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Chapter 4 - The Close Call

Phil, Jimmy, Alan, and Nolan went on several jobs, shootouts, trade-offs, silent kills, burning houses, vandalizing, and contract killing. It has been a month since the first job, and they have been continuously planning their next move.

Nolan and Jimmy went to bet on an underground fight. Phil robbed some speakers, and Alan and Jimmy sold them. It had been a month with no contact with Alfred or James.

Nolan was gradually losing his fear of being caught as he was deep in the gang now. Ignorant to the fact that the dragon had found their camera in the corner of the entrance to the bunker but he kept himself shut as he wanted more facts to confirm his suspicion. 

On a dusty a road a car arrived from which two boys got out it was Shin and Nolan. Shin told him to put the gun behind, shin then goes on to hide the gun on his pants behind. 

Shin took Nolan to Peach and Ramos for a deal.

They tell him that the last batch is out and they want the rest of the pay. Peach says that he haven't got his cut and they would have to wait. Shin said that he would not move until he receives the payment. Nolan looked at Shin with some doubt. Shin took Ramos and then moved out of his while Nolan stays there he does not take out his gun but he is still waiting . Peach on the other starts asking him questions but he shut him off constantly.Scared inside but not being able to show it, this was the hardest thing Nolan had to do. He stayed there like a Rock without moving another hair on his body. Soon Peach tried to get his cigarette but Nolan looked at him. Peach got scared and shivers sent down his back. Peach sat back on couch and decided to talk to him. 

He started asking him about his latest Job but Nolan was immovable. He then asked him if he could show him around the house. It was quite an unusual request but Nolan thought of it to be harmless. Both of them get up and then he guides Nolan to show him around. Nolan starts walking behind him as he went from room to room to show him. Nolan remain ignorant, and then he shows him a family picture of his grandfather and then one with him and his mother. 

Peach sits down on a chair and says "Did you know, my old man's old man was the first person to bring nose candy in this area?". He continued "I was 8 when I first saw it. I couldn't believe my eyes to what I saw. I was afraid at first for sure but then I saw magic, I took a small piece of roll just like the others and then I started sniffing it. It was amazing but my dad didn't like it. Oh, he did not like it. To teach me a lesson what he did is he took a knife on burner and carved it on my back. You know what it says, you are sorry". Nolan was scared but he couldn't show it because if he gave away his fear he would have nothing left to defend himself. 

Peach still continued with his story. He continued by saying that it wasn't gonna stop him by the time he was 16 he started doing coke properly. By the time he ended his story Shin came back with the money Then he started going with Shin outside their house. As he reached the car Nolan finally let his breath out. Then he screamed once and punched the glove compartment violently. Shin stopped the car and asked if he was okay.

He opened the door and said I was about to throw up. He got out of the car said that guy is messed up. Shin asked him "Who? Peach?" "What the fuck is his deal, does often scare people like that? His dad carved him dude." Shin said "Peach is damn messed up he knocked up a 15 year old once because she threw a rock at him, he has multiple rape cases against him, He also fucked a guy". Nolan was shocked to hear this. Nolan asked why did no one handelled this guy before. Shin simply asked no one found the bodies. Soon Shin convinced him to go with him to club. At night Nolan reports to James about Peach and Ramos, he also adds the location of drugs.

As he goes to sleep, he once thinks about the heist they were planning and then decides to call Phil tomorrow to learn about the plan. Nolan didn't know, but slowly, he was becoming a part of the gang, he was ignorant of this, but he felt he had a voice, he had a place among them, something he had never felt anywhere in life. Soon, it became difficult to pass on information to Alfred.

Back at Peach and Ramos's. Peach starts add some substance to his lines and then Ramos comes along with a straw and a few drink in his hands. Ramos yells to neighbours to stop crying and to his surprise they do and they continue. Eventually, Peach snorts a line and lies back in trance. Ramos picks out a gun and then walks to the door where he sees his friends with transparent bags of weed. As they put their weapons next to the bottle and then they started relaxing, one of them turned on the tv and they soon started watching an old mexican show. Soon someone knocked, Ramos asked who it was but he heard nothing in 5 minutes they heard another knock. Ramos got frustrated as he couldn't snort the line. And he takes his gun as soon as he opens the door he knocked over and the hoard of FBI officers with guns rush in. It was a raid, eventually they started trashing the place. And they shot two men. Three of the officers ran inside to get Peach, he picked a shotgun and as he turned around. One of the officers shot him in the head. While he fell they ran back to the front to check for more people and then ran back to room. 

Grant, an enforcer, kicks down the wardrobe but finds nothing. He looked at the bed carefully and then called a few men from outside to help him remove it; as they moved it, they came across a ditch. Grant took two officers with him and went down the dark ditch. Soon they came across a pile of coke and vault.

