Gollick looks at me with an odd look then back to Mac. He walks over to Mac lifting his chin after he falls unconscious again and then slaps him across the face waking and angering Mac "Well since this fool hasn't much time left on this world I guess I'll tell you." Reaching into the bag silently I press the record button on the recorder and look at Mac. The man looks almost relieved it was me but also angered that I am in the vicinitiy. Then I jerk towards Gollick paying attention to him he goes on to tell us "Mac was doing his daily shift of walking the streets looking for excuses to slam my very needy customers into the slammer when he passed a deal. One that would net me 10 million dollors worth of Cocaine...enough to make everyone in this miserable city an addict and make me the kingpin of this town. This would make it easy for me to climb the higher archy of the Police by busting these addicts in the act and paying off anyone who noticed anything." He stops walking around the room and continues "When Mac walked past he didnt show any signs of noticing the warehouse full of drug peddlers but we couldnt take any chances and make a mistake in letting him live long enough to turn us in. So I did what any good corrupt cop would do, use my information and power to get what I want. But he was a bit more resilant that I had hoped for and you know the rest."
Mac sits wide eyed rage filling his eyes as he stares Gollick down, Gollick walking over to Mac and pulling out a gun and placing it on Macs forehead. He gets ready to pull the trigger and I myself have my hand on one of the automatics in the duffel bag but then he stops. He turns to me and flips the gun around and hands it to me "You do it."
A large grin on his face as he tells me this, he looks me over and then lets the gun drop into my hand. I thumb the hammer back and look around the room and then aim it at Mac..."So Gollick how many men do you have in this warehouse just incase Mac were to free himself?" Gollick stops at the doorway and turns to me with an odd look on his face then looks at the Joshua who was with him "Ummm about 40 odd men, not enough for one 50 year old man to take out." I smile taking my hand out of the bag and walking behind Mac and placing the knife and a gun in his hands "Alright just needed to know who should take evens." Gollick looks at me "Evens" Mac cuts the rope that binds him and stands up "Ill take evens....but that ones mine." Pointing to Gollick with his gun.
The two men eyes widen and both mouth F@#k as they both jump to either sides of the door way as an explosion erupts of gunfire erupts from the room.
After Gollick gave me my ultimatum I sulked thinking of how I could get my mother out of this without having to take Mac out. One time during the waiting I did try to leave with her only to get a silenced shot past my head. The bullet just slightly grazed my ear but it still allowed for it to bleed quite profusely, the world almost spun after wards. For a sniper this man was to Gollicks ever word. This man could take the wings off a fly, but by the middle of the second day he left. When I made another attempt to leave with Ma nothing happened which only heightend my paranoia I brought Ma back to the one place they wouldnt look through again...back home. These men thought that I would continue running but never to return to the beginning, this would keep her safe for a while. She knew something was amiss and pulled me to the side on the third day "Devon you have to tell him. He may never forgive you hell he may even attempt to kill you but..its the right thing. If keeping me safe means that you kill or let your one true friend in life be killed. It is not the right thing my son, If you leave this world you leave it with a better mind and one step closer to redemption." My eyes began to swell with tears as she spoke, she knew all along why we were running.
"When Ma when did you figure it out?" She gave me a glare "I have known Mac since you were a toddler he would never kill a cop for any reason if he did not need to. And your behavior has changed. The night of their deaths you were...withdrawn and I put two an two together. Son you need to find Gollick and try to stop him" I hear her and nod and without another word I leave the house and head downtown to the gun shop bringing my badge. I walk up the counter and pull my gun on the clerk "You have been selling guns to kids and anyone illegally you give me the key the gun cases and shells I will allow you two days to get out of this city and then Ill alert the authorities." The clerk got cocky for a moment but me pulling the hammer back on the gun shut his tone up quickly. He handed me the key his hand shaking now i gestured with the gun for him to get, it looked like he had dust flying behind him the speed he ran out.
