Chapter 7: The heist and a surprise
Sly crept inside the museum where the diamond was on display through the window that was on the museum's roof like Bentley instructed. Though this ws the last night before the next day the diamond wouldn't be there anymore, that didn't mean that the security system wasn't tight. Sly went on until he was at the main hall.
"Remember Sly, you must be extra careful, there seems to be flashlight guards near the laser security systems." Bentley reminded Sly for the umpteenth time.
"I know Bentley, relax and let me handle this. That diamond is as good as ours." Sly grinned as he thought about the look on Bentley's face when he would be able to sell the diamond on thief net.
But Bentley didn't seem to have that much confidence in Sly. "Yeah, like last time when you got too careless and stepped on a floor laser and almost got caught?"
"Well, that was then, now is now." But Bentley was right, Sly had to be very careful so he wouldn't trip an alarm on the way to the diamond.
Sly jumped like a rabbit over the floor lasers and dodged a guard's flashlight and even pickpocketed him before continuing.
After many guards and lasers there was only two laser walls between him and the diamond.
"Bentley, sitting duck needs a little help here, seems like they've put extra lasers near the diamond. Can you hack them away?"
Sly heard Bentley chuckle a little at his comment but he seemed pleased that for once Sly stuck to the code names. "No big deal sitting duck, this is a standard or less security system."
It took Bentley under a minute to hack the system and Sly could go on. He was just about to go over to the diamond when Bentley stopped him.
"Wait! There are still sensors on the floor. If you step on them, it will trip an alarm."
Sly frowned. "What? How am I going to go past them?"
Bentley thought a second and worked on his laptop. "Hmm, take your binoc-u-com and look to your left." Sly did as he was instructed. "Now, do you see that security camera? There should be a wire leading from it to a power switch."
Sly peered through the binoc-u-com. "Yep, I can see the power switch, but that's quite a long way. How am I going to get to it?"
"Hmm, aha! You remember when you used that grapple-cam once when you had to distract a flashlight quard?" Sly nodded and smiled, starting to realise what Bentley meant, and retrieved it from his pouch. "Now, put it to the ground and switch the power on."
Sly put it down and pressed the button. Soon Bentley handled everything and used the grapple-cam to first attach it to the wall and then get it close to the power switch. Then he blew it into bits with his grapple cam. Slowly and silently, though Sly couldn't see it, the floor sensors were gone.
"The floor sensors are away! Sitting duck, finish the job by making a hole to the glass surrounding the diamond and get out of there. We won't take the chance that the police might be on their way to get us."
Expertly Sly made the hole and slipped the diamond into his pouch. Sly heard Bentley's sigh of relief. Grinning, he took his calling card out and placed it to the same spot where the diamond was just a few seconds ago. He went back the same way he came, dodged the same guards and opened the same window that lead to the roof. Silently he ran across the rooftops, his body filled with adrenaline, to meet Bentley and Murray on their rendezvous point.
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"Jenny, wait! Where are we going?" Lindsay was desperatedly running after Jenny, trying to keep up with her, but she was walking so fast. Lindsay looked over her shoulder to see if the wolfs had followed them. They hadn't, luckily.
"I'll explain to you as soon as I find the...aha! Here's the right street!" Jenny slowed down a bit. "Now, what did you ask?"
Lindsay looked angrily at Jenny for not explaining anything, but she calmed herself down. "I want to know where are we and were are we going? I don't like it when people know things that I don't!" Sometimes Lindsay could act so much like a teen-ager. Well, wasn't she one?
Jenny stopped her walking and tried to explain as well as she could. "Well, that cabin, where we were, belongs to my boyfriend, Jack, he built it with his own hands. And apparently, those wolves took advantage of the situation that Jack was on a holiday and that's how they kept it as their safehouse. And this post-it note", Jenny picked it up to show at Lindsay, I got it from my firend so I could go and see her and her boyfriend's house someday. And we are going to go to their place because they are the closest we can find so we can call the police and catch those maniacs! Any more questions?"
Lindsay was quite pleased with the answer and set a last glance over at the cabin, and to her horror, saw the two wolves out there searching for them. They had noticed they had escaped through the window! "Oh shit! Jenny, run! They know we have escaped!"
At least now they had. They heard Lindsay's scream and started to run towards them. "EEP!" They both screamed and ran across the street. There were houses on both sides of the road.
"Lindsay! Stay with me, me must stick together! Follow me!" Jenny shouted and checked the address one last time before she ducked through some bushes, spiky ones. The needles cut through her flesh like biting piranhas. Lindsay came right after her and they shivered there together, unable to do nothing more than to look at each other.
"Oh no, this is the end, they'll probably kill us" Lindsay thought and closed her eyes and thought for the worst.
Suddenly, out of nowhere, just as the wolves were running side by side from the other side of the road to the other side, a van came doubling from arund the corner and hit staright to the both of them, knocking them unconscious. The van screeched to a halt and stopped, barely missing the "poor" guys who had flewn a few meters by the impact.
Murray gasped in horror when he saw he had hit some people. "Oh my god, what have I done! I have to check on them that they aren't dead!"
