10 - A loyalty proof

There was a weird feeling in prison. Everyone knew what was about to happen and everyone should take a side. Along those days, Malick and Patrick started to get closer. Little by little they started trusting in each other. But Patrick was not a kind of person that trusted in people very easily. His father taught him that. He needed something more. A loyalty proof. Patrick knew how many prisoners were on his side, but he did not know if Malick was one of them. The present king of drug bussiness in prison was a fifty-year old man that was known as The Executive. The reason why he was known by that nickname is not the obvious one. He was not exactly an executive. Prior to his entrance in prision he was a hired assassin. And when he murdered somebody he used to cut the troat and stick the tongue out so it looked like a tie. Therefore, Patrick was confronting a really dangerous man. Someone that was not afraid of anything. Someone who had a cool mind. But Patrick also had those qualities, he thought. He had showed them before. It was a rainy evening, and everything was weirdest than it used to be. Everyone was specially nervous and Patrick felt it. He was with Malick in their prison cell when, suddenly, The Executive and two of his prisoners entered in the prison cell. They closed the cell's door and offered a game to Patrick in order to show who deserved to be the king and who deserved to be the fool. The Executive took a weapon out of his trousers and explained the game to Patrick. They were going to play the Russian roulette, The Executive said. Everybody knew what that game was about. And so did Patrick. His expression showed a deep terror. Malick was shocked. That man always seemed very brave and self-confident. But aim yourself and aim somebody else were different things. For Patrick pulling the trigger to kill someone was easy, but the possibility of dying was something Patrick was not used to. But if he wanted to control the bussiness in prision he had to do it. He accepted the game. And suddenly, when Patrick was about to seat on the chair to confront his uncertain fate, Malick said something that shocked everyone in the prison cell. He wanted to play the game instead of Patrick. The Executive accepted it. Therefore, both of them seated on the chairs with a table and a weapon in the middle of both. The Executive took the weapon, put a bullet in the chamber and spun it. He started and aimed himself with the weapon. A click and nothing. Empty. It was Malick's turn. His heart was beating so hard he could hear it beating inside his ear. He pulled the trigger. The click sound like heavenly music to his ears. Empty. The Executive grabbed the weapon and Malick noticed it was more difficult to him to pull the trigger. But finally The Executive did it. Click. Empty. Malick wanted to cry of terror. He knew he was going to die. He aimed himself with the weapon, closed his eyes and heard a shot. But he was not the one that shot. Whe he opened his eyes he saw The Executive's prisioners dead on the floor and Patrick aiming The Executive with a gun. Malick could not believe what was happening. He was alive and Patrick won the game.

The next morning, The Executive was found dead in his prision cell with his neck cut and his tongue out, like a tie. Therefore, Patrick became the king of prison and Malick his loyal friend.

9 - A bird caged in a mansion

As Patrick was walking into prison, he enjoyed his last seconds as a free person. He would know how a caged bird feel. Cryings that we tend to turn into music. But his music would not be heard by anybody. It is like you start to live another life. You get off of everything to enter in completely different world. A world is not made for everybody. A world that in many cases destroys you. But there is nothing worse than hope. You always hope to go out of that place that is made to torment you. It is like a bird that sings to escape from his cage hoping that one day someone will open the cage's door. At least, Patrick's father made sure that his cage was as nice as possible. He bought off everyone who was necessary to send Patrick to one of the best prisons of the world. A prison for lucky people. A prison to feel safe. But nobody is enough lucky to be comfortable in prison. He shared his prison cell with another boy. He was really young, Patrcik thought. He was a fit boy and his red hair was so intense that it seemed he had a wig on. His name was Malick and he was there because he stole a car. Malick asked Patrick why he was there and he answered that someone charged on him drug and human trafficking. They spent the whole day talking about each other's lives. Malick said that he lived in the poor side of the city and that his family was really poor. Malick used to steal cars and then he sold them in order to make money. He did not knew to do anything else. He grow up stealing to survive and that was what he was good at. On his behalf, Patrick told Malick his different life. But he did not told everything about his family bussinesses. Patrick also told Malick what his plann was. He was going to become the new drug king into prison. He planned to take drug from the street into prison in conyugal visits he would made with a prostitute from Sin City's club. But to be better than the present king you have to offer something else. And that is what Patrick did. Apart from drugs he also offered conyugal visits to prisoners with prostitutes from Sin City's club. His brother would be in charge of making whatever was necessary outside of  prison. There was just one problem. The present king would not easily stood up from his throne to let Patrick seat on it. But Patrick was ready to do anything to be the new king and be last one standing in the war that was about to start.

