Boo-Kai 2k18 | Day 2: Horror Movies
the purge
Bonnie was sixteen when her family’s multinational corporation folded. Founded by her grandparents, a secretary for the electric company and an engineer, Bennett Enterprises expanded from its start as a telecommunications firm to a conglomerate with hands in every industry imaginable. Tech, finance, defense, medicine, transportation. You name it, the Bennetts did it.
Sheila Bennett controlled everything from the home office in Manhattan, affording Bonnie a high class private school education, while Abby Bennett handled the beauty and lifestyle sector in Atlanta and the son-in-law Rudy Hopkins was stationed in their London satellite office. Cousin Lucy headed the entertainment side of things in both Los Angeles and China, and when Bonnie got to her senior year she was going to spend her summers interning with the publishing imprint in Seattle.
Through no fault of its own, the company went belly up before Bonnie had the chance to step foot on the pacific northwest peninsula. The rumors were numerous. The economy tanked. They lost their contract with the US government, which began to unravel the footholds of the other organizations. While branded as a matriarchal company, Sheila just couldn’t run the business the same after the death of their patriarch. A scandal between Bonnie’s parents, estranged and rarely at the same boardroom table let along dinner table, found the front pages of every tabloid and gossip site.
The real culprit, though, was Gemini Corp. Equally as successful in the same fields with unconfirmed ties with criminal families, the company founded by Joshua Parker played every trick in the book. It was corporate sabotage no one could prove. Because of the Parkers, the silver spoon Bonnie was born with was ripped out of her mouth and took a few teeth with it.
Bennett Enterprises closed its doors the summer before Bonnie’s senior year of high school, and she and her family packed up and moved back to the small Virginian town they came from. In the following years, Bonnie adopted her father’s surname Hopkins, quietly attended Brown University, and waited for her chance.
More than a decade later, Joshua Parker silently battles stomach cancer and turns the company and all its interests over to his eldest son. When Malachai Parker walks into the office building of Gemini Corp in Portland, Oregon, his nose is glued to his phone and he barely notices the woman in the elevator. He wouldn’t immediately recognize her and even if he did, he has more pressing concerns. It’s the morning of March 21 and the start of the Purge is less than twelve hours away.
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