AN: Well I'm calling it a wrap on this fic. I may make a sequel to this later on. Anyway I wanna say thank you so so much for reading this story and for all the incredible reviews. Muchas Gracias.
Chapter 9: All's well that ends well.
Warren pulls over on the side where their van wouldn't be noticeable by any passing vehicles. He steps out of the van and opens the side door.
"Walker grab him for me."
"My pleasure. Now Greg don't do anything stupid here. I really rather not have your wifes blood all over me ok?"
Greg nods and is easily led to the driver's side where Warren and Walker tie him to the seat but leave his feet and hands untied as he needs to drive them into building. Brendan moves the wife and son to the back and tells them to lie down. Ste grabs a black sheet and drapes it over them to conceal them. The four of them step outside of the vehicle so the family won't hear them but keep their eyes on the manager making sure he doesn't try anything.
"Everyone knows what their job is right? We can't be going in there and running around like chickens with our heads cut off."
Walker steps up and starts speaking. "Yeah we got it Warren. You keep the employees on stand by and collect cash from the front. Ste will go destroy any video surveillance and then come help you out afterwards. Me and Brendan will follow Greg into the main vault and start loading up the van."
"Good. Let's go then." Warren opens the side door back up but all four of them stop.
"Foxy how the hell are we going to stay hidden there's not enough room."
"Oh bloody hell."
"I'm gonna kill you."
Ste has to grab Brendan around his waist before it turned into a fight to the death between them both. "Everyone just calm the fuck down the last thing we need is to be arguing with each other. Look Warren you go all the way to the back and you'll blend in since you're wearing black. Walker just press against the side. Me and Brendan will crouch behind the seats."
They all listen and get into their hiding spots. Brendan stays behind the driver's seat and directs Greg to start driving. It's only about a 10 minute drive to the Securitas Depot but to them it feels like forever. Almost as if time has literally just stopped. Every one of them keeps thinking they can hear each other's heartbeat. No one speaks on the way over their but they all give a slight nod as their cue that this is it. No turning back now. Once they reach the surrounding area of the depot the van stops.
"Mate what are you stopping for?" Brendan speaks behind Greg.
"I gotta punch in the security code to get through the first gate."
"Seriously. How many gates are there?"
"2 and then the last one is where they open the doors to the building."
"Ughhhh." All four of them say unanimously.
Greg punches in the codes for the 2 gates and drives them up to the entrance where he stops and waits for the guard to approach them.
"Don't you dare do anything to alert him that something is wrong you got it. That guy back there has a gun to your wife's head. So I suggest you keep your mouth shut."
When the guard approaches them they speak a little and make casual conversation.
"Thought I would do some paperwork since I'm going on vacation soon. Don't want to be behind you know."
"Of course. Go right on through."
The guard opens the hate for them and the van drives on through. The giant door to the Depot opens up and Greg drives it in and parks it by the side.
"Go close the door and bring all those employees next to the van." Brendan gives the remaining 3 their signal. They all shuffle away from their spots and get ready by the door as Brendan jumps out of the van and follows closely behind the man. Luckily for Brendan he doesn't stand out. He removed his jacket and now is wearing a white shirt and black trousers so he pulls it off well enough to were the other employees don't pay him any attention. He waits as Greg closes the door and then follows behind him again as he calls all his employees to the van.
"Guys can I get you all over here for a second. Brief staff meeting."
All 12 employees come bundling over while loudly speaking to each other. A couple of women are talking about a get together she's throwing and going through the different themes of the party. Brendan looks over at Greg and tells him to hurry this up. He does.
Once every employee is within reach Brendan violently grabs Greg around the neck. "Now!"
The door swings open and Warren, Walker, and Ste all jump out one behind the other with their guns all pointed at them. They surround the employees making sure to never lower their weapons.
"Everyone on the floor. Face down. Now."
Without hesitation they all comply. Ste hands Walker some zip ties and they both start to tie everyone's legs and hands together. Brendan ties up Greg and throws him on the floor as Warren goes and grabs the wife and son.
"Where's the rope Green?"
"Passenger seat." Brendan and Ste are pulling everyone onto a seated position.
"Listen up. This is a robbery!" Warren laughs to himself and then grunts when he realizes no one else laughed with him. "Oh come on I always wanted to say that."
"Get on with it Chilly. No one wants to hear your jokes."
"So sensitive. Alright look we are not here to hurt anyone of you all. Just want the money so all you lot have to do is stay still and keep quiet. But just for added protection-" Warren throws the tape over to Walker who starts to tape everyone's mouth closed. Warren wraps the rope around the whole group ensuring that they can't even move one inch. "There now we'll try not to be long."
"Right so let's get started then. Go on."
Brendan and Walker haul Greg to his feet and follow him to the vault as Ste takes one of the women employees and follows her to the security room. As all this is going on Warren starts grabbing wads of cash that is by the front. Looks like they were sorting through the different pounds. He stuffs them into a duffle bag and continues the same routine as he waits for the others.
Ste ushers the employee along while whistling a tune.
"Hurry up love I don't have all day."
"Sorry but you try focusing when someone has a gun to the back of your head."
