Switchblade

Chapter 80: Just Be Normal

Killian walked inside with the cigarette between his lips and his hands in his pockets. One toyed with the switchblade out of habit but he didn't plan on using it.

He saw four men. One of them was an older man around late fifties, early sixties with a scar on his face and an unsettling smile. Segal. Killian didn't care about the other three.

"Ah. The nephew." Segal smiled.
Killian didn't respond. He just removed his cigarette from his lips and exhaled.
"You know I thought you were dead." Segal stated. "All of us did."
Again Killian didn't respond.

Segal stared at him. "You deaf?"
"What do you want me to say, huh?" Killian asked and took a puff of his cigarette. "I'm the nephew you thought was dead. I heard you. I don't care." he shrugged with an annoyed expression.
Segal smiled. "Of course not."
Killian just stared at him and smoked his cigarette.

"Are you the one who's been behind all of the violence against my team?" Segal asked.
"Yea." Killian looked down and flicked his ashes onto the ground.
"Mm. And Drake being gone. You behind that too?"
"Who?" Killian looked back up at him.
Segal just stared.
Killian smiled. "Yea, I might be."

Segal nodded and chuckled.

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Tati drove as quickly as she could with two minutes left to her destination.

She hardly knew where she was going and she didn't know why she was going there to begin with. Throughout the entire ride she kept repeating "what the hell am I doing?" And she has yet to find the answer but something felt off. She was anxious but not for her sake.

She arrived at the building and saw four black SUVs and an ambulance parked quietly in the grass. No one stood outside, but she saw Killian's car, and a black SUV that was different from the other four as well as two smaller black vehicles.
She didn't pull into the gravel, she just parked along the side.

"Who is that?" Silas asked as he looked in his side view mirror.
Kolson looked in the rear view mirror. "I don't know." He continued to stare. "But I think I got an idea." He opened his car door quietly and didn't bother shutting it out of fear it would be too loud.
He walked softly in the grass towards the vehicle.

Tati was staring at her phone and looking at the time. It was 11:42pm.
Two fingers knocked on her window.
She saw Kolson and turned off her car to get out.

"What're you doing here?" he asked immediately as she stood up.
"I-..." She attempted to close her door but Kolson stopped it with his hand. She looked. "I heard his phone call. About coming here and needing an ambulance or cops. He...stresses me out."
"And what were you gonna do about it?"
She looked up at him.
"If anything happened to him. What were you gonna do besides put yourself in danger too?"
"I don't know. But I couldn't stop my feet either."
He just stared down at her. And sighed. "Get in the car. If anything happens to him, I'll call you and let you know."
Tati nodded.

She began to climb back into the car.

"And don't do that again. If he found out we let you be over here, he'd kick our asses." Kolson stated. "You have my nu-..."
Three loud gunshots went off and they both looked towards the building.
Tati stood back up and they both watched a swat team exit the black SUVs and run towards the building. Their shields were up and their guns were out. The paramedics hurried out and began unloading the ambulance.

Tati pushed past Kolson and ran towards the building.
"TATI!" he shouted.

Killian's employees had gotten out of the car and ran over to the building.

"FUCK!" Kolson grunted. He wiped over his face then ran towards the building.

He got inside and saw two swat members for each man on Segal's side dragging them out. Segal was clearly fuming.