What James Did: The Accidental Time Travellers-Book 3 (16 page)

“You are quite safe to speak here Wernher.”

“No, when we get to the prisoners I need to talk to you.”  Wernher replied.

Josef nodded and picked up the pace, as did everyone else.

Chapter 31

Bonnie sat staring out of the front window of the Mercedes, observing the tanks ahead of them.  She could feel sweat pouring from her, she had never seen so many guns and guards, let alone tanks.

“What are we going to do Clyde?”  She asked.

Clyde was silent, he was smoking a cigar contemplating the same thing. 

“Clyde what are we going to do?”  She repeated.

Clyde pulled deeply on his cigar and turned to face her.  “I think we should go.”

“Now?”  She asked.

“If we wait for them and they get caught, we are fucked!”

Bonnie turned to look towards the camp, she could no longer see them.  “How will we get passed the checkpoints?  We can’t speak German.”  She took out a cigarette and lit one as well.

“So what do you think?”  Clyde asked, the sweat was now shining on his forehead.

“We need to give them some more time.”  She said, taking a draw on her cigarette.

“How much time?”  Clyde asked.

“I don’t know, but they did save us.”  She said, secretly wishing Clyde would have another idea.

He sighed.  “We have machine guns in the trunk.”  He stepped from the car and made his way to the trunk, removing the guns before sliding them into the back seat of the car.  “If they come back then at least they’ll have some fire power, the first sign of trouble and we’re gone.”

“We need to wait for Sarah and the Doctor, he gave me that machine, we can’t leave him.”

“Fine, we wait for them to come back, if no one else does then we leave.”

“I wish we had never come here.”  Bonnie spoke, almost crying.

Clyde put his hand on her lap.  “I won’t let anything happen to you Bonnie.  I love you.”

“I love you Clyde.  When we do get back to America can we go straight?”

“You want to give it all up?”

“If we keep going, we will die.  You know that as well as I do.  This way we can start afresh, a new start.  Just the two of us, no looking over our shoulders to see if they spotted us, no more death.”

“We can do whatever you want baby.”  Clyde smiled.  “We will need money though.”

Bonnie sighed.  “So what do you propose?”

“Given what Wernher’s house was like I imagine he has money, probably some valuable possessions.”

“You want to rob him?”  Bonnie laughed.

“An ideal final job.”  Clyde smiled.

“Maybe we could kill him and have his house, it was beautiful.”

“Maybe.” 

“If Jacob gets out of here are we going to kill him?”  Bonnie asked.

“Yes.”  Clyde replied confidently.

Chapter 32

The sun was beginning to break through the cream curtains, giving the first sign of light to the room.  Jane just watched him sleeping, she couldn’t believe after all these years that she had him back.  What she couldn’t believe more was that he still loved her, despite her age.  She wasn’t the beautiful woman she had once been. The years had been kind to her, but she knew people would think her a cradle snatcher if they saw them together. Salmond had seemed very surprised to find out that they were married.

She slid out from the bed silently and walked through to the living room.  Her mobile was lying on the couch, she sat down and found his number before calling.  After three rings, she heard the voice of the First Minister.

“Good morning Jane.”  He said cheerfully.

“Morning Alex, how are you?”

“Very well, are we all set for today?”

“That’s actually why I’m calling.  I can’t let him do this.”

Salmond was silent.

“I’m sorry Alex, but we haven’t managed to spend time together for a long time, for many reasons.  I will not allow him to risk his life, I’ve only just gotten him back.  He barely knows his daughter and she needs a father Alex.  I’m sure you can understand that?”

Salmond cleared his throat.  “Yes I can, I’m a little disappointed I must admit.”

“Alex if you want Abaddon dead, you can find someone else to do it.  I’m not letting my husband die for Independence.  I made an agreement with him that we would warn you, and we did that.  He sprang that on me in your office, I tried to object, and as you saw I was against it.  He is reckless, he doesn’t think things through.  He is my husband and my child’s father, we need him more than you do.”

“Of course Jane, I understand that.  I don’t want you to lose him, it was his idea remember, not mine.”

“I know that.”  She snapped.

“We can figure this out.  I’m still going to the Monument, so look out on the news, he will still have a surprise in store for him.”

“Good, I hope you know I will still do all I can to help you, just nothing dangerous.  My family is my life now.”

“Jane you are a member of my team, nothing has changed in that regard.  We can forget the whole thing.”

“Thank you.”  She said. It felt as though the weight of the world had been removed from her shoulders.

She crept back to the bedroom and slid back into bed beside Faraday, he began to stir at the disturbance.  He opened his eye and smiled at her, she smiled back.  After so many years apart it was still incredible to have him back.

“I just got off the phone with Alex Salmond.”

“Is something wrong?”  Faraday asked with concern.

“No, nothing is wrong.  I told him you couldn’t help him.” 

Faraday sat up and his face turned to one of anger.  “Why the hell would you do that?”

“Because it’s dangerous Faraday!”

“So was Dallas, but we did that.”  He snapped.

