Mayhem by Matthew Thompson

Author:Matthew Thompson [Thompson, Matthew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Published: 2016-09-24T04:00:00+00:00

BEDSIDE REMAND HEARING

Chris returns to St Augustine’s ward at St Vincent’s Hospital where he is transferred on 6 December due to his injuries.

Hello.

Where’d I go?

Been three months.

Nearly to the day.

Since I went away.

With a pistol.

And the will to.

Leave.

Now I’m back.

Whack.

What a dud.

Thud.

I kind of wish I was in the same bed as last time; you’ll recall that spring-loaded week and a half that started with a stabbing and ended with the Last Supper.

If I was in my old bed, the one that I discharged myself from three months ago, and I was staring at the same dreary patch of ceiling, then for sure what’s gone down would have to be some fucked up dream, and tomorrow Dad would come in and tool me up and I could start my run over.

But no.

I’m freshly hospitalised for injuries sustained when ‘resisting arrest’. I need microsurgery to remake part of my finger and treatment for multiple head wounds, a broken nose, broken ribs, black eyes and severe bruising to much of my upper body.

Barrels, butts and boots. And another weapon: sound – the click-click-click-click of SOG officers cocking their handguns and pointing them at the back of my head.

Only after a couple of them pulled their triggers and I wasn’t dead did I realise they must have unloaded, and this was just an inconsequential mock execution.

My survival was probably the least preferred option for many of the police. After all, they’d named the operation to capture me, Dust to Dust.

Well, fuck them. All their torture and bashing didn’t get them what they wanted. Had the opposite effect: sealed me tight with anger.

Now the coppers probably have the farm sealed off under the pretext of searching for suspected explosive charges while they’re digging holes like moles on speed in a desperate search for the proceeds. Greedy thievin’ bastards.

*

The next day, a bedside hearing takes place before Magistrate Linda Dessau, who notes the obvious injuries, indeed she refers to them at a later court hearing that she presides over. On 8 December, Chris leaves St Vincent’s.

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