After a long day at the office, the crew was exhausted.  The heavy silence of the group was only broken by the cracks and sparks of fire that burned only a couple of feet away from them - bodies.  The smell of burning and decomposing flesh isn't something you get used to.  Some local thugs decided to push their luck by beating up one of Stefania's gangsters, and had the nerve to shoot BobbyZ's own dog as he was walking him - as if this thing of ours didn't claim enough lives, as is.

Syn broke his gaze from the fire and spoke. 

"Ugh, I hate burning flesh. We couldn't have just buried them?"

 BobbyZ's mind goes blank as I stare down at his desk. 

"It's just the nature of what we do.  If I'm burning these pieces of shit over a gangster and my dog, imagine the length I would go for you" 

BobbyZ looked at my captains one last time and sent them home. "All the work here is.. done. GreenBean and I will take it from here."

Stefania and Syn make their way back to their HQ, leaving GreenBean with BobbyZ. GreenBean produces a flask and pours up two drinks - some spirit he couldn't smell due to the pervasive scent of the bodies - and handed one to BobbyZ.

"Boy you must have had a troubled childhood."

BobbyZ chuckled as he took a sip.

"Everything I learned about being savage, I learned from my father. I remember growing up as a little boy, and my father DeeMoneyy was actually the nicest savage you'd have ever met. He would do things that I wouldn't dare utter to anyone.  And, some days, he'd do things for the headlines so he'd be painted a saint. I remember when we moved from Chicago to Philly - that's when I noticed  more of his  savage side. All the wars, all the drugs, all the money, and all the other things that make us savages?  My father exposed me to that world early."

BobbyZ suddenly gave GreenBean a very distorted look.

"Sometimes in life you are forced to become this way. Want to hear a story?"

GreenBean smiles and says "Go on"

The godfather reached into his wallet to show the last picture  had of his mother. It was old, tattered and being held together with tape - but it was all he had.

"Could you imagine watching your mother's life being taken away from you? My father got into it with who we now see as our arch enemy - Durdens. The Durdens barged into our hotel room one night, tied my mother and I up and made me watch as they violated her. That alone would cause a kid to never be the same, but they didn't stop there. They called my father, as he picked up the phone they just sat there in silence. Two seconds later they shot my mother in the head, hung up the phone and knocked me out. Every since then, erasing every trace of them has been a mission, along with protecting those around me with extreme measures.  Burning these assholes in the pile, here?  That isn't even the worst I would do to those who cause harm to anyone I love.  I went light on these guys."

GreenBean sits in the chair, lost for words. 

"Well, you know I'm here for you. We will ride together till the wheels fall off."

GreenBean gave a single head nod letting me know - BobbyZ didn't have to explain anymore. 

As GreenBean left the office, BobbyZ stopped him.

"Hey,  I appreciate you,  man. It's toughing living with this mind of mine. I guess you can say being a savage is all I ever really knew."