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~A New Life~
~Chapter Twelve: A Rescue Attempt for Fritz~
"Oh and his hair was a sandy type of Golden Blond. And he wore it short, all the time. But not short enough to keep some one from running their fingers though it." Clarissa said, continuing with the conversation about Fritz.
"Ok, tell me about how he treated you while you were gone." Cloy said, setting down her cup of tea, and acting more serious then her mother would have liked.
"Well, one time they were sort of hitting me and Fritz came to my rescue. He stopped them by taking a bad hit to his chest with a whip. When they figured I had had enough then, they let Fritz carry me back to the cell we shared. He laid me down in bed and started to clean up all the blood all over me as best as he could." Clarissa explained. "You see, the living conditions there were retched. And he had to make due with what he had, both with my wounds and his."
Cloy listened intently as her mother continued describing this strange hero that she made him out to be.
"There was a mirror in our room as well. The place we were at use to be a flat building, so there were wall mirrors in some of the cells." Clarissa explained, drinking more of her tea. "And I remember wakening up, and watching him take his shirt off to check the wound on his chest from the whip."
"That must have hurt." Cloy commented, loosening up after hearing what Fritz had done for her mother. She picked her teacup up again and started drinking from it.
"Yeah, I felt a little woozy from the hits I sustained, but I got up and joined him. I had said to him 'you know, that looks pretty bad, why don't I look at it.'" her mother said as a smile tugged at her lips.
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"You know, that looks pretty bad, why don't I look at it for you Fritz." A battered up Clarissa asked, sort of holding on to Fritz for balance.
"No that's alright, I think I'll live. Besides, you must be in bed. They certainly didn't have mercy on you Clair." Fritz said, easily picking her up again, and taking her back over to the single bed they shared. "You sleep on the bed tonight; I think I can survive on the floor."
"No, you sleep with me, it may be cramped, but it's better then catching a phenomenon on the floor." Clarissa protested. Though, she could see that she wouldn't be able to put up much of a fight.
Fritz looked at her and studied her face for a moment, then smiled. "If that is what you want, then I guess I could sleep with you. Besides it is going to get cold tonight. Maybe we could keep each other warm."
Clarissa smiled and scooted over for Frits to get in, when he was in she looked at the red mark on his chest and asked "Why did you take that hit for me?"
"Well, where I grew up, and where I come from, they taught us that it's not right to hit a woman. Even if she hits you first." Fritz said in a soft soothing tone, with a slight accent to it.
"Yeah, but these guys would rather shoot a man in the back rather then look at them, they aren't men, they are rats. Every last one of them" Clarissa said, as she thought of it, it made a few tears sprout from her eyes.
"You get no argument from me there, but don't go and ware yourself out like this. You need as much strength as you can get." Fritz said, stroking her head and pressed a kiss to her hair.
"Fritz, please tell me that you are going to come with me if and when I escape." Clarissa asked, as her eyes slowly closed.
"I don't know if I can promise that, but I will try." He whispered in her ear as she finally nodded off to sleep. He stroked her head as he fell to sleep himself
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"When I woke up, he was barely breathing, and had a gunshot wound to his shoulder. He also had a type of sickness I couldn't identify at the time. But the people at the place allowed me to care for him so that he wouldn't die." Clarissa said as she stared into her tea. At this time Kyoji was listening intently as well as Cloy.
"When it came time for me to escape I didn't want to leave him behind but he made me. He shoved me out to freedom while he stayed behind to take the heat." she finished.
Cloy could see that her mother was about to cry and said "you don't have to continue of you don't want to mom."
She just nodded her head and drunk the rest of her tea down. "I want to go back and save him. If we don't soon, he will die."
"Don't worry mom, as soon as I see that you are all right, and healthy we both will go after him." Cloy replied and refilled her mothers teacup.
"Thank you dear. But I am fine, trust me. I never felt better." Clarissa assured her daughter.
"Okay mom. You and I will go out whenever you are ready, and you show me where you were." Cloy said, then went to get a map. She laid it out on the coffee table that they had their drinks on and Cloy asked "Ok, think you could show me where you were?"
Her mother looked at the map a moment, and then pointed out a condemned building, just at the outskirts of London. "That's the place. We have to hurry.
"Alright mom." Cloy said, folding up the map and looked to Kyoji "Listen, I want you to stay with Joshua. We might need your help when we get him to carry him in. But I promise I will be fine."
Kyoji didn't like the idea of letting his fiancée go like this, and risk her neck for some guy she hardly knew, but she seemed determined and so he had no choice but to let her go. "Alright hon. But you know that you are going to worry me every second you are gone."
Cloy smiled and said "yeah, I know, that's why we'll hurry back." She gave him on final farewell kiss, and then out the door she went with her mother.
Kyoji walked over to the window and watched Cloy leave with her mother. He sighed and said "well Josh, I guess we got the place to ourselves." He collapsed on the couch and started missing Cloy.
"Ok mom. I think I know where we are going, so which floor was Fritz on when you left him?" Cloy asked as she drove the some 15-20 miles to the run down building.