8 - Turning point

It was really satisfactory to see their faces and how they felt insecure. They thought the happy life they were living was going to last forever. They thought they could live in their little paradise of money and corruption forever. But they were completely wrong. That was what William was thinking while he saw from one side of Patrick's parent's mansion the police arresting Patrick . He saw how the car took Patrick to jail, where he would spend the rest of his life. William and Oscar made sure of that. They anonymosly charge on Patrick drug and human trafficking, enough crimes that will make him change his happy life for a more monotonous one. But, he would not be the only one. Little by little they will send to jail every member of William's family. But, in that moment, William felt very happy he was achieving his goal. It was the first time he felt happy in a really long time. But there was that strange feeling again. William did not knew exactly what it was. But he felt guilty. Maybe his mind was not ready yet. Oscar told him that a revenge like that would need a cool mind and a cool heart, but maybe his heart and mind were not ready. During the six months he spent training his body and mind, he made himself many questions. He ask himself if that revenge was consuming his soul. He ask himself if revenge was all that mattered and if he should leave everything else behind. He tried to avoid those thoughts and concentrate in that fact that his revenge was working. When he arrieved to Oscar's house he told him their plann worked. Patrick was on his way to jail and there was no way he could escape from his awful fate. But, Oscar did not seem to be quite satisfied. He asked William to sit down. William was scared. Maybe his family discovered them. Maybe someone saw him in the graveyard or at Henry's mansion while the police arrested Patrick. His heart started beating so fast that he thought his chest was going to explode. But, suddenly, it stopped when Oscar said what he just discovered. Oscar hacked William's house security cameras and watched that Patrick was one of the men that entered in his house that horrible night in which William's life was destroyed. In that moment, Oscar saw something in William's expression that he never saw before. William was furious. He was full of anger and fire. The memories of that night started to appear. Those memories that only appeared everynight in his nightmares. But William was not sleeping. He remembered his father surrounded by fire and his mother's deafening screams of pain. It was like if he could still listening to her. His eyes became lakes of sandness and hate. Suddenly, William stood up and went to his bedroom.

The next morning, Oscar could not find William anywhere in the house. He disappeared. But, suddenly, when he went to the dark living room, he noticed that the  cupboard where he had all the documents that contained everything someone would like to know was opened, and all the files and documents were spread all over the floor.

7 - Flashblack

A minute becomes an eternity when you are waiting for something. And six months was a very long eternity. William was not exactly an anxious boy, but he could not wait any longer to see the ones who destroyed his world suffer. Anger keeps you going on. When you think about leaving your purpose, there it is that burning fire that keeps you strong and motivated. "Why is not the sweetness of hapiness the petrol that keeps our heart beating? Why is not the warm of love the thing that keeps us alive? Did I forget those feelings? And if so, could I get them back?". Uncountable questions run around Willam's head. But it was part of the training. Someone who takes a revenge do not have feelings. The inner self must become ice. An unbreakble ice no warm feeling could thaw. Sympathy nor humanity are allowed in revenge. This is something William had to learn. But it is not an easy job to take off feelings from the soul. It is like slowly ripping your heart, take off all the skin and then put it inside again. Therefore, everytime the heart beats it stings.

