章 3: Conflicting Hearts.
Yukon, Canada.
Home of the giant that was the name given to this small town, not an unusual name considering the urban legends that usually attach themselves to places like this for one reason or the other.
But fortunately or unfortunately depending on who you might ask this was no legend or myth, after all a real giant did live in this town!
what else would call an 8-foot (2.4m) hunk of muscle in the shape of a man? Well… some rude smartass might call that a freak of nature but since the last one got knocked out clean by the seemingly harmless mother of said freak no one has said that word ever again.
What would being a neighbour of such a man be like? Some people might ask.
Well, most times it's pretty peaceful but right now it is a struggle, why?
Well….
*CRASH*
"WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU!?"
Diane threw another one of the plates at Adam who was trying his best not to get hit as he kept trying to calm her down.
"Diane, please just give me a second and I can explain."
"EXPLAIN?" Diane's screaming somehow grew even louder as she reached for something else to throw at him.
"EXPLAIN WHAT TO ME ADAM…" *CRASH* she threw another plate that Adam ducked under it.
"EXPLAIN THAT YOU TOLD JACK ABOUT HIM HAVING SOME HALF BROTHER…" *CRASH* another plate.
"EXPLAIN TO ME THAT YOU WANT TO TAKE HIM JAPAN WHERE HE LIVES!!"
She threw another plate this time being caught by Adam just barely between his hands, surprising even himself as he subconsciously let the smallest smile tug on his lips.
'I can't believe I caught that'
Which unfortunately for him just made her even angrier.
"ARE YOU FUCKING SMILING ABOUT SENDING MY BABY TO DIE!!!"
"Wait, what? No no that's no…" he didn't get to finish his sentence as he barely caught the handle of a kitchen knife with the blade just an inch away from his face, only to end up stumbling backwards as he tripped and fell on his back.
"Ugh..wait Diana please I seriously didn't tell him it was.." *click* he froze, staring straight down the barrel of a pistol in her hands, the distinct click of the hammer made it as if the air around him cleared
'She is going to kill me…' he thought in the split second it took him to make that one thought his body was already in the motion of pulling out his own gun on reflex in under a second.
" ENOUGH "
What was supposed to be the sound of a gun being fired was replaced by a single loud shout, as if lightning struck right next to him, loud enough that Adam doubted if he would have even heard the gun fire if it did, holding his hands over his ears as his whole body shook.
It took a second, but he opened up his eyes to look around only to notice Diane on her knees holding her ears, but he also noticed how the windows cups and reminding plates vibrated and shook as if an earthquake was happening.
It took him a minute to pull himself together, the ringing in his ears slowly going away instead replaced by the sound of all of the neighbour's car alarms blaring just outside the house.
Diane was already standing by the time he got to his feet looking angrily at Jack with the gun still in her hand.
She took a breath collecting herself before she started speaking again, her voice even but still semi-loud from the ringing in her ear.
"What did I say about raising your voice like that?" she looked up at Jack as she spoke.
"I'm sorry, but you know why I did that"
"That's not an excuse Jack"
"you were hysterical mom, you were going to shoot him"
"HE IS SENDING YOU TO JAPAN, HE IS SENDING YOU TO HIM..." she started shouting again, her eyes began to water as she waved her hands with the gun around "CAN'T YOU UNDERSTAND THEY ARE USING YOU.."
Jack stepped forward and put his hands on her shoulders gently as he lowered himself to look her eye to eye. "He didn't tell me anything, I found out on my own and I made that decision on my own..." he held her gaze for a moment before standing back up dropping his hands to his sides. "I'm not a little kid any more I need to go out on my own, I have been strong enough to take what the world can throw at me for years now mom, it's time for you to see that."
Jack turned to look at Adam who stood silent to the side "let's go" he turned and started walking towards the door with Adam following.
"no.. no No YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT HE CAN DO HE WILL KILL YOU, I'M TRYING TO PROTECT YOU JACK, THEY, THEY.." she stopped and looked at Adam again with her hands shaking "THEY WON'T TAKE MY BABY AWAY FROM ME".
Adam's eyes widened as she raised her gun and pointed at him pulling the trigger faster than he could move.
CLICK.
CLICK,CLICK.
