Chapter Four

Some fools think of happiness
Blissfulness, togetherness
Some fools fool themselves I guess
They're not foolin' me
Love Hurts
Nazareth

Callestah may have been compliant throughout the night but she didn’t sleep and she shut down. Andy was well satisfied as the sun came up he was passed out naked on the floor.

“No,” she whispered to no one. Five years of this was intolerable. While Andy snored she got dressed and quiet as a mouse she thumbed through Andy’s wallet where she found a good deal of money, they had a big night last night and Andy always liked to flash and not credit on big nights. She let herself out of his room without waking him and made her way across the hall. She stopped long enough to grab Andy’s Happy Kit. Back in own room Callestah grabbed her old overnight bag which she’d never unpacked, she tossed Andy’s Happy Kit into it.

Callestah hailed a taxi and went to the airport where she bought herself a first class ticket to Denver International Airport and left no note for Andy to find when he woke up. It was funny, she’d always been afraid of bringing drugs through the airport but the people recognized her and didn’t even look at the contents of her bag as it went through the x-ray machine, they were too busy getting her autograph and telling her how much they admired her work.

Callestah calmly went to the washroom and cleaned herself before taking her seat. The space between her legs was still bleeding and sore. Andy’d left large patches of rug burn on her back to go with the scars there. It was very uncomfortable. She downed two painkillers and a Valium. It was a long flight to Colorado. She wanted to sleep through most of it.

Taking her seat and clicking the seat belt into place she bought three bottles of Jack & Danny from the liquor cart and drank them before take-off.

It was a long flight.

A long trip home.

Oh, well, now, she said to herself, I’m not going home, am I? No. Andy was right, it wasn’t fair to go back to Daniel now, not fair to him or…Jesus Christ!...David. Not in her condition. They could never have the passion and magick they once shared. It was gone now.

So she wasn’t going home. But she’d be close by. Right up until the bitter end.

The End of
Tarnished Heroes: Love Hurts
by
Moon Mistress

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