The Wharf

(A/N:The tenseness difedhu)

Kie's phone started to ring beside her bed. She was reading a book and listening to music on her own. Wishing we was on the pogues latest adventure. Kie reached for her buzzing phone with curiosity, it was Pope."Pope?""Kie!" Pope gasped.She sat up slightly, alarmed."I'm in trouble!" He panted.Kie sat up, swinging her legs around the bed. "Why what happened?""Rafe.... He has the cross." He grunted, wincing at his injuries. "Kiara I need you to come get me."Kie furrowed her brow, she couldn't risk going to boarding school... "This is really bad timing...""Please. Kie. I need your help." He begged.Maybe the Pogues did drag into dangerous situations... but still, she wasn't going to let them be in danger alone. "Okay. Okay I'm coming. Where are you?" She asked, pulling her boots on."I'm in the swamp past Angel Oak. Please hurry." He whimpered. Cold, injured, and surrounded by gators."Oh my way." She assured him. Hanging up. Kie glanced at her door, no way could she exit that way. She'd have to go via window. 

By the time the sun had risen, Pope had managed to trek from his muddy hiding place, along the bank towards the trees that John B had gotten arrested by, all that time ago. It felt like a lifetime. Y/N had dropped a gun here somewhere he was sure of it... He rifled through the mud until he felt something cold brush his finger. It was the gun. It gave him chills seeing it again. It felt angry in his palm, itching for a fight. He slipped it into his pocket just as Kie started to drive up to meet him. Pope hobbled towards the car, waving his hand. He jumped in."...Morning." Kie said. Expecting a hello."Thanks for coming." Pope panted.Kie nodded, "Of course.""What the hell happened?" She asked him as they approached the roads."You won't believe me when I tell you."Kie scoffed, "With all the shit we've seen? Yeah I will."

"That's them, that's them!" JJ shouted as the Twinkie roared through a puddle, pointing towards Rose's car. "Quarter mile on the left, quarter mile!"John B was gaining as they reached the wharf. He screeched around the corner, tossing dirt and broken pieces of the road into the air. The Twinkie was fighting hard to keep running, after all she'd been through. But that precarious skid was the straw that broke the camels back. She spluttered, and slowed down. Her lights flickering and turning off. She was spitting up smoke just as John B drove her onto the land beside the road. Where she squeaked, and stopped for good."We did it old girl, we did it." John B sighed, stroking the wheel.

Rose was driving the three girls deeper into the wharf. Towards where Rafe should be with the cross."Morning Mrs Cameron." Saluted a man at the entrance gate. She nodded back, driving towards where the boat was sitting. Her hands shaking. 

"Pope." Kie said slowly as they drove back towards civilization, "Listen. When all of this is over and I go back home, my parents are probably gunna send me away."Pope stared at her, his face caked in mud and blood. She glanced at him to see his reaction, "I just wanna make sure we're straight. You know I might not see you for a really long time, and after that night... If I... I hurt your feelings-" She shrugged trailed off.Pope shook his head, "You didn't. It's good."Kie glanced back at him again, "But I- I feel like-""Kie.""-I did.""Kie. I promise you it's okay. We're friends. And that's first.

John B and JJ waited by the Twinkie in anxious anticipation. A red truck carrying a shipping container chugged past, and they sprinted up behind it. Staying low and close as it reached the entrance gate. It stopped, and the guard jumped up onto the wheel, "Hey.""Hey." Greeted the driver.JJ and John B took that as an opportunity to pull some of the fence apart and run into the mass of shipping containers."Uh, lot B please." Said the driver, handing over some ID."That's right." The guard pointed, nodding him off. He returned to his post as the red truck drove away. As it drove past the boys made sure it couldn't see them before bolting across the road and away from the fence. They jogged under some long, rusty pipes and used it has a hiding place. Running between some old, yellow machinery. They ducked down beside one of the wheels, looking around anxiously."Shit." John B sighed, looking out at a large boat being loaded."Wait, the coastal venture. I know that ship." Said JJ, "My dad did legs on her last summer it's a total tramp steamer." (A/N: A boat without a fixed schedule or published ports of call.) "I worked on her in port.""There's the cross, right there." Said John B, pointing at a large wooden crate being hoisted onto the ship. Rafe stood next to it, leaning on the open door of the truck.

"Pain in the ass to get this." Rafe chuckled. The men beside him chuckled too.

The operator shouted down for instructions, but it was hard to make out his words.JJ glared at Rafe, "God, I hate that guy." Then they heard Rose's voice in amongst the humming on machines and crashing of crates. "Come on baby." She heaved Sarah out of the car.JJ's eyes darkened as Wheezie took Y/N out of the car. Two workers grabbed a hold of the confused girls. Rafe jogged up to Y/N, and took her from the guy."Hey hands off of her." He said loudly.The man grunted and glared."I said hands off my girlfriend man!" Rafe snapped. The man let go, and Rafe grabbed her instead.John B looked at JJ, nervous.JJ was seething. His... what?Y/N and Sarah looked completely out of it. Barely able to walk but unable to speak or function.John B sighed, "JJ we need a plan.""I'm working on it." He snapped. "His girlfriend.... Fucking bastard. I swear to god I'm going to kick his fucking ass.""Yeah yeah, later." John B bit his tongue. He now had to deal with a super pissed of JJ, and that was a problem. A impulsive, angry problem."Okay... maybe if we get over to that barge, we go over. We'll have to get into the water though.""That's fine." John B said, his eyes stuck on Sarah. "Then we're gunna be sitting ducks. So I don-""Howdy." Said a girl.

