Disclaimers and other Info. in Part 1 - additional acknowledgements will be included in parts where needed.
Terry, Joe and Larry are OMC's. Larry is an original creation but Terry and Joe are named after the Sleep-Over Bandits in the film (and true story), "Bandits." The word "Hell" is used once in this part.
Part 11: Where is Vin?
Terry, Joe and Larry are OMC's. Larry is an original creation but Terry and Joe are named after the Sleep-Over Bandits in the film, "Bandits."
The word "Hell" is used once in this part.
Meanwhile, Vin is tied up to a chair in a house not too far away. There are three men standing in front of him, all pointing guns at him.
"Where is Krys?" asks Terry, the man with short dark-brown hair, looking Vin directly in the eye.
"I don't know," answers Vin, putting on a poker face and trying to convince him.
"Of course you know - you've been staying with her for days," says Joe, the man with short blonde hair, pointing his gun threateningly at Vin.
"We'll let you go if you give me back what is rightfully mine," says Terry. He was going out with Krys before Vin stole her from him.
"What's that?" asks Vin, playing dumb.
"Krys of course. We were very happy together until you came along and ruined it," explains the man raising his voice.
"Tell us where Krys is and as soon as we have her, we'll release you," says the third man of the group, Larry with long blonde hair.
"Krys has something we want," says Krys's ex-boyfriend.
"What could Krys have that you want? She destroyed the Golden Idol," says Vin, thinking this will really upset them.
"That's not what we want," shouts Terry, his finger over the trigger of his gun.
"We're not tellin' you what we want," says Joe, getting impatient.
"We could only tell you if we killed you afterwards," says the brown-haired man, who wants to kill Vin anyway.
Vin closes his eyes, waiting for them to kill him anyway as he wont help them get to Krys.
"Closing your eyes won't make us go away," says Larry.
Meanwhile back at the house, Chris has had an idea about who might have taken Vin, as he's sure Vin wouldn't wander off without saying anything. Chris goes back to the house and he gathers them all into the dining room where they all sit at the huge table.
"I have an idea who might have Vin, but I think it's very unlikely," says Chris, hoping they can get Vin back before he gets hurt.
"Tell us anyway," says Buck, who has no idea where Vin could be or why he's disappeared.
"I was thinking maybe those guys who Krys was friends with have tracked us down somehow and they're holding Vin prisoner," reveals Chris.
"That's crazy, how would they track us down?" asks JD, shocked by Chris's idea.
"If I knew that maybe it wouldn't be such a crazy idea, JD."
"Lets go outside and ask around to see if anyone's seen anything suspicious," says Buck.
"Good idea, if we could show a photo of Vin around someone might've seen him," suggests Chris.
"I have a photo of him on a horse from yesterday," says Josiah, who had secretly been taking photos.
They get their coats on and leave the house. They leave Lu behind to stay with Dorothy and Shirley because Chris doesn't want them getting in danger, but Krys has insisted on going with them to get her fiancee back.
They set out with the photo of Vin. They start knocking on people's doors asking if anyone has seen Vin. Several blocks later, no-one so far has seen Vin.
"Now what?" asks JD in despair.
Back at the house where Vin is, Larry, the man with long blonde hair is looking out the window carefully. "They're gettin' closer to us.. Now they've stopped and are talking," relays the man back to the other men.
"Is Krys with them?" asks Krys's ex.
"Yeah, pretty as ever."
"I only need her for the information she knows. Soon as I've got that, we'll get rid of her."
"What if she won't talk?" asks Joe.
"She will talk if she's got a gun pointed at her head," says Krys's ex-boyfriend with an evil grin.
"How are we gonna get her?"
"Larry, go out there and invite them all in," orders Terry.
"They'll recognise me from before," says Larry.
"Their memories can't be that good."
Larry goes outside and approaches Chris, "Are you looking for someone?"
Chris thinks he has seen him before somewhere. "Yes - JD, show him the photo."
