Title - A Dangerous Game
Chapter title - Over
Author - OblivionsGarden
Genre - Romance/Action/Drama
Disclaimer - I do not own Lock Stock And Two Smoking Barrels in anyway shape or form. I only own my original characters and the plot for this fic. For this chapter I own, Kelly.

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It had been two weeks since the accident at Dave's house and the five friends found themselves in holding cells, being questioned repeatedly on the happenings of the day. They'd been drinking at Jd's in the late afternoon when three police officers turned up and took them to the station for questioning. From the start, in the back of the van, they all agreed to tell the truth. Honesty is the best policy after all, isn't it?

"So...Miss Barker...Tell me from the very beginning what happened before and on the day Mr. Hunter died. How did you come to be living with your new friends?" Kelly took a deep breath, tired from already having told this story to two other officers. "A few days before, Dave hosted a poker game. High stakes, you know the type. I'd played before. Well...Dave played and he always found out before the games who was the best player. I sat beside whoever it was and tried to distract them into messing up their hand."
"Distract them how?"
"Cleavage, flash a bit of thigh. A hand on the leg...You know?" The officer nodded and gestured for Kelly to continue. "Well, Ed was the best in this game so I was distracting him whilst Dave's son Micheal was in a hidden back room feeding Ed's cards to Dave through an earpiece."
"How did he see Ed's cards?"
"We set up a camera directly behind Ed's seat that was linked to a TV in Micheal's room...We took the money and left as soon as we could. After that I was supposed to get a cut of the money. But Dave said if I so much as touched one note I'd be blinder than a bat before I could say poker face."
"You believed the threat?"
"You found the eyeless corpses rotting in his cellar?"
"Alright. Carry on."
"I left straight away. I managed to get a job at Chaplin's cafe and a flat share with my boss. Three days after the poker game, Ed and the boys turned up in the cafe asking for a word. Obviously they were after their money. I said I was going to get my bag and ran from the cafe. They followed though and caught up with me in an alley not far. I told them what happened and then agreed to help them get their money back if they gave me a place to stay."
"You were living with your boss, you said."
"I was. But he hates anything unlawful and being chased from work by four men isn't exactly the most unsuspicious thing in the world is it. I'm unemployed but I live with Ed and Bacon now. Anyway...We headed to Dave's the next day."
"Armed?"
"Yes."
"Where did you get the guns?"
"I don't know...Soap had them. Where they're from I've no idea." Kelly shrugged. "We went in, Bacon and Tom went upstairs to get the bag from the safe...I told them the combination...Ed, Soap and I waited in the kitchen. But then Micheal and Dave came home. We went and hid in the cellar. Micheal brought Bacon and Tom down and I pointed a gun at him. I had no intention of pulling the trigger. I don't think I could've if I wanted to. But with the five of us pointing guns, we looked mean and so managed to tie his hands and leave. Only Dave sliced my arm with a knife at the top of the cellar stair. Ed jumped on him and hit him a few times and then we left."
"And then?"
Kelly took a sip of the small polystyrene cup of water she'd been given. "The next day Ed and I were painting my new bedroom whilst the others went out. Only Tom and Bacon came back and said Soap had been taken. We sat in Tom's van and I said I'd go and try and get him back. I'd rather they killed me than Soap."
"Why?"
Kelly stalled. That was a question she hadn't been asked yet and she wasn't prepared for it. "I...I don't know. The boys have know Soap for ever and they'd only known me a few days. I came to care for 'em over those few days and didn't want to see them loose Soap." The officer nodded. "I left and got a taxi to just around the corner from Dave's house. I wanted to walk for a few minutes to clear my head. When I got there Micheal hit me but I got into the kitchen and pulled a knife on him. He stayed there when I went into the cellar. I hid the knife from Dave. Didn't take long to realize it was pointless anyway. Dave didn't care if he killed me or Soap or both. He didn't like being double crossed. Then Micheal came down saying he should let us go. I turned around and saw three blokes in ski-masks with guns and the bag of Ed's money. They threatened to kill Micheal so Dave threatened to kill me thinking it was Ed. I thought it was Ed too. I closed my eyes and just listened to the gun shots. Next thing I knew Ed was shaking my shoulders and telling me I needed to get to hospital. I didn't even realize I'd been shot."
"Thank you. We know the rest Miss Barker."
"Wait...The three men. Who were they?"
"Old clients of Dave's that he ripped off, it seems."

Kelly was taken back to her cell which was separate to the boys. The only other person with her young teenage girl who was passed out on the only bed. She looked like she'd been drinking on the park with her friends. She sat on the floor, and rested her head on the wall behind her, closing her eyes. She thought about the one night of passion she'd had with Ed. It wasn't planned and it wasn't how she'd pictured it but it was her first time and it was perfect. Now though, she was planning. If they got out of this ungodly mess, she was going to repeat the night, but exact it to how she'd always thought it would be. She thought of the women you saw in magazines all the time, with the sultry poses and shining confidence. She was going to be like them and she was going to give him the time of his life.

