Bloody Water

[Red Ranger 1]

A welcome update!Looking forward to what happens when Kim turns up.

[Solarbaby]

Sorry for the long wait for the update!

Chapter 5

As Robbie dumped his duffle bag on the bed he couldn’t help but wonder how he let himself be talked into this. He fell onto the mattress and it gave a loud squeak in reply. It was the best and most logical of the ideas that any of them had been able to come up with.

Not that they really delved too deeply into what was going on with the others. All they knew was that Robbie had gotten into some trouble back home but that was it. What he and Mattie had told them was that someone was coming over that Robbie was avoiding and it was probably best if Kim just didn’t know he was there at all.

There had been a few weird looks but no one had asked too many questions. It actually seemed as though Alec and Serena were both relishing the idea of acting like Robbie didn’t live there.

Robbie really tried not to think too much about that.

A yawn escaped him as he stretched out. The cheap comforter rubbed against his arms and the back of his neck as his joints popped. Maybe he should have listened to Bryan when he told him to bring his own instead of waving it off as part of the man’s motel phobia. His snickers echoed through the empty room.

But they were soon drowned out as he flipped on the tv.

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The last thing that Kim expected to see when he showed up at the conspicuously normal looking hair was a woman with blue hair standing in the yard beside an ancient bench holding a sledge hammer. She up and swung it around, before connecting with the bench. It gave a faint crack but held together. “Damn it!” She was swinging it around for another shot when she caught sight of him, causing her to lose her balance and fall onto the bench. It creaked again, before snapping and collapsing under her weight. Blinking, she looked at it incredulously. “Huh.”

“Um… hello.” Kim stepped forward, intending to help her up but he never got the chance.

“Hello,” she replied, scrambling out of the damage. “You must be Kim.”

“Yeah.” He eyed her wearily as she picked up the hammer. “And you are…”

“Oh, I’m Alyssa!” The hammer swung back and forth as she bounced up to him. “Mattie’s waiting for you inside. She seemed really nervous for some reason.” Alyssa looked him up and down, inspecting him like a piece of meat and making him shift uncomfortably. “I don’t see why. You don’t look that dangerous. I could totally take you.”

He stared at the sledge hammer she held up in a vaguely menacing manner. “You not going to try, are you?”

She giggled and grabbed his arm. “You’re funny.” And she was pulling him toward the front door.

It opened as they reached the front porch and Mattie was standing there, arms crossed with an amused expression on her face. “You finally get the bench knocked down with that thing?” She motioned toward the hammer.

A slightly embarrassed look crossed Alyssa’s face before quickly being replaced with a grin. “Sure let’s go with that!” She let go of his arm and brushed past Mattie, whispering ‘he’s cute’ as she moved inside.

Sighing, Mattie shook her head. “Don’t leave that on the kitchen counter either,” she yelled into the house.

There was an affirmative sounding reply that followed.

She turned back to Kim.

“Well, come on in.”

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“And you haven’t heard anything from Robbie at all.”

“Nope.” She shook her head, taking a bite of the pizza. “He just sort of… took off.”

“I can’t believe Robbie would do any of this.” Kim rubbed his eyes, leaning against the wall. “Look,” he started, digging through his pockets, “I have to call your mother and tell her where you are.”

She was out of her seat in a moment, grabbing his hands. “No, Kim. You can’t! She’ll call the police!”

“I have to tell them. Your mom has been worried sick. They thought Robbie had kidnapped you. Everyone expected to find you dead in a ditch somewhere.”

Mattie snorted. “Robbie wouldn’t hurt me. He wouldn’t-- couldn’t hurt anyone!”

“You still believe that he didn’t kill the man.”

“No! Otherwise I wouldn’t have left with him.”

“You what?” There was a baffled look on his face.

“I made him take me with him.” He managed to pull out of her grasp and she stepped back, eyeing him. “I wasn’t going to let him go through this alone.”

Realization appeared on Kim’s face and he went wide-eyed. “What you told me earlier was a lie. You know where Robbie is.”

She crossed her arms and shrugged. “Maybe.”

Kim visibly wavered, then sighed, pulling a cell phone from his pocket. “I definitely have to call her now.”

“Please, Kim. Don’t do this!” Her hand wrapped around his as she continued, pleadingly. “I thought you cared about Robbie…”

Kim’s gripped tightened on the phone and for a second she thought he might give in. But she never got the chance to find out.

Mattie barely had time blink before she saw shock of blue hair move behind Kim and there was a ‘crack’ and Kim collapsed to the floor.

“Alyssa, what the hell did you do?!”

She flinched and shrugged, still holding the frying pan in her hand. “I panicked!”

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Robbie was halfway asleep when a familiar ringtone started coming from the bedside table. He groaned and rolled over, blinking into the darkness. What little light in the room was coming from the phone’s screen and it kind of hurt his eyes when he looked at it.

Mattie’s name glared back, like it was mocking him. He flipped it open in time to see the call go to voicemail. For a few moments he laid there, debating on whether sleep was a better option than listening to the voicemail, while the screen when black, sending him into complete darkness.

“Aw… hell.”

“Um… hey, Rob. We kind of have a little problem here so… can you get home? Like now?... Stop poking at him, Bryan!... Look, just get here!” Click.

Robbie sat up and flicked on the lamp, staring down at the phone in his lap.

“What the hell?”

[Red Ranger 1]

Woah, another story I'd forgotten about!Again.Nice update, Kim getting brained was a great comedy moment(um...assuming he's all right...).Hoping it won't be so long before the next one...