1 Dying Without Regrets.

"Please let them go.! They've got nothin' to do with it. TAKE ME.!! Just take me and let my family go.! PLEASE.!!", a man shouted at the man pointing a twelve gauge at his wife and daughter.

Raylan Givens was the Galveston county's district attorney. Throughout his career, he had put away hundreds of humanity's worst behind bars, but with passing years, his job was starting to take a toll on him. So he decided to finally retire at fifty.

Currently, Raylan was kneeling on the driveway of his own house. In front of him were his wife, Elizabeth and thirteen year old daughter, Sharon. They were on their knees while a middle aged man was pointing a twelve gauge shotgun at them from behind.

This man was Boyd Crowder. He was Raylan's last case of his career. Boyd was a serial killer who liked to go after families. He managed to fool the jury and escape death penalty by playing crazy. But Raylan saw through what this animal was really doing. So he tried again.

But in the end, Boyd was only sentenced to life imprisonment, so Raylan decided to just let it go and retire alongside his wife, Elizabeth, who was a senior agent in F.B.I.

She decided not to get a further promotion because she preferred the field work. But her job wasn't getting any easier with passing years, so she took Raylan's retirement as a sign from above and held a joint retirement party.

Then the family of three decided to retreat to their lake house in Burbank, California to spend their daughter's summer vacation there.

Or at least that was the plan anyway, before they got interrupted by Boyd, who had somehow managed to escape custody, no doubt thanks to the help of his two other friends.

Seriously.! Which serial killer has friends.!? Why hadn't he killed them already.? The authorities never even bothered to look at this case from that perspective from the very beginning. It didn't seem like it, at all.

Now it appeared that Boyd had two friends. Or two lackys from the looks of it. A man, and a woman. Both seemed to be in late twenties.

The man was doing lord knows what in Raylan's Porsche in the garage, and the woman was inside their house. Leaving Raylan and his family alone with Boyd.

It seemed that they were more interested in robbing them, rather than helping Boyd kill them. So it made sense why the police couldn't find out about them. After all, they were looking for a murderer, not burglars.

"Choose pig.! CHOOSE.!! Which one will die, and which one will get to live.!?", Boyd sadistically spoke to Raylan as he pointed his gun at Elizabeth and Sharon.

"Will it be your lovely daughter, and your only legacy left in the world after death.!?", he spoke while turning the mussel at Sharon who was already shivering from terror, but still trying to hold it together.

"Or will it be your beautiful wife who you love so dearly, and vowed to spend the rest of your life with.!?", he continued as he turned the mussel to Elizabeth again.

Elizabeth was completely calm. Her face didn't show any expression. She was just waiting for this sonofa bitch to slip, and come a little closer. As long as he took just one more step, he's done. She wasn't planning on arresting him.

At this point, Raylan shouted, "NO.!! I can't.! please don't make me. I can't. Just kill me. I won't choose.", then he just put his head down and closed his eyes. Seemingly sobbing in silence.

Boyd couldn't observe his expression from his position. He became angry, and slightly anxious.

"HEYY.!! Don't you dare muthefu*ker. You can't just fu*k with this daddy and don't play daddy's game.! I so graciously offered to let one of your bitches live, and you're too much ofa pussy TO EVEN CHOOSE.!!", Boyd shouted angrily.

He nearly took that final step to his death, but stopped after seeing Elizabeth's cold expression. His instincts were telling him that this woman was dangerous.

"Look up muthefu*ker.! Look up or Ima kill 'em both.! I'm gonna count to three. If you don't look up by then, they're both dead.", but Raylan just kept his head down and eyes closed.

"ONE.!",

"TWO.! I'm at two PIG.!! HEYY.!!", Boyd shouted, but Raylan just refused to look up.

"Three.! AND THAT'S IT.! BOOM.!!", Boyd shouted followed by the sound of gunfire.

Immediately after that, "BOOM.!!", another sound of gunfire.

But Raylan still didn't look up. He knew that Boyd wouldn't just outright kill them. He was a serial killer. He needed satisfaction from their deaths. He needed justification to kill them. And looking up and choosing either his wife or daughter would give him exactly what Boyd wanted. A reason to kill them.

His thoughts were proven right when he heard Sharon's shout, right after the gunfire. It seemed that the sound of gunfire was too much for the little girl. She could no loner keep her calm. After all, even after all their teachings, she was still a thirteen year old child.

"PIG.!! You think you can just close your eyes and when you open them, this'll all be over.!? What do you think I am.!?? FU*KING EASTER BUNNY.!?? Muthafu*ker this daddy will personally show you.", Boyd shouted angrily and took a step to the side, then walked towards Raylan while bypassing Elizabeth. Not forgetting to keep pointing the gun at Raylan, just in case if Elizabeth tried something behind him.

