Yesterday's Gone: Season Three (THE POST-APOCALYPTIC SERIAL THRILLER)

probably had passed since the fireworks. He’d fallen asleep with his hand on the glass, meeting Callie’s, their mattresses propped against the dividing barrier.
    A light went on above him, about a tenth as dim as it was before, just enough for him to see, but far less blinding. Charlie glanced over and saw the shadows of Callie, still asleep on her mattress, her hand against the wall.
    “You have a visitor,” the voice said. “Someone interested in what you did yesterday. Someone who would like to have a word with you. Remember the rules. One more stunt, and your bitch is dinner. Understand?”
    “No, he’s fucking retarded,” Boricio snarled, suddenly in the room, wearing the same outfit as before, except now he had on a miner’s hat, with a light that wasn’t working.
    “Yes,” Charlie said. “I’ve got it.”
    The door at the end of the hall opened to a single set of footsteps owned by another yellow hazmat suit, without any clipboard or weapon.
    The footsteps made their way down the row of cells.
    “What the fuck does he want?” Boricio asked.
    I dunno, Charlie thought, not wanting to speak out loud in case they were monitoring him.
    “Well, this should be good and goddamned interesting,” Boricio said, plopping on the mattress and crossing his legs. “Looks like you’ve made yourself someone worth talking to Charlie Boy! Maybe you can ask for a raise!”
    Boricio looked at Charlie’s dangling dick. “You mind tucking the turtle away, Charlie Brown? I didn’t come here to give you a conjugal visit. Though, I’d love to step on over and give ole’ Callie a bit o’ the bone and splatter, if you get my drift.”
    I’d have to be an idiot not to get your drift. You’re as subtle as a forest fire.
    “Don’t worry, I’m not gonna bang on Callie’s precious backdoor. Remember, I’m in your head. And well, let’s just say, that makes me part of you , and you know she ain’t gonna have any part of you in any part of her, so I’m sorta screwed, fuck you very much.” Boricio shook his head.
    Charlie watched the light on top of Boricio’s hat turn back and forth and wondered why he’d imagined Boricio wearing a miner’s helmet — a broken one, at that.
    The man in yellow reached Charlie’s cell, then pressed something on the panel outside his door.
    The voice above Charlie crackled to life. “Remember,” it said, “be a good boy, or—”
    “Yeah, yeah,” Charlie shouted as the man in yellow entered his cell.
    The man looked Charlie up and down, then spoke, his voice now coming through the speakers above. He wasn’t the same man who’d been taunting him over the speakers, but his voice was oddly familiar.
    “That was some show you put on out there,” the man said from inside his hazmat suit as he continued staring at Charlie like some kind of lab animal.
    Something about the man’s accent was unsettling in its vague familiarity, as was his appearance, though Charlie couldn’t quite place where he might have seen the man before.
    Boricio jumped up and down behind Charlie. “Holy shit, Charlie Brown! What the fuck is this?”
    What?
    “You don’t see it?” Boricio said, pointing frantically at the man’s mask. “Look closer, you dumb lanky pile of shit, squeeze those beady fucker eyes of yours together and tell me you don’t recognize who in the fuck-all you’re looking at!”
    Charlie examined the man’s face. He was in his early to mid thirties and bald, with an eye patch over his left eye and a long ugly scar running in a deep ravine from the high above his patch to the low of his cheek below.
    Something about him was damned familiar, like a word on the tip of Charlie’s tongue he simply couldn’t remember.
    “Dude,” Boricio said stepping right beside the man in yellow, pointing manically back at the man and then himself. “Look, Charlie! It’s me! It’s me!”
    Charlie’s jaw dropped.
    It was beer-battered bullshit, no doubt, but Boricio was right.

TO BE CONTINUED…

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::EPISODE 15::
    (THIRD EPISODE OF SEASON THREE)
    “Team Building Exercise”

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CHAPTER 1 — Teagan McLachlan

    In the dream, the sun had kissed Teagan’s skin. But when she woke, it was darkness that