b. I keep arguing

You chose:

b. I keep arguing.

"Gordon. Are you steewwpid?" I intentionally add an overly dramatic English accent. I actually sounded more like Stewie Griffin than Gordon Ramsay. But that was my intention. Dramatic effect and all.

I continue. "Who in the history of humankind has ever shot someone, fired someone else, asked for an apology, and gotten forgiveness? Ever. NO ONE. Grow a pair. Of brains. Idiot." I add the accent again on the final word.

Gordon soaks it all in. His face grows English Beet Red. He reaches his hand inside his fitted leather jacket. The barrel of the silencer is the last thing I see. Everything hazes into nothing.

Do the:

1. Local police race to the scene

or does the

2. Local sheriff meander onto the premises

(Return to the beginning.)