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She Will Be Loved©
National Treasure™
DISLCAIMER: I do not own National Treasure™ or its characters. I only own Kyle© and that's it. I do want to thank Jerry and they guys for making this movie 'cause it totally kicks total ASS!
Chapter Eight
"Okay, I was thinking," Riley starts.
Kyle lets out a gasp and remarks, "Everyone take cover, Riley is thinking."
She starts giggling at her own words as Riley glares at her but continues.
"As I was saying, what if we go public? Flash this all over the internet. It's not like we have our reputations to worry about." He finishes.
"I resent that." Kyle says looking at him and then looks over at Ben, "Although I don't think it'll scare Ian away."
They walk over and stand in front of the Declaration. Ben looks at it with admiration and as it were the Holy Grail. Well, it is the Holy Grail of History things.
"180 years of searching and I'm 3 feet away. Of all the ideas that became the United States, there's one line here that is at the heart of all the others: "But when a long train of abuses and usurpations pursuing invariably the same Objects, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security." People don't talk like that anymore," says Ben thoughtfully
Kyle and Riley looks at each other confused, not knowing what Ben meant.
"Beautiful…Have know idea what you just said." Kyle says slowly.
"It means that if something goes wrong, those that have the ability to take action have the responsibility to take action...I'm going to steal it," says Ben quietly.
"Right then." Riley mutters quietly.
"I'm going to steal the Declaration of Independence," mumbles Ben walking away.
Kyle and Riley exchange shocked gazes and go to catch up with Ben.
"Uh...Ben!" say Riley going after him.
Once they were outside the Archives, they went and sat up on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Riley and Kyle are sitting down, trying to take in what Ben had just said a few minutes ago. Ben is standing up as if nothing was wrong. Kyle draws in a breath and slowly lets it out. Riley looks at her and puts his arm around her, rubbing her shoulder as if to say "We'll figure this out".
"This is huge. Prison huge," he says.
"You are going to prison, you know that?" Kyle chimes in looking at Ben.
"Yeah, probably." Ben answers with no worry in his voice.
"That would bother most people." she mumbles and looks down at her feet.
Ben looks at the both of then and starts to speak, "Ian's going to try and steal it and if he succeeds, he will destroy the Declaration. The fact is the only way to protect the Declaration is to steal it. It's upside-down. I don't think there's a choice."
Riley looks at Kyle who looks back and then he looks back at Ben and sighs.
"Ben...for god's-sake, it's like stealing a national monument. It's like stealing him," Riley says standing up and making some interesting hand gestures towards memorial, "It can't be done. It's not that it shouldn't be done, it can't be done. Let me prove it to you," he finishes in a some-what more calm voice.
"Let us prove it to you." Kyle adds also standing up.
Ben thinks for a moment, "Fine," he gives in.
"Okay Ben, pay attention. I brought you to the Library of Congress. Why? Because it's the biggest library in the world. Over 20 million books and they're all saying the same thing: Listen to Riley ." Riley starts.
"And Kyle. What we have here, my friend, is the entire layout of the Archives. We've got builder's blueprints, we have construction orders, phone lines, water and sewage," Kyle says picking up papers and putting them back down, not letting Ben getting that good of a look at them.
Riley continues, "It's all here. Now, when the Declaration is on display, it's surrounded by guards and video cameras, and little families from Iowa, and little kids on their 8th grade field trips. And beneath an inch of bullet proof glass is an army of sensors and heat monitors that will go off if someone gets too close with a high fever."
Kyle finishes for him, "Okay, when it's not on display, it's lowered into a 4 foot thick concrete, steel plated vault that happens to be equipped with an electronic combination lock and biometric access and denial systems."
Ben looks at them and leans forward a bit.
"You know Thomas Edison tried and failed nearly 2,000 times to develop the carbonized cotton filament for the incandescent light bulb. " says Ben.
"Edison?" asks Riley.
"And when asked about it, he said: "I didn't fail, I found out 2,000 ways how not to make a light bulb," but he only needed to find one way to make it work."
He pauses.
"And before I continue, it's really weird the way you two finishes each others conversations." Ben adds in.
Riley looks away and Kyle looks down, blushing.
"Alright, the Preservation Room." Ben says putting a book in front of Riley and Kyle, "Go ahead, enjoy."
Riley takes the book and looks at it. Kyle and rests her head on her head and sighs, getting bored of all this woo-ha.
"Do you know what the Preservation Room is for?" asks Ben.
"Delicious jams and jellies?" Riley replies with a question.
Kyle shakes her head and smiles slightly.
"That's where they clean, repair, and maintain all the documents and storage housings when they aren't on display or in the vault. Now, when the case needs work, they take it out of the vault and directly across the hall into the Preservation Room. The best time for us or Ian is to steal it, would be during the Gala this weekend when the guards are distracted by the V.I.P.s upstairs," Ben explains, "But we'll make our way to the Preservation Room where there is much less security," Ben finishes sitting back in his chair.
"Huh...well, if Ian...Preservation Room...gala...this might be possible," Riley manages to spit out looking at Ben.
"It seriously could." Kyle adds looking at Ben shocked.
"It might." Ben says.
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