A/N: This story is just taking off and going places now that I didn't envision that it would when I started it so long ago, thanks again to everyone who has read and reviewed. I appreciate it greatly. Also I am so sorry if there are not skywalks (aka sky bridges) in Chicago, I have never been there.

You only see that in the movies.

Anna had been hospitalized for a couple of days for the injury to her shoulder to start to heal. She was getting antsy to get out of there, more so out of Chicago. It was not that she did not like Chicago or being able to visit with Carter and Abby but that she was getting nervous that Max might try something and she did not want to be around long enough for him to get the notion to try something again. She dressed herself this time negotiating her sore shoulder into the clothes that Abby had brought by for her. Carter was going to accompany her to Seattle and get her settled in with Doug before heading back to Chicago.

"Hey, you ready to get out of here?"

Anna looked up to see Carter starting to walk into her room, "oh more than you know. Not that I am in a hurry to leave you and Abby's company but more to put some distance between me and Max."

"I can understand, things have been pretty quiet lately." Carter said walking over to her, "they give you your walking papers?"

"Yeah," Anna said pointing to a few yellow papers sitting on the tray table in front of her, "all signed discharged and my medications were filled for me so that we would not have to do it later."

"Well someone was thinking ahead for us." Carter said pulling the wheelchair over to her. "Now if I can just sneak you out of here with out anyone seeing us that we don't want to everything will be okay."

Anna let out a nervous laugh, "you don't think that he would have someone watching the hospital waiting for us to leave do you, I mean come on that is something that you only see in the movies."

"You never know." Carter said softly, "but that's why I insisted that we waited until it was dark out. Make it a little harder for them to see us and that we are not taking my car or the EL. I had them call us a cab from downstairs when I got here that is going to meet us out front rather than at the bay."

"You seem to think of everything." She said giving him a small smile, "well then I guess we are headed for Seattle here pretty quick."

"That my dear we are." Carter said as he started to push her out of the hospital.

"Why do they insist that I ride in this thing, I am well enough to walk out of here on my own freewill?" Anna half asked looking up at him.

"Oh you know the rules as well as anyone else, if not better. They don't want you to slip and fall and have to stay even longer with them." Carter laughed, "not that you want to stay here any longer, most of the staff knows you by name and by the fact that you were once an ER resident downstairs so long ago."

"I know don't remind me of living in that roach invested apartment building with one shower that I have to fight to get into." She said giving him a little laugh, "with the roach that freaked you out, especially when I killed it. The look on your face that day Carter was priceless."

"Glad that's what you remember most about your County experience." He said as the worked their way down to the main level of the hospital. "Some of us haven't figured out how to leave this place yet, not that I would want to, after all this time it has seemed to have grown on me. Take the good and the bad that happens here and I don't think that I wouldn't want to work anywhere else now."

"Well I never thought that I would have to leave CHOP after getting back there." She said softly now, "I loved that hospital and working with all the kids. You think that Doug can find me a good job working with kids. I mean I enjoy working in an ER and all, but I really do love kids."

"I'm sure he'll find you something that you will love doing Anna." Carter said as he glanced around outside the hospital looking for something but he was not sure what. "Doug remembered you as an overachiever in the ER. I am pretty sure that he remembers that you are a well trained excellent pediatrician with a background in Emergency Medicine and knowing Doug he could sell you with the best of them."

"Ha," she laughed, "he thought I was an overachiever. Well I remember him as a hotshot ER want to be cowboy breaking every rule he could ever come across and then some. He probably hasn't changed much since then."

"Oh you might be surprised." Carter said as he helped her out of the chair and snuck them out the entrance watching over his shoulder for any possible sign of Max. 'Anna you see anything that might resemble Max?"

Anna looked around quickly not wanting anyone to get a good glimpse of her, "are we on a secrete ops mission there Carter, cause I don't see him."

"Well we might just be doing that." Carter said softly. "I don't want to take any risks we are too close to getting you out of here for something to go wrong."

"Well since I've gotten here," She said with a strong hint of sarcasm, "if it could go wrong it has."

Anna let Carter open the door to the cab and she slid over in the seat, still looking over her shoulder to see if she could see anything when a black SUV caught her attention. She watched it for a minute; something looked almost familiar about it, but could not put her finger on it.

Carter noticed that she was focused on a SUV, "Anna what it is?"

"That car, there's something about that car that I just can't put my finger on. I don't know maybe I have watched too much TV the last few days and that's what it is." She said, "but there's something not right with it."

They watched it as the cab pulled out into the street and slowly but surely, the SUV started to follow them. Anna's heartbeat a little faster now; she had a good idea of who was driving the vehicle that was almost eerily following them thru the streets of Chicago. If Carter had been driving, it probably would have been a lot easier for them to loose him. She sat back against the back of the seat knowing that right now there was not much that they could do about it.

