THE YOUNG SOPRANOS (VIOLENCE) PART 4-CHAPTERS: VII--IX
THE
YOUNG SOPRANOS
PART 4
CHAPTERS: VII--IX
BY
J. BECK
2024
. . .
(CONTINUED)
VII
A.J. had phoned Jack Black after he left Jeni Fazio's house on his way to stay the night on Fleet St.
A.J. asked Jack to meet him at Satriale's to pick him up & go pay Coco a visit over in the warehouse district first thing the next morning. Saying Vito had errands to run & was unavailable to accompany him. Then added: "To provide "Muscle!" To imply that A.J. had a "RIFF" w/ Coco.
Jack assured A.J. that he would be there at Satriale's 7AM Sharp. (Good Man.)
Then A.J drove by the Chinese Food Restaurant after ordering carry-out. Enough to feed 5 in case all the Girls were home w/Vito on Fleet St. But as he pulled up he sees Raymond's mother Nucci Curto for a second time with the same brunette woman wearing a long tan overcoat leaving the restaurant together but departing in opposite directions.
A.J. had seen them together there a week before he had left Newark for Italy to be married to Stella. A.J. had volunteered to retrieve their mother Carmela from the airport for Meadow so he could have a private discussion w/her about the latest revelation that Caitlyn Moltisanti was actually a Soprano after all of the six siblings took blood test to verify that Tony Soprano was the father of each of them.
Carmela was aware of Vito Francesca & Vladimir after the Last Great Gangster Funeral before she returned back home to Miami earlier that same week.
But w/the news on that Wednesday of the Double Family Deaths & Funerals of Jenny "Jackie-O" Moltisanti--Caitlyn's mother & her grandmother Joanne Moltisanti Carmela decided to immediately return to Newark NJ on Thursday afternoon.
A.J. surprised Carmela who was expecting Meadow & Francesca to be retrieving her. But instead it was her handsome well-dressed son who welcomed her back as she exited her arriving flight gate.
Carmela informed A.J. she hadn't brought any luggage on this trip. She had an oversized carry-on bag packed with black dresses nylons & shoes for the Funerals. A.J. took the bag from her as he embraced her w/one free arm & kissed her near cheek giving his mother a chill.
"Thank-You Anthony for such a loving reception! I'd never get that warm of a welcoming from your older sister. Where is she & Franny anyway?"
A.J. excused them by saying:"I saved them the stress of traffic coming over from Dumbo when I was already here on this side of the river in Newark. Carmela assured him that she couldn't be more appreciative--She really wasn't in the mood to deal w/Meadow's Word Soup Innuendo "Head Games"! A.J. didn't comment as they walked out together to his car.
Carmela asked A.J. if she could just stay in some Newark hotel besides the Hilton. All of the endless air-traffic coming & going was most disturbing. & She really didn't want to travel all the way across the river to Dumbo when the Funerals would be there in Newark. Adding that she hadn't informed Rosale Aprile that she was returning already so soon after her last visit.
A.J. told her she could do whatever she wanted.
"That's what I told that Small-Dick Little Carmine before I left South Beach. He was all pissy about me wanting to leave again for these Funerals after I just got back from being gone so long." (WHAT DID YOU SAY?) A.J. chuckled as he opened his mother's passenger's car door & tossing her carry-on bag in over the front-seat into the backseat.
"I told him that he comes & goes whenever he pleases for periods on end.?! & He wants to give me Shit?!--I told him that I'm not married to his Dumb-ass & Then I reminded him that this condo is my goddamn house that my late husband paid for w/his fuckung life!
I told the "Yellow-Dog" Coward to get the fuck out of my house & he better not be there WHENEVER it is that I decide to return--IF I even do!" (What a Bitch Mother!)
A.J. laughed closing the door & pointing out her seat-belt:"BUCKLE UP--ITS THE LAW!"
Carmela giggles to hear her son call her a Bitch! "Now who do you sound like?!--You're Father!"
A.J. gets in the driver's side & buckles himself into the seatbelt to leave & asked are you Hungry?!" (I could be--Why?)
"Well--Hungry for What?!" (How about Chinese Carry-out?!--That sounds good!)
"Whatever you say "COOZE!"
"Anthony--What did you say?!" (You heard me Mother)
Then A.J. could faintly hear his mother mumble "Marquis" as she turned her blushing face from her son who just floored her w/his comment.
