Dazed & Confused

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[8:30am]
{Corey's POV}

I walk down the hall of the Panic base and head straight to Nate's room, knocking on the door and placing my hand on the doorknob.
"Who is it?" I hear Nate yell through the door.
"Corey." I state, taking my hand off the doorknob and listening carefully as I hear footsteps and things moving from behind the door. Suddenly, Nate opens the door. It's been so long since I've seen his face.
"Come in," Nate says quietly, moving away from the door, letting me in and closing the door behind me. I lift up the bag in my hand and throw it to Nate. Nate catches it and gives me a confused look as he sets the bag down, opening it, revealing a leather jacket with "WESTSIDE PANICS' " on it and a biohazard symbol with a skull in the middle on the back as our logo. Sam explained to me that its meant to create some sort of a fear factor in people when they see it considering how intimidating it looks. Thanks to Sam's master thinking. Nate looks at it in awe,
     "We can get you a flannel one if you'd like. And you can sew patches on the sleeves if you want to. That's what me, Aryia, and Griffin have done with ours." Nate lowers the jacket and looks at me.
     "This is sick dude!" Nate exclaims with excitement.
     "I know. We decided to actually make us a gang. Initiation is in a week and a half. Friday through Wednesday is when we're building and making our second base. This base is where we live, the second base is where we do all our gangsters shit." Nate laughs a bit in amazement.
    "Is that where your taking me next Friday?" Nate asks with excitement,
     "Yep. And by the way, there's more in the bag." I say quickly. Nate glances at me before digging through the bag, finding a bunch of tweaked tools that can work by themselves with just one click. They can also adjust shape and come to Nate on command. Sam made them himself. He's good at technology stuff, so is Griffin.
     "This is fucking awesome dude!" Nate says with so much excitement and amazement in his voice.
     "How did you guys make these?!" Nate turns to me with a Spanner in his hands, its mostly gray and mental but the center part of it is a glowing blue. That's where Sam put the chip.
     "We didn't. Someone else did. And you'll figure out who on Friday." Nate gives me a pouty look before putting the stuff back in the bag and hiding it in his closet.
     "When is everyone else getting their own?" Nate asks, stuffing the bag on the upper shelf in his closet.
     "Tomorrow, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. I'll be delivering them to everyone one by one. You and everyone else will join us for the initiation next Friday." Nate nods. Should I ask him? I really wanna know but I don't know if I should ask. Oh fuck it.
     "Do you know what they did with Elton?" I hesitantly ask quietly. Nate freezes before sighing. Shit, it's probably not good.
     "They locked him in the second garage outside. He's chained up and beaten pretty badly." Shit. God dammit. Of course that happened.
     "I'm sorry Corey..." Nate stands up straight and looks at me sympathetically.
     "No it's fine. I'm just gonna go now. I'll see you next Friday." I quickly head out, back to my car and to Aryia's place. God dammit. I knew I shouldn't have asked. Now I feel bad. Fuck. I hate how I love him, even after everything. I'm such a idiot.

[At The Bohnes Base]
{Colby's POV}

I huff in anger as I stomp into the building. Everyone turns and glances at me, clearly sensing the anger coming off of me. He's going to pay for reassigning me to the base. He ruined everything. My plan, my life, everything. He always gets in the way. I'll show him. I'll ruin his career, his life, I'll make him pay. I storm into the office room where all of our best men and our Boss is.
"We're going to kill Samuel. This isn't Michael's order, it's mine. Michael is too big of a pussy to call the shots on Golbach. So I will. Got it?" I look at every single one of my best men, everyone in the room now looking at me. They all nod eagerly before getting up, heading out to leave before the Boss stops them.
"Stay," The Boss demands. Everyone stops and slowly sits back down.
"You're giving orders without permission from Michael." The Boss states, speaking with no emotion, but looking at me with amusement in his eyes.
"I know. But like I said Boss, he's not going to call the shots. We know Golbach is alive. We need him dead." The boss nods before standing up.
"Maybe I picked the wrong man to be the boss," He says as he puts his hands behind his back, walking slowly around the long table, towards me.
"I should've choosen you." I grin, finally. I'll get what I've been wanting for so long. I get all the power and control. I'll rule this world. Everyone will fear me. Sam will be dead. I won't have to worry about him. And I'll take everyone else under my control. They'll all be at my feet. And they'll have no other choice.
"But before I can reassign you two. You'll need to prove to everyone else that you can be a good boss." I stand up straight and look the boss dead in his eyes.
"Done. Just tell me what to do and I'll do it." The Boss chuckles a bit before turning away from me, walking by me, back to his seat.
"You'll have to complete a series of tasks for the next 6 months." The boss grabs a pack of files underneath a small pile of files by his seat on the table. He walks over to me and hands it to me.
"Complete them all and the role is all yours." The Boss tilts his head a bit before I grab the files, making him smirk. I open the files, seeing a list of targets, a list of people I need to turn into prostitutes for us, a list of drugs I have to traffic, and afterwards, a ritual I have to partake in to fully be initiated as the boss of the Bohnes Mafia. I look up and see the Boss is all packed up, with his suit case in hand, heading out of the office room. He stops by me,
"Don't let me down Cole." With that, he walks out without a sound. I look up at our best men.
"I want you guys to send out a message to all the Mafias around California, Kansas, and Las Vegas, that's all the places Samuel would go to, tell them that there is a 100 Billion bounty on Samuel. Make sure to include the other Mike, Colby, and Elton in this. For now, I want you guys to hunt Samuel down. If you guys can take him down, or even bring him to me, I'll reward you greatly. Don't fail me." I close the files and walk out to my bedroom. By the end of this year, Samuel will be dead. I will make sure of that. For now, he's a dead man walking.