EHA in Cimarron Part 7

    JULY
    Cimarron, New Mexico
    Early Morning

    Chainsaw slipped into the patio out back of the hotel
    just after dawn. Chainsaw slid into a chair
    and folded the local newspaper out infront of him.
    Hmmm. No homicides ringing out headlines,
    and no one in the obituaries. Kinda refreshing
    to know that in at least one place nothing really
    bad enbough to make the papers happened during
    the night.


    Fugitive came groggily out onto the patio and picked
    up a piece of Chainsaw's fruit and headed up to his room
    again.


    Is it early, or is it late? There is something pleasant
    about being awake in the early hours of the morning.
    Chainsaw tapped the fifth packet of sweetner into the
    his coffee and gave it a slight swirl as he looked through
    the paper. A sale at the local market, featuring fifty
    cents off canned meat. Chainsaw looked up from the paper
    as Dr. Hyde came down from her room in a pink babydoll-T
    and matching drawstring pants. Her Bunny slippers
    flip flopped as she made her way over to the table and
    took the seat next to Chainsaw and crossed her legs so
    she could dangle her bunny slipper as she twitched her
    leg. This brought a quirky half smile to Chainsaw's
    mouth which he hid by taking a sip of coffee-laden
    sweetner.


    Dr. Hyde Yawned as she stole a slice from Chainsaw's tangerine.
    Dr. Hyde: "It's sooo early."


    Chainsaw: "Mhhm. I saw a ghost last night."


    Dr. Hyde: "Really? Gawd I was starting to get so bored!"

      "yahhhn." "Maybe we can look for it today."


    Chainsaw: "After breakfast maybe. It was over in the
      old hotel."


    Dr. Hyde: "Maybe that was why they built this one."


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      Chainsaw and Dr. Hyde walk into the old
    St. James Hotel. Dr. Hyde's bunny slippers were replaced
    with a sturdy pair of doc martins. She was wearing a tight
    velvety marble print T-shirt and faded front jean-shorts.


    Dr. Hyde: "So Where exactly did you see it?"


    Chainsaw: "Right over here near the restroom. I was at the

      bar when I saw him."


    Dr. Hyde: She walked over to the weathered bar and looked
      expectantly at Chainsaw. He merely noded when she
      reached where he had been standing. She scanned across
      the room with the sight and got nothing.
      "Maybe it only comes out at night?"


    Chainsaw: "Lets check upstairs."


    Chainsaw took Dr. Hyde by the hand and led her upstairs. She
    surpressed a giggle as he pulled her aside in the corradore
    near a boarded up room. Chainsaw carressed her arm as he
    drew her close. For a moment her lips trembled as Chainsaw
    gave her a deep, pashionately tender kiss. Her heart aflutter,
    she spun Chainsaw up against a boarded up door and nibbled on
    his ear as he kissed her kneck. For a moment she thought the loud
    pounding was her heart, but then she saw the boards on the door
    shake violently, as if somehting on the other side was trying
    desperatly to get out. They backed away from the door holding each
    other as the pounding got louder. Suddenly the pounding stopped,
    and a glowing white head of a man thrust through the door. He
    snarled and lunged foreward fallign face first on the ground as smoke
    rolled up from the bullet wound in the back of his coat. His translucent
    form started to rise, but Chainsaw had already grabbed Dr. Hyde by the
    hand and ran started running down the stairs.


      They stumbled out onto the street. One of the grim
    bikers from the other night stood outside next to a row of motorcycles as
    he leared heavily at Dr. Hyde. Chainsaw purposely stumbled foreward into
    the first of the Motocycles causing them to topple like giant chrome
    dominoes.


    Grim Biker: "You'll pay for that pig."


    Chainsaw: Standing nearly a foot shorter than the biker, he rose up on

      his toes to meet the gaze with him. "Pig? You're the one that's
      about to squeal."


    Grim Biker: "Too bad the Captain ain't here to stop me from breaking your


      head this time. Maybe when I'm done with you I'll make your
      little girlle friend sqe...


    Hearing the loud crash of the toppled biked, the EHA all stepped outside to
    investigate. Dr. No looks over at the biker and glares at him menacingly.


    Grim Biker: "Who the Hell are you?"


    Dr. No: "I'm Jesse James, (points to Chainsaw) that's Billy the Kid,

      (points to Fugitive) Johnny Ringo, (Points to Dr. Hyde) Annie Oakly,
      (Jedi) Belle Starr, (Lita) Pearl Heart, (Fallen) And that's Wyatt
      Earp."


    Grim Biker: "Don't think this is over yet smart ass." He turned and went
      into the old bar.


    Dr. No: "Save me some trouble and crack your own skull open on the bar!"
      (Turns to Chainsaw) "I can't take you anywhere can I?"


    Dr. No: "Now, are you trying to piss them off here?"


    Chainsaw: "Did you see the way he was looking at Dr. Hyde?"


    Dr. No: "No, I was kind of busy trying to prevent a brawl at the moment."


    Chainsaw: "It was quite lewd, and then he was starting to make an unsavory

      comment..."


    Dr. No: So instead of kicking his ass you tiped over his bike?



    Chainsaw: "I though it would hurt him more to see his bike tip over.

      Plus he's a lot bigger than I am."


    Chainsaw: "We were just minding our own buisness and this ghost jumps out
      at us so we ran outside. Bikerhead in there happened to have
      his Bike insecurely parked and I tripped."

    Dr. No: "Which room?"


    Chainsaw: "I didn't get the number, but it was all boarded up. Then the

      boards started thumping."


    Dr. No: "T.J. White."


    Chainsaw: (looks around franticly) "Where?"


    Dr. No: "The ghost. That is the Late T.J. White."


    Chainsaw: "Uh, Ok. You know him then?"


    Dr. No: "I know of him, he won the hotel in a poker game and owned it for all

      of eighteen seconds before he was shot in back right outside his
      room."

    Chainsaw: "That would explain why he fell over with a smoking bullet wound in
      his back."


    Dr. No: "He didn't attack you?"


    Chainsaw: "Well, he did sort of lunge through the door agressively, but then

      he fell over and we ran."


    Chainsaw escorted Dr. Hyde up the stairs to the second story of the Hotel,
    as the rest of the EHA went back inside. Dr. Hyde went into Chainsaw's
    room and sat on the bed absent mindedly twirling a strand of her hair as
    she staired off into space.


    Chainsaw: "What are you thinking about?"


    Dr. Hyde: "That ghost we saw."


    Chainsaw: "What about him?"


    Dr. Hyde: "That T.J. White guy Dr. No was talkign about, the man that won

      the old hotel in a card game, but got shot shortly after."


    Chainsaw: "That would explain why he was mad."


    Dr. Hyde: "I don't think he was trying to attack us."


    Chainsaw: "Maybe he's really possesive of his room and wanted us to leave?"


    Dr. Hyde: "I dunno. It just sad that someone can hate so much. Chainsaw, can you just hold me?"


    Chainsaw: "..." Chainsaw sat down on the bed and wrapped his arms around

      her. She was trembling as she leaned her head into his shoulder.


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    Some time later,


    Chainsaw stepped out of his room and started to head toward the stairs,
    when he caught the light glinting off something metal down in the outside
    courtyard below. He stopped just in time as a bullet whizzed past his head
    and blew a chunk of adobe out of the Hotel wall.


    Chainsaw: "Oh Shit." He hit the concreate and laid prone next to the low stone wall that

      ran along the edge of the stairs.


    Dr. No heard the gunshot and opened his door.


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