Fated (On Hold)

Chapter 7: The Escape

Crystal's View:

With Tiana behind me we sneak back to the safe house. We avoid the guards, who are prowling around the alley ways, looking for Exavier and Tristen. Using the shadows we quietly jump and run over various obstacles. Once or twice we almost run into a guard, who abruptly walks around a corner. Slowly but surely we make our way back to safety. My thoughts drift to Exavier and Tristen. 

I wonder what they are doing right now. We have been gone a while, but not long enough for them to worry. Hopefully they are using this time to think of a plan, because this is going to be difficult. They said that they were not very high in their pack rank, I hope that they can pull their own weigh for the fight. There is no way we can sneak by Dave, I have trained with him enough to know that.

A hand shoots in front of my face, startling me and breaking my train of thought. I nearly fall, but catch myself grabbing the wall for support.

"Oh, sorry didn't mean to scare you. Its just..well..look." Tiana whispers to me. I look ahead of me and see that there is a guard standing in front of the entrance to the safe house's alley way.

Well, crap. Now what?

I hadn't expected this. There way only one way to access the alley way, and that was were the guard was standing. I have tried to go in from the roof tops, lets just say it didn't go so well. I fell through the roof of one of the surrounding buildings, and ended up with a bunch of cuts and bruises.

"I guess we just have to wait." I whisper to her, defeated.

"So, we wait." Tiana repeated quietly.

Tia and I wait like this, in silence, for a good 5 minuets. Neither of us dare to speak aloud, or become distracted by mind linking, so that we can both be on full guard. We know that we can not be at ease, we have taught every person that is currently hunting us. We have made them into a force to be reckoned with. Both of us are in, what I like to call, Alpha/ Beta mode. Basically we are in battle mode, ready to spring into action.

It is now getting dangerously close to the time we told Exavier and Tristen to start getting worried about us if we didn't return. Finally the guard moves along, to check another part of the alley ways. As soon as he is out of our sight we jump out of the window and race to the safe house door, not risking another run in with a guard.

I reach for the handle, and rap my hand around it. Right when I do, another force pulls the door open, and with my hand still holding the handle I get pulled along with the door.

I am going too fast to stop, I close my eyes and brace for the impact. When I feel a pair of strong hands grab me, saving me from hitting the floor. I open my eyes, attempting to decipher what just happened in those 3 seconds. I hold on to my savior, by wrapping my hands around their neck. I realize that it was Exavier that had opened that door and who had caught me.

I look at the position we are in. We look like we have just finished a dance, and he has dipped me. He has one hand under me supporting me, and the other is holding my waist. I have my hands still clasped together around his neck, and I am held low to the ground.

Our faces are close, from this distance I can see how beautiful his eyes are. I never noticed how strong he was, but I do now with his arms wrapped around me. He holds me with ease, as if I were as light as a feather. Neither of us makes any attempt to move from this position. My eyes slowly drift to his lips. They look so soft and perfect....

WAIT ONE MINUET HERE!!!! WHAT THE HELL MIND?? What am I thinking about something like this?!!!? About KISSING HIM? We have known each other for what, an hour?!! Oh my Goddess!