The Armed Robbery

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Ward was packing his bags back at his beautiful home. Rafe was doing the same. He was loading up some clothes and weapons for the trip. The sun shone over the Cameron's home and in through their windows, brightening up the world. Ward took no notice- he was the darkness than overtook the light. Ward was just carrying the last bag over his shoulder and leaving, when Rose jogged up to him."Wait, um, I think Wheezie knows something. I feel like she's talking to somebody." She thought back to the time she caught Wheezie on the phone to someone, snooping on Ward's laptop."It... it doesn't matter." Ward replied, smiling."It doesn't matter?!""It doesn't matter. We're a day away from this thing being done. I go down I get the gold on a flight and that's it. It's all over. Just keep an eye on her, okay?"Rose nodded, convinced. "Okay."He kissed her tenderly and turned to leave, walking over to Rafe who sat in the car. He threw a look at Rose in the doorway. He didn't trust her at all.

Back to Nassau, the Bahamas. A plane carrying Ward and Rafe was sliding down to land on a long strip of tarmac. Rafe couldn't help but think about that fateful day on the tarmac... the day he started actively trying to gain his fathers approval. Looking at him tearfully and hopefully as Peterkin bled out on the floor. He turned away.

"Rafe.." Ward said once they reached the house, "I didn't just bring you here because I need your help. I wanna show you something." He took him through their gorgeous Holliday house, past the white couch and towards the safe."Is this the deal you've been working on?" Rafe asked as he threw his bag onto the sofa."You could say that." He put Sarah's birthday into the safe and it clunked."You ready?""What do you got in there the hope Diamond?"They both laughed. Ward pulled the door open, showing row upon row of gold. Pure gold. Rafe stared at it, mouth open slightly, taking it all in. "Is that real?""Son, it's the realest thing there is." He picked up one of the shining bars and handed it to Rafe."How..." he was surprised at its weight in his hand. Staring down at the wheat crop imprinted on it."I found it." Ward lied.Rafe knew nothing of the gold, he was amazed. "You found... you found the Royal merchant."He nodded, "it's what all this has been about. Why the Pogues have been trying to rob and attack us." He picked up more of the bars and held them in his rough palms. "All this gold. It's ours now."He dropped the gold into his son's hands, they dropped down under the surprising weight of the metal.""Jesus.""It can't bring you sister back. But it can save us."Rafe nodded, unable to speak."See Rafe, by the time hurricane Agatha hit, we were in a financial hole. A deep one." Rafe sighed in realization. Feeling pride that his father would share all this with him.They stared at the gold together, side by side. Illuminated in a bright yellowtail glow. A father and his son. "We're not in a hole anymore.""I mean..." Rafe finally spoke, "I'm looking... I'm looking at what here?""Half a billion."He bit his lip and fidgeted, "half a billion." His brain almost couldn't comprehend it. "Oh my god."He jogged out to the open patio doors, hands on his forehead, pulling off his black backwards cap. Holy shit!!" He laughed and whooped loudly. "Dad! What?! How is this possible?!""This is what I need to tell you." Ward reached out and held his neck between his hands. "Look at me. Look. I'm hard on you Rafe. I'm real hard on you. Alright? I know that.""Yeah.." Rafe rubbed his head and put his cap back on."That's why you need to hear this. That day on the tarmac, right?""Yeah..?"They held the gold together, "this is what was on the cargo plane." Ward told him. "You are the only reason that we were able to fly that out." Rafe felt his ego grow. He latched onto every piece of praise his father gave him since it rarely happened. But lately it was often... Rafe believed every piece of approval his father gave him. And it made him more and more egotistical. "You, Rafe."Rafe didn't know what to say. He nodded a couple of times and looked at the gold, then nodded some more and sighed. He was thinking about doing this for a while... Rafe stepped towards his intimidating father and wrapped his arms around him. It was a deep hug full of meaning. Ward held his son with pride and closeness. In truth, they needed each other. They had no one else. Ward shut his eyes and Rafe grinned, he laughed and sighed.

John B was on the same island, washing his face in a basin next to a vase with newspaper stuffed in it. He was preparing to rob someone at gunpoint. Sarah emerged behind him, leaving Y/N and Cleo together on Terrances overgrown balcony. She was prodding Cleo with a branch she found trying to instigate a sword fight, Cleo snapped it in half and threw her an amused look."Ready, Sancho?" Sarah asked John B.He looked up to reply, but noticed someone moving behind her before he could, staring at them over her shoulder. Sarah turned as well, she watched Cleo and Terrence wander up through some shrubbery, Cleo held a 'Stop' sign. Y/N held an orange flag, trying to balance it on her head."Let's go this." Cleo grinned. There was a clattering sound shortly after. Y/N tripped over the edge of the path and fell right onto her face. The flag falling hard next to her. "Oh Y/N you-" Cleo reached down to help her up. "You're the only person I'd put up with this bull for." She chuckled gently as they wandered off. Stubbs stood behind the pair of them, slightly laughing at their antics. "You heard the boss." Sarah turned back to John B.He sighed and picked up his bag.

