Dark Clouds || Rafe Cameron || OBX

Twenty Six.

The Pogues were up in the air for about 10 minutes already. Silence filled the back of the plane, the only noise echoing around the small plane was coming from Jimmy's headphones.

JJ glanced back to the group, concern filling his face. The girls scooted closer to JJ, to hear what he had to say. "Wahoo don't run in September, ever. All right? So whoever this man is, he's not a fisherman." He whispered.

"Maybe the run just started earlier out here." Pope pointed out, trying to convince himself that they could trust the pilot.

"Are you sure about that? In the Caribbean?" A moment of silence spread after JJ spoke. Sarah was first to break it. "No. I know what this is. He's working for my dad. And he probably was looking for us the entire time."

"Sarah, even if he was working for your dad, you would be the only one on this plane right now. There would be no way Ward would want all of us on this plane to his house." Valerie's eyes met Sarah's and then JJ's. "All right, we gotta find out." JJ mumbled. "Try looking for some sort of...clues." JJ turned his head, trying to look for something until his eyes laid on the pilots bag that was drooped around his chair.

His eyes met John B's, signalling something to him. Valerie's head turned towards John B, only realising he was now talking to Jimmy, trying to get his attention.

JJ's hand reached into the brown bag before he pulled out a book and some photos. He placed it between him and Pope, both of them began searching through it. JJ held the book before opening it, revealing another photo. He handed it over to Sarah, her face falling at the sight of it. Valerie popped her head closer, only to find out if was a photo of the boat that they had jumped off of not long ago. The costal Venture.

"This is the boat we were on." Sarah whispered. "With Eberhimi and the cross."

"So he was looking for us?" Cleo asked, her thick accent echoing across the plane.

"Exactly."

"He's working for my dad." Sarah let out a sigh. Everything would add up but somehow for Valerie, she didn't really think this was about Ward. This was something bigger. If Ward would have been looking for them, Valerie was sure he would probably get a nicer plane at least. This just couldn't be him.

The plane began to shake, taking away Valerie's thoughts. "Hey, you'll better hold on to something. We got some unexpected turbulence up here." Jimmy yelled out.

"Guys whatever it is, it's happening fast." Kie's eyes turned to the window. "Look." Everyone turned their head. Land began to come clearer into view. "That looks like Barbados. I've been there with Terrance." Cleo said.

"Okay, there's seven of us, one of him. You know my vote, we storm the cockpit." JJ shrugged.

"No, who's gonna fly the plane, dumbass?" John B frowned, looking at the blonde.

"I've seen Pope fly simulators." Then Pope spoke up. "I've Cropp-dusted for my uncle last summer. This isn't the same thing."

Valerie couldn't believe what she was hearing. "JJ there's no way in hell we're going to fight on a plane, are you crazy?"

"Do you have an idea?" JJ leaned closer to Valerie, twisting his head to the side as if he found his idea the best one they'd find. "Uh- yeah. Maybe not knocking out the only person that can fly this plane!" She snapped back.

"Why don't we just wait, until the plane lands somewhere safe." Pope suggested, looking over at everyone. "We sneak out, and if someone comes to mess with us, we mad-dog them."

Everyone agreed with Pope, all of them being in the same page. "Just put that back. Be cool." Kie whispered over to JJ, pointed to the belongings that he had taken out from Jimmy's bag. JJ looked over at John B before pointing over to Jimmy, signalling him to draw his attention back to him while he put the book and pictures back into the bag.

Everyone's adrenaline grew once they saw Jimmy's head shoot to the side, noticing that JJ had been digging in his bag. "Hey, man! What the hell are you doing?" He reached his arm for JJ, causing the plane to shake.

By now both of Jimmy's hands were on his things, trying to rip them out of JJ's grip. There was no kontrol on the plane, causing it to fall from the sky. "Fly the plane!" Sarah yelled.

"Please fly the plane! Please fly the plane!" Pope begged, looking at Jimmy.

Valerie's stomach twirled, she felt as if her heart was in her throat. Her hand gripped onto the net that covered the walls of the plane. She shut her eyes hoping the impact wouldn't cause serious damage.

Jimmy turned back around, his eyes widened in fear as he noticed how close they were to crash. His arms gripped the steering-wheel, hoping it wasn't too late. "Come on fish!"

The sound of yells and loud beeping sounds echoed around the plane. Everyone's face covered in fear. Just before they knew it, the plane had hit the water, sending Valerie flying across the plane. She felt her body get crushed as the others went flying right after her.

Water began to fill the plane and everyone had sat up to breath. Everyone began coughing, trying to get the water out of their lungs.

"Everyone good?" Pope gasped out, his head turning in every direction, seeing if everyone was okay.

"JJ!" Valerie yelled, her hands finding JJ's face.

"Shit! JJ wake up!" Pope began to shake his shoulder. Luckily, JJ immediately reopened his eyes, causing a smile to crack on Pope's and Valerie's face's.

"We gotta get outa here!"

All of them began to make their way out of the plane once John B kicked the door open. Cleo was the first to swim out of them plane, then Sarah, Valerie, pope, JJ and John B.

"Kie get out before it sinks!" JJ yelled.

"Hang on!" Her voice was muffled as she made her way down the plane. Everyone began to yell for her to get out, but instead she decided to get Jimmy before he could drown.

"We don't have time!" Sarah yelled out frustrated. Valerie noticed as a group of men made their way to the beach, this couldn't be good.

The group decided to make their way away from the plane, hoping the men on the beach wouldn't see them. Once they made their way to the near by rocks, they noticed that Kie had swam in the other direction, towards the beach, with Jimmy in her arms.

The sound of quads caused their panic to grow. In a split second Valerie had lost Kie out of her sight, only noticing that she had made a run for it.

"Here goes round two." Valerie mumbled.