Chapter 16 : The Discussion

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-                  When I got home I had a schedule to keep. I researched the case about Gena through the police system. It showed she'd been booked but immediately paid bail. She was released.
-                I checked the video surveillance of the police station to see if there were any gaps. There wasn't any. I invited Chris and Marc back over to discuss a plan to sabotage the police station. They created a virus that causes all the police channels to get ram-sacked with calls. It'll make them busy enough to not pay attention and send most of their units out. I pulled up next to outside the police station gates. When they released the virus it shut down their power grid and everything went dark. Chris sent a mechanic ahead to shut down the back up generators. I cracked open and walked through the emergency exit door. I had the blueprints to the station. Once I got in , I went straight to the evidence locker. "Hey Jim , I need to get back there and grab something , just let me through and I got you lunch tomorrow on me", I said trying my best to sound like Rhodes. For some reason , he believed me and opened the door. I walked in and slept him with a right hook to the jaw.
-              My main focus was trying get the guns they took from Marcus and Donte's basement from the arrest. The trial was due to start tomorrow and without the evidence , it would go to shit. I grabbed their boxes and loaded it onto a cart , then pushed it out the evidence room door. Someone else was standing there and said "Well alright you in a hurry", as he started laughing. I kept pushing until I got to the emergency exit door again and pushed it through. Once I was out I started loading the boxes into my back seat. After I was done , I pushed the cart into the door so it would shut. When I pulled off , I gave Chris and Marc they go ahead to stop the virus.
-              I drove to the graveyard a couple blocks from the station. I buried them right on top of some of the graves then patted it down to make it look normal. My next stop was home , but when I got there Scott's team were there. "He's missing , he never goes missing without letting us know first", said his second in command. I'm guessing he must've ditched them or lost them on the way there. I walked downstairs to see Chris and Marc knocked unconscious. I pulled my guns and started firing rounds above me through the floor and at the door. I dropped the clips and reloaded , by then they'd already starting charging downstairs. I started busting as many rounds as I could before running out of ammo. I managed to take down 5 of the 7 , including the 2 upstairs. They pointed their guns at my face as they stood , side to side. Then I heard a loud gun shot , glass shatter and their bodies drop. I seen someone get in a truck and drive off afterwards.
-                  While I was bagging the bodies up I got a call. It was my dad.  " As salamu alaikum wa rahmatullah wa barakatuhu " ,  he said from the phone. " Wa alaikum salam wa rahmatullah wa barakatuhu " , I replied. "Thanks for making this so easy", he said sarcastically. "Thanks for being a father", I said back. "I'll see you when I see you", he said , "F.Y.I. You might wanna take care of those cops while you can" , then hung up. I figured if Scott was a mole then that means he probably didn't even kidnap Rhodes mother or Micks son. Either I was going to get them back.
-                   I drove to Rhodes house after reloaded and get more ammo for my guns. I jumped the gate and went around back quietly. I seen the tv in the kitchen was on and his mom and him coming together. I waited until I seen him go to the bathroom. I opened the back door , and put my gun to her head. I slept her with a quick hit and carried her out the door with me as I shut it. I put her in my car and drove off. I left a note on his car "your mom's the best" , with a smiley face on it. Next stop was Will's house. Once I pulled up on him , his men were outside ready for war. I walked around the block and jumped the fence behind his house , then jumped another to get in his yard. I threw a brick at the back-door guard's head. I tackled him into the other one and they both fell off the step and hit the floor hard.
-            I cracked open the door. I walked into the door and ran up the steps to the backroom. It was a guard in the hallway who was attempting to pull his side piece , "Don't. You'll be dead and I'll be a murderer. We'll both regret it. I'll pay you to look the other way", I said while pulling out cash. "He paying me $200 an hour to stand guard out here", said the guard as he was looking at me count my money. "Here , keep the change", I said as I handed him $500 , "I just need 2 minutes and it'll be quick". He nodded his head at me. I walked in and put my gun to his head and made him walk out. As we walked out the back door , the guard began getting up , "Stay down. For your own sake", I said as I tossed him $500 just as I did the man guarding the room. He didn't want to jump the wall so I knocked him out with the gun and told the guards , "Whoever gets him over this wall , gets $1000 clean." They rushed over there and tossed him over the wall. I gave them their money and jumped. On the other side I picked him up and threw him in the backseat of my car , just as Rhodes mother was.
-                  I pulled off onto the highway. I'd borrowed a warehouse from a guy who owed me a favor. I still paid him $5,000 for it. I tied them up and let them hang by the shackles on their wrist. I duck taped their mouths , just in case they wanted to scream. Once I had it covered, I called Rhodes. "Rhodes. I believe we both have something each other wants. Let's make a trade. Rico's Warehouse , a straight shot down Highland Avenue then turn right on Terrace , you have 30 minutes and bring Micks with you too", I said as I hung up before he could even speak.
