Hey guys and girls how are you all? I hope everyone loves this chapter; it's the train scene from GG3 but with a twist.
Guess what? I got an Iphone on Saturday, I know that heaps of people have one these days but I have been stuck with a dodgy phone for the last year or so, so to me getting an Iphone is exciting! Well that's my life story for this chapter xoxo
Disclaimer: Unfortunately I don't own Gallagher Girls or any of the characters.
"You're absolutely crazy you know that right?" I told Bex from our position on the train platform, "There is no way they will let us on, no passengers allowed remember? We should just try and get on it at…"
But Bex wasn't listening; she had already started weaving her way through the crowds to the train that had just pulled up at the station. It was a cargo train which meant we couldn't just walk on like Bex wanted to do.
Bex turned and pointed to something in the distance, before yelling in her best American accent. "Look, that man has a gun!"
In all the chaos created no one except me noticed Bex pull open one of the train's door and slip inside. Huffing I followed her inside.
Once inside Bex turned to me, "You go to the back of the train; I'll go to the front. As soon as you're out tell me over comms so I can blow this baby up."
I laughed and rolled my eyes, she acted as if I hadn't even read the briefing or been in the room while we planned this operation. "Remember," I warned her, "we jump once the train is in the stretch of forest."
She grinned dangerously at me, "Oh, I know, or have you forgotten that it's been my lifelong dream to jump off a moving train."
We both grinned at each other one last time before moving to opposite ends of the carriage and pulling open the doors. I opened the door and looked out; because it was a cargo train the carriages where connected by to clamps made of metal that grabbed onto one another. This meant I would have to jump across the gap. Easy enough, it just meant I would be in the open for 2.5 seconds, just enough time to be taken down by a sniper.
Trying not to think about that, I looked at the door to the next carriage and realised that if I jumped I would only end up hitting the closed door. This meant I would have to do something worse than jumping; I would have to balance on the metal connector while trying to open the next door. Great, just great.
I walked onto the metal connector and pulled out my lock pick, deciding not to notice how fast the ground underneath me was moving. The door didn't take long to open and I quickly hopped inside. Only to find myself face to face with a large, buff man.
The briefing hadn't said anything about there being henchmen. Yes I used the word henchmen, because it kinda suited the guy in front of me.
"You wouldn't happen to know where the bathroom is?" I tried.
The man's answer was to swing his fist at me. I ducked and pulled a Band-Aid-style Napotine patch from my pocket and stuck it on the man's arm, a few seconds later he was out cold.
"Duchess," I said over comms, "there are guards on board, big ones."
Two seconds later Bex replied, "Oh I know, they just add to the fun."
If anyone else had said that, I would have thought they were being sarcastic, but not Bex; she was having the time of her life.
I looked around for more goons before moving on to the next carriage. Finally I got to the end carriage. I opened the door and jumped in to complete darkness.
I felt someone grab for me but I dodged it. A hand grabbed my hair – or what it thought was my hair- and pulled my wig free.
In the faint light coming from the open roof hatch I saw Zach look from the wig in his hand to me and back again. "You know, I don't think black hair suits you Gallagher Girl, and neither does the fake nose."
I frown at him. "What are you doing here Zach?"
"I could ask you the same thing."
"Can't a girl enjoy a train ride in peace?" I asked innocently.
"This is a cargo train." Zach points out.
"The driver is my boyfriend."
Zach raised an eyebrow at me but before he could reply the door to the carriage in front of us opens, meaning one thing; someone was going to come into our carriage.
"Up here." Zach said; gesturing to an overhead luggage compartment that I'm sure shouldn't be on a cargo train.
By the time the carriage door burst open, Zach and I were nowhere to be seen.
(Note to self: Don't become a terrorist if you're even a little bit claustrophobic.)
"Why are you here Zach?" I whisper through the pitch blackness of the luggage compartment we had locked ourselves in.
His arm was around my waist. His breath was warm on the back of my neck. Sure, I could hear the guard checking one of the boxes but I didn't really care. "Why do you keep following me Zach?"
"Shhh," he whispered, pulling me closer with a jerk around my middle. The guard shuffled around some more and my heart beat so fast that I was sure Zach could hear it. But my increased heart rate had nothing to do with the guard. I hadn't been this physically close to a boy since Josh.
