Doc Harrison and the Apocalypse by Peter Telep

Author:Peter Telep
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2017-05-31T06:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTY

Julie wants the truth. And I’m ready to tell her.

Yeah, right.

I’ll never be ready.

I just want her to be the old Julie, the one whose father didn’t kill my mother.

And now she’s asked me a direct question, and I need to be just like our parents. She’ll hate me for it when she finally learns the truth.

I open my mouth, already tasting the lie...

But I’m saved by the grren guarding the cave entrance.

He lifts his head, reacting to something along the ridge just above us. He howls and makes a clicking sound—

And then three more grren leap down from the shadows to join him.

One of them breaks off and starts toward us, its ears a bit droopier than the others, the skin across its back much paler. There’s a little hitch in one of its legs, not quite a limp, but it’s there...

Wait a minute.

Those faded markings on its forehead are familiar. Yeah, that upside down triangle with the ring.

“Don’t move,” Tommy says. “Looks like the head honcho.”

The grren eases up to Julie, eyes rotating and zooming in. Its head tilts sideways, as though staring into a thought, and then it pushes forward—

Into her lap, brushing its cheek along hers.

She grabs both of its ears and starts crying.

“I guess they’re gonna eat us now,” Tommy says.

“No,” Julie says, laughing through her tears. “This is the grren that my father rescued. We called him Brave. I was just a little girl, but he remembers me. Do you mind if I sit with him for a while?” she asks.

“Uh, no,” I lie. “We need more friends, right?”

I drift over to Tommy, gesturing that we take a walk while Julie has her reunion.

We hike over to the base of the nearest tree, its exposed roots towering above us.

“How much do you know?” I ask.

“About Solomon?”

“Yeah.”

“Just what you told her.”

“You know anything about my real mother?”

“Only that she died before you left.”

My throat tightens. “Tommy...”

“What is it, son?”

No, I won’t cry in front of him.

“Son?” he asks again.

“I need to tell you something.”

“I’m all ears.”

“Okay, so Solomon was my father’s partner.”

“I know that.”

“But he’s also Julie’s father.”

He draws back his head. “No kidding. That’s not good.”

“Tell me about it. Anyway, after he sold out the company, my father went to the government. They were all going to jail. Solomon went crazy and he...”

“It’s all right, son.”

“No, it’s not. Hollis showed me something... he showed me how Solomon killed my mother. He stabbed her over and over. It was brutal.”

Major Thomas McMillan, United States Marine Corps, is a good ole boy from Promised Land, South Carolina who loves to talk. There are few things in this world (or any other) that leave him speechless.

This is one of them.

“Tommy? Are you okay?”

“I’m just flashing back. I mean this explains a whole lot about your old man. I knew something was tearing him up inside...”

“Yeah. Serious baggage, right?”

“Doc, I’m real sorry. If your mom was anything like you and your dad, then I’m sure she was an amazing woman.

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