Larry looks at the photo; "I think I saw him earlier. Come inside and I'll try and remember."
Chris, JD and Buck go inside leaving the others outside. They walk into the front room and see Vin tied to a chair.
"Vin?" says Chris, hoping Vin hasn't been hurt or drugged.
"Chris," says Vin, glad to see him.
Joe ties a scarf over Vin's mouth so he can't talk. "We'll give you your man back if you give us Krys," he says.
"That's where we saw you before..." starts Chris, remembering the men from the jungle.
"Cut the reminiscing - we want Krys back," shouts Terry, angry that they've had to follow them for so long.
"We're not givin' you Krys back," says Chris defiantly.
"Prepare to watch your friend die then," says Terry and points his gun towards Vin's head.
"You can't kill Vin."
Joe points a gun at JD while Larry points one gun at Chris and one at Buck.
"With half your group gone, getting back Krys will be an easy task," says Terry and smiles evily.
Chris pulls his gun out fast and points it at Terry; "As soon as you pull that trigger, I'll pull mine."
Outside they have started to get worried.
"Something's going on in there, I can feel it," says Josiah, worriedly.
"Chris can handle it, don't worry," replies Nathan, not feeling as confident as he sounds.
"Do you think Vin's in there?"
"I think Mister Larabee's estimation was very accurate," answers Ezra.
"D'you mean my ex is in there?" asks Krys.
"Things could turn nasty in there," says Josiah.
"Maybe we should call the police," suggests Buck.
"No, don't do that," says Krys, panic in her voice.
"Why not?" asks Nathan raising his eyebrows questioningly at her.
"Okay I'll tell you why, but don't tell anyone else," says Krys, her voice low.
"Please tell us - we're dying of curiosity," requests Ezra.
"They did a bank robbery a couple of weeks ago and I hid the money in a secret place that only I know about. When they lost me they lost the money. I expect they want me back so they can find the money," reveals Krys.
"Why didn' you tell us this earlier?" asks Nathan.
"I don't wanna go to jail," says Krys, fear in her voice.
"You wont - we'll make sure only they go to jail," reassures Josiah.
"You better go back to the house and stay there - we'll sort this out," says Buck, not wanting her to get hurt.
"Please get them both back alive," says Krys, worried for Chris and Vin's safety.
"Course we will," says Buck confidently.
Back inside...
"Our ruse to get you arrested didn' work very well, did it?" says Terry.
"It was you!" exclaims Chris.
"I've got a friend in the police-force in South America. He owed me a favour," explains Larry, sure that it doesn't matter if Vin and Chris know now because he and his friends intend to kill them.
"Give us Krys and no-one gets shot," orders Terry.
"Never," says Chris.
Terry shoots Chris's leg below the knee and Chris goes down screaming in pain.
Vin has managed to untie himself and lurches at Terry, knocking the gun out of his hand. "No-one does that to Chris an' gets away with it."
Chris grabs the gun and aims it at Terry. Vin wrestles with Joe and gets his gun. Soon, the good guys are pointing guns at the three men.
"You're all under arrest for threatening federal agents," states Chris.
Terry turns pale; "You're what?"
"You picked on the wrong guys," replies Vin.
Vin, Chris, Buck and JD get behind the men with their guns pointed at their backs and they go outside. Nathan calls the police and soon the bad guys are being driven away in police vans.
Not long after, back at Dorothy's house...
Chris and Vin ask Krys why the three guys wanted her back so desperately.
"I can't tell you. I don' wanna be put in jail," says Krys.
"No-one's puttin' you in jail," says Chris, trying to reassure the girl.
Krys explains to Vin and Chris why the three men were after her. "Please don't send me to jail," she pleads.
"I don' wanna arrest you, I like you," says Chris, smiling at her sincerely.
"You don' look the type to rob a bank," says Vin, putting an arm around his fiancee.
"I drove the getaway vehicle," admits Krys.
"No-one has to know," says Chris with a smile.
"They might talk," says Krys referring to her three ex-friends.
