Fan Fiction |
by Jenny Tran
Addy, Don and the bodyguards were left in the middle of down town with the sun almost rising, they had no where to go. “What now?” Addy whined with a kick of a leg.
Don sighed “Siu Jei, it’s almost 5am, and we have nothing and no hotel will be open at this time. What do you expect us to do?” he was getting frustrated himself.
“Maybe we should just find a place to sleep?” the bodyguard suggested.
Addy groaned “Sleep on the streets? I’m not a homeless person.” She pouted and it only reminded Don how naïve she could be.
“That’s probably our best disguise right now.” Don said as he led the way to an empty park. He sat down by a tree and leaned against it with his eyes closed. “Good night.” He mumbled before letting out a yawn.
“Are you crazy?” Addy asked “I can’t sleep out here, there are bugs and ants and stuff….” She was feeling itchy just standing there.
Don snapped his eyes open and found the other two guys already fast asleep on the grass not too far from them. He looked at Addy “Look Princess, your royal castle is hundred miles away, unless you can fly there’s no way in hel we can get back there tonight. Just rest easy and we’ll figure out something in the morning.”
She seemed to think about it as she slowly nodded “Fine…but I’m not sleeping on the dirty grass.”
Don laughed as he looked around and there was only grass around them “Knock yourself out.”
Addy looked around sadly and knew she was defeated as she took a seat next to him “Move over!” she pushed at him roughly.
“I was here first!” he proclaimed with annoyance.
“I don’t care.” She gritted her teeth but continued to unsuccessfully move him. When he wouldn’t budge, she smiled slyly before leaning down on his chest.
It did the trick as he quickly jumped back “What are you doing?!”
Addy smiled victoriously as she sat comfortably on his seat “Claiming my spot.” Don knew if he didn’t let her win, they would never get to sleep. So he moved a few feet from her and slept on the grass.
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The next morning, Kathy returned to the hospital. She had packed up her bags and was ready to return to Hong Kong. It’s been almost 2 weeks and she only had 10 days off. She dropped by the hospital to see Mel one last time. She knew he would be okay with Caitlyn by his side.
But when Kathy arrived at the hospital, she didn’t know how to say goodbye. Surely he would be upset to know that his sister was leaving him for an undetermined amount of time. She leaned herself on one of the benches outside the hospital and sat down.
“What’s wrong? You can’t face him?” Caitlyn’s voice interrupted her thoughts.
Kathy looked up with a small smile “No…why would you say that?”
“Because you’re not really his sister…you’re his girlfriend aren’t you?” she has been suspecting that since the first day she met Kathy.
“I don’t know what you’re talking about.” Kathy looked away and it only proved Caitlyn’s theory correct. She took a seat next to Kathy who looked up at her with earnest eyes “I’m not his girlfriend.”
“So you admit that you’re not his sister?” Caitlyn pressed.
The flustered girl eventually nodded “No…I’m not his sister either.” Caitlyn smiled “Is it that obvious?” Kathy asked.
“I was almost buying it until last night. When you rushed out of the hospital in tears. I figured it wasn’t something a sister would do after seeing her brother still alive after a vicious brawl.”
“You’re very clever.” Kathy complimented, her face changed “I have to go.”
Caitlyn’s face fell “Why?!”
“I don’t belong here. I live in Hong Kong….I have a life there, a job that I love and friends that I miss.” She said sadly. “I hate to leave Mel like this, but I guess it’s a sign. He doesn’t remember me anyways, what difference does it make?”
The tiny nurse frowned “What difference? You’re probably the only person in this world that could help him remember. Don’t you want to help him?”
Kathy shook her head “Maybe its better that he doesn’t remember? That way he can start a brand new page of his life…leave the dark past behind.”
“Why do I get the strange feeling that his life is not as simple as I imagine?” Caitlyn was interested in his past “Can you tell me a little bit about it? I’ve always wondered who he was and why did he get in that fight that almost cost him his life? Not to mention that tattoo is ferocious.”
“You really want to know?” Kathy asked.
The girl nodded like a hyper puppy “I do.”
Kathy took a deep breath as she prepared to tell the story she never imagined she would repeating “Melvin Lam…who’s known to the triad world as Mel Gor. He was intiated into the Red Dragon gang at the ripe age of 16. It was a shame the way he had to leave his family but he found another family through the Red Dragons. He climbed his way to the top and now he’s only under one man, the Dai Gor of this gang. I’ve never met him myself but I hear he’s great to his boys.” She paused when Caitlyn’s eyes widened with what looked like fear “He has a tough exterior but he’s a softie at heart. Especially when it comes to girls, any girl that has crossed his path will always be taken care of. That’s due to the fact that he made one big mistake with an ex girlfriend. He was careless with her and now she lives a horrid life of a prostitute. It was almost a wake up slap for Mel…” she smiled at the thought of her friend Snow.
Caitlyn nodded and breathed out “Wow…I wouldn’t have guessed the kind hearted man in there was a vicious gangster.” She looked up at Kathy with wide eyes “Are you one too?”
