[KansasRush]

CHAPTER ONE

‘I just wanted to feel her hand on my flesh. It wasn’t anything crazy, Doc, trust me. I just liked the way it felt.’ Slowly his eyes found their way from the floor to the face of the doctor who he was paying $70 an hour to see.

His name was Mikey Blank and his friends knew him as ‘Madman’. Last year alone he had rescued seven children from fires where it seemed impossible that they would escape. To celebrate he visited hookers who would beat his ass until the marks were more prominent than the burns that he wore as patriotic badges of his profession.

Dr Rush looked as his patient through his scratched old spectacles and sighed. There was nothing to be gained here, he thought. I might as well fix this deluded freak. The previous evening Rush had enjoyed an hour of mercilessly beating one of his former patients, a woman who loved the sensation of blood in her mouth. It had been a fantastic hour and the culmination of months of pointless treatment. I’d get no satisfaction out of spanking this creep, he thought to himself glumly.

‘Alright Mikey, let’s hook you up to the machine.’

_ _ _

Sonia is beautiful. Sonia is young. Sonia is full breasted and endlessly desired by men.

But Sonia is being followed by two men. These men don’t know each other, don’t know how linked their stories will become but they both want Sonia and consequently follow her.

She pauses at the corner of her street, convinced she heard a noise. There’s nothing more to hear but the sound of the drunks and vagrants which carry in the night air. She moves on and the two men follow her.

Her key jangles in the lock of her front door and all of a sudden a man is upon her.

‘I am The Almighty!’ he shouts, ‘Kneel before me!’

Sonia looks around in terror and, in a flash, withdraws a can of mace from her handbag. This withdrawal takes places just as The Almighty removes his penis from his trousers and in the shock of this sight Sonia finds the mace pointed towards his genitals. She sprays.

From the shadows the second man watches. Sonia was lucky that the delusional mental patient approached her first. This second man is dangerous. His name Richard K Vexus and the police call him ‘Dirty Dick’. He’s the most dangerous rapist in the city, having played a game of cat and mouse with the cops for five years. He watches in silence as The Almighty falls to the ground clutching his reddened balls. Sonia, his prey, slips into the safety of her home.

He turns and walks off. He’ll get her soon.

_ _ _

‘Hello?’ Nerdy picks up the phone whilst using his free hand to stuff another slice of pizza into his mouth.

‘Is this Nerdy?’ Says a deep, gravelly voice.

‘Yep’ he says, his mouth scolded by the hot cheese, ‘who’s this?’

‘That doesn’t matter. You work for a fee don’t you?’ Silence. Nerdy closes his eyes and thinks for a second.

‘I could do. Depends what the job is? You’re not the police are you because I’m through working with you guys. You didn’t even offer me a proper pension plan!’ He declares with the confidence of righteous indignation.

‘No pension plan here. I need you to find out everything you can about a certain girl. I’ll make sure you’re rewarded for your time, better than those filthy coppers could reward you.’ Nerdy sits up straight and grabs a notepad and pen.

‘Alright. Tell me everything you know about her.’

‘Her name’s Sonia.’