The cigarette smoke lined the roof of my fifth storey office as I looked down over Carcer City. Neon lights lit the main street up like flares while smaller white lights dotted the apartment blocks and suburb houses like fireflies among the rain. Of course, it wouldn't be Friday night without a gun shot or two ringing out. It was almost strangely serene as a police siren wailed like a banshee, quietening into nothing as it got further away from the city.

Carcer city was once a booming dock town. That was until the mob got their hands on it. Now a den of inequity. The gambling, hookers, strip joints and constant illegal deals made Vegas, the original city of sin, look like a retirement village.

I stubbed my cigarette into the ashtray, watching as the embers of my smoke crushed beneath my fingers and reached for the bottle of whiskey on my desk. Pouring myself a more than generous measure, I took a sip and sighed, listening to my body thaw. My eyes trailed from the city to the one memory I had from my previous life. Above my filing cabinet, hanging like a family photo that got looked at less the more it hung, was my old Carcer City PD badge. I was a cop, a good one at that too. First in my class, marksman, detective after three years. A little rough around the edges and in the Captains office more times than I care to admit, but I got shit done. But, when Don Ribioti got his hands on the city and lined the CCPD's pockets with a little bit of cash, they became little more than puppets on the end of his strings, turning blind eyes to everything just for that extra bit of cash.

When I refused to dance to that song, I was given two options; severance pay out or dishonourable discharge. Hell, they planted evidence all the time at the Don's request, it wouldn't have been hard to pin me. Especially not when the little lady wanted a new car or a vacation. And weeks later, they had enough evidence to send me down. That or retire with an honourable discharge and I pay out.

I wasn't dumb. I took the money. A cop inside among the men I'd put away? I'd give it a week until I looked like a Pez dispenser. But what to do with the money when all I'd known was the thin blue line?

I set up shop as a PI. In the early days, it was fun. It felt like policing again. God, I missed that life. But not lining my pockets the way they did, turning a blind eye when I shouldn't. It turned me into the Black sheep of that badged family. Sure, one or two still spoke. But it was about anything but work.

But it was growing tiresome. The more Don Ribioti got his fingers into the city, the more crime ran amok and all I got was missing spouses and rat bastard husbands. Still, Kept me in smokes and whisky. Slumping into my chair, I span to face the city, loosened my shirt collar and lit up another smoke. Glancing at the clock, it was 10PM. About time to call it a night and catch a few drinks at Sally's bar.

KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK

The door to my office was pounded and I reached for my gun as I spun on my chair to face the door.

I watched to see if it opened. It didn't.

KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK

It wasn't the Don's men. They wouldn't have knocked once never mind twice and me and my door would've looked like a block of swiss cheese.

"Who is it?" My gun trailing on the door under the desk. "It's not locked, you know."

The hammer came back on my pistol as I kept it pointing towards the door.

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