Me notes; Ok, ok this update was very late but I have been under a lot of stress and well it all got a little too much for me and I became ill for the past month and a pit but now I'm in recovery. So here's the latest update please read a review I admit the end was rushed. Sorry if you don't like but I hope you do... ow just read the chapter
Pino stood staring at Lombardi his eyes blazed with anger. Alice was still sat on the bed holding herself in her thin arms, but now some of her hope had come back, he came, she kept thinking. Just then Pino took a step closer to Lombardi "Tell me bastardo" he shouted "what are you planning?" Lombardi simply laughed at him.
"You think I'll tell you" he turned to Alice "this cat has no plan on telling you anything bambini" he laughed again. Pino didn't seem amused but he smiled anyway "What are you laughing at, Idiota?" Pino tilted his head to the side and smirked at him "You think I was asking you" Alice raised her eyebrows, thinking, well you kind of did Pino, "no Lombardi I wasn't asking, I was demanding" Lombardi's smile faded and so did Pino's both were locked in each other's gaze.
Lombardi made the first move leaping toward Pino with great force and with luck Pino managed to dodge this by moving swiftly to the left and ducking at the same time.
The next move was even faster as Lombardi swung his leg out kicking Pino in the kidneys. Pino buckled to the ground but managed to get his footing fast enough to escape Lombardi's foot coming down dangerously close to his head. "Merda" Pino rolled away from Lombardi and jumped to his feet "your faster than you look" Lombardi bowed and replied "grazie, so are you ragazzo" and then again they both stood ready to fight.
However Pino went first this time using the bed and a spring board and leaping twice as high as Lombardi, and with the palm of his hand stretched out a silver object shot out at his wrist and came plummeting down onto Lombardi, but it wasn't over Lombardi managed to step slightly to avoid the blade from stabbing him but instead gained a long graze cutting both his cloths and skin.
"Damn it!" screamed Pino as he jumped back again
"Pino you ok?" screamed Alice as she moved slightly on the bed to get closer to him; concern was the only emotion she could feel at that time. Pino however felt more than just concern, he felt fear, anxiety and above all he felt anger. His thirst for revenge fuelled his hatred of Lombardi and the thought of Bella's face made him hate Lombardi that ever more.
"Ow I know that face" muttered Lombardi as he looked at Pino's eyes "I killed someone you knew right?" Pino's eyes narrowed "ha ha who were they?" Lombardi kept laughing "your love, your family or friend" Pino's face grew red with rage.
"She" Pino emphasised "She was my sorella!" he ran toward Lombardi with full speed crashing into him "She died by the hands of your men now tell me why she had to die?" Pino was holding Lombardi by his clothes lifting him off the ground.
"She knew too much"
"What did she know?"
"That this city will burn and only the innocent shall survive" Pino dropped Lombardi and stepped away from him. Alice was in shock still sitting on the edge of the bed, brother and sister; she was in shock no wonder he was so distraught when she died.
Pino backed up to the bed out of breath; he paced his hand on one of the posts and leaned on it breathing deeply. Alice stood up and placed her hand on his shoulder and sighed "Pino I didn't know" Alice put her head on his back "I'm sorry" Pino turned his head and saw the little droplets of blood on her scalp from were Lombardi had pulled her across the floor.
"Lombardi you will tell me what your plan is now or die slowly" Lombardi was sat slightly on the floor and almost instantly he answered "Either way I die right?" Pino simply nodded Alice walked toward the door.
Lombardi smiled and placed his hand into the inside of his sleeve. Pino clicked on to what he doing "Alice mossa now" but Alice was slipped on the floor landing square in Lombardi's view. Lombardi had pulled out a revolver and aimed at Pino but is a curl and twisted manner he moved to a different target.
"I remember your sister boy" shouted Lombardi "She was an impure and evil assassin just like you, and you know what" Pino looked at Alice then at Lombardi "Because of you this little mouse is going to die in the same way as well" Pino bolted toward Alice as she covered her face in an attempt to hide herself. Lombardi's finger tightened around the trigger and suddenly all Alice heard was a loud bang as she closed her eyes.
