Chapter 23 - Shipment to Glasgow

Sam took the unconscious Gerald and Lucas to his train, he put them on a separate room, his train has 9 rooms in total including the monitoring room, they put them into the 8th room before Eliza and Lucius who are locked up in the last room. Zelbert saw the men dragging Gerald and Lucas, his heart is broken, he want to stop them but he can't, so he just turned around and released some tears, his father notices it.

"What is it son?"

"Not..nothing.."

His father has no idea that it was his son's friends who are being locked up in the train that his father operates.

"You sure? Have you eaten your dinner?"

"Yes Dad..."

Zelbert's father noticed a tear on his eyes, he thought that his son is uncomfortable so he comforted it.

"Don't worry son, after everything, we can finally return home and start again without your mother."

Zelbert doesn't actually know what happened to his mother, only his father told him is his mother ran away with her new partner.

Back in the celebration, William and Willie talked with their cousins, Hugh wasn't there because he's outside with Junior.

"Your Grandpa must be so happy tonight, he finally won." said Hugh while drinking

"I'm sorry about the exposure of your business..To be honest, it's not actually Uncle Willie did that, someone made him to do it."

"It's okay Junior, it already happened, besides, my family starting to accept it..By the way, where's Eliza? You should have brought her here. My staffs said that she never went back on her duties since last week."

"She didn't told you?"

"About what?"

"She said that she left you a message at your home saying tha she'll resign because she found a decent job."

"Oh dear..My wife received it."

"And she didn't told you?"

"She doesn't like me helping other people especially with girls."

"Ive been contacting Eliza since this morning but no response, now I tried to call her but she can't be reached, there's something wrong here Uncle Hugh."

"You're trying to say that Eliza was taken away? And you're accusing my wife?"

"Yes and no..Irina is framing you and Aunt Susan, they know that you're running more than a clubbing business, they know everything about you Uncle Hugh..Irina and his lover Sam Westerby will use your family's possession in Pemberley as the main suspect of our accident tomorrow."

Junior told his Uncle Hugh about everything and hoped for his help tomorrow, but it's not gonna be easy because Hugh is still doubting if he truly believes what Junior has been telling him.

"Uncle Hugh, I know you're doubting..But I know you always believed on Eliza as much as she trusted you.. I'll update you if we can find Eliza, I know she's in trouble and us too...I trust in you Uncle Hugh, you may be the biggest criminal in entire UK, but you're not a bad person, I see you the way Eliza see you.." said Junior while going back inside.

Junior finally interacts with his second cousins with the same age as his, they elected him as the leader in their generation because the throne will be passed onto him in the future. Most of his cousins are males, only 6 out of 25 cousins are females, it's really rare for their bloodline to have females.

The celebration has ended, the staffs are cleaning the hall, only them left, the children is already asleep, Junior is in the terrace holding a bottle of wine with his mom.

"It really suits you Junior."

"I loved it mom, thank you again.."

Emily hugged his son

"You should stop hugging me Mom..Billy is watching us.."

"No it's okay William...Mom is already sick hugging me."

"No it's not that Billy..come here.." said Emily while pulling Billy to hug him too.

"Oh it feels good to be hugged by Mom with my older brother, this is how Ellie felt when Mom hug us before sleeping." said Billy while being hugged. "Oi William can I drink that wine too?" he added while looking at the wine in Junior's hand.

"No." said William while drinking the whole bottle of wine without glass.

William is taking a shower in their room's bathroom and Irina is waiting outside.

"William, I think I forgot something in our house at Milton." said Irina.

"You're not saying that you will go this late?" replied William while still inside the bathroom.

"I have to William, it's really important." said Irina while opening the bathroom door.

"What the.. I'm fully naked!" said William while immediately closing the door.

"I can't believe you still afraid on your own wife seeing you naked. Anyway...William, I have to go now."

William knows that Irina is up to something, but he can't force her to stay because she'll turn mad if she can't do what she wanted to do.

"Okay then, you want me to drive you there?"

"No, I can drive alone, just stay here with the kids." said Irina while going outside their room.

"Okay..Be back as soon as you can."

"I'll try."

On her way out, she met Willie on the hall.

"Hey Willie..I already mailed to you my last favor." said Irina while walking outside.

Willie didn't dared to look at her and pretended to ignore her. He went directly to his room and check what Irina sent to him, it's the revision of news about their vacation tomorrow.

