No Time To Die- ARTHURMORGAN x O/C

part 21- I Love You, I'm Sorry

                  "There you are, keep walking you're late!" Dutch yells as Arthur walks up to the three of them. Claudia leaning against the wall as Lenny sits on a crate next to Dutch. They all get up making their way out of the alley way.
"A couple of days in this place, you've turned into some clock watching city boy. What's the urgency?" Arthur asks as he follows them.
"We need to leave.. forever. We've been doing well, making money but for us to all leave together, we need enough for a boat", Dutch explains checking the surroundings so nobody is listening in, "now I found a friendly ship captain, he's willing to take us to Australia, or Tahiti. We just need to pay for passage and give him money for land when we get there, no questions asked. We will disappear, be reborn."
"Where the hell is Tahiti?" Arthur asks, Claudia scoffs at Arthur's geography skills.
"South Pacific" She adds in smiling at him.
"An untouched paradise" Dutch mentions still looking around .
"Who lives there?" Arthur questions.
"You've got a lot of questions today, haven't you cowpoke" Claudia laughs as Arthur gives her a stern look.
"Tahitians, I guess" Dutch answers and leaves with Lenny following his footsteps behind him.
"We made a bit of money on that riverboat job, but not enough for us to leave and live peacefully," Arthur says as they all creep up to a wagon hiding behind it. Looking at the trolley station in front of them. Angelo Bronte told Dutch at the party that there was stacks of cash in safe inside, "where's the rest coming from?"
"In there" Dutch points to the trolley station.
"So we are going to rob that place?" Arthur questions, Dutch spins his head around wondering if Arthur is being serious or not.
"Well, I didn't think we were fixing the plumbing" Dutch sarcastically hisses at Arthur, turning away walking towards the station, "I don't know if you have noticed, but we are on the clock, I reckon we got a few days before the Pinkertons show and then, well, we're done. Now we need money."
They all lift up there bandannas above their nose but underneath their eyes. Claudia lifts her black bandanna matching her shirt, her sleeves rolled up.
"Now come on," Dutch yells at the three of them behind him, he swings open the doors with his guns out of his holster, "Ladies and gentlemen this is a robbery, behave as I tell you, and none of you will die."
Arthur and Claudia take their revolvers out of their holsters, aiming at the innocent people cowering to the floor.
"Money now, don't ask me again" Claudia says yawning, holding her gun up to the woman's head. Lenny checks the room in the back, trying to find anything that's valuable.
"Mr. M check the safe" Dutch yells over the quiet cries.
Arthur walks into the room, as the station clerk tries to open the safe. Claudia steps back to the doors still pointing her gun out to anyone that tries to do anything. Arthur looks through the safe, "theres almost nothing here!"
"There should be stacks of cash in there... he told us there was.. look again" Dutch orders leaning up against the desk, poking his head through the gap.
"There's no stacks... a few dollars and coins, that's it!" Arthur yells back, anger seeping through his voice.
"Damn!" Dutch yells, turning his head to Claudia.
"We've got a problem" Claudia yells looking out of the window seeing the law running around the corner.
"There's a ton of cops out there" Lenny points them out. Claudia sighs realising that this was a trap.
"That greasy son of a bitch... he set us up!" Dutch steps back from the door as Arthur leaves the room.
"You think?" Arthur yells back at him.
Dutch furrows his eyebrows, Claudia notices he does that when he is angry, "this seems like a good time for sarcasm to you, Arthur?"
"What are we going to do gentleman?" Claudia asks stepping back towards the two bickering men behind her.
"The trolley!" Dutch points out as we rushes out of the back way of the station. They all jump on the moving trolley, Dutch pushes the driver off. Arthur reaches his hand out to Claudia as she runs along the side of it to jump on.
"Is this trolley going to Tahiti?" Arthur shouts from the back of the trolley, a grin appears on Claudia's face.
"I hope so!" Dutch snaps back breaking the windows to shoot out of. Arthur hangs out of the back knocking down any law men.
Claudia ducks as a bullets flies above her, she goes back up and pulls the trigger.
