THE YOUNG SOPRANOS PART 4--II (CONTINUED)
THE
YOUNG SOPRANOS
PART 4--II
BY
J. BECK
2024
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(CONTINUED)
II
Meadow confessed the entire story concerning Jack Black to A.J. after his marriage to Stella in Italy while they were Honeymooning in the Virgin Islands poolside before returning stateside to Newark.
Meadow started at the beginning when she first met Jack Black (& Stella Brewster for that matter). He was charged w/the murder of a homeless man & wearing an orange jump-suit in jail. She was appointed to be his lawyer as a public defender.
But after a hectic morning & running behind--stuck in a crappy morning traffic jam w/out coffee or cigarettes she showed up late at the local Precinct for their intial interview.
Meadow entered the investigation room disheveled w/her computer bag strapped over her shoulder & a drippy wet umbrella she stood up in the corner as the door was closed behind her.
While balancing a white-foam cup of cold jailhouse coffee she began unpacking her computer bag & yellow legal-pad w/out peering up at her new client. Who pointed out that she was late sitting at the opposite end of the long wooden table w/wrist & ankle shackles.
But when Meadow looked up to apologize for her tardiness she looked Jack Black in the face & suddenly realized that she was looking their father's murderer directly in the eyes.
Meadow covered her mouth as she became instantly sick & dashed out to puke her guts out in the restroom across the slippery mopped hallway floor. This is where & when Meadow first met Police Officer Stealla Brewster who introduced herself as "Sting".
Sting was standing at the sink washing her hands when Meadow came crashing in through the restroom door. Sting assisted Meadow by holding her head up & she held her stringy-half-dried showered hair back out of her face as she finished dry-heaving on her knees inside a cramped stall before the porcelain alter.
Sting power-lifts Meadow off the floor to wipe her mouth & sweaty face off with cold water & paper-towels. That was beginning of their long endearing friendship.
The interview was canceled to be rescheduled at this point.
This is when Meadow left Dumbo to visit their Aunt Janice in East Newark NJ at Satriale's where she found A.J. eating a sloppy sandwich outside after he shot a round of golf earlier that morning between the rain-drops at the Skyline Golf Coarse. (A.J. acknowledged that he recalled the day & how strange she was acting.)
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So Meadow & Janice leave to get a bite to eat & talk privately. But Meadow realized she had made a mistake by telling Janice about the encounter with their father's killer as some as the words left her mouth.
Janice wanted all the details & his name. Which totally pissed Meadow off. She couldn't reveal the identity of her potential client due to her legal Oath as an attorney. Meadow walked out of the diner leaving Janice sitting as she waited in the car.
At the point Meadow wasn't officially Jack Black's lawyer & she had the option to decline her services to defend him. Another attorney could be appointed due to her conflict in interest.
Meadow could simply walk away from the case or she accept it. Meadow could defend him or she could compromise his defense & have him convicted to serve life in prison for the homeless person's murder as well as for their father's death. But at this point she was perplexed & undecided.
Being angry at their Aunt Janice Meadow returned to NYC but ignored the low-fuel warning light & ran out of gas crossing over the freeway bridge. Where ironically Sting appeared to assist her again for a second time that same day.
The only issue was Meadow's piece of shit car's registration had expired over 6 months before on her last birthday back in September.
So Sting had to call for a wrecker to come & tow her car off the bridge. Then Sting gave Meadow a ride back to her apartment house in Dumbo in the back-seat of her police cruiser.
Meadow admits to A.J. that she suspected that she had been experiencing a mild case of depression due to her isolation away from their family & missing their father--"Her Daddy.'
But oddly enough fate appeared to intervene & she decided to junk her worn-out car instead of re-registering car-plates & paying to get it out of the impounding yard. This is when she became reunited w/ her old childhood school-mate Hermus "Hymie" Hyle who was a gay funeral director that was filling in behind the desk at his Uncle's Junk-Yard.
Strangely Hymie broke the ice (& her depression) when he awkwardly discovered Meadow's lost vibrator under the front passenger-seat while retrieving the car-title from the glove-box along w/the rest ofher personal belongings that remained inside. (Lost Vibrator?!)
"Yes.--A Lost Vibrator. It works to pass the time & curb the anxiety when you're stuck in a Traffic Jam!" Meadow waves A.J. down giggling--"Don't Judge!"
Between the awkward embrassment & learning the identity of her old friend Meadow decided to clean up her appearance & her act to ethically accept Jack Black's case.
Which she would successfully defend & have his case dropped & thrown out of court due to insufficient evidence.
