Deepen Chp 1/8

Look where I am, I’m a mess... You have all that power and you can’t tell if I deserve it... You wouldn’t understand but, I’ll explain it anyways... Have you ever felt you were having a really bad day? You ever feel lost and alone and try to look back on a time where everything was easy and much simpler for you? Things are so different now that it’s like looking at a past life that faded without you ever knowing it happened... Well if not I should just leave right now because you won’t understand a damn thing I’m about to tell you. But since you asked, I assume you’re wondering what it is I’m talking about so let me tell you a story. Then I’ll let you tell me if I really deserve it! A story about how one bad day can leave you feeling lost years down the road and you won’t even know it. Well until it’s too late anyways. It’s enough to make you crazy, you might even say it’s enough to make you go off the deep end...

“Oh no I’m going to be late!” Damian says to himself as he parks his white sedan into to the drive way of his two story suburban home after a long day of work. He struggles to open the car door moving very frantically. But when he finally does get out his car, he leaves it parked in front of the garage door, that’s left to the front door of his home. Once he gets to the front door he turns the door knob only for it to be locked. “Ofcourse! Fucking knobs!” Says Damian as he reaches his right hand into his pocket and doesn’t find his keys. So he reaches his hand into his other pocket and finds nothing, only to realize he left his keys in his car “Shit! How the fuck did I even do that, has any grown adult ever done that!??” He runs back to his car to retrieve his keys and trips over a crack in the walkway, causing him to stumble but he catches himself before falling. He pulls on his car door handle multiple times. “C’mon what the fuck are you serious, not now!” Damian says as he comes to the realization he left his keys sitting on the passenger seat of the car before it locked itself. As Damian continues to pull on his car door handle in frustration he hears a woman not to far from him say “You’re late” with a slightly irritated tone. Damian rolls his eyes then turns away from the car and looks toward the front door. He walks up to his wife standing in the front door way with the door open and her arms crossed, leaning on the door staring Damian down as he approaches her. He gets to the porch steps and says “Well..” then walks up the porch to the front entrance where his wife is standing and stops to give his wife a kiss on the cheek as she rolls her eyes “You know Natalie, honey some of us have lives, unlike my boss who couldn’t care less until we get these designs done.” he says as he squeezes into the door way past her going to directly into the kitchen. Then opens the fridge and grabs a bottle of water

Natalie closes the door after she walks in the house, and then locks it. She walks up behind Damian as he is looking in the fridge and says “Baby.. You know I’m a cop right and I still was able to make it to family night. So what’s your excuse?” Damian stops looking in the fridge to turn around and look at Natalie as she’s just staring at him waiting on an answer. Damian scratches his head and shrugs saying “Oh well, next time I’ll be pregnant and you can go to work instead”, He walks over the table and Natalie closes the door behind and says “Mhm, is that so?” Damian puts the water bottle under his arm and pulls out a seat to sit down at the table. He then opens his water bottle and drinks a small bit of it with one hand and drops the water cap with the other “Shit now I can’t use it.” says Damian. “It’s called karma and besides I’m pretty sure you couldn’t handle being pregnant, carrying a baby, just look how you carry yourself. ” Natalie says while looking in the pantry for something to cook. Damian opens his mouth to respond but before he could, from around the corner of the entrance that connects the living room and kitchen a child’s voice is heard saying “Wait dad is having a kid too? I thought he was just kind of fat or something” “Skye what did I tell you about being rude to your dad, you know his feelings are fragile. Now come sit down while I make your food” Skye sits in a chair next to her dad with and turns to him confused saying “Uh sorry.. I guess I was just excited to have another sibling what’s wrong with that”

“I’d probably be offended if I weren’t so proud, only five and already able to make people rethink their existence. Must have gotten that from being stuck at home with your mother..” He laughs and pats his daughter on the head as he gets up to go to the bathroom. “I’ll be back got to go and lose this kid if you know what I mean” Natalie face in shock as she gasp. She looks up at Damian and stops opening the can of beans on the counter she got from the pantry “Honey you can’t say that. While I’m pregnant what’s wrong with you! You might jinx us or something!” still confused Skye grabs her tablet from across the table and innocently remarks “I don’t get it.” as she starts to play a game on her tablet while she waits for dinner. Natalie goes back to opening the can as Damian starts to walk upstairs and Natalie says “Hopefully you never will” She then starts to clean out a pot so she can cook.