“That was a long time ago.”

“For you maybe.” 

Jane blushed.  “Don’t you want to have a life James?  We are home, we are finally home!  We have a child, we are married.  We own a pub, we can have a good life here.  There is no reason to risk all of that!”

“It’s our responsibility!”

“Is it?  If we had left well alone to begin with, Abaddon would never have become President.  We wouldn’t be in this position.  How do you know that by getting involved we won’t make things worse?” 

“But Abaddon is in power, we have to stop him!”

“This isn’t a conversation James.  This is an order.  You are not doing this and that is final.  I’ve raised our daughter for twenty-one years by myself.  She is a good kid and I won’t allow her father to kill himself.  Don’t you realise that everything we went through was to get into this position?  That was why you came back for me!  In 1969, I told you I wanted to go home, but you kept saying no.  I told you I was pregnant, and you claimed I had done it on purpose.  I put up with that shit then, but I’m not a young girl anymore, I have responsibilities and I’ve grown up.  It’s time that you did the same, and if you don’t then, that’s it for us.”

Faraday could not believe what she was saying.  “That’s it for us?”

“I’ve raised her for twenty-one years by myself and she is my daughter, she has waited her entire life to meet you.  And you are going to risk getting to know her in order to kill a man?  Don’t you realise how stupid that is?”

“You know it is the right thing to do.”  Faraday argued.

“Is it?” 

“Of course it is.”

“Most men would do the right thing by their wife and by their child.  Do we even mean anything to you?”

“Of course you do.”

“Well, it sure doesn’t seem like it.”  Jane barked. 

Faraday stared at her, he understood her point but why didn’t she understand his?  “After this I’ll stop.”

“No, if you do this it’s over.”

Faraday sighed.  “Fine, I won’t do anything.”

“Good.  I think in that spirit we should destroy the wormhole generator, let’s get back to normality.”

“Really?”  Faraday asked in surprise.

“It’s dangerous to keep hold of it, we need to move on.” 

“I don’t think we should be too hasty.”  Faraday argued.

“I’ve had enough of this.”  Jane stated.

Faraday nodded apologetically.  “Okay.”

They rose from the bed and walked through to the table in the living room, where the wormhole generator lay.  Faraday picked it up, he didn’t want to do it, but he knew it was what Jane wanted.

They were interrupted as Clint entered the flat.

“Where have you been Clint?”  Jane asked.

He looked flushed, he was wearing a black t-shirt and black jeans with a pair of black Converse trainers.

“There’s something I need to tell you both.”  He looked scared.

“What’s wrong?”

“Scarlett and Guy are about to assassinate Abaddon Wolf.”

“What?”  Jane shrieked.

“How?”  Faraday asked.

“They have some weed killer that was made illegal a few years ago for being explosive. They are going to plant it in his car.”

“This is your fault Faraday!  In twenty years she has never gotten into any trouble and you are here for one week!”

Faraday glanced at the clock that hung on the wall.  “We have one hour until he gets there, we can still make it.”  

“My car is downstairs.”  Clint advised.

“Let’s go!”  Jane yelled.

Chapter 33

As the rain thumped down on the car, Bobby managed to secure a sheet of metal between the back seats and the rear window, you couldn’t see through it and he hoped that bullets wouldn’t be able to get through it.  He struggled out of the car and joined Will and Emmerich who were standing staring at the black Volkswagen, all of the windows apart from the front window were now covered by sheets of metal and pieces of wood, it was the most hideous car they had ever seen.

“Do you think that will keep out the bullets?”  Bobby asked.

Will frowned slightly.  “Well, it should help, I don’t know if it will keep them out entirely.”

“Before we head for the gates we should try and get my family and any more people we can.”

“Emmerich it would be suicide for us not to drive this straight out of here.  If we go roaming around the camp in the car, we won’t even reach the gates.”  Will advised.

“I am not leaving without them Will, I have told you that.”

“Tell him Bobby, it's suicide.”

Bobby nodded.  “Emmerich I would have to agree.  If we try driving around the camp, they will shoot us.”

“Bobby we have to do this.  If it were your wife, you wouldn’t leave her would you?”

“I’m not married.”  Bobby replied.

“But if you were?”

Bobby sighed, he knew he had to tell the truth.  But his attention was caught by something else.

“Emmerich listen to me, please.  I am your friend.  To have any chance of living we need to leave straight away.  We can tell the Allies about this place and they can liberate the people here.  Even if they are alive, we cannot save them.”  Will tried.

“Bobby answer me.”  Emmerich said, ignoring Will.

Bobby did not reply, he was too busy watching the crowd of people that were moving towards him. It was the strangest feeling, it couldn’t be Chase that was walking towards him. 

Mengele was leading the way towards them alongside Wernher Von Braun and what appeared to be a very close relation of Von Braun.  Next was a man who Bobby did not recognise and then it was a man that was Chase’s double, he was walking beside two prisoners who also looked incredibly familiar.

“It can’t be...”  Bobby said under his breath.