Author's Note: This is a work of fiction and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. This is just a fantasy. The material in this story is for adults only and contains graphic sexual content. It is intended only for those aged 18 and older. All characters that engage in sexual activity are 18 or over.
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I'm a corporate CEO. My business is a private owned software development company in Silicon Valley and there are no shareholders. We do some contract work for Microsoft.
My family is not a big one. My wife passed two years ago from pancreatic cancer. I have no living brothers or sisters; no aunts or uncles. My only family is my daughter, Sherri.
One late Saturday night, I received the phone call that every parent dreads. My daughter Sherri and only living relative was in the hospital in serious condition. I drove there myself since my chauffeur was off for the night.
In the hospital, I make it to the ER and ask about my daughter. The nurse says, "She's in a coma Mr. Blankenship. She was shot twice in the head. I have to tell you that it doesn't look good."
"Shot? How?"
The nurse says, "She was apparently stopped by a cop and he shot her twice. She was in the car apparently."
"Where's the cop?"
"He left, sir."
"Do you have his name?"
She looks at the clipboard and says, "Officer Mike Fernandez, sir."
She escorts me to my daughter Sherri's bedside and I almost pass out when I see her. She's got a bullet hole in her upper left forehead and in her right cheek. I grab the bed and the nurse grabs me too. She pulls a chair over and makes me sit down. She says, "I'm sorry, sir." She gets me a glass of water and I drink it. I lean my head on her bed and start to cry.
I spend the night there and the doctor comes in to talk to me in the morning. "Mr. Blankenship? I'm Doctor Monroe. Your daughter is in very serious condition. She's in a coma but right now her brain waves are not too bad. She has a chance but only a small chance. The damage to the brain is on the left side. The main bullet went all the way through her head so we don't have to operate to get it out. If she makes it, she may have problems with speech and she may have issues with memory. The bullet to her right cheek actually bounced off but it did pass under her skin and out her ear."
"What are the odds, doctor?"
"I'd say it's 30/70 right now that she'll wake up. 100% chance of brain damage. Brain trauma is very tricky."
I take a deep breath and thank him.
Sherri is in a coma for nearly three weeks before she dies. I'm crushed. I'm ready to kill that fucking cop. I call my lawyer and tell him I want to sue the police department and that cop for the wrongful death of my daughter. He tells me he'll start the lawsuit.
I take time off from work to mourn. I'm numb. I'm thinking about selling the company and hiding away from life. Sherri was my life and I don't know if I can bear living without her. My family is me now and I feel like I should be dead too.
A couple of days later, the lawyer calls me about the lawsuit. He wants to see me.
I go to see him and he's got the video from the cop's dashboard camera. He shows me the video.
I can see him approaching her car. Then I see her I start to cry. The cop tells her to roll the window down. She yells that the window is broken and tries to open the door. He slams the door shut and yells at her again to roll the window down. She yells back that it's broken. He shoots through the window and giving her the injuries that killed her. The first shot is through her left forehead and when her head whips around he fires again. Fuck. My God. I didn't even know that her window wouldn't open. She never told me. You can clearly hear her yelling that she can't open it. It's loud and clear.
The lawyer asks me what I want to sue for. I don't really know. Finally I tell him I want at least ten million from the police department and I want that cop to suffer. I want at least two years pay from him.
The funeral home calls and asks me what I want to do about her funeral. We've got no family. I tell him I need to see if she had friends at college. We set up the funeral for a week from now. I go to the college and visit her room. Her roommate is there. She's crying. We basically comfort each other for a while. I tell her I'd like all her friends to be at the funeral if possible. I give her the details. I take a couple of personal souvenirs such as the teddy bear that she's loved since she was a little girl, some pictures and a couple of notebooks that she had. I tell her roommate that the rest she can have or just get rid of. She asks about Sherri's laptop. I tell her to keep that and the Ipod on her nightstand. She thanks me and tells me she'll get as many of her friends as possible. I thank her and tell her Sherri's only family was me. There are no other living relatives so I'd appreciate if there were some more people at her funeral besides me. She assures me that there will be.
Five days later, I bury my daughter. About twenty students attend. Afterward, I thank them and especially her roommate Ruth. I head home and end up crying a lot. Life fucking sucks. I have no reason to live anymore. I feel so fucking empty.
Later I decide to give everyone that came to her funeral $100,000 for their education. I call Ruth and get her to make a list of those who attended. Later I send them all cashier checks for the $100,000 each except for Ruth who I give $250,000.
The grand jury meets and decides not to indict the cop. I am really pissed off now. They let my girl's murderer walk. Fuck!! My lawyer does say we will probably win my lawsuit for wrongful death with the dashboard camera video.
A month later, we win the 10 million dollars from the police department and a total of $140,000 from the cop. That still is not enough as far as I'm concerned. I vow revenge.
I decide to sell my company for 50 million dollars to Microsoft. We provided the widgets and gadgets for the desktop for Microsoft's last couple of versions plus we developed Windows Defender for them. I put the $60 million in an off shore account that I can easily get too via online banking.