The amazing race- A Niall and Jamie story

I open my eyes to find us standing on solid ground, the production workers letting us loose from the cable. Niall takes my hand in his and pulls me to our backpacks. We get to the bags and run to where the cars are parked.
"Ni- press the button" I say to him, as he pulls me to one of the 8 cars left. It means we are fourth place for now.
Niall presses the button and the car on the far end lights up. We run to it and put our bags in the boot. Niall gets in behind the wheel while I sit behind him, since we were told the camera man needs to sit in the passenger seat to film.
"Where do we go Jamie?" Niall asked starting the engine.
"Wait I'm not sure yet" I open the envelope on the seat beside me to read where we need to head.
"Welcome contestants you got past the first part of the race, now once you're in your cars you'll travel the way he once did before from Mudfog to London, minding your pockets, finding the lair and whatever you do Don't dare ask for more" I read out.
"What the hell?" Niall turns to me. I glance at the camera man, who was filming every part feeling scared to be seen as fools by the public's eyes.
"I- I'm not sure" I say looking back at Niall.
"Give me that" He takes the letter from my hand reading it over again "Minding your pockets? Do we need to head to a place where there are Pickpockets- I mean a place that is known as a theft area?" He asked handing back the letter and map to me.
"I think we need to trace someone's steps Ni, it says 'travel the way he once did'"
"Who will that be then?" Niall was trying hard not to get frustrated, not wanting to go home before passing at least the first level of the race.
"Don't dare ask for more- Niall! Oliver twist! He asked for more and got sent away!" I yell in excitement.
"Are you sure? Then where should we be heading?" He asked me
"To London since he left going there- the lair is where he stayed with Fagin and the other boys" I say, clapping my hands pleased with myself for solving the letter.
Niall starts driving, taking the root back to London. I am happy he knows the way since I don't really know how to read maps and didn't want to seem as a twit for not knowing in front of the viewers.
"Do you know where the lair was though?" Niall asked
"No, are we allowed to ask for help on the streets?" I ask the camera man. He nodded letting us know we can.
"I bet you the Librarians know where it is, we should have followed them" Niall said, referring to the smart couple who talk as if they are from Shakespeares time.
"They were still on the tankers when we got into the car" I am looking out the window at the view starting to get into the game.
"Jamie you did really well I am really proud of you" Niall smiled at me through the mirror.
"You won't so bad yourself love" I wink
"So who are ahead of us then?" Niall took a left turn.
"The sisters, the married couple and the port workers" I count my fingers.
"You think they solved it?" He asked
"I really have no clue" I say "Ni the Librarians are following us" I say looking back at the car with the race's logo.
"Why would they do that? Maybe I should try and lose them?" He asked
"They want us to stop on the side" I tell him "What do you want to do?". Niall stops and we get out to see what they want.
"Do you know where you need to go?" Kobe the husband asks us both of them standing at the door of our car.
"Kind of.. why?" Niall was suspicious
"We know where we need to go but not how to get there, so maybe we can help each other out, we'll tell you where you need to get to and we'll follow" The wife named Talia said
They were a young and rather cute couple.
"Ok fine" I say, wanting to get going before others catch up to us.
"Ok so you need to get to the Fagin's lair" She said
"Yes we already know that" Niall tells her.
"The lair is at Saffron Hill, which is the name of a street in the south eastern corner of theLondon Borough of Camden, betweenFarringdonRoad andHatton Garden. The name of the street derives from the fact that it was at one time part of an estate on whichsaffrongrew." Talia said. Niall and I exchanged looks between us.
"All right hand over the map" Niall said. I give it to him and he takes a few moments looking through it "Alright follow me" He tells the librarians. They run to their car and we start driving.
"I hope that Andria and Roni are doing ok" I say sitting up closer to Niall
"Jamie it's really nice you care for them, but you must put us before.. it is a race you know"
"I know, I know, just saying.. they are so cute!" I sit back. We finally get to where we need to be, noticing the Race's flag at the entrance of the building. We park and run out leaving our bags in the boot. Niall was holding on to my hand refusing to leave me behind. The Librarians were behind us.
We reach the stand with the race's colours and take out an envelope. Niall opens and reads out loud.
"Junction. You can choose between eating soup or Pickpocketing" Niall looks up at me "What do you feel like doing?"
"Keep reading what each one stands for and then we'll decide" I tell him
Niall reads it over fast then looks up to me.
"Well the soup mission is to drink a full bowl of soup, and the pickpocketing, is to pickpocket from people" Niall shrugs.
"The soup will probably be disgusting" I make a face
"Probably, but hold your breath, it will go much faster then pickpocketing"
"All right" I say. I reach out for Niall's hand and we climb up the stairs to the room where the soup mission takes place. The librarians took the pickpocketing.
We enter the room to find the married couple already drinking the soup.
"This is revolting, don't say we didn't warn you" The bloke said, I can't remember his name but he looks like humpty dumpty.
We sit down and this toothless lady with gray curly hair brings over two bowls of soup.
"Cheers" Niall says and takes a spoonful, just to spit it out "This is absolutely disgusting" he says wiping his mouth.
"I told you it will be" I smile at him
"You're laughing now, wait till you try it" He folds his arms looking at me
I pick up the spoon holding my nose and take a swallow.
It tastes like water and salt.