When everyone is asleep, Junior went out to his room and goes to the terrace, he can't sleep and still anxious, he can't stop thinking about his friends and Eliza, he starts to sob and cried. He doesn't realize that his Dad is behind him, William saw him crying and came towards to hug him.

"They're gonna be okay.." said William while hugging Junior. "Let's just hope we can end this tomorrow."

"I already confirmed it." Willie is also behind them. "They took Eliza, Lucas and Gerald in the train where Lucius is." he added.

Junior cried harder.

"You just made him cry more." said William to Willie.

"What's the first thing we should do tomorrow?" asked Willie.

"We blend on their plans, just go with the flow, we'll try to find them first and then we can start the recording."

The day of their vacation has come, they were all excited except for Junior, Willie, William and Jim who knows what will happen next. As expected, Irina told Grandpa and Grandma that she took care of their transportation, said that she lends a steam train from a friend so that they can have the train themselves and they were thankful for it. Luckily, Willie discouraged Granny Emma to come with them that's why she wont attend.

The train was on Stockport Railway Station, it was all set there, Sam was in the pilot's chair with Zelbert and his father. Sam didn't brought a lot of men on his train because he's confident that this will end like they expected, but has no idea about Jim and Willie's double-crossing him. All the rooms are empty except for the 8th and the last one because Lucas, Gerald, Eliza and Lucius where there with the powders, barrels with gasses inside and explosive then guarded by Sam's men. They will start burning the train when they'll notice that they're going in a different direction. Some of Sam's acted as the crew, pretending to serve them some drinks and foods on the trip because it's a 5 hours trip.

Gerald woke up when the train starts it's engine, his feet was chained same as Lucas who's still unconscious so he wake him too. Eliza and Lucius is also awake, they tried to sneak at the holes because there's no windows in the last two rooms because it was intended up to be the stocking room.

"Where are they taking us?" asked Eliza.

All Sam's men are at the 7th room guarding and blocking the way to the 8th and 9th room.

The Darcys are all in the 4th room having their luxurious trip, Jim went to Sam at the pilot's chair, Zelbert is afraid to be recognized by Jim so he immediately turned around.

"Jim..what are you doing here? Aren't you suppose to be with them? And it's risky crossing every room." said Sam.

"I want to see how they drive steam train." Jim excuses, but the truth is he already started looking for them.

Jerry and Ellie starts to explore the whole train because they're always curious, Junior pretends to look after them as an excuse so that Irina won't suspect him. They went on the 5th room, empty, all the they can see is an unoccupied seats, he told the kids to stay at the 5th room and he'll be the one to go the following rooms and see what's up ahead. When he arrived at the 6th room, he already can see Sam's men at the 7th room, there, he started to sneak and activate his mini recorder on his shirt. He's about to go to Sam's men when Billy called him from behind.

"William? Where are you going?" asked Billy while removing his earphones.

"Just stay there, I'm going to ask for something on them."

"Who the heck are they? I thought we're the only ones here?"

"Have you seen Jim?" asked Junior.

"I think he's still at the pilot's seat."

"Take Jerry and Ellie back to their Moms, let me handle and talk to them."

"But-"

"Now Billy."

Billy took Jerry and Ellie back to their parents, then Junior texted Jim to come to him at the 6th room.

Irina also received a call from Susan so she went to the 3rd room to answer it.

"Why do I can't contact my son!?" asked the mad Susan

"I don't know..Why are you trying to contact him? I thought you don't want a poof son?"

"Give him back to me Irina!"

"Are you really sure about that Susan?? Well then, come and get him before its too late." said Irina while laughing.

Jim just passed her, pretending that he didn't hear anything.

"Where's your Daddy Sam Jim?"

"He's at the pilot seat." replied Jim while crossing to 4th room then Irina went to Sam.

When Jim reached at the 4th room, Willie and William looked at him like they want to ask something, so they followed him up to 5th room.

"Where you going?" asked William

"To William, he texted me that Sam's men is at the 7th room."replied Jim.

"Where's Sam?" asked Willie.

"He's at the pilot seat, Mom is also there."

Billy with Eddie and Jerry also arrived from 6th room.

"Where you boys from?"

"In the next room, you can see William there." Billy pointed Junior who is waiting for Jim.

