No Man's Land

Inhumanus

As Frankie walked back inside of the restaurant having finished smoking his cigarette, Theo was halfway through completing his house blueprints.

"Alright, I'm going," said Theo, closing the laptop and grabbing it, getting up from the table he was sitting at, walking over to the front door.

"That's the work laptop though, I don't think Tim will be happy" said Frankie.

"Frankie, I'll be honest, I doubt Tim will bring it up with me" smiled Theo, walking out of the restaurant and getting into one of the cars, driving to his motel.

Two days later.

Frankie had arrived to work, as well as Tim, they had taken down the chairs from the tables and were ready for opening.

The latter got out his phone and began to ring Theo, it rang out twice but before it could ring for a third time, Theo stepped into the restaurant.

"Calling me I see" smiled Theo, holding his phone in his hand.

"Yeah I was just phoning you to say we need the laptop back that you borrowed" said Tim.

"Oh yes, my apologies Timothy" smirked Theo, walking out of the restaurant and opening the passenger door of his car, grabbing something and then closing the door, walking back inside of the restaurant.

He placed the laptop onto a table, "there you go. I completed my blueprints last night and printed them off. I'll need you to get in contact with your builder friends" said Theo.

Tim picked the laptop up off of the table, handing it to Frankie and nodding, the latter walking into the kitchen and putting down the laptop.

"Oh of course" said Tim to Theo, pulling out his phone before the latter stopped him.

"Wait, tell them not to come here and to just come here" said Theo, handing Tim a piece of paper out of his pocket.

Theo then walked out of the restaurant and opened his car boot, looking at the duffel bag of money inside before closing it again and getting inside of his car, driving off.

Half an hour later, Theo stood at the side of a road, which had loads of empty space at the side and had a field behind it after a certain amount of distance.

Multiple cars started to park at the side of the road, multiple men jumping out of them as Theo called them over.

As they all approached him, Theo opened the boot of his car, grabbing the duffel bag of money and ripping it open, throwing it into the ground.

He then opened the passenger side door and opened the glovebox, grabbing blueprints out of it before closing the glovebox, the door and the boot.

Theo walked over to the men, looking down at the duffel bag while holding the blueprints in his left hand.

"Alright, as you all know, you will take any money you need for supplies out of this bag." He said, using his right hand to point at the duffel bag.

"You will all get your wages, however, after my house is completed. Don't worry, it will be a lot. Thousands and thousands each. Okay?" He asked.

"Alright" a few said.

"No, no, no. I'm getting paid by the hour, or I'm going HOME!" Shouted one of the men.

Theo pulled out his pistol from his back pocket and shot the man in the chest, right as he fell back clutching his chest, the other builders stepped back from him.

"Anyone else want to speak up?" Asked Theo.

Every single one of the builders shook their heads in fear.