Judgment and Punishment

Damon

“Damon, get your head out of your ass! You can’t ride! You can barely stand. Go to your goddamn room and sleep it off.”

I flip Darrion off and keep on going.

~My girl.~

~I need to see her.~

“Let him go. He chose her over us. Let him walk to his death.”

“You are a goddamn idiot. You know what? Go. Pass out, wreck your bike, bleed out, whatever. You’ll do whatever you want anyways, selfish bitch.”

He leaves me alone, I keep going.

The road is empty, it’s late and I have a while to go still. But I will get to her.

I look ahead and push on—my body is fucking killing me.

I don’t care. It was worth it. I would do it again.

Headlights blind me.

I keep going.

Dragging my body.

Fighting the pain.

Pushing forward.

~I’m coming, baby.~

~I’m sorry.~

~I’m coming.~

***

I jump the fence and fall on the other side.

My back catches the blunt of the impact.

My hands break back open.

The air alone is enough to make it light up.

I force myself back up and look at the window above her back porch.

~I need to see her.~

~I need to tell her I’m sorry.~

I push off the ground and find my way on the awning. I climb the vinyl siding and rip a few pieces off.

Can’t find a fuck to give about it tonight.

I’ll pay her uncle for it.

I grab the windowsill and push it to open.

It doesn’t budge.

~Fucking hell.~

I hit it and put a crack in it.

~It won’t matter when I see her.~

~I’ll fix it.~

~I’ll make it up to her.~

~I have to.~

“Oh my God, Damon?! Stop. Hold on.”

I look through the glass and see her twisting locks, the curtain bunched up behind her.

~My girl.~

~Savannah.~

The window opens and she grabs at my arms.

I hiss and fall into her room.

“Damon. Oh my God. You’re hurt, you’re bleeding, what happened? Where have you been? Why haven’t you answered me? Who did this? Don’t move. I got you.”

With all the swelling and cuts, I still manage to give her a kiss.

It’s sloppy and smears her face with my blood, but I don’t care.

I needed her lips.

It stings and it hurts but I don’t fucking care.

I missed her.

“Calm down baby, I’m okay.”

My speech slurs.

I’m starting to crash.

I can see the worry in her glossy eyes.

“No, you’re not. Come on. Up we go.”

My arm goes over her shoulder and she tries hard to get me back to my feet.

I don’t have anything left.

I’m stuck here for the night.

“Baby.”

My body is lead.

I’m rotting away here.

I can’t help her.

~I made it back to you.~

“What is he doing here, Savannah? No sleepovers. I was crystal clear, was I not?”

The light clicks on, making me wince and take cover in her legs.

“I know, I know, uncle, it’s not like that. He’s hurt. I can’t move him and he’s bleeding, please, I need help.” I can hear her voice break for me.

She’s afraid.

“Baby,” I try again.

Her hands are on me.

I can smell her. Feel her.

“I’ll get someone to take him to the hospital then.”

“No! Uncle, you know he can’t go. You know first aid, I’ll help you. You can check him. I’ll call Darrion. I know this and you and them. But he needs me. He needs help. I need help so I can help him. Please, Uncle Jonah.”

“Savannah, I can’t.”

“Please! I’ll do it. He needs help and it’s my job and I was mad at him. I ignored my gut, I knew something was wrong. I let him down! Uncle, I need you to not be a cop and be just my uncle. I need your help.”

She cries out.

~No way~ I thought to myself.

~You didn’t let me down.~

“Percy, get the medical kit from the hallway and the bathroom. Some fresh sheets and make some coffee.”

I can feel my shoes coming off.

“Vannah.” My head is heavy.

So fucking heavy.

“I’m here, Angel. I’m here. I’m not leaving you. I’m here. Stay awake okay, stay awake with me. Please don’t leave me.”

~I won’t baby.~

~Never.~

I feel her move down next to me and pull me in. I can feel her heart racing and the drop of her tears hit me harder than any of their hits ever did.

“All or nothing.”

Her chest rises with a shake.

