Sue Me by Warren Murphy

Author:Warren Murphy [Warren Murphy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Chiun (Fictitious character) --Fiction., Williams, Remo (Fictitious character) --Fiction.
ISBN: 9781035999095
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

CHAPTER EIGHT

AT FIRST EVERYONE THOUGHT it was part of the song, a great new song, the rock hit of the decade. All the singers were screaming, some of them clawing to get off the stage. Others crawled and still others punched and pushed, and someone at a microphone cried out.

“Lord help us. Help us. Help.”

The audience applauded as the center of the wooden stage began to sag and then with a sickening crack, it collapsed. Bodies fell into each other. Guitars and bones cracked in the onslaught. The center-stage singers were crushed under the load, smothered by the bodies of those who fell on top of them. It was a full minute before the audience realized this wasn’t the best rock piece they had ever heard but a disaster.

Remo and Chiun saw immediately that the people were in trouble, not singing about it. Using the wires, they pulled Debbie and her guitar free and then dove into the center of the surging mass of bodies, lifting off rock stars, passing them up over the side of the stage. Those on the bottom could not be saved, but they managed to get the upper layers free so that doctors could get to those who were still alive at the bottom.

At the lower levels the bodies were slippery from the blood.

Some of the rock stars didn’t realize what happened for the whole evening. One of them, with a punctured lung and enough cocaine coursing through his blood to numb the whole of southern California, only discovered he was injured when he tried to sing and nothing came out but blood.

Another with a broken hip, completely smashed on Quaaludes, thought she couldn’t walk because this time she’d taken one pill too many. The idea made her giggle.

Debbie Pattie was furious that Remo and Chiun yanked her off the stage before she could get in front of the cameras.

“I hated all this anyway. All those other people sharing the attention. I was going crazy. I had withdrawals. I know others did, too.”

One thing did make her feel better. At least it showed Remo that rock stars not only gave of their time and money but also of their blood.

“You can’t say we’re not saving now,” said Debbie.

Remo ripped off the wires, and so did Chiun.

“Why do you use such sticky wires?” he asked.

“Hey, I’m talking to you. I said you can’t say we’re not saving now,” said Debbie. “I mean, people are bleeding on that stage.”

“I didn’t say you didn’t mean well,” said Remo. “I just said jumping up and down and screaming ’Save’ over and over doesn’t mean anything. You’re not saving people by dying, any more than you’re saving people by screaming.”

“That’s singing,” said Debbie.

“Whatever,” said Remo. “Do you always use wires that stick?”

Debbie shrugged. She hired people for that. She honestly didn’t know how a light bulb worked, but when you made enough money, things just were supposed to work or you fired people.

“That’s the difference between singers and nobodies,” said Debbie.

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