To keep my mind off that thought I whispered furiously to Zach, "Why do you keep turning up everywhere I have a mission?"
Zach twisted me somehow so that our faces were inches away from each other in the black. "It's my job Gallagher Girl." He smirked, obviously aware of how close we were.
He leaned in a few more inches just as I heard the guard leave. Quickly I used my back to open the compartment and I rolled out. I had just escaped kissing Zach but I had also fallen out of the compartment and landed –hard- on my back.
I stood up just as Zach slipped out of the compartment and raised both of his eyebrows at me.
"Sorry, I'd really like to hang around but this is my stop." I told him.
I had planted the bomb when Zach was getting into the compartment which meant I was free to leave. Pulling open the back door I glanced out into the night. We were passing through the forests.
I looked back at Zach and smirked, before leaping out of the train and into the trees. I rolled to a stop and stood up only to find Zach getting to his feet beside me.
"Couldn't let you have all the fun." He grinned.
Oh well, it's better this way. I didn't want him in the train when it blew up.
"Bex I'm out." I said into the comms. Now that she knew I was off train she could detonate the bombs.
I turned to find Zach smirking at me and holding out his left hand. There in the centre of his palm was the bomb I had planted at the end of the train. My eyes went wide.
"Sorry Gallagher Girl, but it looks like you won't be exploding this train after all. I'm too good, I got your little bomb out without you realising."
"YOU IDIOT!" I screamed at him, "YOU COMPLETE AND UTTER IDIOT! YOU'RE GOING TO GET US KILLED."
I grabbed the explosives out of his outstretched hand and threw them as hard as I could towards the train tracks. I then started running in the opposite direction, pulling the surprised Zach along with me. We hadn't gotten more than ten metres when the explosion came.
We both fell backwards but were unharmed thank God.
The front and middle of the train exploded but the end –not having a bomb inside- just crashed into the rubble and rolled on its side. It looked like one of those big dramatic train accident scenes you see in movies.
I turned to glare at Zach. "Now look what you've done," I shouted at him, "the plan was to destroy the whole train so that there was no evidence! And now the police have the last carriage to inspect, I might also remind you that your finger prints are going to be all over that carriage."
"So will yours." Zach told me.
I pulled off my fake finger print pads one by one. "Did you really think I would be that sloppy?" I laughed without humour.
The smirk slid off Zach's face as he realised only his finger prints would turn up on the train.
A moment later Bex appeared at my side. "Why didn't the last carriage explode?" She asked.
I pointed at Zach. "Because he decided it would be a good idea to steal the bomb I planted."
Bex stepped towards Zach, and he was smart enough to look a tiny bit terrified. Before Bex could do anything though a guy ran towards us through the trees. "Zach?" the guy called.
Bex looked him up and down, I didn't blame her, this guy looked like a Greek God reincarnated.
"Dude someone just blew up the train." The Greek God said, as if we couldn't see the smoking remains.
"Yeah Grant, it was these two." Zach answered.
Grant looked us up and down, his eyes lingering on Bex. "Do we take them to the CIA?"
Bex and I looked at each other; no way were we going to the CIA.
"Sorry boys," Bex told them, "But we have places to be."
Just as we were about to leave Bex pulled Grant towards her by the front of his t-shirt and started to kiss him. Grant, though shocked for a moment, started to kiss her back.
I rolled my eyes at the two of them.
Just as Grant was really getting into the kiss though, Bex pulled away and winked at him, before the two of us bolted into the trees.
I read all of your RSVPs and have written them all down! All the characters sound amazing and I can't wait to write about them. A couple of you might be operatives others might be criminals, one or two will be the daughter/s of the mob boss. Ohh does anyone want to be the mobster?! And someone will be the new employee who this whole party is for. One lucky girl will arrive on the arm of Mr Goode, wonder who that will be?
Also there seems to be a lot of red heads, like a lot a lot, I love auburn hair but this is a bit crazy as everyone besides like five people have red. Oh and um it's a gala which is like a modern day ball so those of you who had knee length dresses please give me a full length dress idea or I'll come up with one. Love you all xx
