Dell lay there in a pool of his own blood cursing his life that has been one big disappointment. The cold floor in warehouse that smelt like fish made him think how much he wished for it to end faster. He turned his head and saw standard boots issued by the force it was his partner Richard Malloy.
He still can't get why his partner would do something like that. Maybe he had a reason not that Dell cared what it was, he just wanted to close his eyes and not open them again. He had already been through to much. "what's the look? Are you regretting going after them right now" said the bearded police man crouching down to get a closer look at his dying partners face. Dell just scoffed and turn to look at the ceiling remembering the situations that got him in this mess.
Did it start when he saw the raped victim to shocked to say what happened, or was it much later when he met Richard maybe it was when he joined the force. Deep down he knew it wasn't that but way back when his teenaged mother abandoned a small baby at the fire station on a cold winter night with nothing but a blanket and a small am sorry note.
Dell closed his eyes and turned to look at his once a best friend. "how much did the Crayma family pay you to get rid of me like this?'' Richard smiled at the question "you really want to know, it wasn't that much they just promised me shares in the club they are building downtown." Dell almost laughed at the answer but the blood in his mouth made him cough it all out.
He new the club was not going to be built due investors backing out after all the allegations made to the Crayma family. Even though the were a powerful mafia family they had lost to outwit Dell who made sure to cut off all their financial help before putting all of them in prison. But somehow, they had fooled this chimpanzee of a partner into taking out there worst enemy.
Dell wondered what the afterlife would be like as Richard was still trying to understand his friend's reaction, did he not get something or was this the laughter of a dead man. He decided to leave before reinforcement arrive and practice how to act shocked and sad over his partners death.
Dells mind started shutting down as he drowned in darkness recalling all he went through. He had been an orphan who went 18 years with ought being adopted. That made him hate his childhood as it was filled with hopes and despair every time a prospective couple came to adopt a child. He remembers being cast aside while other more good-looking children were presented to their new families.
He never understood what it meant being someone's flesh and blood as he didn't even know where he came from. His only link to his birth mother was a small blanket and a note left by here with only to words. What he hated more was his name Dell Montana, his name meant nothing as it was given to him buy a stranger who found him at the fire station and took him to the orphanage. When they asked him to give me a name he said "let his given name be Dell as it sounded cool and his family Montana since the state would look after him from now own." Dell went through his life at the orphanage and school being bullied for his weak body.
This made him want to punish his oppressors but was not strong enough. Without money for collage Dell decided to enlist right after high school and so his career begun. After working for the army, he was dishonourably discharged because his superior did not like him after certain events unfolded. That is when he decided to join the police force but he was still under people with higher authority who did not like him.
Dell hated working under people with insecurities that made it hard for him to his own job. And now he was shot dead by his partner truly hell on earth.
Dell continued to drift until he saw a light at the end.