CARMELA SOPRANO
(MOBSTER WIDOW MOTHER)
"NEVERMIND that Mother I have something that I have to tell you." (WHAT IS IT ANTHONY?)
"What it is Mother: There are a total of six Soprano siblings determined now after we all submitted to blood test. All returned as positive matches to Dad as being the father of all of us." (6?!--I thought there were only 5 w/Vito Franny & Vlad)
"Yes--Caitlyn Moltisanti is the sixth Soprano."
"Jesus Fucking Christ Tony!" Carmela swears slapping the dash-boar shaking her head side to side.
"That Man--Your Father!"
. . .
(CONTINUED)
VIII
Jack Black arrived at Satriale's at 7 o'clock sharp to find A.J. sitting alone inside the office watching a video when Jack darkened the open door.
"What are you watching T?--Porn?!" Jack asked half-laughing as he amused himself.
"OH--NO. It's THE DEER HUNTER movie from 1978! The Russian Roulette scene in the Jungle while they were captives in Vietnam."
THE Deer Hunter--1978
(Jungle Russian Roulette Scene)
https://youtu.be/aCW9NsrV6VM?si=bXw1SrtJRtKZ87sU
"Yea--I recall that film. It a long ass movie & it starts out slow but really picks up once they arrive in "Nam". That movie was made before your time was it A.J.?" Jack asked.
"Yea.--I wasn't born until 1985. But it's a Classic & Forerunner to the later war movies PLATOON & HAMBURGER HILL in the 1980's." A.J. answered as he continued watching it.
Without looking up at Jack he instructs him to close the door. Once the short video scene finished A.J. set his phone down & lit a cigarette offering Jack one who politely declined holding up his hand. "NO THANKS T."
"SO JACK!--I know who you are." A.J. calmly informs him as he deeply inhales his red-pack cigarette to exhale into the still air above his head. Raising his head to stare Jack in the eyes. (YEA?!)--"YEA."
"ALL THE BETTER--I guess." Jack said exhaling. (How So?!)
"I've found myself feeling guilty." Jack confesses.
"GUILTY?!--You Jack? For What? Murdering my Oldman in Cold-Blood in found of his family?" A.J. sits up erect in his chair behind the empty desk between them.
"Oh No. Not that. That was Business.--I was just doing a "Piece of Work." I have felt guilty for decieving you & Vito since I began working for you & Meadow." Jack answers as he reaches for the cigarette pack on the desktop: I've changed my mind--May I?"
Help yourself Jack--Just like you've helped yourself to my sisters & my mother!" A.J. gestures w/a wave of his hand. "While you have been feeling so fucking guilty!" A.J. adds.
Jack calmly removes a cigerette from the red-pack & asked for a light. A.J. removes his lighter to extend it across the desk for Jack to lean forward. Jack could see by his steady arm that A.J. was not anxious but cool & collected. Jack was striving to maintain his composure being completely caught off guard.
"What are you going to do Anthony?" Jack cut to the chase.
"What do you mean Jack? Are you asking me if I'm going to kill you?--Or HOW?!" A.J. glares at him. (Well--Both I guess?)
"A.J. stands up face to face with him to answer: "I don't know Jack.--I'm still undecided." A.J. butt's out his cigarette before continuing.
"I must admit since I've learned your true identity I've imagined 1000 ways to kill you for murdering my father.
But to be honest w/you Jack--I don't know how safe I will feel without your protection & knowing you have my back. You have become invaluable to me & my family's security--Ironicly." Jack remains silent as he listened & maintained eye to eye contact to see if A.J. was serious or bluffing. Jack was well-aware of A.J.'s ability to be coy & decieving.
"But in the meanwhile we have a "Piece of Work" as you refer to it at hand before us to accomplish this morning. As I spoken to you earlier about paying that Coco-Fuck a visit!"
"Whatever you Say Anthony!" Jack butt's out his cigerette.
"Good Man--& I will let you know what I decide to do about this issue between us when I know." A.J. pats Jack across the back ad the two men leave the office together to go.
"You drive Jack & I'll ride "Shot-Gun."
A.J. began questioning Jack Black as he drove them eastward towards the Warehouse District along Hudson Riverfront on the Jersey side.
