Feeling his blood boiling with uncontrollable anger, Fernando enters Brandon's car, thinking.
"Fucking Enzo, he was the one, who ordered the hit on Me, Jennifer and My Sisters."
Brandon then asks him.
"So how do you feel about finally joining in the family business?"
he responds.
"it's been a long time coming, but I won't let you down."
Brandon sighs and places his hand on Fernando's shoulder.
"Don't worry, son, once the Black Hoodie and his lacky get taken care of, things in the city will return to being peaceful again."
Fernando thinks to himself.
"At least me and Alonzo did a good job at angering The Sabatonis."
after arriving home, Fernando goes straight to bed, hoping to be left alone to completely absorb the new info, and come up with something quick to go after Paul Caruso Sr. he lays down while staring at the ceiling. Remembering what went down that night vividly, Fernando is sitting on his bed holding his phone, with non-stop calls coming from Denise after confronting her earlier about her cheating on him with Paul. He sighs to himself while ignoring the calls.
"Fucking bitch, she still has the nerve to still try to talk to me?"
he turns off his phone, so that she can no longer annoy him with her constant phone calls and finally doses off, but is soon rudely woken up from his little nap to the sounds off the floor boards creaking downstairs, Fernando immediately reacts by grabbing the pocket knife he always leaves on his nightstand, he thinks to himself.
"I need to warn the girls quickly since Brandon mentioned he wasn't coming home tonight."
he quickly walks to his parents' bedroom with the knife in hand. He quietly opens the door and kneels next to his mother, who is sleeping peacefully. He puts his hand on her cheek and whispers to her.
"Mom, wake up."
she opens her eyes upon hearing his voice, and just as she is about to yell at him, he covers her mouth and whispers to her.
"shh, there are people in the house."
he then whispers.
"Come on, get up and hide in the closet, I'll go take and care of them."
she looks at the pocket knife he is holding and whispers while trying not to panic.
"we both need to hide and call the police and stay hidden until they get here."
Fernando pushes her into the closet and whispers.
"Stop pretending like you care about me all of the sudden, I'm going out there to check on the girls and to take care of those intruders."
before he closes the closet door on her, she looks at him with soft eyes for the first time in his life and places her hand on his cheek.
"Please don't do anything stupid."
With the pocket knife in his hand, Fernando quietly leaves his parent's bedroom and quickly makes his way to Victoria's bedroom since it is the closest one, but he tries hard not to panic when he notices the door is open, he quickly rushes in, and sees a man dressed in all black armed with a silenced pistol aiming directly at Victoria's head, Fernando without thinking twice closes in on the the assassin, and starts stabbing him in the neck repeatedly, with Victoria waking up from the sound of the scuffle and shouted.
"Nando!"
he looks at the lifeless body of the man he just killed. He brings up his shaking bloody hands thinking.
"I just killed someone."
Vicky, who has just woken up from the noise, shouts a second time.
"Nando!"
her shouting, his name snapped him out of his thoughts, he rushed to her bed, and he hovers his index finger up to his lips and whispers.
"shh, there is more of them."
he hears footsteps coming from the hallway, and quickly hides behind her open bedroom door, Vicky finally realizes what is going on, rolls off her bed and slides underneath, while trying hard not to freak out, Fernando readies his pocket knife as another one comes into Vicky's room, and hears him ask out loud.
"Hey, did you finish off that brat yet?"
Fernando slithers out from behind the open door, and digs into the man's neck multiple times, the man falls down gargling in the pool of his own blood, Vicky covers her mouth with both her quivering hands, Fernando then hears Christina shouting coming from the hallway, he looks under the bed and said to Vicky with a cold and emotionless voice.
"Chris is in trouble, stay hidden."
Fernando swiftly leaves Vicky's room and runs through the hallway and enters Christina's room, where he sees a hitman mounted on top of her and smacks her across the face while pulling her hair and said with a joyful and sadistic tone.
"oh I can't wait to taste a feisty bitch like you."
without any hesitation Fernando stabs him on the shoulder, the guy elbows him in the face, shouting in pain while the knife was still lodged into his shoulder.
"ah, you fucker!"
he gets off Christina and aims his gun at Fernando, and in a split second the distance between them closes, but just as the guy fires off a shot, Fernando sinks his teeth into his neck, and
rips a chunk off while ignoring the bullet wound, he then grabs the lodged knife, and repeatedly stabs the guy, until he was no longer breathing, Fernando then falls back breathing heavily from exhaustion, Christina jumps off her bed and checks on her savior.
"Nando!"
Fernando is breathing heavily while feeling the burning sensation of the bullet wound. Christina, who is panicking, said with a shaky and worried voice.
"Oh my god, please tell me that you are still alive."
as he tries standing up, he hears the walkie-talkie crackle from the guy he just killed and a voice come through, asking
"Boss, I found a couple of our guys are dead, should we pull out?"
and then a voice that will forever be ingrained into
Fernando's brain answers.
"it doesn't matter. Get it done."
while holding the walkie-talkie up to his face, he thinks to himself.
"who the fuck was that?"
he tosses the walkie-talkie and as he starts to leave, Christina tries to stop him, by trying to grab his arm and said while weeping.
