Claudia stormed out of the kitchen and into her luxurious room. She was so mad at Ramon and so worried about Jack. She grabbed her brown blanket like shawl from the back of the oak chair she had earlier occupied and wrapped it round herself. With that she ran across the rooms golden carpet to the patio doors, grabbed the key from its spot and opened them. Without further hesitation she stepped through slamming the doors behind her. She began to walk across the huge yard at a steady pace, she would had ran but the darkness made it hard to do so, so she decided to power walk instead. With each new step she took she thought about Jack and herself, and the possibility of a relationship. Maybe they could flee the Salazars together and make a fresh start? Deep down she knew they couldn't do that as eventually they would be found and killed.

As she neared Jacks small ranch like place she could see that the door was open, and she could just make out a figure of something like that on the ground a few feet away from the door. As she approached she saw it was Jack and she took off running towards him, fearing the worse. She reached him and flew down to her knees, silently praying Ramon hadn't been mad, or late enough to kill him. She grabbed his arms and moved him onto his back, then checked his pulse for a beat.

Claudia felt what could only be described as relief when she realised he was merely unconscious, not dead at all.

"Jack, Jack, can you hear me?" She knew it was pretty pointless but tried anyway.

She got up and ran into the house straight to the kitchen where she filled a basin with water and grabbed a cloth from the side. She slowly walked back to Jack, carefully trying to keep the water in the basin and spill none at all. She arrived back at Jack's side and placed the water down. She dipped the cloth into the cold water and rang it out before carefully wiping the blood away from his neck. The cut itself was above his eye, hidden beneath the blood, but she noticed it was not longer bleeding. She silently worked away at getting the blood off and eventually the gash could be seen. It was not very long but seemed deep and it had pulled some of the skin upwards, making it look very painful. She decided to wait until he was awake before she dressed it so she rolled him back onto his stomach to examine the other cut that had sent blood down the back of his head and covered his hair. She could tell this one was very deep and looked very painful, and judging by the new colour of his red hair she decided that only a shower would get it all out so she left it. Silently she cursed Ramon for doing this, he really was an ass. She rolled him back to his previous position and then picked the basin up in both hands, tipping the water out onto Jack's face. She hoped he wouldn't be mad at her.

Jack felt the cold water drench him and woke with a start, panic, confusion and pain all kicked in at the same time as he struggled to understand what was happening. Claudia could see all of this and quickly tried to calm him. Grabbing his arm she said,

"Shhhh, sshhhh Jack its me, its Claudia, everything's okay, calm down....."

Jack looked up at her and closed his eyes, his head was pounding so hard he thought it may explode. He remembered what had happened and guessed he must have been knocked out somewhere throughout the process. He opened his eyes and looked up at her watching him with a worried expression. He slowly smiled at her with the realisation what she must care for him.

"Come on, lets get you inside and cleaned up." She said, relieved he was okay, or at least, seemed it.

Jack closed his eyes once more, opening them back up and just staring up at her. He didn't know what to say, he couldn't find the words to describe how he felt about her, the thoughts running through his head were ineffable. Instead he gave her the biggest grin, and replied,

"Sure."

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Sorry its so short, more to come, review!