"Tell me Jack--Who hired you to whack my Oldman anyway?" (It was Paulie Walnuts)
"How much were you paid?!" (20K$)
"REALLY?--I guess that was a fair wage for a piece of work back then?!" A.J. commented pointedly.
"So it's no small wonder why you didn't hesitate to jump after Meadow's offer & her "Bones" for her contract to kill Butch & work for her?!" Jack remained silent driving w/his eyes staring straight ahead on the road.
"Who sanctioned the Hit on my Dad? Paulie didn't just contact the murder without approvel first?"
"Butch ordered the Hit & Paulie arranged it w/my sister to contact & contract me." (Your sister?--Which One?)
"Deanne. She was fucking Paulie back then after her husband Eugene committed suicide hanging himself in their house basement." Jack answered honestly without looking at A.J.
"How did you know where to find him that night at Holstein's Resturant?!" A.J. pressed him.
"Don't you know A.J?--I learnt it from you." (From Me?!--What the fuck ate you talking about Jack?) "THINK ABOUT IT ANTHONY. --Who did you see last before leaving to meet your father at that restaurant--that night?"
- ("Rhiannon.--I will be goddamned. ")
A.J. & Jack arrived outside of Butch's old abandoned warehouse that became Coco's after Jack had Whacked Butch for Meadow.
"Do you have a gun on you Jack?!" (ALWAYS.)
"GOOD MAN! Now don't draw your weapon until you see alive drawn mine because I want first shot at this Motherfucker. After That?! Open Fire on the Son-of-a-Bitch!" (GOTCHA T. But what do you have against him?)
"Well besides he disrespect my sister Meadow in Public & my father curb-stomping his front teeth out of his head for that?!--He's been running his "Cocker-Sucker" behind my back about my personal affairs! It's just doing Business Jack--A Piece of Work. Nothing More. A.J. decisively answered Jack's point-blank question. (Works for me T!)
"You Two-faced Cock-Sucker!"
Jack growls
Under his breath.
. . .
(CONTINUED)
IX
Bobby "Baleno" Baccalieri sat at the bus stop casually dressed across the street from an underground parking lot entrance & stairwell.
Bobby watched a young woman walking up the sidewalk who enters the off-street stairway entrance to descend below when a male sitting on a bench stood to follow her in.
Bobby stands up but can not cross the street due to the heavy afternoon traffic. Bobby grew impatient & decides to walk across inbetween the passing vehicles until he reached the other side to the sounds of blowing horns & screeching tires abruptly stopping to avoid hitting him.
Then when Bobby entered the staircase he could hear yelling from below. As Bobby quickly descended he could hear the man yelling:
"You're not a woman! You are a goddamn Faggot!" Apparently the predatory male had reached inside his victim's shorts to discover that She was a Transgender He with a penis.
As Bobby reached the bottom of the steep deep staircase he found this heavily tattooed gang-banger type had cornered his victim.
But when Bobby yelled for him to leave her alone the Transgender woman knees her stalker in the groin & doubled him over groaning when he turned to look up at Bobby.
As Bobby approached the perpetrator to cease him he told the woman to "RUN!" She exits out the bottom door into the underground parking garage.
When suddenly the stalker produces a knife to lunge towards Bobby. He was aiming for Bobby's throat but missed & gashed his left cheek.
Bobby overpowers him & snaps his wrist forcing him to drop the knife. As it landed of the floor Bobby pulls out a small caliber handgun from his bloody trousers pocket to shove the barrel up under his attacker's chin & fired it three times. Causing blood to spray from the back of the serial predator's head onto the wall behind him while his glassy red eyes rolled & his limp body slid down to the floor streaking the block wall w/his spilled blood.
As Bobby steps away & drops the pistol he hears a security guard yell from behind him: "DON'T FUCKING MAKE A MOVE!--& PUT BOTH HANDS UP ON TOP OF YOUR HEAD!"
Bobby obeys as he can feel a gun-barrel pressing firmly into his back between his thick shoulder-blades.
A.J. was waiting in their get-away vehicle parked in the underground garage when Dolly Darling came skipping out of the stairwell to escape her attacker & crawled into the backseat while awaiting Bobby to join them but who never appeared.
So A.J. drove up out of the parking garage onto the street to drive around the block to meet Bobby above ground level of the street-front entrance to the loud sounds of oncoming response sirens.
