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Drop it or not??
This is kind of a plot concept that I was working with, but couldn't decide if I should keep it. How it goes is that Jake Hendricks was a genius as a child. At age seven he was smarter than most s in his city. They were about to enroll him in a school for people like him, but his brother Cimmerian is the leader of one of the city's biggest gangs. Their parents are out of town and one day there's a break-in in their house and a shootout occurs. Cimmerian's left alive, but Jake witnessed people getting shot in his own living room, and even his own brother hack a person apart with a butcher knife. Cimmerian threatens to kill Jake if he ever says a word again. Jake became disturbed after that and didn't speak again.
(This is where it gets confusing) Jake had left his parent's bedroom and Cimmerian, paranoid that Jake had told his parents about the s and the gang that Cimmerian was in charge of, killed his parents. His gang was more important to him than family. After that, he entered the kitchen and grabbed the same butcher knife he'd used years earlier and wound up to bring it down on Jake. The split second before it happened, Jake's mind just snapped, it was one of those situations where when someone becomes so terrified or disturbed they revert back to their childhood; Jake did that, but since he was a genius in his childhood, he becomes smarter. He kicked his brother in the stomach, then grabbed a chair and broke the leg off and nearly beat his brother to in his own defense.
yeah okay, I kinda dropped it right here because two things:
1. Jake has a bad reputation, almost his brother and all and
2. Where does it go from here?
If anyone thinks this story has potential then sweet, I'd love to hear it, 'cause I've been wanting this back in progress! If not, then yeah, whatever.
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