She opened them suddenly to see Pino with his arms wrapped around her and across the room Lombardi lay on the ground with a small silver knife sticking out of his forehead "Pino did you?" Pino squeezed Alice tightly "mi perdoni Alice" he whispered "But we have to hurry"
Alice stood up but Pino was much slower than her using the wall to help him up. It was then Alice noticed the blood poor from his leg "You've been shot!" exclaimed Alice, nodding and not speaking he was in too much pain to speak gritting his teeth he tried to walked but took a couple steps and stumbled.
"You shouldn't move so much" Alice rushed over trying to stop him, but Pino pushed her hands aside and hobbled over to Lombardi's dead body "Riposa in pace, è malvagità bastardo" he then turned toward a large wooden desk sitting close to a large window. Pino sat in the desks chair and brushed his fingers over the desk's draws then almost chaotically he pulled open draws and tossed papers aside until he came across a small thick red leather binned journal "got it" he winced grabbing his leg as a spurt of blood shot across the floor Alice placed her hand over his and smiled kindly "let me help you Pino" still in too much pain again he just nodded.
Alice preceded by tearing up part of her dress and wrapping it around Pino's leg he hardly seemed in pain but Alice could feel him tremble slightly under her hands. "Ok" Alice was done on this bit but there was something else she had to do. Gingerly she put her right hand down her top.
"Miss Alice what are you doing!" screamed Pino
"calm down" muttered Alice as she pulled out a packet of pain killers labelled Co-Codomal, popping out three large pills Alice held out her hand to Pino "come one then eat up" Pino just starred but he then grabbed the pills and swallowed them hole "wow hold on, they could have been poison?" Pino just smiled at her "You would never poison me" Alice raised her eye brow, true, she thought.
Pino was being helped by Alice to stand and both looked eagerly at each other to get out of the room with Lombardi's body lying on the floor, and now was the moment they both looked forward to. This was the moment of their escape.
Once in the corridor Alice expected guards and guns, or at least arrows, but there was no one or anything there. "Wait, where has everyone gone" Alice shouted with Pino looking at her "when I came in this whole hallway was full of people now they're gone"
Pino's speech was almost impossible to understand it was so slurred "That would be Signore Ezio" Pino slipped from Alice's grip slightly "He is distracting all the guards with bombs and fire for use Alice che è abbastanza" Alice paused for a moment then thought that he was just delirious from loss of blood but he continued "You know I hope you and I get out of here mia bella" Alice felt compelled to ask "Why's that Pino my Muppet" Pino lifted himself up a little and smiled "I want to show to hole of Roma Alice, all of it, then at night I shall take you to the greatest place ever"
"Really"
"Really" just then Ezio came running past them stopping just in front and turning.
"I thought you would have already left Pino and Signora Alice why are you still here?"
Pino lifted himself up straight and answered as normal as he could "Truth be told Signore Lombardi is a dirty fighter" Ezio chuckled "did you at least find something we can use, information maybe?" Ezio lifted Pino's other arm over his shoulder, Pino nodded but didn't speak.
Ezio shuck his head and walked with him and Alice smiled "Sorry Ezio, Pino's a little... erm delirious" Ezio looked down and spotted Pino's bloody leg "hmm I guess Lombardi was a very dirty fighter"
*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&* (some time later)
Ezio and Alice were still dragging Pino who was becoming paler and paler by the minute "prega di smettere for a moment I think I'm going to be sick" so they did and Pino's back arched as he started to vomit. Almost slipping out his friend's grips, Alice looked disgusted but kept hold of Pino's arm but Ezio wasn't even looking. Instead he had his head turned to a large set of wooden doors "someone is coming" he whispered Alice turned sharply at that door and also whispered "how do you know that?" Ezio didn't answer but suddenly let go of Pino's arm and ran to the nearest window and trough it wide open.
Alice and Pino almost fell over without Ezio helping, "wow, wow, wow" she repeated Pino was coughing up what remained in his stomach and Ezio signalled to Alice to come to the window as quietly as she could she dragged Pino close to the open window.
