MERCEDES, jj maybank

38.

THE SECOND CHANCE

"You sure he got everything?" Kiara asks John B.

JJ, John B, Trinity and Kiara were all sitting on John B's dock and Pope was at his interview. Kiara hadn't spoken to Trinity or even looked in her general direction since the incident of last night.

But Trinity was surprised and didn't even care.

"Every bar," John B sighs. "The whole enchilada." He grunt trying to slip his hand from out of the cast. "It's not like I expected a happy ending or some shit." He says lazily as he tosses his cast to the other side of the dock.

"John B!"

"What, Kie? It's a hairline fracture, who cares?"

Trinity ignored the two and watches JJ toke his joint. He takes one last drag and turns it around in his fingertips, holding it against Trinity's lips so she could have some. JJ giggles quietly and lets her have the rest.

"Guys! Guys!" Pope shouts as he sprints down the dock, "Guys - oh God I ran all the way here!" He hunches over and points.

Trinity spins around and hugs him, ignoring how sweaty he was from running in the suit, "How was it, Pope?!"

"You alright?" John B looks at him.

"Don't ask," He stands up straight, "JB. Look, I'm sorry, dude, about everything."

"It's fine."

"But - but I don't have a lot of time, and - and I have information that is tactically relevant! So, before I had my interview, my Dad said he was going down to the pirate airstrip to cut palms for Cameron's big plane! Because it was too heavy, it needed a longer landing strip to take off. So, I'm there sitting in my interview, thinking to myself, 'hm. Why would Cameron need a longer airstrip to take off?' What could be so heavy to height it down?"

The group all had the same realization at the same moment. They all sat up and realized that maybe it wasn't over and they had one last chance.

"Gold," JJ answers Pope.

"Exactly! Guys, this is our chance, but it leaves tonight, and we have to go!"

Kiara gets up with a grin, "We can't give up now,"

"What's the plan JB," Trinity jumps down off the fence and holds her hand out to John B.

He takes it and stands next to her tall, "We're gonna steal that shit back, Trin." He puts his arm around her and leads the way back inside to figure out what they were going to do.

"Let's do this!"

"Come on boys!"

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In the Twinkie, John B had one destination. The private airstrip.

"We go in there, guns a-blazin', make Ward Cameron beg for mercy, abscond with as much gold as possible and vámonos, get the hell out of there," JJ tells everyone, filling his gun with bullets in the centre of the floor.

Trinity moved from the seats next to JJ on the floor, "Hey, where did you get the bullets?" She asks him.

JJ shrugs with a smirk. "One last kiss before we all die?" He asks her.

Trinity laughs and moves away from him and sits next to Pope.

"Send that shit down the Intracoastal," John B continues JJ's story.

"Wait for the weather,"

"And exit to Cuba,"

"Cuba?" Trinity asks Pope, who finished the story.

"What you don't like Cuba?" His head turns to look at her.

"No, I think Cuba's great," She smiles at him.

JJ watches as the two talk closely together and finally shouts something so all the attention is back on him, "No man, Xcalak, Jewel of the Yucatan! Lobsters so thick, mangoes and no word for money."

And that's when Trinity remembers the conversation between her and John B in her car, and how she should end up with someone who would love to go to Yucatan.

"Let's do this shit." John B says.

For the rest of the ride Trinity debates if John B was specifically talking about JJ or not and if he was, would Trinity try it with him.

John B had finally pulled up at the side of the airstrip fence. It was around ten feet tall and had no trespassing signs all over it. JJ looked at the barbed wire at the top as they all got closer and watched Ward's big blue plane get loaded.

"What's the plan? Broad strokes?" Kie asks.

"I don't think we got that far," John B whispers.

Beside him, Trinity looks up at John B, "We could always take the Twinkie and drive over there with JJ's gun,"

John B knew she was joking but didn't completely forget about it. "They're loading up the gold," Pope tells them as he stares through the binoculars.

Trinity takes them and looks for herself. She sees a car pull up and notices who's it is, having been in the car herself several times. "Ward's pulling up." She keeps them updated.

The group continues to talk and discuss how to get over there and that's when she notices the passenger door open. "Sarah," She whispers to herself. She watches her best friends actions and doesn't seem to be there by her own choice. "Ward's forcing Sarah to get on the plane," She gives John B the binoculars and squints her eyes looking over at the landing strip.

"He's hurting her!"

"What?"

"They're fighting."

When they had turned to look at John B he was no longer stood next to them but was in the van and was driving straight towards the fence.

"Yo! John B!"

"Man!"

"What are you doing!"

"Hey, don't be a hero dude!"

"John B!" Trinity yells as he flies through the fence, she starts running after him but is held back by JJ.

The four of them watch as the Twinkie gains speed and races next to the plane. John B overtakes over and pulls it to a stop hoping that Ward would then stop the plane

"Oh no!"

"John B! What an idiot!"

Trinity shakes her head and hides her face in JJ's chest. A moment passed, "He's fine." JJ says to the girl.

She lets out a big sigh of relief.

"Guys I can't get arrested," Pope says after hearing the sirens.

"I'm on probation," JJ said ruffling his hair.

"It's no good if we're all in jail," Kie says, suggesting that everyone heads back.

Trinity trails behind them. There's some space between her and the three since she wasn't in a hurry. She felt out of her body and surreal. In all honesty, she didn't know this was real.

BANG!

Trinity snaps back into reality and seems to be the only one that heard it. It was a gunshot.

Without saying anything she turned around and was headed back to the runway.

She kept repeating to herself the phrase 'please don't be John B' and she was right.

It wasn't him.

It was Peterkin and Rafe was standing behind her with a gun.

"I saved you Dad." He mumbled, his eyes brimming with tears. "I saved you."

Sarah, Ward, John and Trinity all stood staring at Rafe, not being able to process what he had just done.

"Rafe, what did you do..." Trinity trembles.