Nine Billion Dollar Heist

*Co-Authored with the never-sleeping Lives in Dreams and TRDancer*

Chapter 11: Keeping Secrets

"C'mon Rose, babe. I didn't mean it. I didn't know it was already broken. It held my weight last time I did it and I'm positive that it didn't break. I checked."—Emmett

JPOV

Once we were kicked out of Edward's room Rosalie whispered something into Alice's ear. Emmett and Rosalie started to walk back to their own room with Alice behind them. At first I was confused and raised an eyebrow at her as if she was crazy. But once she noticed that I wasn't following she came back and started to drag me by the wrist, not really giving me a choice in the matter – I had to come whether I liked it or not. I stumbled after her, not being able to keep my balance after the slight tug she gave me. Right now my legs were asleep.

I didn't want to go. I was tired and I missed my nice comfy bed sleeping next to my Alice.

Once we got to the room Emmett was still on the ground looking for their spare room key, which was as always hidden under the door, just in case they were to lose or forget the key they carry with them.

Inside their room was a mess; there was clothes and empty bottles everywhere. I have no idea how Rose can stand it. Though maybe she couldn't, judging by the look she was giving Emmett. I bet she couldn't wait till the maid came to clean up the room. But I had a feeling we wouldn't be here long enough to know if the maid would clean it. If my instincts were right, we were about to discuss the security guard problem--even though I didn't think there was one. I'm sure it was nothing; well, I hope they were exaggerating because it would make all our lives so much easier if they were.

From the doorway Emmett started to run, and his loud footsteps were giving me a massive headache - he was making way too much noise and it was still too early. Well, too early for us. I mean, we just sort of got up, I really have no fucking idea what time it is.

He started to jump and it looked like he was about to jump onto the bed but the way he was going at it, it looked like he was jumping into a swimming pool and not into bed. He was going to annihilate that poor bed. I mean it was already broken after Alice and I decided to, uh, 'borrow' it.

We all stood there in shock, unable to find our voices. There was no way any of us could stop him, so we just stood and stared. It really was all we could do.

When he made contact with the bed there was a loud and high pitched annoying sound like someone scraping nails down a chalkboard when you already have a massive fucking sore head. Seriously, I would have rather let Alice dress me up than hear that noise. The sheets that were on the bed flew up, covering Emmett, and some landed a foot away from the bed. The entire mattress had collapsed in on itself and had dipped into the middle where Emmett had landed. The sides were up making a 'U-shape,' hiding Emmett if you were to look from the sides.

"EMMETT MCCARTY!" Now I really would trade an Alice make over for this. Why was it so hard for them to realise that this is still pretty early? I don't even remember the talk Edward had with us; I think I blanked out during that. Oh well, not like what he said was important. "LOOK WHAT YOU HAVE DONE TO OUR BED! YOU'VE DESTROYED IT!"

Whilst Emmett was trying to untangle himself from the sheets that covered him -which really was a funny sight- Alice stepped in, trying to get Rose to quiet down a bit.

"Rosalie. Just quiet down. It's still really early, you can shout at him later. Let's just talk about what we need to talk about and then we can go and sort everything out."

You could see that she was struggling to calm down and now that Emmett was out of the sheets he just looked at us all as if he was as innocent as a five year old being caught with his hand in the cookie jar.

"C'mon Rose, babe. I didn't mean it. I didn't know it was already broken. It held my weight last time I did it and I'm positive that it didn't break. I checked." Funny thing was, Emmett was telling the truth. Alice and I may have forgotten to mention that the bed was broken. Well, pay back for all the times Emmett's done crap like this and blamed me.

I caught a quick glance at Alice and could tell that she was trying not to laugh at Emmett getting the blame for our stunt. It was funny and Alice just looked so sweet. Which reminds me, I want to get back to my bed.

"Can we hurry this up please? Some of us do have a bed to get back to and are pretty tired," I asked, trying to get them to speed up the process.

Alice and I walked over and pulled a chair up to where Rosalie was; straight in front of Emmett, who by the looks of things was getting the silent treatment and was being made to stay sitting on that mattress. I sat down and lifted Alice to sit on my knees and waited for them to get started.

"Okay, so we told you both about the security guard at the casino," Rosalie started.

"But we think it he did hear what we said and to be sure we want to go back to the casino to check," Alice added.