Instead, William called Junior to come to them then Junior immediately came.

"I saw Sam's men at the 7th room, I called Jim so that me and him can go there...Wait.. Aren't we suppose to scatter? Why are we gathering? Irina might suspect us."

"She's at the pilot's seat with Sam." said Jim.

"We must delay her there so that we can have ample time to search at the last two rooms.. I'm sure they were hidden there." said Willie.

Billy is confused about what actually is going on.

"Whay are you guys talking about?" asked Billy.

"Billy, bring Jerry to his mom at the pilot's seat, try to make her stay there longer okay?" Willie commanded his son.

"Why? Is there something wrong?"

"Just do it, we'll explain later."

Susan on the other hand is panicking, she tried to call Hugh to ask help.

"Honey I need some help immediately!"

"What?"

"My son! He's taken away by Irina!"

"Okay I'm on it..."

Hugh is actually at the Glasgow, he went there last night after Junior told him about Irina's deed. Like Sam, he also have a camp there where his dealers gathered.

"Junior is right."

He then called Junior to ask if where their current location is but Junior's phone has no reception at this time, even so he knew that they are on the train so he sent two helicopters to locate the railways to Glasgow and came flew with them.

Grandpa Eddie, Grandma Wilma and Emily starts to notice their unusual behaviors. It's suppose to be fun but they saw their faces too serious.

Jim and Junior went to the 6th room and counted how many men are there.

"There are five of them..And there is another three with Sam at the pilot's seat." said Jim.

They then called William and Willie to follow them. Jim entered first at the 7th room.

"Hey, I'm Sam's son, he told me to uh, visit the hostages." said Jim to the men. "Give me the keys" he added.

The men hesitated because they saw Junior, William and Willie at the 6th room.

"Don't worry they already know about this."

"I don't think you should go in there sir Jim."

"You want me to call my dad?"

The men was scared so he immediately gave the keys to Jim.

"Okay leave this to me, Dad will arrive soon, he told me to wait for him at the 6th room."

He easily managed to fool the men using Sam's name, William, Willie and Junior then followed Jim and went directly to the following rooms.

Grandpa Eddie starts to wander and looked at the window realizing they're going on a wrong way.

"What's wrong Eddie?" asked Grandma Wilma.

"It's a wrong rail. This rail leads to Glasgow not Edinburgh"

"What!? Are you certain with that?" Grandma Wilma was shocked that she stand up.

"Wait, I'll go to the pilot." said Grandpa Eddie while crossing to the 3rd room all the way to the pilot's seat where Irina, Sam, Billy, Jerry is.

"Oi Dad, what's the matter?" asked Irina.

"I think we are on a different rail."

"Is it?" asked Sam while smoking at he released the smoke right on Grandpa Eddie's face and Grandpa was not happy about it.

Zelbert just won't face at them because he was afraid to be recognized.

"That was rude." said annoyed Grandpa Eddie.

Before Jim, Willie, William and Junior crossed to the 8th room, they closed the door of the 7th room so that Sam's men wont see them. The last two rooms was chained-locked, thankfully Jim asked the keys, when they unlocked the 8th room, they saw Lucas and Gerald who are chained.

"Oh God.. Gerald, Lucas.." Junior immediately came to them and hugged them. "I'm sorry about this." he added, Gerald just nodded then Jim immediately unchained them.

William grabbed the key after and went directly to the last room, just like the 8th room, the door was also chained-locked.

He quickly unlocked the door as saw Eliza and Lucius lying to each other, both are weak and tired. William immediately called Junior and Willie to help him. Junior rushed to Eliza who is asleep and wake her up then removed their ties and handcuffs. Lucas rushed to his Dad and hugged him.

"Dad...I thought I lose you." said Lucas while hugging his Dad.

Eliza's voice became hoarse because of crying, she hardly can speak and stand. William also hugged Lucius and cried

"I'm sorry I brought you into this."

"It's not your fault, I made Susan this way."

"Mom?" asked Lucas

"Let's unload some of this gasses." Willie said while pulling out the barrels of gasses, they can't lift the large boxes of powders so they only can remove the gasses.

One of Sam's men sneaked and saw them pushing the barrels out, so he immediately called Sam.

"Shit!" Sam shouted while pulling out his pistol and rushed to go to them.

On his way, he shocked Grandma and Emily on the way.

