章節 86: Zebra Daddy…

After leaving the Baxter Building dead tired as well as battered I make my way to my car and enter it before starting the engine and darting off towards my home hoping to get a full nights rest since today was a long and tiring day especially after the relaxing three months I had where nothing really happened and now things just keep hitting me one after the other and I'm tired of it and so I speed towards home and I decide to take the scenic route because it's dark now and New York's people are about and crowding the street so instead of taking the direct route which is almost definitely jammed with New Yorkers I decide to take a different route that while longer in distance will prove to be much quicker than the standard route and my new route takes me through some of the darker streets of New York but nothing compared to the evils of Hell's Kitchen so I wasn't particularly worried about driving my baby 'Chantelle' through these streets, on my way though I begin to feel a bit thirsty and I realise that I hadn't had anything to eat or drink since my classes at Empire State University which was hours ago and so I pull up next to the curb and park my car before getting out and heading a bit down the street towards a nearby convenience store and on my way I pass by an alley way and when I look inside it I see a few homeless people in it but I don't pay much attention other than that as I walk by passing a Asian dude that was dressed in a purple and he was being followed by a couple of girls who wore very revealing clothes but I chose to ignore them and enter the convenience store where I buy a drink to tide me over for now assuming that Earl probably has some food prepared for me at home which he usually does.

Exiting the convenience store I opened the cap of my drink and began to drink it as I walked back towards my car passing the alleyway and when I look in it this time all of the homeless people seem to have scattered and coming out of the alleyway is that same Asian dude I passed dressed in purple and smelling of all sorts of filth like drugs and sweat and following behind him once again is those same two women who now that I look closer seem to be hookers/prostitutes and by the way they were trailing behind he Asian man he must be their pimp and standing in the middle of the alleyway as I was I was inevitably in the purple dressed Asian mans path but instead of making an issue out of it he tries to just continue on past me like I don't even exist knocking into my shoulder on the way but instead of me being pushed back I stand absolutely still which makes the Asian man recoil backwards which was a mistake on my part but sadly I wasn't able to act in time since my gaze was captured by something else instead and I couldn't act properly and stumble out of the way like I was supposed to which would result in no problems and issues but now there are problems and issues, these problems occurred because I noticed that instead of two trips trailing behind the pimp there were now three and when I looked at the back of the pack there was thin petite girl following behind them and while she was dressed in rags (presumably because she was homeless and was squatting in the alley, the pimp must have found her and scared off the other homeless fellows around her) and all sorts of dirty with her white skin being covered in dirt and her dark black hair being matted in sweat and grime I couldn't help but take notice of her beautiful and mesmerising green eyes that shone in the darkness but what drew me to her eyes were not the beauty of them but the dullness in those eyes as if the spark of those eyes had gone out and there was no life behind them.

She walked in an robotic way as if following orders like a robot and she acted like she had no care for herself or anything as I watched ever bare feet travel across the stone ground little pieces of debris jutting into the sole of her foot and even stepping in puddles of rainwater but she didn't seem to care just carrying on walking after the pimp with no regard for herself showing no pain and no care and when looking in her eyes there was no spark or anything as she had lifeless dull eyes that worked to diminish the beauty of them and I was so preoccupied with this girl who couldn't be older than fourteen or fifteen that I completely missed the Asian pimp trying to bump me out of the way which resulted in him being pushed back instead, instead of reacting aggressively straight away like I assumed he would when I realised the situation he instead to the opportunity to look me up an down seemingly searching for something before he decided to act and he slapped the drink out of my hand and to the floor where it poured out it's contents all over the ground and I didn't even get more than a sip out of it and as I stared at the contents of my drink pouring out all over the ground I heard a click and when I looked back up I got the full view of a muzzle pointing in my face and the hand holding it belonged to the pimp who was staring at me with a stoic face still seemingly looking for something in my expression. "That's right, you shouldn't have fucked with Zebra Daddy! Watch where you're goin fool, should've stayed out of daddy's way!"