"We'll protect you if they do, no-one's gonna put you in jail," promises Vin.
"You helped us escape that South American jail, you could work for the FBI with some training if you wanted," offers Chris.
"If I do, does that let me off my previous crimes?" asks Krys, interested.
"Sure, but we'll have to discuss it later - my leg's hurtin' like hell," says Chris.
Nathan looks at Chris's leg and gets the bullet out but not without Chris crying out in pain
Shirley goes to him and holds his hand. Chris squeezes it a bit hard. Shirley lets go quickly.
"We need some painkillers for him," says Nathan, noticing that Shirley let go quickly.
Shirley rushes to a cupboard to get some while Nathan cleans up Chris's wound.
"Look what you got for bein' brave," says Nathan sternly.
"I wasn't being brave, I was doing what I've been trained to," argues Chris.
"We can't go while you're hurt, Chris - we'll have ta stay here a bit longer," says Vin.
Chris tries to hide the small smile on his face.
"Chris, you didn't get shot on purpose did ya?" asks Nathan, sternly.
"No, of course not," answers Chris, failing to sound convincing.
"So that you could stay with Shirley a bit longer," accuses Nathan, who wouldn't approve of such a way to stay longer.
"There's nothin' goin' on between me and Shirley," says Chris, trying to hide his smile.
"Nothing at all?" asks Vin.
"Nope."
"I saw you kissing her," says Josiah.
"How could you see me kissing her?" asks Chris, who was sure he'd done it when no-one was looking.
"Why can't you admit you and Shirley are an item?" says Vin.
"Perhaps she'd admit it if we asked her," suggests Nathan.
Shirley comes back with the tablets.
"Shirley, are you datin' Chris?" enquiries Nathan.
"You should ask Chris that," says Shirley, being awkward.
Vin says without a moment's hesitation, "He said ya are."
Shirley smiles and answers, "I am then."
Chris is annoyed at them tricking her and starts to limp away.
Vin grins; "That injury has slowed you down - you can't get away fast enough now."
To be continued...
Terry, Joe and Larry are OMC's. Larry is an original creation but Terry and Joe are named after the Sleep-Over Bandits in the film (and true story), "Bandits." The word "Hell" is used once in this part.
Part 11: Where is Vin?
Terry, Joe and Larry are OMC's. Larry is an original creation but Terry and Joe are named after the Sleep-Over Bandits in the film, "Bandits."
The word "Hell" is used once in this part.
Meanwhile, Vin is tied up to a chair in a house not too far away. There are three men standing in front of him, all pointing guns at him.
"Where is Krys?" asks Terry, the man with short dark-brown hair, looking Vin directly in the eye.
"I don't know," answers Vin, putting on a poker face and trying to convince him.
"Of course you know - you've been staying with her for days," says Joe, the man with short blonde hair, pointing his gun threateningly at Vin.
"We'll let you go if you give me back what is rightfully mine," says Terry. He was going out with Krys before Vin stole her from him.
"What's that?" asks Vin, playing dumb.
"Krys of course. We were very happy together until you came along and ruined it," explains the man raising his voice.
"Tell us where Krys is and as soon as we have her, we'll release you," says the third man of the group, Larry with long blonde hair.
"Krys has something we want," says Krys's ex-boyfriend.
"What could Krys have that you want? She destroyed the Golden Idol," says Vin, thinking this will really upset them.
"That's not what we want," shouts Terry, his finger over the trigger of his gun.
"We're not tellin' you what we want," says Joe, getting impatient.
"We could only tell you if we killed you afterwards," says the brown-haired man, who wants to kill Vin anyway.
Vin closes his eyes, waiting for them to kill him anyway as he wont help them get to Krys.
"Closing your eyes won't make us go away," says Larry.
Meanwhile back at the house, Chris has had an idea about who might have taken Vin, as he's sure Vin wouldn't wander off without saying anything. Chris goes back to the house and he gathers them all into the dining room where they all sit at the huge table.
