As he walks to his destination and prepares to surprise his old colleague, he is incapable of hearing anything around him. Not just hearing his vision appears to suffer from tunnel vision, blurring all but the entrance to the hotel.
Only thoughts of bloody retribution occupy his mind as he sees him enter. The fucker that murder Abby. The bastard that took the only thing that he was proud of. The vengeful avenger knows that he didn't mean it and probably was an accident during work. He doesn't care.
"Abby was in the wrong place at the wrong time, just an unlucky bystander" he would defend himself. Is more than probable that he would go on, explaining how he is supposed to be the guardian of all good folk of the Bay.
"Good and hardworking Americans just like you" The bastard would try to dog whistle. "She was just an unfortunate victim in our struggle for a secure Brockton Bay"
The more fictional conversation the going-to-be-murderer imagines the desire of putting a bullet between his eyebrows increases.
Fortunately for him, the CEO enters the building at last. The avenger now just needs to make sure he doesn't leave it. Unfortunately for his victim, he is just accompanied by the twins, so nobody could react in time to save him from his deadly judgment.
Slowly and delayed constantly by guests wanting to chat with the famous businessman, the bastard, and his two bodyguards come sufficiently near him. As they come closer, he takes a last look at the man that murder his only daughter. With everything else going in his mind, the assassin only registers his two brilliant blue eyes.
For a moment, as Max passes him, he imagines the CEO dead impaled with a metal blade as Abby was. He would like to kill him the same way he killed her, to make him suffer the same way she had. It is not possible for him, as he was just a mere human, but he hopes that a couple of bullets in his back would make a decent replacement.
With his hand shaking and soaked in sweat he draws his hidden gun. The vengeful father raises his hand as he turns around to see Max Anders walking away.
For Gabriel, father to a murdered daughter, everything has ceased to exist. The unwritten rules for parahumans, the hotel, the guests, the gala, the employee's shouts as he sees him with a gun, the twin sisters starting to turn around...
For Gabriel, the only things in existence at the time are Kaiser, him, and his gun.
A shot is fired and the Bay is never the same.