| Chapter 3: Luke woke up in a strange room with nothing in it but the bed. He tried to sit up but his body refused to work. Luke felt like a weight was sitting on him and it refused to budge. �Where am I?� Luke asked in draggled voice. �Good morning, Mr. Spencer.� The nurse that had stopped in the check in on him said warmly. A little too warmly for Luke. He looked up at her with cold, uncaring eyes and said, �What�s good about it?� The nurse ignored him. Most people who wake up from a drunken state were in moods such as his and she was used to it after ten years of working with them. �You have visitor and normally, you would have to be here longer before he was let in, but because he is the police commissioner, the doctor okayed it. I�ll go get him,� She said and quickly left the room. �Mac? Doctor? Where in hell am I?� Luke asked himself. �Mercy General,� Mac said coldly as he walked into the room. �And that is the only mercy you are going to get.� �Bubba, that was a bad joke.� Luke snapped at him and finally pulled himself up and sat there glaring at him. �It wasn�t a joke, Spencer. I�m not in the mood for jokes.� Mac said and he threw the picture of Lucky right at Luke. Luke looked at the picture and started to curse. �Who did this? Where is my kid? And I will KILL the creep that did it!� Luke said starting to push himself out of bed but his body wouldn�t go along with it for the moment. �You're funny. Who did it? Kill the creep.� Mac said sarcastically and that just got him a cold stare from Luke. �You did it, Spencer. You got drunk. Trashed your house and hit your kid. Lucky is now in the custody of his Aunt Bobbie. I�m here for one reason and that is to explain to you your choices that the judge has given you. One, you can leave here and go to jail for a year and a half. When you get out, you�re on your own because all your parental rights will be revoked and Bobbie and her husband will be named as Lucky�s legal guardians. You are seen anywhere near him after that and you will be arrested. Your other choice is to stay here and go through the program that this hospital set up. After 120 days, you will be allowed to leave and start your life again. You will be required to go to AA meetings, talk to Kevin about your temper, and see a probation officer. You get near Lucky before the judge or his case worker approves it and you will go to jail and still loose him to Bobbie.� Luke sat there at first thinking Mac was kidding and this was a joke but the more he talked, the more Luke realized that it wasn�t a joke. He was the creep that had hurt his son. He just couldn�t remember doing it. He didn�t like the idea about staying in the hospital and going to jail wouldn�t have been bad if it didn�t mean loosing Lucky. He might have lost him all ready. How could the kid love him or even want him around after what he did? �How is he?� Luke finally asked, finally understanding why Mac was mad at him. He couldn�t blame him and part of him wanted to be dead. �He has a broken jaw and his face is still bandaged up. He refuses to talk to anyone and looks out of place and lost. Bobbie is taking him to Spoon Island today and she hopes that the others can help bring him out of it. You really did a number on him. You know what he asks about the most when he does talk? How is my dad? Where is he? Did he leave me? Luke, the kid still cares. You beat him black and blue and he still gives a damn about you. I wouldn�t, but hey, I didn�t loose half my family with one blow and I�m not thirteen years old.� Mac said wondering if any of this was sinking into Luke�s thick skull. �Fourteen. He turned fourteen just before she flew out. We had a party for him everything,� Luke said calmly, but he was far from calm. Mac was right. How could he still care? If it was Luke, he would have told his father to go to hell. He did and he was eight at the time and his father was heading out the door for the last time. � I have message from Bobbie. She still cares but she is mad at you. She says you can pick yourself up all by yourself. Ruby says that she is in your corner and will see you in 90 days. That is when you officially get visitors. You have figured out that if you pick jail they'll say go to hell. You�re no longer welcome anywhere near them.� Mac informed him. �I could have told you that.� Luke said. Starting to feel like two-year-old that really messed up. �Good, What is your choice?� Mac asked. �I�ll stay here.� Luke said coldly. �Mac, Do I have a partner?� �Sonny?� Mac said with a cold smile on his face. �He is in jail and wishes you would pick that and he wants to be your room mate.� �What?� Luke said shocked to hear it. �Lucy has the control of the club and is running it. She has made a few changes and it will take a very good lawyer for you to gain control again. You messed up, Spencer and now you�re paying for it. Just like your partner is paying for his mistakes,� Mac said and he walked away. Luke glared coldly at Mac and wondered what in hell happened to Sonny. He had to be really out of it to miss any of this. How much did he drink anyway? Chapter 4 Back to Monster Within |