No Man's Land

Anarchy

The jeep drove into the village, Theo parking it outside of the restaurant.

The three men got out of the jeep, Tim holding the duffel bag and walking to the front door of the restaurant, dropping the bag to the ground to take out his keys and unlock the door, opening it, before picking back up the duffel bag.

He walked in first, with Frankie behind him and Theo at the back, who shut the door behind him.

Tim opened the duffel bag, pouring the contents of it onto one of the tables.

Multiple stacks of cash wrapped in rubber bands fell onto the table, all of them twenty pound notes.

Once they were all out, Tim threw the duffel bag onto the table, in awe at how much money there was.

"Wow, that's something," said Frankie.

"I told you that you can trust the man, and I was right" smiled Theo at Tim.

"You never know, these could be fake" said Tim, desperate to undermine Theo.

Theo picked up one of the stacks, looking closely at it before shoving it into Tim's face. "Does that look fake to you?" He asked.

Frankie picked up a stack himself, and inspected it, "yeah Tim, these are real."

"Fine. I guess you were right" sighed Tim.

Theo took the stack away from Tim's face, throwing it onto the table, Frankie doing the same with the stack he was holding.

"Alright, I'll take this back to my house, hide it, and if the day ever comes that we need it, I'll know where to get the money for it" said Theo, picking up the duffel bag from the floor, putting it on the table, and throwing the money into it, before closing the bag.

After that, he grabbed it, walking out through the front door of the restaurant.

"The sooner he's dead, the better. I can't stand him" said Tim. "He thinks he owns the place."

"Listen Tim, the only reason I'm not telling Theo about this is because you're the reason I'm in this business, if it wasn't for that, Theo would know everything. Don't mention anything about killing him around me" said Frankie, walking out of the restaurant.

After driving for a while, Theo parked outside of his house, now in his personal car.

Builders were still there, as they all worked the entire day but took turns.

The owner, however, got out of his car holding a duffel bag, walking in through the front door and approaching a builder who was in the kitchen.

"Oh hi Theo, the place is coming along well isn't it?" Asked the builder.

"It is indeed, when do you think it'll be finished?" Asked Theo.

"Give or take, two days I'd say. The progress we've made is amazing" replied the builder.

"Thank you, I'll be out of your hair shortly" replied Theo, walking out of the kitchen and to the bottom of the staircase.

He dropped the bag and crouched down, pulling up a trapdoor that looked like five separate floorboards.

He then picked back up the duffel bag, throwing it down the space that the trapdoor had revealed.

Theo then climbed down into the space, with the help of a ladder that had been placed there.

He was now in a tunnel that he had the builders dig out for him, and he walked down it, throwing the duffel bag onto the ground, not burying it as he knew no builder would come down here.