Boyd walked all the way towards Raylan, but didn't immediately hit him. Instead, he walked behind him and turned around, facing Elizabeth and Sharon.

He was so focused on Elizabeth that he didn't notice that he was standing too close to Raylan. But even if he did, he wouldn't care. After all, Raylan was just a district attorney with no combat experience.

On the other hand, as soon as Boyd stopped, Raylan opened his eyes. He was on the knees, but his knees were joined together and his toes were bent on the other direction, sticking to the ground. He was ready to get on his heels any second.

As soon as Boyd stopped, Raylan shifted his weight backwards on his toes, opened his knees and pushed them downwards with his hands, while simultaneously standing up.

On the other hand, as Boyd stopped and looked at Elizabeth, he shifted his gun to his right hand, intending to hit Raylan in the head with the butt of his gun. But unfortunately for him, this action also put Raylan in his blind spot for a few seconds.

And a second was all Raylan needed. As he got up, he looked behind and used his elbow to hit Boyd under the chin.

"Thup.!! AAH.!!!", Boyd screamed and staggered two steps backward, but before he could take the second step, Raylan held the mussel of his gun with one hand, and then hit him in the neck with his free hand.

As Boyd started choking, Raylan kicked him on the side of his knee and twisted the arm holding the gun, forcing him to release the grip on it.

After freeing the gun, Raylan used all his strength to hit Boyd in the head with the butt of the gun, forcing him on the ground.

Then Raylan threw the shotgun in Elizabeth's direction, and quickly bent down to grab Boyd's sidearm and hunting knife.

After pulling out the knife, Raylan quickly jabbed it in Boyd's chest without hesitation and successfully pierced the heart of the still disorientated serial killer.

It takes time to describe it, but the actual events happened in only a couple of seconds.

As the light of life left Boyd's horrified eyes, Raylan got up and turned the safety off on the handgun.

Then he turned around to check his family.

At this time, "DADDYY.!!", he heard Sharon's scream.

At the same time, "BOOM.!!", sound of gunfire came from the direction of the house.

Raylan was shot in the right chest and staggered two steps backward.

"RAYY.!!", Elizabeth screamed.

Raylan turned his head around, only to discover that one of Boyd's friends, who was supposedly robbing their house, was back, and after finding Boyd dead on the ground with Raylan standing over his body holding a gun, she quickly shot him with the rifle she was carrying.

Thankfully Raylan was holding the gun in his left hand, so he didn't lose his grip when he was hit in the right chest.

He immediately aimed and fire back before she could fire a second shot, "BOOM.!! BOOM.!! BOOM.!!".

Raylan fired three shots, missing the first two due to his current condition, but nailing the third in her stomach.

"BOOM.!!", the girl fired back on reflex, but missed it.

"BOOM.!! BOOM.!!", Raylan fired two more, hitting both in her chest, and finally putting her on the ground.

After that, Raylan fell on his knees and turned his head around to see why he didn't hear any gunfire from Elizabeth's direction. She should've intercepted that girl before she could fire at him.

As it turned out, when Raylan threw the shotgun in her direction, he accidentally threw it a little farther from her reach. So it took her a few seconds to finally get to it and get ready to cover him.

Raylan cursed his luck, then shifted the gun to his right hand to get ready for the third guy.

After all, he was right handed. He was only holding it in his left hand before to turn the safety off.

Just at this time, "BOOM.!! BOOM.!!", Raylan was shot twice on his side.

As he was spinning in the direction of the garage due to momentum and falling down, Raylan caught the glimpse of the third guy.

In such a hyperactive state, it seemed like the world slowed down for Raylan.

As he was falling down, he aimed his gun at the guy who shot him, and, "BOOM.!!", managed to hit him right in the stomach.

From that instant when Raylan was shot by the guy from the garage to the instant when Raylan shot him back in the stomach, only less than a second had passed, but for Raylan, it felt like minutes had passed.

"DADDY.!!", Sharon's cry came.

"NO.!! RAYY.!!", "BOOM.!! BOOM.!! BOOM.!! BOOM.!!", Elizabeth's cry came followed by sound of footsteps and successive sounds of gunfire. It seemed like Elizabeth had finally managed to get to the gun and was now firing at the guy who just shot him.

Raylan fell on the ground, facing the night sky. He knew he was going to die. Those final two shots hit him in the vital organs.

As he looked at the stars and infinite universe, he thought to himself that if he somehow had a second chance at life, he wouldn't follow any of the fu*king laws of this God forsaken society. He would seek to dominate this damned world.

At the same time, Raylan had no regrets in this life. He had lived a full and complete life.

As Raylan closed his eyes with a smile on his face, he hoped that his wife and daughter would live a happy life.

And with that, Raylan died without regrets.