The man sitting across from Nikki wore an evil smirk that started to irritate her. She was at his club for business. Not for entertainment. But she felt like some sort of circus clown sitting in front of him, as if he was making her into a joke. A slender woman with a martini in her hand was sitting on his lap. Nikki rolled her eyes before clearing her throat.

“So, what I was saying is that you have a debt to pay for all the drugs I’ve been supplying you with for the past three months. I’m not accepting anything less than one million and that’s FINAL,” she flicked her hair over her shoulders and nodded. Just before he could reply, some of his men started rushing into the scene and they immediately approached Nikki with guns attached to their hips.

Biggie was lurking in the background of the club, he had his hat and shades on so he would be harder to identify. He was here to have Nikki`s back if the "deal" went south. He had a firm grip on his gun, which was in the outer pocket of his coat. Biggie wasn't a fan of shooting for no reason, but would never hesitate to bust his burner if some of his friends were in trouble. He could see Nikki talking to this man, but was too far away to hear what they were saying. He didn't want to be revealed as a potential aid to Nikki, so at a distance where he could still have his eyes on her. 

Suddenly he saw a lot of movement among the people in the club, and saw several men flocking around Nikki. He knew they were in big trouble now. He saw the man getting up, and started talking to Nikki. It looked like he suddenly got a lot of confidence and had a nasty smile on his face. BIG could feel the adrenaline pumping through his body, he felt had to make a move fast. He began to move slowly towards the club owner, trying to look like he was just a normal guest while he slowly got closer to him. When he got behind him, he took a powerful grip around his neck with his left arm, and took up the gun out from his coat the with his right hand and planted it against his head. 

"Listen, if I see any of you raising your guns, I'm going to blow your bosses brains out. Is that understood? It's up to you, give us what you owe, or else your boss is dead." Biggie said with a firm voice. 

All his associates looked at each other, it seemed none of them had a clue about what to do. All his associates looked at each other with a stunned look. It seemed like everyone was uncertain about what to do. Biggie pressed the gun so hard against the club owner's head and roared. "Listen, I'm not going to repeat myself, what will it be."

Nikki felt a surge of panic inside her as she saw the men coming to approach her. The only thing she could of was the fact that this situation was SO unfair. They were armed with all these guns and she didn’t even have a knife on her. She looked to the man she was speaking to earlier and she glared at him angrily. But in his mind, Nikki wasn’t intimidating at all. Just a young naïve woman, thinking she could get money off one of the richest mob bosses in LA.

She relaxed shortly after when she realized she had NotoriousBIG on her side. He was the best. “Really? You’re going to intimidate me with your men now? I’m not leaving without my money.” In just a few seconds she witnessed the scene change up completely with Biggie's gun pressed against the club owner's head. 

Nikki was the one smirking now. "You heard him," she pointed to NotoriousBIG. "Money or coffin?" 

Biggie felt they had the upper hand now, but the situation was still very dangerous. What if some of his men hated his guts him and saw this as a perfect opportunity to kill him and take over his business. He looked like greedy prick, who only cared about himself. If that was the case, then both Nikkie and Biggie would follow him to the grave. Thoughts flew through Biggie's head, the most important thing now was to get out of this alive. But he was still determined to make an effort to get the money now. He began to improvise.

"Tell your guys to get the money now," Biggie said

"I don't have it now, I don't have it I swear" the man said with a frightened voice

Biggie checked his watch an said "Ok listen up, ive been here for 20 minutes now. I've already informed 10 of my men to storm in here after 30 minutes unless Nikki and I have come out safe. Your stupid boss says he ain't got no money on him; I'm sure some of you have some cash or something of value to kick up. Come on guys chop-chop, find a way to solve this. Do you really think we would come here all alone? I don't think you understand who you're dealing with here." Biggie said with a loud voice.  

Biggie looked Nikki in the eye with a confident look, she looked back at BIG with an equally confident look. It felt like they could convince these people to cooperate. Again they looked at each other with uncertainty. It looked like few of them had been involved in situation like this before. There was not much courage to discover in any of them. After a few seconds, one of them answered.

"Ok wait, I think I have an idea how we can solve this"

The men began to bicker back and forth with each other, trying to figure out how to give back the money they owed to Nikki. She seemed calm. And relieved that Biggie was handling most of this for her, but she also kept her eye on the club owner. He looked dumbstruck, honestly.

“And can we please take out the guns from this equation? So unnecessary...” Nikki rolled her eyes. The club owner glanced at his men in a serious manner, giving a nod to them as a signal to lower their weapons. It worked, surprisingly. Nikki could never imagine taking orders from this money hungry bastard.

“We have a safe box here stocked with four million in cash,” he announced nervously. And in that moment, Nikki knew he fucked up badly. “We want all of it,” she smiled sweetly before turning to NotoriousBIG and shrugging.  

"Most definitely, we are taking all the cash with us, throw in some chains as well. I love chains." Biggie said with a smirk on his face 

Biggie felt a lot calmer; he realized they had taken over by now. He began to fantasize about what he was going to spend his money on, cars, new houses, new shops, clothes, jewelry, shoes, guns or donuts. Definitely a lot of donuts, maybe get his own donut shop in the Bella Vista. That would be something. The thoughts flew through Biggie's head. Fortunately, he was able to regain consciousness and have his focus on the present. He started thinking about what he could do, so they were more secure and safe, so he said: 

"Hey, one of you, kick over your gun to Nikki right now. Just cooperate with us, and all of you can eat supper with your mothers later today. I don't want to kill anyone over nothing, but if some of you make any moves, I will not hesitate to put your boss to sleep."

One of the associates didn't waste no time and kicked his gun over to Nikki right away. Nikki bent down and received the gun elegantly as it was about to hit her. BIG quickly looked at Nikki with a question mark on his face and indicated to her what their next call should be.

“Walk to the safe. SLOWLY,” Nikki carefully instructed in a stern tone. She was using the gun that one of the associates kicked over to her, pointing it against the back of the club owner. He was standing on the verge of death so they both knew the only thing he could do was oblige to her orders. Her left hand gripped his left shoulder.

Quite frankly, she couldn’t wait to get to the money. She had already given the guy and his lousy men too many chances. If something was to happen... she’d blow his brains out right then and right there. She looked behind her to catch NotoriousBIG’s attention and she gave a brief nod.

“I’ll go alone. It’s fine.” For some reason, she felt a sick feeling in her stomach. The club owner ended up leading Nikki down a hallway. There was a metal door at the end. The man looked up at her. “What are you looking at? Open it.” Nikki swallowed nervously. He didn’t notice.

When they both were finally inside, she instructed him to open up the safe. The tension in the air was sickening. Nikki looked away for one second and all of a sudden the man took out a gun from the safe, pointing it to her. Two men suddenly emerged from outside and they snatched Nikki by the arms, her gun accidentally slipping from her hand.

“Well,” she chuckled. “Fuck.”