A/N: Fast update!

This is not the end, there are more chapters to come!

Plus the big finale!

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I pulled up next to an abandoned warehouse. I knew from experience that no one checked around this area – it was a given that drugs were freely available downtown. As I secured the handbrake, I caught sight of a figure shadowing the side window. Instinctively I closed my hand around the knife that I had hidden under the seat and wound down the window.

'HK, fancy seeing you here. It's true what they say, you haven't changed a bit.'

'I wouldn't give you the satisfaction. How did you know I was coming here?'

'News travels fast HK. You should know that more than anyone.'

It was Vex. He was the largest supplier of merchandise in the country, not to mention one of the cruelest men you would ever meet. Rumour has it that a dealer didn't pay him back on time and Vex had 4 of his fingers sawn off. Apparently he had said that he would take one finger for every £100 that he owed. That was just the tip of the iceberg when it came to Vex.

He walked to the side of the door and opened it. I paused for a moment and slipped the knife into my pocket, before following his direction and slid out of the car.

'What do you want Vex?' I said, ignoring his presence and walking back around the back of the van.

'Just a little chit-chat of course. I thought we were friends?'

'Nothing of the sort,' I said through gritted teeth.

'OooOoo someone's wound up a little tightly today aren't they?' Vex said, leaning casually against the van as I struggled with the lock, sniggering at my futile attempts, 'need a hand?'

I stopped with the lock and stared into his eyes. They flashed a luminous green and glinted with my own reflection, 'no'.

'Suit yourself. I just think in your emotional state you might need a bit of support, that's all.'

'What emotional state?' I asked, resuming to struggling with the lock.

'Well normally when someone close to you dies it's natural to be a bit vulnerable…'

I stopped struggling.

He looked up at me from fiddling with his nails and smiled sinisterly.

'How did you…what…how…' I stuttered, my heart beating furiously in my chest.

'Don't get yourself wound up about it HK,' he said, patting me on the shoulder, 'he's in a better place now.'

I couldn't place it, but there was something in his smile, his voice, that made me feel very cold. I swallowed in the hope that it would subside. It didn't.

'It was you.' I muttered, 'you killed him.'

'It had to be done. Fingers was buying recklessly, and not paying what he owed. He had been given enough notice to pay and he didn't. So, as I have explained many times before, if someone does not give the amount of money owed then I will take it from his or her bodies. In Fingers case he owed several thousand pounds, so I had to take the most valuable thing from him – his life.'

My head was pounding loudly, ringing beats through my ears. I could feel my chest heaving in and out furiously as rage was quickly spreading through every vessel of my body, 'I have the fucking merchandise!' I said, banging a fist on the van, 'I would have given it all back!'

Vex looked completely unmoved by my shouts, casually brushing off dust from his jacket, 'too late for that though wasn't it? Besides…' he moved his face closer until it was inches from mine, 'there is nothing I like more than the bloody slaughter of the kill.'

His eyes flashed a brighter green and his smile a demonic snarl. I could feel his tainted breath on my face, clouds of warmth beating against my skin. I felt a sensation inside me, I made a snap decision, and with a sudden movement as immediate as a reflex, I reached my hand into my pocket and closed my hand around the knife. Before I could bring it back out I felt his hand secure around my wrist, the strength holding my arm down.

'Don't do anything stupid HK. You know that you're as good as dead if you kill me. Everything you've worked for, your entire life would be over if you kill me.'

An image of Spinelli and TJ flashed through my head, 'it already is.'

His face registered a sign of confusion and then horror as I used my other arm to release his grasp. He fell back against the van and gasped as I plunged the blade into his chest.

His green eyes clouded, and his mouth fell open. He looked down helplessly at the blade. I pulled it out and plunged it in again, twice.

'Three times, just like I promised,' I thought aloud – nerves making my voice shake and waver.

Vex had yelped with every plunge, and now was sliding down the van, collapsing with a heap on the floor. His eyes were still darting around, his mouth still open in shock and horror. Yet in the final breath he took, he smiled one last time and spluttered, 'you could have been great kid. Good luck, you're gonna need it.'

I gritted my teeth, standing rigid and tall above the dying heap below me. As I watched the life slip away from those luminous eyes I yanked the lock off the van and swung the doors open. When I was sure that all life in him had gone I hauled his body into the van, propped up against a box of merchandise. As I was about to close the door I was sure I saw him wink at me, or smile one more time. But looking again at his lifeless body and his internal organs that were now fully on display for me to see, I knew it was my head playing tricks on me.

I slammed the door shut and could hold the feelings back no longer. I burst into hysterical tears. I cried for Fingers, I cried from the feeling of blood on my hands that would never come off, I cried for Spinelli but most of all, I cried because I knew that this wasn't the end.