I know it's been a long time and I apologize. But here's the update! It's going to be hard for me to update quickly since I have a crap load of school work, but I'll try my best to update. Enjoy and don't forget to review!
She Will Be Loved
National Treasure
Chapter Fourteen
They power walk their way to where the Liberty Bell once hung, but was replaced by the Centennial Bell. As Ben proceeds to retrieve the next clue, Riley, Abigail and Kyle wait down in the Signing room, but they aren't too patient at this point.
"Well, thank God Riley knew that bit of history." Kyle comments as she sits in a chair and looks at the other two.
"You said that with so much happiness." Riley remarks.
"Out of everything in history class, that's the one thing you remembered." she states with a raised eyebrow.
Riley frowns, "There are lots of things I remembered from that class." he retorts with a slight glare at this point.
Kyle lets out a snort, "Riley, you didn't even know that the Liberty Bell was replaced."
Abigail lets out a chuckle, "She right, you know?" she says to Riley as she looks at him.
Riley just glares at her and crosses his arms. Kyle just rolls her eyes and walks over to Riley and stands in front of him. He glances at her.
"Come to tell me other things I don't know?" he asked bitterly.
Kyle scoffs, "Riley, we don't know everything. And I was just joking with you. No reason to get bitter about it." she finishes with raised eyebrows.
Riley nods apologetically before saying, "Ben's back."
She turns around to spot Ben coming towards them.
"What'd you score?" Riley asks.
Ben holds up a pair of very old looking glasses with different lenses layering each other, "I found this." he answers standing in front of them.
"Some kind of ocular device. The vision to see the treasured past," he states before looking at Abigail, "Let me see this." he says grabbing the document as Riley grabs the glasses.
"They're like early American x-ray specs." Riley whispers as he looks in Kyle direction.
"Wow, Riley, wow." Kyle shakes her head.
Riley lets out a laugh.
"Benjamin Franklin invented something like these." Abigail states.
"I think he invented these." Ben says to her with a weird look.
"So, what do we do with them?" Riley asks rather stupidly.
Kyle sighs, "We throw them around like a baseball." she retorts rather sarcastically.
"Ha-ha" he replies with a frown.
"Help me." Ben says attempting to roll out the document by him self.
The other three grab a side and help Ben rolls it out. He pauses for a moment taking in the opened document.
"Ben?" Kyle says looking at him curiously.
"The last time this was here is when it was being signed." he replied with a small smile.
Abigail and Kyle smile too.
"Ben, there's another tour coming." Riley breaks the moment.
"Way to ruin it, Riley." Kyle breathes out.
Riley glares at her, "Sorry for being quick on this so we don't get caught." he replied.
Ben takes the glasses away from Riley and puts them on and looks through them at the back of the document.
"What do you see?" asks Abigail.
"What is it? Is it a treasure map?" Riley asks excitedly hoping that he is right.
Kyle shakes her head at his glee.
"It says 'Heere at the Wall,' spelled with 2 E's. Here, take a look," says Ben passing the spectacles over to Abigail.
Riley tries to snatch them away from her, but only caught air causing Kyle to laugh at his attempt to get them.
"Oh, wow," she says looking through the lenses like Ben did and then hands them to Kyle to look through.
" I'm not aloud to look at the map? Thank you SO much." Riley says sourly.
"That's amazing." Kyle says taking off the glasses.
"Why can't they just say go to this place, and here's the treasure, spend it wisely?" asks Riley.
"Because there's no adventure in that." Kyle replies.
"Oh, no." Ben gasps looking past the three.
They all turn around to peer out a window that is revealing Phil and Shippen, two of the goons from Ian's team, walking outside.
Riley goes over to the window and pulls back the curtain a little more than it was.
"How'd they find us?" he asks.
"Ian has nearly unlimited resources...and he's smart," says Ben rolling up the Declaration as Abigail helps him.
"I don't think we can get out of here without being spotted," says Abigail.
"Well, we don't want them to have the Declaration or the glasses, but we especially don't want them to have them both together," says Ben putting the Declaration back in the tubes.
"So what do we do?" asks Riley.
"We separate the lock from the key. We're splitting up," says Ben looking at Abigail.
"Good idea," say's Abigail
"Really?" asks Riley.
"I'll take this and those," instructs Ben referring to the container for the Declaration and the spectacles, "You guys keep that. Meet me at the car and call me if you have any problems," he says to the three of them and hands them the tube the document is really in.
"Like if we get caught and killed?" Riley asks.
Kyle slowly looks at her best friend with slightly wide eyes.
"Yeah. That would be a big problem," says Ben, "Take care of her," he says just before he leaves.
"I will." All three of them say at the same time.
They look at each other awkwardly and leave the building and going the opposite direction as Ben. They walk down a busy street not knowing that they are being followed. Abigail looks behind them.
"Guy, run." she says and they take off running.
Shaw and Victor have been following them and are now chasing them down the side walk. They run till they get to a Farmer's Market. Abigail stops in front of and so do Riley and Kyle,
"In here." she says running in there.
The two young adults follow her. They all come to a fork in the middle of the store and they look around.
"This way!" they all yell.
Riley goes the opposite direction that Abigail and Kyle go. The two woman both jump over a meet counter and sit on the ground, panting. Abigail is holding onto the tube containing the document as tight as she came.
"If you're not a steak, you don't belong here." says a women who is working at the counter.
"I'm just hiding from my ex-husband." Abigail says
"And my ex-boyfriend." Kyle adds in.
The woman looks ahead of her and looks back at them and says, "Who, baldy?"
Both women nod yes, still panting slightly, staying close to the side of the counter as they can.
"Girls. stay as long as you like." the woman offers.
They both say thanks you. Abigail looks through the glass and sees Shaw. She quickly brings her head down.
"Do you need something?" the woman asks.
No answer and she repeated her self.
"Shut up." Shaw says as he walks away.
The woman looks back at them and states, "I see why you left."
Abigail and Kyle both jump back over the counter and look around for Riley. Kyle spots him and grabs his arm which makes him jump.
"Where were you two?" he asks looking at them.
"Where were we? Where were you?" Abigail snaps at him as she rushed over.
"Run now, argue later." Kyle says and they take off again.
Shaw spots them and tells Victor that they're on the run again.
Kyle, Riley and Abigail start running to City Hall, but Riley gets stuck behind business men causing him to slow down. Kyle looks to see him stuck, Abigail keeps running but runs into a biker, falling to the ground and dropping the document causing it to roll into the busy street. Kyle runs after it and runs into the street to pick it, but as she does, she hears a truck horn go off and just as she is about ti get hit, she feels a pair of arms pull her back.
Riley.
They fall back onto the side walk and watch Ian walk into the street and pick up the document. Kyle starts to get up to get it back but Riley grabs her arm and pulls her with him to run in the opposite direction with Abigail.
They stop running after a few minutes.
"Riley, call Ben." Abigail says, panting.
"Right." he takes out his cell phone with his free hand since he is still holding Ana's hand.
"What?" Ben asks.
"We lost it," says Riley.
"What!?" Ben yells now angry and agitated.
Kyle and Abigail wince at his voice.
"We lost the Declaration. Ian took it," says Riley.
"Yeah, uh, okay. Are you all alright?" Ben asks them starting to cool down.
"Yeah, we're all fine." Riley answers.
"Alright. Um, meet me back at the car and we'll figure out how to get the Declaration back from Ian." Ben says before hanging up.
"Let's get back to the car." Kyle says and starts jogging in across the street.
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