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Chapter 6

Max waited till White had moved out of sight before she started having a look round. White she knew had already looked round here, he obviously hadn't found anything. He had also looked a little way down some of the other corridors, the one he had chosen to look down was not one of them. He obviously thought they were dead ends. Well, only one way to find out.

Max started walking, keeping an eye behind her just in case White decided not to play fair, imagine that.

She wasn't trusting him as far as she could throw him, although she guessed she could probably throw him a fair distance. The thought cheered her up a little. She knew she had to get out of here before he did. Like he said, if he got out first he would come back with a team to get her. That wasn't what Max had in mind.

This was one of the few times she wished she were at work, anything was better than stumbling around in the dark like this, it was lucky she didn't need much light or she would be in real trouble.

She wondered briefly how well White could see in the dark, but so far he hadn't seemed to have any problems.

The walls looked like they were about to collapse around her, like if she lent against them they would give way. Even if she did find a door would she be able to open it without pulling the wall down? She would have to be careful.

The other problem of course would be the stairs, they couldn't be trusted any more than the walls could, and climbing would be difficult with her shoulder, but if it meant a little pain in order to get out she could manage. Anything to get out of here.

She was aware of a soft noise behind her. She spun round expecting to see White sneaking up on her but it was just a rat. Not one of her favourite creatures but hey, she had bigger rodents to deal with right now.

Ames moved quietly, as he had been trained to do. He watched his back to make sure 452 wasn't following him, that's all he needed right now, she must have noticed that he was injured. With their respective injuries they were too evenly matched in a fight. That of course would change when he got out of here and called in his team. They would be looking for him by now anyway, it was only a matter of time before they found the building and worked out what had happened, at least he hoped it was only a matter of time. He sometimes wondered that humans had survived as long as they had. Well they better enjoy it while they could he thought darkly. Soon it would all be over for them.

Ames was confident that 452 couldn't sneak up on him without him hearing her, but he wasn't taking any chances, she was well trained, that much was obvious. However he was better trained, he was sure of that. He had beaten her before, she was lucky that the cops had turned up that time she came after Ray.

Ray. Ames stood still and thought about his son, as he often did. He found himself distracted by the loss of his son, that was weakness and it was unacceptable but he couldn't seem to help it. He couldn't afford a distraction.

His leaders were right, Ray probably was dead, but there was still that linger doubt that said what if. A soldier couldn't afford doubts, they got him killed.

Ames spun hearing a sound behind him but it was only a rat, he was jumping at rodents.

He crushed the animal under is foot angrily. 452 was getting to him and she wasn't even here.

The rat made a pitiful squeal but it ended quickly, he wiped the bloody remains off his shoe in disgust.

He was pleased to note however that he had more strength in his leg now. He hoped 452 didn't heal as quick, but who knew what she was engineered for?

The other transgenics he could handle, so why was 452 such a problem? He'd memorised her file, knew everything about her training, knew that it wasn't complete when she had escaped, that should make her easier to catch but for some reason it didn't. His superiors had warned him that they thought he was becoming a little too obsessed with the X5. He didn't see how, she was the most dangerous of them all. Plus she had taken his son. If he was a little obsessed with her he figured he was entitled to it.

Ames kept walking, he couldn't see the end of the corridor, it was too dark. He could see his surrounding well enough but there didn't seem to be any way out. He had found a few cracks in the wall, and there were rooms or possibly other corridors on the other side, if he found a gap big enough to get through easily he would have a look, but he wouldn't risk collapsing the building even if it would take out 452 as well.

He decided to check out this corridor completely before moving on to another, it would be just his luck if he stopped looking and it turned out the door was just ahead.

Note: (I know this is pretty much a filler chapter but the next one will be better I promise, I'm working on it right now!)