A COUPLE OF minutes later while the four teens catches their breath and stayed silent, JJ looks at the front. "Could someone fill me in on what the frick just happened?" He exclaimed.

Pope groaned, angrily. "Holy crap. I can't believe it. Wait, wait. What were they fighting over?" JJ turned to him. "Uh... it was--it was a gun, the one Rafe used. He must have kept it." the heyward boy, explained.

"Of course! Of course! The murder weapon!" Nate spoke up, as he looked at his brother then at Pope.

"Pick up! Pick up!" Kie says, sounding panicked.

Nate turned to his girlfriend, "Who are you calling?" He asked her, confusedly.

"Who do you think?" Kie looked back at him, looking scared.

"The cops?" Pope asked her.

Kie looks back at him. "Who else am I supposed to call?" She raised her voice.

"Why would you call the police? That was Ward! It's Ward!" JJ shouted at her as someone answered the call.

"Shut up!" Kie yells back at him before she looked to the front. "Hello? Hi, somebody's been shot at the... at the Grand Street construction site! You guys need to hurry because he's dying. I don't know if he's already dead or not! But you guys need to hurry, please!" She begged, to the operator.

"We gotta get out of here. We're sitting ducks." Nate told her, as he placed his hand, on top of hers and squeezing it gently.

"We can't stay here." Pope explained, looking at the front.

"What do you want me to do?" Kie asked them, looking back.

"Let's get out of here, okay?" Nate told her, in a calmly way.

Kiara looked at her boyfriend, and nodded as she turned her engine on.

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THE FOUR Pogues arrived back at the construction area, where Shoupe was standing in front of him, "Look, it was right here, and this is where that maniac claimed his next victim." Kie pointed, where Gavin was laying.

"Uh-huh. His next victim?" Shoupe asked.

Kiara nodded, "Yeah,"

"Right. How long ago did you say it happened?" Shoupe asked, again.

"Forty-five minutes ago, Shoupe." Nate said, as he stood beside Kiara.

"Okay," Shoupe started to write down, in his notepad. "And so, Ward Cameron just popped one off and shot him." He questioned, again.

"Yes," Kie answered, as she held onto Nate's arm.

"Execution style? And then cleaned it all up in 45 minutes?" Shoupe asked, as he looked at the teens in front of him.

"Yeah." Nate said, as he nodded.

"Obviously," Pope spoke up, as he glanced at Shoupe.

"We filmed the entire thing," Nate informed, the Sheriff in front of him.

"You filmed it?" Shoupe glanced up from his notepad, and questioned the younger Maybank.

"Yeah, but we can't show it because my brother stepped on my hand, and then I kicked Pope in the face, and he dropped the camera and it broke." Nate said, as he placed his hand in his pockets.

"This is a telephoto, and we needed to get a long distance image, and...and...and I fell, and it broke, so the video is basically unusabale. But...but we were there, and we're wit--" Pope tried to explain.

"So the dog ate your homework?" Shoupe cut off the Heyward boy.

"No, Shoupe. I know how it sounds--"

"Look, I don't know what you kids expect me to do with this." Shoupe cut off the younger Maybank, as he looked at the blonde. "You drag me out here in the middle of the night for a whole lot of nothing." He says, as he looked at Kiara.

Kie steps forward. "No, it's not nothing." She argued.

"Except for some crazy stories about how Ward Cameron's out on a random killing spree." Shoupe said.

"We're not making this shit up!" Nate raised his voice, as he stepped forward.

"It's not a random killing spree! Gavin was his pilot!" Pope said, glancing between the brothers and Kiara. "Okay, he was paying him hush money because he was on the tarmac that day." He explained, more.

"Gavin was blackmailing Ward because he had the gun that Rafe used to kill Peterkin." Kiara added, after the Heyward boy.

"And then he called him here and tried to pay him off. But it wasn't enough, and then so he shot him." JJ says.

Pope nods his head, as he spoke up. "Exactly."

"With the murder weapon." Nate added, as he crossed his arms.

"How do you know that?" Shoupe asked, glancing around at them.

"Well, I did this thing with my phone, where I put it inside Gavin's car-" Nate explained, "I heard the whole conversation."  he continued as he ran his hand through his blonde hair.

"You wiretapped him?" Shoupe questioned, as he pointed towards him.

"Is that bad?" Kie asked, worriedly.

"Stop. Just stop." Shoupe told them, as JJ and Nate shared a glance. "I've had enough."

"What? Are you gonna look the other way again?" Nate questioned, as he raised his voice.

Shoupe started to walk away from the four teens, while the four followed closely behind. "You ever heard about the boy who cried wolf?" Shoupe asked them.

"Why would we make this up?" Kie questioned.

"Why can't you believe us for once?" Nate asked.

"Waste of my goddamn time." Shoupe said as he walked down the stairs, while Kie, Nate and JJ following him.

