Fan Fiction |
by Jenny Tran
At the harbor, Darren took a deep breath before getting out of the car. He placed his sunglasses over his eyes and Brad pulled down the window “Just call for help if you need backup.” He said without looking at Darren.
He nodded “I will.” He nodded to his boys who were already present waiting for his orders. Darren walked towards the pier while his boys walked behind him causing a ripple of stirs in the crowd. Some of the men pointed at the people and scared them away.
Darren was getting closer to the man with his back turned. He was a short guy with a very strong aura. He stopped in his steps when they were a few feet away “I told you, I don’t like to deal with other people around.” The guy’s voice was low and dangerous.
One of Darren’s guys pointed to C.W. “Fuck you! Hung Gor doesn’t have to deal with you, he has plenty of customers!!”
Darren raised a hand coolly to silent the guy “Eh…is that any way to speak to Chris Gor?”
The guy turned with a smirk on his face “So…you found out my name, did you. I underestimated you, Hung Gor.” Suddenly, his lips curled up slyly “What did I say about bringing your men to a tradeoff?”
“I’ve got a memory of a fuckin 80 year old.” Darren said with a laugh as he waved his boys away.
“Hung Gor…” one of the guys said reluctantly.
Darren turned to them with a smile “Don’t worry. If Chris tries anything, his ass will be cut to pieces and thrown into the ocean to feed the fishes.” He turned to Chris threateningly “And I’m sure he doesn’t want that.” He said darkly.
Chris’s smile remained as he nodded “Of course.”
“Leave us.” Darren waved his hand again and his men walked off the pier unsurely. He put up his hands to the side “Happy?”
“Very.” Chris smiled with satisfaction “Come on.” He turned and jumped down a tiny boat that was tied to one of the docs. Darren turned towards Brad one last time before jumping down to join Chris. He began steering the boat out a few hundred yards where a tiny yacht sat waiting for them.
Darren could only hope that Brad saw him and hopefully they would follow him. Chris noticed his concerned look but Darren knew he could not show fear “What’s with the fucking tour?” he growled.
Chris laughed “Right to the point! I love that! That’s why I like working with you. You don’t bullshit around like the other idiots.” He turned away while his eyes hardened “I warned those bastards…don’t mess with C.W…they’ll regret it.”
Darren couldn’t be more confused but it seemed the guy was leaking more information than he could imagine “What did those janitors do to you?”
Chris turned to Darren with wide eyes “How the hell did you know about that?”
Darren snickered “I wasn’t fucking born yesterday! I have men everywhere.” He said coolly.
“Right…I forgot.” Chris sneered “You can blame it on those bastards that chickened out on the tradeoff. Each one promised ‘yes, we’ll do it’.” He mimicked the weak voices “Then the next day they say ‘we want out. We have families to protect and fathers to raise.'” Chris suddenly roared angrily “Fuck them!! Fine, they have fathers to raise… okay, well I’ll just kill their families and they won’t have to worry about them anymore.” He laughed viciously as he recalled the brutal stabbings.
Darren’s eyes moved towards the yacht as Chris controlled the stop and quickly climbed onto the deck. Darren eventually followed “So it was you.”
Chris turned to him with suspicious eyes “What? Are you going to turn me in?”
Darren laughed humorously with his head thrown back “You’ve got fucking balls, you know that?” he commented to Chris before walking into the boat. He blinked his eyes slowly while taking internal breaths. This guy was more dangerous than he could imagine.
They entered a little room with couches and a tiny bar. Chris fixed Darren a drink and himself one as he handed it to him “When are the goods going to be here?” Chris asked.
Darren took off his sunglasses and placed them in his jacket pocket as he slowly crossed his legs “What’s your rush? Planning to kill the entire city?” he was just testing.
“No, just a building…and a group of nuisance people.” His eyes looked distant as he drank his wine.
Darren spread his arms out on the couch as he sat back relaxed “Why the hell would a small guy like you have so much enemies?”
His maddened eyes turned to Darren evilly “They deserve to die…calling themselves good but killing the innocent people. I hate rich people.” He growled, while his eyes dug into Darren as if trying to find his weak spot.
“You’re a sick son of a bitch aren’t you?” Darren asked with a smirk.
Chris laughed whole heartedly “Yes…yes I am!” he got up and pulled out a suitcase from a compartment on the deck floor. It was too heavy for his little body to pull up. Darren sat up curiously while Chris heaved the luggage over to him “I know this is just half the money, but until I get my goods, you won’t get the other half yet.” He opened it to show Darren. Inside was layers of thousand bills in Hong Kong money. “You’ve ever seen so much cash before?”
His mind began to wonder if that was the money he got from Elisa for Darwin’s ransom “Where the fuck did you find so much money?” Darren asked almost in shock “What’d you do? Rob a bank?”
Chris laughed amusingly “Something like that. Do you know about that rich man’s kidnapping?”
