So this is chapter 1 of Help Me, Save Me. It's short. I know but I promise each chapter after this gets longer.

I just wanted to give a quick thank you to everyone who encouraged me to post this. I could name names but you know who you are. You all get obessive emails from me as I yet again question what I write.

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She could hear them, sense them running after her. She didn't know where they were or how close but she knew they were coming. It was only a matter of time until they caught up with her. She had managed to evade them for almost a full two weeks, escaping to this city, this country she had never been to. She was careful the entire trip over. Never looking directly at anyone. Barely acknowledging when spoken to. Even so she knew she'd be found.

It had been nearly three days since her last meal. She was weak and her strength to keep running was waning. She could hear the sound of rapidly moving foot steps coming closer, louder.

She stopped frozen in her tracks as she saw him in front of her. If he found her it was only a matter of minutes until the other one came upon her as well. When that happened she knew that was the end.

There would be no more running, no more hiding. There would be no more her.

"Well, well, well. Look who we have here." He smiled at her twirling a knife between his fingers like a baton. He took a step closer to her and she stumbled backwards to get away, her back coming into contact with the wall.

This was it she thought. She was trapped. Swallowing slowly she looked up to meet her killer in the eyes. "Why me? I've done nothing, I've never even met you." She tried to stop the tears taking in a shuddering breath of air.

He smiled at her and she felt her stomach crawl. "It's nothing personal my lovely little reale*." Taking a step closer he ran the blade of his knife softly down her cheek and across her jaw. "God knows I'd much rather just keep you for myself. But I have a job to do and unfortunately you just aren't worth the loss of that pay check." He leaned closer to her and ran his nose from her neck to ear.

She shuddered again and pressed back against the wall wishing she could just melt into it and disappear.

Then she felt it.

His tongue came out and licked back down her cheek to her neck.

"Nothing saying I can't have a little taste of you for myself before collecting my money though is there?" He smiled wickedly at her and she felt something snap in her. Without a second thought she brought her knee up and caught him in the groin. She watched as he doubled over the knife falling to the ground with a loud clattering of metal against pavement.

Her brother would be proud she briefly thought as she watched him gasping for air.

Her brain raced as she processed the fact that he was on the ground heaving in pain. She took off like a bullet racing towards the lights coming from the streets. Out of the dirty alley. She broke through the dark dingy passageway, into the bright light out on to the street.

She had only looked up for a moment when she saw the headlights coming for her and then the sound of screeching tires as the shiny car came to a stop. She was shaking watching the tall man step out of his car. Her world gradually turning to a grainy black and white as he asked her if she was ok.

"Are you ok? Are you hurt?" This stranger asked her.

She looked up at him as the world gradually started fading to black and barely pushed the words out from between her lips. "Help me."

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This was his favorite part of the day. The end. No more work. No more clients pestering him for deadlines that were due. Just him, his car, and the music he truly loved. Sighing softly he let the calming effects wash over him.

He briefly closed his eyes. No longer then a second and when he opened them there was someone in the middle of the road. Before his brain had time to process what his foot was doing he was hitting the break as his car came to a halt just inches from the ridiculous person in the road. Shaking his head wondering who stands in the middle of a road. He got out of his car and asked if they were ok. That's when he noticed it was a young woman standing in front of him.

She looked frightened. He saw that she could barely stand up as she started to wobble back and forth. Lunging forward he caught her just before she collided with the asphalt. Her eyes closed and he barely heard her whisper "help me." Then her whole body went limp.

Acting on impulse he carried her quickly to his car laying her in the passenger seat. He quickly drove away blending into the traffic. Not noticing the large man that ran out of the alleyway the girl in his car had emerged from.

*reale=royal in Italian

Author Note: Ok if you managed to stay with me this far I'm willing to post chapter 2 sooner with enough motivation. I am several chapters ahead and I hope to stay several chapters ahead in the hopes of being able to post on a regular schedule. I'm thinking right now weekly updates as long as I can keep up with the writing.

So please give me your honest opinion on what you think so far and if you'd like chapter 2 sooner then a week.