ALTERNATE ENDING TO “THREE ALIENS AND A HO-BAG”
By Laura
"Liz...
Liz, I need you to drive me somewhere," Tess said.
"Yeah,
sure," replied Liz. 'What the fuck? Now I'm her chauffeur?' she thought.
They
drove in silence to the base. Liz was thankful that Tess didn't insist upon
talking.
"I
might as well do one good thing with my life," Tess said to Liz as she
opened the car door.
"You're
not going to let them take you alive, are you?" Liz asked.
"No,"
replied Tess, stepping out of the car and closing the door.
Liz
reached under the seat and pulled out a small black case. She opened it and
smiled at the metal objects it held.
Tess
approached the chain link fence.
"Neither
am I," Liz said to herself as she calmly screwed the silencer onto the
barrel of the gun.
Tess
held out her hand and burned a whole in the fence. She stepped through and
started walking toward the base.
Liz
quietly got out of the car and held out the gun.
"You're
not coming back this time, bitch!" Liz said softly as she squeezed the
trigger. She suppressed a laugh as the back of Tess's head exploded, the result
of a perfectly aimed shot.
Liz
walked up to the body and rolled it over. She pulled out a Polaroid camera and
took several pictures. 'Maria's gonna love this!' she thought. She pulled a
piece of paper out of her jacket and wrote the words 'Here's your alien' on it,
then quickly drove away.
~~~
Liz
woke up happy. She'd had a wonderful sleep, despite being cramped on the floor
of Michael's apartment. Max came into the room and saw Liz was awake.
"Do
you know where Tess is?" he asked. "She's gone!"
"Nope,"
replied Liz. "But I have this strange feeling that the Air Force won't be
bothering any of us anymore."
May
16, 2002