"Without Edward and Bella. Which means when we're supposed to be sleeping we can go to the casino and leave those two behind so that they can sleep."

"But to do that we need cars, and it just so happens that the atomic bomb that you two made," Alice turned her head and looked at me as if she was going to give me a lecture about how wrong it was, "has given us an excuse to get new cars, and this time we can all get our own separate cars.

"So in about five minutes we're about to go and wake those two up so that we can go onto the car rental website and get us each some new cars.

"All clear?" Alice finished.

Emmett and I just nodded our heads, we knew better than to argue.

After everyone had their first coffee of the day - it was going to be a long day, so we would need our caffeine- we headed back over to their room. We wanted to order the cars early so that we could get there early and get back to the hotel early. We had to give ourselves enough time to get to the casino, make sure that no one was looking for Alice and Rosalie, get back to the hotel and get some sleep -we would be up all night at the casino again- and give us enough time to get ready for going to the casino again, but this time at night and with Edward and Bella.

About ten knocks later and a grumpy looking Bella answered the door.

"What?" She all but snapped. It was easy to see that we'd disturbed her and that we were going to pay if it wasn't important.

"We need new cars." Rosalie was up front and not wasting time. We could not afford to waste time today.

"What?" Now she was confused and Edward had joined her.

"Well, the Volvo blew up and we don't have a car to get us anywhere, so we need to get new cars."

"Do we have to do this right now?"

"Yes, we do, because we all want our own cars and if we let Emmett sleep I won't be able to get him up in time to go get them. So it's better to do it now."

"Fine, just come in and we'll get some cars for us all," she muttered, waving her hand in the air and leaving the door open for us.

Edward was already sitting on his bed with someone's laptop out ready to get us all new cars when we got into the room.

Damn that bed looked comfy.

We all crowded around the screen; looking at all the cars and trying to get us all to pick a car wasn't easy. We were all about to die when Edward clicked to look at the Volvos.

"Edward, do you want another atomic bomb?" Emmett laughed, trying to keep the subject light. But we could all see his knuckles turning white from gripping the side of the laptop. He only realised his grip when Bella put her hand on his shoulder.

After searching for at least an hour, everyone had found the vehicle that they wanted; Edward and Bella were to get an Audi R8, Emmett and Rosalie were getting a Cadillac Escalade and Alice and I were getting a Lotus Elise.

"So is everyone in agreement that these are definitely the vehicles you want?" This had to be the tenth time he'd asked this question. I wish he would just hurry up and rent the things. After a few clicks - which everyone could hear because the room was so quiet- Edward had finally rented them.

"Okay, if we get ready now and meet back in ten minutes, we'll be there when we've to collect them." There were a few moans from Rosalie and Alice - apparently ten minutes wasn't enough time- and Bella just rolled her eyes.

After the ten minutes everyone was down in the lobby, dressed in whatever they could find to wear in that space of time and still make themselves presentable. Funny thing was, it was Edward who gave us ten minutes to get ready and he wasn't even down here yet. The rest of us were, including Bella, but he wasn't.

After what seemed like an eternity Edward finally came running towards us waving paper at us as if he'd got something top secret. To be honest he looked like an absolute idiot. I expected to see someone tackle him, steal the papers and arrest him.

Sadly, this didn't happen.

When he did reach us we were finally able to leave. Now the games begin, attempting to get a taxi was something that we did rarely. Last time must have been in NYC, two years ago. That was a funny sight.

Managing to get one taxi was hard enough so when we did get one it really was a fight and was first come first serve. The girls won and all three of them were in the taxi and on their way to the rental place, leaving me to stand with Emmett and Edward to get a taxi. I'm positive that Edward still wasn't completely over the atomic bomb.

This was going to be fun. Note the sarcasm.

We weren't alone for even two minutes and they'd already started getting at each other. I blocked them out, taking the papers from Edward - I was sure they were to do with our 'new' cars- and tried to get a taxi.

Finally I gave up and just phoned a private company hoping they would be here soon, I didn't know how much more of this I could take. They would only be ten minutes, surely I could last that long.

The taxi came and the two were still fighting, so I left without them. Served them right, they were supposed to have gotten over it—and possibly be paying attention.

The girls were already there when I arrived, and they were all standing outside the building looking impatient. When I got out the taxi I was attacked by them.