"Nando, hold on, you are hurt."
Fernando pulls away and responds with an emotionless tone.
"Yeah, and why do you care?"
he leaves the weeping Christina.
"Stop wasting my time, I need to get rid of these intruders."
once he saw that there wasn't any of them in the hallway, he made his way to Madison's room, where he hears two voices from outside the door.
A male voice asks.
"Are you sure the brat is here?"
another male voice answers.
"Yeah, I heard her whimpering, She should be hiding here somewhere."
he then said.
"You keep on looking for the brat, I'm gonna check
on the others."
Fernando instinctively hugs the wall as the door swings open, and noticing that he hasn't been seen yet, he tightly grips the handle of his knife and pounces on him the moment he closes the door, digging in deep into the intruder's neck, Fernando then grabs the pistol that was dropped.on the floor and thinks to himself.
"I don't know how long I can keep this up if I keep using a knife, I better use a pistol from now on."
Fernando makes sure that there are bullets in the magazines and that the safety is off, and slowly opens the bedroom door, causing a small creaking noise, which prompted the intruder inside the bedroom to say.
"That was quick."
Fernando enters the room and sees that he hasn't glanced over at the door, and without wasting any more time, Fernando aims the pistol at him and pulls on the trigger multiple times until the sounds of the gun popping off is drowned out by the clicking sound a gun makes when the magazine is empty, and then as silence creeps in, Fernando asks.
"Maddy, you in here?"
a few moments after asking, a floorboard suddenly swings upwards, and then followed by a couple more, revealing Maddy laying on her back, squeezed between the wooden floors and concrete, he quickly helps her out of there, and Immediately she hugs him tightly while crying her eyes out.
"Thank you."
he pulls her away from her and asks while pointing at her hiding spot.
"Did you make that?"
she nods, still sobbing.
"I made that space so that I could hide things from dad."
she grabs his hands.
"Please don't tell him about it."
he once again pulled away from the physical contact she was initiating with him and said indifferently.
"You stay here, I'm going to check the house and make sure there are no more intruders."
Fernando leaves Madison's room, but Maddy follows closely behind him like a lost puppy, but he just ignores her and walks through the house with the gun in his hand, ready to pull the trigger any unsuspecting intruder, but as he continously runs into empty rooms around the house, he sluggishly makes his way back to his parent's room, Madison notices that Fernando isn't looking to good, tries to support him, but he brushes her off, and said coldly.
"Stop, I don't need your help."
they enter their parent's bedroom, and after opening the closet door, Jennifer jumps out of the closet, screaming while hitting Fernando with one of her heels.
"You won't get away. The cops are on their way!"
she only realizes that she was beating on Fernando was Madison crying uncontrollably and holding her.
"Stop, you are hurting, Nando!"
Jennifer gasps and drops the heel in her hand and checks up on Fernando, who seems to be out of it, and notices his bullet wound, her hand is shaking as she hugs him tightly and cries while putting his head up against her chest.
"Oh baby, I'm so sorry."
she asks Madison.
"Maddy baby, do you know if those men are still here?"
Madison answers.
"I think Nando took care of them."
she then demands Madison.
"Maddy, go and grab your sisters, we are leaving this house and waiting for the police outside."
Madison carries Fernando downstairs while thinking to herself, finally feeling guilty about how poorly she treated him.
"I hope you forgive me one day, baby, I was supposed to be your mother when you needed a mother since you don't remember your real parents."
after going outside the house and onto the sidewalk with her daughters, Fernando wakes up with his mother holding him closely like it was the natural thing to do, and even though he was finally enjoying receiving motherly love for the first time in recent memory, he pulls away from her and groans in pain while holding his bullet wound and gets away from his mom and sisters who are staring at him with worried expressions, and as they wait for the police to arrive, their attempts to communicate with Fernando are met with his silence, since all he can think about is how he just risked his life for four women in his life who treated his existence in the family with nothing but contempt and disdain, and when the police finally arrive he thinks to himself.
"Well, hopefully, my dad and Uncle Giovanni can pull some strings about what occurred tonight."
Fernando wakes up from his detailed dream of the events that occurred during that night and sighs while staring at the ceiling.
"Paul Caruso Sr. and Enzo Caruso will face my justice and answer for what they've done and put it behind so that I can fully focus on taking down the Sabatonis."
Fernando gets out of bed and changes into comfortable clothing while packing his Black Hoodie attire in his backpack, and thinks.
"I'll need to hit them hard since they won't be expecting the Black Hoodie going after them directly."
as he exits his bedroom, he runs into Jennifer, who is still in her night gown. She yawns.
"Oh good morning honey, why are you up so early?"
he replies.
"I've got a long and busy day, so I need to get started early."
he kissed her on the cheek and said.
"I'll see you later, mom."
after he leaves, she rubs her cheek with a huge smile on her face and thinks to herself.
"I'm happy that he finally forgave us for the way we treated him."
she sighs and yawns to herself.
"Need coffee."
Fernando considers different ways to go after them while making his way to Alonzo on the bus and finally decides on what to do after arriving.