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For a smile as wide as a country sunrise
No one really knew what to expect with Sky sharing her blood with me, even Kat wasn’t sure how my body would react to it. But it was the only way. Samantha was on the video with Bridgette, right from before hooking Sky and myself together, making sure everything was being done just right. This was the first time for Bridgette doing this on her own, though she had helped Samantha before on a couple of occasions.
Jennifer stayed on the other video screen, along with Misty and Galyna who were on each side of Jennifer giving her support. This was hard on her not being with me at this time. Kat was now in the other small room with Aari and Dawn, working on their wounds. Those two were the most seriously wounded of our team, next to me, so she needed to help them quickly too.
Suddenly Bridgette called Kat, “Steve died! He died Kat!” Kat went running into our room and told Bridgette to leave, she would take over now. Bridgette looked up at the screen and told Jennifer that I had died. There was a chilling silence in the plane when she said this. Cristy called Mandar right away, but he was in a business meeting at his office. However, Richard put the call through.
“Richard, I said no calls whatever,” said Mandar. “It’s Cristy Sir, you will want to take this call,” said Richard. He did and was completely silent. He then ordered everyone out of the room and cancelled the meeting. Cristy then called Jazzy and told her the news. Jazzy is a tough, very hard woman, who, with her late husband Toledo, spent a long time trying to kill me.
Yet, hearing this news actually caused her to cry. She then called someone. “Warren, now is the time,” she said, “kill Rico and whoever is his number 2 man, and do it now.” “It won’t be cheap Jazzy,” he said, “rush orders cost more.” “I don’t care, do it now,” she said again, choking up a bit. “You okay Jazz?” he asked. “Rico killed a good friend of mine,” she said, “don’t worry, you will have your money as soon as it’s done.”
“I never worry when you hire me Jazz,” he said, “Rico is dead when he arrives at his club later today.” Sure enough, Rico arrived at his club like he always did at 4pm. Both Rico and his new right hand man got out of Rico’s car and as they began to walk away from the car, with 8 bodyguards, a nearly silent shot was fired and Rico fell.
A second shot immediately followed and Luis, Snakebite’s replacement, fell also. Rico and Luis died at the same time by making two big mistakes, being punctual and arriving together. “I got them both for you Jazzy,” said Warren, “and thanks for the prompt payment, I already checked.” “I told you it would be there on time,” she said.
“I also heard some news today,” said Warren, “Rico was heading to Honduras tomorrow to take control of the whole cartel from his brother Carlo. It appears that Carlo was out driving his brand new sports car, lost control and went over a steep drop into a ravine and died in the crash. So, Rico figured on an easy takeover. Now I guess their cousin, Jorge, will take over everything.”
“Not if you can get to him,” said Jazzy. “That will be easy,” said Warren, “Jorge doesn’t have the sense of a rabbit.” “Good, then go rabbit hunting Warren,” she said. “I’ll let you know when it’s done Jazz,” he said. That’s getting a little ahead of things now, so we will go back to us on the plane. Kat had come into the room with Sky and I still hooked up together.
Bridgette had done everything that Samantha told her to do, but nothing had worked to get my heart beating again. Bridgette went out to the main room and began to check on the wounded that were in beds there. The only sounds were that of the jet until Bridgette called some of the cats to come and purr for the wounded team members, just to help them feel more comfortable.
Several of the girls had their cats with them and Sherry was cuddling Fluffy. Cynthia had stayed behind at home but sent her cat, Midnight, along with us. He spotted Sherry and Fluffy and came over to them. Meow.= Me want to help Fluffy cuddle you. Sherry smiled and picked him up and cuddled both of them. The jet had landed in Florida to refuel and then was off was again.
After 2 hours Kat came back out, looked up at Jennifer and smiled briefly. “You need to relax and get some sleep little sister,” she said, “and stop worrying. Steve is alive and I think I can keep him that way.” Carine had been helping with Aari and Dawn while Kat was with Sky and me. Carine doesn’t have that “healing touch” that Kat has, but she can still help with some things.
Kat had already gotten things started with Dawn and Aari, so she was just keeping things going. It’s a good thing our ghosts don’t need to rest like we do, so Kat was still quite fresh and able to run back and forth easily between patients. Sienna collapsed under the pressure, blaming herself for all of this. There is still a long flight home and no one knows exactly what is in store for me…
To Be Continued.
©2025 Steve McLeod.
As we were driving to the airport, Kat contacted Sky again and told her not to continue towards the airport. Aari said it would be too dangerous to sit around at the airport for a half hour or longer waiting for the jet to arrive. It would be a perfect time for Rico to attack us again, and we would be in the open. We don’t want to sit inside the terminal building as that would endanger innocent people, which we definitely don’t want.
