Sweet Revenge

I took a few steps towards Leia, slowly, but methodically. I kept my eyes focused on her the whole time. I knew that she wouldn’t pull the trigger, as long as I kept my demeanor non-threatening. She was really just scared. She’d gotten in so far over hear head on this thing. I was actually feeling a bit silly that I’d let her frighten me at all. The whole thing pissed me off.

“Sit down! Or I’ll shoot!” Leia yelled. “Don’t make me shoot!”

“Leia, relax,” I said. “We can talk this over. I don’t want to hurt you.”

I’ve often marveled at my ability to lie with such ease. I was going to kill Leia and I was going to make it hurt like hell.

“I swear! I’ll shoot you!” Leia yelled.

She was glancing over her shoulder now as if desperately pleading for someone else to be there to come to her rescue. But it was over for her. She had messed up royally and now was going to pay the ultimate price. No one screwed me over and lived to tell about it.

“Leia…” I said, my voice almost a whisper. “Give me the gun…”

Leia was almost on the verge of tears. I loved seeing her scared. Wow, she was even more beautiful than she’d been before. I wanted to meet the surgeon and shake his hand for creating such a pristine work of art.

The gun was only inches from my hand. Leia was clutching it tightly, her hand trembling with fear, tears falling from her beautiful eyes. She wanted this over so badly. I was about to grant her that wish.

“It’s ok…” I said soothingly.

With a twitch of my hands, suddenly I was holding the gun.

Leia leapt back several feet scared out of her mind. I thought she might even run for it for a second, but I was pointing a cocked and loaded weapon at her. She was as good as dead.

I began to laugh. “Wow… this is hilarious.”

“Don’t…” Leia pleaded as she stood there trembling.

“Oh, you are telling me not to hurt you now? That’s hysterical. After what you just put me through? Do you have any idea how stupid it was for you to come here? You were free and clear. Hell, the entire world thought you dead, and you didn’t even have to deal with the baggage of those two little brats. Plus, you had a nice little sum of money you somehow managed to steal away.”

“I’m sorry… I just…”

“You just, what?” I asked. “You just thought you could break me down, scare me, and make me look inferior to you? Really? That was your big, bad master plan you’ve been working on all this time? What do you think this is? Some reality show?”

I was laughing hard now. I’d drastically overestimated her intelligence. Perhaps she lost some brain cells in the fire; I wasn’t sure. And I no longer cared. I was tired of the games and much more than tired of her. It was time for her to leave this earth for good. And good riddance, as far as I was concerned.

I pointed the loaded gun at her.

“Any last words? I’ll at least give you that little bit of dignity this time. But I’m going to blow your head off. There is no way you aren’t dying this time. And best part is—there is no one who is looking for you. No one will know if you disappear.”

I chuckled at the irony of it. As I stood there pointing the gun at her, I started to admire the guts it took for her to come there and confront me. It was pretty courageous, but also very, very stupid.

The gun… something familiar about it.

As I clutched the handle tightly and prepared to end Leia’s life –again– I noticed something very strange about it.

“Wait…is this my gun?” I asked.

Looking closer at it, I could clearly see my initials carved just above the handle. It had been given to me by my father when I was a teenager for my fourteenth birthday.

Leia looked down ashamed.

“It is,” I laughed. “Wow… so, you were going to use my own gun to kill me? Wait… let me guess… you were going to make it look like some suicide?”

I couldn’t stop laughing as Leia continued to break down right in front of me. This was the most pathetic revenge attempt I’d ever heard about.

“Wow, you are so incompetent that it’s hysterical,” I said. “What were you thinking? I mean, really? What the hell were you thinking? Did you actually believe this was going to work in any way?”

Leia sobbed. “Please… I’m sorry… I’ll forget about it all. Just let me live and give me my kids. I just want my kids. You can have the money and everything else. I don’t want anything except my kids.”