“I’m okay, don’t cry for me.”

I can’t open my eyes.

My lips barely move.

It hurts to breathe.

I don’t regret it.

I’m not sorry.

“Keep him awake. I would bet on him having a concussion.”

“Hey, stay awake, stay with me, stay with me, Angel. I’m here. Mother of fucking shit, Darrion, answer this phone or so help me! I’m here, my Angel. Wake up. Stay with me.”

Her tone switches seamlessly.

I want to stay with her.

And I will.

“Van.”

~Baby.~

~I love you.~

***

I can hear it get louder before the words come in clearer.

~It was the coldest night of the year.~

Snow-covered street lamps and Belvedere.

The moon was just a sliver.

The light was fading.

The war was on its way.

And we were waiting.

You asked me how long I’d stay by your side.

So I answered with only just one reply.

Till the casket drops.

Till my dying day.

Till my heartbeat stops.

Till my legs just break.

Whoa whoa oh, whoa whoa oh, whoa whoa oh.

Till the casket drops.

A house made out of glass will surely shatter.

So we built a fortress of red bricks and ladders.

The ground it started shaking.

The bombs are falling.

We could’ve walked away.

We had a warning.

You asked me how long I’d stay by your side.

So I answered with only just one reply.

Till the casket drops.

Till my dying day.

Till my heartbeat stops.

Till my legs just break.

Whoa whoa oh, whoa whoa oh, whoa whoa oh.

Till the casket drops.

So lay your burden down, baby.

Lead me out the door.

We can’t escape this ricochet.

I’m ready for this war.

~Her voice.~

~Savannah.~

I lick my lips and taste the Strawberry Shortcake.

I can smell it in my nose.

I can feel it all over me.

She’s engulfed me in it, hasn’t she?

“Easy, my Angel, easy. I’m here. I’m here with you.”

My eyes, stuck shut, will not stop me from seeing her.

I need to see her.

~I just need her.~

“Is he waking up?”

“Yes, will you text Dane and tell him he’s coming around and he’s okay. But do NOT tell anyone else.”

“Easy, my Angel, take it easy. Your face is really swollen. Here, this is going to be cold but it might help.”

I shiver from the ice on my face.

It does help though.

The burn goes away to a chilling numb.

When Savannah moves it away, I can finally see my girl.

I see the wet eyes and how exhausted she looks.

~I’m sorry, baby.~

“There’s my Angel.” Her hands in my hair, her smile on her chapped lips.

~If anyone is an Angel, it’s you.~

“Want something to drink? Hold on.”

Her arms tuck under me. Her face right beside mine, she sits me up.

Her hair falls on my arms like threads of silk to cool the cuts there too.

Fluffing pillows under my back and grabbing the cup to bring the straw to my lips, she handles it all.

“Slow at first, Angel. Slowly and only a little. You’ve been asleep for fourteen hours.”

I drink, following my rules.

It’s the least I can do to ease some of this shit I’ve made her worried about.

“Vannah, he’s calling again.”

She keeps my face in her hands.

“I don’t care.”

She stares at me.

Looking at me as if I’m the only thing to matter to her ever.

I can only see out of one eye and it’s slanted at that, but I see her.

She’s all I see.

Even when the lights go back out.

***

Waking up for the fourth time, I can hear the birds chirping some piss-off racket.

I can open my eye better this time and the other is opening now.

I can see her room.

Her walls are as bare as mine.

A dresser with stickers.

A table by the bed.

A window and that’s it.

I roll my neck, flex my toes, and wiggle my fingers.

All in working order—good.

I push off the table to sit up.

~Where is she?~

My body tells me to stop. That it’s still healing from getting the fuck kicked out of it by forty pissy brothers.

My chest burns when I breathe in.

Broken ribs.

My shoulder pops and makes a crunch sound when I put pressure on it.

Dislocated and put back in place.

My hands are stitched and wrapped up.

Some of my tattoos are going to be broken up with the scars after these cuts heal.

The door squeaks and the floorboard groans when she steps into the room.

