Yay, chapter 7! Although this is close to the end of the movie, only one scene left, I'm going to write some chapters about their life afterwards, as famous treasure hunters! Thanks to all of my readers and my reviewers: xxroxy-dogxx and rgauthier. Special thanks to xxroxy-dogxx because when I read your review I realized how much I wanted to see Jennifer punch Ian too. On that note, I hope everyone enjoys this chapter! =)

Chapter 7: Calculus in a Nutshell

Ian forces Patrick to walk out onto the wooden staircase first. The antique bridge squeaked and groaned after each step. The group followed quickly, and they made their way slowly down the tunnel.

All of a sudden the wood collapses under Shaw's feet. He tries to grasp at the end of the splintered step but misses, and his screams echo through the room as he tumbles into darkness.

The whole section of the staircase started crumbling under the pressure. The bit of wood Riley stood on starts swaying, and he ends up jumping over to a safer landing. Jennifer rushes forward, trying to reach a safer stair, but the wood collapses beneath her.

She quickly jumps, trying to reach the nearest landing. It was too far.

She lands roughly on her stomach, her legs hanging over the edge.

Her fingers grasp desperately at the wooden landing, trying to find something stable in order to pull herself up. She can't find anything. The smooth wooden step is impossible to grip and she can feel herself sliding downward. She hears someone calling her name and almost cries in relief as Riley grips her arms and pulls her up.

"Are you all right?" Jennifer hears Riley ask. She clutches her arms around his waist tightly. Her whole body shakes, an after effect of the adrenaline rush from the near death experience. She barely hears his repeated questions, his hands rubbing her back softly trying to get her calm.

"You're all right Jennifer." He whispers and Jennifer takes a final deep breath.

"Sorry." She says quietly, removing her arms from their death grip on him. "Not a fan of heights… or death." She tries to joke. Riley pulls her forward as Ian starts yelling and telling them to get a move on. Riley grips her hand tightly in his and she feels safer.

Luckily, the elevator doesn't seem damaged. Ian reaches forward and pulls Jennifer by the wrist onto the lift.

Sick of being manhandled by Ian, Jennifer pulls her free arm back and crashes it into the side of his face.

"Holy…" Riley gasps, seeing the red-faced Ian clutching his cheek.

"How dare you touch me." Ian growls, back-handing Jennifer across the face. She stumbles backwards from the force, her hand clasped to her stinging cheek. Tears fill her eyes.

Riley races forward and punches Ian with such ferocity, Jennifer almost feels bad for Ian. Almost. "Never touch her again, you asshole!" He throws another punch, but Ben pulls him back.

"Who do you think you're dealing with here?" Ian asks, pulling a gun and pointing it at Riley.

"Don't do this Ian, is it really worth another life?" Ben asks.

"Do you think any of you matter more to me than Shaw did?" Ian asks angrily. He takes a deep breath and motions to lower the elevator. "We are going to find the treasure." When they get to the bottom they reach an empty room. Needless to say, Ian is not too happy.

"Someone beat us here!" Ben exclaims angrily, making the group flinch. "We're too late."

Ian starts yelling at Ben about something, but Jennifer is too preoccupied to listen. We can't be too late. This can't be it. Poor Ben.

Ian and his crew run over to the elevator and are about to leave the rest there. Jennifer suddenly thinks of something. When these guys were building this hiding place, wouldn't they have made another exit? They've been smart about this whole thing so far, it would be pretty bad architecturally if it only had one exit.

She hears Ben telling Ian about the next clue and she suddenly figures out what's going on.

"One if by Land, two if by sea. Thomas Newton hung one lantern in the steeple at the Old North Church to signify the coming of the British. The next clue is in Boston at the Old North Church." Patrick Gates explains after his son.

"Thank you." Ian says cordially, before starting to lift the elevator.

"Hey, you can't leave us here!" Jennifer shouts, deciding to throw that in there for a little believability.

"If we need help, we'll know where to find you." He says smugly, before they leave.

"What's going on?" Riley asks, noticing the smile on Jennifer's face and Ben, who is searching for something.

"The British came by sea, so it would have been two lanterns." Abigail points out.

Jennifer feels the need to add "Besides that, it was Robert Newman who lit them." Ben sent a smile over her way.

"So you did learn something in college." Ben says smugly before returning to his search.

He finds some type of indent in the wall and he pulls out the pipe.

"The secret lies with Charlotte." He mutters, before pushing the stem and the pipe in as make-shift keys.

