Fan Fiction |
by Jenny Tran
The following day Doug and Darren returned to the bar with Ryan trailing close behind “There he is.” Darren pointed out Ah Bat. Before he even had a chance to take the first step, Ryan had beaten him to it.
“Are you Ah Bat?” Ryan asked the guy who was busy flirting with a group of girls.
“What’s it to ya?” he asked with much annoyance. But the minute he saw Doug and Darren behind Ryan, he began to take off. Only long enough to be pounced on by Ryan.
“Don’t you remember your new friends?” he retorted with some rough pushing. Ryan pulled the guy on his feet “You’re not going anywhere.” He warned.
“Good job, Ryan.” Doug said. He was a bit surprised by the guy’s quickness, he had his brother’s love for the work. He could already tell “We missed you!” he said with sarcasm while patting Ah Bat on the head roughly.
“What do you want? I already told you…I don’t—” he began only to be slapped by Darren.
“Shut up! Take him back.” Darren said while nodding to Ryan “You’re quick.”
“Thanks, I learn from the best.” Ryan smiled while pulling the guy’s arm behind him and pushing him out of the bar.
They returned with Chuck waiting in his office. The guys had blindfolded Ah Bat so he would not be able to recognize the headquarters. Ryan pushed the guy in the little office and slammed the door shut “Hey, don’t take it out on my door.” Chuck warned with a finger wagging.
Ryan smiled shortly “Sorry Chuck.”
“Who are you guys? What do you want??” Ah Bat cried with fear. His hands were tied behind his back “Let me go. I’m not worth any money!!”
“Well, he does have a point.” Chuck spun around on his chair “Kill him.”
Doug smiled as he began to play along “Yes, sir.” He reached down and pulled the guy up on his feet.
“No!! Please, don’t kill me!!” Ah Bat began groveling as he struggled to stay kneeling “Please Chuck, I’ll do anything you ask me to. Just don’t kill me.”
Chuck smiled crookedly as he got up and walked around his desk and leaned on the edge “Okay. I’m in a good mood today. So let me hear something good. Because you should see my boys faces right now. They’re ready to smell blood.”
The scared guy thought fast as he began sputtering out the words “I…I can contact him! And then you guys can do what you want. Just don’t kill me!”
“What a coward!” Ryan spat despicably.
Darren laughed as he bent down and wrapped an arm over his shoulder “Better his ass than yours huh?” he tortured Ah Bat with more head smacking.
“Yes…yes. I don’t even like the guy!” he added quickly. His face looking around but he still couldn’t see anything “Who are you people anyways?” he asked with special curiosity. They didn’t sound like the triad, he would have been beaten or worse raped already.
“There you go asking questions again!” Darren shook his head while his hand began slapping the back of the guy’s head.
“Alright! Alright! I’m sorry…I shouldn’t have asked.”
Doug laughed humorously “Now you’re learning.” He saw Chuck nod his head to let the blindfold off. Doug ripped it off and the guy quickly blinked away the blurriness from his eyes. He only made out a very fat figure in front of him.
“Remember my face.” Chuck pointed to himself “I’ll be haunting your nightmares if you don’t do what you just promised. I expect you to get back to us in one day.”
“ONE DAY?!” the guy was outraged “It takes longer than that when I do something for the Red Dragon.”
Darren turned to him with a shaking head “Don’t you learn?” he put his hands together and cracked his knuckles as if ready for a fight.
“Okay…okay…I’m sorry.” Ah Bat backed away and bumped into Ryan who stared down at him viciously. He quickly moved away closer to Darren “How do I get in contact with you guys?”
“Don’t worry about that. We’ll come looking for you in one day.” Doug replied.
Chuck crossed his arms “Get him out of here, his stench is killing my desk plants!”
“Yes, Sir.” Doug placed the blindfold back took the guy out with the help of Ryan.
Darren turned to Chuck “I hope we can trust him.”
“We have no choice at this moment.” Chuck sighed “I just hope we get Shelly back.” Darren nodded in agreement “Hey, so Erin was telling me about her past. How her parents were killed in a fire. Its really sad for a young girl to be moved from one orphanage to another.”
“Yeah, I know. I’m just glad she settled at St. Mary’s. We got off on the wrong foot but she’s become this important person in my life.” Darren had distant gaze in his eyes as he recalled the past two years “Can you believe she wanted to kill me at one time?”
Chuck laughed, “Well I’m glad she held back. We would have missed a very good agent and not to mention donator. Can I ask you something?” Darren nodded “What are her parents names?”
“She didn’t tell you?”
“No.” Chuck shook his head “She didn’t mention it. I was just curious.”
“I think her father was Yeung Ga Wai. The mother…she was only Mrs. Yeung Ga Wai. I didn’t get her maiden name.” Darren turned and noticed Chuck was silent “Chuck. Chuck…” he reached out and shook the man when he didn’t answer.
“What?” Chuck raised his brows.
“You okay? You blanked out there for a minute.” Darren frowned with suspicion.
Chuck shook his head “I’m okay. I was just thinking how hard it was for her. And after all these years, she’s finally found her sibling. Unfortunately, we don’t even know if she’s alive.”
“Don’t worry, I’m sure we’ll find her.” Darren nodded firmly.
“We have to.” Chuck replied solemnly with a look of determination.
