No Man's Land

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DS Lance and The Knight grabbed a shovel each, ready to bury Theo, as they got dirt onto their shovels.

The pair of them walked to the edge of the grave, The Knight throwing dirt into it first.

As DS Lance was about to pour the first on his shovel into the grave, James slammed his shovel across his head, sending him down into the grave, next to Theo.

Theo's eyes opened, and he stood up, taking his hands off of his chest.

DS Lance heard the movement, still in pain from being hit on the head.

"What was that for?" He shouted, rolling over while clutching at the back of his head.

"THEO? YOU'RE DEAD" said DS Lance, his expression going from pain to shock.

Theo began to laugh, "it was all a part of my plan" he said.

DS Lance, desperate to escape, pushed himself up from the ground, before standing up.

However, James then took out his own personal pistol, throwing it to Theo who caught it.

James then stood aside, as DS Lance began to try and climb out of the hole, however, Theo shot the back of his leg, causing him to stumble back down into the grave.

"Please, let me go, I have something I can tell you" begged DS Lance.

"What would that be?" Asked James.

"Tim was in on it. He let us come here, he wanted you dead as much as us" said DS Lance.

"I guessed as much" smiled Theo, before he aimed the pistol at DS Lance's face, shooting him instantly.

After that, he grabbed the shovel, throwing it back up as James caught it.

"One down" smiled Theo at James, who held his hand out, Theo grabbing it and getting out of the grave.

For the next minute, the pair of them filled the hole with dirt, until it was finally completely full.

"Your plans are amazing Theo, I don't know how you pull them off" said James.

"Neither do I" smiled Theo, reflecting on what had happened.

Earlier that day.

After Romeo and Alfie left the house, Theo and James left the tunnel, the latter closing the trapdoor on his way out.

The duo then sat down in the kitchen, Theo wishing to share what he was thinking with James.

"Listen, now that the team thinks I killed Romeo and Alfie, I predict they're going to try and kill me. So I need your help" he said.

"To do what?" Asked James.

"I'm going to guess that Liam will be going to the restaurant, since he knows Tim will be there. He'll probably talk about killing me and Tim will probably allow it. It's clear that he doesn't like me, and him taking the opportunity to have me killed wouldn't surprise me" said Theo.

"I'm confused, what am I meant to do?" Asked James.

"You're going to go inside of the restaurant, and pretend that you're still The Knight, say you want to kill me and I'll leave the door open to my house. You and whoever else wants to kill me, will come inside and wait for me" explained Theo.

"I'll leave the house for a while and arrive back later on, I'll walk inside and sit down in the sitting room. You and everyone else will come in, aim your guns at me and then I'll get up and turn around. You take my gun off of me, which will be full of blanks. We'll eventually get into the tunnel I predict because that's an easy place to kill and bury me. You hand my gun to Liam who'll shoot me. I'll pretend to be dead, but as I fall back after being shot I'll cover my supposed wound" he continued.

Present day.

"Everything panned out like you said it would. DS Lance wasn't something I expected though" said James.

"Me neither, I'm not surprised that Tim didn't turn up though, he's too scared of me" Theo replied, before walking down the tunnel and climbing up the ladder.

He pushed over the manhole, climbing up the tunnel, followed by James, who put the manhole back into place once he was out of the tunnel.

"Why did you have the tunnel built to go here?" Asked James.

"So I can use this house if I ever need to hide for a while, in times like this it makes me think it was worth the money for the tunnel" replied Theo, walking up to the front door of the cottage and opening it, as the owners had left it open, James following him inside.

The pair of them both sat down at the kitchen table, "Theo, I think my memories are starting to come back. I just remembered being in Eric and Liam's flat and being stabbed." James said.

"That's great. Anything else?" Asked Theo.

"No, but that's surely good?" Asked James.

"It is, soon enough it'll be even better" replied Theo.

Meanwhile, Liam walked into the village, pulling his phone out of his pocket and phoning Tim.

"Hello?" Asked Tim.

"Theo is dead. We broke into his home earlier, he's being buried as we speak" informed Liam.

"That is good news. Thank you Liam" replied Tim, before hanging up.

Tim walked back inside of the restaurant through the back doors, walking over to Frankie who was behind the bar.

"Theo is dead," revealed Tim.

Frankie's smile that he had put on for the customers immediately faded, his expression turning into anger. "Well, I hope you're happy. You got what you wanted" he said, walking out through the back door.

Tim shook his head, "he'll come around" he thought to himself, entering the kitchen.

Outside, Frankie pulled out a cigarette, lighting it and beginning to smoke it.

However, as he was smoking it and having a moment to himself, he was startled due to his phone suddenly ringing.

Frankie dropped his cigarette, "agh" he said in frustration, pulling out his phone and answering it without looking at the number. "Hello?" He said.

"Hello Frankie, it's me," said Theo.

"Theo? How are you?" Asked Frankie.

"Alive?" Interrupted Theo. "Tim told you I was dead, didn't he?"

"Well, yes" replied Frankie.

"Let's keep it that way, at least in Tim's eyes anyway. I need a favour" said Theo.

"I'm listening," said Frankie.