"I have an idea who might have Vin, but I think it's very unlikely," says Chris, hoping they can get Vin back before he gets hurt.
"Tell us anyway," says Buck, who has no idea where Vin could be or why he's disappeared.
"I was thinking maybe those guys who Krys was friends with have tracked us down somehow and they're holding Vin prisoner," reveals Chris.
"That's crazy, how would they track us down?" asks JD, shocked by Chris's idea.
"If I knew that maybe it wouldn't be such a crazy idea, JD."
"Lets go outside and ask around to see if anyone's seen anything suspicious," says Buck.
"Good idea, if we could show a photo of Vin around someone might've seen him," suggests Chris.
"I have a photo of him on a horse from yesterday," says Josiah, who had secretly been taking photos.
They get their coats on and leave the house. They leave Lu behind to stay with Dorothy and Shirley because Chris doesn't want them getting in danger, but Krys has insisted on going with them to get her fiancee back.
They set out with the photo of Vin. They start knocking on people's doors asking if anyone has seen Vin. Several blocks later, no-one so far has seen Vin.
"Now what?" asks JD in despair.
Back at the house where Vin is, Larry, the man with long blonde hair is looking out the window carefully. "They're gettin' closer to us.. Now they've stopped and are talking," relays the man back to the other men.
"Is Krys with them?" asks Krys's ex.
"Yeah, pretty as ever."
"I only need her for the information she knows. Soon as I've got that, we'll get rid of her."
"What if she won't talk?" asks Joe.
"She will talk if she's got a gun pointed at her head," says Krys's ex-boyfriend with an evil grin.
"How are we gonna get her?"
"Larry, go out there and invite them all in," orders Terry.
"They'll recognise me from before," says Larry.
"Their memories can't be that good."
Larry goes outside and approaches Chris, "Are you looking for someone?"
Chris thinks he has seen him before somewhere. "Yes - JD, show him the photo."
Larry looks at the photo; "I think I saw him earlier. Come inside and I'll try and remember."
Chris, JD and Buck go inside leaving the others outside. They walk into the front room and see Vin tied to a chair.
"Vin?" says Chris, hoping Vin hasn't been hurt or drugged.
"Chris," says Vin, glad to see him.
Joe ties a scarf over Vin's mouth so he can't talk. "We'll give you your man back if you give us Krys," he says.
"That's where we saw you before..." starts Chris, remembering the men from the jungle.
"Cut the reminiscing - we want Krys back," shouts Terry, angry that they've had to follow them for so long.
"We're not givin' you Krys back," says Chris defiantly.
"Prepare to watch your friend die then," says Terry and points his gun towards Vin's head.
"You can't kill Vin."
Joe points a gun at JD while Larry points one gun at Chris and one at Buck.
"With half your group gone, getting back Krys will be an easy task," says Terry and smiles evily.
Chris pulls his gun out fast and points it at Terry; "As soon as you pull that trigger, I'll pull mine."
Outside they have started to get worried.
"Something's going on in there, I can feel it," says Josiah, worriedly.
"Chris can handle it, don't worry," replies Nathan, not feeling as confident as he sounds.
"Do you think Vin's in there?"
"I think Mister Larabee's estimation was very accurate," answers Ezra.
"D'you mean my ex is in there?" asks Krys.
"Things could turn nasty in there," says Josiah.
"Maybe we should call the police," suggests Buck.
"No, don't do that," says Krys, panic in her voice.
"Why not?" asks Nathan raising his eyebrows questioningly at her.
"Okay I'll tell you why, but don't tell anyone else," says Krys, her voice low.
"Please tell us - we're dying of curiosity," requests Ezra.
"They did a bank robbery a couple of weeks ago and I hid the money in a secret place that only I know about. When they lost me they lost the money. I expect they want me back so they can find the money," reveals Krys.
"Why didn' you tell us this earlier?" asks Nathan.
"I don't wanna go to jail," says Krys, fear in her voice.
