Here's chapter 4. Thank you to the people that have reviewed it really means a lot. Please, please, please keep reviewing because I do read all comments and listen to all advice.

!!!!!!All of the characters belong to Cornelia Funke and not me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Brianna gasped. She couldn't believe it. Sootbird! That treacherous, two faced fraud. No wonder she didn't recognise the voice straight away, she had spent the better part of the last few years avoiding him. She needed to tell the Black Prince. She needed to get out of here. She needed to get back to her hiding place now.

She slipped back out of the door, closing it carefully behind her. Turning to head back the way she came, she walked headlong into someone taller and stronger than her. Brianna let out a small scream when she saw who it was that she had walked into. Firefox's strong hands reached up to grab her arms before she tried to run the other way.

"Where do you think you're going?"

Struggling within his grasp, Brianna said the first thing that came into her head.

"Go to hell Firefox." She really needed to keep her thoughts to herself.

"Now, now Brianna." His grip got tighter.

"You need to let me go."

"Oh yeah and why would I do that?"

"Because-" her voice failed her, her mind went blank.

"Yes?"

"Please, Firefox. Let me go." She looked up at him, her eyes full of desperation, pleading with him. It was a long shot and she was far from being proud of it but what else could she do? Hoping against hope, that he might give in to her or that he might have had a few to drink tonight.

His eyes narrowed but his grip loosened. "Please, please you need to help me." She knew she had always been a good actress but this was just getting scary now. The despair in her voice was more than convincing; probably because of the fact that she was absolutely terrified of being someone else's prisoner and Firefox knew what it was that scared her much better than Basta did.

"Please, I'll do anything." By the way his eyes lit up, she knew she had taken it too far. Anything was a lot to promise someone especially someone like Firefox.

"Anything?"

"Erm…yes anything," she struggled to turn this back around. "But you have to help me get out of here first."

"Oh I don't think so." The evil smile that spread across his lips was enough to stop the bravest of hearts. He drew closer to her. Brianna held her breath. His hand slowly moved from her arm but then a voice called out.

"Firefox?" The voice came from around the corner. A soldier's voice.

Firefox round to where the voice had come from and swore under his breath. "Quickly in here," he whispered, dragging her into an empty room. "Don't move," he warned as he left.

Brianna could have sunk to the ground there and then. She couldn't believe her luck. She looked around the room. It was dark but moonlight shone in from the window. She went over and looked out. It was a long way down but another glance around the room showed her that this would be her only escape. Gripping the frame firmly, she lent out of the window far enough to see that just underneath was a ledge that went along the side of the castle. If she could stand on it, she would be able to edge along to the next room and if her luck held out maybe there would be another way out from there.

Still breathing as deeply as possible, Brianna carefully climbed out of the window. She gripped the window frame tightly as she placed her feet on the narrow ledge but she realised with relief that the ledge was quite strong and would hold her weight. Taking one last deep breath, she began to edge slowly and cautiously along the side of the building. Just as she had slipped out of the view of the window, she heard Firefox's voice, muffled from behind the closed door, but getting louder.

The distance between the two windows could not have been very far but to Brianna that window frame could not have reached her fingers fast enough. She could already hear the sound of Firefox's anger from the open window behind her. After making sure that this room was completely empty, Brianna scrambled back to the inside of the building. Next time she thought as she went over to a door, I'm just going to stay put and I'm not going to move an inch. No matter what happens, when they tell me to do something, I'm just going to do it.

Looking out of the door, Brianna knew exactly where she was and began a quick but quiet run back to where her father and the boy would be waiting at any minute. Only then did she think about what Dustfinger was going to say once he found out what she had done. He was going to kill her! And they had only just started talking to each other again. Just as she vowed that she would not tell him any of it, she rounded the corner to see her dad standing next to the empty cupboard with a frantic look on his face. A look that turned to relief and then anger very quickly as soon as he spotted her. Oh no…..

So I know that Firefox and Brianna probably would not know each other but as there is not a part in any of the books that proves otherwise….I have always thought that it would be interesting to stick them both in a room together and see what happened, I think they'd make an interesting couple, but maybe I will do that for my next story. Anyway back to this story I hope you enjoyed this chapter and don't forget to tell me about it!