-                When they arrived , they both pulled up in their cars with blazing speed. Rhodes got out the car and pulled his gun , "You son of a bitch , get her down now". "Not before seeing my mother and that she's okay", I said with a straight face. Micks looked to see if William was alright before going to his car. " You can see , but I'm not saying she's alright " , said Micks as he took off his hat. " Fuck you mean she ain't alright ? " , I asked as I stepped a couple paces forward. " Well we tried to get answers and she wouldn't budge " , said Rhodes with a cocky ass smile. I walked around to the back of their car. She was alive but was fucked up. Half of her fingers were bent the opposite way. And she couldn't talk. I went pass them and kneed Will in the gut. "Hey , that wasn't called for", said Micks. I broke one of Rhodes moms fingers. He was flabbergasted after that and pull gun out, "I'll kill you", he said as he walked forward towards me with it pointed me. I grabbed the gun and we started wrestling over it and bullets went flying. When we were done I was on the floor crawling backwards to take cover behind my car but was still shooting. Micks pulled his gun and atarted shooting back and took cover behind his car. Rhodes ran to his mom to check on her like a momma's boy as she cried out in pain. I shot under the cars and hit Micks in the ankles. He dropped and I put a bullet right through his eyes. I turned as Rhodes was focused on getting his mother down. As he was trying , her eyes got bigger and I shot him in the back twice. He walked forward a couple steps past his mom and then fell forward. I got up and shot him in the temple to be sure he was dead.
-                 I went to pick my moms up and put her in my backseat , "Come on. I got you." "Jabriel", she mumbled as if she was severely dehydrated. I could tell by how crusty the outer side of mouth was. Before I got in the car , I put both of them in their trunks. I stabbed William in the esophagus so he was bleeding out by the second. I left them hanging. They'd die eventually , because I reserved the space for a week. I took the dashcam from the front of their cars. I pressed the button to lift them more higher in the air. They were about 30 feet in the air.  I put a row of spikes under them. If they managed to get out of the tight shackles , then they'd die for the jump. Especially Rhodes mom. "Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi rajiun". Then I left.
-             I took my mom back to Camden to my house where she got nursed back to health. I bought a nurse under the table who live a couple blocks from here. I led her in blindfolded so she wouldn't see where I lived or what room she was in until I unblinded her. She took good care of my moms for about a week. Checking her vitals , popping her fingers back in place , feeding her and all. I paid her $2,000 for helping that week and another $3,000 to keep her mouth shut. Because we were in the hood I figured that'll do. When she got up she wanted to talk but I thought it was best that she'd get as much sleep as she can.
-           I went to the basement to check up on what had been said about the warehouse. Nothing much really. Two cops , a man and an elderly were found dead in the wear house . It was Camden nobody cared , but in Philly they threw a fit. The P.P.D. were out on a massive hunt for who was responsible. They went asking questions about who they were with. Who they paid the most visits to. Of course my name came up but I no longer lived in philly so the house was still a reck after the "breaking and entering" with blood on the floor. They kept searching throughout for anything , but good nothing. They bought the cop from the evidence locker since he "talked to Rhodes". They seen the missing evidence and called it. That's when the hunt definitely came down. They'd figured out Donte and Marcus were my cousins and that I probably stole the evidence while the grid was shut down. But they still couldn't find me.
-                On the day of their funeral ,  I dressed prepared for the occasion. I filled my gas tank and loaded up my weapons. Knowing philly , a cop funeral had the whole block secured and on top of the buildings. " Officers Micks and Rhodes were truly good men. They did exactly what they signed up for. To protect. And to serve. I'm sure they went out in a blaze of glory. For whoever that son of a bitch is. Just know we're coming for you. For taking these good men lives", said the chief of police as he pointed at their pictures and begun crying. I seen Gena at the funeral. She'd walked up to the podium to speak as she patted the chief on his back. "I can name countless nights when there was shooting outside my window and they came to check on every last person on my block to see if we were okay. Truly good people. I just can't believe this treachery. Who'd do such a thing ? Why ? It was unfair to do such a thing. My condolences to their families", she said as she stepped down wiping her nose dramatically with her tissue. I wanted to grab her and interrogate but she was around too many cops and too much in the open. I'd just have to wait for my chance.
-               I suspected she told the police who I was and they should be searching for me based on the fact that they kept hearing my name. I monitored her call logs , text , and emails to ensure anybody she communicated with was to be brought down with her if they were dirty. I started digging deeper into her file. She was in foster care as a child and adopted into a family who had one child. The family's name and Child's name were blacked out the screen to show someone had permanently locked its file. I got the address and routed the last known owners for the past 32 years. She was adopted at 6 years old. I had to run a background check on every last one which would take hours so I left my computer system to funnel through them and do the dirty work.
-          It would take hours so I got up and cooked some spaghetti with garlic bread. My moms favorite. She came the stairs in a calming manner as if she was relieved and we begun to eat. "Have you talked to your father lately ?", she asked as she twirled her noddles and meat together. " Yeah. Here and there. He's been his real usual self lately. Being a ghost and not speaking " , I said as I put Parmesan cheese across my food. " That's your father for you. Barely speaking unless need be. At least you're okay " , she said as she raised her glass for a toast , " To family. " "To family", we toasted and I drunk my Sierra Mist. We started telling old stories and laughing at old times. By the end of dinner we were on par with each other as we were before all the nonsense.
-                 I took a shower and layed down for sleep. The computer would be done searching through until morning. My mom was safe. Our lives weren't really in danger. I told my moms not to go to the basement because that's where I was working and I didn't want her to touch anything so she pretty much just stayed upstairs and watched tv. As I closed my eyes I could finally feel myself breath again. "Bismika Allahumma amutu wa ahyaa".

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