** A month later***
” Get out of here! This ain’t no charity organization”, the restaurant owner said to me as he shooed me out. ” Just one meal man, I haven’t eaten in weeks”, I said to him, but he wouldn’t budge but rather kept shooing me and threatening to let the dogs out on me. So I left. ” Who’d have thought life was so strict?”, I thought as I walked aimlessly on the streets. A lot of people presumed that I was nuts and just avoided me in case. ” I should never have listened to Tristan, that bastard. He just abandoned me to die in this place”, I muttered as I staggers along the way. Then I heard lots of people mumbling something and looked only to see a crowd of people gathered somewhere. ” What could that be?”, I wondered. I knew better than to just blend in with the crowd. I reeked of sweat and alcohol. I drew in closer.
” What is it?”, I asked. Everyone looked at me disdainfully as I asked. Then one woman there explained how there was a car accident and glass had pierced the girl’s stomach. I got to take a look and she was bleeding profusely. ” Everyone give me some space”, I said. ” What the hell do you think you’re trying to do?”, someone in the crowd asked.
” I’m a surgeon by profession and I think I can get the glass out and stop the bleeding if you guys help out”, I said to the crowd. They all looked at each other as if wondering if they should let me touch the little girl. I couldn’t blame them, I didn’t particularly look like a doctor anymore.
” Alright, do what you can, we’ll help out”, a guy from the crowd said. ” Get me some soap and water and probably some liquor”, I said. They brought it and I washed my hands and then disinfected it with the liquor. ” Can I get a pair of scissors, along with a needle and a thread?”, I asked. Someone immediately handed them to me. I took out the glass from her wound and stitched the wound to prevent further bleeding. Then I cut a piece of cloth from her shirt and soaked it in liquor, before using it to wrap the wound.
” Alright, I’ve stopped the bleeding. Now someone call an ambulance”, I said as I got up and began to walk out of the crowd through the bustling.
” Wait a minute mister!”, a woman said to me as she ran towards me from the crowd. ” Yes?”, I responded.
” Uhmmm, don’t be offended, but are you the one who treated my daughter before the ambulance arrived?”, she asked.
” Well yes…. I just stopped the bleeding that’s all. It was nothing much”, I said.
” I’d like to appreciate you somehow”, she said, ” would you like me eat dinner at my place this evening?”, I asked.
It was a great offer especially since I hadn’t eaten in a long time. ” Alright, I’ll come over in the evening. Thanks for the offer”, I said. I was about bro walk away when she called again….
” Uhmm wait!”, she said only to become more shy later, ” Would you like to stay at my place? I don’t mean sound rude, but I’ve been hearing rumors about you moving on the streets at night, so I was wondering if you would like to be staying at my place with me and my daughter”, she said. I was dumbfounded, like literally at a loss for words.
” Thank you very much”, I said as tears welled up in my eyes. I used my hands to wipe the tears. ” Are you crying? I didn’t really mean anything rude”, she said. ” No it’s not that”, I said with a smile, ” it’s just that all the people I had met to help me out literally chased me away, so I am quite shocked that you offered to help. That’s why”, I said as she led me and we walked together to her place.
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*** At Justin’s Office***
” I want to talk to the CEO of Kelly Medicals”, I told my secretary. He looked perplexed. ” But you just talked with Tristan on the phone recently”, he said. ” No it’s not Tristan I’m talking about, I mean the real CEO, his dad”, I said to him. ” But no one has heard from his dad in quite a while”, said my secretary. “I want you to do an investigation and get as much information as you can about his father’s condition and do it without troubling any waters okay?”, I said, to which he nodded affirmatively. ” Consider it done sir”, he said as he left.
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*** At the secretary’s house***
” Hmmm, these guys are good”, I muttered as I stared at the info on my desk. I looked at the pictures of Tristan getting out of suspicious buildings. ” These guy is more shady than I thought”, I muttered as I checked my laptop for stolen files from Kelly Medicals. From the files, it was quite obvious that the company had been laundering money from the company to fund multiple criminal organizations and the dates of such transactions seemed to correlate with the period of time during which Tristan began to take charge of the company.
Just then, my phone rang. It was Justin. ” Good evening sir”, I greeted. ” You can drop the formalities when we’re outside the office John. Anyway any leads on Mr Kelly’s location?”, he asked. ” Well, I’ve got an update on his location. I think he’s at an abandoned factory, being held hostage by workers of Tristan”, I said, ” I plan on going there tonight “, I added. ” No, don’t do that. We’ll raid the place with the police tomorrow”, he said. ” They’d get the update if we make any major moves like that. Plus I think they’ve got a rat in the police too”, I told him. ” Alright, we’ll figure out another way so just stay put tonight okay?”, he said to me. ” Alright, I got it. We’ll see what we can do tomorrow. Goodnight”, I said, to which he responded the same before hanging up.
” Like hell I’m waiting till tomorrow”, I thought. ” Those guys will quickly figure out any big moves we make. But they surely won’t see me coming and I’ll surely get some leads from there too”, I said. I put on a black hoodie and black jeans. I was walking to the front door when my sister called me me. ” You’re going out tonight, Johnny?”, she asked. She is just three years younger than me, but acts like our mother. ” Uhmmm yeah, I’ll be back soon”, I said to her. ” Alright, just make sure you get back before midnight”, she said to me.
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I drove to the outskirts of the city where the abandoned factory was and parked at a considerable distance from it. I walked to the entrance of the factory. While hiding behind some metal junk, I observed the entrance for a while. ” Hmmm, well what do you know? No guards”, I muttered. I used my binoculars to look around in case there was anything suspicious, but I could only see two men moving around with guns casually and they were a bit far away from the entrance. So I snuck in, running with my upper body bent downwards like a ninja. I had a taser with me and a handgun. The first man was making a phone call. From the conversation it seemed like he was talking to a girl. Meanwhile the other one just sat on the hood of one of the scrappy cars abandoned in the factory premises and was smoking a cigarette. I had my eyes set on the one on the car and fortunately, he was the one closest to me. I was behind a couple of oil barrels behind the car he sat on. ” Alright, here we go”, I muttered as I aimed my stungun at him. I shot at him which made him fall off the car and pass out on the ground with his body twitching occasionally. I tiptoed towards the next guy, who was still on a call. I went up behind him and put him in a choke hold from behind. He pulled up his pistol and tried to shoot. My eyes widened as I realized the gravity of what would happen if that gun got fired. I let go of the chokehold and held his wrist in an attempt to stop the gun from getting fired. But he suddenly punched me in the face. Meanwhile, I twisted his wrist till it snapped and he let go of the gun, and was about to scream before I knocked him out with a punch.
” Geez he’s face is damn too hard! nearly broke my arm”, I said as I struggled to get my fist to stop hurting. ” Alright, it’s time to see what’s inside this junkyard”, I said as I snuck into the factory building. It was dark, like really dark. ” Perhaps I should turn on a flashlight”, I thought. ” Nah that’ll just make me get caught” I realized. I snuck in and soon started hearing some sounds coming from a corner of the building. I began tiptoeing towards the sound and continued quietly, when a couple of mice ran right across my feet.
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