The Noir Driver
Volume 1: Undisputed “Kane comes storming from the ropes, he licks Daniels with a left, now a right and Daniels is KO!!”. …
Author: Justin Lord
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Volume 1: Undisputed “Kane comes storming from the ropes, he licks Daniels with a left, now a right and Daniels is KO!!”. …
Volume 1: Undisputed
“Kane comes storming from the ropes, he licks Daniels with a left, now a right and Daniels is KO!!”.
The year was 1945, Gotham City, It was probably the most chilling winter I’ve seen in years but yeah, what you just heard was some heroin-infested ring announcer blabber on the radio that I apparently just became the middleweight champion of the world.
Roars and screams had all the dames going a fritz at the excitement while their husbands were tearing up their tickets because the no-good fools were stupid enough to bet against me.
Just for a moment, I allowed myself to feel the golden spotlight gleam on my skin as the sweat dripped off me, to soak in the intoxicating vibrations and stop wanting for a moment…just for a second, I was satisfied, but only for that moment.
“Great job champ, you did us proud”. A wide-eyed reporter said to me as he rushed towards my way when though his praise was valid, I simply nodded and trudged along to the locker room so I could have some silence and try to calm my nerves.
I finally make it to the locker room and had my gloves cut off me and laid my head against the metal of the locker with my things next to me inside my bag.
“You did it, Jay, you’re now the undisputed champ however, you see… you and I now share a bit of a quarrel”.
Butch Lancel, a two-bit gangster who was well known for slicing up half of Gotham as well as gambling, extortion, and fixing events.
“Oh, really old sport? And kinda quarrel would that be? I’d like to think myself some sort of handsome but I’m afraid I can’t help you if it’s a lover’s quarrel you’re after”.
“A matter of fact, it is wiseguy, except, the boys and I love money yet you fucked us out of said money by not taking a dive as you were carefully instructed to in the ninth round but to our surprise, you laid the concrete paws into that poor bastard”.
Butch stood painfully at his own agony at 5’2 and due to nerves about feelin small he’d always dress his carcass with Italian silk suits and hire six-foot brutes with no teeth to handle his dirty work, two of which, came in on cue behind me like trained hounds to a meal.
“Now how do you expect we settle this quarrel we have on our hands?”. My hands were still taped and thankfully I had a bit more oomph in me.
“I suppose it may have to be with those dancing partners you got there”.
“Oh don’t you pay them no mind sir, long as you have what you owe me in that bag of yours next to ya”.
“I don’t suppose I do, old sport. Would be rent money at least a quarter of it if I had it”.
Butch simply nodded and bared a pair of brass knuckles upon his hands while he sicked his dogs.
“I never understood how you talk like a gentleman but always treat yourself like you’re worth less than the rats in your neighborhood.”
The first dog bore his fists and golden rings but was put down with a right hook and fell into the metal locker becoming fast asleep and the second happened to be a bit bigger than his associate but was no matter as I kicked his knee from under him then a fist to his shoulder against the metal but before I could break his nose, I was blindsided.
“Y’know Jay? I like you but that'll teach you not to fuck, with my money!”.
Butch began to beat me senseless with those brass knuckles of his and would cut above my brow making it bleed then kept hitting me with right hooks after the other, finishing a word after he landed his blow.
After a Wallstreet-sized blow, I found myself bleeding from my head and lip onto the pavement floor and could barely hear his words through my daze.
“You have two days to get me what you owe or I swear to my mother, I’ll ice you myself”
He removed a jet black piece from his beltline and pressed it against my head, lowering the hammer behind it.
“What if I iced you first you fuck?”. A voice carried from in front of us.
“Mr.Falcone, my apologies, I was just handlin business here. You know how it is on our turf”.
I looked up at Butch and the man looked as if he were about to shit himself then apologize for the smell.
“Yeah, I do”. Falcone raised a black piece in his hand and without hesitation, hit put one in Butch’s throat then two in the head of his dogs, and then switched out his gun for his.
“Clean yourself up old sport, you work for me now unless you’d rather join the chaps who happen to upset me”.
He wore a black coat with what looked to be a three-piece suit from my busted eye and squatted down, not paying any mind to the pools of blood around him, just his tempered brown eyes staring into mine and his black glove reached out to me.
“Good. Starting today you’re my new best pal and you now work for me as well”.
I rose to my feet as he pulled me up and was sure that this man would smile just like he did even if he were face to face with the devil himself.
“Thank you, Mr.Falcone”. He put his arm around me and handed me a small business card before replying with a simple set of words that I’d remember for the rest of my life.
“Please, call me Carmine”.
-Fin-
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