The Key

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JJ and Y/N got ready for their trip to cousin Rickys. The pair of them nabbed some skateboards from the street and darted down the smoother roads towards Ricky's house. They skated up to the ambulance and stopped next to it. Y/N stared in through the window, curious. JJ flicked the skateboard into his hand and waved at Ricky through the garage's open door, "Yo!" He whistled.Y/N flicked the board into her palm as well and waved over at the man. Leaving their boards lent up on the ambulance.

They walked over to him as he used a monkey wrench to tighten some bolts in an dismembered bike engine. Y/N lent on the handlebars and shook his hand, "Y/N." she smiled."Ricky." He smiled back."I know." Y/N stood back up next to JJ.JJ looked down at Ricky, "So, I need a favour after your shift."Ricky looked suspicious."All we need is for you to leave the engine on in that girl over there." Y/N pointed to the ambulance behind her with her thumb.JJ lent on the bikes handle bars, "It's a small favour to ask Ricky. Just one." Ricky shook his head, "It's not the favour, I'm worried about the stupidity of the plan your formulating. If that Pope kid or the girl was with you, I'd trust it more. But I doubt she's any more risk-averse than you." He nodded towards Y/N."Come on. Just leave the ambulance running Ricky. You gotta do this one for me bro." JJ rubbed his fists together absentmindedly.Ricky shook his head again, "You're gunna wind up in jail." He picked up a flannel and rubbed his hands off on it."I mean, that's gunna happen eventually, G, anyway. Might as well be for a good cause." JJ looked down and chuckled."Hey, no it isn't." Y/N shot him a look."Look, I'm not having any part in this." Ricky stood up, chucking the flannel down on the bike.Y/N looked to the side and saw something shiny sitting in a bowl. "Distract him." She whispered quietly in JJ's ear.JJ nodded and bit his lip, he grabbed a screwdriver and prodded in the engine, "Hey isn't that-" Then he dropped the screwdriver into it, getting it jammed. "Oh, oh. Oh nooo..""Oh dude-" Rickey sighed and bent down, burying his arm into the bike to grab the screwdriver. Y/N took this opportunity to run to the key bowl and snatch the ambulance keys. It was obvious due to the telling key-chain. "Look JJ." Ricky pulled the screwdriver out and stood up just as Y/N returned to JJ's side with the key. "You've had a lot of bad ideas- but this one is awful." He rubbed the oil and grime off of his arm with the flannel again."We wouldn't be asking if it wasn't important!" JJ called after Ricky as he walked inside past the cannabis plants. "Let's remember you owe me. Who ran that Hemp load up to Cape fear when you came in hot?"Y/N made a face of realization, "Oh that was this guy?"JJ raised his eyebrows, "See! You owe her too! We did that for you, all right?"Ricky started spraying his plants. "Look. I am sorry about your bud. I really am." "Ricky..." JJ flipped his hat off and began playing with it."So you really can't make any exceptions?" Y/N asked him. If he said yes, she'd put they keys back."No. I'm not helping you commit suicide. Sorry. Now leave me alone I gotta focus." Ricky waved them away. "I'm working an overnight later so if you two are cool..""Yeah.." Y/N nodded, looking up at JJ, "We're cool.""Totally cool." He agreed.JJ hugged his cousin. "Appreciate you.""Don't do anything stupid." He tapped Y/N's shoulder, "Nice meeting you."The two of them turned to leave and JJ called out, "Say hi to Stephanie for me.""I will I will." He replied.

"...You got the key right?" JJ asked her. Slipping his hat back on.Y/N grinned and pulled them from her pocket, swinging them around her finger."That's my baby." He laughed and grabbed her waist. They snatched their boards off of the ambulance's grate. Y/N tossed them into the middle of the front seats at the two of them jumped in, JJ driving."I'm sorry Ricky." JJ mumbled as he turned the key."We'll make it up to him." Y/N replied absentmindedly as she propped her legs up on the dash.She woke up, and her engine began to hum as she slipped out of her parking spot and drove down the street.

After the sun dipped down beneath the horizon, Pope cycled down to where his great grandmother used to live. Her old pharmacy. His bike's light was gleaming as he quietly peddled down the pavement towards the building, pulling into a gentle halt beside the door. It's store name was still glowing above the store's wall-length windows. The inside looking abandoned and empty. Covered in spiderwebs and barren of any in-date medicine. Pope propped his bike up and stared through the window, using his phone as a torch. He rattled the door, but it was locked. Pope sighed and reached down to the floor next to him, picking up a brick and smashing the padlock. The door creaked open with ease. Pope wandered through the shop-section and up the backstairs. He looked through his great grandmothers empty, dark bedroom. The cabinets were full of paperwork and the shelves were decorated by flowers and porcelain statues. Pope looked through everything. Jewellery boxes, piles of clothes, purses, boxes and change-pots. But after basically tipping the room upside down, he was still empty handed. Pope sighed and lent on the table, "Damn..." 

