A/N: be patient, Brad and Naomi get together (fluff in this chapter) in chappy 6. Thanx to all my reviewers! *Sniffle* GET ME A TISSUE!!!!!

Disclaimer: If I owned zoids all the guys (besides Jamie cause I luv him) would run around in pink flannel nighties with bunnies and teddies on them.

Aren't you glad I don't?

CHAPTER 3

Brad lunged forward, grabbing the barrel of the gun and pointing it to the side, just in time, as the window shattered, sending glass, like deadly needles, flying into the apartment.

Bit yelled, "Are you trying to kill us or do you just like firing guns at people?!"

Naomi looked back, white as a sheet, just as surprised, "I didn't fire."

Before Bit could say something rash, Jamie cut in, "Bit, she's right, the shot came from outside, if Naomi shot the glass would be outside the window, not in."

"Yeah and random crazy people just happened to fire at us off the street!"

Naomi murmured so soft they had to lean in to hear, "You're right about crazy."

"What do you mean?"

She looked up, a feral look in her eyes, "This attack has been carefully planned, they have found me at last. You guys need to leave, it's not safe to be around me."

Leena pushed to the front, angry. "Listen Naomi, you and me don't always get along but there is on way in hell I'm going to leave you here to die."

She took Naomi by the wrist and tried to pull her to the door. Naomi resisted, pulling her wrist out of Leena's vice-like grip muttering, "Thank you defense training."

Doc pointed out, "Naomi, at least at the base you'll be better protected. I'm sure Harry, if we tell him Leena is the one they are after, will give us some guards."

Naomi stood straight and proud, as if completely resigned to her fate. "No."

The Blitz team began to get angry, clamoring absurdly. But not even Jamie predicted that Doc would be the one to do something really stupid. He picked up the empty coffee pot from the counter and brought it down squarely on top of her head. Naomi looked enraged before all she saw was darkness. And off, in the darkened apartment across the street, the sniper assassin cursed.

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Naomi woke, blinded by the bright florescent bulbs. A whimper escaped her lips before she could stop it. She stood, leaning on the wall for support, and looked around. Where was she? The room was empty, albeit a door and countless containers of food. A dark shape at the door, Naomi whipped around, blood draining from her face, head pounding. Brad entered slowly, assured that Naomi wasn't going to attack him as soon as he opened the door. Naomi sat, stiff and angry, and asked, "Where am I, why am I here, and why the hell can't you respect a dead-girl-walking?

Brad looked down with sympathy, and told her, "You're in Leena's pantry. You're here so we can protect you. We don't think you're a dead-girl- walking. But before you ask anything else, who is trying to kill you and why?"

Naomi looked at him, tears filling her eyes, 'Okay, but first you have to PROMISE not to tell anyone."

"Promise."

Naomi lay her head in her hands, hunched over, almost childlike. "Ok. I was fourteen and Evhert was my English teacher. One day, he told me to stay after class. I got in trouble a lot so I did. He grabbed me and put a knife to my throat. He said if I screamed he would kill me. He walked me out to his car and shoved me in. I knew no one would be looking for me, I always stayed out late, and I wasn't a very good kid. He took me to the ocean where he tied my feet and hands. He dropped me off the pier, but lucky for me, the ropes caught on a nail and freed my feet. I swam to shore and hitched a ride home. But when I got home, he was finishing off my parents. My dad was almost dead and he was talking. He told me that Evhert had battered my mom and killed her. Then my dad died. They were killed because they were good pilots and I was getting to be good at it so I changed my name and identity. And that's it, end of story, except that now he knows where I am and I will be next. All because he can't take the fact my parents beat him in a zoid championship. That's when he attacked my mom the first time. So I will die and nobody can do anything about it. I don't want to die yet. There is so much I haven't done!"

Brad watched her rapid descent from proud zoid pilot to crying heap on the floor. He hugged her and kept hugging her until they both fell asleep.

A/N: Now I wanna' see that!!!!! Awww. 0;)