The wall opens up and Ben pushes his way inside. He uses his torch to light a string of fire that encompasses the entire room, and Jennifer gasps. There are rows upon rows of beautiful statues and sculptures that fill the room. She sees Abigail standing near a shelf full of scrolls, and Riley walks over to a statue.

"It's a big blueish-green man with a strange-looking goatee. I'm guessing that's significant." He leans into the statue for a hug and Jennifer laughs. She looks at all of the art, and missing history, with a wide-eyed fascination.

"It's all so beautiful." Jennifer gasps, reaching her hand out to lightly trace a vase standing near Riley's favorite statue. She doesn't notice Riley looking at her as he agrees.

They join Abigail, Ben, and Patrick.

"Are you crying, Riley?" Jennifer hears Abigail ask. She looks up and notices that he is teary-eyed.

"Look, stairs." He says and Jennifer laughs, grabbing his hand in hers.

"We're saved." She says cheerfully. Luckily these stairs are sturdier than the last, although they still creak under their feet.

Ben breaks through first and ends up calling for Agent Sadusky, someone he must've met when he was caught by the police. When asked about bargaining, Ben says to him "How about a bribe? Say, 10 billion dollars?" He's obviously joking, as Ben quickly hands him the Declaration, and explains to him where the treasure is.

"You're not very good at bargaining are you?" He asks Ben, who chuckles and shakes his head.

"Here's what I want. Abigail has to get off scot-free, not even a post-it note on her record. And the credit for the find should go to the entire Gates family, along with the assistance of Ms. Jennifer Cassidy and Mr. Riley Poole."

"Okay." Sadusky nods. "What about you?" Ben sighs.

"I would love not to go to prison. I can't even begin to describe how much I would love not to got to prison."

"Someone has to go to prison, Ben."

"If you have a helicopter, I think I could help with that." Ben smiles.

"Are you talking about Ian?" Jennifer asks, a smile growing on her face at the prospect of Ian being sent to prison. Ben just smiles.

They fly to Boston, and watch as the police arrest Ian and his crew. They wave him farewell.

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"This has been crazy." Jennifer sighs, sitting beside Riley in the helicopter as they wait to head back home.

"We're so rich right now. Millionaires. I'm a millionaire… I'm a millionaire!" Riley says excitedly, in such an adorable fashion that Jennifer can't help but smile.

"Congratulations, Mr. Treasure-Hunter. What are you going to spend it on?" Jennifer asks, trying not to laugh.

"A sports car. I mean, come on. If I get a sports car it has to help with the ladies." He says, smiling and looking all dazed.

I didn't even think of that. Shoot. I have no chance now. I mean, look at him. He's really good-looking, and, like he says, he's rich now. And famous. He could get any girl he wanted, why would he choose me?

"Jennifer?" Riley asks for the third time, waving his hand in front of the girl's face.

"Yeah?" She asks.

"You left me there for a minute." He chuckles and she blushes.

"Just thinking. So, what did you want to ask?"

"Just wondering, if you were any good at math." He asks. Jennifer nods. "Okay, so if the treasure is worth 10 billion, and we spilt the one percent four ways, then how much would we each get?"

"Well, 1 percent of 10 billion is 100 million. Dividing that by four, you get 25 million. So we would each get about 25 million… wait a second, we each get 25 million dollars?" The sheer gravity of that fact hits Jennifer all at once. "25 million dollars?"

"25 million dollars." Riley nods, smiling.

"That 10 billion dollar amount was a rough estimate, it could only be 1 billion for all I know." Ben admits, his head popping up between Jennifer and Riley's seats.

"Only 1 billion? Ben, we would still end up with 2.5 million dollars each… 2.5 million dollars!" Jennifer says, in awe of such a large amount of money.

"Your such a math nerd Jennifer." Abigail says, smiling at her friend from the seat beside her.

"It's only zeroes, Abby dearest. Zeroes and basic division. Not my fault you couldn't even handle second semester calculus."

"Hey! I took more math than my major required. I'm proficient in the subject." She says, using her, I'm-so-better-than-you tone.

"Everyone can be proficient, but you have to have guts to be great." Jennifer says before laughing. Abigail starts laughing too.

"I think it's nap time." Jennifer yawns, resting her head on Abigail's shoulder.

"You get kid-napped by the bad guys, almost fall to your death in the tunnel, punch Ian, find a 10 billion dollar treasure, become a millionaire, send the bad guys to prison, and end the night by taking a nap?" He asks, raising an eyebrow at her.

"Even amazing treasure hunters like myself need rest, Riley." Jennifer says with a smile. "Nice nut-shelling though."