gunman and the lady. Jack grabs the lady, Luke grabs the gunman, they wrestle but the gunman is powerful and gets a good grip on Luke and throws him to the ground.

      The gunman starts to fire shots randomly, he hits Jack in the upper chest, but before Jack hits the ground Luke gathers himself, pulls his gun and gets a clear shot and manages to kill the gunman instantly with an accurate shot to the head.

      There is pandemonium, everybody is screaming, there is a huge panic.

      Luke gets up and quickly runs to Jack. He sees blood pouring out of Jack’s chest.

      “My god Jack, hold on, hold on buddy.”

      Luke puts his hands on Jack’s chest, hoping the pressure will ease the bleeding, but blood still gushes through his fingers.

      “Somebody call for an ambulance,” shouts Luke, “call a fucking ambulance.”

      As Jack is bleeding to death and his face begins to turn pale, the world seems to stop for a minute as Luke starts to spasm, a force moves from him into Jack.

      Jack’s wound starts to heal and disappears completely, only the blood on his shirt remains.

      Luke feels lethargic and weak, his vision is blurry. He looks at Jack’s wound in amazement, he thinks he is dreaming, he cannot believe his eyes, he tries to get up but feels dizzy.

      Luke collapses next to Jack in a heavy sweat. As he falls to the ground, a bullet is released from the grip of his hand; it drops on the floor and rolls away.

      The ambulance arrives. Two paramedics rush out with their medical kits. They see both Luke and Jack on the ground. Luke is now becoming extremely light headed, while Jack is still unconscious.

      “Luke, are you ok?” asks Fred, the paramedic.

      “I’m alright, but Jack has been shot, he is bleeding pretty badly, please help him.”

      Fred turns to look at Jack.

      “Luke are you sure Jack’s been hit? There is blood but no sign of a bullet wound, maybe it was the shooter.”

      “No, no I am sure, Jack was hit, and I took out the shooter after he was hit.”

      Luke is helped to his feet by the paramedic. They put Jack on the stretcher. Both men are put in the ambulance and taken straight to the hospital.

      The next morning Luke and Jack wake in the local hospital and the very first person they see is Kate with a worried look on her middle aged face. She had lost her youthful charm she once had because of her demanding nursing career and domestic duties at home.

      “Wow, are you guys ok? We have been keeping an eye on you all night, and you are the talk of the town.”

      “Yes, I think we are okay, you okay Jack? It is a bit of a blur, what happened?”

      “What happened? You guys took out a criminal and saved a woman’s life, you both are heroes.”

      “Okay, whose blood pressure am I going to take first?”

      Luke and Jack simultaneously both point at each other. Kate walks to Jack and takes his blood pressure and temperature readings.

      “What do you think Kate, am I going to live?”

      “I think you’re going to be fine you big lug.”

      She walks over to Luke.

      “Ok Mr. give me your arm please. What you and Jack did yesterday took a lot of guts, you risked your lives.”

      “We were only doing our job Kate; anyone else in our position would have done the same thing.”

      “I hope so.”

      Kate gets closer to Luke and puts the blood pressure band on his arm. She looks him straight in the eyes.

      “Wow Luke, your green eyes are gorgeous. In all these years that I have known you, every time I look into them they seem to be getting brighter and brighter.”

      Luke blushes.

      “Hey Kate, are you trying to chat up Luke? Aren’t you married?” says Jack laughing.

      “What chat up, his eyes are gorgeous, any woman or for that matter any man would СКАЧАТЬ