There Ezio leapt onto the window ledge and to Alice's shock he jumped out into the free air "ow my god" Pino looked toward the door and murmured "Their close"
Ezio called to Alice saying something she couldn't believe "now get Pino and throw him to me ok"
"Hell no" screamed Alice "He is not a human rag doll"
"Well if he doesn't get out of there now he is going used for target practice" and so Alice dragged Pino to the window, she felt lucky that he was very light and not as stocky as Ezio. But as she got closer to the window it became even clearer that she was going to struggle.
The window was around three feet off the ground and Alice wasn't very strong but to save his life she had to try... she knew it wouldn't go well.
First she tried pushing him out but he fell on top of her unconscious Pino's face laid close to hers, she could feel his breath on her neck, it sent tingles down her spine. She placed her hands on his chest and lifted him up and rolled him to the side "This is not how I pictured a mission with an assassin." She mumbled under her breath. So she tried again picking him up by the legs and wiggling him up her back until they were hanging over her shoulders, it was like looking at a living playing card with the two sets of heads conjoined at the body.
Alice felt the blood rush to her head she was both embarrassed and tired out but with great distress she managed to get Pino's feet out the window then to his knees, then his ass and then his back leaving Alice holding his shoulders in her arms and shouting down to Ezio "Are you ready?" Ezio answered as fast as he could before she let go of him "Yes Alice you can drop him"
And with that Pino was sent flying down through the air, at the speed he was travelling he was woken slightly by the sound of a man made breeze. Opening his eyes to see a blur of a figure hanging out of the window looking down on to him, Alice, he thought, what on earth. Then a thump as he fell into Ezio's arms, the force knocked the air out of both of them "MerdaPino if you were any heaver I would have dropped you." But Pino was out cold again so Ezio laid him down onto the roof top and called to Alice once more "now it's your turn Signora."
Alice stood there and looked at the frame of the window, just thinking to herself, dodging bullets caring the wounded and now jumping out windows, what next. Then her question was answered as the two large wooden doors started to rumble under the sound of feet thumping on the ground Alice stopped and listened when an even louder bang came from the door, it grew in sound as the door moved violently but it was locked tight that wouldn't stop them however.
People I mean, their voices could be heard by Alice and Ezio "You have to jump miss, now!" and without thinking she took several steps back and held her breath. Everything seemed to slow down for her, the wind blew her hair around wildly but to her it gently moved her hair out of place as the rhythm of her heart echoed in her mind, I'm so gonna die now, and with that thought in her head she sprinted forward and leaped through the window arms first.
She didn't open her eyes, she couldn't. Instead she turned herself mind air to face to sky and she prayed to dear heaven, please let Ezio catch me please. Thankfully her prayers were answered and Ezio had caught her, her joy and happiness filled her from head to toe and she couldn't stop smiling at the middle aged man looking down on her "Erm ok" Ezio stood her up and bent over Pino examining his injures.
"Is Pino okay?" Alice was looking up toward the window she just jumped from; she was astonished to see that the window was around ten feet up. She couldn't help but keep looking at it in amassment she actually jumped from that height.
"Well" Ezio's voice snapped her out of her trance.
"He has a lost a lot of blood"
"But he'll be ok right" Alice looked over his shoulder and down at Pino, but Pino's eyes were closed and he was extremely pale.
"if we don't get this bullet out then no" and with that notion Ezio grabbed Pino under his back and around his shoulders then with his free hand he slid it under his knee's.
Lastly lifting Pino up he turned to Alice and with a serious face he spoke quietly to her "Now we must move, fast and silent, keep up ok" Alice nodded and started to follow Ezio but she nearly slipped on the roof tiles to her death, it must have about another twenty feet down "If you don't keep up then more than likely you'll die" Alice froze at the thought of death and how Ezio sounded, was he mad at her or concerned.
Either way the way he looked as he was caring Pino seemed kind of heroic...
Will Pino die, will Alice see the next sun rise or will Ezio have a meltdown read the next "Alice in Roma" to find out
Translations
bastardo = bastard
bambini = children
ragazzo = boy
sorella = sister
Perdonami = forgive me
Riposa in pace, è malvagità bastardo = Rest in peace, you evil bastard
che è abbastanza = who's pretty
mia bella = my pretty
prega di smettere = please stop
merda = shit
Grazie = thank you
mi perdoni = forgive me
Mossa = Move
Signore = sir
Signora = Miss
