"Riley!" I called out, running over to him, tears running down my cheeks. I kneeled down next to him and turned him over, trying to see where the bullet hit him. "Riley?" I quietly asked, as I checked all over his body. I felt Abigail touch me, but I roughly shrugged her off, wanting Riley to be the only on who touched me. "Riley?" I asked again a little louder.
"Caylen?" I heard a small voice call out. I looked up from Riley's chest and at his face. I breathed a sigh of relief when I saw Riley's eyes were open and he was looking at me with concern.
"Riley," I hugged him, kissing every visible part of his face. He smiled and whipped my tears with his hands. "You're not hurt?" I asked him.
"The bullet just grazed my shoulder," Riley told me, pointing at his shoulder. I grabbed the bottom of my shirt and ripped a long piece of it off. "What are you doing?" He asked me.
"Just watch." I looked up to see Ben, Abigail, and Patrick looking at us. "Umm, do you guys mind finding a way out?" I asked them as Riley scooted back to lean against the dirt wall. They nodded and I kissed Riley's cheek. He smiled and held out his bleeding arm. I took the scrap cloth and carefully wrapped it around his arm.
"Ouch!" Riley immediately took his arm away from my grasp. "That hurts." He pouted.
I grabbed his arm and brought it over to me. I held a firm grip and continued to wrap the cloth around his arm. "And if I don't do this, you'll arm will get infected and it'll hurt worse than this." I inform him. He winces and lets me finish.
"What's the point? We're all going to die anyway." Riley took his arm out of my grasp when I had finished the knot and lifted himself up. I followed him to where Ben, Patrick and Abigail were looking around the room.
"It's going to be okay, Riley." Ben patted Riley's good shoulder smiling at me. He looked down at the purple cloth on Riley bad shoulder and nodded at me. I smiled back, knowing that I had done a good job… for right now at least.
"I'm sorry I yelled at you." Ben continued. Riley shrugged and smiled at Ben.
"So what's going on? The British came by sea. It was two lanterns, not one." Abigail pointed out.
"Ian asked for another clue, so we gave him another clue." Patrick shrugged. I smiled, knowing that they would probably do that.
"It was fake. It was a fake clue." Riley looked like a light bulb had popped over his head. I couldn't stand it so I kissed his lips. He tried to deepen it, but I wouldn't allow it. We could make out when we got out of this mess.
Riley licked his lips and continued what he was saying. I tuned him out and looked at Ben. He was touching a protruding circular object. I heard him say something about an eye… and all seeing eye.
"…Either way, we're going to die." Riley finished what he was saying. I looked up at Riley. I was going to say something, but Ben beat me to it.
"Nobody's going to die." Ben turned around and smiled at us. "There's another way out."
I smiled as Riley, Abigail, and Patrick looked on confused. "It's right behind here, isn't it Ben?" I asked as I walked over to the protruding circle. I put my hand over Ben's and pushed on it. Ben smiled down on me and also pushed.
"Through the treasure room," Ben proclaimed as he pushed the door opened. I helped and Ben and I looked into darkness. I grabbed Abigail's torch and walked in… only to see nothing. No treasure, and no way out.
"What?" I asked quietly to myself. What was going on? There was supposed to be treasure and a way out… or at least a way out.
"Looks like someone got here first." Riley commented as he came up behind me. Ben had a torch in his hand and started to walk around. I handed the torch back to Patrick and he took it, giving me a small smile.
"I'm so sorry, Ben." Abigail said softly.
Ben shook his head slightly. "It's gone." He said disappointment evident in his voice. I shook my head and walked over away from everyone, near a wall. I leaned against it and thought, tuning everyone out. I knew that if they did leave the treasure in here, they would have built another way out. And if someone got here first, they knew how to get out.
I adjusted my body slightly and I brushed up against something. I turned around and looked at the wall, confused. There was another protruding circle, but with an indent in it. I looked around the rest of the wall and saw that there were things in the protruding circles.
"Why does that indent look familiar?" I muttered. Then suddenly it hit me. I knew where I had seen this indent before! The pipe that we had gotten at the ship! "Ben!" I cried out, excited that I had found something that could help us get out.
Ben turned around and I pointed at the protruding circle. "The pipe," I whispered. "The circle has an indentation of the pipe!" I smiled as Ben took out the pipe. He looked back and forth between the indentation and the base of the pipe.
"Could it really be that simple?" He whispered and put the base of the pipe into the circle. I smiled when I saw it go in. It was a perfect fit. Ben then took the long end of the pipe and stuck it in the little hole above the base of the pipe. "The secret lies with Charlotte." Ben smiled at me as he turned the circle around.
Ben smiled got bigger and I giggled as he pressed the circle into the wall. A section of the wall opened and I grabbed Ben and Riley's hands and ran inside of it. I immediately slid to a stop as I saw treasure. Lots of it. Riley smiled and looked down at me.
"We did it!" He leaned down and took my head in his hands and kissed me. I smiled into the kiss and deepened it. We broke apart and he dragged me to look at a bunch of things. I looked around at the Egypt artifacts and Riley stared up at a bluish-greenish statue.