He wandered back downstairs and through the store. A passing car lit up the room with it's blazing headlights. It sent a trail of light running over the top of the room. Lighting up a pattern, a rather familiar one at that. Pope brought the picture of the key from his pocket, holding it against the roof. The pattern behind the key... It matched the roofs tiles. Pope jogged along under the roof until he found a loose section of tiles. Slight mis-places and pushed to the side. Pope put his phone down with the key's picture on the shelves next to him. Pope looked around for something to get up to the roof, and his eyes fell upon a step ladder nearby. He dragged it over and clambered up to the roof. He pulled on the roof tiles and two of them fell open on hinges. Dust showered down next to him. Pope pulled on the tile and threw it to the floor, followed by the other one. Nothing was behind them, so he reached forwards and tried to grab another. He was so distracted by the chance that the key could be here he forgot how precariously he was balanced on the step ladder. He shouted out loudly as he fell off of the ladder roughly, followed by the ladder itself. Suddenly- The roof crumbled and dust fell from the cracks. All the heavy tiled above tumbled down and fell around him. Pope groaned and tried to heave himself to his feet- but before he could he noticed that there was a hole in the wooden planks that the tiles were attached to. Pope breathed out heavily and grinned. "What the hell..." He stood up and grabbed the ladder, standing it up again and pulling himself up slowly. He grabbed his phone and the paper again, slipping it into his pocket. Pope used his phone to brighten up the gap in the celling. He fumbled around the edge of the splintered wood with his hand, and felt his fingers land on some fabric. He grabbed it and pulled it down. Pope felt his heartbeat quicken as she clambered down from the ladder as fast as he could. Looking into the pouch and pulling out a rusty flask. The bottom of it was on a hatch. He reached in, pulling out the key. The flask slipped from Pope grasp- but he barely noticed. He had the key... "Oh shit!" He shouted. 

He cycled back to John B's house, and found Kie there. "Kie what are you doing here-" He looked around and saw all of her things. "Oh. Uh, what happened.""Mum snapped and I got booted." She replied bluntly. Sitting down."Wait what." Pope walked over to her looking worried."It's no big deal. I'm just gunna stay here for a bit. Sarah's been here and I think by the pile of beer and blunts by the sofa so have JJ and Y/N."You know if you need a place to stay you can always stay with me." Pope offered.Kie looked down awkwardly, "Um..." She cleared her throat, "Uh so, how'd things go with you?""Um.." He sat down opposite here, "Well... Pops was upset."Kie smiled, "Upset? After you left his truck in Charleston? Wonder what for.""You know I'm actually trying to figure that one out myself. I can't see... any reason-"Kie chuckled."-That would make him upset. But, um, I did ask about the key. And he said his grandmother had something like that. So I went over to great-grandmama's place and, uh-" He rifled through his pockets, moving over to sit next to her, "I found...." He pulled the key from the flask he retrieved from the floor on the way out, "This.""Oh my god." Kie took it from him and held it in her palm."Yeah...""Holy shit Pope!""I know, I know right!" They grinned at one another."This is exactly what we need for the evidence!""I.. I.. I.. Was in the room and, and It came out of the celling!"Kie's mouth was still open, "Oh my god.."Pope held the key to the side and showed her some markings in it."Is that writing?" She asked."Turn the lights off.""Why..?""Just do it. Trust me." He smiled, getting his phone out.Kie turned the lights off after making a face, and Pope reached over turning off the nearby lamp. He grabbed the sofa cushion and Kie sat next to him again. Pope positioned he hand, "Right there, don't move it."He turned his torch on and positioned it over the key. Then he hit the pillow, and all the dust flew up into the air- displaying a message. Pope chuckled and looked over at Kie."Holy shit." She breathed."I know right!" Pope smiled, getting exicted."Holy shit! How did you even figure that out!?""It's so cool!""Wait- do it again."Pope hit the pillow. It read: 'The path to the tomb begins in the island room.'"Path to the tomb begins in the island room... what does that mean?" She looked over at Pope."I- uh.. I think it's something to do with Denmark Tanny. And an angel. 'Cause I remember Lim.. Limbrey saying something about an angel and how the key lead to the cross.""Pope this is insane you're a freaking genius!"Pope felt his temperature rise, "Thank you."Kie exhaled deeply, "Kind of makes you wonder what the island room is."

(A/N: I hope you liked it haha, now imma go sleep for like 6 more hours xx)