So, it was decided to take kind of a round about way to get there and in the process pick up Kat along the way. Plans were made to meet at a specific location in the parking lot of a supermarket. Kat would quickly transfer to our van and we would, both, then drive away fast. It is daylight now and everyone is hoping that Rico and his men would be hiding somewhere and not willing to come after us.
However, Rico went straight home and discovered we had taken Sienna and his new sex slave, Kitty, which turned him absolutely red with anger. He was now more determined than ever to track us down before we had a chance to leave the country. He knew the best way for us to leave was by plane, so he and his men went directly to the airport.
But, before they arrived there, one of his men spotted our vans in the parking lot, just as Kat transferred to our van. Suddenly there were an assortment of cars, vans and trucks, 15 in all, turning into that parking lot. Both of our vans left in a hurry, deciding to stay together for better safety. We put out a call to the others to rejoin us quickly because Rico had found us.
Sherry was driving our van and she must be the wildest driver we have now! “Okay Fluffy,” she said, “time for Plan D getaway!” ‘Me Fluffy, go straight to Parktown Street, not far away, then turn left.” We did that and everyone thought the van was going to tip. One van in Rico’s group did flip right over! That took care of several men anyway.
It might also get the police involved, which may or may not be a good thing. It’s hard to tell whose side they would be on in this situation. So we just figured it’s best to stay away from them. I say “we”, but I’m out of the picture for now, still being unconscious. Kat has stopped the bleeding now, it had already slowed down as Sky was applying a lot of pressure to slow the bleeding.
The wound was right up near the shoulder and unless Kat can do something, I will likely be left with a permanent injury. But what I need right now is blood, unfortunately Dawn has been wounded too seriously, so she will not be able to share her blood with me. So, that leaves only Sky, and she is a ghost, so how can I get blood from her?
Assuming she even has blood now. There are some things about our ghosts that we still don’t know and I have promised not to order them to give their health information to us. “Fluffy say turn right quick!” Suddenly we spun in a complete circle, but we didn’t tip over and we made the turn. A truck and Rico’s group was not so lucky and it ended up rolling several times, finally staying upside down.
“Hey Sherry,” said Sky, “how come you still have Fluffy, I thought you found a cat.” “Well, Carine wanted a cat too,” she replied, “and since she was the only ghost without a cat, it just didn’t seem right for me to get one first. So I let Carine have him. I’ll take the next one.” “Aww, you’re a good girl Sherry,” said Angel. “Hey, watch that,” said Sherry, “I’m a Bad Girl, remember?”
Everyone laughed. It can be good to have some laughter during rough times, and right now we need it. “Can you do something for his arm Kat?” asked Sky, “Or will he lose the use of that arm?” “I think it will be okay,” she said, “though it may not be quite as good as before.” Suddenly there was another sharp turn and the van was on two tires that time.
“I wish we had our own van,” said Sherry, “they are more stable and are better on those sharp turns.” “I wish we had one too,” said Amerie, “I am pale like a, um, a…sheet!” “You were going to say ghost, right Amerie?” asked Angel. “Well, um, maybe, uh, sort of, a little,” she replied, somewhat embarrassed. “Suzette,” said Kat, “look in my backpack and pick out a few gifts for Rico.
She quickly did so and Chloe opened the back doors of the van. Rico’s lead car swerved quickly out of the way, but the car behind his had the gifts land right on the hood of the car, destroying the whole car and causing the one behind it to crash. Then the rest of the team came along, pulling in behind Rico’s men, then driving up alongside and shooting out the side door.
Soon Rico and his remaining men turned off, quitting the chase. But, did they go back home or did they take another way to the airport, hoping to get there first? I guess we will find out. It was now time for us to make our way to the airport. When we arrived our jet was already waiting for us, with Aari and his team just going on board. We quickly drove up to the jet and everyone boarded the plane.
Soon the jet was heading down the runway and we were in the air, heading away from trouble. Hopefully, anyway. We still had wounded people to deal with, including me. Kat asked Al, the pilot, to hook us up to Jennifer. We had a large screen in the main room and Jennifer soon showed up on that screen.
“Steve needs blood,” said Kat, “without it he will not make it home alive. But Dawn is too seriously wounded and she is the only one with the right blood type. I can help her, but it will likely be too late to help Steve. Sky is the only other one, but you know the dangers involved. Without Sky’s blood, Steve dies. With Sky’s blood he has a 50% chance of survival, but we still don’t know what that means exactly.
We need your approval and Bridgette can start the blood flowing.” “Do it Kat,” she said, “at least Steve has a chance this way. But remember the rule, not if it means Sky will die.” “Nothing to worry about Jennifer,” said Kat, “Sky won’t die from this.” Bridgette then began to let Sky’s blood flow to me…
To Be Continued.
©2025 Steve McLeod
