Swift by Darrell Shaffer Jr

Author:Darrell Shaffer, Jr
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: crime, crime fiction, indianapolis, drug gangs, drug bust, loss and grief, police coverup, family affairs, family chaos, grief journey
Publisher: Darrell Shaffer, Jr

Chapter 13

Inside Nate leads the way to a treatment room with no animals inside. I help Tevin sit down on one of the big metal operating tables while Nate disappears. Nate comes back with a few pill bottles and some water before disappearing again. This time he comes back with alcohol, a needle, thread and some bandages.

“Take these,” he hands the pills and water to Tevin.

“This is a lot of pills,” Tevin mumbles.

“Because they’re for cats. You’re a lot of cats,” Nate says back. “Javon, hold him down.”

“What for,” Tevin asks, back to himself almost.

“Because this is going to hurt. We need to clean the wound and sew it up. The pain killers won’t kick in right away,” Nate says still calm.

I hold Tevin down on the table as he still tries to bargain and tells us all his fears. Needles, catheters and anything medical really, but this is for his own good. Nate pours alcohol all over the wound and Tevin fights me to get free for a moment Nate wipes away any leftover blood from the wound. It’s not a big wound but you can see a front and back so the bullet went through his arm. I guess we should be glad it didn’t break any bone on the way through. Tevin fights the whole time, but Nate gets some sloppy sewing done on the wounds. After he rubs some kind of cream on them before covering them with bandages. Tevin falls asleep and we leave him back there to rest.

The two of us go wait in the lobby area. The adrenaline has stopped flowing and Nate is back to normal or as normal as you can be after something like the whole mess we just got out of. There’s going to be an even bigger mess when we get home. I don’t think I can deal with this mess anymore. Every time I think things are going well and cooling down, something comes up and raises the temperature. This thing I call a life is ridiculous. I can’t keep bottling it up either. I’m going to crazy if I do. I’d never tell Tevin anything like this. But Nate, he can handle it. I just have to make sure he’s fine. We’ve been through a lot today and he’s been an entirely different person. He’s driving without seatbelts, escaping shootouts, bribing people and treating gunshot wounds. I don’t even know this guy right now.

“Javon,” Nate calls out to me laying on a couch across the room.

“Yeah.”

“I need you tell me everything.”

“About what.”

“Everything. We almost died tonight and I need to know you didn’t have us walking into a trap,” he turns his head to show me he’s serious.

“Where do you want to start?”

“Start with the cop and why you’re staying at a hotel.”

“Remember the first party we went to after you introduced us to AC?”

“Yeah.”

“That’s when I met the cop.”

“Was he at the party?”

“No, he just pulled me over on my way home.”

“What for?”

“Being black on a Friday night.

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