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When Jimmy Straights returned to San Francisco with Patrick Callahan he had five others with him. Rashne the Judge, Shaun Guiled, Mathias Yearly, Jean Paul Bendix, and his sister Rebecca Straights. That made seven Werewolves to a population of over twenty five thousand. You’d have thought that they couldn’t do too much damage, that the people would do something. But they cowered and in a few short months Jimmy was naming himself their king.
Many of the wounded simply died, mostly of infection. As the first places Jimmy and his pack destroyed were the hospitals and communication hubs. We were stuck with only the ferry to usher people in and out. But he wouldn’t let anyone leave. Those who tried were shot or torn apart as soon as they stepped foot on the docks. He wasn’t stupid, he knew what it was going to take to rule. Fear and blood. There has been plenty of both. Those who are still alive, like me, who know what’s good for them do exactly as he says. Or else we’ll vanish, rounded up like cattle, to be slaughtered with just as much cruelty.
But now it’s all falling into place. The TNT Jimmy and his guys rounded up to give me was enough to level the tunnel and bury the silver stores. Right now I’m sure that Montgomery and Giovanni are dead, that rattlesnake poison was pretty vile. Wade’s gone too if he was dumb enough to stay anywhere near that tunnel. Kinda feel bad about him. He was a good kid.
As for Danny and the rest of her rejects? They’re probably on their way back to the municipal building. Good, let them find the bodies and the trail to bring them in to us. Jimmy wants Danny and J.D. The twins he’s planning on letting the pack have. With any luck this will be the night I get my reward. Being down two men at the hands of Danny Johnston, Jimmy has promised to turn me for my loyalty. Not that I completely trust him to actually do it, but if he tries to back out I’ve got a clip full of silver bullets with their names on them. I’ll be damned if I’m goin’ to wind up in a cage until they decide to eat my string bean ass.
He’s tried turning some of the locals with no large success, yet. They’re still transitioning. But he says that it’s normal for it to take time. Rebecca on the other hand has turned three women for the others. They kept running through the human ones. Breaking them too easily. I’ve had to dispose of those bodies, it’s not a pretty sight. I’m hoping that it’s her who turns me, seeing as she likes fucking me when Jimmy isn’t around. But she’s been careful not to bite or scratch me so far. Too bad, I wouldn’t mind being her whipping boy.