All right people, before continuing to read chapter six, please read this first. I've had some comments from people telling me the order of the flashbacks isn't told logically, affecting the rest of the story. That's because (you might have figured it) the events in the story are told non-chronological. I hope you can still follow the storyline as it is right now, because I'm not sure whether to end the flashback in chapter six or seven. Anyway, thanks to all who read/review! )

- 06. The Escape -

"Kratos…."

…who's there?

"Kratos…are you alright?"

…where did the voice come from?

Kratos slowly opened his eyes…

…what happened?

He looked around the room, to bring back his memory

His breathing stopped for a moment as his eyes met those of a tall blonde man, standing next to him.

"……" Kratos breathed uneasily

Suddenly he realized what had happened. He remembered arguing with Anna, he remembered the tall blonde man had hurt her, he remembered being stabbed by the man…then… a sound…..

...a sound, a sound of someone calling something, almost like chanting a spell…a healing spell if he remembered. The voice definitely belonged to a woman….Anna?

Yes…Anna had healed him.

He looked around the room to find Anna, standing near the wall, she was a little shaky, but she looked all right.

He thanked her with a warm smile as he stood up and walked towards her.

"That's what I hate about vermin, it keeps coming back" an irritated voice said

Kratos looked up to see the face of that man he despised so much, the face of evil, Kvar…

"I must say I'm quite impressed you are still alive after that attack, although it won't buy you the time to escape death anyway" the man said with a serious face.

"Enough is enough" Kratos calmly replied.

"Enough you say? I'm only satisfied when I see the two of you dead, get them!"

Kratos gave Anna a quick glance, who didn't really seemed to understand the position she was in right now…

She let out a small shriek as Kratos grabbed her by the hand and started running, pulling her along.

They passed so many rooms, so many corridors; Kratos had totally lost his coordination as he ran aimlessly, trying to avoid contact with the man again.

He stopped as he felt Anna's warm hand slip out of his own. Anna fell down on her knees.

"Are you alright?"

"I'm….fine" she panted

"I just…can't go any further"

"Then I'm afraid I need to carry you" he said as he walked up to her and lifted her up in his arms.

Anna shrieked for a moment, her arm was still aching like hell…

"Try not to focus on the pain...right now we need to focus on getting out of here" Kratos said gently.

"Sounds great" she chuckled…

Anna felt really comfortable being so close to the man. She could feel his heart beat next to her own as he kept on running, feeling his breath as he panted on the rhythm of his own footsteps.

Anna suddenly noticed they were heading towards a dead end, it was a long, small corridor, with a large window at the end.

"Erh…Kratos?"

"Do you like flying Anna?" he asked out of a sudden

Anna chuckled. "What kind of question is that? I can't flyyyYYYYY!"

Anna tried to catch her breath as she noticed they had just gone straight through the window.

"What are you doing? Do you intend to have us both killed?" she screamed as she closed her eyes and waited for the ground which was coming closer by the second.

The fall seemed to last forever, yet she didn't dare open her eyes to see how close they were to the climax now. But still…they should've already hit the ground, it wasn't THAT much of a height…well, it was, but still, they should've already hit the ground by now. Hell, like that frikkin' matters right now!

She slowly lifted her eye and blinked a few times before opening the other one. They weren't near the ground, not nearly, it even seemed like the ground had stopped coming closer.

Anna looked up at Kratos, her eyes widening in amazement and disbelief…

…the man had...WINGS?

She was indeed right; Beautiful blue wings decorated his back, keeping them from hitting the ground. Anna twitched as she tried to oversee the situation.

"O...kay…I just jumped out of window with a man who seems to be capable of flying…that makes sense" she chuckled to herself, resisting the urge to faint into the man's arms.

Kratos slowly put her down as his feet reached the ground.

"Are you allright?" he asked

"Land!" Anna yelled as she dropped her body into the soft grass.

She cried out as a wave of pain rushed through her arm.

Kratos sat beside her.

" Your arm…let me have a look at it" he insisted, while gently lifting her arm.

Anna tried to fight back the tears as he carefully studied her arm.

"It seems your arm has been dislocated, but I can fix that. Just…relax" he said calmly before giving a swing to her arm.

Another wave of pain. Anna cried out as she raised her other arm to slap the man, but Kratos had already grabbed her wrist.

"Forgive me...I didn't mean to hurt you" he said gently as he used his thumb to wipe the tears off her cheek.

"No…I'm sorry for trying to smack you again…thank you for everything…really…"

"It's alright..." he replied with a warm smile.

Anna had never felt like this before. She gazed up in his eyes, those beautiful deep red eyes. For a moment they seemed to reflect every possible emotion. He was so handsome…

Anna closed her eyes as their faces slowly drew closer, feeling each others breath as their lips carefully brushed together.

Love is in the air, doo doo doo doo doo doo XD

cough I know what you're thinking now kiddo's 83 don't get the wrong idea:P