I leap over the counter bagging everything I could, taking out the tape recorder in my pocket and changing it to new tape. I would record my confession and attempt to get Gollick to reveal his plans and tell them to anyone i could...then the phone rang and i picked it up "What?!" A deep voice rang through it was Gollick "Get down to the Warhouse on 55th We have Mac Its your time to show me that I have not put my trust into someone who does not deserve it." I tell him yes and i hang the phone up. A stern look on my face as I slide a clip with armor piercing bullets into the gun in my hand and placing the gun on my head and tapping "Time for a bit of Redemption." I stand up slinging the bag over my right shoulder and making my way on foot to the warehouse.
I hang the phone up with Mac and an hour later it rings again and I begin to speak but I'm cut short by a booming and terrifying voice "You would think a partner would know what his own partner is doing huh? The stupid things he is getting himself into and What affects they have on the people he knows." I begin to sweat and it pours from my head and my cloths feel like their soaking wet "D-d-d-Detective Gollik, What do I have the pleasure of this phone call." He snaps at me "Dont get quaint with me you f@#king idiot. I would have thought the attempts on your mothers life before would have been enough for you to if not give us his location but that you would off him yourself. But it looks like a little bit more needs to be pressed huh? Look at your mother right now"
I look at her and a red dot hovers over her heart "Three miles from your location sits a sniper who will not miss and could take the falling sh!t off a pigeon at the same range. The entry wound will be the size of a quarter but at this distance you can figure out the size of the exit wound. This is not a qustion of will you do it...its when. Mac has gone far enough we have lost communication with Ramirez and Gene,. I am more than sure its the doings of your partner. I will give you three days and on the third day I will send you men to either kill you or bring you to Mac and you off him yourself. Am I understood?"
My voice shakes as I tell him yes. He hangs the phone up loud and I set it down staring at mother as the dot fades away, the sniper most likely still sitting at his post making sure I dont bolt with her or by myself, I sit on the bed thinking about how I can kill my best friend or even let him be killed.
The thought of Mac being healthy makes my day a bit better, but on the walk home the cold hard truth sets in. I betrayed my best friend twice. They came again holding a gun to my mothers head over a web cam, telling me if i didnt tell them Macs plans that her head would be the new paint for the walls. I told them without hesitation for two reasons so my mother wouldnt be harmed and the second that this will be the last time anyone comes into my house and threatens my mother.
I take a detour from my way home, making my way to the safe house for my little rat of an informant. That little f@!k is the only reason they found out where my mother lives. My twin berretas sit tucked in the back of my pants my gun holsters at my sides empty showing the guard i come unarmed. He pats my chest down completely forgetting that i do have pants something i knew he would since most of these idiots are crack heads. I walk in and am led to Vinni's room and i find him sprawled out on his bed high as a kite, I turn around my back facing his unconscious body. I tell a joke while fastening a silencer onto one of the berretas "What did the one crack head say to the other?" they both look at each other with a confused look. And before they can utter a word i pull the gun around my body to my front and fire two shots each making their marks, i stare at their bodies laying on the floor and say "Got a shot?". I pick Vinni up and smack him upside the head with the butt of my gun waking him up "Wha...Devon man whats.." he notices the two bodies "I swear Dev man they were ruthless they were gonna kill me." I smack him again with the butt and put my silencer to his knee cap and pull the trigger "And putting my mother in danger made you think you would be safe any better?" I pick him up with one hand and slam him into the window "Anyone else know the info on my mother?" he stutters then spits out his words "No Dev, hell the info fell into my lap anyway. I had you followed by the two you plugged just now. No one else but them an me know." I smile and pull out my other berreta and aim unloading both clips into his chest and he plummets out the window landing head first making any chance of survival doubtful.
I hear his hoods coming up the stairs and they stand in the doorway staring at me, One goes for his gun and without looking I put one between his eyes. The others try to dash for me but a quick burst of fire ends their attempt, i dowse the place in gasoline and set it on fire. Destroying all the evidence and info if their were any.
I take my phone out of my pocket and dial a number "Hey ma, how does Hawai sound huh. I'll make the plans and get you settled in with a house and everything....yes ma ill come back and take care of Mac. I know he cant live on being alone i will come back."
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