Night Before the Swing

Word from Christian Mason

Christian sat worried inside his luxurious boat, thinking about the sirens and gunshots he heard as the boat started floating away. He and Neaty sprawled on the floor, taking their son down with them when the ricochet broke out. When they were a little further, Mason called Lieutenant Creek and demanded answers. Mason had paid close to half a million in cash for the operation to go smoothly and the sirens and gun shots were not part of the demands he laid down for his workers. The guards at Danver already lost his four million by letting an imposter drive out with bags without any verification. All he had left was a measly sixteen million instead of twenty. As if that wasn't enough, the control room stopped recording when the garbage collectors approached the gate. This was to protect him but it ended up working against him. Thanks to that, they'll probably never know who stole his cash.

The government ministers in the transport portfolio and international affairs who were funded by him during their last electoral campaigns, made sure he had the best people working on this escape project. The president is not a friend but he too knows his importance in the political sphere. All who'll be running for elections the following term, will need him again so he knew prison was never going to be his home. A criminal like Christian is an important part of society in that sense. Prominent people don't care where the money comes from. They're need for excessive power and dominance is greater than delivering justice. Everybody is important but some are more important than others and also more useful in society. And because of this fact, Christian never ended an important person's life. None of the people found buried by him were contributing members of society and it frustrated him that nobody was asking what those people were doing to better the society.

When a law abiding member of society is dying in hospital because his kidneys are failing; it makes no sense why a street beggar with a perfectly healthy organ should be allowed to keep annoying him every time he stopped at a traffic light. Why should a woman with no job, children or ambition in life, have a better functioning body than that of a mother of four, who is a bread winner at home. Christian always chose the organ donors carefully. He also made sure that they were well sedated too when he cut them open for the precious organs. Most of them were still unconscious when he buried them so they actually died peacefully.

*There was that one he needed to help die with a brick because he came to consciousness unexpectedly*

Either than that, Christian has simply helped good societal members of the world get their lives back. Murderers kill because they're evil but his actions brought joy to many families. As a medical practitioner, he has to make these decisions every day.

Christian greatly believed that if anyone was to blame for the bodies found at his old home, it should be the government. There is a worldwide shortage of organs for transplantation and instead of legalizing the commercial trade of human organs; they let professionals like him make the hard decisions. Iran is the only country whose government has stepped up and legalized the selling and buying of body parts. Seventy percent of people who donate there are poor and are only doing it for food or survival but who cares what the reasons are? People make money for saving others. And although Iranian donors experience high negative outcomes health wise and emotionally; Christian still believed democratic freedom should include organ donation.

The poor legal donors get paid peanuts compared to what Mason gets. For a kidney, a legal donor in Iran gets paid between $2000 and $4000 but every time Christian sold it on the black market; the same kidney made him $150 000 or more. Black market transplants can be dangerous with some containing hepatitis or HIV but Christian seriously doubted that someone would choose death over a functioning organ with HIV.

The $150 000 plus was split with many other middle men but Christian always got the biggest piece of the pie because he was the one who did the actual work-work. Others simply had to communicate, transport and deliver. Transplant tourism, organ trade also known as Red market and the crime he's being accused of wouldn't be a problem if the leaders of the state did what Christian thought was right; legalize the buying and selling of body parts.