The Heffner Legacy (Build Newcrest Challenge)
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    • Generation 4 >
      • 4.1 Shattered
      • 4.2 In High Demand
      • 4.3 Empty
      • 4.4 Better Future
      • 4.5 Misbehaved
      • 4.6 Everything's Fine
      • 4.7 Disillusioned
      • 4.8 Career Hiccups
      • 4.9 Raven's Story
      • 4.10 The Gathering Storm
      • 4.11 Letters to Emily (Part I.) - Contact
      • 4.12 Alex Dark
      • 4.13 Betrayed
      • 4.14 Another Miserable Day In The Life Of Kellie Heffner
      • 4.15 Comforting the Heir
      • 4.16 The Baffling Case of Father and Son
      • 4.17 Letters to Emily (Part II.) - Annie
      • 4.18 The Morpheus Project
      • 4.19 Good Evening, Mr. Heffner
      • 4.20 The Dinner
      • 4.21 Punishments and Experiments
      • 4.22 The Good Son
      • 4.23 The Princess and the Rogue 1
      • 4.24 The Princess and the Rogue 2
      • 4.25 Indiscretion of My Sister
      • 4.26 Dead Calm
      • 4.27 The Invisible Heffner
      • 4.28 Under Pressure
      • 4.29 The Cold Shoulder
    • Generation 3 >
      • 3.1 Difficult questions and answers
      • 3.2 New friends, new enemies
      • 3.3 Broken friendship
      • 3.4 The gangster and the Heiress
      • 3.5 Somewhat serious conversation
      • 3.6 The Blasted Heffners
      • 3.7 Proper introductions
      • 3.8 Winners and Losers
      • 3.9 Sweet Hello, Sad Goodbye
      • 3.10 We have Kellie now
      • 3.11 The Early Departure of Dr. Angel Locklear
      • 3.12 My Sister's Keeper
      • 3.13 Heffner and The Rich Girl
      • 3.14 Exodus
      • 3.15 Happy birthday, Chris!
      • 3.16 Club Wars
      • 3.17 Nightmares
      • 3.18 Forever
      • 3.19 Seeking Allies
      • 3.20 Bad Girl
      • 3.21 The New Kellie
      • 3.22 The Straw That Broke Camel's Back (Part I.)
      • 3.23 The Straw That Broke Camel's Back (Part II.)
      • ​3.24 The Straw That Broke Camel's Back (Part III.)
      • Dreams
      • 3.25 Nightrunners
      • 3.26 Lost
      • 3.27 The Search for Kellie
      • 3.28 Mornin' Sunshine!
      • 3.29 What You Are and What You Could Be
      • 3.30 Back to "normal"
      • 3.31 Let me be your truancy instructor
      • 3.32 The dude with hot sister
      • 3.33 Second thoughts
      • 3.34 Beryl in Peril
      • 3.35 I like our toes
      • 3.36 The Wedding (Part I.)
      • 3.37 The Wedding (Part II.)
      • 3.38 Cornered
      • 3.39 Lee
      • 3.40 Love & Ruin (Part I.)
      • 3.41 Love & Ruin (Part II.)
      • 3.42 Plans
      • 3.43 The Day Kellie Returned
      • 3.44 The Game
      • 3.45 You don't have to do this, Tony
      • 3.46 Casualties
    • Generation 2 >
      • Chapter 2.1
      • Chapter 2.2
      • Chapter 2.3
      • Chapter 2.4
      • Chapter 2.5
      • Chapter 2.6
      • Chapter 2.7
      • Chapter 2.8
      • Chapter 2.8.1 Behind the scenes
      • Chapter 2.9
      • Chapter 2.10
      • Chapter 2.11
      • Chapter 2.12
      • Chapter 2.13
      • Chapter 2.14
      • Chapter 2.15
      • Chapter 2.16
      • Chapter 2.17
      • Chapter 2.18
      • Chapter 2.19
      • Chapter 2.20
    • Generation 1 >
      • Chapter 1
      • Chapter 2
      • Chapter 3
      • Chapter 4
      • Chapter 5
      • Chapter 6
      • Chapter 7
      • Chapter 8
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    • Crossover 05
    • Crossover 06
    • Crossover 07
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Chapter 2.19

Tony Corleonesi, the man they started calling "Meatball", after he had chopped the man, who caused the death of his love, and his whole family into pieces. He was nineteen at the time. He went a long way since then. He had a reputation of the man who always gets the job done.  
The reputation he's been working on all his life was now in pieces too. Michael Castelli took care of it. It's been a couple of weeks since anybody called him with a job offer. And somehow he didn't care. Not much. Money wasn't the issue.
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He's been spending his days and nights in this damned bar. Since the night with Beryl, things have been going downhill. He thought the woohoo with her would cure him of his attraction. Well, it didn't. He wasn't quite himself these days.
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The memory of her sleeping in his bed while he was sneaking away was still fresh in his mind.  And he kept torturing himself with it. Speaking of torture... The newspapers were full of her pictures. And that's how he learned that he had left her with more than just a memory of a great woohoo with him. They conceived a son that night.
When the baby was born, Tony even bought the stupid magazine to see his pictures. And hers too, of course.
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The old bartender probably heard his story a hundred times by now. So what? He was listening to her constant grumble about pain in her back too. Sometimes he thought she would surely drop dead on the spot by the way she looked. Old and tired. But here they were. Still talking.

Tony: "How's your back today, Rebecca?"
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He even told her how he tried to get rid of his feelings by working out hard. All that - futile.

Tony: "To plum with love!" (*heavy punching*)
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But talking to the bartender was not the only reason he's been spending so much time in this bar lately.
There was this dancer. She called herself Salome (probably not her real name).
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The truth was she reminded him of Beryl. A lot. She had similar smile and eyes. However, she lacked Beryl's naive look and her natural elegance. She's also much younger than her, but beggars can't be chooser's, right? 
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And so Tony was coming to this bar to watch her rehearsals and performances...
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​...and to get to know her better. When he couldn't 
have the real thing, he grabbed the second best.
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He did all possible things to forget about Beryl, yet his heart still yearned for being with her and their son. With every kiss and touch he exchanged with Salome he was actually fooling himself into thinking he's holding Beryl in his arms.

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But at the end of the day, he didn't feel any better.

You look like crap. Get your plum together, Tony.
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​In that moment his phone rang. Marissa. The girl I could have been with but didn't want to.

Tony: "Hello, Marissa. To what do I owe the pleasure of hearing your lovely voice? No, I haven't checked my mail lately. An invitation? I don't think it would be wise of me to come, in case I encountered your father, which is very likely to happen.  
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Tony: "You did? Well, that's nice of you, but I can't promise you, that I won't have a fight with him. You know what he did to my business by spreading rumours about me. I would prefer if he punched me in the face instead, when he was so disappointed with my last job. I offered him a compensation... Okay, no more talking of it. Alright, I need time to think it over. I'll let you know, if I decide to come."

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Chapter 2.18
Chapter 2.20 (The Vote)
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