"Arthur slow us down, slow this thing down" Dutch orders as he shoots out of the window.
"I'll try" Arthur yells back over the sound of guns firing. He stumbles over to the controls of the trolley, Claudia looks over to him seeing him struggle.
"The things broke.." Arthur says walking his way back to the back of the trolley. He grips the poles, his knuckles turning white.
"Hold on!" Dutch yells as a wagon drives in front of the trolley. The trolley topples over to its side. Claudia land on her side, glass shattering over her. Her head pounding in pain, "Claudia get up!" Dutch yells helping her up as he keeps one hand on his head. They both crawl out of the debris, hiding behind some cargo that fell from the wagon, "this is our chance to move! Let's go!"
The four of them rush off into an alley, Claudia feels a hand grab hers pulling her back. She aims at the person holding her finger on the trigger.
"Claudia is that you?" Jesse pushes her into a small area away from the noise. The boys run off not noticing Claudia is gone.
"What the fuck you doing here? You are going to get yourself killed!" Claudia yells in a hush tone trying not to get attention to them.
"You lied, you told me you didn't do any of this" Jesse yells back,  his eyes widen with concern.
"I have lied about lots of thing but it is not safe for you to be here, I will tell you everything after I promise" Claudia yells back, her heart pounding as the yells of the law get closer but suddenly everything shatters. A gunshot rings out as time seems to freeze. Claudia's heart breaks as she sees Jesse stagger, a grimace twisting in his handsome face, before crumbling to the ground.
"No! Fuck!" She cries opening fire at the man who shot him, she rushing to his side, kneeling on the cold, hard ground. Panic bubbling up into a ragging torrent "Jesse! No don't you die on me!" She clutches his head in her lap, finger trembling as she desperately searches for his eyes. Jesse struggles to speak as
Claudia's tears mix with the pool of blood they sit in. A faint smile flickering on his face. "Claudia.. I.." he whispers, his voice is fragile and strains. In the moment, her heart shatters into infinite pieces. The weight of her love felt unbearable, and the shape pain of loss cuts deeper than any wound. Everything she hopes for, the life she wanted with him, dissolves before her tears stream down her cheeks.
Arthur rushes back after noticing Claudia was gone. "Claudia, you have to go. Don't let them catch you.."
Arthur could see law pushing forward trying to find them, and the seconds feel like an eternity. Without thinking, he scoops her up, dragging her away from the body she cradles in her arms, "I don't want to lose you to."
"No! Jesse" She fights Arthur, but he is stronger than her. He feels the tremors in his own heart knowing what it's like to lose a loved one and he understands her pain deeply.  He drags her out onto the street, bullets flying all around them. Dutch and Lenny climb onto a wagon waiting for Arthur to come back with Claudia. She climbs on with Dutch in the back, her eyes red and puffy. Dutch looks up to her, she looks away from him. She gets her rifle out and starts shooting the law off their tales. 
Lenny whips the reins down as they enter Lakay. He pulls them up as they stop in the middle of nowhere. Claudia stays quiet her eyes drifting somewhere else, the vision of Jesse dying in her arms replaying in her mind.
"And we each got $15, Oh and don't forget the quarter" Arthur says handing the money out.
"Shut up Arthur" Dutch snaps back, he turns his head to Claudia who is still sitting her head in her hands. Blood stains on her clothes, tear marks down her cheeks and the smile on her face gone. Dutch looks up to Arthur tilting his head to Claudia's direction. Arthur just shakes his head, so Dutch doesn't say anything to her.
"I don't feel so good" Dutch says as he lifts himself up to the drivers seat of the wagon with Lenny.
"You've just had a bash on the head" Arthur says still keeping an eye on Claudia in the back.
"Come on, I'm taking you both back to camp" Lenny says picking up the reins of the wagon. The three of them leave Arthur behind and make their way back to camp.
"What do you think happened Dutch?" Lenny asks keeping his voice to a whisper.
"We will ask Arthur after, let's just get back to camp" Dutch answers turning his head to see Claudia still in the same position as before.