Episode V : El Camino

It's 3am on a cold Friday night Lawrence exits his office, locking the doors. Lawrence walks to his car on the quiet downtown Dallas street, as he gets near his car Lawrence notices a grey van pull up, but he payed it no mind. Car keys in hand unlocking his Mercedes with his back turned to the street. Suddenly Lawrence hears a voice from behind. "Lawrence Monroe?" says the unknown voice. Lawrence turns to the man, it's Kilo dressed in all black with a rolled up ski mask covering his head like a beanie and black leather gloves, the grey van lurking in the background. Lawrence catches Kilo off guard punching him in the jaw staggering him, then Lawrence frantically gets into his Mercedes starting it up and putting the gear in drive. But before he could take off, 2 hooded GCM goons pop up from the darkness in front of Lawrence's Mercedes armed with glocks, aiming them at a panicking Lawrence, blocking his departure. Lawrence knows theres nowhere for him to go and exits his vehicle. Lawrence has his hands up, the 2 goons pat down Lawrence looking for weapons. "Glock...rear waistband." Lawrence says narrowing down the search. The goons find his 2 tone glock given to him by Sebastian and gives it to Kilo. Kilo instantly recognizes the gun putting on a sinister smile with his long dreadlocks covering his eyes only revealing his shiny gold teeth. "Toss this nigga in the back, and ziptie them hands." The goons tie Lawrence's wrists behind his back and uneasily try to force him into the van as he tries to get free from the clutches of the goons, but is unsuccessful and thrown into the back of the van. Kilo walks to the back of the van where Lawrence is. "Oh yeah, I almost forgot." Kilo says to Lawrence spitting a disgusting ball of blood onto his face from the punch Lawrence gave him. "Nice sucker punch, bitch." Kilo says in a deep tone. A zip tied Lawrence is so livid by the disrespect that he lunges toward Kilo, but Kilo anticipates it and strikes Lawrence with a vicious boot to the face knocking him out. Kilo hops in the back of the van with a bound, and unconscious Lawrence, closing the van doors as it speeds away down the sleepy metropolis.