~There’s my girl.~

“Hello, Mr. Henley, ready for your sponge bath?”

Savannah rolls her eyebrows at me and wags the ugly orange sponge my way.

Her caramel hair like a sheet down her back.

One of my black T-shirts touches the bottom of her hips.

My cock stirs.

Of course, the fucker would wake now.

The blood rushing to my dick makes me dizzy.

~I don’t care.~

~I want her.~

I’m ready.

“Just in time, baby,” I choke out, ruining the moment.

I cough and gag when I taste old blood and stomach acid creeping up my throat.

Savannah dashes to me, patting my back and holding a bucket under my face.

It smells like shit.

I vomit whatever is in my stomach.

Her patting my back, she cleans my face before I can take a breath.

She doesn’t flinch.

Doesn’t look disgusted or anything.

~Is this what I look like when the roles were flipped?~

“All done?” She holds my face out of the bucket.

~Yes.~

“Good, let’s clean you up and get you something to eat. How does that sound, my Angel?”

~Whatever you want, Shortcake.~

~Do whatever you want with me.~

~I’m yours.~

The bucket moves away, another drink to wash my mouth out.

She moves me back into the bed so I can rest my back.

“I need to clean you up all over, I was serious about the sponge bath. I need to take the covers off and get fresh ones. Fair warning.”

She takes the blanket away.

I shiver and shake.

“Oh Angel, are you cold?”

She moves the blanket back to cover my upper half.

“Of course you are, all your blood is elsewhere. Don’t tempt me, sir. It’s been three days without my shot of vitamin D.”

Even as fucked up as I am, she makes me laugh.

Another drink of water and she gets to work cleaning off the old crusty blood that’s dried on my skin.

The white bowl on the table is dipped into.

Her gentle hands clean my legs, careful around my nasty scrapes. She gets between my toes and giggles when I tell her it tickles.

She dries me, taking everything into account.

The towel is heated.

My shivering stops.

My shakes quit.

~At the hands of a goddess.~

Savannah covers me with the blanket, taking the whole one off my chest after she puts cream over the cuts she cleans up.

Clean water, and the process is moved up, goes to my upper half.

She cleans me.

My chest, my arms, my hair, my face, my dick and even under my nuts.

She gets everywhere.

Singing to me when I work to not show how much pain I’m in.

~Does she do this?~

More heated towels.

“Alright, my Angel, let’s get some broth down and we will see how that goes.”

She feeds me.

Every spoonful, she refuses to let me do it.

The birds outside get louder.

I get better.

~In the hands of a goddess.~

***

“Angel, I have to go to my therapy class. Sleep, rest up. Percy is going to keep you company while I’m gone.”

“No. I’m alright. I’ll go with you.”

I lean up but her hand pushes me back down.

“No Damon. You are not alright. Not yet. It’s okay, just stay in bed and play video games while I run out. It’s okay to rest after nearly dying, believe me, I would know.

“I had two weeks of a coma. It’s been four days. Take more time. I have taken care of everything. Your school work is done, I am okay, now all you need to do is rest, relax and recover. Is that understood?”

Savannah breaks her hip back out, her arms crossed at her chest. That don’t-fuck-with-me attitude she doesn’t hold back with.

“Yes, ma’am.”

A smile from her lips.

“Good. Percy is going to call me if you misbehave, and don’t think because you’re hurt I won’t have fun rolling out some Savannah-style justice.”

My cock comes back to life.

~Don’t tease me yet, baby.~

~I can’t take it.~

“Best behavior. Scout’s honor.”

“Yeah right, you’re neither honorable nor a scout, douche.”

“Caught me.”

Her kiss.

“I’ll see you in a few hours.”

Another kiss and she’s gone.

“So, you like GTA?”

Blondie stands in the doorway.

“I fucking guess.”

Savannah

“Hey Grams? It’s Savannah. I have three questions for you. Would you like to see your grandsons? Would you like to beat biker royalty ass? And are you free today?”

“Great. I’m on the way. See you in twenty minutes.”

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