|Sooner or later, everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences|

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The police officer circled around the shivering man who was sitting bound on a chair inside a windowless room, like a vicious hawk waiting for its ill-gotten victim to die from fright.

The only vague light source came from the small dirt-caked glass opening on the concrete slab above, otherwise it was an endless tomb of grey concrete walls and a wide rectangled one-way mirror all around them... decorated with the rusty red imprints of it's previous guests.

The man began to perspire, feeling that his time was finally coming to a close after five days of endless torture. There was no much life left in him anyways... only the thin shell of a false hope remained inside him. That one last wish to see his baby boy again...

Suddenly, the officer banged his fists on the table before grabbing the bloody man by his collar; yanking him close.

"I'm getting tired of you Alexi" snarled the officer in a murderous voice, "tell me where you mob compound is before I cut out your tongue altogether"

The man shivered uncontrollably but somehow managed to stay silent... until he felt a hand punch across his jaw brutaly to the side. He reeled back on his chair, blood spraying on to the concrete floor.

"How about a different question then" said the officer softly. "The location of your Boss's house?"

"GO to fucking hell figlio di puttana!!" screamed the man, breathing hard through his nose. The officer tuttered, a glutinous smile stretching away on his monstrous face. He leaned closer towards the man lying sprawled on his iron chair

"Such a waste you know? I have easier ways of getting the truth out of you" he hissed at the broken man's ear, "I've heard that your son is not yet 6"

Alexi jerked back up from his chair, growling with rage that came out of every atom in his body

"DON'T YOU DARE TOUCH MY SON!"

"Oh? I don't think that's gonna work for you Alexi" sneered Kim, "either way he's already a goner... either by the Falcons, or" Kim paused delicately, "Cosa Nostra... now that they don't have a leader.. not anymore"

Pale with fear, the Italian-Korean man began to gasp and choke uncontrollably... emotions seemed to be playing across his once handsome face. His head snapped back on his chair, memories of his small child and wife flooding across his mind. Tears sprang into his eyes, and a guttural moan escaped from his chapped, bloodied lips. Officer Kim waited. Knowing that the iron-like will of Alexi Luciano was finally broken.

"P-please dont hurt them!" he finally wailed as the officer offered him an evil grin.

"I can.. and I will Alexi" he said slowly "but you can change that situation...if you decide to help me"

For a moment, the dark haunted eyes met officer Kim.

"B-but I'm honor bound-"

"What matters most to you Luciano? Your honor to the Falcons? or the lives of your wife and child?"

Alexi stiffled a sob. The answer was obvious.

"I'm going to count to five Alexi" continued the officer evilly "if you don't, then it is bye bye to little Aiden"

"Please!! I-"

"One"

"You can't kill them!!"

"Two...you have a choice Alexi" said Officer Kim Ju Shin, raising his pistol

"If I do, they'll kill them anyways!!" wailed the man; half out of his mind.

"Three...well, you tell us the location and we won't kill them... at least..we won't let Falcons get them either. How about that?"

Alexi seemed to be hasitating. Officer Kim smiled; he was trapped.

"Four" he continued in boredom and suddenly the man sprang forward.

"I'll tell! I'LL TELL!" he screamed "go to hell you two faced motherfucker!"

The officer waited till the broken man sprouted out the entire location of the Falcon Manor, the strength of the security and the best time to attack. Kim Ju Shin made sure that the voice cut was recorded well behind the old fashioned speakers that resided behind the one way mirror. When the exhausted man was done talking, he turned, giving his bait an apologetic smile and raising his pistol. He aimed at Alexi Luciano's chest.

"It's not me who's going to hell after all Alexi" he said soflty, and pulled the trigger two times in quick succession, "It's you"

The officer watched till the man stopped breathing, and talked to the microphone attached to his breast pocket.

"We have the location" he ordered, grinning evilly, "prepare maximum force"

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"In a few years Jake, you will have to take over the entire mob force and lead them" said Leonard Maranzano to his son.

The child looked at him and smiled. Hyukjae was not yet 8, but his bright gray-blue eyes which were inherited from his father; glowed under the mess of jet black hair which fell around his head.

"Stop teasing him honey" sighed his wife, buttering her toast with a clear silver spoon "Jake is too young to take charge yet"

"There's no age limit in this crime world Natalya" said her husband, stroking his son's head, "anything can happen at a blink of an eye, besides I meant to start training him myself from next year maybe"

Natalya sighed, "Does that mean it's time to call Luca?"

