The forest

the origins

night fell down , covering the sky with it's most dark shade, in that quiet building, sergey sat in his office quietly, two bodyguards standing in the room around him , nothing but the smell of his cigars and the yellow light of his table lamp spread in the room .

Soon a knock on the door echoed through the silence of this dark space , one of the bodyguards opened the door , as the footsteps made their way into the room , a male voice said: hello sergey.

Sergey turned around in his chair, looking in front of him, as he blew the smoke out of his mouth replied with his deep rough voice : zeck ...

They closed the door .
Zeck stood in front of sergey's desk , with his long black coat and formal tie , with serious expressions on his face he said calmly: we need to talk .

Sergey pointed at the chair for zeck to sit as sergey said : you people rarely if ever come here , so to what do i owe the pleasure?

Zeck played along : funny that you call it pleasure yet your men outside searched me before entering as if i was a stranger sergey.

Sergey blew out some smoke and said : why are you here ?

Zeck : you killed 6 of my men .
Sergey nodded: yes i was informed by that , you shouldn't have crossed your line and hire someone to watch orlovsky , our business is clear you pay me to clean off the government's shit and we keep everything that happened in the past buried between us.

Zeck whispered in anger: that was true before you hired mikhail's son ! What were you thinking? Why is he even here ?

Sergey: i have my own reasons.

Zeck sighed: you own all the records and cases from the past in this building! You cant have him wondering around here until he finds it one day !

Sergey put off the cigarette and said: he belongs to Russia now , you don't need to worry about him .

Zeck sat back in his chair and looked down shaking his leg aggressively.

Sergey said: I watch everything, I've been working in this field for 30 years, I know everything everyone does , tell your superiors to not cross the line with me again , they care for America and I take care of Russian business, if this behaviour is repeated, Russia will take a different response.

Zeck looked at sergey's eyes , holding himself back from exploding, not saying a single word.

Sergey looked down at his desk , handling some paperwork and said calmly: thank you for coming .

Zeck nodded getting up and leaving in anger.

Sergey sat back , the building was empty and quiet again, he let his mind wonder off a little...

June 6 - 1993

Shelekhov-russia

An old big house with a big garden and a huge rooms , as beautiful as it looked on the outside but it was empty and quiet, no big family or friends to fill it , as young sergey sat in his office doing some research on his old bulky computer , a little girl walked in on him , she was 5 years old, blonde hair and a white cute dress with a Teddy bear in her hand , as she said in Russian running towards him : daddy daddy !

Sergey quickly turned off the computer so she wouldn't see anything and picked her up as he sat her in his lap : hello sweetheart.

She said : when are you gonna to the park ? im bored here with the nanny alone , you promised..

Sergey smiled: oh did i ?
She nodded
He replied: well when do you wanna go ?
She said smiling: this evening when you come back from work .
Sergey said: okay , and will you take mr Teddy too ?
She hugged him and laughed: yeah , he has to see the flowers too
Sergey: ooh flowers?
She nodded: mhmm , yellow and red and oh ! Pink ! Just like my favourite colour hehe