"Why would we lie?" Kie questioned, again.

"Listen Shoupe, I know it sounds crazy. We know that!" Nate said, as he looked at Shoupe.

Alright, there's nothing up there, false alarm. Let's all go home." Shoupe tells the other officers.

"No, no, please don't go home. No. Why would we make this up? Can't you just do your job for like 20 minutes?" Kie asked him.

Shoupe turns towards them, "Hey. I...I know..." He tried to say.

"Just listen. It makes sense!" Kie says, as Nate placed his hand on her waist.

"I know you're upset. And I know you think your friend was innocent." Shoupe says.

"He is!" Kie exclaimed.

"But you weren't there. The only actual witnesses who are above ground say the exact opposite. Alright? And both of them have a hell of a lot more credibility than any of you right now." Shoupe says as he pointed at them. "I saw your little art project on Ward's wall." He continued, as he then looked at Kie. Nate turns his head to look at his girlfriend. "Do not do that again." Shoupe told her.

"Oh, come on!" Kie says.

"All right?" Shoupe said, "Gonna make things a lot harder for the both of us." He told the Carrera girl as he opened his car, before he turned his head towards the four pogues, standing there. "Go home." He told the the other officers, as he got in his car and his police sirens chirps.

"At least look for him!" Kie shouted out. Pope slowly turned away, and started to walk away from his friends. "Someone died tonight!"

"Get on home to your parents now." Shoupe told them

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Nate, Kie, JJ and Pope all walked side by side, JJ turns to his brother and Kiara, "I told you this would happen." He told them. "Like, you're the one that had to drop the camera." JJ turned to Pope as Nate looked between his brother and the Heyward boy.

"Bro it was my fault, I kicked him in the face." Nate spoke up, as JJ glanced at him.

"Yeah! It is your fault!" Pope said, raising his voice, as he got into Nate's face, as Kie pulled her boyfriend away as JJ stood in front of Pope who shook his head at the Heyward boy.

Once everything was calmed down Nate spoke up. "Look guys, we're not out of this yet, okay? We can still go get the gun." He told them, as he had his arm around Kie.

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THE NEXT day the pogues were at the north drain, and pulling out trash bags from it, "Well, that was fun." JJ spoke up, as he throws one of the trash bags onto the ground.

"If it's not in the trash, then it's gotta be in the storm drain." Pope said as he gestured towards the hole.

"It's the... it's in the drain." Nate said, as he placed his hands on his waist.

"Damn it." Pope says.

"Of course it is." Kie says, as she nodded.

JJ turned to Nate's backpack. "Good thing we brought the crow." He says, as he dig through the bag.

"So, are we gonna do, like, rock, paper, scissors?" Kie questioned, as she looked at her boyfriend then at JJ and Pope. "Or alphabetically? Or like oldest goes?"

"No." JJ replied, while the boys get the gate opened.

"In the sewer there's this worm that you get when you're down there," JJ started, "It gets into your blood and then it has to come out your pecker, so uh that would be a hard pass for me"

Nate grimaced, looking at his brother, then Pope, then his girlfriend, "That gonna be a no for me," Pope nodded.

Nate shook his head, and turned to his girlfriend, "I'll go in," he told her, as he took of his jacket.

"Nate," Kie looked at him, worriedly.

"I'll be fine," Nate gave her a reassuring smile, as he pecked her cheek.

"Nate I-" Kie began to say but JJ cut her off.

"Bro the worms gonna get in your pecker," JJ told his brother.

Nate turns his head to him, "Bro, your being stupid." he tells his brother.

"N i'm being serious," JJ said, as he placed his hand on his shoulder.

"Who told you that?" Nate questioned.

"It's common knowledge bro," JJ ruffled Nate's hair, as he told him.

"OK, but I'm still going in," Nate tells him.

"Be careful, okay?" Kie told him, with a smile.

Nate looked back at his girlfriend, and smiled. "Always," Nate turned around and made his way down to the sewer opening. He began to crawl into the sewer.

"Just uh holler if you need anything, okay?" JJ called out to his brother, "We'll uh, we'll holler back"

"Uh, thanks I guess," Nate's voice echoed back to them as he kept moving.

"Nate you find anything yet?" Pope spoke into the tunnel.

"No, not yet." Nate said, as he looked around in the tunnel.

"Nate it's probably at the bottom of the catch basin," Pope suggested to the blonde.

Nate finally made his way to the end of the tunnel, "what the fuck? that's just gross," he looked at the black water, in front of him. He slides out of the tunnel, and into the water where the water has raised to his waist. He looked up to see a manhole above him, and then placed his hands into the water to dig through it. "Yo! Guys!" He called out, "I think I found something!"

"Nate, what did you find it?" Kiara's voiced echoed towards her boyfriend.

"Is it the gun?" Pope asked.

