Misty Gray
Pessimisty
Gabriel Moretti's Office/Apartment
~ Tower Block, Murray Hill, Manhattan ~
Gabriel Moretti and Riccardo Biancardi
~ Tower Block, Murray Hill, Manhattan ~
Gabriel Moretti and Riccardo Biancardi
Another thing which Gabriel didn't take kindly to was the way Ricky held his hand out to silence him before he had chance to interrupt. Gabriel let that slide too, on account of the fact it felt like Ricky was actually in the process of saying something worth listening to. As Ricky went on, Gabriel knew what he was saying made sense. It was time to wash their hands of the Irish and sever any remaining business they had with them. Along with his Colombian contacts and potentially the Kings, Gabriel would soon have no need to do business with the Cubans via the Sullivans. Despite fundamentally agreeing with Ricky, he still didn't want to hold back on his initial response. "I will be the one to decide when I've finished with the Sullivans."
"Oh, come on. He's had six years in that place, being your bitch. I'd say you've managed to humiliate the guy for quite some time. You lost a lot of people, but so did they. This is war and you shot back at the Irish pretty hard." Ricky stopped short of reminding Gabriel that it was Francesco who had fired the first shot the day he put a bullet in Liam Sullivan's skull. "The position I'm in means I've heard both sides of it. During your war, a child was left an orphan and a couple more kids lost their father," Ricky said, thinking of Olivia and the McCarthy kids. "You had the shrink fuck with their heads, which I'm still in awe of, and you had members of the family tortured. I won't even go into all of the innocent people who were caught up in the middle of the war. Fact is, you already beat them. New York is ours and we need to remove that last bit of presence the Sullivans have here."
The faintest of smiles crept onto Gabriel's face after listening to Ricky continue to put his case forward. Again, he agreed with the man, but he wanted to let Ricky keep talking in case the man let slip more thoughts and knowledge than intended. Then Julia spoke up, prompting Gabriel to focus his attention onto her. Like Ricky, the woman seemed keen to avoid spilling more blood. She spoke of Gabriel manipulating the situation to his advantage, which was something he always sought to do. Apparently, that manipulation happened to involve keeping James alive. As the woman suggested they could use the situation to the advantage of both the Morettis and the Biancardis, Gabriel's expression compelled her to continue speaking. "I'm impressed with what you and Riccardo are saying, Julia. Whilst we can certainly use Porter to our advantage in terms of negotiating with the Sullivans, how can we be sure Roxanne would be quite so sentimental? She already betrayed her own cousin by taking Riccardo's rightful position. Why would she show any respect towards the her ex's family?"
Ricky cleared his throat and sent Julia a glance before speaking up again. "We should definitely try negotiate taking the remaining part of Queens from the Sullivans, in exchange for Porter's release. I mean, can you even do that?" he seriously asked Gabriel.
"If I decide I want Porter out of jail, then I can get him out of jail," Gabriel confirmed, but would not divulge to them the details of how.
"What else do you think we could get out of Roxie? I don't know if she'd give her position up like that. In her place, I know I wouldn't..." Ricky asked Julia. "And what are your thoughts, Teddy?" he asked, aware that during the war between the Morettis and the Sullivans, Teddy had been physically tortured by James.
Melanin-Gxdess (Teddy)
Bellz (Julia)