Tintin and Anne

Chapter 3

When they arrived home , they found their apartment trashed. Everything was on the floor and nothing was stolen.

Snowy being the clever dog he was started scratch at the shelf. Tintin and Anne moved it to find a metal tube that they quickly found that was hidden in the mast.

Tintin read the poem in which Anne said ," if this is what by were looking for then they will be back!'

Tintin agreed and the doorbell went off.

He put the poem in his wallet and took out his gun. Anne touched his arm and gave him a scared look. He whispered for her to stay upstairs for her own safety and went to the door.

Anne couldn't hear what they were saying.

Tintin was talking to the American who was trying to tell him in his own words " you and your girlfriend are in danger!'

"Answer me ! Who ?!?" Tintin yelled.

Then bullet flew everywhere. Tintin went to the floor and covered himself, Anne grabbed snowy and hid in the flat upstairs. The poor American didn't have a chance.

The door flew opened Tintin pointe his gun at the door however the man fell and Tintin along with snowy ran outside . Anne ran for down the stairs to see if she could help the man. He tried saying something but using his own blood spelled out a word. Anne tried to make the man comfortable but he died before Tintin arrived.

Anne's eyes went wide and her hands flew to he mouth. She ran upstairs and curled up on a chair that wasn't turned over. Tintin followed her finding her with tears down her face.

" Tintin I never saw a man die before! What if the shooters were after us but ended up killing him instead!" She exclaimed not realizing her arm was bleeding.

Tintin stopped her rant and grabbed the first aid kit. He cleaned the wound in which Anne hissed at. Then he wrapped it putting pressure on it to stop the bleeding.

" we are going to be fine, Anne , I promise. Have I ever broken a promise," Tintin said.

"No," Anne said like a little girl terrified of the monster underneath the bed. He smiled and kissed her forehead.

" I don't want to be alone tonight. Can I stay with you ? " she said.

He nodded and held her close. Soon they both fell asleep.

Anne woke up in the morning with tintin's arms around her. She blushed realizing her pillow was his chest. Slowly and carefully she gotten out if his grasp and went to the bathroom to freshen up. Tintin woke and found that Anne was nowhere to be seen. The he heard her hum and relaxed, knowing she was safe.

Thomson and Thompson came and as usual forgot that Anne wasn't Tintin 's girlfriend and made themselves look like fools.

Tintin figured out that the man name Barnaby Dawes was trying to tell them a name and had used his blood on a newspaper to spell it out. It was an Armanidon word Karaboujoun. Anne didn't understand why he would say this. Anne went with tintin and the not twins to the door