Tesa - Blind Spot II

BLIND SPOT 1

The loud bang of the door against the brick wall startled the sturdy man standing over a small heap on the dry grass covered floor. He whirled round in time to behold the scantily dressed woman in the doorway.

The dull light in the barn highlighted her contorted face and blood shot eyes. She was out of breath and her heaving chest clung to her extra large, transparent night shirt which flapped out in the night breeze like broken wings. Then he saw the gun.

She found fathers gun! An alarm was set off in his head. The thought sent cold shivers down his spine as he stared helplessly at the woman he had known all his life. She aimed his father’s parting gift at him. Ted threw his hands up in the air and slowly backed away from the ferocious woman by the door while avoiding the quiet heap at his feet.

"I warned you. You swore never to hurt her again!"

Her words were fierce and dripped of acid. He was guilty as charged, the old gun was out and nothing would change her mind, not even his usual appeal to her maternal love. It was his entire fault. He had killed her love for him, had broken all his vows and made her reunite with her vicious past. Ted knew he had come to the end of the road.

As the cold air streaming in through the shattered door ruffled his thorn shirt, he heard a click sound and knew the safety was off. His knees buckled beneath him. She had been his passage into this miserable life and she would be his cold way out of it. A muffled sob escaped from the heap on the grass covered floor and he knew little Tesa was not dead after all. His hope rose, the woman removed the safety lock of the old gun.

"Mah forgive me! But the child lives..."

"I’m sorry son."

Without a moment’s hesitation, she pulled the trigger...