The Boys Are Back In Town by Christopher Golden

Author:Christopher Golden [Golden, Christopher]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Tags: Horror, Fiction, Psychological, Occult, Occult & Supernatural, Journalists, Fantasy, Fantasy fiction, Contemporary, Horror fiction, Memory, Class reunions
ISBN: 9780553586152
Publisher: Spectra
Published: 2008-02-26T06:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 12

Questions flashed through Will’s mind in a confused jumble. The figure in the tree was Brian. One glimpse of his face had been enough to convince Will of that. But from what point in time had Brian returned to this time frame? He had the foolish goatee that Will had seen on him recently, but that proved nothing. Had he already returned to the past and committed the crimes that were to come, and had now made a second trip into the past? Or was this his first foray through time? Could Will prevent those crimes by stopping Brian now? Yet as he sprinted across the Wheelers’ backyard, those questions were stillborn, buried beneath a torrent of fury and adrenaline. Will breathed in the scent of October, of someone burning leaves and of the chill night air, and he hurtled through the moonlight toward the tree that led up to Ashleigh’s bedroom window.

Brian saw him.

“Will?” his old friend whispered. “Oh, shit, Will, hang on.” Frantically, Brian began to climb down. Which was an incredibly stupid thing for him to do.

“Son of a bitch,” Will muttered as he reached the tree.

He reached up and grabbed the back of Brian’s shirt, then yanked him from his perch. Brian’s fingers stretched out, hands scrabbling for purchase, but it was too late. He fell from the branches and landed hard on his back on the grass with a grunt as the air was expelled from his lungs. Brian groaned and began to shake his head even as Will attacked him.

“Stop,” Brian rasped thinly, trying to catch his breath. He held up both hands. Will slapped them away, dropped to his knees, and hauled on the front of Brian’s shirt.

“Stop?” he hissed. “Did that work when you were raping Ashleigh? What about with Tess?”

His vision seemed to tunnel then, the night deepening around him so that he could see only Brian. Will hit him three times in rapid succession, clutching his shirt with his left fist and striking with his right. Blood and spittle sprayed from Brian’s mouth and there were strings of it in his thin goatee.

“Jesus, Will, stop,” Brian wheezed. “It wasn’t me. I swear to—”

Will wrapped his hands around Brians throat and began to choke him. The pleading in Brian’s eyes only maddened him further, and he slammed the man’s head against the ground again and again, feeling thick corded muscles beneath his fingers and digging deeper into his throat.

A hideous little laugh burst from Will’s lips. “Wasn’t you? How stupid do you think I am?”

But even as he spoke these words, Will moved ever so slightly, so that the full light of the moon could shine upon Brian’s bloodied features. There were multiple bruises there, some of them several days old. A single tear slipped out the side of Brian’s right eye and slid, glistening in the moonlight, along his temple to drop into the grass. Without even realizing it, Will began to relax his grip on Brian’s throat.

Changing his past had changed him.

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