When A.J. pulled up across the street he could see three police cars & two ambulances as the cops surfaced with Bobby in handcuffs covered in his own blood from the flesh wound he recieved from the dead stalker. (Click--Click)
"FUCK"
A.J. slowly drives off as more police & first responders arrived at the crime scene.
A.J. drove Dolly back home to NYC & paid her 5K$ for being a decoy to lure & entrap the stalker who was a convicted rapest that had just been released from prison after serving a lengthy sentence on multiple rape charges that very morning.
& Had returned to the scene of his prior crimes that same day where he had raped Dr Jennifer Melfi (& his other victims) over ten years before. Apparently the police had anticipated that he would possibly return to strike again there when they came & arrested Bobby.
Before A.J. could return to the Jersey Shores the News was all over the radio & his cellphone began blowing up w/calls & text that Bobby had been arrested for murder.
His pictures were all over the televisions 'Breaking News: "Convicted Serial Rapest is Murdered Less then 8 Hours of being Released from Prison."
Apparently Bobby had suffered a serious flesh wound to his face & had lost alot of blood. So he was taken to the hospital to be stitched up & given pints of blood to restore his depleated system. Bobby was held under heavy police guard at the hospital.
So A.J. went to the hospital to locate his nurse friend Rhonda to learn what he could about Bobby's condition & welfare.
But when he arrived at the ER he recieved a rare cellphone from his wife Stella who had been on duty & heard the police alert in Jersey on the scanner. So Stella spoke to a first responder contact from Newark at Bobby's crime scene. A.J. took the elevator up to continue privately talking on the hospital roof.
Stella told A.J. she had immediately notified Meadow of Bobby's arrest so she could come to his legal defense.
Then Stella told A.J. that Bobby said that he killed the stalker in self defense when he interupted the predator's attack on an unknown female. The perpetrator had cut Bobby with a jail-house made "Shank" (knife) severing his left cheek w/a lengthy cut.
Bobby broke the attacker's wrist in self-defense when the man pulled a gun on Bobby who overpowered him & managed to shoot the predator before he could shoot Bobby.
It all sounded pretty much self-explanitory. Bobby killed a known life-long criminal in self defense.
"So what you are telling me is? Bobby is actually a Hero?!" A.J. questioned Stella.
"Apparently So Dear as long as no other facts or eye-witness accounts come forth contrary to Bobby's intial story?! But the only problem is--It's Friday & Bobby won't be able to go before a judge until Monday at the earliest. Since there are possible manslaughter charges pending there can be no bond set to get him released beforehand."
"I understand.--What a goddamn Relief!" A.J. sighed running his fingers back through his sweaty hair as he digs in his jacket for a cigarette.
Stella blows A.J. a kiss & giggles over the phone. After she encourages her husband to be patient & that it will all be resolved eventually. But in the meanwhile she had to get back on duty.
As A.J. hangs up w/ Stella Vito & Rhonda appeared to report what Stella had informed him of. Except that their Aunt Janice had arrived at the hospital downstairs & was all irate w/the cops after seeing her step-son Bobby being all bloody & arrested on the Breaking News.
Vito suggested that they leave the back way & avoid their Aunt & the News Reporters assembling outside the hospital w/their moble-crews.
Rhonda assured A J. she would keep him posted when Bobby had been treated & released to sit out the weekend in jail awaiting the judge.
"At least Larry & Jerry will know along w/the rest of the world that Bobby Baleno has made his bones & is off limits to them. Besides they can reach him out on the streets if hes sitting in jail." (Unless they have some of their own Guys on the inside beween inmates & bad-cops on the take?)
Meadow knew exactly what it was all about after she heard through Breaking News Alert over the AM radio & recieving a text from Stella informing her that Bobby had been arrested.
Meadow had caught the jest of the conversation between A.J. & Jason Melfi after she introduced them at the Last Great Gangster Funeral. Meadow had excused & removed herself from the room & further hearing what the two men were discussing when Jason told A.J. that he wanted his mother's rapest murdered.
Apparently A.J. had made Good by his Word & granted Bobby the contract to "Make his Bones."
. . .
(To Be Continued)
REFERENCE:
THE YOUNG SOPRANO PART 2--XXXIII (CONTINUED)
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