♠ Back on the streets ♠

“Ah need to get out, man. Back on the streets. Ye know? Ah’ve been gone too long.”

Dirk sat on the edge of the bed. Mick didn’t look good. Hell, he’d never been much to look at. But with bandages wrapped tight around his skull – fewer than before, but still more than was normal – he looked like an extra in a horror movie. And when he spoke, those black teeth…

“Christ, dude, you just came out of a coma. I thought you were dead, make out. Let the doctors keep an eye on you for a couple of days, make sure you’re okay.”

Mick had learned quickly not to shake his head in conversation. He pointed instead. “Don’t ye get it? Can’t ye understand what Ah’ve been through? Ah was all alone in there, man. Ye have no idea. No fucking idea. Ye wouldn’t have survived, Ah can tell ye that for nothing. And where’s Janine? Ah told ye, Ah need to see her.”

Dirk, on the other hand, was able to shake his head as much as he liked. He did so now. “Chill, boet. You did survive. And you survived coming off the bike. So give them another couple of days to make sure you survive this, too.”

Mick’s eyes lit up. “Aye, the bike. Did ye find them? What am Ah saying, of course ye found them. Did they plead? Did they beg? What was it like?”

“Let’s just say it’s been handled.”

Mick’s neck muscles stood out with the strain of keeping his head still. “Who was it? Another gang? Those Brakpan bastards trying to take me out of the picture?”

Dirk raised both hands. “Jesus, would you calm the fuck down? It was nobody. A nonentity. Civilians. And believe me, they’ve been punished for what happened.”

Mick sat back, reaching for a glass of water at the side of the bed. “Aye, well, let that be a lesson, then. A statement. Ah’m back. And things are gonna change around here, sure they are. Now could ye call that cute wee nurse outside the door, there? Ah think mah brain might be bleedin’ just a wee bit.”

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