"Episode 52 - Us versus the world."

I quickly grabbed her, putting her in front of me. "Go left." I told her, making sure to keep an eye one if he was catching up behind me. I paused suddenly pushing her to carry no when his head popped up again. Using my glock, I aimed once, fired once and all I heard was a thud.

"Dyamn." She actually paused right around the corner from the room with the window connected to the other building. She looked impressed then she quickly turned and entered but didn't get any further.

"FUCK." There was broken glass everywhere. I picked her up, slinging my gun behind me. The shards crunched under my boots as I neared the window. Her arms were wrapped around my neck, eyes so focus on me I could feel the weight of her trust.

Suddenly she spurted in action with a gasp. Grabbing my holstered gun, she pointed it behind me and kept shooting at someone behind me. "Hurry, that just one."

"Climb over." My heart hammered while I waited for her to put her foot on the pane of the other window. I could hear footsteps coming along the hall way. For a split second, I looked at her, holding on to the gun, trying to brag on to the sides of the window to get herself in as quickly as possible.

Time paused, everything around me slowed. If I died at that moment, knowing she could go free I would have died happily.

"DUCK." She was up on her feet, aiming the gun behind me with a crazed look in her eyes.

I dropped, turning I watched at the bullets burry into the bald man's chest. Using my semi auto, I fired taking out whoever was behind him. I ran to the corner, changed the magazine of the gun and waited for the footsteps to get closer. Without revealing myself I exposed the tip of the gun and sprayed the whole corridor.

After a couple of seconds, I dashed out the window and landed nearly on top of her.

"Grab the bags." I flung the crates.

She didn't waste a second. We were running and swerving around the rooms while she adjusted the bag around her shoulder just like me. When the bullets started nearing us again, I took out one of the grenades from my pockets and flung it at their direction while we flew down the stairs.

"Babe, hold on." I covered her body, even though we were a floor below.

"AHH!" I heard a couple of screams before the ground and building around me shook again.

"Go." We started moving again and dropped another bomb on the stairwell downstairs cutting away their access. "Come on." I finally grabbed her hand again, guiding her towards the back ends of the building that lead to an open road.

I heard her hiss under her breath but she didn't slow down. She was fucking running through probably crack needles, random broken beer bottles and cans, bare foot. We neared the fire exit and luckily, the windows were just empty wholes void of any glass.

"Go." I guided her out first and followed suit. "Hold on to me." I unlocked the folded ladder while I was on the step. The steel ladder slid down one by one until it hit the ground. There was no one there and I made a split-second decision to drag her with me across the dark road until we entered the building opposite us. The whole building was over flooded with hoarders, junkies and barrels with burning fire for warmth and light.

The fact that two bombs went off and these people were still inside without a care meant that they've seen worse here. We hadn't even heard the police sirens yet. Nevertheless, we kept moving until we burst through the back door, to end up on a street that was still dark. There were no cars and the once I brought, I blew up.

"We need a car." I heaved.

"We should keep moving." I looked down at her. Her black hair kept flying with the warm wind. Sweat trickled down my back and forehead. I squeezed her hand to get her attention. The darkness fell upon her, preventing me from seeing her beautiful features. "We're gon'na be okay. Let's keep moving."

I guided her through the dark, weaving through the filthy alley ways and deserted buildings.

"I think they are gaining on us." Elena panted. I heard the numerous amount footsteps too. My sixth sense was on high alert. Eyes so frantic, taking in every single little detail about the area, mapping it all out on my head. We ended up on a dark corner of what looked like an abandoned factory or a warehouse.

There was a white van right in front of it. I doubted whoever it belonged to, was doing anything legal. We dashed toward the van, Elena trying to keep up. I had to hotwire the car and the noise would draw attention but with the volume of the footsteps, my guess was that they were not far behind.

We could at least lose them via a vehicle if they were only on foot. I shook the handle on the driver side door to find it locked. Of course, it would me. I had no other choice. Using the butt of my semi, I smashed the window to quickly unlock the door.

"Get it." I picked her up and within seconds she had managed to crawl herself over to the passenger side and started feeling around for the wires. My chest swelled with pride. I knew she exhausted and scared but she was keeping up with me like a trained solider, predicting the plan before I even told her what to do.

Shutting the quickly, I used my army knife to cut the wires, then quickly swiped the right ones to spark the van into life. The second the engine started to buzz, I knew we were made. Elena, on the other hand was ruffling through my duffle bag.

"HERE."

"FUCK." She took the duct tape out, tore a piece from it, readying it for me before taking my machine gun off my shoulder and fired at them.

"Come on, come on." I chanted, sending a little prayer to god even though I hadn't spoken to him since I was 12.

Suddenly, the wires sparked, the engine growled. "YES." I had completely blocked out the facts that bullets were flying into the van.

"GO. GO. GO." She was running out of ammo so she used her other hand to reach for the reloaded hand gun and started shooting with both hands.

I jerked the car forward, she lurched back hitting her head against the windshield. "SHIT."

"I'M FINE. JUST GO." She sunk down, literally tucked herself between the eat and the leg pace. I was zooming through the streets while she was changing the mags. She was up again, before we even knew it, there were three cars chasing us.

"BABE, SWAP." I instructed but we were in hot pursuit, we couldn't really swap.

"OKAY WAIT." Air whizzed through the broken window, filling the car with warm stuffy air. She started pulling out guns from the bag and made sure every single gun I had was loaded. The rain of bullets suddenly stopped aiming for the steel box we were in. All we heard were screeching tyre and objects being knocked over in the dead silence of the night.

After stuffing the console in the middle with half of the remaining mags, she finally sat up. "Okay. LET'S SWAP."

"HOLD ON." I took a sharp turn, entering a narrow alleyway that would only allow one car at a time.

"Okay." I grabbed her hand and placed it on the wheel. She literally sat on my lap, reached for the peddle on her tiptoes. I was so fucking inappropriately turned on and proud of her but I didn't waste a second to savour the moment. I slid out of the chair and took the bag she stuffed with loaded gun to the back of the van.

It was half filled with boxes of toys that were probably stuffed with cocaine. I opened the back door, pushed all the boxes out to create some sort of a barrier or an obstacle for them while we were in the alleyway. They finally reached the boxes and the car wobbled, hitting buildings from left and right.

Even though the white lights blinded me but I turned with two hand guns. The car behind us stumbled but guy couldn't pop out of the window due to the narrow space. I took my aim at the driver and shot.

The car smashed into the building to my right and the car behind them crashed into it with such impact that that it threw the man in the passenger seat through the broken windshield, curtesy to me.

"GABERIEL, HOLD ON." Elena's scream dragged my heart into my throat, knowing exactly why she'd say that.

"Fuck." I whispered. 

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