"Where's Edward?" Bella started but Rosalie was next in and I didn't have time to answer.

"Who cares about Edward, where is Emmett?"

"They-" I started but the Alice came to my defence, like always and I loved her for it.

"Who cares where they are. Stop harassing Jasper, as long as he has the paper work we're fine." That caused them all to look at me, glaring as if to say if you don't have them your punishment will be death.

"I have them right here." I held them up and of course Bella snatched them from me and they ran in to get the cars.

Because car rentals -from my experience- are always slow, we had to wait a bit before our car were actually ready for us. When they were there were grins on everyone's faces. I guess we were all just happy that we didn't have to ride in the, and I quote, 'Vag-Wag'.

The ride home was quiet but I guess that's because Alice was concentrating more on driving than anything else. They were all having a race to see whose car was the fastest. So far I had no idea who was winning. I wasn't exactly going to keep track if silver Audi passed me or what not. It's fair to say Alice got really mad me because of that, so I just sat and stared out the window.

We were nearing the hotel parking entrance when a flash of silver when by, what was of course Bella and her Audi. Alice noticed this and increased her speed. On the left we could see Rosalie and we could tell this was gonna be a close one. Just as we were about to park Rose beat us to it and so she came second and, of course, we were last.

Not that it mattered to me - it would have if Emmett and Edward were involved- but Alice was now smacking her hands on the dash board, you couldn't help but feel sorry for her.

Inside the hotel lobby Edward and Emmett were sitting together muttering something. When we got close enough I'm sure I heard the words 'kill' and 'Jasper' put together.

Well at least they were finally over the whole atomic bomb thing. But now they had a common enemy.

Me.

When we got close enough that they noticed us they instantly stopped talking and looked at us but glaring at me.

"So Jasper, why'd you leave us?" Emmett asked who now had his arm around Rosalie.

"I didn't, I called your names but you obviously didn't hear it. So I had to go," I lied smoothly; well, I hope they believed it.

"Oh, okay." It looked like he believed it. I guess I'd find out later if that was true or not.

"Right okay, so I'm guessing you got the cars." We -minus Emmett- nodded in agreement. "Well then, I guess we go back to our rooms and get some sleep. We'll meet down here to arrange partners and such at the same time as last night. Agreed?" Again we all nodded. "Okay, night guys."

Edward and Bella walked hand in hand back to their hotel room whilst we pretended to stay down to get some food. We had to give them enough time to get to their room before we went up to get changed and headed off to the casino.

About fifteen minutes later we were heading up to get changed. We were all slightly nervous because if Alice and Rosalie got caught, what would they do to us when they saw us? What would Edward do to us? Hell, would he even acknowledge us as friends anymore? All reasonable questions and we had no idea about the answers until we got to the casino.

This time I dressed a little fancier; shirt with a suit jacket. Alice just stuck on the most stunning dress I'd even seen. We were just about to leave when someone knocked. We both froze, it could be either Bella or Edward, and they would definitely ask questions which we didn't want to answer. But we got lucky because Rosalie's voice followed the knock.

"Are you guys ready?"

"Yeah, just give us a minute and we'll be out."

"Right okay meet us downstairs. We're just going to take Emmett's Escalade with us instead."

I dropped our keys and followed Alice out. I was nervously glancing over my shoulder what felt like every second. The realisation of just how dangerous it could be for them to be recognised was just starting to sink in. The ride in the elevator was just as nerve racking this time. Alice kept fidgeting, earning us stares from the other passengers.

Finally we were down and in the Escalade, heading towards the Casino de la Volterra. No one attempted to talk because either what they were saying would come out awkward or there would be an awkward silence afterwards, something that wasn't very pleasant and added to the discomfort we already felt.

It was the same as last night, there was someone waiting to take the cars, but it just wasn't as busy. We'd guess the casino was only open 24 hours because of some addicts that would spend all day at a casino. So of course it would be 24 hours so that they didn't lose any customers, which benefited us a lot right now. Unless, of course, the security guard had heard something, didn't tell anyone, and wasn't working right now. Then we wouldn't know if they knew about our plan. Which wouldn't help anyone because then we would have to find out tonight—and that was to be avoided at all costs.

Once inside the casino it started to get nerve racking, people's eyes followed us around. Security guards and workers. It was beginning to become slightly obvious that they were going to keep an eye on us.