She sat in silence for a few minutes just watching Carter think, she did not want to say anything that might break his concentration or his formulation of their plan. "John, you have any ideas as to what we are going to do?"

"No not really." Carter said looking over at her, "I was trying to come up with something but I have no idea."

Anna thought about it for a minute. "We need to stop someplace with a lot of people and I mean a lot of people. We can slip inside one side of the building and out the one on the opposite side. Max might just fall for it sitting wherever he parks thinking that I needed to use the ladies room or that we are having dinner or something. The man might be persistent but he can be denser than a rock sometimes."

"That might just work." Carter said looking at her. "Maybe I should have you be my getaway driver if I ever plan a heist; I think you do watch too much TV." He let out a little laugh nervous with how close the SUV had gotten. He gave a new address to the cab driver as they pulled up in front of a rather large building that Carter knew had several restaurants inside of it.

"Okay come on." He said taking her hand and their bags thrown over his shoulder as they walked at a brisk pace to get inside of it.

Once in Anna turned a little so that she could see where Max parked, instead of parking she watched him start to circle the building. He did not seem to want to pull over almost as if he knew what Anna was thinking.

"Damn it," She said, "he's circling."

"Plan B time I guess." Carter said taking her hand and leading her up a flight of stairs to a skywalk. The watched Max drive under it. Not seeing them leaving the one building and heading for another.

"Okay now who watches too many movies?" Anna said to him as they hurried across to the next building.

"Hey, I watch my fair share, just did not see the need to share that with you." Carter said looking around to make sure that he was still circling the other building.

To both their amazement the car parked and he sat parked where he could see both buildings and the exits. This was starting to get sticky now it was almost as if he was inside the building watching where they were going.

"Does he have someone in here tailing us?" Anna was almost afraid to ask that question feeling she had the answer to it already in her head, "this is a really bad horror movie now. It is like he is reading my mind as to where we are going to go."

"I was getting the same feeling there Anna." Carter said taking her hand and pulling her along a little faster now. "There has to be someway to shake him. He can't follow us everywhere can he?"

"Now's a good time to be asking that question Carter," Anna said shaking her head as the moved along a lot faster now. "I have no idea. I have no idea how far he is willing to go with this."

"I don't know either." Carter said pulling her around a few corners into various parts of the building riding one set of elevators up and coming down a totally different set in hopes of throwing who ever was following them off. They took another sky bridge across to another building but their hearts sank when the SUV followed them over to the other building.

"This is getting to be ridiculous Carter." Anna said as the rounded yet another corner and took another set of elevators followed by yet another entirely different set, down to the street crossing quickly before the light changed and there was any chance that they could be shot at or run over.

"I know Anna." Carter said now almost pulling her along trying to move as fast as they could. "But I know that we can lose him here somehow, some place."

"If you say so Carter," Anna said not letting up the breakneck pace that he was not pulling her at. She was beginning to think that they were never going to loose him. They went into yet another building and up another flight of stairs crossing a second and third sky bridge. "Carter, do you have any idea where we are at anymore?"

"Yeah I have some idea, just bare with me I know where I am heading, I think." He said.

Anna gave him a half glance before looking out the window seeing the SUV now parked across from where they were at once again. "We are going to run ourselves into the ground keeping up this pace and we still have to run thru the airport."

"We'll be okay have a little faith in me." Carter said pulling her into an alcove as a large crowd of people came from the other direction. Carter slipped them into the crowd more towards the middle so that they were harder to see, "pull your hair up under the hat." He instructed her.

Anna did what Carter told her to not wanting to give him any grief right now. Her long blonde hair was soon tucked up under a baseball hat.

"There we will blend in a little more with all the people. Blondes might have more fun, but you can spot them a mile away." He said.

The both watched as the SUV pulled back the way that they had headed before Anna had covered up her hair with the hat. Carter pulled Anna out of the crowd once again hiding in another alcove that was in the building waiting a few minutes as the SUV continued following that crowd that just happened to have another blonde-haired woman in it. They quickly ducked out into another crowd that was going the way that they had just come, Carter hiding Anna more in the middle of it so that there were people on both sides of them. He did not say anything he just led her along until they came to a spot where they could exit the building and Carter hailed the first cab he could get before motioning for Anna to come out of the doorway. She waited for the cab to stop and Carter to have the door open before darting out and in one fluid motion sliding inside.

"Midway," Carter said to the cab driver as they pulled out. Carter looked back over his shoulder; the black SUV that they had spent the last hour trying to outrun and lose was finally lost.

They both leaned back against the seat of the cab smiling at each other right now they were in the clear. They were both being hopeful that it would stay that way until they could get to the airport, checked in with out being spotted and out of the Chicago area with no one knowing where they had gone.