When the Devil Drives
“Had it been anyone else, it might have seemed a bizarre thing to say. Coming from Fallan it seemed to make its own kind of paradoxical sense even before he explained himself.
He had driven home to Northumberland and returned with several Russell Darius DVDs from his apparently extensive horror movie collection, and they had been watching them together so that Jasmine could at least acquaint herself with Darius’s work while the man himself remained out of reach.
‘They remind me of innocent times..., back in my teens.’ ‘Before the killing became real?’ Jasmine asked, trying to sound merely curious but not quite succeeding in keeping the accusatory acid from her tone.
‘A lot of bad things were already real. I preferred to spend as much time as I could out of the house. My pal Flea’s family had a Betamax video recorder, first VCR I’d ever seen. Flea’s mum worked nights a lot and so did his dad, in a manner of speaking.’ ‘What do you mean?’ ‘He was a burglar. Hence the VCR.’ ‘Ah.’ ‘When we had the telly to ourselves we used to hire pirate tapes off the ice-cream van, always a horror if you could get them, because these were films you wouldn’t be allowed in to see at the pictures.MoreLess
He had driven home to Northumberland and returned with several Russell Darius DVDs from his apparently extensive horror movie collection, and they had been watching them together so that Jasmine could at least acquaint herself with Darius’s work while the man himself remained out of reach.
‘They remind me of innocent times..., back in my teens.’ ‘Before the killing became real?’ Jasmine asked, trying to sound merely curious but not quite succeeding in keeping the accusatory acid from her tone.
‘A lot of bad things were already real. I preferred to spend as much time as I could out of the house. My pal Flea’s family had a Betamax video recorder, first VCR I’d ever seen. Flea’s mum worked nights a lot and so did his dad, in a manner of speaking.’ ‘What do you mean?’ ‘He was a burglar. Hence the VCR.’ ‘Ah.’ ‘When we had the telly to ourselves we used to hire pirate tapes off the ice-cream van, always a horror if you could get them, because these were films you wouldn’t be allowed in to see at the pictures.MoreLess
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