CLICK,CLICK,CLICK.
The sound of the empty gun rang through the quiet house as Adam visibly looked relieved while Diane looked confused.
"I'm keeping this with me until I come back and you have calmed down" Jack said, pulling both of their attention as he raised his hand to show the Gun mag between his fingers, before he continued walking through the door.
Adam and Diane looked at each other, Adam opened his mouth wanting to say something before closing it again and following Jack, closing the door behind him.
Diane dropped the gun from her hand and fumbled around for a chair and sitting down, joining her hands on her face as she silently cried.
Outside as Adam closed the door and followed behind Jack to the truck, watching as Jack jumped into the back and laid down, silently kicking the hunting gear to the side with his legs to make room as head leaning against the window right behind the driver set with Adam hoping inside and starting the truck.
30 minutes went by in silence as Adam drove before he spoke up through the woodland road"I didn't mean..."
"I Don't care" Jack interrupted him, making Adam take his eyes off the road for a second to look back at him before focusing back.
"The Documents you brought about the Ogre that day, the ones you forgot at our house those aren't why I want to go to Japan"
"Kid you don't need to lie to make feel better I fucked up I know that much, okay" Adam sounded frustrated as he spoke up loud enough to me heard over the wind as he speed up.
"I mean for God's sake what kind of agent gets documents planted in his bag without him knowing, If Diane know she would have been to busy laughing her ass off at me to shoot"
Jack chuckled "I guess that would the same kind of agent who is to busy getting drunk with a pretty lady to notice her slipping stuff into his bag, you are lucky you aren't good looking enough to kidnap otherwise I would be saving your ass from a bathtub filled with ice or a some shit other than an overdo bar tab and pissed off bartender every weekend"
Adam let out a sigh but didn't argue "So are we gonna keep talking about how I get my ass saved by a 17 year or are you gonna tell me why you actually want to go to Japan"
Adam saw Jack raise his eyebrow at him through the rear view mirror "I already told you why".
Adam scoffed "You seriously want me to believe that you want to head all way across the world on your 18th birthday to meet a half brother you never knew about before"
"No, that would be dumb, I will just take a boat going to Japan from the other side of the continent, besides I doubt I would fit on a plane comfortably".
"Dammit Jack..."Adam fully turned to look at Jack "Take this seriously, your mother wasn't Joking when she said you don't know what.." Adam stopped when Jack reached through the window and turned the truck, barely avoiding hitting a moose bull head on, clipping its two hind legs instead as they swerved to the side.
The sound of tires screeching was loud as Jack hoped of the truck bed grabbing the side of the truck stopping it from hitting the trees on the side of the road.
"You okay there Adam?" Jack said as he moved to the driver side door opening it and helping the stumbling Adam out.
"yeah I'm fine, nothing broken and didn't hit my head or anything".
Jack let out a hum, focusing back on the screaming bull that was trying to crawl away with its two front legs.
"oh boy..." Adam frowned taking a couple of steps closer but still keeps a good distance "...he is going to make like that"
"Yeah I figured that much," Jack said as he held Adam's arm for a moment as he walked by him signalling him to save his bullet, walking up to the struggling Moose bull and grabbed it by the horns before jerking his arms quickly as a sickening crack echoed through the trees.
Adam flinched 'I will never get used to that' before he moved to grab a knife and some rope from the back of the truck.
"I guess that ends our hunting trip early then huh"
"I guess it does..."Jack looked thoughtful for a moment, his eyes scanning the trees for a place good enough to skin and bleed the moose "what time is it?"
Adam glanced at his watch pulling back the selves of his brown Jacket "16:20".
"should be long enough" Jack lifted the bull Moose on his shoulder and carried it over to the side of the road and dropping with a heavy thud that cleared some of the snow on a relatively clear area.
"you wanna head back already?" Adam said as he handed Jack the knife that looked comically small in his hands.
"yeah I don't want to leave her alone for to long, not when she is like this"
"you know..." Adam smirked leaning against the truck on the side of the road "... some people could miss understand what you are saying if they see you gutting a moose like that".
Jack rolled his eyes at him as he continued to remove all the organs out of the stomach and chest cavity breaking any bones he can't cut through with his hands.