Leonard noded, "Most probably, Jake needs to learn from the best"

Hyukjae turned his startling eyes towards the guilt door frame, tilting his head to the distant sounds of shouting which drifted through the hall.

Suddenly a guard came running through the double framed Mahogany door. He quickly saluted to Leonard and stood infront of the family and bowed,

"Boss!! The lookouts have spotted a whole police squad heading this way!"

That was when little Hyukjae's world flipped upside down. His father swore lustily in Italian, springing up from his seat and turning to him and his mother

"Get out from here! GO!" he yelled and pushed them towards the exit of the dining hall. Lady Hwa Maranzano grabbed her son's hand and pulled him up to her chest, just as they heard the main front door crashing in. Police sirens wailed in the distance and it confused Jake.

Hyukjae heard their guards running everywhere screaming at their intercoms to protect the Sparrows on all cost, but Jake was too young to know that the 'Sparrows' were the code name of his family.

His mother quickly ran toward the wardrobe under the stairs and roughly pushed him in. Jake looked up at her with glassy eyes, threatening to cry at any moment. His mother pulled him to a tight embrace, while the guards urged her to follow them.

"Be brave Jake" she whispered, and gave him a quick kiss on his forehead. "Mommy and daddy will come for you in a minute and DON'T come out till we tell you OK?" she whispered, and shut the door, but she did not shut it properly, hence leaving a small gap from which Hyukjae was able to see a crack of the dining hall.

That night Jake saw the entire police force surround his parents. But his mother was standing right infront of the cupboard that he was in.

"So we finally meet don't we Leonard" said a male voice and Hyukjae heard his father giving a snort of laughter.

"Of course officer Kim" he heard his father spit. "I would've given you a warm welcome if you had informed us beforehand"

"Oh" said the voice sarcastically.

"We wouldnt have been here if it wasn't for a special someone"

"Alexi" growled Leonard "that traitor!!"

"Oh yeah" said the voice gloatingly "he told us everything to save his own family, such a shame he died before saying where the compound was"

Inside the wardrobe Hyukjae's hands shivered. Something was terribly wrong and why should daddy be afraid of police like this?

"If he did, then I would've cut out his tongue myself!" yelled his father and Jake heard the cupboard vibrate at the loud force of his voice.

"That's why" said the poisonous voice gloatingly, "we came here to ask it from you"

"I would die first" said his father and suddenly, there was a loud bang.

"As you wish" said the voice again.

"Leonard!!!!" he heard his mother scream and Hyukjae felt his body turning cold...his father

"I knew he was hard to talk to" said the voice calmly "I wish you are better than him anyways, Now, you are Raven or are you called Natalya?"

"I would never!!" growled his mother.

"Oh come on Natalya" said the voice "the entire squad against a household security? This is surely not a winning game, besides, if you haven't noticed, each and every member of your guard is on choke hold"

"Go to hell you motherfucker!!" she yelled and Hyukjae heard the man laugh.

"To bad I've been there m'lady" he chuckled, "you must be very lucky ma'am to not have any children yet, or else it would've been easy to take the answer out of you by blowing out junior's brains"

Through that crack, Hyukjae saw the face of his father's murderer. The taunting face, the spindly figure and his voice... Jake committed them into memory. He suddenly felt his mother press agaisnt the cupboard, gently closing the crack.

"To bad for you I didn't have children" she spat and sprang at the police officer, for the second time that night, Hyukjae heard a double gun shot and he felt himself dropping onto his knees as his mother's frail body hit the cupboard with brute force. The man went on firing at her fallen body, emitting a growl of frustration. Her blood slowly began to drip on Jake through the crack of the door.

"Arrest the others" he heard the voice drawl as Jake silently slid back press himself against the back frame. Suddenly the cold dreaded realisation hit him

his mom and dad...dead!!

He felt his blood boil at the thought of the gloating voice he heard.

'I will hunt them' thought the boy after hours and hours of waiting inside the cupboard with sprinkles of his mother's blood dried on his hands and face.

He only remembered two names from that night. And they were to stay in his mind for a long time...

'I will hunt you and Alexi Luciano, I will make sure to let you know what hell is like!, I won't stop till I slit your throat!'

A/N: well well! We meet again!

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