La Volpe imidiantly started to sprint as fast as he could, the sound of a gun still echoing in his eardrums. That had been close by, and if he was right, Ezio couldn't be far!Claudio was right behind him, a look of fear striking his features.

He then saw a house, the door wide open and the back of a guard visible. This had to be the place. "Stay low, I'll tell you what to do when we get closer."

"You don't have a plan. Do you?"

The master thief scoffed, "I'm improvising." With pure stealth, they moved in closer, now he could see that there was a window. They could use that! "Alright. Now what I want you to do is to go in through the window in the back, hopefully that should catch some of them by surprise. I'll take care of the guard in the doorway. Now remember, we aren't sure what we'll find in there, try not to kill anyone we don't need to."

With a nod of understanding, Claudio moved to the back window. La Volpe pulled his dagger out, holding it so that the blade was towards his body, then crept toward the door.

"Signore, he is not yet dead."

"Of course I didn't kill him! I'm sure Cesare will reward us greatly for the capture of his enemy."

Disgust forced it's way to La Volpe's face in a sneer, before the guards could add anything, he swoped in, wretching his dagger into the closest guard's collarbone. He pushed him down, then whipped hsi blade through the next approaching one.

To his surprise, he heard a shriek of alarm, he turned to see a guard holding a very young boy by the wrists, a knife to the child's throat. "Drop your weapon!" Before he could add anything, Claudio stabbed him from behind. As his last move, he sliced the boy's arm, making him curl up on the ground crying as he grasped the new gash!

"Nico!"

A man who was behind held to the wall by another guard stared wide eyed in horror. La Volpe made no hesitation to slice the guard's throat to release him. When he turned, Claudio had finished the last of them, then was trying to comfort the boy.

"Where's Ezio?"

The man he'd just saved only stared at him. "Why do you care?"

"He's a friend of mine. Have you seen him?"

He bit his lip, but a woman, who was crouching over someone, had already beat him to it. "Agnolo, hurry!"

The man didn't bat an eye, he only pushed past La Volpe and into the other room. The thief only then crouched beside the woman to see what she was staring down at. She turned this person over, revealing that he was endeed Ezio! A bullet wound in his chest, which La Volpe couldn't be sure he was alive or not.

When the man returned, he nudged in front of him, holding almost the entire contents of a doctor's stand.

"Dad, this place isn't safe." La Volpe turned to see a young girl staring out of the doorway. He came next to her to see a group of guards pushing through the crowds of civilians.

"I know a place you can go." He told them, which drew all of their attention but the man, who was far to focused on Ezio to honestly turn and look. "It's far enough away far enough away from here that you should be safe. You can treat Ezio there and-" He looked out the doorway again, one of the guards was shaking a woman around, the others waiting. He then looked back to the family. "and you can help the boy."

That made the man turn to look at him, "You say you can help us?"

"Si, now we don't have time, we'll have to hurry."

Nodding, the man looked to the woman next to him. "Lilianna, get Nico." He then glared at La Volpe. "I hope we can trust you."

"You can. You have my word." The master thief promised.

When they reached the "inn", it was already nightfall, the boy had cried himself to sleep, and Ezio didn't show much chance of waking up soon. Though in that time, La Volpe had the time to learn that the man, Agnolo, was a doctor, and that the woman and two children were his family. He couldn't say that he was very surprised about that though.

"So how did you find Ezio?" La Volpe asked as they went across the bridge.

Agnolo answered, "I had stopped him so that I could see a wound on his side. And I found out about his amnesia when he couldn't remember how he had gotten the wound, or anything."

La Volpe turned around on his heels to face him with clear shock painted on his face, "He has amnesia?"

"Si."

"And he doesn't know how he got it." The woman, Lilianna added.

"All we know is that he's had small bits and pieces of his memory coming back quite slowly." Agnolo finished.

"Well how do we fix it?" La Volpe questioned.

The doctor shrugged. "There isn't a cure. With some time, it will restore itself."

Back to the present, Claudio helped as Agnolo pulled Ezio off a horse they had used for him and Nico. Lilianna picked Nico up and they all walked into the thieves guild. Though at first glance, he could tell that Agnolo and Lilianna were getting second thoughts, he oculdn't say he blamed them, consitering there was probably about as much blades here was the weapons room in the Castel San'Angelo.

"There are some rooms upstairs, you can stay there for now." La Volpe told them. Trying to sound as confident as he could that things seemed fine.