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Chapter Ten
Ben rushes to the side door and jumps in. Riley is getting ready to speed off when Kyle stops him.
"Ben!" she shouts, her gaze out of Riley's window with shock.
Ben looks just into to see one of Ian's men pick up a fighting Dr. Chase who is screaming very loud. Though, that did no good and neither did her kicking and flailing around. Kyle and Riley give each other worried looks.
"Bad, bad, bad." Ben mutters as she is about to get back out of the van.
The driver in the catering truck takes out a gun and starts firing at them. Ben ducks behind the side of the red van while Riley and Kyle duck and cover their heads, but Kyle got a little less fortunate.
"God damn it!" she curses, holding her shoulder and gritting her teeth as she feels tears start to form at the edges of her eyes.
Ben jumps back in the van, "Go!" he orders and Riley puts the van in gear and they start their chase after the catering truck with Ian and his goons inside with Abigail.
"Once we catch them, what do we do?" Riley asks Ben, keeping a fixed gaze on the road and van in front of them.
"Working on it." is Ben's only answer.
Kyle looks down at her arm and sighs with relief; only a graze. She grabs the sides of the seat as they take a very sharp turn.
"Skidding, skidding, skidding." her best friend mumbles.
They drive through a construction site but once they go back on the road, one of the trucks back doors flies open, with Abigail holding on for dear life. Kyle's eye widen with fear of the older woman falling and dying. Then stuff would really get bad.
"Holy Lord." Riley breathes out looking at the scene before them.
"Get me next to her." Ben says, opening the side door as Riley pulls over into the wrong lane next to the other van.
Ben makes a reach to grab Abigail's hand, but a bus soon starts to come.
"Riley!" Kyle shouts and he switches lanes just as the bus is about to hit them.
She holds her breath and releases it to see Abigail unharmed but she swings back towards the inside of the van and swings out to carry no Document with her.
"Grab my hand!" Ben calls to her.
She grabs his hand and he catches her as more bullets start flying at them. Ben closes the door and Riley takes a turn and they drive off.
"Are you okay?" Ben asks Abigail with concern in his voice.
"No, those lunatics-" she starts to yell at him or maybe it is all of them.
"You're not hurt are you?" Ben asks with compassion in his voice.
"You're all lunatics!" she yells
"Are you hungry?" Ben randomly asks the concern turning into irritation.
"What?" Abigail asks weirdly.
"Are you alright?" Ben raises his voice a little higher.
"Still a little shaken up from being shot. But I'll be alright." Riley says back to him, sarcastically.
He looks over at Kyle, who is now holding her left shoulder. As they pass a street light, he sees the highlight of blood on her hand and shoulder and her sweatshirt.
"Kyle, you're hurt…"he trails off, trying to pay attention to the road but being very concerned over his friend.
Kyle winces at the pain, "I'll be fine. Just a graze." she reassures him.
"No, you're hurt. When we stop somewhere, we're fixing you up." he slightly chides and looks back the road.
Kyle smiles at the thought of how much Riley cares about her.
Ben sighs and takes out a plastic tube.
"They don't have it." Ben says and pulls out the real document. "See? OK? Now could you please stop shouting?"
"Gimme that!" Abigail yells at him lashing out for the document.
Kyle looks back at the commotion.
"I thought it'd be a good idea to have a duplicate. It turned out I was right. I actually had to pay for the souvenir and the real one, so you owe me 35.00 plus tax." Ben says looking at Abigail with a smirk.
"Genius." Riley smirks.
"Who were those men?" Abigail asks, changing the subject again.
"Just the guys we warned you were gunna steal the Declaration." Ben explains.
"But you didn't believe us." Mocks Kyle with a satisfying grin.
"We did the only thing we could do to keep it safe." Ben says looking at the tube.
Abigail looks at him and tries to grab the tube.
"Verdamn it! Gimme that!" she yells at him.