JJ and John B jumped out of their skin, turning around. It was Kie."Woah!" JJ said, "I was about to stab your eyes out."Pope walked up next to her, looking bruised.Kie laughed, "You look scared as shit.""How'd you even find us?" JJ asked her."Geo-located you phone." She grinned over at him, ducking down next to them.JJ raised his eyebrows, "Smart."John B patted Pope's shoulder, dry blood staining his face. "You all right?"Pope nodded. "Rafe round three.""You freaking kidding me!? Again!?" JJ snapped, furious again."It was a tie." Pope mumbled, ducking down with them. He looked over at the crate being lowered onto the venture, "Is that the cross?""Yep." Said JJ, bluntly.People indistinctly shouting and guiding the cross into the boat."They're holding Sarah and Y/N hostage." John B explained.Kie looked upset at that, "We have to get on the boat."JJ nodded, "First, we gotta get past the goon squad."Pope glanced over at a shipping container, being stocked with what looked like fishing equipment.  "Okay. Let's move." John B got ready to run. He looked back at the pogues, "Pope, what ae you doing?""I have an idea." Pope said. John B furrowed his brow, "Just trust me." He started to walk off."No, hey! Stop running off. We gotta go dude." John B hissed.Kie and JJ ducked down nearby."Trust me man." whispered Pope. "Go, I'll meet up with you guys. Go." and he jogged off around the corner.John B watched him, anxiously.

Pope ran around some support blocks, towards a bunch of gas tanks, helping power a crane. He started twisting the top of them, and they began hissing. He stepped back, was he really about to do this? The most JJ/Y/N thing he was ever to do. He jogged back, to get some cover, and ducked behind some metal pipes. Pope put his hands into his pocket, and felt the gun hit his palm. He picked it up, and pointed it at the tanks. He exhaled deeply. Aimed. Clenched his teeth and shut his eyes...

Ban- BANG! 

An explosion of rushing flames gushed from the tanks. Lighting up the sky and scorching the ground. The heat it let off was immense, and a large fire roared to life, latching onto anything it could and crushing it under it's overwhelming heat.The workers jumped."Oh shit!""Oh man!""Fuck!""We need water!""All hands!" "What the hell!?"Everyone ran towards it."Move it!""Go!""Where'd it come from!?""Over there!""Call the fire department!"

JJ, Kie and John B looked at each other. Was that Pope?Pope bolted from the smoke towards his friends. The fire alarm was blaring loudly. Mass panic."It's working." Uttered Kie. The three of them watched as all the yards workers practically flew towards the chaos.Pope skidded to a halt next to them, ducking down."Pope. What was that!?" Exclaimed John B."Look." He pointed at a grey container, "That container's going on the ship. We can get in that way."With the workers otherwise indisposed, they would be unseen entering it."Are you with me?" Pope asked, holding his hand up.John B chuckled, "You're a genius." He slapped his friends hand and clasped it momentarily. "Let's go." He ushered his friends, "Come on. This way, this way."The four of them ran around the machinery and towards the container. Clambering up onto the back of the truck.JJ glanced around the side, "They're right there, they're right there."Pope jumped in first, and John B was on the way."Wait woah!" JJ stopped them. "Did we think this through?""Yes this is the plan." Pope panted."That's a trap right there you see, we can't get in once we get in.""I know!" Pope snapped."Hey." John B grabbed his shoulders. "We need them.""Well she needs Rafe apparently." JJ argued."JJ we don't have time for this!" Kie pushed past him, climbing up."You don't have to come if you don't want to." John B shrugged, pulling himself up."Nothing to lose." Kie sighed."...Nothing to lose." Nodded JJ. Jumping up too.They slid past some boxes and hid at the back of the metal box."Guess it's better than boarding school." Sighed Kie.They slid past some more boxes and settled down, hushing each other. JJ clutched at his shirt.The pogue's collective heart beats were racing. This was a new level of crazy. They hunched down and waited to be locked in."That was nuts!" Said a worker."Something like that'll wake you up huh." Agreed a second man.Sirens were blaring nearby."Looks like they got it under control." Said a third man, picking up a clipboard at the entrance of the box.Another man approached, "Not until we get these containers loaded.The third man shone a torch into the container, checking for stow-aways.John B put a finger to his lips as they all held their breath."Okay she's good. Lock her up."JJ and John B fist bumped.The door clunked shut, and darkness fell.

Here we go.

(A/N: It's almost over ahhhhUntil next time xx)