“Darwin Wong?” Darren made it seem questionable but in truth, he already knew the answer.
“Very good!” Chris complimented “The big powerful gangster leader has been doing his homework.” He smiled with interest “But your other half of the money will have to come in another week.”
“Why?” Darren’s face frowned.
Chris shrugged “Oh…because I’ve drained that son of a bitch, gotta find myself another bank.”
Darren smiled “Who did you have in mind?”
He bent down on his heels to look at Darren in the eye “You really want to know?”
Darren’s eyes hardened as they stared directly in Chris’s eye. The smirk on his face was unbearable, he wanted to tear it off with his own hands. Suddenly, he thought of the unthinkable “Michael Wu…” he muttered out suddenly.
Chris’s smile faded slowly “Damn! You’re good!” he shook his head “It is being done as we speak.”
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Mia sat in the waiting area while Julie and Nora continued with their work. She looked bored as can be as she began playing with her eyes. Rolling them up and down and left and right until she got dizzy. Suddenly, she grabbed her head to keep it from spinning “I’m bored!!” She belted out causing Nora to jump back startled.
Julie smiled at the girl “Why don’t you take a walk?”
“I can’t…” Mia groaned painfully “Maybe Erin will switch with me?” she wondered out loud.
“Hmph!” Nora snickered.
Mia turned her head over to the girl as she slowly got up and placed her hands over Nora’s desk “If you got something to say, just say it.”
“I don’t talk to low life people.” Nora snarled as she looked up at Mia “Now if you can get your dirty hands off my desk…” she pushed at Mia’s hand.
Mia snapped her hand away and turned over to Julie with a disgusted look on her face “Oh great, she touched me…now I’m gonna have to cut my hand off. Do you have acetone so I can clean off her germs?” she asked Julie.
Nora turned to Julie with desperation “Do you have some kind of pest repellent so I can spray it around my desk?”
Julie was placed between a catfight and she refused to get caught between “I don’t know anything.” She emphasized with a smile.
Their bickering ended there when Michael came out with a suitcase in hand. He instantly saw a tension when Mia turned away from Nora with rolling eyes “Did I miss something?” he asked.
Julie laughed “It’s nothing…the girls were just getting more acquainted.” She glanced at her watch “You ready?”
Mia spun around and faced them “You’re going out, Michael?”
He nodded “I have a meeting. Julie’s coming with me.”
“Why does she get to go?” Nora whined.
“Because I only need one secretary.” Michael explained while he patted Nora on the head.
“I can’t let you go, Michael.” Mia said firmly “Unless you take me with you.”
“No!” Julie cried suddenly. The three of them turned to her strangely “What I meant was, the security is really good there, you don’t have to come along. Plus, I already call the board and said two people would be coming from Wu Enterprises.”
Nora frowned “I don’t want to be here by myself.”
“What? Afraid of roaming spirits?” Mia retorted.
Nora took a hold of Michael’s arm “Please…I don’t want to stay here. I’ve been having nightmares for days. My psychiatrist said that I should be around people more often.”
Mia stifled a laugh “Psychiatrist? Someone’s going kookoo….” She sang teasingly.
Michael shook his head at her with a smile “Nora, if you want you can come along, you can come.”
“But-” Julie was going to decline when Michael put up his hand.
“I’ve decided.” Michael said firmly.
“How about me?” Mia asked.
Michael nodded “You can keep Nora company. I know there is a waiting room where visitors are welcomed.”
Mia rolled her tongue around as if having a bad after taste “I think I’d rather stay over night at the mortuary.”
Michael laughed as he nodded to the girls “Come on. We don’t want to be late.” Julie reluctantly followed behind. When they reached downstairs and waited for his limo to pull up. Michael noticed Mia looking around “What is it, Mia?”
She turned to him “Where’s Erin and Ted?”
“Our car’s here!” Julie announced as she pointed to the black limo.
Michael opened the door for the girls “After you beautiful ladies.” Mia was the last to go inside as she was still looking around for her friend “You can give them a call when we get there.” He assured.
She eventually nodded and entered the limo. The window connected to the driver was close and they heard a short click, locking the doors. Mia suddenly had an uneasy feeling as she stepped over to the seat next to the window and tapped it “Driver!” she called.
The driver in the black suit and hat turned to her with a slow smile. Mia backed up in her seat as her heart began to race. Michael saw her strange reaction as he asked “Mia, what’s the matter?”
Mia pointed to the driver and then looked at Michael fearfully “Reina…” she managed to stutter out. The two quickly reached for the door and tried to unlock it.
Nora looked scared as she looked from the driver to the two panicking “What are you guys doing?”
“Get out of the car!!” Mia cried. She shook at the door but it was locked from the driver seat. Suddenly a thick gray fog began to fill the car. She quickly covered her mouth with one hand and then covered Michael’s mouth with her free hand. But it was too late, the anesthetic odor had seeped through their noses and entered their lungs. Slowly one by one they fell onto the seat unconscious.