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The five friends left Barry's and John B drove to The Wreck. Kie unlocked the doors and they sat down without a word. They sat in silence for a long while, and the whole time Claire stared at her feet. Her mind had been replaying every word she said to JJ and she wanted to find him, see if they could talk and just forget about everything, but she knew it wouldn't have made a difference.
"He'll come around. He's just doing a JJ thing." John B said finally.
"You think he'll go home?" Kie asked.
"There's about a zero percent chance that JJ goes home." Pope said.
"You okay?" John asked Sarah.
"Yeah. I'm okay." She replied. "Are you?"
"I mean, I'm in one piece, so..."
Pope sighed. "Okay. It's too dangerous to pawn this thing off piecemeal. So our best bet is to go down there and get the rest of it. Bring it all up at once. Put it in a safe or a vault or something. I don't know. Just until we can find someone who won't rip us off. Okay? I can go figure it out tonight, get it all done, and we can be out there as early as tomorrow morning."
"Alright, let's do it."
"Easy."
"What about that thing with my dad?" Sarah asked.
"Shit."
Claire finally looked up from the floor and raised her eyebrows at John B. "What thing?" She asked.
"I have to go fishing with Ward."
"You can't get four-hundred mil cause you're gonna go kill fish?" Kie questioned.
"Look, I have to go."
"Blow it off. It's four-hundred million in gold!"
"Make something up!"
"Look, I have to, okay? He...he saved me, alright? And if it weren't for Ward, I'd be in foster care. So...I have to go. Plus, it'll be better to do it at night. Right?" John B said.
"Fine. Fine. Go fishing."
"And at least JJ will probably have washed up by then."
Claire decided to walk home after she left The Wreck, even though her legs were aching and the hole in her thigh had bled a bit. It took her a total of thirteen minutes to walk home, and it took a total of thirty seconds for Jackie to start an argument as soon as she stepped inside.