"You know something? You're shouting again." Ben states, being obvious.
"I'm pretty sure she was swearing at us, too." Riley points out.
Kyle looks at him, "We deserve that, my good friend." she finishes.
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"A credit card slip?!" Riley and Kyle exclaim.
Ben winces slightly at their anger. Abigail looks slightly impressed on how his two friends got angry with him in only a matter of seconds.
"Dude, we're on the grid…they could have your records from forever. They could have OUR records from forever." reffering to him and Kyle.
"I know and it's only a matter of seconds before the FBI shows up on my door step." Ben retorts at him.
There is a moment of silence between all of them. Ben is now in a thinking mood but he breaks the silence.
"We need those letters." Ben says with a clicking like attitude, like a light bulb just popped up above his head.
"What letters?" Abigail asks, wanting to know what Ben is up to now.
"You know, get off the road. Take a right." Ben says to Riley.
Riley listens to Ben and they take a right, going towards a near by park.
"What letters?" Abigail asks a little more demanding.
Riley stops on the grass of the park and Ben slides op the door and starts pacing on the lush green grass. Abigail sits herself on the edge of the van and stares at a pacing Ben. Riley looks around in the back of the van for a first aid while Kyle is sitting in the pasanger's seat of the car, not wanting to move.
"We need the Silence Dogood letters." Ben mumbles to him self.
"You have the original Silence Dogood letters? Did you steal those, too?" Abigail asks like a smart ass making Kyle roll her eyes.
Ben blares at her. "We have scans of the originals. Quiet please."
Riley comes up and sits next to Kyle.
"Take off your sweatshirt." he says politly.
She does as he says and takes it off, wincing at the clothing pealed away from her sore and wounded shoulder. Riley cleans it a bit while Kyle tries to focus in on Ben and Abigail.
"How'd you get scans?" Abi asks trying to annoy Ben.
"I know someone who has the originals. Now shush!" Ben tries not to yell at her, but he's really close to doing it.
"Why do you need them?" Abigail asks...another question.
"She is bugging the crap out of me." Kyle grumbles to her self, but Riley hears her and lets out a laugh.
"She really can't shut her mouth, can she?" Ben asks Riley and Kyle who look at him and shrug, "I'll tell you what, look. I will let you hold onto this if you'll promise to shut up, please. Thank you." Ben snaps at the annoying doctor and hands her the Declaration and continues thinking.
Riley finishes wrapping up his friends arm and gives her a spare zip up hoody that he has. She puts it on and it is pretty big on her. A few more inches and it is at her knees.
"Ben you know what you have to do?" Riley asks him.
"I know what to do. I'm just trying to think of anything else we could do." Ben elaborates to him.
"Well, not to be a nudge but we probably have our own satellite by now. It took you all of two seconds to decide to steal the Declaration of Independence." Riley tries to prove his point but fails.
"Yeah, but I didn't think I was gunna personally have to tell my dad about it." Ben snaps at him.
Abigail then makes a run for it.
"Hey, not cool." Ben snaps and goes after her.
Kyle and Riley both jump out the van, but Kyle, forgetting that the van is high, falls flat on her face.
"Ow." she groans and rolls on her back.
Riley walks over to her, "How the hell did you manage to do that?" he asks, holding a hand out for her.
She just hakes her head, "I don't know." she answers, grabbing his hand and he pulls her up, but into a friendly hug.
She hugs back, putting her arms around his neck.
"You're okay, right?" he asks with concern, and then putting her at arms length, with his hands on her shoulders but his right hand is on he left shoulder gently.
"Riley, I just fell out of a van. I'll live." she replies with a smirk.
"I knew you were okay." he says with a slight laugh and leans against the van.
"Let's go." Ben says, walking up to them, Abigail behind him looking rather proud of her self.
"For the record, when we find the treasure, you're SO getting a new car." Kyle smiles and gets back in the van while Riley just shakes his head and also smiles.
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