Finally updated along with 'Betrayal'. Sorry about the wait. I had writer's block bad. But here it is, chapter 6. Enjoy!
Hilary walked quickly down the hallway, knowing the explosion would be any second. She'd lost her connection with Kai over the intercom about a minute ago and was heading to where she knew he was.
She was suddenly thrown into a wall by what seemed like an earthquake, the explosion.
"Kai, where are you?" she muttered into her earpiece.
"Right here," came his voice through the other end.
"Took your time," she commented. "Where are you?"
"Just outside the room I was in a moment ago," he told her.
"I'll meet you there," she told him and started to run as the building had started to fall to pieces.
She literally ran into him. He reacted just in time and caught her.
"Um… sorry," she told him, blushing slightly. "We have to go, now." They both ran towards the exit, Kai in front.
Hilary slipped on an unstable part of stone beneath her feet; it collapsed and fell through several floors that had already been partly destroyed by the explosion.
He caught her hand just in time and tried to help her up.
"Do you trust me?" he asked her.
"Yes," she whispered as she stared at him in the eyes. He let her go and she fell onto the edge of the hole in the floor below, not falling down through the hole. She was lying down on the floor and looked up at him, ready to stand up again.
"I'll meet you outside," he called down to her and ran off.
Hilary nodded, stood up, and ran also.
"Hilary, come in, it's Rhyla," a voice came in through her earpiece.
"I'm here," she replied, still running. A door came into view.
"Good." Silence. "Be careful when you go out there. Several people have seen the building in its current state. The police are on their way, I repeat, the police are on their way."
"Shit," Hilary muttered. "You hear that Kai?"
"Every word," he told her. He came down the stairs just to Hilary's left. They both opened the door and ran out.
Hilary walked up to a random car, took out a key, and opened it.
"Get in," she told Kai as she got into the drivers seat. She pulled out with several civilians watching the dark blue Lexus. She took out a phone that looked like a PDA and connected it to the phone system in the car.
"Rhyla, come in," she said in a somewhat urgent tone of voice.
Silence.
"We hear you loud and clear," came the reply.
"The operation was a success, proceeding to Rendezvous point," she told them.
"Roger," was the only reply. "Make sure you're not being followed."
"Hilary out." She then turned it off. She glanced out of the rear-view mirror as she changed lanes in the half empty road. A black four by four came into view. "I think we are," she commented as she pulled out onto the downhill slope to the right of the road and successfully got onto the other road on the other side. She glanced out of the window and saw the black four by four do the same thing as she had just done.
"What do we do now?" Kai asked her. "It might be the police, the government, a stalker, or just coincidence."
"You're not helping," she told him sourly as she kept her eyes on the road. She pulled into a gas station. She took the phone out and they both climbed out and slammed their doors.
Hilary glanced to her right without moving her head and, sure enough, the other car stopped too.
"What do we do?" she whispered to Kai.
"Just go in here, get something to eat and act natural," he told her. "Simple."
"If you say so," she muttered.
Once they had entered the gas station a man climbed out of the car that had been following them.
As they waited in the queue to pay (with fake money that fooled everyone except Rhyla workers) someone came in with a wooly black hat over his face with eye and mouth holes and a gun in his hand, pointing it at all of them.
"This is a robbery, everyone in the corner. Now!" he commanded in a harsh voice. The few people there did so, including Hilary and Kai.
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