Desperado - Chapter 10
Many exhausting miles and hours later Robyn turns off the motor and opens the door. They finally shook the police off and found their way back to the hut. You can see the exhaustion and stress in their eyes. But he seems kind of content. At least here nobody would come searching for them.
"Fuck, I need to rest..." J mumbles as they enter the hut.
"Let's get some rest, and tomorrow we'll get going..." Robyn says as they both lay down on the rusty couches. She knows really well she won't close her eyes for a second tonight. And while she has been plotting revenge the past week, J has been living a lie thinking things were good again between them. He thinks all this got them even closer now. And he's wrong. Robyn just lays there calmly until she hears him starting to snore. He's asleep. Let the games begin she thinks to herself. A few days ago she searched through the hut to see if there's anything useful in it. And she found what she was searching for. Chloroform. As if the universe was trying to help her find justice. All she had to do now is make him breath it in and he'll be gone for a few hours. Next step: The montecarlo.
"Baby, I'm coming for you." She says to herself as she gets into the Chevy. She still remembers the town where they sold the beautiful car and it was just a few miles away from where their hut is. An hour later and some cheap story that she had to sell the fat man, also a few too many dollars lighter, she's back in the montecarlo. Her plan slowly starts to become reality.
"Alright... now what..." she whispers to herself as she's parked at the side of the road, still in the small town. She knew what she wanted to do, and how, but still even after all the shit he put her through she felt like maybe that wasn't the right thing to do. But she needed to know where the money was. And about all the other shit J might have pulled off. She deserved the truth, and he deserved to be left somewhere all alone on the road, with all the money he gained from betrayal taken from him. "Yeah. I'm doing this." she quietly says, grabbing the steering wheel really tight, as she decides she just has to go through with her plan.
She didn't know how to get back to the hut without a car, so she just figured she could somehow knock out J and take him and the other car to montecarlo town. That way she just would have to tramp back to this town after placing the montecarlo at the showdown spot. Where she already planned to end it all. A road by a cliff, they passed that place earlier during the chase and it seemed perfect. Her plan was good, but also risky. Robyn wanted to fake rob a bank to get the police's attention and eventually get J arrested and flee with all the money. This was the best chance to get away, since the road by the cliff had many little getaway and hiding spots, and there wasn't any other bigger town close either so she wouldn't be in danger of driving right into the police of the next town. She just would have to get rid of the ones behind her.
All set, she walks back to where she left the red chevy and drives back to the hut. As she arrives there, she sits down at the table, watching J sleep. Lowkey still contemplating if she should go through with her plan. He’s evil, bus is she evil, too? She found a bottle of whiskey in the back of some drawer earlier and takes a sip. Damn, that shit is probably the grossest thing she ever put in her mouth, so she loudly coughs it back out.
"What are you doing?" J says with a raspy voice as he notices Robyn had been sitting there in the dark, watching him.
"Nothing. Thinking." Robyn gets a little bit nervous as she remembers, this man managed to throw Michael off the roof.
"Why are you sitting there in the dark?"
"What, you expect me to sit here with all the lights on and loud music having a lil party until you wake up? Should have called the police to ask if they wanna have a drink too huh?"
"Oh my god calm down!" he shouts. There is quiet for a second until he keeps talking. "Look I think we should split up. I'll take my part of the money and you'll take yours. We'll be safer that way."
Oh this sneaky motherfucker, Robyn thinks to herself. She etst up, the whisky bottle still in her hand.
"What?" he sys, looking at her. Out of nowhere Robyn snaps.
"YOU BASTARD!" she screams as she jumps towards him trying to hit his head with the bottle. He manages to throw her off himself onto the nightstand next to the bed. "FUCK!" she slowly gets up again, holding her side.
"Try this shit one more time and I'm going to kill you." he says as he slowly backs away, grabbing the car keys off the table and walking out the door.
"JASPER!!" she's furious now, running after him trying not to pay attention to the pain in her ribs. He already reached the car and was about to get in. She shuts the door close so he wouldn't.
"Back off." he says calmly with a dangerous look on his face.
"Give me the keys." she says with a shaky voice, her side hurts real bad.
"Or what?" he says, chuckling and looking at her as if he’s anything better, as if heÄs not the most bitter living human being on this planet. Robyn reaches back to hit him but he blocks it, punches her in her side and throws her to the groud. She exhales in pain and already slowly starts to see blurry.
"Fuck you Jasper, you're the devil!" she almost cries out, angrily kicking for his feet as he stands there with the most disgusting look on his face. He tries to kick her away so he could get into the car, but when he takes a step Robyn manages to make him stumble. He lands with his arm on a rock, now painfully screaming too. Robyn shouts out in pain, crawling towards his head. She takes a stone which is laying next to him and tries to hit him but he blocks her again, rolling on top of her and attempting to choke her. His grip is suddenly so tight, Robyn’s dangerously close to passing out. She manages to get her hands up to his face and push her thumbs into his eyeholes. He screams out but still doesn’t stop ckoking her, so she puts together all the strength she has and pushes even harder. He lets go and hits her again before taking care of his eyes for a second. Robyn, all blurry again from the punch, tries to find the stone she just tried to use. Just as she finds it, J is back at it again, trying to rip it out of her hand. She leans forward and makes him fall backwards off of her and in that milisecond where he doesn’t pay attention, she smashes the stone against his skull.
Quiet.
Robyn falls back wards, trying to calm down her breathing. She can’t faint now, she wouldn't wake up again. If he saw her laying there, who knows what he'd do when he wakes up again. She rolls to the side and pushes herself off the ground. J’s still laying there, unconscious. How is she suppose to pull this off now. It feels like he might have broken one of her ribs and her voice was gone too. She tries to focus and runs back to the hut as fast as she can, grabs the chloroform and a towel and runs back outside. To her shock J is awake again, trying to pull himself up by the car door, holding his head. Without wasting any second she runs up to him, pushes him backwards so he falls to the groud again, puts the towel against his face and the bottle against the towel. He’s gone two seconds later.