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The girls walked around the darker parts of town asking if anyone knew of a guy named TK. But to their dismay, no one even heard of him. It seemed the guy didn’t even existed and it was the home town according to the files that Ted dug up. Mia let out a sigh when Erin looked saddened “It’s okay. We’ll find them.” She soothed.
“Yeah. Justice will always prevail.” Becca nodded firmly.
“I hope so.” Erin nodded to a nearby food shop “Let’s get something to eat. I haven’t had anything in my stomach since last night.”
Mia nodded as she linked her arms through Erin’s and Becca raced the girls to claim a table “Mr. Owner, can we get some tea please?” she asked.
Erin shook her head at her friend “Always ready for food. I don’t know how you could stay so skinny.”
Becca smiled “Easy. After I eat, I stick my finger down my throat and barf it up.” Mia looked grossed out while Erin wrinkled her brows with a horrified look “I’m kidding!!” Becca laughed while she pointed a pair of chopsticks at the girls “I would never do that.”
“I sure hope not.” Erin frowned “That’s disgusting.”
“And sick.” Mia added.
Erin turned to her friend with a sarcastic look “I think we covered that, Mia.”
“Oh, you DO know how to joke.” Mia said with the same sarcasm tone “I was wondering where that humor disappeared to.” She saw Erin lips pressed into a forced smile “Hey, you know we’re here for you if you need to talk or anything.”
Their tea came and Becca quickly ordered them some food. Erin smiled “I’ll be okay. Don’t worry about me, Mia. You need to worry about that brain of yours.”
“My memory will come in due time. Ethan said I just have to relax and not stress it out, the memories will slowly come to me.” Mia nodded.
“He’s a nice guy.” Erin commented. She saw Becca wrinkling her nose in disapproval “You don’t agree?” she asked her long time friend.
“I just don’t think any guy is as nice and honest like Doug. He’s okay, if you like that nice boy type.” Becca shrugged “I like Darren more, personally.” She noticed Mia let out a sigh and she quickly added “But you don’t have to like him. You can like anyone you want, Mia. Plus I think smart guys have this really high standard for girls or potential girlfriends.”
“No, that’s not Ethan. He only believes in love, nothing else. He could care less if the girl was ugly or broke. If he loved her, that was all that mattered.” Mia stood up for him.
“Wow. If I didn’t know better, I would say Mia has a crush.” Erin teased. Her face instantly flushed over after Erin’s comment “I didn’t know you put on blush.” She pointed her finger at Mia’s cheeks.
“Stop it!” Mia cried. She felt like a school girl talking about her first crush with her girlfriends “I don’t like him!” she insisted.
“Hey, you don’t have to tell us. You’re a big girl now and you are more than capable of handling your feelings.” Erin wasn’t convincing. Becca laughed while she nodded in agreement.
“You’re the one to talk. How about Ted?” Mia blurted out playfully.
“And Chuck!” Becca chimed in.
Erin frowned “What about Chuck?”
“Please, we all can see that he likes you. He’s always snapping at me and when it comes to you, it’s like: ‘Erin, you’re perfect…as usual’. Come on, even if we were blind, we are not stupid.” Becca pointed out.
Erin laughed with her head shaking “You are crazy!” she turned to Mia “Can you believe her?”
Mia nodded hesitantly “Actually, I agree with her.”
“Ha…Ha.” Becca said smugly to Erin.
“Wow…I didn’t know I was having lunch with two nuts.” Erin sighed sadly “We might have to take a shortcut to the mental hospital.” She rolled her eyes “Girls, he doesn’t like me. I can guarantee it. I admit that he might be playing favorites with me. But I don’t think he likes me…” she laughed but slowly her smile faded.
“What? Suddenly remembered that he likes you?!” Becca laughed.
“No.” Erin shook her head. She pointed to the car across the street.
Mia frowned “What is it Erin?”
“It’s his car.” She turned to Mia shortly and turned back at the car.
Becca waved to the owner to come out “Mr. do you know the owner of that Honda Accord?”
“Oh, Mr. Keung. Yeah. He comes by once a month to have lunch at my shop. A very nice man. He came by this morning to get some porridge and bread.” He returned to work after Becca thanked him.
“Why would his car be here?” Erin thought out loud.
“Maybe he’s getting food to keep Shelly alive?” Becca contemplated.
Mia widened her eyes at the girl “Foot!!”
“What? That’s a good thing!” Becca retorted.
“Stop arguing.” Erin ordered “Come on.” She got up and walked over across the street to the parked car. She glanced inside the car but didn’t see any clues that Shelly would have left behind “Nothing.” She was disappointed.
“He must be around here.” Mia looked around but there was no one even the little bit resembled the guy she saw at the bar.
Becca tapped her chin thoughtfully “Maybe he’s using this as a trick?”
“But why?” Erin asked while she walked around the car to see anything strange. She bent down at the tires and her eyes lit up “Mia, Becca come over here! Look.” She pointed to the tires.
“Sand…so?” Becca asked.
“Yeah, maybe he works out by the harbor?” Mia guessed.
Erin shook her head “No. I don’t think so. If you park by the harbor, there is no sand. He actually drove on the beach.”
“Why would he do that?” Mia asked.
“I don’t know.” Erin stood up and looked around again “Where’s the nearest beach?”
“Tong Lau Wan Bay.” Becca answered, “Let’s finish our lunch first. I think the owner is about to call the cops if we don’t come back.” She had noticed the man glancing at the girls every so often.