✯ North Star ✯

Part 8

"You all ready? All aboard!" JJ says as John b and I walk down
"Let's do it" I mumble
"All right guys listen up. We got the nav points and we've got the gear. We're in and out alright. This is one night only. We slip down under. We stay under the radar. All right? Star you're going down, much to my displeasure but-" John b starts to say
"Uh I'm actually going down too. Yeah me and Ella" JJ cute in
"Ok, uh JJ and Star go down. Me and pope stay up. Kie and cleo you guys drive out to the lighthouse by the Coast Guard base. Stand watch. Do this right, we're home by midnight." John b says
"Clocks ticking" JJ says
"Fun fun, just like old times" pope mumbles

We all climb into the boat as kie and cleo watch us leave.
"Don't do anything we wouldn't do" cleo tells us
I give them a look as I was with all three boys. This is gonna be one hell of a ride

"Yo guys, lighten up. All right? You're making me nervous. We're gonna slide down there take a peak. Worst that can happen, it's not there. Old farts disappointed, we go home. Pogues win ok? That's the worst. Meantime though who wants to crack one with me?" JJ asks opening a drink
"No hey hey no. No drinking." John b says taking it from him
"All right it just takes the edge off" JJ mumbles

We drove for however long we did, and by the time we got there the sun had set and it was dark out.
"John b were in Coast Guard territory now" pope says
"Should be about 20 yards. One o'clock." John b says
"Ok that's close enough. Hey slow her down. We're at the drop site now" pope tells JJ and he slowly stops the boat.
"JJ what's our depth?" John b asks
"78" he answers
"Ok ready?" I ask everyone
"Here we go. Switch out. You guys get ready" pope says as we all switch
"John b keep us in position" JJ tells him

Both JJ and I start to put on our suits as John b and pope keep the boat in position.
"Honestly it's kind of like surfing The Point you know? We're upstream, and then the rip is just gonna.... Take us out" he says
"Yeah yeah, just what I wanted to hear right now thanks JJ" I mumble getting ready
Then JJ pulls out a spear gun
"Is that really necessary?" I ask him
"Yeah yeah I mean reef, fish..." john b says trying to calm my nerves
"And the man in the gray suit" JJ says
"That too" john b mumbles and I just put my head in my hands

"Don't forget your safety stop. All right? Fifteen feet three minutes. Hear that JJ? Fifteen feet three minutes." Pope says
"Copy that. Or what again? Just so I know" he says trying to act cool
"The bends remember?" I tell him
"Nitrogen in the blood, excruciating pain, death, etc etc" pope lists

"Hey you good?" John b asks me
"Yeah, why wouldn't I wanna go diving for the crew again right?" I shrug
"Let's do it then" JJ says helping me up
John b gives me a quick kiss
"Be careful" he says
"With this guy? That'll be a miracle" I smile before sitting on the edge of the boat
"Diver down" I say
"Diver down" JJ says after me
"All right Ella you ready?" He asks
"Yeah, let's go" I nod before we both fall backyards into the water

And down we went. We both turn on our flashlights and started to swim down. The deeper we got the darker it got, but that's when my light hit the boat.
"Here we go" I mumble swimming over

We swim around looking for somewhere to get in, I found a hole big enough and waved JJ over. I swam in first looking for the headboard pope told us about. And that's when I saw it. I quickly swam over and started to break it with my knife.

After I broke it off I looked inside. Then after a few seconds I heard JJ.

"El come here" he says and I swim over. We both point our flashlight to see gear on the ground. Someone's here. I look over at JJ but then someone comes and grabs him.
"JJ!" I yell and swim over
I quickly grab the man and he flips around on top of me now instead of JJ.
He grabs my air and takes it out of my mouth. Then he turns around when JJ starts to swing at him with the spear gun.

By the time I get my air back in my mouth he was shoving JJ into a small door, closing and locking the door. I start to swim over to him fighting the man, I was able to fight him for a while until he put me in a headlock. He pulls my air out and cuts the airline. He takes my air tank and start to swim off. I quickly turn around and swim towards JJ.

By the time I got there he was opening the door so I quickly helped him. He grabs his other airline and gives it to me. I quickly put it in taking a couple deep breathes.

We both hear and beep and see we only have 18 more seconds.
"We gotta go" JJ says and we both start to swim up. He opens up some bars and we swim up as fast as possible.

We make it to the top just running out of air. We both start to cough and try to deep normal.
"Are you ok?" JJ asks me
"Yeah yeah are you?" I ask him
"Yeah, we need to go" he says and I quickly nod in agreement
"Who the hell was that down there?" JJ asks
"I don't know. Where's John b?" I ask looking around
"John b! Pope! Hey!" I yell waving my hand
"John b! Pope!" JJ yells

I finally see them and they drive over to us as we also swim to get there quicker.
"Pope get the ladder!" JJ yells
"Get the ladder!" I yell as well
He quickly puts it down
"Star give me your stuff" john b says reaching down
"Wait where's your BCP?" He asks seeing I don't have it
"It's gone" I tell him
"What do you mean it's gone?" Pope asks
"I mean it's gone!" I yell getting into the boat with John b's help

"There was a guy that tired to kill us" JJ says
"We saw a boat out here too. They were armed. We need to get out of here" pope says helping JJ
"No you don't understand. There's a guy down there-" JJ starts to say
"There's a boat. We just saw it pass" pope tells him and JJ finally understands what he was saying

"Grab the ladder!" John b says
"Grab the ladder" I tell pope
"Hold on" pope says quickly taking it out of the water
"You good you all right man?" Pope asks JJ
"Yeah I'm fine. Just get out of here" JJ tells him as we both just sit down still out of breathe
"Go go go!" Pope tells john b and he starts to get us out of there