"You wont - we'll make sure only they go to jail," reassures Josiah.
"You better go back to the house and stay there - we'll sort this out," says Buck, not wanting her to get hurt.
"Please get them both back alive," says Krys, worried for Chris and Vin's safety.
"Course we will," says Buck confidently.
Back inside...
"Our ruse to get you arrested didn' work very well, did it?" says Terry.
"It was you!" exclaims Chris.
"I've got a friend in the police-force in South America. He owed me a favour," explains Larry, sure that it doesn't matter if Vin and Chris know now because he and his friends intend to kill them.
"Give us Krys and no-one gets shot," orders Terry.
"Never," says Chris.
Terry shoots Chris's leg below the knee and Chris goes down screaming in pain.
Vin has managed to untie himself and lurches at Terry, knocking the gun out of his hand. "No-one does that to Chris an' gets away with it."
Chris grabs the gun and aims it at Terry. Vin wrestles with Joe and gets his gun. Soon, the good guys are pointing guns at the three men.
"You're all under arrest for threatening federal agents," states Chris.
Terry turns pale; "You're what?"
"You picked on the wrong guys," replies Vin.
Vin, Chris, Buck and JD get behind the men with their guns pointed at their backs and they go outside. Nathan calls the police and soon the bad guys are being driven away in police vans.
Not long after, back at Dorothy's house...
Chris and Vin ask Krys why the three guys wanted her back so desperately.
"I can't tell you. I don' wanna be put in jail," says Krys.
"No-one's puttin' you in jail," says Chris, trying to reassure the girl.
Krys explains to Vin and Chris why the three men were after her. "Please don't send me to jail," she pleads.
"I don' wanna arrest you, I like you," says Chris, smiling at her sincerely.
"You don' look the type to rob a bank," says Vin, putting an arm around his fiancee.
"I drove the getaway vehicle," admits Krys.
"No-one has to know," says Chris with a smile.
"They might talk," says Krys referring to her three ex-friends.
"We'll protect you if they do, no-one's gonna put you in jail," promises Vin.
"You helped us escape that South American jail, you could work for the FBI with some training if you wanted," offers Chris.
"If I do, does that let me off my previous crimes?" asks Krys, interested.
"Sure, but we'll have to discuss it later - my leg's hurtin' like hell," says Chris.
Nathan looks at Chris's leg and gets the bullet out but not without Chris crying out in pain
Shirley goes to him and holds his hand. Chris squeezes it a bit hard. Shirley lets go quickly.
"We need some painkillers for him," says Nathan, noticing that Shirley let go quickly.
Shirley rushes to a cupboard to get some while Nathan cleans up Chris's wound.
"Look what you got for bein' brave," says Nathan sternly.
"I wasn't being brave, I was doing what I've been trained to," argues Chris.
"We can't go while you're hurt, Chris - we'll have ta stay here a bit longer," says Vin.
Chris tries to hide the small smile on his face.
"Chris, you didn't get shot on purpose did ya?" asks Nathan, sternly.
"No, of course not," answers Chris, failing to sound convincing.
"So that you could stay with Shirley a bit longer," accuses Nathan, who wouldn't approve of such a way to stay longer.
"There's nothin' goin' on between me and Shirley," says Chris, trying to hide his smile.
"Nothing at all?" asks Vin.
"Nope."
"I saw you kissing her," says Josiah.
"How could you see me kissing her?" asks Chris, who was sure he'd done it when no-one was looking.
"Why can't you admit you and Shirley are an item?" says Vin.
"Perhaps she'd admit it if we asked her," suggests Nathan.
Shirley comes back with the tablets.
"Shirley, are you datin' Chris?" enquiries Nathan.
"You should ask Chris that," says Shirley, being awkward.
Vin says without a moment's hesitation, "He said ya are."
Shirley smiles and answers, "I am then."
Chris is annoyed at them tricking her and starts to limp away.
Vin grins; "That injury has slowed you down - you can't get away fast enough now."
To be continued...