Damian gets halfway upstairs and feels his phone vibrating, he feels it can wait and ignores it. He feels it vibrates again as he walks down the hall to his bedroom. But doesn’t pay it any mind, being focused on using the bathroom. He believes it’s a separate message so he ignores his phone again. And as he approaches his bathroom in his bed room, Damian phone vibrates from another text message. “Who the hell is blowing up my phone? This better be about life or it’s going to be death!” Says Damian as he goes into the bathroom and shuts the door and starts to pee. With his other free hand Damian looks at his phone to see his best friend from work texted him saying “I need you to call me back right now it’s urgent! Or whenever it is you’re done being yelled at by your wife. Damian thinks to himself “Can’t be all that urgent if he didn’t just call me.” So he takes his time, flushes the toilet, zips up his pants, and washes his hands. He then goes to lay in his bed and waits for dinner only for him to start dozing off. Damian wakes up about forty five minutes later because of a phone call from the friend earlier. Damian answers still half asleep and says “Hello” “Oh I guess the call went through this time. Anyways! Damian! Turn on the news right now!” His friend yelled hanging up right after. Damian looks around for his remote and sees it sitting on the left side bed dresser. He rolls over and grabs the remote still laying down in bed. He turns on the tv and flips through various news channels wondering which news station his friend meant. His friend conveniently text saying “Oh my bad I meant to say channel 4 news.”

Damian says to himself “Ofcourse you did. Typical Tony, never change.” as he switched the tv station to the channel four news. His eyes widen and his jaw drops as he reads the news headline. Not believing he read what he did correctly he sits up and scoots to the end edge of his bed to sit closer to the tv. He turns up the volume. The news cut to break and Natalie walks in, immediately closing the door behind her getting close to Damian as he is sitting on the edge of the bed. “You missed dinner but I got Skye to go to bed early so we can finally have alone time” she says as she starts to rub her hand on his thigh and kiss on his neck. Damian still thinking about what he just saw on the television and if he should tell his wife, shrugs her away a little and turns off the television. “Sorry hun it’s been a long day at work and I rather just go to bed, if that’s okay with you.” Natalie gets up and walks to the closet as she says “Whatever, it’s not like you ever want to spend time with me anyways” with her night clothes in her hand she walks to the bathroom “I’m used to it by now.” She says as she slams the door shut behind her

Damian claims that’s not true but his wife couldn’t care less about his words as she decides to get ready for bed herself. After she changes she walks out the bathroom toward the bed and tells Damian “Goodnight, you can move from my side of the bed, matter of fact you can move off the bed and into the living room.” Damian gets up quietly and leaves the room making his way downstairs as she turns off the lamp that’s lighting the room and rolls over in the bed “Oh and shut the door behind you!” Damian comes back from half way up the stairs to shut the door, then makes his way towards a closet down stairs in the living room “I don’t know what I’m going to do now.” he opens the closet door and grabs a cover. He lays down under the cover on his back, on the couch, staring at the ceiling saying “What will I do?, What will I do?” For fifteen minutes. His stomach starts to growl so he decides to go to the kitchen and make himself a sandwich. He goes and gets bread out the pantry. Then goes into the fridge to look for some bologna only to find there isn’t any. “Well just great how better can my night be.”‘Damian says as he looks in the fridge and sees the beer he bought the other day. Damian thinks to himself “Well I mean my night can’t get any worse. Can it? I can have just one.” As he grabs a bottle and drinks the whole bottle in one drink. “Well, maybe two” Damian says. The next day Damian wakes up from being passed out on the couch. He smells like beer and has a massive headache. He sits up and says “Huh. Wait.. What time is it?” As he looks around the room.

