1 Florida on New Years eve

Narrator Pov-

It was a cold night on new years eve, under a bridge in Miami Florida a shady deal was happening, between two rival gangs a regular drug deal on the surface, but the deeper you look into the interworkings of it the shadier it got. The two parties had colors attached to them, one was red and the other was orange, the red was giving the orange drugs in a steel briefcase and the orange was giving money in another steel briefcase.

As the two parties were about to trade hands the orange gangster with the briefcase was shot in the head, this was a drug bust, the other orange gangsters were getting shot at but strangely the red was taking very little fire, the orange gangsters tried to shoot back but it was already too late by the time they had got their composure back and their guns ready almost all of them were dead while the red gangsters had already left the scene with both the drugs and the money.

Victor hall, the head of this drug bust was a 46-year-old veteran detective and one of the most corrupt detectives on the force he had made a deal with the red gangsters that if he was able to get them to keep the money and take the drugs he would get a good amount of money from the steel briefcase, this was a regular occurrence for Victor who had long lost the passion for solving crimes when his boss demoted him for almost making a CEO's son a prime suspect in an investigation.

Victor leaned on a cop car smoking a cigarette, he wore a detective's brown trench coat which had bullet holes in it showing a vast history of close calls. Victor had a bushy beard and shaggy dirty blond hair with a few streaks of white, he had a hard face with bags under his eyes, if you saw him on the street you would avoid him, he was a man that has seen much and done much.

"It's done time to take the evidence and head back" Vic spoke into his walkie talkie which was connected to his squads earpieces, he got into the passenger's seat of his cop car while one of his "most trusted" subordinates named Dick got into the driver's seat, "So boss what's the split this time around" Dick said with a gruff somewhat excited voice, "Same as usual 70/30" the 70 went to Vic and Vic alone while the 30 was split between the squad, it may have been a unfair but Vic knew his squad wouldn't do anything after all it's been the same split for a decade.

As Dick drove the more Vic became more sure of what was happening, there was going to be an attempt made on his life, Vic knew it would happen at some point but not his blatant and this soon. Vic thought of ways to retaliate against this, he knew his gun had no bullets since he usually gives his gun to Dick after every case when they get back to the station and like usual at the start of this case, he got his gun from him but since Dick had already set his plan in motion by then Vic made the assumption his would be empty, and Dick knew he wouldn't use it because he only uses it in life-threatening situations and this was a regular operation.

Vic didn't want to accept his death in the ass and he knew there was gonna be a group of other dirty cops on Dicks side when he reached where Dick was driving him so he needed to act quick before they were in the vicinity of the destination so he took a very the dangerous escape route, Vic grabbed the wheel of the car and punched Dick in the side of his head, "Ahh what the fuck" Dick was surprised at the turn of events, but quickly tried to fight back, the car reacted how you might expect, it swerved heavily and unfortunately for the pair, they were right over a very large lake in Florida they swerved right off the bridge and into the swampy water.

The car plunged into the water luckily Vic opened his window as they fell in and was able to get out quickly unlike Dick, Vic quickly swam to the surface and onto the shore, he was soaked in dirty swamp water he tried to catch his breath he hadn't exhausted himself this much in years his body wasn't used to it, suddenly Vic heard a click from behind him, "Well Vic this is the end of the road it had it's ups and do-" before Dick could finish his monologue Vic rushed at him not before getting shot in the stomach but he was able to tackle him on the water's edge.

"You piece of shit after all I've done for you this is how you repay me, I ought to kill off your entire family for this shit, bet you'd like that HUH HUH" Vic said things he knew would get under his skin as he drowned him, Dick's head was submerged in the sewage-filled water he tried to gasp for air but his lungs filled with dirty swamp water and he died, Vic fell back onto the shore and looked into the night sky he glanced at his watch it was 11:59.

'I wish I didn't go into the force there's so much crime, so.. so goddam much and If you can't beat them, you might as well join them I wish I could've done that instead of fighting an endless battle. Every time I would take down one criminal 5 more would pop up being a criminal seemed so much easier, if I had a second chance I would rule the criminal world heh..." these were Vic's last thought before he died of blood loss but little did he know he would get that second chance even with a weird caveat.