The security guards had just locked up the five of them in a huge furniture store called Metropolis. The place was filled with set up living rooms, bed rooms and even fake bath rooms.

Luda the pregnant woman found a king size bed with tall oak posts and slowly laid herself down on the soft mattress.

Andre her husband came quickly over towards her and propped a body pillow behind her sore back.

Luda closed her eyes and gave a deep sigh of relief as Andre sat behind her and started to rub her arm with so much love and care inside his dark eyes of worry.

Kenneth had found one of the chairs of the dinning room set and pulled it closer to the others and loaded his gun in silence.

Ana looked around for a minuet and then slowly walked over to the first lamp she saw and turned it on.

The glass lamp seemed to brighten the room a little bit and Luda looked thankful as she put her head against Andre's chest and rubbed her swollen stomach.

Ana's mind had been racing, At first she thought this was all just a horrible nightmare, But now reality had slapped her in the face and she knew this was really happening.

Luis was gone...

Her heart skipped a beat as the flash of his ugly changed face chased after her.

She then felt a chill as she walked over to one of the couches and curled into a small ball.

Her clothes were covered in his blood and here she was in a department store with four other strangers.

Tears started to form in her eyes but she fought them back, She didn't want any of the others to think she was weak and was going to be a problem.

So she bit her lip hard and just watched everyone.

The other man in their group wouldn't sit down, he paced back and forth in front of them and seemed to be deep in thought.

Ana hadn't really had a chance to meet and take a good look at everyone around her.

First their was Kenneth, He had told her his name back in the TV store while she was fixing his arm up...he seemed distant but at the same time not a problem for anyone to worry about.

Then their was the couple to her left.

Luda was a young Russian woman that only knew broken English. She looked eight or even nine months pregnant which made Ana feel uneasy since their wasn't help anywhere...for all she knew they were it.

Andre was more of the fast talking, fast moving punk that seemed to love his wife but had a hot head on his shoulders the same time. She knew he was just scared and just wanted to make sure his wife and unborn child was all right...but these guards didn't seem the type to mess with.

Then their was the other guy, She hadn't gotten his name yet.

He looked in his late thirties, normal every day Joe kind of face and worried dark eyes.

The both of them had something in common, They were drenched in blood from head to toe.

He kept pacing and then gave a soft laugh to himself.

"These fucking assholes are gonna get us killed...we need to do something."

Andre then looked up at his and Ana saw that trough street kid look form on his face.

"We're not going to do anything to create problems for me and Luda...that helicopter is coming back soon."

The man then stopped dead and saw that Andre couldn't understand how dangerous these guys might be.

"Well, I hope so."

Andre gave him a sharp eye.

"And what does that mean?"

"It means it might or might not come back."

Luda then became hysterical, She shot up in Andre's arms and started to cry out in her thick Russian voice that kept breaking up."

"What vat mean Andre? It not coming back! we need hospital vow!"

Andre put his arms around her and tried to calm her nerves...at the same time Kenneth and Ana just watched.

"It's coming back baby, don't lessen to this guy, he doesn't know shit."

"It's coming back." He said again as if he needed to hear the words again.

He then paused and gave a fake smart ass grin as he stood up.

"Hey my man, I hear you talking a lot...now WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU that we have to lessen to?"

Andre got into the man's face and screamed, but the guy didn't seem to flinch, His eyes darted a little but he didn't seem to have any fight in him...he stayed calm as Andre went on screaming.

"What do you do, are you in the special opts or something? The army...what is it that you do?"

Ana held her arms tighter against herself and shook inside, She knew that this guy wasn't starting any trouble...in fact he was trying to look out for all of them.

She knew if she was in his shoes and had Andre screaming straight in her face she couldn't take it...she would burst into tears and fall to the ground.

The man gave his answer...almost in a clear but at the same time low voice.

"I sell televisions at Best Buy."

Once he said that he lowered his eyes for a second and then looked back at Andre, he crossed his arms.

Ana and Kenneth both to share the same feeling, The man wasn't ashamed of his job...but just wanted to let Andrea know he was just a sales man and didn't mean any harm to him or his wife.

But Andre didn't see this and laughed right in his face and looked at Kenneth.

"You hear that? How do you feel about following a guy who sells TVs?"

Kenneth put the gun across his lap and gave Andre the look that he wasn't fooling around.

"About the same way I feel towards following a guy who steals them."

Everyone went dead and Andre was shut down at this remark and without another word went back to Luda who didn't seem to understand what was going on.

"I'm not following anyone, I'm going to Fort Pastor to get my brother."

Then Kenneth went back to cleaning his gun and didn't even give another glance.

Ana still sat then stunned, But at the same time glad that Kenneth spoke up before Andre started trouble.

Later...

Ana had fallen asleep on the couch less then an hour ago, her head was bent and her body still in a tight ball as she slept.

She had a light dreamless sleep with a paranoid feeling in the back of her heart as she tried to get herself under control from shaking.

When she woke she found herself inside the darkness of the store.

Her eyes took a minute to adjust to the dark and then she scanned the room filled like a huge mansion of fine furniture.

She saw tables, beds, chairs, couches, hutches, and even fake plants set up around the place.

She knew that the timers must have shut down around eleven after everyone had settled down.

She was freezing and every hair on her arm was sticking up.

Sure it was spring time, but the A. C in the mall was still on full blast and it made her bones shake.

Slowly she checked where everyone was.

Luda and Andre were fast asleep in their bed, both looked as if they hadn't moved in years.

Next was Kenneth, He had taken a leather sofa across the way and was laying down with his shotgun ready by his side.

Ana shook her head and knew she needed to walk around for a while and work the kinks out of her legs.

She then set her bare feet down on the could marble floor and slowly stood up.

She tried not to make any noise as she crept across the store.

Their was still the emergency lights on in the main part of the mall and gave the stores a small dim of light.

Ana then reached the front of the store and looked around, she rubbed her arms together and knew she was going to have to take one of the beds and pull the covers over her if she didn't want to freeze before the end of the night.

Just then she heard a voice behind her and almost made her scream out.

"Couldn't sleep?"

Ana spun around and saw the man sitting back in one of the lean back chairs that was against one of the empty book shelf's.

The man looked like he had seem sitting there since everyone had fallen asleep, He had dark circles under his eyes and his T-shirt...much like her own clothes were still stained.

Ana saw him and gave a soft gasp seeing it was only him behind her.

"Sorry there."

"It's okay."

She said as she looked him over again.

"I guess everyone has their own right to jump on a dime now huh?"

Ana nodded and walked over to his chair and looked down.

"I'm sorry about what happened there with Andre..."

"Don't be, he's just a kid and scared to death like everyone else."

Ana nodded again and brushed her hair out of her face.

"Ana..."

She let down his hand and he looked at her and gave a soft smile.

"Michael..."

He shook her hand back and for the first time since yesterday Ana gave a soft weak smile and then broke away from his hand and went to the back of the store and found another bed.

She then pulled the covers up to her chin and her eye lids started to feel heavy...she gave a soft sigh and right before she shut them she saw Michael walking over to his bed.

She could tell he wasn't such a bad guy and was just as worried as she saw.

So she turned over and faced the wall and tried her best to get some rest before Dawn came...

But Dawn came early like always.