Jason wakes on a bare mattress, chained to the bed frame. Before he can even mutter, “Dammit, Andy, I said no three-ways – unless there’s a new Merlotte’s waitress,” he opens his eyes to find Timbo, one of the Hot Shot kids, giving the literal rough side of his tongue to a gash in Jason’s head. Jason assures Timbo that, while he started being nice to the kids for Crystal’s sake, he now loves every one of their flea-pickin’ hearts and that Timbo must care about him, too, what with the tongue-bath and all, and asks Timbo to untie him. Timbo gives that a, ‘the things I’ll do for ice cream and catnip’ sigh and starts to unchain Jason, but is interrupted by a shotgun toting Felton. Jason blusters about Crystal, but Felton points out that with Jason’s hands tied and Felton’s full of cold, hard steel, he might have the upper paw in this scenario. Continue reading