“No…” Kathy laughed at the naïve girl.
“That’s what I thought, you don’t look like one. But that girl…Janet? Is she one?” Kathy nodded and Caitlyn too nodded slowly “I see…so how did you two meet?”
She turned away with a distant look in her eyes “It was years ago…I was in Toronto for school and on my way home one night I ran into Mel at the subway station bleeding to death. He looked pale but he was stubborn like a mule…he would not let me help him. But something told me that I should assist him so I insisted until he let me. I walked him home and mended to his would, that’s when I realized I walked into the wrong place. If you saw that huge dragon tattoo on his arm, it would give you a red flag, he was not a normal guy.”
Caitlyn nodded “I know…but I didn’t want to scare him since he didn’t even remember his own name.”
Kathy smiled “That tattoo was a reminder of his life…his life as a gangster, why he became that way. He told me one time that the dragon covered his first scar from a gang fight. It was there to tell him never to forget his roots.”
“He sounds like an honorable man.” Caitlyn laughed at the irony “For a gangster that is.”
“Mel is a very honorable man.” Kathy said firmly “He is there for his boys because they were always there for him. Needless to say if you helped him once, he will help you back a hundred times. That was just the way Mel worked.”
The young nurse leaned on her elbow to knee thoughtfully “If he’s so great…how come he was beaten up so bad this time?”
Kathy shook her head “I don’t know….But I hear that his enemy did that to him.”
Caitlyn nodded, she was still curious to know who Kathy was to Mel “You never said your relation with Mel?”
“There’s nothing to say.” Kathy sighed with a content smile “I’m not anyone to him…” she glanced at her watch “I have to go, my flight leaves soon.”
“You’re not staying for the test?” Caitlyn tried only last time to keep the girl.
Kathy shook her head “No…He’ll be fine without me. Just promise me you’ll take care of him. You’re his only friend now. If anyone comes and claim to be his friend, don’t believe them.”
The girl nodded with widened eyes “Okay. Take care of yourself, Kathy.”
She smiled and instinctively leaned over and hugged the nurse “I will…. thank you for everything.” She pulled away and found Caitlyn near tears “Remember what I said.” Caitlyn nodded as she was choked up.
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Don was rudely awakened by the cop who was kicking him on the leg “Hey, no sleeping in the park.”
Addy fluttered her eyes open “Shit!” she cursed as she pulled at Don’s arm “Get up! Come on…it’s cops.”
Don opened his eyes as he quickly got up with Addy by his side “Sorry officer… we were just resting.”
“Well keep moving, this is a public place.” The uniformed man said sternly before leaving the two.
Addy let out a yawn and Don quickly covered his nose “Ew…be a little courteous will ya?!”
She turned up her lips as she leaned in closer to him and let out a long breath of unbrushed teeth. He practically stumbled backwards while she laughed humorously “That’s what you get.” It was then that she noticed her two bodyguards were gone. “Where are the two dogs?”
“Don’t be so rude!” Don rolled his eyes “Just because they follow you around doesn’t make them dogs. They have names you know.” Addy shrugged and he looked at her stunned “You don’t know their names? So what if something happened to you? What do you do to call them?”
Addy crossed her arms “I call for ‘help’.” She nodded firmly.
“You are such a sad soul.” He shook his head sadly.
“Shut up, stupid.” She groaned as she looked around for the two bodyguards.
Don narrowed his eyes “Don’t call me stupid.”
“Okay, dork.” She giggled at their repeated argument.
“Don’t call me dork.” Don wasn’t in any mood to play games with her.
“Fine, dorkette.” Addy quipped with her chin in the air.
Don laughed “That’s not a word.” He pointed to her cracking up amusingly “What a stupid word…who taught you that? You’re 5th grade boyfriend?”
Addy pouted as she whacked him across the arm “Shut up! It’s not funny.”
“Yes it is…” Don continued to laugh but stopped instantly when the bodyguards came back “You’re dogs.” He nodded at Addy.
She turned and let out a frustrated sigh “Where the hell did you two go?”
“We got some leads.” The head guy spoke up with a smile “Mel Gor…he’s…”
“Where is he?” Addy grabbed a hold of his collar and practically shook him.
“He’s at Toronto Hospital.”
Addy frowned “Hospital? Why? What’s wrong with him?”
“He was in a fight with Luke about two weeks ago at Johnny’s. When he woke up, the doctors diagnosed him with amnesia.” The guy explained sadly.
Don shook his head “Tsk, tsk, tsk…there goes our ticket out of Toronto.”
Addy turned to him with an evil expression “He’ll be fine. I want to see him. He’ll remember me.” She nodded anxiously.
Don rolled his eyes “He has amnesia…dorkette.”
“No one’s talking to you!” she snapped. “Come on, let’s go…I want to see Mel Gor.”
The bodyguard nodded “Fine, but we have to be careful, the Tigers could be close by.” So the four headed off towards the hospital.