Chapter 1: The Fallen Assassin And A Demoralizing Headshot!
Outside Of A hospital Ward hallway...
A young man dressed in police gear walks holding two paper cups of coffee.
A Plainclothes man with a bulletproof vest and golden badge with words reading detective on top of his vest; sits in a chair outside a hospital Ward door, in a deep slumber.
The officially police dressed young officer began tapping the dozing off elder detective waking him up from his snoring.
The young police officer says in a familiar way:
" Dozing off? Really? Shouldn't you be more, like alert? This guy is a famous & dangerous criminal. Right now everyone is talking about him!"
He gets a yawn in a response back.
Young Police Officer * looks around*
Before asking:
"Why are you the only one on duty to guard him?"
Elder detective Opened his eyes wide as if just realized what the young man's been saying is true!
The elder detective hurriedly opens the ward door of the intensive care unit!
Sighing in relief, as the body is still on the bed, before shutting its door closed.
Taking the coffee from the young officer then saying:
"If ya saw what I saw, you'd know that guys not waking up any time soon! If he is even still alive at all!"
"Really that bad?!" replies the young officer with skepticism.
The older detective just shakes his head after taking a sip of the cheap hospital brand coffee.
He then continued:
"Worst I've has ever seen kid! The boys lit his ass up good. Enough led to fill a million pencils!"
Older detective Sighing says:
"Too bad! Even that wasn't enough for this psycho! The suspect was still able to take our kidnapped victim out in one shot! All while after he was all shot up to hell!"
Young Police Officer response was:
"huh? I had heard the senator died but it wasn't before you got there?"
The older officer just his shakes head again then made a motion:
* points to in-between is eyes*
" In front of us all, firing dead center of his noggin too!" The old detective said.
*whistling*
"crazy shot! Wow, in that situation how? what happened?" The Young officer inquired about the specifics.
" I don't know! It's weird, he could have killed the senator any time before we arrived. But he allowed us to pull the senator away while he watched us at gunpoint ignoring our commands."
The veteran detective Narrowing his eyes, as he remembers the chaotic scene.
" Then he...suddenly then pointed his gun towards the senator's direction, all while surrounded in such a no-win situation! Like a madman, I tell ya! As if he had a death wish or it was some suicide by cop type stuff!"
"Well, needless to say, the moment he raised his gun every one opened fire on him! I mean EVERYONE! For a full half a minute it sounded like a war zone but..."
"But what? What happened?" said the youthful cop.
The Older detective responds: "Something I'll never forget, even after I retire!"
After getting his thoughts together he described the scene:
" Well, after being shot up and bleeding he fell to the ground. No movements, no shallow breathing either. All that bullet casings and Blood everywhere, we all thought he was dead..."
" After that, we came moving in to secure his body. But before we could secure him, I guess he still had a mild heartbeat or pulse, maybe the instinct of an elite killer, assassin or something? Cause he managed to get one last shot in!
A perfect shot off! He didn't even raise his blood-soaked head up to look where he was shooting!!
As the Senator was being ushered toward the vehicle, Just when the victim was about to get in the car, he out of curiosity had been turning his head to gaze back at the scene one last time, it was then, at that moment! Just..."
*BANG!!!!*
"Then the sound of a Glock firearm falling to the pavemented ground...
Then total silence...
"Nobody talked. Nobody moved. I had chills down my spine & goosebumps on the skin! He had come back to life! Straight from the underworld to give one last fuck you!"
"If I'm honest...if I'm truly honest, as a gun nut enthusiast & former army sniper my self; I have admiration for the shot! I just wish he was one of the good guys you know."
" It was just otherworldly skill of a genius"
Says the young officer.
Nodding in agreement the detective says:
"A perfect one between the eyes! Even as heavily armed forces & Swat was rushing the senator away to safety, but no one saw that coming, during the shot no one could react!
A Demoralizing, helplessness feeling in the air even after all was set and done. I feel if he wanted to make a kill shot...no one on earth is able to escape that true skill!"
The older detective looks left then right before saying:
" between you and me, the swat, cops & secret service agents out of anger and embarrassment wanted to...
*slides thumb across throat*
" But the media choppers flew overhead news vans had arrived by then."
" But yuck! Just thinking about it the blood mist, the brain matter of the victim senator all over the lincoln memorial grounds. It was some gory horror movie shit kid."
" I don't get it?! For scum like this, I just don't get it?! Why did they call in and fly in all kinds of experts just to save him?! It's not worth it! We all saw him do it! Guiltily as the day is long and beyond any reasonable doubt too!"
"You are blurring the line kid!"
he says with a scowl on his old face!
Relaxing his frown old detective says:
"Listen, kid, we are cops, not street judges. we gotta enforce the law and bring the perps to a fair trial. Even the most lowlife of figures."
"if those guys in swat shot him up after he made that shot & while tossing his gun away in the process I would be the first to file a report!
good days and bad days in this business we win some, we lose some
this time we lost! we can't be sore losers cause we thought he was dead without confirming it.
Even to the scum, if they've been a threat then they will be neutralized! but he's not a threat anymore, as his gun was tossed away & he was pounced on, & cuffed up.
He was severely injured before so we gotta save him, so he can face justice in the courts; it isn't a perfect system but it's all we got."
The young officer nods head in reflection.
The older officer continues:
"I mean we still gotta also find out the who, why, & what for in this case. if it's one senator its a tragedy but if this guy or others are killing government people then that's a threat to social order and democracy as a whole"
The Young cop is wide-eyed mouth open: "that serous huh!"
"Yeah, furthermore, swat tells me standard police issue equipment wouldn't have taken him down! Couple ex-special force and secret service agents marksmen made the difference spotting the unique armor early.
A couple of lucky shots of expert marksmen of our own accurately placed bullets on top of each other for it to pierce both his helmet and armor!
His helmet was truly one of kind, almost impenetrable like one a million chance on top of the already flawed with a gunshot dent causing a shot impacting his brain to go through!
That is the latest military-grade and above equipment, someone sold it to him we need to know who and why. And also, If there are any more out there like him!"
"But sir shouldn't that prove my original point! I mean, where are everyone in such a situation and crucial high profile character?"
" The ward is sealed off on every floor with cops like your self. The police chief did not report officially about his whereabouts in this hospital, it's all off the script.
Also, this guy is in a coma they say he is clinically brain dead forever and between watching the sleeping gunman and a gala for the retirement of an old city chief and the introduction of a new chief that Is coming soon to replace him which would be chosen. That event was already scheduled for today so the choice was obvious!
So rather than watching deep sleeping assassin, drinks with colleagues forgetting this loss for moral; which was really down after the incident earlier sounds much better.
"Well damn, I guess that's it then. My station is out in the sideward entrance holler if ya need me." the young cop shrugged.
"good pay, little work tonight. Take it, easy kid."
the detective said getting comfortable again.
"You too sir." the cop said walking out of the floor.
Inside the ICU room, the eyes of the brain, dead coma victim slowly opens just after the talking has finished. It seems the person has been listening in on the conversation outside.
Slowly raising his hand taking the breathing tube out his mouth forcing himself not gag or cough making any noise.
He scans the room then, focuses his eyes on his chart above his IV drip.
He then whispers reading the name on the chart...
"...Floyd Lawton...Damn!!"
Weekly Power Status
-- Power
Ranking 
-- Power
stone