"Barker." Kelly followed one officer to another room with the officer who had questioned her that morning. She sat down and waited for her sentence to be passed. "We need to work together." The officer said. "Kelly...Can I call you Kelly?"
"Sure. What do I call you?"
"Call me Jim."
"OK."
"You could be facing a charge for aiding, whilst you were living with Dave...Possession of a dangerous weapon and breaking and entering. Now...We are willing to drop these charges."
"In return for?"
"We know Dave smuggled alot of drugs into the country and sold them all over the place. We know you know where he keeps his documents and you knows names and numbers."
"So, I give you the document and some names and numbers and I go free?"
"Exactly."
"What about the boys?"
"Them too."
Kelly glanced at the tape recorder beside her. "That recording this?"
"Yes."
"So this is all kosher then?"
"Yes."
"Fine. His document are hidden in the house. I'll get them. And I can give you a list of names and numbers of people Dave used most often."
"We'll arrange for an officer to take you to the house."

"Where is she?" Ed paced across the living room. "He said we were all free, so where is she?"
"Will you sit down. She'll be fine, Ed." Soap pulled his friend into a seat.

A few moment later and there was a soft knock on the door. Ed jumped up and ripped it open, a sigh of relief escaping his lips when he saw Kelly and an officer on the doorstep.
"Stay out of trouble, alright?" The officer nodded and left down the steps.
Ed wrapped his arms around Kelly, squeezing the air out of her. "You took your time." He mumbled.
"Can't...Breathe."
"Sorry." Ed let her go and pulled her into the flat.
"I had to give all the names of people Dave worked with and their numbers. Then I was taken to Dave's to get all his documents regarding his drug smuggling business." Kelly explained her lateness and she plopped down onto the sofa beside Bacon.
"Is that really it then? Every things over, done with?"
"Yes...Well, there is one other thing."
Ed sat on the coffee table, staring at Kelly. "What?" Kelly lifted a bag from her shoulders and handed it to Ed. He unzipped it with a frown and when he saw the contents, his eyes bulged. "But-"
Kelly chuckled. "They don't have a clue how your got that and because they have info and some very dangerous and wanted drug pushers they seemed to think you should have it back."
"Have what back?" Tom snatched the bag from Ed. "Fuckin' hell. Is that everything?"
"Unless Dave took any out."
Tom emptied the wads of cash out of the bag and immediately sat cross legged on the floor to start counting.

"So why'd you think the copper was so lenient with us?" Ed asked as he, Kelly, Soap and Bacon moved into the kitchen, leaving Tom to it.
"Well..." Kelly shifted her gaze to a chipped floor tile. "He knew me."
"How?"
"He plays poker too."
Ed's face fell. "You didn't?"
"No!" Kelly slapped his arm. "As you well know I was a virgin when I met you."
"Was?" Soap raised his eyebrows, glancing at Bacon. At Ed and Kelly's reddening cheeks, they burst into uncontrollable laughter.
"Shut up." Kelly pouted but she couldn't fight the smile that graced her lips. Even Ed started laughing.

Later that evening the five friends sat around a table in Jd's, drinking and laughing, celebrating the change in events.
"What are you all going to do with you money then?" Kelly asked. They all looked blank until Soap spoke.
"I think I might open up a restaurant."
"You cook?" Kelly frowned. Soap nodded. "Well, if you need an understudy, I got straight A's in my cookery course at college."
"You went to college?" Bacon raised an eyebrow.
"You sound shocked."
"You didn't seem the type."

As the evening wore on the boys spent their time finding out new things about Kelly, having realized they didn't know anything about her.
"So what about your family? You said you were on the streets before you met Dave...How come?"
"I don't really have a family anymore." She spoke as she picked the label of her beer bottle. "My dad died when I was nine." Kelly felt like she could openly talk about her past to the four men and not be judged.
"Sorry."
"S'alright. We weren't close. My mum got married a year later. Only my step dad, Paul, was an arse. He never bothered with me, he acted like I didn't exist but he'd go out in the morning to work printing papers, then he'd come home and eat, then he'd be out again and come back late wasted to beat on my mum. He sent me to a boarding school when I was 11 and every time I came home mum had a new injury. When I was 13 I ran away from school and stayed with an aunt. I stayed there permanently and only spoke to my mum over the phone. I went back to public school and when I was sixteen I went back home to see my mum only to find I had three step brothers...She'd never even mentioned the. Three kids over three years. Thing is they all looked like mum but only one of them looked like Paul. Mum wouldn't speak to me properly whilst Paul was around and he wouldn't leave us alone. It wasn't until a year later, I was seventeen and in my first year of college that I got a call to say my mum was in a hospital and Paul was in prison. Turns out he'd been forcing her to sleep with other men that paid him for it. That's why the other two boys didn't look like Paul. Anyway, one night my mum had refused to sleep with someone, said she was in too much pain from other nights. Paul shoved her and she fell down the stairs, cracked her skull on the corner of a shoe cupboard. Ended up in a home with severe memory loss...She doesn't even know who I am." Kelly fell quiet, the label of her bottle lay around her feel in tatters. "And as for being on the streets...My aunt didn't really like the fact that I stayed out late and drank alcohol. Nor did she like the fact that I had male friends. She was very religious so I left and lived rough for four months. Then Dave found me and took me in."
"Kell, I'm sorry." Ed grabbed her hand and gave it a gentle squeeze.
She looked up and smiled. "It's alright. It's in my past...I focus on the future. And boys...The future is bright."