"What is going on!!? Who are you!?" asked the frightened Emily.

Sam just continued to run. When he arrived at the 8th room, it was locked so told his men to break the door.

"Jim! What are you doing!?" he asked Jim

"This is not right Sam!"

"I'm doing this for us!"

"By killing the family who raised me!? This has to be stopped!"

"You lead me no choice son... Handcuff them and gather them all at the 5th room then secure Jim at the 2nd room." he commanded his men.

Willie and William activated their mini recorder and Willie immediately contacted his friends at the station to put him on live then called for help before getting handcuffed. They didn't bring any weapon, all they have is their mini recorder attached in their dresses.

They tied Emily, Grandpa Eddie and Grandma Wilma on the chairs, the rest were tied on the poles, they locked Jerry and Jim on the 2nd room. Emily was shocked when she saw Lucius and almost didn't recognize him because he's avoiding her eyes

"Irina please..Spare at least my sons, they have nothing to do with this." Willie asked.

"Oi Willie..."

"You promised me one thing to keep my children away from this."

"Oh yes of course, but I think I only agreed about your Scottish daughter...Anyway, since little Ellie is too young to die in horrible way, I'll spare him for now, I'll feed him to Sam's sharks at Glasgow." One of Sam's men took Ellie to the 2nd room with Jerry and Jim there.

Grandpa Eddie, Grandma Wilma and Billy was shocked.

"Daughter?" Grandpa Eddie asked.

Willie nodded his down.

"..Yes Dad..I made a mistake."

Emily started to cry even she already knew about it.

"I'm sorry Emily...I didn't mean to.."

"Quit the drama! There's still a lot of things to be revealed..." Irina came close to William and rubbed his face.

Sam on the other hand with some of his men are starting to pour the remaining barrels of gasses all over the train.

"Why are you doing this Irina?" William asked while trying to let go in the pole.

Irina just laugh at him.

"You hear that Mom and Dad? He's asking why? He pretended that he's blind or he just thought that I'm blind?..See that short guy back there?" she pointed Lucius who is tied in the last pole of 5th room with Lucas and Gerald.

"Lucius..." said Emily while trying to stand up.

Willie was shocked that Emily knew Lucius.

"So you already knew your ex-boyfriend's boyfriend?"

Grandpa Eddie and Grandma Wilma gasped in shocked.

"Yes Mom, Dad! Your eldest son is a poof and been seeing that Lucius."

A lot of English people is watching the live news, they can't believe that the woman they admired isn't what they thought, Susan at the Dulwich Village is crying, panicking and regret everything she made with Irina.

Jim on the other hand is trying to get out on the 2nd room, he noticed that on the other side is already the pilot's seat and it wasn't locked so he went there directly leaving Ellie and Jerry crying. Zelbert didn't noticed his arrival and was shocked.

"You.. You're William's friend..What are you doing here?" asked Jim in suspicion.

"He's my son.." Mr. Collins responded while monitoring the train.

"Stop the train." said Jim.

"I beg your pardon?"

"I said stop the train!" Jim rushed to the brake but Mr. Collins stopped him.

Zelbert doesn't know what to do, instead he started to sob even his father called to help him stop Jim. Finally he decided to help Jim.

"Son what are you doing!?" asked Mr. Collins while stopping him, he tried to cover the brakes as hard as he can but instead, it was destroyed.

Irina continued to reveal everything without realizing that the train's brake was broken.

"What do you really want Irina?" Grandpa Eddie asked.

"I want everything... Pemberley, the position and I only can do that by wiping out all of you." she replied with a desperate smile.

"You're mad." said Grandma.

"Oh yes I'm aware on that mom."

"Stop calling me mom you lunatic!" Grandma shouted at her, Irina came to her and pressed Grandma's cheeks harder.

"Stay away from her!!" Grandpa Eddie while trying to kick Irina.

"Old lady, why don't you ask your son who made me this way?"

Sam called Irina on the 7th room. They decided to distribute the explosives so that the explosion will scatter.

Mr. and Mrs. Wickham saw the live streaming of the incident, they immediately call Irina to stop her but she's unreachable, so Mr. Wickham sent choppers to locate them.

William started to cry in guilt.

"This is all my fault." said William while crying.

