Estella stories - episode 004 - The beginning of Estella

part 03 A floor in the plan

There was a long pause no one moved.
Salvador raised his arms to the side in annoyance "what are you standing looking at me for! Go! Go?! Go now for fucks sake! What is standing around looking at me like fucking morons going to do?!" they ran out the room in a hurry they knew that if they didn't do the job exactly the way Salvador wanted they would end up being blood on the carpet, and even if they did to it, they would probably die anyway from the gang, they figured going out honourably from the gang was better than going out from their own boss. When they were out the room, Salvador stood up putting his hands behind his back turning to the window watching the rain beat against the glass "they better not fuck up!" he went back to his desk grabbing a bell ringing it a few times waiting. People quickly rushed in, he pointed his gun at the body on the ground bleeding into the carpet "clear up this mess at once, and get me a new carpet!" they grabbed the carpet the body was on wrapping his up and carrying him out, 2 people began cleaning the floor from any leftover blood doing it fast like they had done it hundreds of times before, because they had. People came in the room placing down a new carpet leaving the room exactly the same as they had left it. Salvador sat back down as a man asked "what do you need us to do with the body" he sat back down just as his cigar burnt out as he replied "feed him to the dogs, they haven't been fed in so very long they will welcome the meal, and burn the carpet, we can't have any evidence this happened" the men left the room with their orders in hand.
Later on that night.
The doors of the main gang base were exploded open. 10 men with machine guns, black uniform and hockey masks entered quickly. They went through the base shooting and screaming for the men to get on the ground, or they would be shot. The gang were taken by surprise but attempted to fight anyway, so they had to kill half of them before the others surrendered knowing they weren't going to win. The gang members looked for the leaders discovering there were 2 gang leaders which made things a little more difficult because they had to work out which one had all the information they required. They tied them to a chair then began to ask them some questions not wanting to hurt them because if they did and accidentally kill them, they may as well be digging their own graves "listen, the boss wants to know some information, and you are the guys who have it" one of the gang leaders were wearing an eye patch and slicked back hair, they could tell he was scared but trying to look tough, he had his hands behind his back, so it didn't look like he was shaking "we don't know anything, and we ain't telling you nothing" the man smacked the leader round the face "this could get a lot worse if you don't give us what we want, and we have all night, see we don't have a lot of time which means you don't have any, you have no power here we do" suddenly they heard loud booming sirens and the flash of scarlet and dark blue flashing sirens through the windows. The gang members looked at each other confused and scared, they believed that the police was under Salvador's control, so they shouldn't even be a factor, but there they were, and they hadn't planned for that. The police stormed into the room guns held before them prepared to fire. They demanded for the crew to drop their weapons and get on the ground if they didn't want to get shot. They laid their guns to the ground and got to their knees with their hands on their heads. The gang members were all arrested and taken to the station. However, that didn't scare them it was Salvador's reaction and anger when he found that they were scared of. He killed a man for asking questions; what would he do to them when he found out? That thought terrified them, but there was nothing they could do about it, they knew Salvador basically owned the police, and he was probably already on his way to them as they were being booked in.
The men sat in their cell.
They were shaking with fear as they heard the crashing thunder and lightening outside along the assault of rain ascending upon the city like even nature was on Salvador's side. They knew that Salvador had no such thing as fear however he had become a master of using it, the weather was almost announcing his arrival. A black car slowly arrived outside, Salvador stepped out with a black umbrella. Wearing a top hat and sunglasses despite the rain. He began to walk towards the station holding a black cane for no reason, his shiny black shoes splashed in the puddles around the station. He walked up the steps, the police who were leaving the station all stayed out his way looking at him like he was the devil. He went into the station through the double doors banging them off the walls of the entrance way. The moment he stepped inside the station fell into silence as everyone seemed to just stop trying not to make eye contact with the man who owned the system.
When he entered the station.
His shoes made a loud clacking sound echoing around the entire room. The moment the doors opened lightening flashed overhead marking his arrival. All the policemen stood up as a sign of respect and fear for their leader. He placed his cane in an umbrella stand then let down his umbrella placing it next to the cane. He removed his sunglasses observing the room seeming to enjoy the feeling of fear. He stepped further into the room "I do believe there has been some mistake" he went to a desk randomly picking up a file beginning to read it "today you have arrested 10 of my subjects, and I am going to need them to be released, right now" no one moved "open the cage, now" he said calmly, they still didn't move "please!" his voice echoed around the room, and he knew it wasn't going to be that easy. His eyes scanned the room until he arrived at the man with the keys. Salvador approached him getting uncomfortably close sighing deeply "open, the, cage" he said slowly. The policemen shook his head "I can't do that" Salvador nodded "you're new here aren't you?" he nodded "see that's interesting, I do my research all my officers" the policemen interrupted him "I am not your officer" Salvador yelled "you do not interrupt me!" he sighed "don't interrupt, I don't care if you like it or not, you are mine. Now open the cage, or my men go to a certain house, 1-2-7 bridge street and pay a visit to a little girl, and then well you can do the math, do the right thing and open the cage" the man paused for a second then opened the cage bowing his head in shame like so many others had before. His men got out the cells "Salvador, we are so sorry for our failure" he smiled going to the young man "you seem to value yourself as a leader, do you not?" the man looked at the others then replied "no sir, no I do not" "see, I think you do, you said our mistake that indicates to me that you speak for them, do you not? That is a leader to me. I see no one else stepping forward. It doesn't matter you will all be punished either way, but please know I have an amount of respect for you. Go get in the car now" he managed to stay calm, although his body was pulsing with rage with a bullfrog. They went outside holding their heads low in shame. Salvador went past police desks leaving wet footprints behind looking at all the desks. He simply grabbed his cane and umbrella.
Salvador glared at the police.
His stare was strong enough to melt right through them "don't allow this to happen again or there will be consequences, please remember I know every aspect of your life from birth to right now, I know who your families are, I know what you all care about the most, and I can take it away in a heart beat" he snarled as he reached into his inside pocket. That made all the police gasp in fear thinking he was going for his gun. However, it was just his sunglasses. He slipped them on nodded then proceeded to leave the room leaving a silence even crickets were too terrified to interrupt. He went to one of the 4 cars outside. The others drove ahead containing the gang members. Salvador rode on his own drinking a whisky knowing what was happening next.