After 2 hours Alfred arrived at the scene. "Alright, bag this, that, two guns on the shelf to your right. he points to the lines on the table" He then walks up to Grant. He then asked him information on findings. Grant said "We have found 2 dead bodies, one seems like an 16 or 15 year old girl and one looked like a male but body has started to decompose." Then he asked about evidence. Alfred walk to his subordinate and told him to mark time of death 0500 hours. 

He then walked up to Grant to fully understand the crime scene and look at the evidence they had found. Alfred told Grant as he put some powder in a bag. "Officer do you know what the FBI stood for, let me be more clear do you know what it stood for 30 years ago?". Puzzled with this question Grant looked up and answered "Putting criminals behind bars sir, and serving justice."

Alfred went further he replies, "That's bullshit." "Sir, that was a Speculation," replied Officer Grant. Alfred responded with a firm voice, "You are not paid to make speculations I am. It stands for the same thing it stood for 100 years ago. Putting the right people away from some very rotten fruits and getting rid of the excess end yourself." He dismisses him to take a look at the evidence himself.

He went up and asks Miller to wrap up the evidence. He asks him to double the surveillance at Dante's, as he must fully recover his assets. Miller asks him about the recent turn of events and what to do with the boys, but Miller is asked to shut up and not let this out. Alfred asked him to take a gentle touch and reconsider his options and whether it's time to contact them. The Bureau did not know about their operation, so it was too early.

Miller stood near the door as Alfred walked to Grant. Miller looked at Alfred keenly as if he was hiding something, but he couldn't understand what it was.

Jimmy and Nolan went to the brewery to buy a new bottle and they found another boy with a small height and lighter complexion. His name was Bruce, and he had been with Jimmy and Phill for almost three months. Shin and Dragon recruited him. He had already bought the bottle, so they continued to the nightclub. 

After reaching, they see Martin and Phil arguing about the blueprints; while Dragon is with the camera, Nolan sees him looking at it and asks him about it. Dragon is hesitant at first, but he then asks him if he knows someone who is good with the camera. They meet Gavin for the first time too. He was the guy who had started buying equipment for their new heist. He tells Phil he can get some new unmarked auto machine gun they had to make it look like amateur work. 

He told him about Bruce, but he acted as if he didn't know anything. He didn't want to give away the fact that it was he who hid the camera. As the night fell, he finally decided that he would take the footage to Alfred as fast as he could, but in order to do that, he had to come up with a plan that was robust enough he would not get caught.

He went downstairs, got the camera, and took out the card. Soon, he went to the bunker, where he felt commotion in the planning room. He walked over to see who it was, it was young Bruce, trying to set up a video camera. Nolan tried to get out as slowly as he could; Bruce came out to find out what happened while Nolan hid behind a Barrel. He stood until he thought he left, Bruce left his camera on the barrel. As Nolan moved out Bruce saw him and asked him what he was doing. Before anything, Nolan acted on instinct. He took a bat from the shelf next to him and hit the young boy on his head hard.

He knew he had to be discreet. Soon he knew what he had to do, but we weren't sure of it. The very next day, he came back with Alan to install a more miniature camera on the top of the shelf with Viynls. Bruce had passed out, or so he thought, but they soon found that he wasn't breathing. They had to do something. They took his body out and threw him in the Dumpster, then took his phone and wallet to make it look like a mugging. 

They came back to their apartment. Nolan uploaded the evidence on the cloud server he was given access to by James. At night Miller called him and asked what had happened, he didn't know Miller but he knew he could trust him as it was a phone given to him by James where he received this call. 

He said he wanted to know every step of the plan and the entire execution. They will eventually send an extraction team to get Both Alan and him out of the scene. It will seem like they died in the fire. 

Nolan wasn't up for it but it was the logical thing to do he told Miller where they were staying and he asked him what would happen to Ramos. He told him that Ramos was on Run and he is out to find out the Man behind Peach's death. Nolan shared he didn't know that they were this close. 

Nolan assured him that things were coming along great and told home about both Gavin and Bruce. Miller told them they made the right call. Then Miller asked Nolan to give the phone to Alan. While Alan talked to Miller, he gave him some explicit instructions and told him it was the only way they both could make out alive.

When he received the phone back, he asked what he had said to Alan, but he refused to share and told him he would know when the time was right.

Nolan went out to take a smoke and saw a woman getting mugged while playing some hip-hop music in his headphones. He said as the guy snatched her purse, tore her blouse from the collar, and shot her. Nolan ran from there. He soon put his hood and looked at some cops. They thought he ran after hearing the shot. They asked him. Nolan made a story up. As he ran away he felt something different, something he never felt before a strength he couldn't describe.