Getting him into the car probably took her half an hour, and tying him up properly took probably just as long. As she’s done, she doesn’t even have the strength to turn the key anymore. She just passes out right there.
A thumping voice wakes Robyn up again. The first thing she notices wis her entire body aching. Her head feels as if it’s about to explode, her torso feels numb and her arm is also still hurting. She’s probably lucky she even woke up again considering the amout of blood she had lost. She tries to move but everything just hurts so bad and her throat’s really dry. Luckily there’s some water in the side of the door and she manages to drink some of it. Slowly gaining her consciousness back she looks to her right side, where the thumping noise comes from. J is already wide awake again, trying to open the door and somehow free himself. He notices she’s awake again and starts screaming into the piece of cloth she had bound around his head to make him shut up. Robyn doesn’t have the nerve to cope with him right now, so she searches for the chloroform in the back and knocks him out with it again.
"We're becoming best friends, huh?" she says as she puts the bottle back again and throws out the towel she used it on. She doesn’t wanna pass out too by inhaling that stuff by accident. She then opens the door and tries to walk a few meters. "Alright, just walk the pain out." she tells herself with a painful face. A few times back and forth it already became a bit better but she still doesn’t know how she will be able to even pull this whole plan off anymore.
First step is getting new clothes. She gets back into the car and takes off. Somewhere along the road there was a small roadhouse where she got herself a new shirt and some new pants, she also switched her wristwatch for the leather jacket of an old man who sat there at the bar. At least now she looks a tiny bit nice. Last thing: getting some glasses which are big enough to cover her bruised eyes. She walks back to the car which she had parked behind the building and looks at herself in the backmirror. "Well I look a little less fucked up now, that's something..." she says, looking at J as if he could hear her. She then drives off.
About an hour later it’s already dawning, Robyn arrives in the small town, still unsure about how exactly she will pull all this off. She still has to talk to J to find out what he’s done with the third money bag. And what else he might have done. Since he slowly began moving again, Robyn parked the car somewhere in a dark alley and took off the piece of cloth. He tried to say something but his throat was too dry to even get out a single noise. "Here..." Robyn said as she put a bottle of water to his mouth. He doesn’t hesitate and drinks the whole thing in one take. "Alright... I want to talk to you. Calmly. One word that's a tiny bit too loud and this dirty thing will be back on your face." she says pointing at the piece of cloth. He considers his options for a moment but then nodds.
"Where is the third money back J. I know you have it, I know you planned something with it and I know you screwed us all over."
"How often do you want me to say this, I don't have it!" he says, insisting on his story.
"Where is it then? Did this big ass bag of money just walk away by itself?"
"Robyn, please believe me. You don't seriously think none of the guys had bad intentions. Everyone of them probably had a plan B if something went wrong, if they got busted by the police or some shit."
"Oh and you didn't? That's probably why you also weren't the shithead who put the diamond into my jeans."
"Listen to me, you were the only person in there who I trusted Robyn, why would I turn on you?" he says with a begging expression on his face.
"I don't know. Jealousy? Don't tell me you care about anything but yourself Jasper. Don't play the nice guy here.You're a sick, bad and dangerous man. There's not an inch of any good in you." she says, looking at him with disgust.
"Robyn please. Someone framed me you have to believe me. They framed me and got away with it! And you're doing exactly what they want you to. Turn on me and punish me for that shit!"
"Make me believe you, convince me it wasn't you and I'm letting you go! It's that easy. Talk. And if you can't just fucking tell me where the money is." a tiny part of Robyn wants to believe him. But there’s just no sign that doesn’t make him look guilty.
"I was jealous, I was! But I wouldn't have survived that long in there without you Robs. I know I acted like an asshole and I'm sorry for that, but what was I suppose to do, watching you getting it on with adonis Michael." he says, his eyes slowly filling with tears.
"What are you even saying, what does Michael have to do with you acting like a retard? he didn't hide money to fuck everybody else over, he was a good man! He was honest and he had a good heart! And you took him from me!" Robyn screams at J now and her voice is getting shaky again. She looks away and punches the steering wheel out of anger. "You took him..." she repeats, trying to hold back her tears as she thinks about Michael.
"I'm sorry Robyn. I really am. It was an accident. That whole thing, everything about the clique and the coups, everything just went horribly wrong. But please don't misinterpret me being jealous of you and Michael as me plotting bad things for you cause I wasn't."
„You can’t expect that from me J…“ Robyn says, getting quieter again. „You would react the same way, hell probably even worse. I mean even the fact I’m letting you explain right now is crazy. I thought about ways to take revenge on you so much, I ran out of ideas. Someone who hurt me so bad, deserves all the hate I have.“
„Please don’t say that. I can’t live with that.“ J says now with a whiny voice. Robyn looks at him as tears start rolling down his cheek.
„What is it about you? Why are you suddenly so emotional after all the shit you’ve done?“
„I… fuck, I love you Robyn, that’s why. That’s the reason for everything. The fight with Michael, the way I mistreated you when y’all got together. It was all because I’ve been in love with you since the first time I saw you.“ he says. Robyn just shakes her head.
„How you got say you’ve been in love with me all this time, when you just tried to kill me a few hours earlier? Sorry but I don’t want to put up with this bullshit anymore.“ She shrugs and takes a clean piece of cloth out the back of the car, binds it around J’s mouth again not caring about him trying to stop her or talk her out of it or confess his fake love again. „I’ll be back soon.“ she says as she locks the door and leaves him there in the car.