But in the meanwhile as Meadow would later deduct that Janice had informed Butch of Meadow's encounter w/Tony's killer & while she was out of town for the weekend visiting their Aunt Barbara in upstate New York her apartment was broken into. It was ramsacked but nothing was missing. Someone had come looking for any files she may have had revealing who her new client's name was.
Again--Sting appeared off-duty in street clothes to the crime-scene responding to the scanner alarm recognizing Meadow's street address after bringing her home when her car stranded her.
Stella insisted Meadow come & stayed at her nearby house until the police investigation could be wrapped up.
Then the following morning when Stella returned Meadow to her rental car they discovered it had been broken into.
So Stella insisted Meadow remained at her house until the police could make the determination whether either or both cases were merely random or deliberate acts.
But after two weeks Meadow decided she needed to return to her home in the apartment building & clean up the mess.
Stella would only agree if Meadow was able to properly defend herself. So she took Meadow to a gun-shop w/an indoor shooting gallery where she could purchase two fire-arms & gain experience practicing shooting the weapons in a control med environment.
Meadow left the gun-shop with a .357 & a 9mm hand-gun. One to keep inside her apartment & one inside her car's glove-box.
This was all about the time that she witnessed A.J. whacking Paulie Walnuts in the cemetery at their late father's grave-stone & discovered to rescue Omerta to take home to her apartment.
Meadow had passed A.J. on the freeway while driving a different rental car after her first one had been looted. Meadow blew her car horn but A.J. didn't recognize her or was too focased on his task at hand as he took the cemetery exit. So she turned around to follow him in case he was upset about something. She knew A.J. had never visited their father's grave since his funeral almost 10 years before.
But what she witnessed being undetected hidden amongst the grave-stones was A.J. "Making His Bones" executing Paulie Walnuts as he stood in a dirty soiled bathrobe & slippers.
A.J. was aware of Paulie Walnut's superstitions concerning cats & that was why A.J. brought the black cat as a prop to heighten the drama.
After A.J. showed Paulie the homemade video he made of Tony's murder at Holstein's Resturant--A.J. tossed the cat into Paulies face & unloaded seven shots at point blank tange into him before leaving with Geno & Jake.
Meadow stepped up to take a closer look after they left their victim for dead w/the heavy haze & smell of gun-powder mixing w/the mobster's fresh spilled blood. Although he was riddled w/gaping bullet-holes Paulie appeared to be breathing & gargling blood laying face down in front of Tony's blood-splattered grave-stone.
W/out thinking Meadow reached into her purse where she carried a sharp utility razor blade knife to cut Paulie's throat from ear to ear.
Meadow had carried an utility knife w/her for her protection from the day her "Daddy" took her to the hardware store to purchase it for her before she left home for college.
Tony explaining to her that it appeared harmless but was a deadly weapon to use in defending herself.
Tony pointing out the jugglar vein in the neck then the arteries under each arm-pit & between the insides of both thighs.
Tony also noted that it was the weapon that the terrorists used to perpetuate their horrendous crime against humanity by high-jacking the planes that flew into the Twin Towers on 911.
A.J. was amazed by Meadow's vivid account & realized just how she acquired Omerta. & How Paulie ended up w/his throat cut which Hymie discovered when he laid his body out.
A.J. shakes his head in disbelief "Good God!" & He tells his sister to "Go On."
Meadow continues her story as she removes A.J.'s red cigarette pack & lighter from his tropical print shirt pocket to have a smoke.
After Sting's first fight night that Meadow attended & introduced A.J. to Stella which led to them becoming lovers afterwards.
Once Meadow got Jack Black murder charges dropped & released from jail she took a personal break to fly down to South Beach in Miami FL for a long overdue visit w/ their mother Carmela. & Stella stayed at her apartment to keep Omerta company while Meadow was away. When Jack came & left an envelope w/10K$ for legal fees under her apartment house door.
A.J. told Meadow he recalled that because he was actually there looking for her but discovered Stella there. (& You had sex w/her all afternoon & evening in my bed?! I found all of your used condoms left behind littering my room!) "SORRY!" A.J. chuckled.
Meadow came to the conclusion after she found Jack's envelope of money that he was actually acknowledging that he knew who she was & where she lived after being released.
So she could only expect him to return to kill her if he knew Meadow's true identity. & That she was the only witness who could pin Tony's murder on him.
Which eventually happened two weeks later while Meadow laid waiting for him night after night. She left her apartment door unlocked while sitting alone in the dark sipping wine w/ Omerta on her lap & her .357 handgun on the coffee-table. Stella told her to keep it inside her house at her side because it could shoot through a closed door w/ out opening it.
