Chapter 35: Keep Your Friends Close…Pt. 2

After what Lincoln said to her, it sparked a huge gunfight within the mansion between Lincoln and Lori's men. Lexx somehow flees to the mansion roof, while Lincoln rushes back to his office and kill several Forelli Family members attempting to steal money from the mansion's safe.

After killing several members, Lincoln instructs a few of his men to guard the safe while he heads to the roof to confront and kill the traitor, Lexx. While on the way to the roof, he encounters more of Lori's men who are attempting to get in from the roof, but manages to kill them off and makes it to the roof.

Arriving at the rooftop, Lexx immediately spots Lincoln and starts shooting a his direction, but Lincoln manages to hide behind steel barrels from the cover fire, Lexx then shouted to him "No one to cover your ass now, eh Lincoln?" Lincoln also responded, "You're going down, you back stabbing prick!"

Lexx laughed and cockingly said "Oh you think so?" Lincoln finishes reloading and manages to kill a few of Lexx's bodyguards and then shouted "Come here you double-crossing piece of shit!" Seeing Lincoln in the open, Lexx again open fires on Lincoln to try to kill him while screaming, "You're history, Lincoln, history!" But, once again, Lincoln dodges the bullets and hides for cover, but this time a bit nearer to him. Seeing as there's no way to make Lexx come out of hiding, not while getting himself killed. He devised a plan to instead distract him with an insult. So he shouted back at Lexx, "This is the last dance for Lexx Vance!"

Lexx, obviously pissed off at what he said, eventually stood up and began shooting, "I said I had enough of that at school!" The plan worked, he got distracted and this gave Lincoln a window of opportunity to finish him off. Once Lexx empties the magazine of his gun, Lincoln pops out and starts to shoot Lexx, failed to dodge on time, he got shot and dropped on the ground with bullet holes all over his body.

Lincoln walks slowly over to him, seeing as he can't fight back, he slowly said to him, "You picked the wrong side, Lexx..." and with that, Lexx Vance is dead. After killing Lexx, Lincoln heads back to the mansion, believing the fight is not yet over. He gets to cover where he asks Lori to confirm his suspicion that the incident fifteen years earlier which resulted in Lincoln being sent to prison for killing eleven men (after being sent to kill only one) was indeed an ambush orchestrated by Lori.

He was very angry at her, Lincoln sees an MP5 near him and picks it up, he then stood up with the gun un hand, ready to end it. He then shouted back at Lori "You took fifteen years from me Lori..." He cocks the gun and finishes his line, "And now I'm gonna make you pay!" Lori was also out in the open, she also replied back "You still don't get it do you! I OWN you, Lincoln. Those fifteen years were mine to spend!" She then looked at her remaining bodyguards, Dana and Carol "Get him ladies, he never understood a thing."

They tried to rush to him, but Lincoln had the upper hand, he rushed down from the mansion's foyer, killing off Dana and Carol. Seeing them drop dead, he rushed with all his might to a scared and cornered Lori who tried to shoot him, but realized too late that her gun was empty. It was too late, Lincoln fired the last few rounds of bullet on her.

Lori stumbled back, dropping to the ground, leaning on the wall, staring at him. Lincoln took a few seconds to breathe and dropped the gun at the same time. Lincoln stared back at Lori as well, who is already dying from blood loss. She slowly said to him "Great…job…twerp…" then, she exhaled her last breath. It was all over, Lincoln won the battle. He was glad it was over; he then proceeded to sit down on the foyer's stairs to take a break.

After the shootout, Luan reappears as she went to hide from the shootout after the conflict began. While crawling around, she spotted Lincoln who was sitting on the foyer's stairs. Luan then asked "Lincoln? Oh my god, Lincoln! What happened?" Lincoln, responded to her "What does it look like?" Luan then explained "It looks like you ruined your suit! And Lincoln, that was a beautiful suit! Lincoln, what on earth happened?" waving her arms around.

Lincoln breathed in and said "I had a disagreement with a business associate, you know how it is." Luan then quipped to him "Lincoln, I have a disagreement, I send them an angry letter. Maybe I pee in their mailbox. I don't start World War III." Chuckling at that last line, she then suggested to him "You know, maybe you should speak to my shrink..."

Lincoln then shook his head "That stupid prick, Lexx..." Luan then said to him, agreeing to what he said, so as to not get on his bad side "Lincoln. I never liked that guy, okay? He's neurotic, he's insecure, he's self-centered - the guy's an asshole! I'm glad you took him out!"

Lincoln nodded at her response and said "I don't think we're gonna be getting any more heat from up north either..." He stood up beside her and grinned "'Cause there ain't no 'up north', anymore. It's all down south now." Luan realizing what he meant, she asked ecstatically "Wait, does that mean what I think it means..?" He nodded and she gasped while screaming "Lincoln, baby!" Lincoln chuckled and said "What do you think it means?"

Luan then quipped "That we're in charge... I mean, that you're in charge." She giggled and said again "Oh, Lincoln!" She was excited of being free from the Forelli's hold.

Lincoln slowly walked with Luan near the front door, watching the sunset over the horizon "You know, Luan. I think this could be the beginning of a beautiful business relationship" Chuckling at the moment, he said "...After all, you're a conniving, backstabbing, two-bit thief and I'm a convicted psychotic killer and drug hehehe…"

Luan nodded and looked at the sunset also "I know. Ain't it just beautiful?" Lincoln nodded at what she said, but he'll be surprised at what she said next. "Now do me a favor and wake up."

Confused by this, everything starts to fade, then, it went black. He can't see, but he can hear something calling him in a faint voice, "Lincoln….wake…up….."

To be continued?