The Crack-Shot and The Archers

Chapter 1 - Ronin - P.3

I'd dove over to Kate to cover her from the blast but it went off before I could.

We got sent down the hall. Fire was spreading, smoke, and we were wet from the sprinklers.

I slowly get up.

Jack: Urgh, damn!

I wave some smoke away.

Jack: Kate, you here?!

Kate: I'm over here!

She was further down the hall, standing up.

I start walking down the hall to her.

?: AAAHHH!

Someone comes running out the door of another apartment and tackles me through the door of another apartment.

The entire door came down and we landed with him on top of me. He punches me in the face and tries a second time but I kneed him in the balls and roll over so I'm on top of him.

I punch him 3 times in the face with my right hand and to knock him out I pick up an ornament and smash it off his head. It either killed him or knocked him unconscious.

I get up and leave the apartment. I was in the hall.

Kate runs down the hall over to me.

Kate: Are you okay?

Jack: Yeah, are you?

Kate: I'm okay.

The end of my left eyebrow was bleeding and the blood was running down the left side of my face, one long strand.  She had to small cuts on her right cheek.  Bits of ash were on our face and clothes.

Jack: Come on, we gotta go.  Tracksuits'll be flooding the place any minute.

Kate: We can go to my house.

Jack: Okay.  We'll go down the fire escape.

I lead her to the fire escape.

Jack: You go down first.

She goes down the small ladder on to the fire escape stairs.

Okay, here we go.  I turn around to go down the ladder but get met with a kick by a Tracksuit.

Kate: Jack!

I go flying past the fire escape and go crashing through a window a floor below on the building next to mine.

Luckily, this apartment complex was being renovated so it was all empty, and some of the bricks had fell out due to the bomb.

I was on my back.

Jack: Jesus, man.

I get up.

Jack: Gotta get to Kate.

I go the window I crashed through.

I look down and see she was running down the stairs.  Two Tracksuits were waiting on her at the bottom.

I take out my gun and...