He looks at his phone and his alarm goes off for the fourth time that morning and a text from Tony asking where is he at. “Oh shit oh shit, 3 hours late I’m going to get fired!” He runs back into the kitchen thinking maybe his wife may have made some lunch to take to work with him as she usually does. “Oh yeah I forgot... last night...” Damian says to himself as the only thing left on the counter were empty beer bottles and a mess from his late night snacks. “I don’t have time to worry about this mess, Someone will fix it!” Damian says as he rushes out the front door and to his white sedan. “Oh fuck, you’re kidding...” Damian says realizing he never got the keys out the car last night. Damian pace in a circle for about five minutes wondering what is he going to do until he says to himself “Wait.. Oh yeah! I have spare keys but they’re. But wait oh no I just remembered where they were. God give me strength...”

He walks back towards the house to the front door and opens it relieved saying “Oh I never locked the door. Thank good I didn’t this time” and walks back upstairs to his bedroom. He quietly opens the door to see if his wife is still sleep. Luckily for Damian she is. So he walks over to her side of the room very quietly to get to the dresser, where the spare keys are located. He pulls open the dresser as slow as possible and grabs the spare keys. He quietly walks toward the door thinking he wasn’t caught only for her to say “Shut the door on your way out and don’t forget to lock it this time!” Damian pays no mind to this because he got what he was looking for.

About ten minutes later Damian is speeding on his way to work and is carelessly driving in and out of lanes with little regards to speed limits, stop signs, traffic lights, and even other people. He’s pulled over not too soon after by a white Crown Vic. “Shit I’m already an hour and a half late! What the fuck! Damian says as he rolls down his window still panicking not because of the cop but because he was late. The police officer gets out his car slowly and walks around the back of Damians car. “Mhm, I see” says the cop. The cop then walks back to his car, sits in it for a minute then walks up to Damians car. As he looks into into the window of the front driver side door while still standing in the middle of the street he says “License and regist- Damian is that you!?”

Damian recognizing the voice of the officer unenthusiastically says “Oh hey John..” John with a smile on his face says “Hey there Damian come out and give your old pal a hug I haven’t seen you in such a long time!” Damian looks away, rolls his eyes then gives John back a fake smile. Damian says “No I got a lot to do and things been going around lately, maybe I should just stay in the car if that’s okay with you.” John laughs and says “Well ofcourse that’s not okay with me silly, If it was why would I say get out the car. Man D you’ve always been a comedian. I like that.”

After almost three minutes of pestering, Damian puts his head on the steering wheel of his car and says “You’re not going to stop are you?” John says “Well that’s part of being a cop, you should know D, you never stop! I taught your wife that when I was training her!” “Cool” Damian says as he gets out to the car. Once Damian is out the car John gives him a tight hug with Damian awkwardly hugging him back. Damian tried to let go but John doesn’t let him “Uh.. John you know were in the middle of the street right?” John says “Oh yeah I forgot then let’s go of Damian. Damian then turns towards his car putting his hand on the door handle and says “Well it was nice catching up but I got to go like right now, so I’ll be on my way” John puts his hand on Damians shoulder and says “Woah not so fast where you off to in such a rush?”

Damian shrugs away John’s shoulder and says “Work, John, Work!” As he gets into his vehicle. John replies arrogantly “Looking like that? Oh you still working that same old engineering job from last time we met? Yikes! I became a detective and I’m getting moved up to commissioner really soon.” Damian stops half way through getting in his car and starting it says “If you’re a detective why are you still pulling people over don’t you got a case or something to worry about?” “Well yeah actually that’s why I was here to begin with. I’m on my way to investigate a string of murders. Apparently there’s a string of murders from a mob or something on the south side of town. And as for pulling people over, I don’t know it’s just kind of funny don’t you think?” “Yeah sure hilarious” Damian says sarcastically as he’s starts getting back in his car “Am I free to go now or what?” “Ofcourse pal.. Tell your wife I said hi, can’t wait to see her at work again” Damian shuts the car door and speeds off to work without response “Ah what a great guy” John says as he gets back into his car. Once he gets in and he’s about to drive to continue his day another car speeds past him.

John takes off after the speeding car and when the person in the speeding car notices John behind him, the guy speeding decides to go faster. “Thank god he sped up, I thought this was gonna be boring.” John says as he steps on the gas. Eventually after about ten minutes of reckless driving between both of them they end up passing a sign that says South End of the city where “South end? This is exactly where I needed to be anyways. My day is turning out great!

