MATILDA! CHAPTER TWENTY NINE:
FREAKY POPE
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After school they walked out of the wreck, and down to the docks. They needed a plan. if they were gonna clear his name they needed to outsmart Ward Cameron. "I never doubted them"

"I owe you give bucks"

"Hey Kiara, I need those setups done by five"

"There are other people that work here!"

"None of them my children!"

"I feel that on a deep emotional level, I understand that" Pope said as they sat down at the docks

"So we going to the Bahamas or what?"

"There's no way we're getting to the Bahamas"

"John Bs gonna get nabbed sooner or later so if we're gonna clear his name we need to have done it like yesterday" Liz told them

"I'll tell you how we do it"

"So you have it all planned out?"

"I'm sure this will be good" Liz said sarcastically

"As I matter of fact I do— we kidnapp Rafe"

"I'm sorry what?"

"We kidnapped Rafe, tie him up and stick the gun in his mouth and just wait til he starts squawking

"You know, tortures a war crime"

"Yeah, so how exactly do you plan on clearing John Bs name from a prison cell. Because that's a felony"

"Alright well what do you got Pope?" JJ asked as he sat next to Liz "I was just trying to keep it simple, one stop, and we're done"

"Guys all we need is a material witness. We saw wards plane fly right over our heads with the gold inside of it. He didn't fly it, someone was there in the tarmac, they saw Peterkin get murdered. We just have to find whoever that was and get them to confess on record."

"How do we do that?" Kiara asked

"A little light espionage"

"A little ghost recon"

"Woogity Woogity" Pope stick out his fingers and they all connected their fingers and wiggled them

"Woogity Baby!"

"If this guy flew planes for Ward he's gotta be pretty tight lipped" Liz told the group as they drove in Kies parents Car, Liz sat in the back with JJ.

"So than direct approach gets my vote" JJ said as he loaded his gun

"JJ no" Liz scolded the boy and pushed the gun down

"No, what?"

"Put the gun down, man!"

"Guys we gotta keep this simple, or we'll never get John B off"

"Or we just tickle the wire"

"What?"

"We tickle the wire. I plant my phone in his car, and than we listen in on your airpods. Say something" Pope told Kie as as he held the phone to her mouth

"Something" The audio repeated on the airpods

"Okay. We have audio" Pope said

"Okay I think that's his house over there" they stopped at a random house "honk or Uh... or yell if you see anything suspicious"

"don't do anything dangerous" Kie told Pope

"Come on, I'm not JJ" Pope joked before going off towards the house slowly

"Funny Pope. Me and Liz love third wheeling. It's our favourite thing" JJ said sarcastically

"Come on, don't act like you to aren't all over each other all the time"

"At least we can admit it" Liz spoke "How's it been going? With Pope and all?" She asked

"It's good"

"It's good? Alright" Liz put her legs across JJ to be comfortable

"In the bedroom is he like, kinda freaky cause it's Pope, you know?"

"Does he like repeat the periodical table to you or something?" Liz asked in a joking way while laughing

"Why are you asking?"

"I don't know just kinda curious, we're just spitballing here"

"You guys don't need to spitball. We could sit in silence"

"Ranking wise" JJ continued to ask Kie questions

"Your still asking?" She asked turning to face the two in the back

"Yeah I was just curious"

"Your still curious?"

"Yeah" he spluttered "is John B better?"

"JJ" Liz said in a warning tone

"What?" Kie asked him in almost disgust

Pope re-entered the car
"Okay, phase one is complete" they said nothing as Liz had a look of slight discomfort on her face.

"Everything—are we all good?" He asked

"Yeah, we're good"

They pulled up to the guy named Gavins house, around 9 pm that night to officially start the plan.

"Why does she get to tickle?" JJ asked

"She's the best"

"of course you would know that" Liz muttered but JJ heard and chucked

"Should I do an accent?"

"Definitely disguise your voice"

"Disguise my voice how?" Kie questioned in a British accent "like how do you want me to talk?"

"Not like that"

"Definitely not"

"Not like that no"

"Batman" Liz told her

"Batman" Kie spoke in a low voice

"Spot on, let's do this"

Kie dialled the mans number and called him, putting him on speaker so they could all hear.
"Hello?" He answered

"Hello—I can't" Kie told them after a second of doing a low voice

"Just talk"

"Hello?" Gavin asked again

"Is Gavin there?"

"This is Gavin. Who is this? hello?"

"I know what happened on the tarmac"

The man chuckled "Uh... who is this?"

"It was Rafe Cameron. But you already knew that, and you lied about it"

"Okay, who is this?"

"We're gonna prove it"

"Your gonna tell me who this is right now"

"You could have saved her, Gavin, and you didn't. Your not getting away with this"

"Listen to me! Who is this?" Kie hung up the phone

"How was that?"

"Yeah, I was scared."

"Good job Kiki" Liz said

"All right. we tickled the wire. Phase to complete. Now we wait and listen"

they waited outside, as he drove out staying low to make sure he couldn't see them.
"That's him"

"He didn't see us"

"Hit it"

"Go, go, go, go , go , go, go"

"My seat belt!" Pope struggled to try and get his on

"Oh my god" Cassie groaned

"Are you seriously buckling up now?"

"Yes I am"

"You don't need it right now!"

They followed Gavin on the road as he drove.

"It's Ward, he's talking to Ward" Pope repeated what was going on back to the three of them

"Are you serious?"

"Get closer, I can't hear. I can't hear... He's talking about renegotiating something—He's got the gun that Rafe used to Kill Peterkin"

"Holy shit"

"I think he's trying to use it as extortion, as leverage." Pope told them before Gavins car started to pull to the side

"Wait he's pulling over" Kie said

"Shit he's panicking"

"Do I pull behind him? What do I do?"

"Just go around the blocks yeah jsut go"

"Go, go, go"

"I cant hear anything, I'm losing the signal"

Kie turned as they saw a road block sign, with construction
"What is this?"

"Stop, just stop and tuned around."

"Pull in here, pull in here and backup"

Kie went to backup, and than a bill dozer came out with a few men signalling it

"Are you kidding me?"

"Hey, we were about to backup!" JJ told the workers through the door

"What are you doing?" Kie asked as Pope got out of the car and ran

"We gotta know where there meeting!"

"We're going after him right?" JJ asked and both girls nodded

"Yep"

"You can't leave that car here!" The workers yelled

"Sorry!"

"We'll get it later!"

They ran after Pope following him through people's backyards
"Pope! Pope!" They called after him as he jumped a fence and they jumped over quickly, and they entered a backyard of four teenagers in a pool. (the one guy looked like Bryce Hall I hope you know what I mean)

"Sean? Oh this is where you live you kook" JJ said as They got to Pope, as he looked out of breath but started to look up at them in disbelief, shaking slightly at the apparent information he'd heard.

"What does that mean?" Liz asked

"Did you hear something?"

"He... he's meeting Ward right now. We gotta go, come on, come on!"