Meanwhile, Oscar recovered all the information he could. Fortunately, he had all the passwords to enter into the confidential files and documents of the family. He kept all of them when he was Henry' partner. In those times, everything was written down in paper. The Internet, what an invention. Nothing better than the Internet to have all your dirty secrets hidden. That was what they probably thought. But know, all their dirty secrets were Oscar's property. It seemed that, after Henry´s death they distributed the empire between all of them. Alexander became the head of it and of course, left the second position to Julius. Alexander was perfectly capable of running the bussinesses, Oscar thought. Julius was too impulsive and type of person who do not take consecuencies into consideration. But, on the other hand, Alexander had a perfect cool head, just the one someone needs to turn Henry's empire into the world of corruption. While he was in the glamorous throne, his twins Erick and Patrick and Julius were on the grounds, gathering the money that came from drugs, prostitution and extorsions. But Oscar needed to know what role each member of the family of them had. Therefore, he spent a month following all of them to every place they would go. And, surprisingly, he did not last too much time to achieve his goal. Apparently, Julius and the twins had a night club called "Sin City". Not too original, thought Oscar because that was where the magic took place. Many grils were brought to the night club in lorries,transported as merchandise . And the woman who took care of them was Caterina. She was in charge of deciding whoever of these girls were worthy of working there as prostitutes or not. In addition, they bought the mafia that controlled the human and drug trafficking. And last but not least, María. She was a women fully integrated in the upper class society. She planned different events in order to gather money for humanitarian organizations. At least, that was everybody beleived. Actually, all that money went to the same place. It did not matter if it was from prostitution or from people's charity. That money was full of dirt. So, this is how they build this whole complex of corruption and greed. But this would not last for long, thought Oscar. He told everything he discovered to William and both of them decided what their first step would be. And they agreed to start from the bottom. Therefore, their first victim would be Patrick.

6 - The First Blow

A voice. A deep voice in the darkness. And then a bright light. A dazzle light. William woke up the morning after the funeral but he did not woke up by himself. An old man was shouting at him and asking what he was doing there. Suddenly, William noticed that man was the security guard of the cementery. The same man who saw him in his grandfather's funeral. A flash went through his mind and he jump from the grass and started runnig while the security guard kept shouting. But William did not even heard what he was shouting. His ears were full of the sound of his heart beating. He could not believe how stupid he was. The images of him being discovered by his family started to appear in his mind. He tried so hard to make those images disappear. But it was impossible. And inevitably, after the images came many questions: What if the security guard recognised him? What if he was recognised? What if his family discover his plann? What was going to tell Oscar now? He could not stay in that area for a long time. He was in danger every single second he would stay there. So, he came back to Oscar's house. Obviously, Oscar was angry. When William told Oscar where he was, Oscar could not believe it. The angry turned into dissapointment. He thought that kid was smarter. But he was still a kid. He used to forget it. He never met a boy with such aspirations. With that need of revenge. Oscar told William he was going to help him, but under his conditions. If William wanted his help, he had to avoid that irresponsable behaviour. William agreed. Not everyone is ready to go through the difficult path of revenge, Oscar said. William needed to be ready physically and mentally. Especially mentally. A revenge is somenthing that tires the mind. And in most of the cases, it destroys the mind. That is why William needed a though mind to achieve his revenge. The Norton family was just a typical family. They were used to solve every single problem they would have. They had enough resources for that. So, their goal was not going to be easily achieved. And that is another feature someone that wants to revenge need to have: patient. Every successful revenge takes time. And the one Oscar had in mind, was going to take a lot of time. They say that the more time you spent thinking in your revenge, the more hurtful it is. Oscar advised William that he trained meanwhile he searched for enough information to start their revenge.
It was a calm night, just like a typical summer night. The calm before the storm. Someone rang on Alexander's mansion. Maria opened the door and, suddenly, the police entered and arrested Patrick. The police accused him of  illegal bussiness. Just when the police left with an arrested Patrick on the back seat, all of them recieved a text message: "I know what you did and I will make you pay for it. There is no place where you can hide. I will find you wherever you are. There is no place where you can feel safe and sound. I will always be watching you. And I will not stop until you all feel the fire of hell.". The game just started.