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To start with: Thanks for the reviews!
Although there's only a little of Alek in this Chapter, I promise that the next one will contain more of him! :)
To be honest, I only wanted to publish this Ch after the traffic counter bug - or how to call it - is fixed, but with the school coming, I was afraid that I wouldn't have time for uploading.
So, because I'll have loads to do, I won't be able to write and put the new chapters on so frequently either - but don't worry, I'm endeavouring! :)
Chapter 38
Ian and Nikolai ran as fast as they could towards the depature lounge trying to leave the two agents behind, but Mark and Lindsey could chase them with an amazing agility.
" Stop brats!" Mark yelled angrily, but the boys didn't reply.
" This way! I think I've seen those offices on the way here. Maybe the exit isn't as far as we thought." Ian gestured to the left." Or at least I hope so. Getting caught by those doesn't sound well."
This was one of the rare moments when the two boys agreed.
They had been running for a while when Nikolai risked a peek backwards and realised that Lindsey disappeared.
From metre to metre they got more and more exhausted while Mark wasn't even sweating, so noone could ever imagine how happy the boys were, when they finally noticed the white door leading back to the hall.
Then, as a dark shadow, a woman dressed in stewardess clothes stood into their way.
Lindsey.
" They certainly know the structure of the building." Nikolai thought angrily. " She might have cut the distance down."
" Missed me?" She smiled in an evil way.
" No!" Ian shouted, turning back. But Mark was already standing behind him.
Now, the two boys were stuck, standing back-to-back.
" They are stronger," Nikolai muttered to himself. " but maybe..." He peered around. Nowhere to go, nothing to fight with.
The help came from somewhere they never counted on.
" What are you doing here?" Came the voice of a security guard - the original, big and grumpy edition. Lindsey and Mark stood surprised.
The guard examined them from their toes to the top of their head suspiciously.
" You should be on a plane." He told the woman. " And you..."
"Time to go!" Nikolai murmured to Ian, but the boy needed no prompting. Not caring for what the guard or the two agents would do, they swooshed between the still motionlessly standing Lindsey and the wall, fading into the crowd.
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" Huh, that was close!" Nikolai said as they stopped for a minute, trying to catch their breath and - what's more important – seeking for Irina. " We must find her." The boy said. " If she gets to the plane, there would be no chance for us to warn her."
" If she wasn't the one who sent those goons after us." Ian muttered, but shut up when he saw Nikolai's expression. He looked so troubled that Ian could make sure that the same thoughts were racing through his brain. Still, he had a question to ask. Something that evoked the same dizziness in his head as the familiar stranger he'd seen before.
" Have you seen that guard anyway? There was an M on his jacket. I bet I've seen it somewhere else before." He asked.
" Who cares?" Nikolai growled. " That must be a brand."
" No." Ian thought. " More than that for sure." He turned his head left and right. No sign of Irina. No sign of that mysterious girl.
He began to think if he had just imagined everything before, but then his gaze stopped on something red. " She's that!" He gasped, racing towards her.
" Ian, where are you going?" Nikolai asked from the behind, but the other guy paid no attention to him.
" Wait!" Ian shouted, but she didn't notice him.
But someone else did. A younger, olive skinned girl with perfect black hair.
When Ian's eyes met hers, the air filled with electricity. Electricity and lost memories.
The realisation came so fast to him that he nearly couldn't comprehense it. It was like getting wide awake after a long dream. A realistic one.
Isabel... time travel... What the hell?
"Natalie." He wanted to shout her name to her, but only a weak whisper came out his mouth.
His sister wanted to say something too, but she got pulled away by a tall, elegant woman.
Isabel.
She was heading to a gate.
Right before he could go after them, Nikolai grabbed his arm.
" What again, Kabra?" He asked furiously. " You're sabotaging my mission."
" Enough, Spasky, I'm fed up with you!" Ian yelled, but Nikolai interrupted.
" Look, there!" He said, pointing at a blond haired woman in a blue dress.
" We must reach her!" Nikolai said desperately, but he knew deep inside, that they had no chance.
" Mum stop!" He shouted after her with all his strength, but she couldn't hear them.
Without looking back, she disappeared on the way to Gate 3.
The same one Natalie, Isabel and Sinead had entered before.
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" Move!"
" There's no way I would go a micrometre from here without bandaging your shoulder!"
" Woman, don't make me mad, that's just a little scratch." Alek Spasky growled to Nataliya. " They are after us and they will get us in no time if we don't carry on."
Alek was sure that Nataliya knew that and didn't wish to meet Boris again, but from the moment she noticed that he was wounded, she sat down into the grass and refused to go any further.
" Nata!?"
" Nyet."
" Nata!"
" Your wound first." The woman said stubbornly.
" Nata, they'll catch us!" Alek said losing his patience. " There's no need to make fuss of unimportant things! You must understand that they'll kill us the time they..."
" Do you think I don't know that?" Nataliya interrupted indignantly. " YOU must understand that you're terribly shot and if we don't do anything, you will bleed to death in an hour. I guess, I had enough problems with Hemophilia to know."
Alek let out a little gasp. " It doesn't matter." He said slowly. " You have to be safe. And here, you aren't."
Nataliya wanted to say something, but then, she saw smoke comming behind the trees. The smoke of chimneys.
Alek noticed that too and made up his mind.
" That must be a village." He muttered, then looked at the woman, deep into her eyes. " It can't be far from here. About a 5 minutes walk. We should get there and then you can do whatever you want with my shoulders. Deal?"
Nataliya took a deep breath before responding. " Deal."
That's it, thanks for reading!