       Kilo and his crew bring Lawrence to an empty house in GCM territory and drag his unconscious body through the house into a den that's lined with plastic and sit him in a folding chair, Kilo orders his guys to wait out front to watch for opps. An unconscious Lawrence is slouched in the chair as Kilo showers him with a bucket of cold water covering his face and grey Armani suit waking him up. A bewildered Lawrence exhales deeply. "Welcome back Mr. Law." Says Kilo with a smirk dropping the empty bucket on the wooden plastic-covered floor. "Look man I'm just a Lawyer, I don't got shit to do with the streets anymore I been out the game 5 years now." Lawrence explains as he discreetly tries to free his hands. "This ain't about you, it's about that brother of yours." Kilo answers pulling out the two-tone glock and tossing it to another room, the gun sounds as if it's been caught by someone. Sounds of footsteps approach toward the den. The footsteps are revealed to be Hollow's as he enters the room standing next to Kilo with the glock in his hand. Lawrence doesn't recognize Hollow but feels as if he looks familiar. Hollow holds up the glock showcasing it. "This...is my shit...the same gun your brother stole out of one of my traps 2 months ago along with alotta my fuckin money...and the same gun you had on you, which leads me to believe you were in on it." Says Hollow calmly. "I don't know wtf you're talkin about, my brother gave me that gun years ago." Lawrence lies. Hollow and Kilo look at each other grinning from ear to ear then Hollow looks back at Lawrence. "Are you fuckin serious right now? Everybody in The Grove know he's been robbin us blind, his days are numbered and so are yours if you don't tell us where that nigga is, then...we'll go after her." Hollow shows Lawrence a picture captured by his goons across the street from his moms house of Layla getting into her car. Lawrence scans the picture with an expression of sorrow, that expression quickly transforms into a death stare at Hollow. "I'm gonna fuckin kill both of y-" Kilo interrupts by striking Lawrence with a ferocious punch to his defenseless stomach with his leather-gloved right hand, Lawrence coughs up a small amount of blood, a little stream of blood drips down to his chin. Kilo bends down and comes face to face with an bruised and battered Lawrence, while Hollow leans up against a wall smoking a cigarette watching. "Tell us where he is or I'll personally pay a visit to mommy dearest and let my boys take turns fucking her until that pussy is broken." Said Kilo with a sick and twisted grin. Lawrence's eyes turn white hot and glances at a window next to him then turns his attention back to Kilo, his adrenaline starts to build up and explodes like an erupting volcano. Lawrence poetically spits blood into Kilos face to antagonize him. "Heh, nice sucker punch bitch." Said Lawrence smiling showing his blood stained teeth. Kilo is extremely angered by this, backs away slowly and wipes his face violently with his hand, he then snatches the glock from Hollows hand and aims it at Lawrence's head, but Lawrence finally free's himself from his zip tie restraints and briskly grabs the glock with both hands to wrestle it away from Kilo, Lawrence and Kilo play tug of war with the glock, Hollow uninterestedly watches them shaking his head and taking drags from his cigarette, as Lawrence's index finger finds the trigger while it's still in Kilos hand. Lawrence forcefully tries to turn the glock toward Kilos head, Kilo tries to avoid it by kicking Lawrence in the leg but it does nothing to deter him and Lawrence overpowers Kilo finally getting a clear headshot, Lawrence pulls the trigger but the bullet misses Kilo's head and hits him in the shoulder. Lawrence wins the fight over the gun and Kilo loses all of his bravado from the gunshot wound falling to the floor holding his bloody shoulder in agony. Unnoticed by Lawrence, Hollow pulls out his chrome desert eagle, shooting Lawrence in the ribs. Lawrence aimlessly turns his gun on Hollow and shoots back at him while holding his bloody ribs. Hollow takes cover behind a wall with bullets whizzing by his head and shattering windows behind him. Lawrence lifts up the window that's next to him groaning from the pain of his shot ribs. Hollow peeks out scanning the den but Lawrence has already jumped out of the window. The 2 GCM goons who were keeping watch hear the shots and run in with guns drawn. "He just hopped out the fuckin window! Go kill that nigga and don't fuckin come back till his ass is fuckin dead!" Hollow yells to his goons checking on an injured Kilo as they run back outside to find Lawrence. "This bitch ass nigga stay whoopin yo ass I swear. You a fuckin disappointment man." Says Hollow insulting Kilo as he tends to his wound. Lawrence limps down the middle of a street that's lit up with streetlights, some flickering some not. Lawrence is still holding his ribs with one hand and holding the glock with the other, leaving a blood trail behind him. A car comes into Lawrence's view in the distance ahead. As it slowly approaches, Lawrence recognizes its an El Camino. He conceals his glock on his rear waistband under his bloody suit jacket so he won't spook the driver, and waves one arm above him signaling for the car to stop. The occupant in the El Camino see's the signal and stops alongside Lawrence. A blonde-haired slender white man exits his El Camino leaving his door ajar and see's the gunshot wound. "Oh shit man, we gotta get you to a hospital." The stranger insists as he puts Lawrence's arm around him helping him walk towards the El Camino, the stranger walks Lawrence to the passenger side and helps him get in, dark colored blood covering his leather seats. Then as the stranger is about to close the passenger door out of nowhere a bullet pierces the strangers windshield followed by several more gunshots.

The startled stranger quickly slams the passenger door ducks down, and crawls toward the driver side. Bullet after bullet strikes the idle El Camino causing a barrage of sparks to fly through the air and glass to rain down on the stranger as he crawls in terror. Bullets strike all over the cars fender shattering the headlights and knocking off the driver side mirror, but the stranger is luckily not hit and barely makes it to the driver side. The stranger urgently jumps in the driver seat slamming the door and reverses. The goons continue to fire shots at the reversing El Camino until both of their clips are empty, but unfortunately for them they didn't kill Lawrence or the stranger causing them to get away. "Fuck!" One the goons yells echoing throughout the neighborhood. The 2 goons lower their empty, smoking guns, get into the grey van and follow them urgently.