"I think it was on the second floor. Yes, I'm sure it was the second floor." She replied
"Ok, I'll go in, and see if its clear, and then you follow me in if it's safe." Cloy said, already forming a plan in her head.
"Ok honey, you know more about this then I do." Clarissa said as she watched the town go by. "It's up here on the right." She pointed out.
Cloy almost missed the turnoff, but she got over in the center lane, to make the right turn, and went into a dark alleyway. "I'll be back." Cloy said, getting out and locking the doors. Clarissa nodded as she sat still. Cloy looked all around and saw nothing. She peeked into a window and saw a man strapped to a table, she saw that he had sandy golden blond hair, and pretty much the same fetchers that her mother described to her.
"Mom, come on, it's clear." Cloy whispered as she waved to her mother. "Is this the same Fritz?" she asked, pointing to the man strapped to the table.
"Yes, they must have moved him." She replied. "We have to save him." Clarissa said, almost getting up when a man came in.
"Get down." Cloy said grabbing her mother and pulling her down. The man that came in did something then left after. There was no a tube sticking out of Fritz's arm.
"I'll go in and see if it's clear. Then you follow." Cloy said, then climbed though the window and took a good look around. Then just as her mother was about to come in she said "It's clear."
"We have to get him back. He won't last much longer, with the blood he lost." Clarissa said as she ran to Fritz's side. She started trying to work at the straps, but Cloy stopped her. "Why did you stop me?" she asked.
"Let me do this mom." She said, and then used her claws to cut all the straps. Fritz slid off the table and into Clarissa's arms. She stroked his golden blond hair out of his face and then motioned for Cloy to help her carry him out to the car.
"When we get over to the window, let me have him and I'll take him the rest of the way." Cloy said. And once they got there, she sort of slung him over her shoulder, and then jumped out the window like a wolf, carrying a caucus back to its pack. She smoothly landed and took him over to the side of the car and waited for her mother.
Her mother got there faster then she thought, and opened the door to the back seat. Cloy slid Fritz in laying him down and made sure he was comfortable. When she was done she asked "ok, think you can cover him while I go to check to see if anyone detected us?"
"Of coarse I can." Clarissa said then got one of Cloy's space blankets out of the trunk and slid it over Fritz's cold body. She touched his forehead once. "My god, he's burning up with fever." She whispered as she tucked her battered up lab coat, she had on, under his head for a pillow.
She got out after making sure that he was comfortable and closed the door to the back seat. She noticed Cloy coming back and she asked "Is he in?"
She nodded and asked "What about the coast, is it clear?"
"Yeah, we better get going before they notices his absents." Cloy said, then ran around to the drivers side and got in. Her mother slid into her seat and sighed after relaxing her muscles. They weren't out of the woods yet though. Cloy turned the ignition but the engine wouldn't turn over. "Damn." Cloy mumbled.
The sound of the engine trying to turn over alerted some men, they came around and were about to stop them when the engine finally turned over and Cloy hit the gas after shifting it into reverse. They skidded out into traffic and did a complete 180 in the lane of oncoming traffic. Cloy then went the way that they came and started off for her flat.
"Where did you learn to do that from? Your brother?" Clarissa asked in a stern tone.
"Sort of, but I learned that little maneuver by using a core lander for so long." Cloy said smiling and holding up V for victory.
Clarissa was about to scold her when they heard Fritz in the back stirring. His eyes slowly fluttered open and he said "Wo sind das Bumsen ich? Und irgendein erhielt die Zahl dieses LKW, die mich schlug?"
"What did he say honey?" Clarissa asked Cloy, knowing she took German in high school.
"He said 'Where the fuck am I? And did any one get the number of that truck that hit me?'" Cloy replied.
Clarissa looked back over the seat at Fritz and said "Don't worry Fritz, you'll be fine."
Fritz looked up at her and asked "My god am I dead and in heaven? The angels here are so beautiful."
"No you're alive, and safe." Clarissa said with a smile, and then turned back around in her seat.
"I swear mom, I've never seen you as giddy as a school girl. You should have met someone long ago." Cloy laughed.
"Now, that wouldn't have been right, how would I have met Clair then?" they heard Fritz pipe up.
Cloy laughed and said "Fair enough."
"So where are we going?" Fritz asked half way setting up.
"To my flat, you and my mom can stay there for a while. Until we figure out what's going on and take care of it. Until then my mothers flat will probably be under surveillance by the guys that had you." Cloy replied.
"Yes, but so could yours." Fritz said looking up at her, finally getting a full view of her face and thought "Damn, she is just as beautiful as her mother. How could I have survived without one of them?"
"Yeah, your right, it could be. But at least at my flat, we have fire power." Cloy said, telling him the honest truth.
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Well, Fritz looks to be safe and sound with Cloy's mom, Clarissa, but could it be possible that they may have a thing going for each other? And what about all of Fritz's wound? How will they be able to tend to them in a flat? Find out next time, same website, same web page. lol see you next chapter.