Jiara: My Mistakes Were Made For You

Part 16: The Gold II

Kie and JJ sat in the back of the police car, both contemplating what could be done. The doors were locked, they couldn't jump on the men in the front, they were both armed. They had to somehow confuse or persuade them.

"What are we gonna do?" Kie asked in a frightened whisper to JJ. She was hoping he had an idea, but only thing JJ could think of was playing innocent and hoping for them to buy it.

"Can you speak french?" said JJ, leaning towards him. "Tell me the car is ours and we lost the key."

"Voiture est... notre. Notre voiture. Nous avons perdu le clé..." Kie muttered doubtfully. JJ gave her a thumbs up, just for trying. One of the men in front slowly turned his head back.

"Talk english, lady." he said.

"We own the car!" cried Kie. "You're making a mistake!"

"You explain in the station." said the man carelessly, and turned back around.

"We're minors!" said Kie, trying again with a different argument.

"You explain in the station." repeated the man. As JJ opened the window for air, he saw Pope's messages. They already got inside, John B had started the action.

Fortunately, the police station wasn't that far away. When they got there within minutes, the two cops calmly got them out of the car. Probably because it was early in the morning, there was no one but a few officers lazily walking to work. JJ whispered to Kie next to him as the cops walked them with a light tug at their arms.

"Get the keys."

Then, without waiting for Kie's reaction, he swung his arm, turned around and punched the cop holding him. As the man staggered back, the policeman holding Kie let go of her arm and pounced on JJ. Kie managed to grab the end of the key attached to the man's belt and pulled it. Kie hesitated for a moment as the other cop started to walk towards JJ. JJ shouted just before being punched hard in the face.

"Run, Kie!" then his face was thrown to the side with the fist.

Kie took a few big steps towards the car as JJ tried to throw a few punches at the man, but got more punches. Just as she was about to throw herself into the car, she turned around and saw one of the cops holding JJ tightly. JJ was still fluttering in his arms, all he did was wink when they met eyes with Kie.

"Stop moving!" said the cop opposite him. But JJ kept hitting the man behind him with his elbows. the man was barely holding him. Seeing the cop in front of him put his hand on his gun, Kie abruptly turned to them.

"Don't move!" said the cop, pointing the gun at JJ. Without thinking what she was doing, Kie ran towards them and jumped on the man's back. Reaching for the gun in his hand, the man lost his balance, and the gun fired. When Kie looked up in horror, she saw the cop holding JJ had been shot in the leg. JJ slipped out of his grasp as the man fell to the ground, kicking the other man in the stomach, who was staring at his co-worker whom he had shot. As the man collapsed to the ground, JJ grabbed Kie's hand and started running towards the car.

John B was looking at Ward, who was standing a few feet away from him. He knew he had to stall, he had to keep Ward's attention on himself, and he had to somehow make Rafe come out to deal with him. He started shouting with his arms outstretched in front of the burning car. 

"I know you have Sarah!" he said. "Where is she?"

"I've had enough with you, kid!" said Ward angrily taking a step towards him. "You're gambling with your life."

"You wouldn't kill me." said John B, smiling. "Where's your murderer son!" he shouted as loud as he could. A few seconds later, he finally saw another room's light turn on.