"very funny now grab the cooler so i can put some of the organs in it and we can start going back"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Back at the Neil's house Diana was cleaning up the broken plates and glasses or atleast what remains of them on the floor as she was lost in thought.
'I did it again, I promised myself that I would never lose control, for fuck sake he can rip a man in half so why am I so worried about him'.
She stopped picking through the glass as she remembered about almost shooting Adam in the face.
'Did Adam betray me?'
She frowned no matter how much she looked at it she knew that he wouldn't do it.
Adam was alot of things, a fuck up and a drunk was one of them but a back stabber wasn't it.
'So why? Why did he agree with letting Jack leave so easily, he knew what I feel about that so...' She paused her movements hearing the sound of the truck roll into the driveway.
She quickly picked up the last of the glass and tossed it into the trash can as she heard the click of the front door open.
Jack walked into the living area just as she did only for them to stand facing each.
"Mom I'm..."
"Save it.." Diane lifted her hands up to stop him, taking a deep breath, her mind racing with a hundred things before she made her decision.
"I know how stubborn you are god knows you got it from me and you are right you are more than grown enough to handle your own.." She thought back to how she acted and the tight feeling in her chest when she thought about Jack meeting that thing.
"...but I don't want you to meet him."
"Mom I swear I not there to look for him"
"I know Jack..." She walked up to him reaching with her hands as he lowered himself to her level letting her put it in his face "... You aren't lying to me I know when you do and right know you aren't, I know why you want to meet your brother, but if you have to go I need you to promise me that you won't go after him for me"
Jack frowned "Mom what he.."
"What he did doesn't matter to me any more I have you and you have been the greatest things to ever happen to me, I don't want to lose a second time, I don't want to lose you, even if it means me going back to prison I just want you to be happy so promise me Jack".
Jack grabbed her hands and hugged "I promise, I won't go after him and I won't let you go back to prison, I will find a way.."
"actually...." Adam spoke up as both of them turned to see him standing by the rooms door "... Since all of this is my fault why don't you let me fix it"
Diane frowned but Jack spoke up "I thought you ran out favours years ago"
Adam smiled " oh please that's just something I tell you so I don't have to get you any more material to upgrade your truck, but you are right.." Adam toned switch to a more serious one "...favours aren't gonna be enough for this, i need you to step up"
"What do you need?"
"Nothing the cards are all in our hands, they have been trying to get you for years so they can get something like the ogre to work for them, all we need to do is give them that"
"And if they try and do something stupid like going back on their deal?" Diane asked.
"then I will show them what will happen if they do..".
"Jack, I don't want you to be like him.."
"I'm not, he values nothing, I value my family and that will never change."
Diane looked at Jack with conflicted expression before nodding causing Jack to Smile kiss her on her forehead.
"good..." he straightened back up "... I will go finish butcher the Moose we caught and Adam can go make whatever phone call he need to make to get us that deal"
Adam nodded his head "I will get right on that" before turning and heading out the door.
Jack watched him leave before turning back and handing his mom the gun mag he took "you can shoot him when he walk back in"
"What!?" Diane looked surprised at Jack as he smiled.
"I switched all the bullets to rubber ones" Diane looked at him for a second before she smiled as she loud the gun back up, while Jack stood yo the side waiting to watch the show.
outside Adam picked up his phone only needing to wait for a second before the caller picked up.
"They will take the deal."
"Excellent work Adam..." the caller on the other sound both surprised and happy "...if this goes through you can expect a very good paycheck coming your way"
"I'm only doing what I have to sir"
"still deserving of praise, this will look good on both of our records, it seems that Michael was the one holdingyou back all those years, I will work on this in my end while you finish up yours, Don't fuck this up"
"I won't.."
"Good, goodbye"
"goodby.." Adam didn't get to finish as the call was shut in his face "... fucking asshole".
Adam stood their for a second as he pulled out s cigarette and held it between his fingers but didn't light it as he took a look around him 'Just your Job Adam, and what a fucking job it is'.
he let out a sigh putting the cigarette back into his pocket and heading back inside, only to see Diane pointing the gun at him as soon as he walked in.
Two gunshots, screams and curses once again came out from inside the house, this time from a man and two voices laughing at him.
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