"Ahh" I make a choking noise.
"Do you want to drink this or change?" Niall asked me
"No we wasted enough time lets finish this" I say taking another spoonful. My eyes are watering from the salt, Niall isn't doing any better than me. I rub at my eyes, just to make them burn even more. I leave the spoon in a rush, standing up and jumping in place
"What is wrong" Niall is by my side like lightning.
"Salt in my eye" I manage to say.
Someone comes to help, washing out my eye for me, so we can go back and finish the mission.
"What is this?" The mum and daughter walk in looking at all of us.
"She got salt in her eyes" The wife told Debbi.
"Gosh!! I can't do this!" She started fanning herself.
Niall shook his head in amazement and turned back to me "You ok?"
"Yes, I'm fine, lets finish and get out of here" We go back to finish the soup. The wife and husband finished and left screaming and shouting with delight.
In the meantime other contestants join us, some leave to do the other mission and some are crying telling there teammate they can't go through with this.
"Come on Jay, one more mouth full" Niall is encouraging me to finish up setting aside his empty plate. I take the last spoonful and jump up hands in the air. Niall runs around the table to scoop me into a big hug and kiss.
The old lady with missing teeth comes up to give us the envelope with the instructions to where we need to go from here.
We thank her and leave the room to open it outside away from the watchful eyes of the other teams.
I rip open the envelope and read the card out loud "Well done dear contestant you made it through the second round and now you are one step closer to your tickets for the next destination- to get to Nick and your tickets you must find the one who put all in writing"
"Continue" Niall tells me
"That's it" I say turning the card over to make sure there is nothing on the other side.
"What? It's as if they stopped in the middle" Niall took the card from my hands and checked for himself.
"Who wrote Oliver twist?" I suddenly ask.
"Dickens did.. I think" He scratched his head
"I need you to be sure" I say
"I'm sure then" He smiles
"Ok so where can we find him then?" I look around as if I might find a clue
"Where did he grow up?"
"I don't know, let's ask for help"
We walk around asking people about Dickens, though none of them were much help. We've seen other teams run out looking for the answer as well.
I sit down frustrated for not knowing a simple thing.
"Jamie I think I'm going to be sick" Niall sat down beside me.
"Not know Ni, I need to think" I say trying my best to come up with a good answer to where we shall go.
Suddenly I jump up startled by Niall being sick next to me
"Blimey Ni, you alright?" I touch his shoulder while he's being sick again. My heart hurts watching him be filmed in such a state.
I take out some water for him and sit down by his side until he catches his breath, and calms down. I watch people pass us. There was this one lad reading the paper as he walked, which was quite weird, but something about it caught my eye.
"Niall the paper" I shout and run up to the lad, snatching it out of his hand.
"What the hell?" He looked puzzled. I ignore him turning it over to see if what I thought I saw was real, and it was. "Thank you!" I say giving it back to him, and running back to Niall.
"I know where we should go to find Dickens" I help him up "Feeling better?" I touch his cheek with my palm looking into his eyes.
"Yes it was that soup, next time there is something like that you eat it" He says wiping his mouth.
"Ok, come on to the car". We run to the car, not seeing any of the other teams.
"I think they all left already" Niall says unlocking the door.
"You don't know that" I say
"That is why I said I think" he said stretching out the word 'think'. I keep quiet not wanting to start arguing with him in front of the cameras.
"Jamie" Niall turns to me.
"What?" I ask him frowning, not helping but feeling a little offended
"Where do I need to go?" he tilts his head
"Madame Tussauds" I say, looking out the window so the camera won't be able to see my face. We drive there in silent, wondering if we are one of the last teams to finish this mission. I was feeling ashamed with myself. I always made fun of the teams not being able to make it out of the country, I am just like them. I let Niall down as well. I can feel he's upset. At least Liam and Zayn will win the bet…
Niall parks the car and we get out, taking our bags with. Niall starts running, leaving me behind. Before my heart has a chance to react and shrink a little, he stops and hands out his hand for me to take. I smile at him and reach out linking our fingers together. If we get sent home, we'll go as a loving couple and not as ones who fight.
We run through the doors, but I pull Niall to a stop at the entrance walking over to the information booth.
"Good Idea" Niall says as we come to a stop in front of the girl sitting there.
"Can you please direct me in the fastest way to get to Dickens?" I smile at her
She explains to us how to go about, wishing us good luck as we thank her and run the rest of the way.
We can see Nick and the Amazing race carpet to his feet. We make our way to him coming to a stop, both feet on the carpet.
"Hi dickens" Niall waves at the wax doll "And Nick"
"How was it?" He smiled at us.
"The soup was revolting" Niall made a face
"Yes, it made him sick" I gave Niall a sympathetic smile
"Was it easy for you? To answer the questions and find the way here?" Nick asked us
"Jamie was brilliant" Niall hugs my shoulders
"No.. It was pure luck" I shake my head being honest
"How is that?" Nick wanted to know
"I didn't know at first where to find Dickens and then there was this bloke reading the newspaper and at the back there was a photo of dear Madame" I say
"Wow, that was luck then" Nick giggled "It's time to let you know how you did"
I was holding on to Niall's side waiting to hear our fate.
"Jamie and Niall, you are the blue team, by the way you two are the races sweethearts" Nick grinned "However it is time.. I'm sorry to inform you both…"

Notes

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