"Yeah, it's good thing that you know that its yours, if you weren't such a goddamn poof-" said Willie

"Stop it Willie." Grandpa Eddie stops Willie for blaming William. "It's nobody's fault."

"Seriously Dad? You're still on his side? After all this time?"

"I said stop it Willie! And I'm not picking sides! Both of you are my sons, and for over 40 years of being a father, I never treated my sons unfairly!"

Everyone starts to sob, Willie realizes about their mini recorder.

"William, face me, the recorder." said Willie in a low voice, William and Willie are tied in the same pole. "Did you activate it?"

"Yes..Before we got captured..Thanks to you, everyone who's watching now knows about me." replied William.

Jim and Zelbert still doesn't know what to do, they knocked out Mr. Collins and passed out after Jim hit his head with a tube.

"Jim! You almost killed my father!" shouted Zelbert

"Don't worry he'll wake up."

They climbed to the roof to cross every rooms to look for them. Even tho they're scared because the train is fast enough to kill them if they jump out.

Willie faced on the camera that was attached on William's shirt.

"To everyone who's watching this right now, me and my whole family are in the middle of life and death, any moment now, this train will turn into ashes, I think you already knew who's responsible. By the way Dad you have any idea what railway are we right now?"

"As far as I recognize, we are currently at the railway between Gretna Green and Lockerbie." replied Grandpa Eddie.

"Okay we are currently at Gretna Green, we are on our way to Glasgow, but I feel like the train won't last long there..So we need help, to the Prime Minister, I know you're watching this, please at least think of your Grandchildren who are inside. You remember Sam Westerby? He's with your daughter right now..-" Willie stopped when one of Sam's men noticed his actions and snatched all their recorders.

Sam called all his men to help the others carry the large boxes of explosives. William grabbed the attention to tell Junior about the watch he gifted to him last Christmas, it was William who wrapped it for him.

"Junior, you have the watch you received last christmas right?" asked William.

"..Yeah I have it."

"Can you try to remove the pin? It's actually a pin that is capable in unlocking handcuffs like this."

"I can't, my fingers are too big."

"Maybe I can." Billy is in the same pole with Junior and Eliza.

Billy managed to pull the tiny pin on Junior's watch, then he unlocked Junior's handcuffs first.

Jim and Zelbert is still at the roof trying to guess what room they put the others, then Jim remembered it was on the 5th room.

"Hurry before we will pass the next tunnel." said Zelbert

They slowly went down, Jim slipped on the ladder and almost fell, thankfully Zelbert held his arms immediately. They're at the crossing between 5th and 6th room, they can see Sam's men pouring the barrels of gasses over the 6th room, it's obviously coming to 5th room so they sneaked to get in the 5th room then locked it inside so that they can't enter to pour gas in the remaining rooms. Gerald immediately noticed Zelbert and Jim entering.

"Zelbert?" Gerald was shocked. "I thought-"

"Long story...For now let's uncuff you all."

They helped Junior uncuff them all.

Irina looked at her phone, there she realized that her parents had been calling her and left her a message.

"Irina, whatever you've been doing, you have to stop it, everyone in England had seen everything. We are coming to get you with you all"

Princess Irina threw her phone in rage and ran directly back to the 5th room.

"Honey what is it?" asked Sam.

"They know."

"Who?"

"Ma'am, I found this mini recorders in their shirts." said one of the man while giving the tiny cameras.

"Fuck! Burn this rooms right away! We are leaving now!" Sam commanded his men.

Irina and Sam went to the 5th room but it was locked, Junior is still uncuffing them and Sam saw it, so he called his men to bring guns to open the door.

Junior about to uncuff his mother who is the only one hasn't been uncuffed yet but Sam and his men arrived and aimed the guns on them.

"Hold it!!" Sam shouted.

Junior failed to uncuffed his mother.

"Jim! Come here! Now!" shouted Irina.

"No! This is madness mom!"

"You don't understand Jim! If you only knew what I've been through being with your Dad."

Jim also had a mini recorder on his shirt and it was the last one. Sam's men already started to burn the train starting at the 9th room. They dragged Jim with them to the 2nd room, they also took Junior's watch pin, the 9th -7th room starts to burn and explode, they were all scared. Sam and Irina with their men locked them on the 5th room and went directly to the 2nd room where they'll disconnect it from the rest of the rooms, one thing they didn't know that the train has no brakes.