"It's a big, bluish- green man. I'm guessing that's significant." Riley smiled and hugged the statue. I laughed and walked over to him. He let go of the statue and turned to me.
"I love you." He said, pulling me into a hug, kissing my forehead. I smiled, glad that he said it first.
"I love you, too." I kissed his cheek and a noise broke us from our romantic moment. Ben had put his torch in a holder in the middle of stairs. Little by little, the room lit up and we all stood by the banister to look at more treasure. I gasped, never seeing so many things in history before in my life. Well, expect school textbooks.
I head a sniff and looked up. Riley was standing there, looking at something ahead. "Riley, are you crying?" Abigail asked, also looking at Riley. I laughed and shook my head.
"Look, stairs," was all Riley said, pointing to a door up in a corner of the huge room. I laughed and kissed Riley again, forgetting everything, just wanting to be with him.
I sat in a pew, a medical man fixing up Riley's arm. I leaned my head on Riley's other shoulder, intertwining my fingers with his. He kept putting little kisses on my head, I guess to keep himself focused on something other than the pain. I loved this feeling. I can't believe after all this that I had found love. I didn't listen to a thing that Ben and the FBI agent were talking about. All I heard was that Ian was going to have a name change (I wished) and that Riley, the Gates family and I were going to be credited with finding the treasure. I also heard that Abigail was going to get off with nothing on her.
"I love you, Riley." I murmured. I felt him kiss my head and I smiled.
"I love you, too, Caylen." Riley told me, kissing my head multiple times. "And I can't wait to go get some sleep, with you on my side."
Three months later, Ben, Abigail, Riley and I were walking on the front of Ben and Abigail's house. "Yeah, you got it chief." Riley said into his phone. He had his phone in one hand, my hand in the other. "Thank you… bye." Riley hung up the phone and put it in his pocket. He put his arm around me and kissed the top of my head. "They want us in Cairo next week for the opening of the exhibit. They're sending a private jet." Riley informed us.
I leaned my head against Riley's chest, feeling the breeze in my hair. I looked over at Abigail, seeing her dress swirl around her legs. "Fun," She commented, swinging her hand conjoined with Ben's slightly.
"Big whoop. You could have a ton of private jets. Ten percent. They offered you ten percent and you turned it down." Riley said to Ben.
Ben sighed slightly. "Riley, we've been over this. It was too much; I couldn't accept."
"I actually have this splinter that has been for three months from an old piece of wood, and I still have the scar from when Ian shot me." Riley pointed to his finger and then his shoulder.
"You know that I told you to let me get that splinter out, but did you listen to me? No," I laughed at Riley. He smiled and kissed me.
Ben smiled slightly, stopping. We followed suit. "I'll tell you what. Next time we find treasure that redefines history for all mankind, you make the call on the finders fee." Ben shrugged. Abigail and I smiled at each other. We had really gotten closer in these last few months.
"It's not as funny. What do you care, anyway? You got Abigail. And I got this lovely, wonderful, beautiful, awesome, gorgeous… You know that I could go on for hours." Riley smiled, kissing me again. I shook my head and made my way to his red Ferrari that he bought with his percent. "So enjoy your spoils while I sit on one percent. One stinkin' percent. Half of one percent actually… One percent." He said as he jumped into his car.
"You really need to stop doing that." I told him, giving Ben and Abigail hugs. I opened the passenger's side car door and slid into the seat, closing the door after me.
"I'm sorry for you're suffering, Riley." Ben said, winking at me. I laughed and shook my head, running my fingers through my red hair. Riley handed me a pair of sunglasses and I put them on while he did the same with his own.
"For the record Ben. I like the house." Riley smirked as he put the key into the ignition. I nodded and smiled up at Ben and Abigail.
"It's really big." I pointed out.
"You know, I chose this estate because in 1812, Charles Carroll met…" Ben started but Riley intervened.
"Yeah, someone who did something in history and had fun. Great, wonderful." Riley said sarcastically. I shook my head as he revved up the engine. "Could've had a bigger house." Riley said in a sing-song voice. He backed the car out of the drive way and made his way away from Ben and Abigail's place.
"Where are we going?" I asked, trying to keep the hair out of my face, but gave up after a little bit. Riley smiled at me.
"I'm taking you home," He told me. We had recently moved in close to where Ben and Abigail lived. I wanted to be closer to them because I was going back to be working with Abigail in the Archives. I couldn't wait.
"And what will you do when we get there?" I asked suggestively. Riley raised an eyebrow.
"You'll see when we get there." I smirked and started kissing his neck. He shuddered and shrugged me off. "Don't do that." He chuckled slightly.
"You know I'm not ready, anyway." I smiled. He smiled back and kissed me quickly before turning his attention to the road.
"I know. I love you Caylen."
"I love you too, Riley."
A/N: I feel so sad! This is the end of this story. I can't wait till the second movie comes out on DVD so I can start writing the sequal!!! I already have a few ideas. And I'm sure a lot of people won't like one idea, but I think it would be good for the plot. Anyway, I like reviews! It would make me feel better about finishing this story. I love you all! And I can't wait to hear from my reviwers soon(in a different story)!!! Love, Alissa.