They split up into groups. Two for the roadworks to rob the gold, and another for the children diversion. The six of them sat in the truck quietly, looking at one another with anticipation.

Rafe and Ward were up at the house, piling the gold bars into boxes for the moving trucks. They clinked as Rafe lay them out, and the lid clunked on roughly.

Stubbs was dropped off to direct the local children, but first he would scout out the cars they had. Y/N, Sarah and John B followed the road with Terrance and Cleo.

The gold boxes were incredibly heavy. They were loaded onto wheeled carts just to get the out of the house. And even then they were hard for the two men to push.

John B, Sarah and Y/N were deposited at the road bend to await the car. Cleo and Terrence drove on.

Rafe heaved the last of the gold onto the truck. It landed with a metallic thud. Also in the trucks- were armed security. Semi-automatics. Ward and Rafe were at the front. They stopped before the gate, asking the security to gather around. "What I want you to do, is bring the car to the airport. It's about half an hour from here."

Cleo sat waiting with Terrance, she was inspecting a gun that sat cold in her palm. She looked over at Terrence. She'd never seen him this worried. She'd also never seen this much dough on the line thought- so it was expected.Stubbs looked over at the trucks from a small rusty car in the bushes. Rafe was watching him with suspicion. He spoke into his phone, "They got a truck and two defenders."Sarah spoke from the the call as well; 'But just my dad in the truck with the gold right?'"It's two in the truck.""Two..?" John B looked over at Sarah from behind the crops. "Rafe." Was all she said."Oh shit..." Y/N commented.

"Let's go Rafe! Let's go!" Ward called over at him. He was staring through a sculpted bush at Stubbs. He slid on his black cap, backwards. Like JJ's but devoid of colour. "Buckle-up buddy." He told his son as they drove away.

Stubbs voice came from Sarah's borrowed phone again, 'Two defenders front and back.'John B looked worried, "Are they armed?"'To the teeth.'Y/N sighed, "We should've known that he would've protected that gold.""Pistols?" Asked Terrance."AKs" Stubbs breathed as he watched them pull out. "Shit is about to get hot." Replied Terrance's gravely voice.John B cocked his Pistol. "I still don't see why I couldn't have the gun." Y/N mumbled."Do we really have to do this now?!" John B hissed."Yeah dude I wanted to use the gu-"Well you can't because I said so!""Guys!" Sarah whispered. "Shhhh..."

The armed guards were cocking their own guns. Their much more lethal ones. A little boy fishing on the pier saw them go past, and took out his phone, 'Just crossed the bridge' He texted to the three pogues."Here we go." John B whispered.Y/N responded, "yeah..."

Ward and Rafe were driving between two defenders through the middle of town. The tarmac roads paved the way to freedom for the two men. To the end of it all. Then suddenly, the front defender breaked. The two cars behind followed- barely. Indistinct yelling began building up from either side of the cars. The local children were surrounding all three cars, climbing on the bonnet and the wheels, shouting and hitting the metal bodywork. They were jumping up and smacking the windshield loudly."What- what is this?" Ward sounded annoyed."It's just some kids..." Rafe replied. "No! No! Guys get away from the car!" Ward shouted as more kids emerged to harass the group. The cars were honking as more children started hitting and jumping all over them. The defenders refused to drive off, in fear of hurting one of the children. They were still shouting "Get out of here!""Go go go!" Rafe added.Some of the children were jumping on the bonnet and spraying the defenders windshields with soapy water and started to wash the car. "Get off!" Rafe shouted."They're in the way!" A driver shouted."I don't care, drive!" Ward shouted back.Four of the kids began running over to the wheels of the defenders, putting long planks of wood in front of them riddled with nails. They stayed low to the ground and hidden. "Get off!""Let's go!""Move!!""Mike let's go!" Ward shouted at the front car driver, but he was honking at the kids, too afraid of hurting them to drive."Screw it i'll get us out of here" Said the back driver, he was grabbing the arms of a child and forcibly removing them from the car. He drove forwards, and his back wheels slipped on the wooden plans, hissing as the air fled from them. "It's a trap! It's a trap!" He shouted."Yeah no shit!" Rafe yelled back, waving his hand in the air. (A/N: god he is so much like JJ sometimes) Ward was still yelling at the car in front, "LET'S GO GOD DAMN IT MOVE THE CAR!""Hey! Get off the car now!" Mike said at the child on the front of his car, spraying water on it. Suddenly one of his friends ran up and dumped flower on the front, it stuck to the water and made the driver blind.Rafe growled and fidgeted with his anger. Ward tried to breathe slowly. The armed guards jumped out and watched as a small group of teenagers approached. They had wheelbarrows and shovels and manchettes. "Shit they've got us trapped." Rafe shouted. Little did he know they were yet to drive into the real one. The men behind them were yelling menacingly."God damn it we need to go now.""Stay where you are! We're under attack!" Shouted a guard, Ward ignored this and reversed awkwardly in the truck, turning the wheels so they just managed to escape.