"Oh shut up I won't use it unless you do something stupid. Now open the door already."
Her hands shake but finally she is able to unlock the door and lets Ste in. He looks around and there are rows upon rows of tvs in there each showing a different spot of the building. He sees Warren on one of them watching the employees and filling out the bags. He tries finding Brendan but there are so many screens he gets flustered and can't find him. Ste pulls out his phone and dials Warren's number. He finds it funny that he can see him reaching into his pocket on the screen.
"What Bambi?"
"Hey so I'm in the room but there's tons of screens here. It's going to take me forever to get these things destroyed but I got perfect view of everything from here. Maybe I should stay up here and keep watch. You know of Walker and Brendan make sure their ok."
"Yeah fine fine. Make sure they don't kill each-other. Oh and no longer than an hour there."
Warren hangs up and Ste gets up and ties the woman to one of the chairs as he keeps watch of the building. He still can't find Brendan or Walker and wonders where the hell they went off too as every area of the building is in front of him. He goes to look away to speak to the employee but sees movement on one of the screens. Finally he catches a glimpse of Brendan. He's walking behind both Greg and Walker and doesn't seem to be paying too much attention to his surroundings. In fact he is looking down not keeping an eye on Walker like he promised.
"Idiot. Pay attention." Ste can't help but want to shout at the screen hoping some way Brendan hears him. He wants to call him but realizes Walker might start thinking something is wrong so he decides against it. It's useless so all he can do is sit there and hope Brendan can take care of himself like he said.
"Are you purposely leading us in circles. We been through here."
"No we haven't it just all looks the same."
"Greg you think we're idiots. Do you?" Walker pistol whips Greg and he collapses on the floor.
"Fuck off Walker we need him." Brendan crouches down and tries to wake the unconscious Greg up. "Mate come on we really don't have time for one of your moments of weakness." Brendan forcefully just lifts him onto his feet and leans him against a wall. He applies pressure to his neck till he feels Greg start gasping for air. "Welcome back. Now move."
They continue following him until the vault is right in front of him. After a couple more punches to the ribs the manager finally complies and opens it for them. Walker ties Greg onto a poll on the hallway and then goes to help Brendan fill all the bags they brought. It's time consuming and after filling around 10 bags they are exhausted. Brendan slows down but still continues to do his job. Out of nowhere Walker decides to break the silence.
"So Brendan what you going to do with the money."
"None of your business."
"Your such a closed book aren't you. I figured you would use it to grow your drug business."
Brendan watches him now and sees the anger behind Walkers eyes. "I might. Got a problem with that?"
"You know that there's people that die because of what you do."
"Let's get this straight yeah. I don't go to these people and put a gun to their head and force them to take the drugs. They come looking for it ok. You should see them. Their dilated pupils pleading and begging for any small amount of cocaine I can give em. Or if I could give then one pill. Only one. It's pathetic really."
"So no remorse at all huh."
"For what? I didn't do anything wrong. Their the idiots that put these toxins in there body. If they happen to die because of it well its really their own fault. Isn't it?"
Walker charges at him and almost grapples his neck but stops suddenly. Brendan doesn't even flinch and instead smiles at him.
"Touchy subject isn't it Walker."
"No...course not."
"Right. I suggest you step away from me before Warren has to come down here and find a dead body on the floor."
"Wonder whose dead body that would be?"
"You want to find out?"
Walker goes back over to his spot and they both continue to fill the bags in silence.
It's been over an hour since the group broke into the depot and now Ste is back at the front with Warren helping him load up the remaining cash into the van. They both jump when loads of duffle bags get thrown on the floor. Right behind are Brendan and Walker dragging and kicking the remaining bags. They even made Greg carry some of the bags as well. Ste had seen the little altercation between the two but decided to keep quiet about it. The four of them start picking up the bags and putting them inside the vehicle.
"Finish up and I'm gonna go lock these lot into a room." Warren releases and employee one by one and re ties them again once they are in a secure room. He manages to fit all of them inside it and then takes the wife and son and puts them in there as well. When he makes it back out to the front everything is loaded and the only one outside the bam is Brendan.
"What's up Brady?"
"Waiting on you. Hurry up and get in the back again."
Warren pushes through and has to hide below a couple of the bags and then Brendan follows suit and again crouches behind the seat. This time they get by all the security quickly enough. Once they are far enough they tell Greg to stop and jump out.
"End of the road mate." Ste pulls Greg out of the driver's seat and ties him to one of the trees. "We really appreciated all the help." Ste rushes back into the van and they drive off glancing back only once to see the Securitas Depot slowly disappear out of the background.
They make it back to Brendan's warehouse easily enough and start unloading all the cash.
"53 million pounds boys. We're fucking set for life."
"Calm down Foxy we still can't use it for a while remember it's gonna be tracked."
"Yeah yeah yeah."
The group hides the money all over the warehouse and makes sure it's not easily accessible.
"Now what?" Ste chimes in as he plops down on the sofa. They are all tired behind belief.
