Rosa's POV

"Hey Rachel!" Kenzie yells from the other side of the building. I mentally groan once everyone stares at me and the 15 year old walks towards me. So much for subtle.

Kenzie is the closest I've had to a friend since I've came here, she's 15 so she's a year older than I am but she doesn't act it at all. If anything she acts younger than me.

Hey." I reply more quietly than her and she sighs looking at my sunglasses and hood.

"You're inside." She says and I nod looking at her pouting. She's seen my eyes a few times but I only hide my face when I know an assassin is around and since I'm the youngest assassin around I know I can show my face around her. That and Kenzie is the type of person who would die if they didn't have someone like me.

"Come on, you know I've got an identity to keep." I say and she folds her arms looking away from me, still not happy.

"Fine." She sighs then looks back at me and quickly pulls down my hood and smiles, "everybody knows you have black hair, your secret ID is still safe." She says and I roll my eyes at her. This is why I told her my name was Rachel, I don't want her finding out my real name and screaming it everytime she sees me or going about saying your identity is safe because I only told your first name.

"Whatever, let's just get out of here and on the move, this place isn't safe at all." I say and she shakes her head. Kenzie basically lives in places like these. Personally I've never considered these places safe because if you walk in at a wrong time you could get put into juvenile detention, or worse, a villain could bust in and force you to work for him.

"We can't move yet, the police are checking that whole part of the city as we speak, Harley Quinn got away" She says and my eyes widen in realisation. I forgot about that...

"Get your stuff now." I say seriously but calmly so I don't attract attention from any of the other kids or teens here and she nods looking at me knowing to trust me and she picks up her dark purple backpack and follows me out the Flea.

"What's the problem?" She asks and I'm about to answer when 10 police cars come around the corner. She looks at me scared and I take her hand and run into an alley with her.

"That's our problem, we're in the same part of the city as Harley. The police are searching every building but don't worry, I can easily get us out." I tell her and she nods trusting me and we run 9 blocks then go under the bridge and stop.

I look down at Kenzie who's sitting on the ground out of breath and smirk at her, she looks up at me pissed, "This isn't funny, we were nearly caught! How do you even know how to escape them?!" She yells and I help her up.

"I steal things for a living, I need to know how to escape the cops." I lie. Actually 12 years of staying with the league of shadows, but I couldn't tell her that, nobody is allowed to know who I really am, not even Kenzie.

She nods buying it then exhales, "You must be used to running, you didn't even break a sweat." Kenzie says and I nod.

"You have no idea." I smile then look at the bushes and trees near us and point at them, "we should camp behind there, find some boxes to insulate us so we don't get cold." I tell her and she nods at me smiling.

"You're a natural at surviving outside, I'm glad I have you as a friend, thank you." Kenzie says grateful and I smile back at her.

"It was nothing." I reply then point to some cardboard boxes and she goes towards them. It really wasn't anything though, I've been outrunning the cops and league since I was 5.

I then see in the reflection of a can a boy with a camera then a flash and I turn around to look at the back of the boy who's running away. Ok black hair, green hoodie, black skinny jeans and some converse, I'll remember that.

"Got the boxes." Kenzie smiles from behind me and I look at her like nothing happened and nod then we go into the bushes and trees and on the otherside is a patch of leaves covering the ground.

"Swipe the leaves away with your feet and push them into the bushes, it'll help keep the cold air from coming in underneath them and it will stop people from getting in." I tell her and she nods and we start to work on our temporary home.

Kenzie wipes the sweat of her forehead and lies down on her bed making me hold back a laugh, I find it funny how normal people get tired so easily, it would take me a whole night of running and fighting to get tired.

Tonight my only goal is to protect Kenzie, for all I know that boy worked for the shadows and was sending a photo of me, that or he might come back later with the police, I honestly don't know but either way I will do what I was brought up to do, protect my own.