Isle of flightless birds

17 I'm a mess

(An:5 months later Now we're back at the eleven month jump 2 chapters ago. I know, confusing.)

I run as fast as I can. This can't be real. I can hear the sirens clear behind me, how did they find me? I run into a house to hide. "Who are you?" A man asks when I close the door. Think fast Thea. "Eeh wrong house?" It comes out more like a question, but he can't say anything before I run further into the house and jump out thru the window, then I continue to run. I look behind me to see if the police are following me, but I run into a wall and falls down on the ground. "Fucking wall." I mumble and look up at a cop. "Not a wall." The cop smiles at me. "Well fuck." I give her a fake smile. "Yeah?" She asks. "Nymphaea Petrova?" She asks and I sight. "How much for you to let me go?" I ask her, but she just laughs. "Okay, that won't work." I mumble to myself as she put handcuffs on my hands. "You are under arrest for armed robbery, robbery, murder." She takes up a list from her pocket. "Can't remember everything you have done." She smiles. "Drug Dealing." She continue. "Okay, we get it. I have done a couple bad things. But let's all be friends." I smile. "She sights. "Okay, I will tell you a secret." I give her a smirk. "Soon a so called officer will make all the evidence on my gang go away, and then the others have to let my friends go, and we will come after every single one of you who has done this to us. We were number one, and you arrested a lot of us, we're not number one anymore. We need to reclaim that title. Best way? Kill everybody who took it away. So my tip to you. Let me go, and we will spare you." I smile at her. Hope this works. "I don't believe you. And even if I did, I wouldn't let you go." I look behind me. Well fuck. Plan B. "Well, in that case. Why don't I just kill you here and now?" I ask her as I take the knife from inside my shirt. "How did you take off the handcuffs?" She asks as I put the knife to her throat. "Magic." I smirk. "Nymphaea Petrova! Let her go, or I will shoot you." A voice says behind me. I forgot cops works in pairs. I drop the knife and put up my hands in the air while the girl steps aside. Fuck my life.

"Thea?" I look behind me and I see Penny. "Hi." I sight. "Tough day?" She asks and I nod. "Getting arrested sucks." I look up. "Any updates?" She asks. "Yeah, I talked to an old friend and he sent his guys out a couple months ago to erase all the evidence. It has taken some time to get them to the right place, but I got a call that they are there yesterday. It will probably take them a couple months to find and erase all the evidence." I smile. "Good, I will find the others and tell them." She gives me a hug and then she walks away. I lay down on the ground and close my eyes. I slowly fall asleep listening to people talking.

"Did you do all that?" Gabriel asks keeping our deal of what to do if I got arrested. "No, of course not." I tell him. "Three months." He whispers. "Matt?" I question silent. "Good. Helena is with him." Gabriel whispers. "How are everybody?" I ask. "Well, Casper and Caleb has a girlfriend each, Connor has a dog instead and We finally found out why Nate is weird. His mother is dying and his father has a mistress." I nod. "That explains everything." We talk some more until he has to go. "I will see you next week." Gabriel says and gives me a hug. "See you soon."

I sit down beides James at the table in the cafeteria. "You know, i was gonna kidnap you too see how loyal you are." I tell him. Everybody at the table looks at me. "You bear information that can get me killed. But I think you have proven your loyalty by sitting here with us." I tell him and then I start to eat of my food like nothing happened. "We have talked, and you should be a member in the gang." Penny says looking at James. "I'm honoured." He laughs "We will have the ceremony tonight." Penny smiles. "My bunker at ten pm." She says and then she walks away.

I look down at the little tattoo on my right pinky finger. It kinda looks like a stick man version of a scarecrow. "Okay, give me your right pinky finger. You will get a ring to cover up this, and the ring works as a key." Penny tells James as she draw the little man on his finger. I have no idea where she got the tattoo maskin, but I don't really care. They talk some more and then James makes his promises to the gang and then I can finally go back to my bed.