"Yeah you're good." Rafe advised as Ward scraped the defender in front. "Take the alley yeah. You're good, you're good, you're good." They were free for about one second until a vendor with a stall wagon pulled out in front of them. Ward slammed on his breaks and shouted in anger, "MOVE! GET OUT OF THE WAY!""WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?" Rafe shouted too.The three men shouted back at them, and they argued there for a moment in a mess of shouting and hand signals, until Ward just stepped on it and steered right hard. This forced the men to jump out of the way, smashing their stall but nether the less abandoning the ally.

"What the hell was that!?" Rafe shouted."Where are we going!? Find where we are!" Ward shouted back as the sped down a random road. Rafe pulled out his phone's sat nav and he watched anxiously as it loaded. "All right all right all right... Hey this road goes down the same place we're good."Ward was now unprotected, and very on edge."All right, stay through, stay thorough here." Pointed Rafe.

Two young girls ,of about twelve, sat on the sea wall watched them pass, and one pulled out her phone. She called Cleo; "Truck just turned down onto Coral Harbour." she said. "No escort. I repeat no escort." Cleo and Terrence shared a smile. It worked.

"See anybody in the mirror?" Ward asked Rafe as they sped down the country roads."No we're good.""Are we going the right way?""Yeah yeah yeah.""Stay on this road it's gunna take us directly to the airport."

Cleo and Terrence noticed the car as they sat on some blue and yellow barrels covering the road. Littered with 'road closed' signs and cones. Cleo held the 'stop' sign and Terrance waved an orange flag."Okay, they're coming.""I see.""You ready for this C? stay focused."

"Are you kidding me." Ward spat. "What do we do? nowhere to turn right?""Dunno. Stop here." He looked around but the banks of the crop field were too high to drive up on, and all the other roads were too busy or ambushable. "Get the gun." Ward whispered, he didn't want to do this but he had to. "Get the gun Rafe just hide it."Rafe grabbed it with no hesitation. He cocked it and slid it into his jeans.

"Come on. Let's go let's go." Terrence mumbled to Cleo as he waved his flag. The Cameron's approached them slowly. "What's going on!?" Ward shouted. "Sorry." Terrence responded. Cleo backed him up, "Road's closed. No body going through."Sarah, Y/N and John B watched from the tall crops. "Well..." Rafe thought, "Can't you just let one truck through?""We jus-- We kinda gotta get this through today this is an important delivery." "I don't think so." Cleo cut him off. "Sinkhole. Massive." She approached Rafe's side of the truck, Terrence went for Ward. "I'm begging you guys if-" Ward began, he stopped once Terrence pulled out a jet black pistol and pointed it at Ward."Let me see your hands." He sighed, and put his hands up. Cleo brought her knife to Rafe's neck. "Don't do anything stupid. Get out."They unbuckled slowly and slid out of the truck. "Easy." Terrance said threateningly. Y/N, John B and Sarah pulled up their gaiters. "This is what we're gunna go. We're gunna walk to those signs. You're gunna take that sign and you're gunna take that one. Move em to the side."Ward complied. He threw the sign onto the grass bank. Rafe didn't."You too buddy." Terrence ordered.Cleo held her blade closer. "Right there buddy." Rafe grabbed the sign and threw it angrily aiside. "Go to the barrel." Terrence pointed. "Put them to the side of the road.""Move the barrel boy." Cleo ordered. The two men grabbed the barrels and took them to the side. Ward threw his angrily, feeding off of his son. "Throw another Barrel and I'll blow your damn head off." Terrance hissed. "Take two steps back! Get on your knees!"Ward went down. Rafe didn't. "Get down." Cleo held her blade to his neck and kicked his kneecaps in from the back, "Come on!""Hands up-""Who are you." Ward asked."Kiss the ground." Terrence finished. "WHO ARE YOU!?""I'm the royal commission for the distribution of wealth. Kiss the ground." He said again.Ward did. "You guys are idiots." Rafe mumbled. "Our escorts are right behind us." There went the element of surprise. "Wise guy huh. I only have room for one." Cleo snarled, making Y/N smile.John B took a deep breath, "time to go.""Go! Go! Hurry!" Terrance shouted at them. "Hurry" Hurry!"Rafe felt his temper rise.Y/N bolted for the car with John B and Sarah behind her. Ward put his head on the floor and looked under his arm. He knew those kids. HE KNEW THOSE KIDS. "Sarah?""Get down." Terrence ordered."Sarah! You're alive!" Ward felt himself cry instantly, "Baby! You're alive!" He turned around to face them."Don't talk to her stay down." Cleo snapped."Stay. Back." John B put his hand out.Y/N looked at her friends who had both taken down their gaiters. "What was the point of these then." She said, pulling it off her face. "Hey! Stay down!" Cleo said to Ward, who was now stood up."Sarah! You're alive!" The look of joy on his face was the biggest anyone there had ever seen. Cleo got off of Rafe and went to Ward, "Do NOT talk to her!" She ordered."I love you baby!" He ignored.Rafe turned to look at Sarah, and also saw John B with her, filling up with rage. Then he saw Y/N. He remembered that night, and how envious he was of JJ for ever being able to hold her. "I cANt BeLiEeEvE iT!" Ward wailed."Get back!" John B raised the gun."Stay down!""Don't talk""Get back!""Dad...""I lOVE yOU!""Stay right there stop!""NO NO NO!""SarAH My BABy!""STOP!" John B shook the gun.Rafe saw his father was in danger. "HEY!" he raised his gun too. Cleo saw this and smacked his hands.

