Terence and Marius talked over their plans. Before they headed out Terence wanted to go to the lake to wash his freshly wounded dick. After they walked to the lake and got in they were refreshed and talked over their plan. The goal was to go to the farm house, rob the couple, and steal the vehicles in the pictures. Their next decision was when to get going. It was already getting dark and they didn’t know the way so their plan was to wait until first light, hike to the farm house, and then get the vehicles to resume their escape.

Sunday David and Karin were up and going by 630. After their morning shower treat, they were headed to the practice range by 800.

It was after 900 by the time Marius and Terence managed to get going. At 1115 they were at the edge of the woods east of the farmhouse. They could see the vehicles. It didn’t seem like anyone was at the house. Once they got to the porch Terence picked up a coffee mug sitting on the floor. It still had a little coffee in the bottom but it was already cold. He said that it looked to him that someone had been there on the porch recently, used the coffee cup to break a window next to the door, and after breaking a big enough opening stepped through the window. After opening the door, Marius joined him and they went through the house.

In the master bed room closet they found the 308 but no ammo. They split up and looked for cartridges. On the top shelf of the coat closet Terence found a box of 308 cartridges.

Terence was elated. With the 308, he could command and control the situation. He loaded the magazine with 5 rounds and inserted the magazine in the rifle.

David and Karine were at the top of the ravine, saw Marius walking out of the barn to the house, and then saw Terence show him the 308. It looked like he also had a big bore revolver and Marius had a sawed off double barrel shotgun. David’s and Karine’s vehicles were on the east side of the house next to the porch.

Once they had made their way back to the bottom of the ravine they put their plan together. The first decision was to fight or flee. Karine said she refused to be intimidated by a couple of convicts but that if David thought they had no or little chance she would be okay with flight. David said he felt the same way and that if they could get the element of surprise on their side they had a good chance. He also told Karine that it might get scary but as long as they could keep their wits about them they would be okay. Karine put her arms around David and kissed him.

“That was for luck. Now we need to execute.”

They planned their attack. Further to the east along the ravine behind the barn was another less used path to the bank. After reaching the bank behind the barn, David snuck up to the barn’s rear door, went inside, and hid in an animal stall in the middle of the barn behind some of the sharecropper’s equipment. Karine waited the 25 minutes David had indicated and walked to the barn. Marius yelled to Terence.

“We got a visitor. It’s show time.”

Karine turned her head to make him think she had just become aware of his presence. Now it was her task to draw him inside the barn. She struggled long enough with the barn door to show she was scared, opened it, and went inside. To draw Marius into the clear area of the barn she went to the office door and pretended to be struggling with opening the door.

“And where do you think you are going?

“I think it’s time for you and me to get friendly. Real, real friendly.

“I saw the pictures of you getting fucked.

“Why don’t you start by doing a strip tease for me. Nice, hot, and slow.”

Marius was pointing the 12 gauge at Karine. David lifted the nock to his cheek, raised the tip above Marius’s head, and lowered the tip until it was aimed a little below Marius’s near shoulder.

Marius never knew what hit him. Three razor sharp edges of a hunting arrow tip sliced through the triceps of his right arm, entered his chest below the triceps, and cut through lungs and heart before smashing against his rib cage. The impact knocked him off his feet. It was an instant kill.

Terence saw that the barn door was open. Karine dropped the bow, picked up the 12 gauge, and ran to David. Together they opened the barn’s rear door and left just as Terence was entering the barn’s front door. He ran to the rear door and went outside in time to see David headed west and Karine headed east. He saw that Karine was carrying the shotgun but knew that unless she had found some shells it was most likely no threat and concluded that David was the bigger threat.

David had gone to the closest path down to the ravine. He planned to go along the bed further west, then come up to the top, and circle around the house to meet up with Karine east of the house. Terence followed David and found the first path. When he saw that the path was going down to the ravine he suspected that further to the west there might be another path. He went further along the bank, found the second path, and hid in some heavy brush. 15 minutes later he saw David step onto the bank and told him to stay put.

“I got you now.

“Don’t do nothing unless I tell you.”

David was looking down the barrel of the 357 and Terence still had the 308 slung across his shoulder.

“Now, I need some car keys.

“So why don’t you walk ahead of me back to the house and get those for me?”

Karine had run to the closest edge of the east woods and could see that David was walking in front of Terence with the revolver pointed at him.

Unless David can get rid of the guy he won’t be able to meet me like we planned.

I don’t have a clue what to do with this gun.

I need to get back to the barn.

She made her way to the east side of the barn and stayed close to the walls while she made her way to the rear door. Once inside she made sure that she had a clear view of the area between the barn and the house, strung the bow, and fitted an arrow on the string.

She could hear David and Terence approaching.

“You got one chance. If you got keys give them to me. If you don’t or can’t you ain’t worth anything to me and I’ll shoot your ass.”

David said he didn’t have the keys. As Terence was taking aim at David with the 357, Karine was preparing to shoot. She took a deep breath, pulled the nock to her cheek, and as the tip came into alignment a little below Terence’s right shoulder released.

The tip struck Terence’s right shoulder as he pulled the trigger. Even though it was only a target arrow, the strike was enough to throw the slug off so that it hit David in the calf muscle of his right leg. Terence yelled in pain.

“God damn it.”

Terence ran inside the barn as Karine was leaving through the rear door, ran to the rear door, and went behind the barn in time to see that Karine was headed toward the eastern woods. He chambered a round in the 308, took aim through the scope, and squeezed. Nothing. He looked at the trigger. It wouldn’t budge. Then he noticed that the bolt hadn’t completed seated. He tried to push the bolt in to chamber the round. It wouldn’t budge and the harder he pushed, the more the cartridge became jammed in the chamber. Disgusted, he dropped the rifle to the ground and headed off in the direction Karine had gone. He still had the 357, she only had a bow, a sawed off shotgun with no shells, and he still had the upper hand.

David took off his belt, tied it tight around his leg, limped to the back of the barn, and got the 308. He saw that the bolt hadn’t completely chambered the round. It was the same problem he had when trying his brother’s reloads. The slug hadn’t been seated deeply enough in the casing. With the 308, compound bow, and arrows he climbed to the loft, went to loading door on the rear of the barn used for hay, and opened it enough to have a clear view from the woods east of the barn to the ravine to the west. He could see Karine hiding in the middle of the rows of corn in the garden 125 yards away and that Terence was headed toward the garden.

From this distance, the bow was not going to work.