"These bills are fuckin' weird," Jeff says to Leo.
"You tryin to fuck us?!" Leo says as he thrusts the barrel of his 9mm toward the old man's wrinkled crown a few times.
He stabilizes his wrist on the agent of death. "I can end you right now bitch. Just say, 'when'."
The cold metal of the barrel presses against the forehead of the man, who at this point has pissed himself, and is praying to whatever god he worships, hoping to understand what he did to deserve this. Jeff has given up on his control and is swept by the current. Leo is clinging to his individuality by violence, which never ends well...
The merchant's wife has been in a back room, her hand shaking as she clutched her cellphone in the midst of an active 911 call. She's trying to save her husband and her children.
"Enough....you ass-hat," a voice rings out loud and clear in the small jewelers shop on the avenue. The thick Scottish accent comes from a five-foot-nothing East Asian man emerging from the shadows of the back office. He looks at the immaculate lapels of his expensive suit and scoffs before he dusts them off and looks at the scum in front of him.
"Do you want yourself to win, or your family to fail, jackass!?," Leo says casually as he points the barrel at the surprising yuppie who came out of no-where.
"When did you fail yourself, ya damned munkey?!" the voice echoes in Leo's mind...
Leo remembers every hardship he avoided, every challenge he failed, every time he could have done better but knew, somehow, it was easier to give up and get free minor progression than actual success.
The beat cops in the city have seen this too many times recently. Some small time crook suddenly becomes psycho because he didn't get mommies' love.
Leo gets a new apartment in a padded room. Jeff gets watched for a month...then ignored. But not by everyone.
Jeff finally gets out, and starts to do more damage than Leo would ever do. He randomly kills leaders of free will, he stops someone from finding the cure for cancer that would be found on the internet.
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Melissa and Chris look at their newborn baby. "Jeffery," says his mother.
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