Bentley was in hysteria. "Oh no! They will call the police and get us for this! Murray don't go! Come back and let's just leave!"
Poor Sly was a bit green from his face and opened the door holding his stomach. "Oww, Murray, why did you have to drive so fast? We believe that you can drive as fast as you want. I think I 'm gonna vomit." He bent over to the ground still holding his stomach.
Jenny panicked. She was stuck in a bush with Lindsay, the needles hurt like hell, she was too afraid to try and get out from the spiky bush. "Help, someone!"
Sly, who was on his knees holding his stomach near the bushes, heard Jenny. "Huh? Hello, is someone there? Ooh.."
"Please help us out, we're stuck in these bushes!" Jenny didn't like being in narrow places, like in an elevator or in this case, stuck between spiky needles.
Sly crawled on all fours and found them, and tried to free them but the needles prevented him from helping them with just bare hands. He felt like he would vomit again, but he kept on, got his cane from inside the van and came back. He managed to cut a hole in there to get first Lindsay out, then Jenny. Jenny was in so much panic, that she just rushed straight into Sly's arms and started to cry and kept saying something about not liking to be in narrow places. Sly tried to comfort her the best he could, even though he felt so sick himself.
Lindsay was feeling much better than Jenny, and rushed straight to Murray and explained how the wolves had chased her and Jenny and by bouncing on to them, Murray had saved their lives. Finally Bentley dared to come out and brought some rope with him so that Murray could tie the wolves up and put them inside the van. They were still unconscious, but they didn't seem to be in a critical condition.
Lindsay went inside the van with Bentley and Murray, because she didn't know where they lived. Sly on the other hand, lead Jenny to their home by walking with her. The trip wasn't long, it was a block away, and the whole journey Jenny held onto Sly like she would die if she didn't.
They reached home and Lindsay called from Bentley's mobilephone to the police and told them everything, including about Jenny and the wolfes. Bentley had insisted that Jenny didn't mention him, Sly or Murray, or give the address. Lindsay gave the street name to the police, but didn't tell which house. She would tell something like that the wolves ran into each other while chasing her and Jenny and then they had tied them up together with a rope they found from some house's yard.
Murray stood guarding the wolves while Bentley worked on his laptop to see how fast the police would arrive so they would have time to hide the van.
Meanwhile, Sly went inside the safehouse and took Jenny with him. Jessica and Carmelita came running right away to ask how the heist went. But when they saw Jenny with Sly, they first looked at each other and then screamed simultaneously together in happiness: "JENNY!"
Finally Jenny stirred a little from her shock and let go of Sly and hurried to greet her two best friends. Poor Sly though ran to the closest toilet to finally let the sick feeling go away. Right after he did he went over to the couch to lie down and try to get the dizzy feeling go away. Finally, he felt it ease up when he fell asleep from exhaustion.
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Sly woke up when he smelled fresh coffee being made. It was still quite dark, the only light came from the kitchen. Sly sat up slowly, in case he might still feel sick. But he didn't, he felt fine.
"Oy, you're up!" Sly heard Carmelita exclaiming in happiness. She rushed to his side and brought some coffee with her. "Here, do you feel better?" Carmelita looked concerned.
"I feel fine. Where's Jenny? I remember bringing her home but then I went to sleep because I felt so sick." Sly looked around and saw that Murray was eating in the kitchen and Bentley was probably in his room typing on his laptop because he didn't see Bentley anywhere.
"Jenny and Lindsay went to the police station to give statements. They caught the kidnappers, isn't that great?"
"Lindsay? It was the other girl who was with Jenny?" Sly asked confused.
"Yes, Jenny explained to me when you were sleeping; those kidnappers had had Lindsay before they kidnapped Jenny as well. Can you believe that they were being held in Jack's cabin? Jenny was so close to us all the time and I didn't even realise..." Carmelita's voice broke, fading away. Sly pulled her onto his lap and stroked her back with his other hand. He still had the coffee mug in his other hand.
"Hey, you can't blame yourself. None of us knew she was there. If we did, we would have rescued her right away. But tell me, how did they escape?"
Carmelita wiped her unshed tears with the palm of her hand and continued. "Jenny told me there was a little window in the room where they were being kept, and they managed to get it open. But the wolves heard it and then ran after them. That's when you and Bentley and Murray saved them."
"Oh, well then everything's fine, so cheer up! We have to celebrate, right?" Carmelita forced a smile but didn't seem too happy. Sly lifted her chin up and look intensely to her eyes. "Hey. Jenny wouldn't want you to be sad, you sohuld be happy! Maybe this will help.." He leaned over to kiss Carmelita straight on lips. Just like from a movie, Carmelita put her hand behind Sly's neck and pulled him closer. Just when the kiss was lingering...
"SURPRISE!" Everyone yelled simultaneously. Jenny, Jessica, Lindsay, Rebecca, Sasha, Bentley and Murray stood in the doorway, cheering at them. Carmelita blushed but Sly just grinned. He didn't seem too bothered that they had company. Jenny had like five wine bottles and three champagne bottles in her hands. It was time to celebrate.
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A/N: This was personally one of the chapters I just Ioved to write! Now please review! I want to know if I totally sucked... :D