A Baby's Prayer • OBX

𝟎𝟏𝟗, the murder weapon.

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saylor, jj, pope, and kiara were still in kiara's truck. gavin was on a call with ward, which pope was listening to. saylor wished that she could get the second airpod so she could listen, too, but they didn't want to risk losing the connection. so, all they had was the word of pope's mouth, and him explaining everything that went down as it happened. gavin's car was just in front of theirs.

all they had so far was that gavin wanted to renegotiate with ward to get more money, since he was freaked out after kie's phone call. ward didn't want to give him more money, but gavin wasn't going to keep the secret quiet unless he gave him it. saylor didn't blame him, because she would also force ward into giving her money, too. it wasn't like ward was going to run out of it. he had lots.

"gavin's got the gun that rafe used to kill peterkin." pope revealed, his voice serious as he continued to listen to the call.

their eyes all widened as they looked at each other, and saylor's heart started beating faster. she wasn't sure what the gun had to do with anything, or how it proved that rafe killed her, since she was not at all sure about how the law worked, but if gavin was telling ward that as a sort of blackmail, surely it was useful for something legal. she really had to read a book about legalities.

"holy shit." kie said as she took a deep breath, trying to stay quiet.

"i think he's trying to use it as extortion, as leverage." pope said, making saylor furrow her eyebrows.

"can you talk in english? what's extortion? what's leverage?" she asked, but quickly got shushed by a concentrated jj that was locked in on listening to pope.

"he's pulling over, though." saylor said, pointing to gavin's car that had started to pull over at the side of the road.

"shit, do i go behind him? what do i do?" kiara asked, kind of stalling the car in the middle of the road.

"go around the block." jj quickly said, making her nod and turn the car. saylor turned around as they went around the block, looking through the back window at gavin in his car.

"i can't hear anything, shit! i'm losing it! i'm losing the connection, i can't hear him." pope said, holding the airpod in his ear as if it would make any difference.

"what the fuck is this?" jj asked, making saylor turn around. there was road work, making all of their plan about to go wrong.

"turn around, turn around." pope quickly demanded.

"okay, i'm just gonna back up." kie said, about to reverse until a large truck came out from behind them, making it so they couldn't reverse at all. it was something to do with the road work.

as everyone started to freak out, saylor watched as pope jumped out of the car and began running down the street. unknown to what he was doing, or even aiming for, saylor quickly opened her door and ran after him, too. it didn't take long before she saw jj and kie running after them, too. pope was running fast, though, and when he hopped a fence, it was impossible for her to do the same. then, jj and kiara jumped over it, too.