Part II - Chapter 13: SHORT AND SWEET

 

 

Chapter 13

Short and Sweet
(Ó 2009)

Cook County Hospital

That Following Thursday

1:15PM

Daisy Humene was leaning over the hospital bed of Carlito Garza, holding his hand and stroking his hair in order to give him comfort. She had been a stable fixture in his room, as well as throughout the corridors of Cook County Hospital ever since his initial arrival. This was when she seemed her most undisturbed and normal. The pampering and doting over Carlito which was always welcomed by the nursing staff on the floor which Carlito’s room was located. For when Daisy was not hovering over Carlito, she was in the corridors and nurses station, bellowing and burdening the staff with her outrageous demands.

“I know it hurts baby,” she would coo to him, “but you’re gonna get better. Don’t worry ‘bout anything, Mama will take care of you, I promise.” She then kissed him on the forehead.

“Oh, isn’t that romantic?” Asked the mocking voice of David Todd. Daisy turned from the bed to see both David and Noel, her face immediately went from one of a caring nurturer, to a rabid female animal protecting her young. David raised his hand to her, “Don’t even think about it Daisy, you start one of your fucking outbursts and I’ll cuff your ass myself and have you hauled outta here. Your boyfriend there is my prisoner, and I decide who sees him or not. Besides dear, this is all going to be short and sweet, and it concerns the welfare of the both of you. So, do you want to stop being so damned emotional and start thinking logical for a few minutes?” Daisy started to begin to say something, but then stood down. “That’s a good girl, now let’s discuss some serious shit.”

Noel then said to her, “I need you to step away from the bed, now.” Daisy quietly complied, then both men stepped over to the end of Carlito’s bed, Noel looked to Carlito, “I’m just gonna come straight out and ask ya, did the man who attacked you say anything to you immediately after he assaulted you? Yes or no?”

Carlito looked back to Noel, and then simply said, “Yes.”

“He told you that you always have to remember why this happened to you and to always tell the truth about what you’ve done or he’s gonna come back and really fuck you up right?”

Carlito nodded his head slowly and said, “Yes.”

Noel then stepped away, “OK, investigation over, it’s our guy.”

To both men’s surprise, Daisy asked calmly, “Now what? What do you have to do to find this guy? Because I’m telling you I’m putting the word on the street to find this crazy bastard.”

David answered her with, “You ain’t doing shit Daisy, not only ain’t you doing shit … you can’t”

“What are you talking about?”

“I’m talking about this,” David said, now stepping over to her so that he was between her and Carlito, “You, Carlito here, and Los Aztecas Monarcas, don’t mean shit anymore, you’re all now in the same category as the 4-S. Only it’s worse for you. Gem P and his two idiots were taken out one at a time, at ground level.” He turned to Carlito and pointed at him, “You on the other hand, you had the guy break into your house, crawl into your own fucking bedroom, attack you the way he did, with your little sweetie here just outside the room, and all done in less than forty five seconds we estimate.” He then stepped over to Carlito and leaned over him, “All while you were up on the third fucking floor. Now I know you’ve been here now for awhile, have you both taken the time to have really thought about all that?”

Daisy asked, “Thought about what?”

David turned to her, “Thought about just what type of scary motherfucker could pull off a stunt like that my dear. I mean really, this is fucking frightening what this guy pulled off. You mean to tell me that you haven’t thought to yourself just what type of a man can do things like this? What type of really terrifying shit is this man capable of? And he did it to your lover boy over here.” David turned again to Carlito, “Do you think he’ll do it Carlito?”

“Do what?”

“Watch you always.” David then stepped back to the foot of the bed, “Do you think that he will watch you always, because by what I estimate, he had to of been watching you for at least a year, watching the both of you, either from a distance or up close. Hell, he may have even been into your apartment a few times without you both even knowing that he was there. If he could do that, then do you think that he could be still doing it now?” David noticed that Daisy looked concerned, he stepped over to the window, it overlooked the parking lot, and “He could know right now what room you are in, he could be out there right now looking at this very window.” He turned and face them both, “He could have even of come into this hospital and passed this room a couple times or more now, and you both would of never of known it.”

Daisy then asked, “Why are you saying this?”

“Because right now that is just one of your worries.” David then stepped back to the opposite side of the bed. “The way we see it, you’re getting shit from about four different directions, first from my partner and me, then from the guy who put Carlito in a wheelchair for the rest of his life, and the third is from the Columbians.”

“Who’s number four?” Daisy asked.

Noel spoke up, “Come on Daisy you know damn well who. Whoever it is that was the owner of all that cash you both let get boosted from you.” Noel himself then stepped over to the bed, “You see there are a lot of people that we know… who would like to know … just who that might be. Is there a way that you provide that information to us?”

“There was nobody else, that was our money.” Daisy snapped.

“Spoken like somebody that’s just lying through her big ass.” Noel said.

“I’m not lying.” She insisted.

David then spoke, “Yes, Daisy, you are. There is no possible way that the two of you could even know how to keep that much cash around. There is no way that you all have the mental capacity to even manage that. The money is from an outside source. You have a silent partner, someone accessible to money like that. Someone well connected in business, politics, or both.”

Daisy seemed thrown off by David’s words and then insisted, “There is nobody else involved, that was our money.”

David then shrugged his shoulders, “Like I said, short and sweet. We don’t have the time for this. You both now know what we think and what we are suspicious of. So you can go tell whoever it is that fronted you that money that this is one of our main suspicions that we are all looking into, besides of course the guy who fucked up your boyfriend here. But you both had better start to think a few things over. Right now, you’re both cornered by the four sets of people I just told you about. If I had to put a priority of whom I’d be scared of the most, it would be those crazy ass Colombians. Noel and I are probably at the bottom of the list, but we are on the damn list. We are the ones who could probably figure something out for the both of you if you cooperate, but even then it’s not gonna be easy for you or your gang of dipshits with the Monarcas.”

Noel then added, “And don’t think that they all are not doing some thinking themselves. Come to think of it that makes five things to worry about. Same thing was happening to Gem P, he was forced into early retirement; don’t for a second not think that there are not plans for the ouster of the both of you among your constituents. I wouldn’t be surprised if there are plans going on right now for an overthrow; going on right now, this very second.”

“So, we’ll leave you both right now to contemplate everything,” David said, he then reached into his shirt pocket and produced a business card, “when you do come to the realization that we are going to be your best option, then please, don’t hesitate to call.” He stepped closer to Carlito and held it out. Carlito looked at the card for a few seconds, then reached up and took it. “You’re one of the lucky ones Carlito, there’s another guy like you who still at least has the use of both his arms. He may be safer than you now because he’s in a federal lockdown. You’re not, you and your little honey there are still out in the open.”

 

David then stepped back over to Noel who looked at Daisy and said, “We’re not even going to waste more time. Our guy attacked Carlito, our part here could be settled, whatever help we can give you, well, that’s up to you both. I doubt very highly that your upcoming conversations with everyone else that we mentioned are going to be anywhere near this easy.” Both men then stepped over to the entryway of the room, Noel turned back to them and said simply, “Later.” They both left quickly.

Daisy then quickly stepped over to the doorway herself, she stopped for a few seconds, then carefully peered around the door, looking to the direction which David and Noel departed. She caught them right as they entered the elevator and its doors closed. She then stepped out into the corridor to make sure that both men were gone. She then quickly reentered the room and stepped over to Carlito where she began to stroke his head, “Don’t worry about those two motherfuckers baby, Mama’s gonna take care of it. I got to go and make a phone call, I’ll be right back.” She kissed Carlito on the forehead and then quickly exited the room.