Gambler || Money Heist

|| Chapter 9 ||

"He lost consciousness" Nairobi told Palermo

"GOD FUCKING DAMMIT" Palermo screamed

This must have been the reason why I had been feeling nervous. I probably sensed that something bad happened before I even knew it happened. "I got this! Step aside, I can help him." I said rushing towards the governor. I kneeled down to check his pulse. "The mans pulse is 130! He's gonna have a fucking heart attack! How much time do we have?" I asked Nairobi.

"One minute and twenty seconds"

"That much? Okay. Matias, the first aid kit and the staples. We have to close the wound. Denver put pressure on the wound. C'mon!" I said trying to stop the bleeding. Once Matias brought back the med kit, Santiago helped me get the materials we needed to stitch and cover up his the governors wound.

"Bogotá, be careful brother" I heard Palermo begin speaking. I looked behind me and saw Bogotá about to enter the bathyscaphe. I turn my attention back to the wounded governor and grab the stapler in order to close his wound. As Denver holds his head up, I begin stapling him. The governor begins to shake as we're about to finish. I check his pulse again and notice that it has gone up since the last time I checked.

"His pulse is at 150! At this rate he's going to explode! Santiago, pass me ten milligrams of diazepam." Once I got the medicine I injected it into the governor.

"Denver, remind me to beat the shit out of you once this is over, you stupid son of a bitch." Palermo said.

"No no no no! It's not going down! Pass me another one." I held my hand out to Santiago so he could pass me another syringe. He gave me another one and I started to get to work again. "Okay okay okay. C'mon ..." I said as I injected the diazepam into his system. As I was waiting for the medicine to work I felt the ground shake. When the lights flickered, I realized that Bogotá had used one of the explosives in order to open the vault inside the vault. As I felt the governor still shaking I realized the medicine was not working.

"Shit. It's not working! Give me another one!"

After 3 diazepam injected in his system, I felt his pulse get slower, getting us out of the danger zone. "Okay, good. That's it.. That's it.." I said as I began to relax, knowing that he wasn't going to die. At that moment, Bogotá came out of the divider with red boxes.

"You guys got everything under control down here?" I asked Nairobi

"Yeah, you go do what you gotta do"

As she said that, I got up and got a red box. I was about to get the other one but Denver took it instead. "I'm coming with you" he said. "Okay.. lets go" I said leading the way upstairs. Once we reached upstairs Denver and I went to go talk to Gandia who was in front of the entrance with the rest of the guards wearing our outfits .

"Seoul is gonna open the door and you go out there holding up these boxes" Denver told Gandia.

"Is that right little orphan?" Gandia said. The words made Denver freeze in anger. He glared at Gandia and snatched the red box from my hand.

"Motherfucker" was all he said before he headed towards the entrance, opening the doors.

"Get out there now you son of a bitch" I said getting angry.

"Nobody is moving." Gandia said

"I said get the FUCK out there!" Denver said getting face to face with the guards

"Special forces are about to arrive. No one move." Gandia informed his team. "What are you gonna do?" Gandia was testing Denvers patience, "Are you gonna shoot us like they shot your papá?" Denver punched Gandia in the face and started heading out.

"Denver? Denver what the hell are you doing?! DENVER!!" I started screaming at him to get his attention and get him to not go outside, but he didn't listen. "DENVER!" I started running towards the door to see what he was doing. I stopped before I could step outside but I could still see him from afar.

"We surrender! We surrender!" I saw Denver raise a white flag. At this point I was scared as fuck. I didn't wan't anything bad happening to him. A million thoughts rushed in my head. He was standing in front of the swat team, guns pointed at him. But I knew they weren't going to shoot. The state will permit you to provoke the army out into the streets, they will permit you to steal the national reserve, and even steal their gold, but there is one thing they cannot abide. There is something they will not allow. They cannot allow you to find out their secrets. We were told that if we remove those red boxes, and they see them, it'll take less than a second for them to know what we have and we will own them. Because those 24 boxes hold the secrets of the Ministry of the Interior, Foreign Affairs, Intelligence, and how they spend the reserve fund. The power movements of the state. Everything that the system can't allow to be made public. Otherwise they'd go down the drain where their own shit is hidden.

The swat team began retreating and Denver started running back inside to safety. Once he came inside I hugged him. "You fucking IDIOT! What were you thinking?!" I started hitting him once we let go from the hug. "Hey it worked didn't it?" He said laughing with that little ugly yet cute laugh of his. I looked at him seriously and then began laughing with him. I couldn't be mad at him, I'm just glad he's okay.

After the box incident, I knew the consequences were soon going to arrive. The minister of the interior, the chief of the defense staff, I knew they were all going to show up at the command center, but Berlin and the Professors plan, drastically changed the game. One move and all of our enemies were in checkmate. You could even say we had a royal flush on our hands.

Well.. for now at least.