Time Passed

          It had been about a month since Dead End fell to runners. Mama Williams group is holding the 4 leaders of that hell hostage. Tiger, Cypher, Ret, and Jet. Cypher's wounds had healed well shockingly without infection. They were all tied to trees around their camp so they could not leave.

        The twins have been behaving fairly well. They just sit there, quietly talk among themselves. They don't bother anybody either. Cypher and Tiger on the other hand are whole other stories. Quite a few times a day they get into loud arguments to the point where Lasso or Xman have to untie her and walk away with her for an hour or two so they both can calm down.

        "Aye cowboy." Tiger for the 10th time today decided to bother Lasso. "Fuck off." He told him before Tiger could even start. "Oh that's not nice bud" he chuckled and watched Lasso walk to one of the tents and drag Xman out. "Your turn to deal with his bullshit. I'm fucking tired." Lasso told him and without letting him reply he walked off to his own tent. "Ok- nice talkin-" he mumbled and walked over to where the campfire is set up and sat on one of the logs by it. Bones hobbled passed him to Jet. "Whatcha doin kid?" He asked and Bones shrugged and sat in front Jet. "Can I help you?-" Jet asked while looking at the kid. He watched him pull a deck of cards out of his pocket. "You wanna play Jin again?" He asked and Bones nodded. "Sounds good" he smiled while Bones untied him for a little bit.

        "Bones! Your mama said don't untie him!" Xman got up and Bones looked at him. "Mama's not here, she won't know" he told him and X frowned. "Put the cards away, i don't need your mama mad at me because something happened to you under my watch." He demanded and Bones just turned back and shuffled the cards. "Do I need to get Lasso?" He asked and saw Bones quickly hustle to tie Jet back up. "Your scared of that cowboy? Please. He's easy to beat." Tiger chuckled and Cypher rolled her eyes. "Wasn't he the one who shoved you down and tied you up?" She grinned and that got her a glare from her dad. "Shut up." He snapped. She simply chuckled. "Never ever." She smiled.

         "Aye you two don't start again-" Jet warned and Cypher shrugged. "I'm bored man." She sighed and X shrugged. "Oh well I guess." He helped Bones up and walk back to the logs that they usually sit on and help him sit down. "Occupy yourself" X told her and she looked at him like he was stupid. "How?! Im tied to a tree! What do you mean occupy myself?!" She snapped at him. He laughed and looked at her. "Ok ok I'm sorry. Wrong word choice" he smiled apologetically. "Dumbass." She mumbled under her breath and she sat back and sighed. Then they heard a familiar sound. Deep growling.

"Druggy's back!" Cypher yelled as Dallas stepped into camp with Mama. "Don't be rude." Mama snapped at her but Dallas shrugged. "It's fine Mama..." she lazily smiled. "You know what's rude? Tying people to trees" Cypher said with a smug look. "I'll have Pippin dart you" Mama Williams smiled and Cypher quieted with a frown. "Anyhow, X how have they been?" She asked and X shrugged. "Well your son keeps trying to untie one of the twins, Lasso dragged me out of my tent pissed over god knows what, and missy over there keeps trying to pick fights with her daddy. Over all eh. Oh and the other twin has just sat there quietly so he's fine." He reported and Dallas looked at Mama. "Sounds like a normal day..." she chuckled and Mama sighed. "Bones you can't untie them baby, you still can't walk well so you wouldn't be able to do much if he tried to run." She patted his head and he nodded quietly.

"Aw how cute." Tiger rolled his eyes and Hercules started stalking towards him. "Hey now wait a minute sit." He tried to tell the monster dog but the command was ignored. He kept stalking towards the tied man and Tiger was starting to get nervous. "I said sit." He ordered again. The dog didn't stop. Hercules began to growl and Tiger could have sworn he saw that dog grin with murderous intentions before Dallas called him back. The dog was almost to Tiger's feet before Dallas had called the monster back to her. When he heard the raspy voice of his owner he seemed to go back to puppy mode and happily trot back to her side and sat. "Good boy Herc..." she took his helmet off and patted his head. She then pulled half an eaten rabbit out of her satchel and tossed it to him. He inhaled it gladly.

"X could you got get Lasso back out here please" she asked and X nodded. "Not sure he'll cooperate but I'll try" he told her honestly and got up. He jogged off to Lasso's tent and before he got too far he shouted to Mama. "Why do you let him have his tent so far?!" He complained and Mama chuckled. "So he'll behave a little better! It gives him a break!" She shouted back and heard X dramatically groan. "Gettin the cowboy back out?" Tiger mumbled and watched Xman jog. "Well since most their muscle is gone.." he muttered and began untying himself.

Hercules was sent after another rabbit and everyone's back was to Tiger. No one saw Tiger silently get up and he picked up a large rock. He didn't have much of a plan but he wanted to at least kill the leader. Mama Williams. Her damn son out of the way would be great too so he'd have to go as well. He began to wind up when he felt something run into him and knock him down. "Agh!" He yelled as he hit the ground flat on his back and coughed. He looked up just in time to see his own daughter on top of him and the next thing he knew his nose was broken. Then his face was badly cut. He felt the hard blows of Cypher hitting him with the rock he was about to throw. He heard Mama yell for X to come help and she tried to grab Cypher but she wasn't strong enough. Cypher had gripped onto her father's shirt with one hand while the other she repeatedly hit him with a rock.

The last thing he heard was the twins yelling for someone to untie them and everything faded to black.

Cypher felt a rope loop around her neck and she got yanked back. The rock fell from her hands and she felt herself get dragged across the ground. She gasped for air and tried to pull the rope around her neck loose. Cypher then felt a hand grab her arm and pull her up. Someone took the rope off her neck and she leaned her head back against the person who had dragged her and looked into the angry eyes of her "close friend" Lasso.

Mama went to check the damage Cypher had done to her father. When she looked at his face his nose was badly destroyed and there was a large dent in his skull. Blood pooled around his head and he remained motionless. Looking with blank eyes to the sky. She checked his pulse and mumbled. "Dead" she sighed and pulled out a small pocket knife. She then pushed his body over and held his head down as she stabbed the brain stem. That was to make sure he didn't come back.