A/N: I got rid of the accents on the Latvian because ff.net just turned them into question marks.

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"A Time to Run, A Time to Fight"

There is a time to run

And a time to fight

A time to live

And a time to die

A time to hate

And a time to love

And a time to get the fuck away from here. * "RUN!" Mush yelled. The door had opened. He and Flit rushed past his startled father, grabbed his little sister Emma, and ran as fast as they could.

"Tu DALA aiz NIEKI! (You PIECE of SHIT) Come back here you bastard!"

"I don't think you really want to get into mom's love life!" Mush hollered back without turning.

"Tu nevertigs dala aiz nieki, Es to izgazt tu!" (You worthless piece of shit, I will kill you!)

Mush burst forward with his last reserves of strength, running full out. Flit, beside him, wasn't breaking a sweat-I guess they don't call her Flit for nothing. They darted into an alley and climbed a fire escape, fleeing across rooftops and leaping from building to building. Finally, after a full ten minutes of dodging laundry lines and chimneys, they had outrun the seemingly relentless pursuer and ended their high-speed chase with Flit being clotheslined by, well, a clothes-line.

"Johnny, why are we running?" Emma asked, highly confused by the tumultuous events of the day.

"'Cause daddy's a bad man an' we don't need dat kinda faddah. Sometimes it ain't as easy as stickin' it out, 'cause sometimes ya ain't gonna make it through stickin' it out. Dis was jist a time ta run."

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Blink and David were hanging miserably from the wrist, facing the ugly gray walls of the House of Refuge. "Shit, what I wouldn't give fah some li'l scraps a' metal," Blink muttered. David heard.

"What? Why do you want little pieces of metal?"

"Ta pick da locks, dumb ass," Blink rolled his eyes. David could get so irritating. To think, this was his COUSIN.

"Well, Angel left these on my shirt when she fixed me up. . ." Dave began, holding two hairpins in his shackled hand. Blink blinked, believe it or not.

"David. Why da hell are you'se such a dumb ass? Gimme dose," Blink said, rolling his eyes.

"They're Angel's! You can't just take them and. . ."

"Too late." Somehow, Blink had managed to grab the hairpins. In ten seconds flat, his hands were free and he was working on David's chains.

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it's not much, but it's better than nothing. I'm not done yet. It may seem like they're gonna get off light, but don't count on it. New Chappie coming soon!!

CTB, --Chronicles Bailey