Sure enough Meadow heard the unlocked door knob slowly turned & opened as the clock struck midnight. Jack Black entered to appear standing as a large dark solid figure w/a drawn gun pointing down from his hanging arm.
"JACK?!--WHAT'S TAKEN YOU SO LONG?!--WE'VE BEEN EXPECTING YOU!"
Meadow announces herself as she flips on a dim end-table light allowing him a moment to adjust his eyes to see her sitting in only a short purple sheer houserobe with an open bottle of wine & two crystal glasses in front of her beside her loaded & cocked pistol.
Meadow asserted herself taking charge of the situation. As she slowly stood to push Omerta off & wrapped her naked body up inside her back-lit sheer robe drawing & tying the waist-string before pouring them both a glass of wine.
Omerta went over to rub against Jack's leg as he silently stood attempting process the unfolding circumstances.
"Take a seat Jack!" Meadow instructs handing him his glass of wine. "It's Imported--From our Motherland!"
"So--It's apparent that we both know each other's true identity. & I assume by the looks of your drawn-gun that you are here to kill me?!" Jack remained silent.
"& You can deduct from the looks of my fire-arm that I was expecting you & you can trust that I am well able to defend myself.
I could of killed you as soon as I heard you turning my unlocked door knob--Could I Not Jack?!"
Meadow turned her back to him so he could see her bare buttocks cheeks on display below the short robe hem to retrieve her wine glass. At that moment Omerta leaped up in Jack's lap.
Meadow giggles as she rotates to sit back down across the room on the leather couch.
"Omerta wants you to pet him but you will have to put down your wine-glass or your gun first." As she lifted her glass to "Salute!" before taking a sip to wet her mouth.
"I could say--You owe me Jack! But we both know that hardly holds any water among a known code-breaker as yourself. But I didn't have to get you off those murder-charges. I could of had you put away for life to revenge my father's murder--But I didn't." (WHY? Didn't You?)
"Why?!--That's a good question Jack! But I can't honestly say--Why. Besides I swore an Oath as attorney & a public defender to protect & honor my client's legal & civil rights.
Although my motivation wasn't exactly ethical because I knew if I took your case that I would have full access to all of your private & personal records from criminal to military service & health records." (And?)
"And I know all about you Jack Black--including who all your family members are!" (So?!)
"So-- Simply. I can assure you if you decide to kill me here tonight or attempt to later at anytime that you & all of your family members will be slaughtered!" (You talk pretty tough!)
"Well Jack--You flatter me! You're the pretty tough-guy & apparently you have big enough balls to murder my mob-boss father in public in front if his family?!" (Well?--What do you want me to do?)
"What do I want?!" As I said: I know why you are here. You're not here to kill me only to save your own skin but to save the person who contracted you to kill my father in "Cold Blood!"
"How much will you be paid for killing me Jack?!" (Nothing.)
"What a big surprise!--So its all your fault & mess to clean up Jack?!"
"I want to hire you! (Hire?)
"Yes Jack.--You're not a Made-Man. & You are an independent contractor so i want to hire you to murder the person that sent you here to kill me. & I want you to be my body guard afterwards to protect me--my little brother & my mother." (Go On.)
"You know as well as I do Jack that just killing me won't be enough for your keeper. He will demand you continue killing my brother & mother to assure there are no witnesses to cover-up your/their crime. Then this person will have you killed to protect themselves & whoever they answer to.--That's just How it goes w/the Mob Jack!"
"I will pay you 200K$--100K$ before & 100K$ after you "Do the Work."
Jack silently stares across the room as he lifts his wine glass to sample while petting Omerta's stiff tail.
But before Jack could answer Meadow stood & allowed her robe to hang open to reveal her nakedness in the shadows to him.
"Dont feel rushed to decide Jack!--How about you take me into the bedroom & Fuck the living shit out of me until morning. & If I awake still alive?! I will know your answer."
So the following morning Meadow awoke sore between the legs laying naked in bed w/Jack who agreeded to accept her offer.
They had sex a final time before showering & leaving together to kill Butch. To spare Meadow & her family member's lives as well as revenge their father's death.
Which also resulted in giving A.J. the opportunity to become the next DIMeo Crime Family Boss.
"So--There You Have It Little Brother!--I Swear."
Meadow raises her right hand & holds her left hand down over an invisible Bible with an awkward smirk across her face awaiting A.J.'s response.
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. . .
(To Be Continued)
REFERENCE TO JACK BLACK From the beginning of YOUNG SOPRANOS Part 1
https://youngsopranos.blogspot.com/2024/04/the-young-sopranos.html?m=1
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