MERCEDES, jj maybank

77.

HIJACK

Stuck in the boiling hot shipping container, the seven of them were waiting for a plan to be announced. They couldn't wait until they got to port but they also couldn't just sit around in this container.

"I've run the scenario over a thousand times in my head," Pope tells Kiara, "And our best chances are on this ship. There are fifteen crew members and six of us, which is like, three-to-one odds. The best it'll get. If we wait till we get there then they'll trap us,"

Trinity agreed with Pope. But Kiara still didn't.

"We have no chance," Kiara says.

And then John B spoke up, "No, Kie, there's something else. Ward's alive."

Trinity's mouth fell open, so did all the others. "What?!"

"You weren't with him and the Cameron's?" John B asks her.

Trinity shakes her head, "I told you I haven't even seen Sarah. The only person I've seen since, like, since yesterday is Rafe and he didn't tell me - son of a bitch he said he'd tell me everything," She grit her teeth and sighed.

"Well, he's alive and he's in this boat."

"You've gotta be kidding me,"

"Are you serious?"

"It was all a setup...blowing up the boat, the confession to Shoupe. Think about it, it was to clear Rafe's name. And he does what? Goes to the Druthers, and what's on the Druthers?"

"Scuba," Trinity says. She was shocked but Ward was very smart.

"Bingo."

JJ was getting angry, "So Ward's alive and he has the gold, and the cross and Sarah. You think he's just gonna get away with everything again, huh? Not happening. We're not watching this movie again, right, Pope? You said we need the win. And with her, we're going to the bridge and we're gonna take it right now," JJ points to Cleo.

"Let's do it."

Pope also was in on the plan, "I'm with you, and I wanna be the one to take that bridge."

"That's what I'm talking about!" JJ pats him, proud but Cleo just laughed.

"He's gonna take the bridge? He couldn't even take me."

"Okay, first of all, I was going easy on you," Pope stands up for himself.

"Seriously?" Trinity asks looking at Pope disappointed in her friend.

"I went easy on you!" Cleo retorts.

Before there was an uproar Trinity shushed everyone, "Guys shut up. Look, Cleo is the only one with a weapon so we use the knife and go to the bridge—"

JJ takes her idea and twists it, "Hold it up against the captain's neck and then we use the intercom and make him tell the rest of the crew to meet up in the forward hull. Once they're in the same place, bam, we lock them in there and we take back what's ours. Good idea babe,"

"Not what I was going with but, it could work," Trinity shrugs.

"Are you with us then?" JJ asks Cleo.

"No. This is stupid."

"Alright, let's open these things up!"

Trinity's heart dropped to her stomach, "What did I tell you?"

"They're checking the containers." Kiara mumbles.