It’s A Good Day To Die Chapter 3 Alternate by Hawkrider
This is not the true happy ending , Graduation night mission:
I had sent out my letters to Susan and Chelsea a couple days ago. I had put the same address on both since I knew that the party would be held at Susan’s. I had made sure that both had a sign and deliver seal. We get called in to do a high profile snatch and grab. We get paired up and its Bear, BW and me in one team with the others partnering up. We go over the plan while we head to the mansion the local drug lord is in. We get dropped off two clicks south as we go in fast and hard to the location. We get there and see four lookouts. Long Range says he’s got this and I watch while he fires four rapid fire shots killing all four in under three seconds. He turns and smiles.
”Ladies first.” BW flips him off and he turns to me
”Hey Schoolboy same bet?” I look at him
”Deal but I also want twenty bucks and some glasses because you have the whitest ass I have ever seen.” I say whilePol snickers
”For someone who is as tanned as him I have to agree.” Pol says while BW shoves me back
”Well if I win you suck me off.” He states while I smirk back
”No one’s mouth is that small” I exclaim while I kick him in the ass and sprint forward
I kick in the door and rush the first guy I see firing. We go through clearing each room. We finish and I hear everyone calling clear for their rooms. BW comes out and Bear is right behind him. I turn to smile at my newest godfather and I hear a sound I will never forget as long as I live. I watch as Bear’s chest explodes and he falls to his knees as some tweeker pops the breech on a sawed-off double barrel shotgun. I snap my M4 onto target and I shoot him in both shoulders and his knees. I rush to Bear while he gasps trying to breath. He smiles as he asks me something that he has asked no one else.
”Schoolboy…no Matt can you deliver a letter to my daughter Lisa? I want her to know that she was always on my mind.” I nod telling him I would
He smiles as he tells me he has left his family with a better gunsmith than him and that all his toys were now mine. I tell him fuck that and that he was strong and he’d be back in a couple days. He smiles at me before he shakes his head, as he looks into my eyes. He takes one final breathe and he is gone. I cry for the man who has been like a father to me and is now gone. I look at the tweeker and snap. I start pounding him while he begs for me to stop. I hear BW scream for me to stop but I don’t listen. This little fuck killed my friend and I will send him straight to hell. I crack both of his orbital sockets and snap his jaw. I look at Bear and see his old Ka-bar and pull it out. I hack the guys fingers off and start gutting him. As I finish the prick is still alive but barely. I ask BW for his SAW. He looks at me and I snatch it away. I pop it over to full auto and see that I have about 200 rounds left in the box. I walk to the asshole and I hold that trigger down watching his chest and head explode into a fine red mist. I smile at a job well down. We call in our chopper and I ask BW to grab Bear’s legs. He looks at me.
”This was our brother and he will get a proper burial.” Pol tells BW to do it
The chopper comes two minutes later and we saddle up. I look at Bear’s body and wonder how I will tell Lisa that her father was dead.
A week later outside Lisa’s house:
Once we got back to HQ I found the letter addressed to Lisa. I had $3ct10n8 find out where she lived. He tells me Nashville,TN. I take a car and drive there. I arrive outside her house around noon and walk to the door. I see the door open up and a young lady comes out and she looks like she is going to work.
”Are you Lisa Jones?” She looks at me
”Yes and how can I help you?” I look at her as I speak
”I served with your father. It is my unfortuate duty to tell you that he has past away in the line of duty.” She looks at me and laughs
”I’m glad that asshole is died. It’s because of him my mother died.” I look at her and I walk to her grabbing her by the throat slamming her into the house as I lean close
”You little whore. You were the only thing on his mind since he sent you to live with the druggie whore’s mother. He always hoped that one day you’d forgive him.” I look her into the eyes,”This is his letter to you. You will read it NOW.”
She looks at me with fear nodding. I hand it to her and she opens it and reads it. She starts to cry as I look at her puzzled. I help her inside and she hands it to me. The letter was basically Bear telling her that he was sorry for being a bad father and that he sent her to live with her grandmother since he knew he’d screw up her life. He hoped that she had a good life and that she continued to have a good life. He tells her that everyday he wanted to call her but his failure to save her mother drove him to abandon her. As I read this I hug her and tell her I’m sorry. She nods as she tells me thank you and she is sorry that I had also lost him. I drive back to HQ and shake my head as I start working on Bear’s last unfinished project….a Barrett M107. I smiled to myself, just watch this Bear. When she’s done you’ll go Schoolboy did this and I taught him everything he know. I get to work on finishing the little darling.
The next few months just pass by with us doing one mission after another. We lose Littlefoot in Iraq and Blastproof in Bulgeria in a conflict. Long Range would leave us in Panama. I have lost four brothers within the last three months. I’m not scared of dying….just of being the last one alive. We get the call and off we head for the next mission to be an easy one and comeback. The next three and a half months are fun being flown all across the world to do what no sane person would do. Before I know it we are in December. We do one mission and $3ct10n8 is killed. That hits me hard along with those of us still alive. We all get leave and I am told to sort my emotions out and go home. I fight with Pol and he tells me.
”I don’t care which way you go but you need to get your head back.” I nod and take a flight to Poplar Bluff under my fake name
I pack my night bag since I didn’t own much in the way of clothes anyways. I fly out and see that Christmas is a week away. I rent a Chevy Impala from Enterprise and head to Dexter. I really am regretting coming back. I stay at the Budget Inn under my fake name and plan what I am going to do.
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Mary POV-The next morning
I wake up heading downstairs to take care of my three loves. I shed a tear because my loving son isn’t around. This will be the second Christmas I will miss with him. The girls come down and I hear a knock at the door about an hour later. My heart stops while I hope it is Matt. Sarah runs to the door. I heart a little bickering and I see Billy walk in. We exchange some comments before I look at him.