To rrlove ..hey you're my girl..thanks for your support
Also my love goes out to my buds at Friends board… here is another exciting chapter…
"Yes that's what I faxed you. Those were found in a sea bed off the coast of Aruba. I would say about sixty meters down. I know you can't base the whole grant on four pieces. I planned on diving for more again today. I promise you Greg, the minute I find some more, you will be the first I call. Be talking to you , Greg, bye." Ross hung up his cell phone.
"What did they say?" Rachel asked curiously.
"Well it does seem those pieces have some significance with Atlantis, but they will have to carbon date them when we get home. He wants me to try to find some more evidence." Ross said with a determined look on his face.
"Oh ," said Rachel with a disappointed look on her face.
"Sweetie, I know it's our honeymoon okay. It's just , do you know how long I have waited to get my own research grant? This could be the big break I have always deserved. And if I do get it, we are going to have to move down here." he said.
"I don't think that's a tragedy." said Rachel.
"Well we do have to go and celebrate. Why don't you grab your purse and we'll have lunch. Maybe we can go down in that cove later too."
He said. With his arm around her, they headed off to a café.
Jesse had watched them take off. He got onto his boat and steered it to the cove again. He had a very bad feeling and had to settle his curiosity.Jumping over the side at the correct spot, he plunged downward. Flippers kicking and hands moving he swam into the opening of the cavern. Opening the hand made vault, he noticed the rock had been tampered with. Air floating up from the opening in his dive mask, he realized something. That other guy must have taken it.
From his weight belt, he pulled out a gun and started to ascend. He was hoping to get a good shot at the person who took his treasure. He could take care of it too. He came from a world of not asking, but taking it back. He even had a more vicious thought, this guy would be underwater again. Maybe he would do the damage on his own turf. He wished he could stay in waiting for him, but he knew that his air in his tank wouldn't last that long. He used his arms to slowly ascend breaking at the surface. He would be back and then the money would be his again.
With a promise they would have a romantic dinner that evening, Rachel agreed to a quick lunch so they could dive again. They were soon back on the boat and over the side they went.
It was clear that they were looking for something. Curiously they glided through the aqua water. Submerging themselves further, they floated to the bottom of the cove. One would dig through the sand while the other would feel the reef for anything unusual. There had to be more down here, Ross thought as he shrugged his shoulders. He continued sifting through the silt, carefully monitoring his air.
Rachel sifted as well. She would find something and then realize it was no more than rock or shell. Restlessly, she exhaled and bubbles exited her mouth. She drifted upwards and kicked her fins heading toward her husband. He shook his head and continued to dig through the sand. She signed that she wanted to go back up on the boat. He held up one finger to tell her that to just wait a few minutes. He figured that if he didn't find anything, they would surface. She restlessly tapped her dive watch. He shrugged his shoulders again.
Rachel motioned to him she would be returning to the surface. He gave the okay sign. Rachel began her swim upwards.
At another point, Jesse was talking to another woman. She had exotic Asian features and was pulling her hair into a ponytail. She tucked her hair into a hood and a knife onto her weight belt. Attired in a black suit, she calmly sat on the rail and adjusted her regulator. Mask in place, she fell into the water. Nika looked through her tinted mask as she inhaled. She was hired to do a job and by God she would do it.
Slowly gliding through the water, Nika's fins made her search harder. She pushed the water aside in an effort to move faster. Jesse had seen them dive to almost the same spot, so she knew she couldn't be far.
Looking through her mask, she finally saw something. Another diver was down here. No wait, there was a woman kneeling next to the other diver. Nika smiled through her bubbles. This must be his girlfriend. Jesse made it painfully clear he wanted to take care of the thief. She was going to enjoy this.
Rachel paddled upwards. Her legs kicked as the fins moved her toward the surface. As quick as a shark, Nika swam over with knife poised to strike. By instinct, Rachel 's flippers kicked up a dust as she tried to ascend. Nika grabbed her arms and they struggled. She tried to tear herself loose , but the Asian assasin was trained in the martial arts. Glaring at her through her mask, Nika showed Rachel her knife and grabbed her air hose. Carefully she sawed right through it, and bubbles emerged as she looked Rachel in the face.
Rachel held her regulator and tried to breath into it.Nothing was coming out. Her eyes bulged as she realized that she couldn't breath. Terrified, she held up the dangling hose . No longer connected to her tank, it hung loosely spouting a stream of bubbles. Her eyes began to close as the lack of air took its effect.
Finally exhausted from finding nothing, Ross decided to surface. He kicked his fins to rise up. It cut him to the quick to see the horrible sight he noticed through his mask. It was Rachel's lifelessly body as she sunk to the ocean floor.