He's Bad .. He's Nation Wide ...

HEAT

Chapter 7 - Part 1

Fill and Jenade had finished being interviewed by the Lee County Sheriff's office, the Ft. Myers Police, the FBI and soon - if what they were lead to believe, the CIA.

It had been three days since the incident at Barnhills and the subsequent disappearance of the woman, the ambulance and the two attendants. The story had gone 'national' and Matlacha was chock full of news people and vans with dishes on the top and folks running with video cams and mics everywhere.

Fill and Jenade were escorted from the back of the Lee County Sheriff's Office and into an unmarked car. Instructions were given to the officer driving the car to drive around for a while to lose whoever may be trying to follow and to return Fill and Jenade to Matlacha.

It took about two hours but eventually Fill and Jenade were dropped off at the base of Island Avenue and, in complete anonymity, simply walked to the main drag and then across the bridge to Bert's Bar & Grill.

Fill invited Jenade in for a drink, Jenade went to wave him off, Fill let him know he had no choice. Jenade shrugged and preceded Fill into the bar. Fill lead Jenade to the back of the bar and then outside on a deck that was over the river - he walked to the back where no one was sitting; Jenade followed and then sat down. 

When the basket of beer was delivered, Fill simply asked Jenade what the fuck was going on. Jenade didn't know but started talking about meeting this guy Lou and how things seemed to go downhill from there.

As Fill and Jenade were talking, adjacent to them, a seagull sat on the pier no more than 5 feet away. It shrieked what could be described as a shrill, 'me, me , me ... 

Jenade and Fill both turned to look, and at that moment, the seagull self-immolated - it was simply consumed in flames - what really scared the shit out of them - what really wouldn't allow them to sleep for a week - were the soul raking screams of the 2 ambulance attendants ... that the seagull kindly shared with them alone ...