Though that could be cause we were the youngest inside right now.

Whatever the reason was, I could feel someone behind me. It sent shivers up my back, and when I turned around to see who it was I always saw a security guard. This isn't good, I thought. I went to tell someone but was shot a look from Alice that clearly said that they knew and we weren't going to make that fact completely obvious.

It looked like we wanted to see how far we could get into the casino before someone took any type of action. We were about to sit down when some came over to us. It was a less intimidating security guard. I think they were trying to make it look like nothing was going on, and it was working; no one seemed to notice that anything was going on.

"Would you follow me, please? The owners would like to have a talk with you." The voice didn't hint that something bad was about to happen. For a moment I even had the messed up thought that they were going to invite us into that room that wasn't on the blue prints.

How fucking wrong I was.

He led us through the door and we got a glimpse of what was in there. It was a smaller version of the casino outside these doors but everyone was betting high and it was full of rich people. To get in we'd need to show that we are willing to bet high--at least we found out one good thing.

They led us straight past the tables and through another down into a back alley. This didn't look good. If the movies were right, then we were about to get a warning about trying to 'rob' this casino of its money. I just hoped it didn't come to that.

Again, how fucking naive I was.

Three tough looking guys came out of the door, and the one that had escorted us out of here walked away, leaving us alone with them.

They walked up to us and instantly two of the three pairs of eyes locked on to Emmett and I. They were fierce and looked like they were ready to attack at any moment.

Just the stare was scaring the shit out of me, and I felt Emmett tense beside me. When that happened, you knew it was bad.

They grabbed us by the shirts and had us up against the wall, feet slightly above the ground. It wasn't sore but it was fucking scary business. The other guy had Alice and Rosalie so that they couldn't stop what was about to happen. Also being the amazing people they were they were showing him the extent of their colourful vocabulary.

They pushed us a little harder against the wall and began to speak. "If you ever try to steal money from this casino when the Las Vegas police find you they'll never be able to recognise you. There are some things you can't buy your way out of with money, this being one of them. There are some things that the police can't do to you that we can and will, because our boss doesn't appreciate people taking his money." The voice was low and menacing; they weren't going to hurt us, yet. But they were going to mess us up pretty bad if they found us taking large sums of Aro's money.

We were going to get ourselves into a shit load of trouble.

With one final push against the concrete wall, we were let go. Rose and Alice were pushed forward and we were pushed toward them.

"Now get out! And watch your backs when you're here. You never know who might be lurking around ready to catch you at a moment of weakness." There was a tint of humour to his voice, almost as if he enjoyed the idea of us being caught. It was sickening.

On the other side of the door the original security guard that took us here was waiting to escort us out. Everyone was silent; I know I was trying to shake off the thought that there was something different about their reaction. Surely if you knew someone was planning to rob you of an extremely large amount of money you would stop them before they even had a chance to put their plan into action. But they didn't, and I couldn't shake the idea that they were looking forward to our attempt. We'd need to research this guy, especially how he dealt with card counters.

The security guard left us at the door of the casino, and whilst we were waiting for our ride home to be brought to us Emmett started to reassure everyone that nothing was going to happen.

"It's just talk; I mean they won't actually do anything to us. See I noticed that they seemed to want us to try our plan as if they were ready to play a game with us. It's just a matter of out smarting him. Everyone has a weakness, we just need to find that weakness and use it to our advantage," he stated. At times Emmett could have leadership skills - we all could, when the time called for it.

"I'm guessing by the fact that he doesn't like to lose money and that he has a V.I.P area for people that bet high that he likes his money. If we could just use this to our advantage, we'll be able to win this," I added.

"That is, if he plays by the rules." Alice chipped in.

It was true that if they rules were changed as we went along we were screwed.

The ride back was filled with chatter about how we were going to win this. If Edward and Bella asked why we were so tired we also had an excuse for that. The explosion woke us up and we couldn't get back to sleep, so we went back to the casino and found out some more helpful information.

Back at the hotel we had enough time to give ourselves an hour's rest, which we all used to get some more sleep.

Tonight was going to be the night that decided whether we were going to fail at the first hurdle or show exactly how smart we are. Tonight, Rosalie would attempt to try and break into the security via her laptop and stay there, undetected.

I just hoped tonight shows how smart we really are.

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