Rendezvous: A Lost Chapter of Sam Drake

Chapter 15: Trouble in Paradise

Sam and I were knocked unconscious for a moment after the wreck. I slowly regained consciousness from gun shots. Mercenaries were shooting at Sam as he crawled out from the wreck. I hopped on a motorcycle nearby just as the armored truck pulled up behind us. I sped over to Sam "Hop On!" I gave him my hand as he leaped to the back of my bike. I handed Sam the gun I had. He began to shoot the truck as I drove as fast as I could. Sam was doing his best to shoot the engine out of the truck to blow it up. The truck's engine finally gave out. We stopped to look at the wreckage and catch our breath. "Holy shit..." I said feeling the heat from the fire coming off of the truck. "yeah..." Sam said leaning his head on my back. "Are you ok? You hurt?" He said sitting up to look at me. "Yeah, I'm ok. Shoulder hurts like a bitch, but I'm fine... You?" Sam smiled "I'm good.. Much better now that you're back." I smiled at Sam "Let's get out of here.." He nodded and I sped off towards town hoping to get back to where we left Nate and Sully. I'm sure they're worried. 

The sun had set, and we decided to find another hotel to say at for the night. We got a room and we set up. Nate had his notebook open with the pages from before. Sully was smoking a cigar at the table as he knocked the ashes into a small black tray, which he had in front of him. I sat next to Sam and Sully as Nate laid out the pages that had the map on it. It also had the Latin words "For God and Liberty" written across a spot on the map. "I'm glad you two made it out ok." Sully said puffing his cigar. "Better than ok" I said smiling at Sam. He reached his hand across the table and grabbed mine. Sam said he wanted to have a talk with me soon, but everything was so fast paced here, that it was hard to catch a break. But I knew that he was going to apologize for the fight. Sam felt bad, especially after everything that happened. I did my best to let it go until he could speak for himself. Nate smiled as he began to talk about Libertalia. Libertalia is an old pirate legend that involved Henry Avery. It was said that he was the founder of this marvelous pirate colony. It was a utopia that Avery had established as a safe haven for hundreds, maybe even thousands, of pirates. The story goes as such: Avery founded Libertalia and these pirates lived in harmony. They shared everything on the island. Food, property, resources, and even money. The legend says that all the money from each pirate was kept in a protected common treasury building in Libertalia. Sully was much more interested after hearing Sam tell the story. "So... where is this commie pirate treasury?" Nate scribbles on a map and hands it to Sully. "According to this, it's right here" Nate says pointing to an island he has circled on the map. Sully nods "The only problem is Rafe also has a copy of this" he says folding the paper and putting it in his pocket. "Yeah, but by the time Rafe figures it out, that tressure is as good as oursss shhiittt" Nate says as he opens the main bedroom. Elena is sitting on the bed. She looks pissed off. She was going through Nate's bag and notebooks as well as maps or lose pages. "How's the Malaysia job going, Nate?" She crosses her arms. "Seems you're a hair off course.." She says. Nat moves towards her as his shoulders rise and fall with a deep breath. "Elena... it's not what it looks like..." Nate says moving closer to her. She moves away from him and chuckles "really?? That's funny because what it looks like is you're searching for Henry Avery's buried treasure." She moves over to the bed and looks at the guns that Nate had on the bed. "And I'd bet from the Shoreline trucks all over town that you're not the only ones looking for it." Nate laughs nervously as he looks back at the three of us for support. We offer none. "Ok well, I guess.. it's kinda what it looks like..but, but I can explain." He says struggling to try and mediate the situation. "Ok, it's gonna sound crazy.." Elena turns and gives Nate her full attention. "Try me." Nate nods "Well, you know how I told you that Sam is my brother...who we all thought died. Well, he was in prison and now he's in trouble. We have to this to pay off a debt. This guy bailed him out of jail and now we have to save Sam." Elena looked back at Sully and finally her eyes landed on me. She was mad at all of us. "I'm sorry" Sully said to her shrugging his shoulders. I nodded "I had to, Elena, I'm so sorry.." Sam put his arm around me. Elena had tears in here eyes. She held onto the chair in the back of the room and leaned on it for support. She put her hand up "Just stop.." She said catching her breath. "Was there.. ever... a Malaysia job?" Nate stumbled over his words  "I-.." was the only thing he could get out. She nodded as a few tears slipped. She nervously twisted her wedding band and moved to the door. "Elena, wait!" Nate said pleading for her to stay. "I dont get you!" Elena said shaking her head. "I wanted to tell you i-" She cut him off "You know what, enough!!" Nate interrupted again "I wanted to!! But how could I?!" "I dunno, just say it?!" She shot back. Nate scoffed "I had to protect you!" His statement only made Elena madder "That is bullshit, Nate!! Bullshit!! You just didn't have the nerve to face me and tell me the truth, once again!" Nate defended himself "Yeah, because I knew you'd react like this!" Elena lets out a short breath in frustration "Well how the hell would you react?! Ok?! You lied  to me.... for WEEKS !!! If you were killed I wouldn't have even known about it! And now you have a brother? Who owes a debt? Nate, who the fuck are you?" She says crying a little more. "C'mon, Elena.. it's me.. I'm me.. It's different this time.. I have to save him.. I don't even care about the treasure!" Elena looked up at him with tears in her eyes. "Yeah? Well if you're done lying to me, then you should stop lying to yourself, Nate.... I've got a plane to catch..." She says wiping her face. "You do what you have to do.." She opens the door and walks out. Nate wipes his face and moves back to the table where all the maps were. "What are you doing?! Go after her!" Sully says moving towards Nate. "We're not finished here.." He says picking up a map. "Well maybe we should be.." Sully says. They continued to bicker on about what to do. Nate finally snaped at Sully and told him to go keep an eye on Elena. Sully nodded "Whatever you say." I frowned at Sully. I hated seeing them fight. I bit my lip and moved over to Nate. "Do you need a hand.. with anythin-" He cut me off still aggravated. "I've got it!!" He yelled at me. "Just go pack your bags or something. I don't know why you two think you're so much better in this situation. Sam can't even tell you he loves you! And you're only a burden on us!! Having to stop and make sure you can keep up and making sure you aren't getting shot!!" I nodded "nice, Nate" I said under my breath. I walked out of the room with Sam as tears rolled down my face.