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"Get your hands on the ground and into the corner," he barked at them. They all did so. "Give me your phones and your wallets." They all did so except Kai. He didn't notice that Hilary hadn't either. "Where's your phone?" he asked pointing the gun at him.

"I don't have one," he lied. The man kicked him and he landed flat on his face. The man found his phone in his back pocket, as well as a gun. He pointed both at him.

"What's this for?" he barked at him.

"Protection," was his only reply. The man put Kai's gun in the bag he had over his shoulder, took the hat from over his face, and called someone on his own phone.

As he did so, Hilary tapped something in her ear to intercept the phone call.

"When can you get the satellite up?" the man asked into the phone.

"Sorry Jack it'll take some time," came the response of a female voice. "They've pipelined my system because they suspected I was helping you. It'll take at least ten minutes."
"Son of a bitch," he muttered. "Call me when you have it, and stay available." He ended the call. "You there, in the cap." He was looking at the guy who worked there. "What's your name?"

"Doug," came his response.

"Open that safe," he commanded. Doug stood up slowly with his hands up in a mock surrender and slowly made his way towards the safe. He slowly knelt down and opened it. There was only a small pile of bundled money there. "That's it?" the man asked.

"Yes," Doug told him. "They're coming with more in an hour." Silence.

The man watched the front door and saw a police car park up. "Alright, everyone to the back of the store." Within a few seconds they were and he put them in the freezer. "One word and I will shoot all of you. Doug, come with me." He then left them, closing the door behind him. He pointed the gun at him. "Make him go away, one wrong word and I will shoot you."

The man hid behind a shelf and Doug opened the door to the policeman. "Sorry we're not open today. We're doing inventory." His delay was noticeable.

"In the afternoon?" he asked.

"Yes," he replied.

"Is everything okay here?" the policeman asked.

"Yes." Again the response was delayed.

"Maybe I should take a look inside," the policeman began. The burglar then came into the policeman's view as he stood behind Doug and pointed the gun at the policeman.

"Come inside," the man commanded. "Doug, lock the door, then take his gun, his radio, and his handcuffs." Doug passed him his gun and radio. "Cuff him." He then pointed the gun at both of them as he made them go into the freezer.

Suddenly someone's voice came through the police radio. The man went back into the freezer and went up to the policeman.

"Say you'll be on your way," he commanded. "One wrong word and I'll shoot you."

"I'm on my…" he began.

"Help, we're being robbed!" Doug suddenly shouted into it. The man then hit him and he went into the shelf to his left.

The man looked at the policeman "You're supposed to be in charge of these people, you talk to them," he told him and then left them.

"They know we're here," Hilary whispered to Kai once the man had gone. "He isn't a real burglar, he's holding us here until they can get a satellite up to see where we're going. That's why he was following us."

The man glanced at them through the glass but she had already stopped speaking.

Several police cars appeared outside and parked on the car park.

"We have you surrounded," a policeman told him through a megaphone.

"I have hostages, and I will shoot them if I have to," he shouted to them.

"You only need one hostage, let the others go and take the officer," came the reply.

Hilary had been watching the clock all this time. She knew it'd be five minutes before the satellite would be ready, then it would be game over.

The man went to the others. He pointed the gun at each of them in turn and stopped at Hilary. "You come with me," he commanded.

He grabbed her back and slammed her into the shelves face first. She just put up with it. The man forced the gun into her neck and was holding one of her shoulders.

"Unlock the door," he told her. She did so slowly. He pushed her forward through the door, closing it again. "Lock it with the chain." This was where she caught him off guard. She didn't lock it properly but it looked so messed up that it looked like it was. But as a matter of fact one slight push would open it.

He pushed her towards the front door. "Open the door." She grabbed the keys from the counter-top and opened it. "Which car is yours?"

"The blue Lexus," she replied as she opened the door. The man glanced around and saw it. He forced her out of the door and towards the car, still pointing the gun at her.

"Don't shoot or I'll shoot her," he told them. "Tell your men to leave their guns and step two metres away from their cars." They did so. The two of them were beside the blue car. "When I say so, get into the driver's seat. Don't follow me or I will shoot her! Get in."

She did so and he got into the back seat. She pulled out with all of the policeman standing there and staring at the car hopelessly.

"What are you?" she asked him. He still pointed the gun at her and she had no idea where she was going.

"The gas station was a money drop. There's supposed to be eighteen thousand in that safe," he told her.

"How do you know that?" she asked. Silence.

"I'll be the one asking the questions here," he told her fiercely. "Just keep driving. Move the rear-view mirror to the right so I can see who's behind us. She did so slowly. "That's it." She then stopped. Silence. "Pull-over here and start running." She did so. The man climbed out and got into the driver's seat. He pulled out onto the road and drove off. Hilary checked her watch. The satellite would be up by now.

She flagged down a car.

"Can I help you little lady?" asked the man who was driving it.

"Yeah I just…" Hilary pretended to look confused but suddenly hit him, opened the door, and pulled him out. She then got in and drove back to the gas station.

The police cars had gone. She pulled up and got out, making sure Kai would see her.

"Have fun?" he asked.

"Not really," she told him as she got back into the car. "Get in." He got into the front passenger's seat. "We're being followed, the satellite is up."

"So? Send a message to HQ and tell them that, they can block it," he told her. She passed him the phone and he called them. After several minutes he ended the call.

"What did they say?" she asked.

"They said we'd have no chance of getting out of the camera's view and they can't block the signal from it," he told her.

"This is no time for sarcasm," she told him sourly as she turned onto another empty road.

"No, they said it's still active but have blocked the government's view of it for several hours," he told her. "We've got plenty of time."

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