Evenstown was a nothing town that lived in the shadow of its
giant prison. The Shithole as it was known was by far the most massive building
in the city and turned the name tiny suburb of Oceanside into a threat. Even
the local stores sold T-Shirts promoting the fact that they were home to a
Supermax that housed some of the world’s most dangerous criminals.
Keith had made the 50 mile drive from
Oceanside down to Evenstown to have a meeting with the man that made him
famous. Over thirty years ago Keith had captured the psychopathic maniac known
to the media as the Wolf. The man was from the same mold as Keith with the same
freakish strength and power but unlike Keith he’d used that power for violence
and chaos.
Entering the Shithole Keith felt
nervous. He didn’t exactly know what if any information the Wolf would have for
him but he knew he had to ask. He felt bad subjecting the guards to having to
bring the Wolf to a visitation room and risk their safety in the process. Keith
walked past the visitation room for the normal convicts and made his way to the
elevator, he was heading deep into the depths of the prison.
Getting to this point required a
waiver that said you promised not to sue if you didn’t get out of the Shithole
alive. Keith had one filed on record from the day he caught the Wolf. They had
many conversations since that day and every one of them had unsettled Keith.
The two men hadn’t talked in over a decade but now Keith was sitting on his
side of the glass waiting for the Wolf to be brought to him.
The door on the other side opened and
the Wolf was bound hand and foot in chains, chains Keith thought the Wolf could
break with ease if he’d so desired it. A guard on either side of the Wolf led
him to his chair while four more men stood in the background with their
nightsticks at the ready. Keith figured it might take maybe fifteen seconds for
the Wolf to break his chains and kill all six of them.
The Wolf sat in his chair, his face
looked sunken and drawn, and his hair was shoulder length and pure white. For
all the weakness his body showed his horrible emerald eyes showed the fire of
the man’s soul and the strength Keith knew was hidden inside him. The Wolf
smiled a weak smile and a guard helped put the phone up to his ear.
“No mask? Guess everyone knows who you
are anyhow, old man like you, like us don’t matter much anymore anyhow.” The
Wolf said in a polite southern accent.
“What do you know about a criminal
named Doc Silver?” Keith asked him.
“How could I know anything about anyone?
You locked me away in here all those years ago. I spend twenty three hours a
day locked away in my little cell, then they give me one hour to lift weights
and run in the yard. Awful sweet of them to afford me such luxury.” The Wolf
replied, a grin crept across his face.
“We both know you don’t spend your
time in your cell. We both know their schedule benefits you greatly, gives you
all the time you need to do whatever you want.” Keith replied with anger in his
voice.
“I’ve been to all the beaches in
Europe. Climbed the Eiffel Tower. I’ve seen nature at its most primal and raw
in Africa. In the past five years I’ve learned how to commune with people. I
met a beautiful young girl in Japan and gained her trust over two long years
until finally once day she let me enter her body. Do you know what it’s like to
get fucked when you’re a woman? The orgasm isn’t so base and mechanical like a
man’s is, it’s spiritual, almost beautiful. Of course I had her butcher her
boyfriend and three others before the police subdued her. It was quite the
scandal in that peaceful little nation.” The Wolf chuckled and Keith winced,
his laugh was demonic.
“Why didn’t you ever try to figure it
out? You have the same gifts I do. Only you spent all your time training your
body, never your mind. You never unlocked all the secrets you and I were meant
to discover. Like how to breed. Not that you’ve even been trying.” The Wolf
taunted him.
“I met a girl last night.” Keith
replied with a smirk.
“Good on you. Of course you can’t get
her pregnant. You never bothered to work that out, how to continue our
incredible genes. I was obsessed with it once I figured out what I was. It took
a few months till I found the answer. Our sperm don’t play by the rules, it’s
supposed to be one gets into the egg and the rest lose, but you and I both know
losing isn’t an option for us, so the other sperm break in also and kill the
egg and therefor no baby, nothing. I used an eye dropper and just the tiniest
bit of semen and I barely penetrated the woman. With a half dozen women and
working at it for four years I managed to get three children. One played pro
football for seventeen years as an offensive lineman. Another was a girl who is
a highly sought after body guard. The third sadly was born white and thus his
desire for carnage and chaos in Africa leaves him on the outs with the tribes.
They don’t tolerate pale faces, but he still does his work, only it’s from the
shadows. I’ve done so much, and yet people think you beat me.” The Wolf shook
his head as he finished.
“I did beat you. I put you in here.
Everything else is bluster and bullshit.” Keith told him.
“Those few seconds after we fell off
that cliff, it was all dumb luck who landed where. Just so happened that you
were on top of me and broke my leg on impact.” The Wolf responded.
“I shifted my weight. I saw what was
coming when the fall began and I made sure you bore the impact.” Keith told
him.
“That’s really why you’re here. To rub
it in my face that you won. To remind yourself of your glory days. To look at
the only other man who knows what it’s like to be a God like you do and to see
if age has broken me down like it did you. Well I got some bad news for you,
you won’t have me to torment for much longer. Four years ago they found cancer
in my lung, aggressive cancer, the kind of shit that doesn’t wait around for
you to make your arrangements for your death and just dropped you quick. They
gave me three months but I knew I’d outlast that. I had no idea how long I had,
but now I can feel it getting to me. I got maybe three years left, maybe less
and this shit will put me down. No amount of meditation or astral projection
will fix it.” The Wolf finished and the two men stared at each other for a
minute.
“I don’t swing by Oceanside much. I don’t check up on you
anymore, you bore me, and lord knows you would screw with my astral projection
murders, and they take fucking forever to set up. So no I don’t know anything
about this Doc Silver fellow who has you all flustered.” The Wolf paused and
gave an evil smile to Keith. “You know that Spooky Brian would have the answers
for you, but you don’t want to see him. He’s not a reminder of your great
victory. He’s the one that got away. The case you couldn’t close. You’ll have
to humble yourself and go to him if you want dirt on this asshole.” The Wolf
said.
“You want a show don’t you? Want me to rip up these guards
like they were nothing, show you how us old men still got it? Well fuck you,
you don’t get a show. Maybe I’ll just find your new woman, maybe I’ll start
talking to her, chicks dig ghosts. Next time you fuck her, you’ll be fucking
me.” The Wolf said and he hung the phone up. The guards took him away as the
Wolf stared Keith down until finally the door to the visitor’s room slammed
shut.
The Wolf was right about a lot of things, but more than that
he was really rubbing Keith’s nose in the fact that he needed Spooky Brian’s
help. If there was anyone on either who knew how to defend against a paranormal
attack it was Spooky Brian. To get info on Doc and to protect Maggie Keith was
going to have to swallow his pride and see him.