One of the hookers behind the Asian pimp who is apparently called Zebra Daddy (is he from peppa pig, goddamn Daddy Zebra asshole) shouts out in deference to her pimp clearly trying to stroke his ego and the other hooker nods vehemently in agreement trying to also catch the train of brown nosing the Asian pimp whose clearly ignoring them and just staring at my face as he shoves his gun in my face while the young girl at the back just continues to wait while staring listlessly forward and I look at them all for a moment before looking at the pimp who was pointing the gun at me and staring straight into his eyes while contemplating what to do in this situation since I don't think I've ever been in a situation like this, there are several ways to play this with the simplest being begging for my life and hoping the guy gets sick of me and leaves but he could also get sick of me and shoot me plus I'm not the type of guy to beg for his life so that's not an option and while I could definitely kick this guys ass I'd have to kill him afterwards since it would take superhuman abilities to dodge a bullet and if I killed him then I would have to kill the two hookers following him as well to keep them silent and I don't know what I would do with the young girl whose just been picked up by the pimp because I wouldn't feel right doing anything to her plus I've never killed before and while prostitution is illegal I would be at odds with killing the two hookers and I'm unsure about whether I could kill the pimp since I've never killed anything before that wasn't in a video game and so with a loss for what to do in this situation I continue to stare into the pimps eyes while contemplating if I would have to dodge the bullet but not fast enough so that I would get graded by it to make it believable and then kick his ass but the decision was taken out of my hand when the pimp acted and there was a bang.

"Shut the fuck up Bitch! Let the men talk, you just stick to doin what you're good at and keep your mouth shut!" With a clatter the hooker who was spouting of towards me falls to the ground after being bitch slapped by the Asian pimp causing the other prostitute who was also trying to brown nose the pimp to quickly back off and shut her mouth while staring straight down at the ground while the young girl at the back finally raises her head and seems to recognise what's going on around her but even then when she clenched her hands and she seems like she's about to act and do something she suddenly unclenches her hands and let's whatever she's feeling to as she calmly takes in the situation no longer about to act and just observing meanwhile the Asian pimp tucks his handgun back into the waist of his purple pants after bitch slapping his own worker and then he turns back around to be nice more lay his gaze upon me, honestly I'm at a spot as to what I'm supposed to do here as even when he was pointing his gun straight at me I had a semblance of a plan to use my enhanced senses and the second his finger twitches to pull the trigger I would pull out of the way of his gun and attack come what may but he completely upset just what I was gonna do when he suddenly turned and but he slapped his hooker instead of shooting or trying to hit me and know he's looking at me again but this time he's not pointing a gun. "Women, am I right? They've only got one mouth and it ain't there for speaking. You got balls kid, but meaty balls. You might wanna think twice about brandishing them around the place with such enthusiasm lest you wanna get 'em cut off, you're lucky you met a guy like me who ain't the fussed about shit like this. Next time kid, you better watch where you're walking cuz the next time I ain't gonna be so nice."

Saying so Zebra Daddy straighten his suit jacket before trying to leave with his two hookers quickly trying to follow after the mouthy one who got slapped to the floor stood up with nary a sound and big bruise on her face and as they go to leave the young girl is about to follow but before she does she takes one last look at me and she stares directly into me eyes and I stare back but this time instead of cold lifeless eyes I see something inside her green irises that's familiar to me and something I see inside myself every morning and while I don't know exactly what that is I can tell that we both have it and a second later it's gone as her eyes are back to being dull and lifeless but I can't get the sight of such a familiar look out of my brain and before I even knew it my body acted on its own, my hand had reached out and grabbed onto to the shoulder of Zebra Daddy who had just passed me and I stopped him in his tracks knowing that this was a stupid idea and was liable to bring me so much trouble and yet my body acted on its own uncaring of my thoughts and before I knew it words left my lips without my say so because for some reason I began to resonate with this young girl that I hardly knew.

"Let the girl go…"

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