THE YOUNG SOPRANOS XXXVI. (CONTINUED)
THE
YOUNG SOPRANOS
XXXVI
"KISS OF DEATH"
BY J. BECK
2024
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(CONTINUED)
A.J. recieves a phone-call from Meadow as he & Vito returned to Jersey from visiting CAFE NAPOLI in Hells Kitchen--NYC.
Meadow was on her way downtown to speak with their father's old lawyer Neil Link to discuss Feech La Mama's parole appeal before she drives up-state to the federal prison to interview him.
Then Meadow concludes telling A.J. that their mother, Carmela called to inform her that the mental ward called & their Uncle Jr. was in ICU at the hospital on life-support without a living will.
"She wants us to go visit him to pay
him our last respects before he dies."
A.J. told Meadow that he agreeded & he would meet her at the
hospital at 6PM.
Then
after hanging up with Meadow, A.J. called Rhonda, the nurse friend of his moll
Roxanne. "Hi T.!--What can I do for
you?!"
"Hello Darling--What can you tell me about being on life-support & a living-will?"
"OH--I was hoping you wanted a blow-job or to have sex or something?!--What can I tell you about it A.J.?"
(How differcult is it to turn a life-support machine off?)
"If the patient has a living-will? It's not hard at all. Just flip the heart & oxygen monitor switches off to avoid the Red Alert alarm from sounding. & Then just unplug the machine & remove all the tubes--Why?"
(What if they don't have a living-will?)
Well if that's the case then the patient can't be unplugged until they naturally expire & "Flat-line."--But between the insurance companies & the administration doctors, they will agree to accellerate the death process with a series of strong "Cock-Tails."
"Angel of Death," shots are large doses of pain medication to over-dose & cause cardiac arrest.--It's no big deal really. I've done it many times. It's like you are doing them a favor & ending their suffering."
"Thanks Rhonda--You been a big help!"
"Sure T. Anytime for you Big Guy! But I'd like to be an even bigger help next time!"
"NEXT TIME!"--(PROMISE?!) "CLICK"
Rhonda smiles inside herself as she hangs up her cellphone & puts in the front pocket of her blue scrubs to exit the utility closet where she went to hide & take A.J.'s call. Taking a deep breath & sighing ("Anytime for you Big Boy!")
Meadow arrives carrying her gray dress-jacket after her meeting with Neil Link at his downtown office to find A.J. waiting for her inside the Newark Hospital lobby in Newark at 6:05--
"You're late."
(Im always fucking late!) "Thats the Point!" They laugh entering the elevator together.
"Well--I'm here now--So let's get this melodramatic shit over!"
Meadow sighs as she rolls her eyes when the elevator stopped on the next floor--"Going Up?!"
A.J. chuckles at his big sister.
( "DON'T T." )
They both agreeded to come alone & reframe/delay informing their Aunt Janice about visiting their elderly Uncle Jr. on his death-bed.
Entering the ICU hospital room together to find Jr. laying peacefully, appearing to be sleeping. A nurse was there checking & recording his vitals.
A.J. asked the nurse how long would he be able to remain alive like that. She looked down at him to answer.
"God only Knows? He could lay there like this for another month or more
Or he could be dead by the time I make my next rounds again in an half-hour."
The nurse leaves them alone with him.
"This is creeping me out A.J.--I'm going to go.--It's like he is already dead. He can't hear us or respond."
"Oh, we don't know that Bing & he isn't dead yet!"
"What's the point A.J.? We are just here so our mother can proudly say that we were?--While she is hiding down in Florida & shunning any responsiblity herself!"
A.J. couldent disagree that about their mother. So A.J. takes Meadow by the arm & walks her out of the hospital room door to the elevator & told her to leave & he would stay behind alittle longer with with him.
"You aren't mad are you A.J.?"
"Fuck No Sis--I get it!"
"Great--Thanks T. You're the Best"--
No you are--No you are!"
They tease each other
as the elevator doors open
& He kisses Meadow
on top her head--
"DRIVE SAFE!"
OK--I WILL DAD!
Meadow giggles getting on board
"I love you T"
"I love you too Bing!"
As the elevator doors close.
Then A.J. went to use the restroom to relieve himself where he found clean green scrubs & white lab coats with hair-net caps, shoe-booties, blue gloves & facemask.
A.J. re-enters the ICU hospital room wearing green hospital scrubs costume. & He clicked pictures of Jr. before turning on his cell-phone's video-recorder & standing it up beside the bed focased on Jr. laying there peacefully.
Then A.J. leans over Jr.'s body & speaks into his ear: "Remember Uncle Jr. how I came to revenge you that time in the mental ward to defend my father's honor, after you gut-shot him?
But I failed, when I paniced & dropped the knife on the floor in front of everybody. Well Old Man--I won't fail my father this time!"
A.J. leans over Corrado & grabs him around the neck w/both hands to shake his head & give him the "Kiss of Death" on the forehead before he stood to flip off the heart-monitor switches & unplugged the life-support machine from the wall.
Then
A.J. pulls the oxygen lines from Jr.'s nostrils & the large
ventillator-tube out from his gasping throat.
Corrado flashes open his shocked eyes wide. (Johnny-Boy?--Is that you?)
A.J. jerks the white pillow out from under his head & sufficates Jr. to death with it. Clutching the pillow with both hands & laying his body weight upon it A.J. said:
"Die & Go to Hell "
Of
Eternal Torment
With Wailing & Gnashing of Teeth
"Say Hi to the Oldman
& "Johnny-Boy" for me!--
You, Crazy Old Fuck!"
A.J. removes Jr.'s pinky-ring & drops it
into his jacket pocket.
Then A.J. calmly exits the glass encasted ICU hospirtal room after pulling the white sheet up over Carrado's blank face with glossy far-away eyes. Grabbing his cellphone & a clip-board as he walked out with a purpose in his steps to take the stairs down instead of the elevator to the ground-floor where the ER was located while still wearing his hospital garb.
Where he spots Rhonda waiting for the elevator at the end of the hallway. A.J. steps up closely behind her & gently bumps her ass from behind.
Rhonda shoots him a glare over her shoulder without looking him in the eyes--"EXCUSE ME?!"
Interupting her from complaining to someone there that she had been working since noon & was just now taking her lunch-break. She was going up on the roof to chain-smoke for the next 30 minutes.
A.J. follows Rhonda into the opening elevator & took it up to the roof with her still not recognizing him. Although she did pause once, halfway up as she smelled the familiar POLO fragrence (A.J. wore) but she dismissed it shaking her head.
A.J. follows Rhonda over to an empty picnic-table on the hospital roof to stand closely beside her sitting alone & asked her for a cigarette.
"I suppose you need a light too?" She digs a lighter out of her tight scrubs pocket to flick it & raise it up for him to lean over to use as he pulls his face-mouth down she peers up,
"OH MY GOD!" Rhonda giggles, "A.J.!--What are you doing up here?"
"Looking for you!" A.J. gives her a dirty grin as he puffs to light his cigarette.
(You're looking for me?--For What?)
"For that Blow-Job!"
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(To Be Continued)
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