Ch.9 Bo?
Bo followed Luke's swift movement of a duck under a semi broken window Joe and John were standing near, and for what seemed like the millionth time today rounded to the right side of the old mill.
" We can get over to the loft If we climb this tree and jump over on that there roof. Problem is that roofs tin and covered in rust spots" Luke pointed out to his cousin.
" Well what about that boarded up window?" Bo pointed at a couple of old nailed up boards over a top window.
Luke could've smacked himself for overlooking something as obvious as a badly boarded up window,
Bo smiled at his cousins expression," I'm sure if we could silently pry that winder open we could get into the loft." he grinned a ' I noticed it before you did ' grin.
Luke stared at his cousin," Well what are we gonna pry it off with Mr. know-it-all?" he mused, " Ain't no crow bar gonna magically poof in our hands upon the need to arrive."
Bo glanced around him and looked up at Luke with a grin plastered across his face. He walked away from Luke a short ways before crouching before something rusty and picked it up and walked with a bounce to his stride back to his cousin, who was more than dumbfounded.
" You're kidding." Luke shook his head.
Bo's grin widened at Luke as he flipped the lid open to an old rusty red carry on tool box and began prowling though it.
He held up a bar," Its been broken somehow but we can still use it." Bo inspected its sides.
" How do you break a crow bar?" Luke asked grabbing the broken iron.
" How should I know?" Bo asked snatching the bar back and shoving the tool box into Luke's hands and silently stalking over to the window and slipped the bar under the window and pressed on it as easily as he could.
Luke sat the tool box down and walked over to help Bo pull the window off as quietly as possible.
After several agonizing minutes of pulling the two rotten boards off , Bo glanced inside.
Joe was now standing with his back turned away from Bo and Luke pointing at the parts they'd stolen, probably checking the pieces over. John was holding a clip board and scribbled down something as Joe read it off.
Bo looked to his left where he found a ladder leading up to the loft. He silently creped inside the window and tested his weight on the ladder before continuing up the ladder. Luke started up behind his cousin when his foot slipped and he fell into an old tin bucket.
" Hold it right there friend." Joe pulled his gun out and pointed it at Luke.
" Howdy." Luke mused as John grabbed his hands and tied them behind his back.
Bo carefully gazed over the edge as they plopped his cousin down," If he's here his cousin can't been too far behind. Go check it out." Joe motioned towards the window.
John eased over to the window and carefully looked out before climbing out it and rounding the corner.
Joe glanced at Luke," So what about it Plowboy, where's that cousin of yours."
" Depends which cousin." Luke stated as he nonchalantly relaxed himself against the wall with a yawn." Got one with legs and got one with guts."
" You know what I'm talkin about Plowboy. I wanna know which ones outside there. Is it blondie or is it pretty little girly cousin of yours that works at the Boars Nest. I believe her shift ends at 5 today am I correct? I think she was supposed to give me a tour of the town after her shift today." Joe mused holding the gun the side of the gun to the side of his cheek.
" You touch her, I'll find you. And believe me, you don't not want that happening." Luke glared at him.
" What are you going to do about it? Your tied up and won't be an issue for very much longer." Joe walked away from Luke," As for your cousin," As long as we don't find him, and he doesn't know about anything real particular. He'll stay alive, along with anybody else who keeps their nose in their own business." Joe slid a knife out of its leather casing and ran it teasingly down a sharpener. Why does it look like a cheese grater? Luke wasn't sure, but if it was a cheese grater, and it was sharpening a knife that well…. He'd probably steal Daisy's cheese grater.
Bo sat impatiently on the loft trying to figure out how to get his cousin out of his position as being a leverage without giving himself away. John could come back at any given time and he didn't think John would wait for him to finish fighting Joe before attacking him.
Glancing around Bo noticed a rope hanging from the ceiling. It was probably dry rotted….. though it might come in handy. Bo quickly looked around, oh yes- there's a wrench. Bo reached over and grabbed the wrench then turned back to the rope.
He stood on his tippy toes and reach with the wrench and slid the rope out from under the banister and grabbed it.
Luke tried seeing what his cousin was doing without causing much attention so he laid back against the wall and closed his eyes and leaned his head back. He opened his eyes and saw Bo working with an old rope.
God tell me he isn't going to Tarzan down here. Luke thought shaking his head.
Bo tied the rope around the wrench head and peered over the edge, Joe was still sharpening his knife in front of the work table. Bo grinned and dropped the rope.
The wrench swung down, and of course Joe had decided to walk away upon the rope being dropped.
Luke followed the rope down, swinging past the spot Joe had been 2 seconds ago, and hit a plastic bucket of bolts and screws.
Luke would've laughed if the situation hadn't had been so serious.
Joe dropped his knife at the sound of the bolts hitting the floor.
Bo jumped off the loft, happy he'd had experience from jumping off Cooters, and landed close enough to Joe to knock him down. Bo pinned Joe down, but that didn't last long.
Bo wasn't even sure how it happened but somehow he ended up laying on the ground behind Joe with a throbbing feeling in his stomach.
Joe quickly glanced around and found his knife on the ground. Picking it up Joe glanced back at Bo who was picking himself up off the ground.
Joe lunged at Bo with the knife – which missed by a hair- and Bo stumbled over the bolts in the floor landing roughly on his back.
Joe jumped on top of Bo and slammed the knife down. Bo blocked the knife by crossing his arms and blocked Joe's arm.
Luke froze, in that instant Bo could've easily missed and been stabbed to death right then. Luke was slapped back into reality by the " Kch." Noise Bo kept making in his struggle.
Luke twisted his arm as sideways as he could and undid the button on his knife case. He bounced and hit the concrete as hard as he could and his pocket knife fell out onto the floor. Turning around, Luke found his knife on the ground and began cutting the ropes binding his hands together and then moved on to his feet.
Bo struggled against the pressure on his arms that dared to inch itself closer to his chest. Yeah getting spiked in the chest would probably hurt.
Luke threw the ropes off his feet when John came striding back in," I can't find anybody." He muttered as he walked in.
John stopped short of the door and glanced at Joe and Bo then looked at Luke. Luke charged into Johns stomach sending him flying back out the door.
Bo's arm gave away and the knife plunged into his side. Bo gasped in pain and looked up at the knife. His head dropped to the floor and Joe walked over to John and flung Luke over to the side.
Luke looked up at Joe and immediately looked over to Bo. He was just laying there, with the handle sticking out of his side.
" Bo!" Luke scrambled over to his cousin, " Bo!"
Ah hell guys I wasn't going to end this chapter quite like this especially not with a cliff hanger but my computer battery is goin dead and I need to post this or I wont get another chance and you guys wouldn't like that very much. On another note I wont be able to update again till the like 26th of this month cause im doing a birthday fic for my friend. Sorry guys…
