Seems like a good enough plan for you. You grab you boots and coat and dart out the door. You get to the street and scramble through your coat pocket to find your keys. You fling them out of your coat and onto the ground. You pick them up and get into the car. You make a sharp you turn and subtly follow Fleck’s pickup truck.
“I’m coming for you, baby. I promise. I’ll find you.”
You follow Fleck for two hours until he finally stops, and gets out of his truck. He pulls the fliers out of his back pocket and begins posting them on poles and Bulletin boards. He hands one flier out to each person that passes by him until one man comes by and stops to talk to him. At that moment you get out of your car and inch towards the two men. You hide behind the wall of the post office and listen in on the conversation.
“You found that stupid girl yet?”
“No, she’s been hidden well sir.”
“I don’t care if God himself has the girl, I’m not paying you to be an idiot! Now you had better find that girl in two weeks or you are dead. Got it?”
“Yes sir, and I understand that sir. I’ll have her for you, I swear on my life.”
You here footsteps as the man walks away. You decide it’s safe to poke your head out around the corner. The second you round the corner of the post office you hear a gun being shot. You look down at your side, and clench it. You fall to the ground and look up towards the sky, you can feel the world fading from beneath you.
“You should never have followed your gut. You see, that was always your problem. You believe too much, you have too much hope. Look where that got you.” Fleck stands over you with a gun pointed towards your head. “Yeah, that’s right. I took the girl. I have the girl, and it seems as though you are never going to find her now are you? She’s worth a fortune to those men, witness protection is useless these days huh? She’s dead, sweetheart. That man, I gave her to him. He’s the one who murdered her grandmother, her brother, her mom, her dad, and now her. Funny cycle right? Anyways I’m rich, she’s dead, he’s off the hook, everyone’s happy. Your ambition was a worry for us. We couldn’t have you finding out what really happened to her now could we? Well, I’m rambling. I suppose this really is goodbye. Forever.” He takes one last shot through your eyes.
It would seem as though you made the wrong choice. Although I must applaud you, you are very brave. You must really want to find that girl. Oh well it’s too late now, you died. At least you know what happened to her though, right?
