Thanks For The Memories
Chapter 25
John and Trish walked outside of the hotel for the first time since Shawn left. They were going to go out immediately after he left for the airport, but they soon realized how late it was getting and how much trouble they would have gotten into with Ken and Ricky if they were discovered.
Now that it was sunny and bright out, the twins wouldn't be able to force them back inside.
"Okay, we're outside. Now what?" Trish asked.
John was looking around, almost as if he wasn't paying attention.
"We… Go this way." He stated and led them away from the hotel, back towards Danny's house.
Trish must've realized were they were going, as well.
"John! You heard your brothers. We can't go back to Danny's."
"Bullshit! He's my brother, too, and I have every right to go and visit his house… Whether he's there or not."
Trish narrowed her eyes angrily, then grabbed a hold of John's zip hoodie and pulled him back to face her.
"Your brothers are cops, John. I'm pretty sure they can place you under arrest until this is solved." She stated.
John scoffed.
"My brothers have let me slide so many times, they should be civilians by now. They don't have the strength to lock me up, Trish… Now, do you want to find Danny or not?" He asked.
Trish continued glaring at him.
"What about Tim?" She asked.
"What about him?"
"Don't you think it'd be dangerous to go there when he could be waiting to attack us?" She asked.
John burst into laughter.
"Oh, please. That's almost as funny as the time Danny wrote a love poem in the third grade!" He shouted and continued laughing.
Trish quirked an eyebrow.
"Really? He wrote a love poem when he was in the third grade?" She asked.
John stopped laughing and rolled his eyes.
"Sure, if you want to call it that. I think he wrote it about Elwood."
"Elwood?" Trish asked.
"Yeah, our Golden Retriever. He had a brother named Jake, but Danny was a hell of a lot more fond of Elwood… For whatever reason it was."
Trish continued staring at John like he was crazy.
"Jake and Elwood..? As in the Blues Brothers?" She asked, sarcastically.
John shrugged his shoulders.
"My parents had a thing for Belushi and Aykroyd, alright? Can't you tell? Danny and I are named after them, for Christ's sake." John replied.
Trish laughed out loud.
"John!"
John and Trish whirled around and saw Ken and Ricky behind them.
"Where do you two think you're going?" Ricky asked.
John and Trish exchanged a sarcastic glance, then looked back at the Jenkins twins. Their faces were a fine shade of maroon and they were snarling.
"For a walk?" John asked, hesitantly.
"I knew it! You two are going back to Danny's!" Ken shouted.
"Are not!" John shouted back.
"Are too!" The twins shouted in unison.
"No we're not! We're just trying to go for a friggin walk! Do you really think you can keep us caged in a hotel room forever?" John asked.
Ken and Ricky looked at one another, then back at John and Trish. They sighed and dropped their angry faces.
"No… But it's safer than letting you roam the streets near Danny's house. The cop we had doing a stakeout was clubbed on the head." Ricky stated.
"Are you shittin' me?" John asked.
"I wish I was. Luckily, the cop's partner returned from patrolling around the house in time to chase the suspect away before he would have stolen the keys… Apparently, someone wants to break back into Danny's house."
John's face twisted into what Trish could only perceive as blind fury.
"What about Walters?" She asked.
Ricky and Ken exchanged glances again. Trish was starting to take that as a bad sign.
"Don't know… The warrant we petitioned for is being taken very seriously, since we're personally involved with the case and all. We're not allowed to go near him until it's been cleared and approved." Ken replied.
"I don't get it… Why are Walters' fingerprints on file?" She asked.
"Walters was part of an armed robbery about 15 years ago. He got out about two years ago on good behavior. Moved in next door to Danny the day after he got out." Ricky explained.
Trish raised a confused eyebrow.
"How'd he get the money for that?" She asked.
"That's what we'd like to know. Some of the local rats seem to think he's in cahoots with some American hotshot millionaire. Nobody seems to know who, though." Ken stated.
John growled.
"I'd bet one of them knows… Ever try bribing them with something other than jail time?" John asked.
"We could lose our badges for that, John!" Ken shouted, defensively.
"Yeah? What's more important? Your little brother or that fucking badge?" John shouted.
"What are you on about? Of course Danny is more important to us than…" Ken wouldn't let himself finish.
"Than prove it!"
"You have some nerve, John! After everything we've done for you…" Ricky stated.
"Yeah, and you should be giving Danny the same regard. Don't puss out on him just because you're so concerned about saving your badges so you can lose them at a more chivalrous time. There's nothing more chivalrous than saving your fucking brother!" John shouted.
Ken and Ricky stared at John in shock. They were planning ways of lunging for his throat that would avoid knocking Trish over. The last thing they needed to do was hurt an innocent bystander…
"Hang on,"
The Jenkins brothers looked at one another. Ricky looked around, almost as if he was looking for something.
"Where the fuck is Trish?" He asked.
Ken and John looked around their general area and saw the young woman nowhere in sight.
A/N: DUN DUN DUN!
I would've posted this on the 29th, but it was my 21st birthday… Soooooo…. I delayed it for a bit. Sorry!
Hope y'all liked the update.