"WTF! Guys I think somethings dead down here!" Nate shouted out, towards them as he threw away what was in his hand through the water.

"Like a person?" Pope questioned.

"No! I don't know!" Nate shouted back.

"Bro don't touch it! that's how you get worms in your pecker!" JJ shouted.

"Babe did you find the gun? Is it Gavin?" Kiara questioned, her boyfriend.

Nate kept moving along in the water, trying to find the gun, until the water started to make a gurgling sound behind him, making his eyes go wide. "Oh shit," the water slowly starting to rising around him. "Guys, the water!"

"Nate get out of there now!" JJ shouted out, worried.

"I can't! It's coming too fast!" Nate shouted back, the water kept flowing around him, he grabs onto the ladder next to him, and he rushed up the ladder. "Fuck! Guys!" He shouted out, "Kie! JJ! Pope! Guys help!" He felt something touch him, he holds his breath as he goes into the water, and grabbing the gun, he comes back up and puts it on the waistband of his pants. "Guys! I'm over here!" Nate tried to push it open but it wouldn't budge.

Kiara, JJ and Pope rushed over when they see his fingers were poking out of the manhole,

"Nate!" Kie shouted, worriedly.

"Guys! do something!" Nate shouted.

The three tried to open up the sewer grate, as Nate continued to push with them, "Guys!" Nate called out, as the water was now to his neck, he held his breath as he was fully submerged in the water, until it the grate finally bursted open. Nate pulled himself up, trying to catch his breath as he coughed.

"Nate!" Kie shouted out. "I was so worried!"

Nate continued to cough as he got his breath, "You okay, bro?" JJ asked, worriedly.

"I'm good," Nate ran his fingers through his hair, before he looked at Kie and smiled. Kie quickly embraced her boyfriend, in a tight hug, "Kie, I'm covered in shit," Nate chuckled, as he ran his hands up and down her back, as he placed a kiss on her forehead.

"I don't care," Kie said, into his chest.

"Also, was this what we were looking for?" Nate said as he pulled the gun out of his waistband, as he showed the gun in his free hand.

JJ gave his brother a proud smile, as he took out his bandanna, as Nate passes the gun to him and JJ wrapped the gun inside it."Bro, I'm so proud of you right now." he patted his brother on the shoulder, "Oh my god." they all initiated in a group hug.

"Let's get this to Shoupe." Nate told them as he pulled away from his girlfriend, his brother and Pope.

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"So y'all are telling me this is the firearm, Rafe Cameron killed Peterkin with?" Shoupe said as he looked at the gun in front of him.

"That's exactly what we're telling you, Shoupe." Nate spoke up, as he sat next to Kiara.

"And the exact same firearm Ward used to kill Gavin," Pope added.

"And where's that corpse, again?" Shoupe asked.

"Didn't you look?" Kie questioned.

"I checked the hospital, I went by his house, he was out," Shoupe answered.

"He was out?" Nate asked.

"No shit! Cause he's dead!" the older maybank shouted.

Both Kie and JJ started to shout over each other.

"Just because he's not in his damn home," Shoupe shouted, as Kie and JJ both stopped talking. "Just because he's not in his damn home does not mean he was a victim of a homicide." Shoupe tells them, as he looked between the four teens.

"What are you talking about?" Nate asked, as he stood up beside his brother and Pope.

"Are you at least gonna send it in for ballistics and shit or are you just gonna sit on your ass?" Kiara shouted.

"He'll sit there and wax that damn mustache," Nate raised his voice, as he ran his fingers through his hair frustratedly.

Pope turned to the younger maybank, and pushed him back. "Shut up, Nate!"

Nate was about to say something, but Kie grabbed his arm and squeezed it.

"Its not fair!" Kie turned her attention back to Shoupe.

Shoupe walked over to his office door, and opened it then turned back to the four, "Get out. I got work to do." he tells them.

"Are you serious?"

"And ya'll are smelling up my damn office." Shoupe told them, as he gestured towards the door.

Kie got up and turned to face Shoupe, "Did Ward bribe you? This doesn't make any sense." the Carrera said, as she looked at him.

"You ain't gonna do shit," JJ said, discreetly as he walked out, and Kie walked over to her boyfriend and grabbed his arm as the couple exited the office, leaving Pope last to leave.

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NATE AND KIE were now outside Heywards, as Nate was showering while Kie waited for him to finish, once Nate finished his shower, he placed his hoodie over him as he puts his arm around Ke as they walked to the small bench in front of them, "I feel like an actual human being again," he chuckled, as he placed his chin above her head.

"I know," Kie looked down at their hands, as she begins to play with his fingers, then looking up at him with a small smile. "I can't believe Shoupe isn't helping us," she said.

"I know, but we'll think of something, okay?" Nate said, as he ran his hand up and down her arm, as Kie looked up at him, and nodded at him as she pulled his head down for a kiss.