La Casa de Papel (Palermo) // Translation

06. pasos al costado

Palermo can feel how Helsinki takes his blindfold off.

"Well done. Open your right eye" Helsinki said and Palermo does what Helsinki told him. He sees a blurry but clear Helsinki standing in front of him. "Can you see something?"

"More or less but yes" Palermo replied and Helsinki smiled.

"Open your left eye" Helsinki said and Palermo does what he told him. He can see nothing. Near to nothing. Palermo didn't say anything. Helsinki didn't asks because he knows that he can't see anything because of his look. "Don't worry about it. Tomorrow you'll see more" Helsinki said and put an eye patch on him. Palermo sighs and stands up.

"I'll go and look what is going on down there" he said and took Denver with him for support. Both of them are walking to the basement to look for the gold. When they're down they could hear screams. Velez came out of the safe, with wet clothes and gold in her hands, screaming.

"I've got a present for you" she said and turns around to three of the boys, who are working down here too. She shows them the gold in her hands. "Do you wanna hold it?" she asks and one of the boys is nodding excited. "Okay, you can take it for an moment" she said and gave him the gold. She realizes that Denver and Palermo are looking at her smiling. She goes near them.

"How are you, amigo?" she asks Palermo. "Can you see better now?"

"With one eye but with the other I can't" he said calm.

"Tomorrow you can see better" she said and Bogotá who is coming out of the safe inturrupted her.

"Long live the Gold!" he called. "And long lives this ass Velez!" Velez smiled and turns around to look at him.

"What?"

"You have a sweet little ass, Velez" he answers.

"Watch that she isn't going to kick your ass soon" Nairobi said and goes near him. "Not Nice" she said and Bogotá starts laughing. "I don't think that's funny" Velez said. "Don't talk to me like that."

"I could be your daughter, idiot" she said and Bogotá realizes that his joke wasn't funny.

"Denver!" Palermo calls.

"I'm here" he said and stands besides him.

"Bring me to Señor Bogotá" he said and Denver walks with him to Bogotá. "Listen to me, Señor Pablo Escobar. If you talk again like that to Velez or to the other girls, I hand you over to the police" he said calm.

"I'm sorry Palermo. I'm sorry Velez. I won't do that again" he said and Palermo smiled and everyone went quiet. Palermo looks at the others. "Start working now! The gold doesn't melt by himself" he said and everyone starts working again. Everyone but Velez. Velez just grin at him.

"I don't need anyone to defend me" she called from her place. Everyone went quiet again to listen to them.

"No?" he asks and goes near her.

"No. I can speak for myself. Thanks" she said and crossed her arms. When Palermo stands in front of her he grabs her arm and took her with him.

"Come with me, I have work for you" he told her and took her with him. She tried to get out of his grib.

"What work? I have to be down there to get the gold out of the safe" she asks while they enter the elevator.

"The professor gave me new work for you" he said and as the doors are closed he let go of her. So fast that she didn't had a chance to react.

Palermo grab her neck and pressed her against a wall. "The next time something like that happens your acting" he said with his face just a few inches away from her's. Velez starts choughing. "The next time I hand you over to the police, little piece of shit." Velez still choughing. "Okay?" he asks and Velez didn't answer. She stoped choughing and looks him straight in the eyes. She can see how angry he is. She starts choughing again and smiled because she won't give him what he wants. But they're were interrupted because the radio sounds.

"Palermo? You there?" the professor asks. Palermo didn't let go of Velez and she starts coughing again. "Palermo, Velez, I'm sorry to interrupt you but it's important" Velez laughs and Palermo let go of her.

"Professor, here is Palermo" he said with the radio in his hands. "What's wrong?"

"They're going to enter the bank in 20 minutes" he said and Palermo looks at Velez. "You know what to do"

"I understand" Palermo replied. He took out his gun and gave it to Velez. "Take it, we're going to get the Gobernador and do it" he said.

"Okay" she said and grabed the gun. Both forgot what happened 30 seconds ago. The doors open and both are going in the room with the Gobernador and the other hostages. "Let's go" Velez said and grabbed the Gobernador. They're going back to the basement.

"You are going to go in there and open the safe" Velez told him while pointing at the safe.

"No" he said.

"Go in the damn safe" Denver told him. The Gobernador shook his head.

"You're going in there and open the damn safe!" Palermo screams at him.

"No"

"Go in the damn safe" Denver repeated and hit the Gobernador and the Gobernador collapsed on the ground. Velez looks at Denver with an angry expression.

"Denver you son of a bitch" she screams at him. Denver looks shocked. "I'll go!" Velez said.

"Don't think about it" Palermo said.

"I'll go" Bogotá said and took the bomb to open the safe.

"I'm sorry!" Denver screams with tears in his eyes. Then they heard an explosion. After a few minutes Bogotá came out with a little red suitcase.

"Two minutes left till they coming" The professor said.

"Here, take it" Bogotá said to Denver and gave him the suitcase.

"Go!" Velez screams and Denver goes upstairs.

Everyone goes in the room with the hostages. Denver goes trough the door, which is closing behind him, he smiled still with the red suitcase in his hands.

"They won't come in" Denver said and laughs. Velez looks at Palermo and smiles. In the suuitcase are the biggest secrets of them. Now they were sure that in the next 48 hours no one of them would enter the bank.

published:06/06/20

word count: 1078 words

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