The man speeding tries to make a sharp a sharp turn down an alley way and crashes into a tree. The crash leaves the man and the car barely working and badly injured. John walks up to the vehicle and says “License and registration.” as if he was completely unaware of the injuries the suspect had just sustained. The suspect is barely able to speak without coughing and says “I’m not telling you anything shithead.” John completely flabbergasted ask the suspect why is he being so hostile. The suspect then says “Cause if I say anything to anyone the big fuck is going to kill me, and If I dont say anything I’ll end up rotting in a jail cell. If I’m taken out it’s going to be on my terms!” the suspect quickly takes out a knife and slits his own throat. John looks in both horror and confusion and decides to report the suicide. Afterwards he looks around the car. He opens car door and in the back seat he finds two briefcases filled with cash. While looking through the back seat he heard movement in the trunk and he decides to investigate.

When he opens the trunk he finds a naked woman tied up. He releases her and says “Are you okay mam?” The woman just looks at John funny. He reaches his hand out to her to help her out the trunk but she moves away from him. “Can you speak ma’am?” The lady just shakes her head. “But you can understand what I’m saying?” The lady nods her head. “Do you have a name I can call you by?” The lady just shrugs and looks around “Well either way we’re going to get you help... the police are on their way” The lady starts to cry, shaking her head, pulling on John with her hands together as if she’s praying. John in confusion says “What’s wrong!?” She points in a direction and starts to walk that way while signaling John to follow. He suggest that they get in his car but she refuses. She then leads him down the alleyway the man ho crashed attempted to turn before killing himself. When John enters the alleyway he finds himself surrounded by a group of thugs with a car similar to the one the man was driving when he crashed.

John is surrounded by the group of men realizing the lady has lead him into a trap as she runs and hides behind one of the thugs. With multiple men having guns pointed at John one says “Give us everything you got on you right now or you’re dead. Simple.” “I’m a cop I don’t think this is what you want to do” says John “Oh shit you’re a what?” Says one of the men. “Someone go check to see if he’s not lying” says one of the thugs. One of the thugs go around the corner to seee John’s car parked not too far away. The tug comes back and he says “It’s not a lie, Lennie! He has a cop car parked right around the corner” The man the girl ran behind named Lennie says “Stupid bitch, you’re supposed to bring us people with money not the fucking police!” He then proceeds to hit the woman in the head with the pistol knocking her out. He then proceeds to kick her in the head. John looking over cringing says “Stop that or I’ll have you arrested right now” the man looks around and laugh “Is he talking to me?” Lennie says as he laughs some more and proceeds to kick her in the head again.

John gets annoyed and quickly draws his hun and aims it at Lennie “Didn’t I just warn you to stop?” Says John. The thugs tense up and become ready to fire “You must be new around here mister officer, let me tell you how things work. If you have me arrested the big man will just have me set free, and if you kill me well, let’s just say you’ll live but your family. Well that’s a different story” says Lennie making John rethink his decision to shoot, he puts his pistol away and says “Who’s this large person I keep hearing about and does he have a real name?” “Oh you mean the big man? Never disrespect him like that and his name is the least of your concerns right now dumbass. Now that we got that out the way. I’ll agree to let you go if you don’t come back to the South End anymore and you keep quiet to your little fuck buddies at your station up there on the Deep North” Says Lennie

John says “Fine, only if you let the girl come with me” the Lennie looks at John in confusion and says “Why would you want to save this little shit? She literally set you up to be killed?” John says “I have a job to do” Lennie laughs and says “So you really are a hero? Aren’t you officer? I got a deal for you, if this bitch wakes up and walks over to you she’s yours if not I’ll kill her right now. But if you deny the deal I’ll keep her alive but she stays with me.” John says “Okay I accept the deal.”

Lennie slaps the girl waking her up. “Hey Cassandra wake yo ass up! Do you want to go with the man over there or do you want to stay with us?” Says the Lennie. The girl points to the thug and he proceeds to shoot her dead right there. The other thugs lower their weapons and proceed to the car “Alright mister officer you can be on your way now. I’ll be seeing you soon enough” Lennie says as he gets in his car and drives away leaving Cassandra’s body.