"I'm assuming the cops will be out looking for suspects in a couple hours when undoubtedly someone would notice no one is working at the depot. But we have some time as the cops in that area aren't familiar with us. There's distance there but if they somehow find their way to this village they are going to come to either one of us. So we have to cross our fingers they take a couple days over there."
"I think we should start leaving the village as soon as possible."
"Yeah same here. Not all at once. But one by one we should quietly go."
They all nod in agreement and it's decided that Ste will leave first, followed by Brendan, then Walker, and Warren being the last one. They won't leave for at least 2 days so until then the all agree to stay off the radar.
Warren and Walker leave for the night as Ste and stays with Brendan at the warehouse.
"You have a plan then?"
"Yeah go and grab me a couple of 20s from the robbery. I think me and Walker are going to have ourselves a pint to celebrate."
The next day comes by soon enough and the first thing on the news is about the Securitas Depot that occurred last night. Every station is covering it and calling it "The Biggest Heist in UK History."
Ste stays put in the warehouse as he tries to gather up the cash and somehow stuff it into suitcases. He decides it's impossible to stuff the amount of cash into only 4 of them so he text Brendan that they will have to just use a bigger car. He grabs another suitcase and continues filling them.
Back at The Dog, Brendan meets up with Warren and Walker. They get a couple of pints and don't discuss the robbery much. Just a few words about what was said on the news and Warren repeating that Ste is to leave tomorrow night. Walker gets up from the table to go pay.
"No mate here let me. Consider it an apology for the other day." Brendan hands him a 20. "I'm heading off. I'll be sure to let Steven know."
Brendan walks away but hears Warren rushing to catch up to him.
"Brady you sure you know what you're doing?"
"What you mean?"
"I know you're going with him. You know it'll be more suspicious right."
"Yeah I know. Stay out of trouble."
"I will if you will."
"So that's a no." Brendan pauses for a second and thinks of something. "Take care of yourself Warren."
"You do the same Brendan."
No hugs are exchanged. No handshakes are extended. They give each other a small nod and part ways.
Brendan makes it back to the warehouse in record time. "Steven! You done? We're leaving now."
"What? Now? I don't even have any of my stuff."
"Fine rush home grab whatever you can fit in one of these bags and come back. I'm leaving in 30 minutes."
"Bloody hell." Ste rushes out the door only to turn around. "Forgot me kiss." He gets on his tip toes and gives him a chaste kiss before he runs back out. Brendan grabs a couple of the suitcases and makes his way out of the warehouse.
An hour later Brendan and Ste have packed up all the suitcases into their SUV.
"Bren I could have sworn there were more suitcases than these."
"I don't think they were. Anyway we have enough."
Ste knows there were at least 3 to 4 more but he drops it as he sees more than 7 in their vehicle. He jumps in the passenger side door and buckles up.
"So where we going anyway?"
"I don't know. I guess we will know when we get there huh."
Ste nods and leans over as much as he can but his seat belt locks on him. "Bren you're gonna have to lean over."
"Idiot." Brendan easily leans over and gives Ste a passionate kiss. They break apart when they realize they had been sitting outside the warehouse for at least 15 minutes. "Ready?"
"Always."
Brendan starts the engine and starts to drive away. They both look out their windows and say goodbye to the village that brought them together.
A day later Warren is sitting outside Chez Chez not doing anything in particular. Within a second a squad of police force come running from behind different building.
"Don't move! You're under arrest for the Securitas Depot robbery."
Warren freezes on the spot. He doesn't know whether he should run or give up. Before he has a chance to do anything the cops are charging forward. He decides to give up without resistance. He's about to put his hands up when he notices the cops past right by him. He's surprised at first until he hears a familiar voice behind him.
"Get off me!"
Warren turns around to see the cops grabbing Walker and pushing him onto the floor.
"Stop resisting sir."
"I didn't do it."
"Really? Cause apparently you used one of the stolen bills from the Depot a day after the robbery."
"That's...that's not possible."
"Not so smart are you. Maybe you can take some classes in prison considering you're gonna be there for the rest of your life."
"No no! I was set up!"
Warren quietly lifts himself off the ground and sneakily gets out of there. He knows what just happened. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that there was no way Walker could have used one of the stole bills. They all placed the cash in the warehouse and the only people with access to that said cash where Brendan and Ste. Put two and two together and Warren figured it out. He rushes over to the warehouse and opens it to discover he was right. It's completely empty. Everything is gone. He goes to all the hiding places and the cash is gone. All of it. He looks around and knows that Ste and Brendan already left...early of course.
"Brendan you bastard."
Warren thinks about tracking them both down and killing them himself but it would be near impossible to find them both. He gives up and heads back to his flat. He opens the door and lies down on the sofa. He opens his eyes for a second and looks over at the tv.
"What the hell is that?" Next to the tv are 4 suitcases all lined up against the wall. He gets up and grabs one of them. When he opens it he gets the shock of his life. It's filled to the top with cash. He can't believe it. He opens the other 3 and they are all stuffed with money. He's so lost in his own world he almost misses a piece of paper inside one of the suitcases. Warren unfolds it and recognizes the handwriting as Brendan's. Warren releases a small chuckle as he reads it.
"Your share of the money. Let's set up Heist #2. BB."