Bang!

Y/N leapt for Sarah and dragged her into the car. "Stay here. JOHN B WE'RE GOING!" She shouted.Rafe gasped. "Y/N..." He whispered as Cleo socked him in the face. He loved her bravery.Terrance thumped Ward with his pistol. "Go on! Get out of here! Go!" Ward rolled into the crops holding his head. "SARAH NO!""I got his gun!" Cleo called.Y/N felt weak as she heaved herself into the back of the car, "John B... Let's go.""Go! Hurry!""JOHN B YOU'RE A COWARD!" Rafe shouted as Cleo followed him with a gun. They put the car in gear and drove away."Of course he gets Y/N too!" Rafe shouted after them. "Let's go T!" Cleo bounded off, followed by Terrence. They jumped into the truck and drove off.

A defender drove at them in the distance."Here they come." Rafe pointed."Come on!" Ward waved his hands like a crazed lunatic. "Don't stop! Get the gold!" He pointed at the direction Y/N, John B and Sarah went in. "Don't shoot them! Don't shoot!" "Shit they're coming shit." John B pushed the car into over drive."John B..." Sarah whispered, "John B he got my shoulder." Sarah whispered, holding her arm.He stared at his bleeding girlfriend, and panicked. "Apply pressure okay? We'll get you to a doctor soon!" taking off his bandanna for her to use. He turned and looked behind him anxiously as they drove away as fast as they could. "Come on. Come on come one!" He egged on the truck. But the gold was heavy and it weighed them down.Y/N sat quietly in the back, trying to remember how to breathe."It's too Heavy." Sarah said as she winced in pain, pulling a bullet out from her shoulder. It didn't go through. "Is there any way to make this thing go faster..?" Y/N slurred in the back of the car."I'm going as fast as this hunk of shit can go!" He spat back.Sarah's voice raised in panic, "What do we do!?""I don't know!" John B was feeling the pressure under all these questions. "Hold on alright!" John B shouted as he hand-break turned down a dirt road, The truck balanced on two wheels and almost tipped at the force of the turn. Y/N felt her head press against the side of the truck as the world tipped around her. They skidded onto a lane at high speed. Sarah held onto her shoulder tighter as some blood spilled out onto her shirt. John B twisted through the lane with expert driving, drifting turns and throwing up dust. He turned right suddenly. Directing his car into the crops beside them. They pinged back up behind them and concealed the truck from their pursuers.

Y/N panted heavily in the back of the car. Her eyes rolling and her face getting hot. John B fussed over Sarah in the front."Okay okay. Terrance will know a doctor we're gunna be okay. We'll be okay... Y/N can I have your jacket please?""....""Y/N please..." Sarah groaned."...""Y/N SARAH HAS BEE-" He turned to yell at her, but found his friend in a crumpled pile in the corner of the cab. One arm holding herself up and the other on her stomach. "John..." Y/N croaked. She pulled up her shirt to reveal her brand mark. A big A... with a hole blasted right in the middle. It was gushing out blood.

"I'm shot."

(A/N: Until next time x)