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Title: The Money Plunged and Nobody Never Knew
Fandom: original
Prompt 405 Plunge
Rating: PG
Summary: Money fell from the sky on Chester Hurst, and nobody knew the whole story.
A/N : I don't know what I've written. I don't even know if it fits the prompt. It just happened.

The story of how the money ended up in Chester Hurst's hands is one belonging to a movie, one of those crack road trip comedy becoming cult in college circles.

Chester Hurst himself never knew the chain of events that leaded to money raining all over him. Not that he cared. When money falls from the sky, you don't question where it came from. You take it, and you spend it wisely.

Chester Hurst never knew about the car on the edge of the cliff. That's where the money came from. A car, driven by a certain Reggie Stark, with a bad blue paint job and a trunk full of cash. That was stupid, really, what had led the money to fall over the cliff on Chester Hurst. The car was old, and Reggie Stark broke, and the road corner too sharp, and the trunk lock too weak. Some abrupt driving and a few damaged car pieces, and the vehicule was on the edge of the cliff, trunk wide open. One gust of wind, strong for the season, and the money was out. All of this because Reggie Stark thought banknotes all over the trunk would impress Tammy Dickinson more than his old gym bag full of them.

Tammy Dickinson never knew there was some much money in the trunk. If she had, things would have gone differently. People said she was a shallow kind of girl; she saw herself as a pratical one. Love and honesty and true feelings would only get you so far in life; money could take you to a place where you could care about all those things without any worry for tomorrow. Reggie Stark was a nice guy, who treated her well, but he was a looser at heart, and would never help her get out of the small town they called home. That's why Reggie Stark had all that money in his trunk: to leave with her for the big city, to live the life. But she didn't let him tell her, and she broke up with him in front of a trunk full of money. Norris Mason had offered the help her launch her acting career, and she needed to be free to invest herself entirely in her future. Reggie Stark understood too well what it meant, and he left with the money and a broken heart. He was on his way to cry over his mother's shoulder when the sharp road corner happened.

Norris Mason never knew his money had been taken to impress Tammy Dickinson. He didn't care. Whatever the reasons, he would find the thief and get his money back. He didn't know the notes had fallen from the cliff. Chester Hurst was long gone with the money when he learned where it was. Norris Mason punished Reggie Stark, of course, so nobody would try to steal his money from him ever again, but it didn't bring it back.

Tammy Dickinson never knew it was Reggie Stark's fault if Norris Mason had dumped her. She didn't know the money for her career had been stolen and then lost. She regretted it, having broken up with Reggie Stark, but it was too late, and she was too proud to do anything about that. And so she stayed in the small town they called dome, and put her acting dreams away.

Reggie Stark never knew losing the money would have given him Tammy Dickinson back. He left the small town they called home after that story, and never came back. Oddly enough, the little start-up he launched with a few friends in the big city a few years later made him rich, and he never had to think about Tammy Dickinson or the money in the trunk ever again.

Chester Hurst never knew the money was Norris Mason's when he purchased a car from him several years later, when he had wisely used the money-from-the-sky and noone never knew he had found it in the first place. The car was old, but it was a collector now, and she would be just fine with a bit of work on it. The blue paint job was terrible, but Chester Hurst wanted it changed anyway.

One day, the money plunged from the car on a man who didn't ask of anything. One day the money came back in the car, on its own way, and nobody never knew the whole story.

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