Sadie heavily sighed and pressed her right hand against a wall to help herself up. 'I wonder if going out into the open would catch any attention from them.' The girl gently lifted her shirt and looked down at her side. "Nah. I'm pretty bandaged." She sighed and slowly walked out, limping a little. "Damn you Frollo." The girl groaned as she looked around anxiously for a weapon of any sort, but preferably a gun.

"Sadie!"

Her head lifted immediately at a fate voice, assuming she heard her name. Sadie shook her head and continued looking.

"Sadie!" "Shh. Not so loud Esmeralda! We don't want to catch any unwanted attention." "I have you guys covers." Quasi smiled as he held Sadie's gun. She sighed and cleared her throat. "Losing your voice mademoiselle?" Clopin stopped walking as she did and placed a hand on her back. "We're never going to find her." She hopelessly sighed then narrowed her eyes. "When I see him, I'm going to.." "Esmeralda. It's alright. We're not talking about him anymore. He's not important. He's useless to us now." Quasi calmly placed a hand on her shoulder with a smile. "You're right." She let out a long sigh. "Okay then. Sadie?"

"Sadie?"

The girl stopped again, swearing that her name being called wasn't her imagination. "Quasi?" She gasped and carefully walked around.

"Sadie?" Clopin called.

"Clopin?" She kept her voice low as she continued walking. The sound was getting closer. "Esmeralda?"

"Clopin! I heard her!" Esmeralda lifted her head and frantically looked around. Clopin lifted a finger as a motion for her to be quiet and carefully listened again.

"Quasimodo?" Sadie walked up the street and calmly walked the other way as she came across her foe in the distance. 'He doesn't exist.' She blinked with a smile as she came across her sword on the ground. "Good. I thought I lost you."

"That wasn't the only thing you have lost gypsy." Frollo muttered to himself and blinked.

After avoiding him, she continued down the road and turned the corner. Her eyes squinted at a shade of green fifty feet away. "Quasi?" Sadie whispered and walked over to him. "Quasi?" The girl asked as she came closer. "Sadie?" He gasped and tightly hugged her. "I knew I would find you again!" The girl winced and the hunchback stepped back. He frowned as her hand lay on the right side of her waist. "Not so tight next time Quasi." She whispered with a soft smile. "I thought I lost you for good. Oh. You changed?" His head tilted, noticing her blue top. "Hm? Oh. I had an..accident and I didn't want to risk getting any wrong attention."

"Sadie?" Clopin called. Her head looked up and she waved. To her surprise, he was carrying a single box of, what she guessed, the supplies she had scavenged for in the past few days. Although it felt like months in terms of Frollo's degrading and hostile behavior. "Over here!"

The two gypsies hurried over. "Oh good." Esmeralda went to hug her and Sadie sighed as she did. "Sadie?" Her arms let go as she felt her flinch. "Are you okay?" She nodded her head but quickly dropped her sword and hid behind Clopin. She heard the moaning of three zombies coming towards them and shut her eyes. The gypsy king held her hand as he saw a single gun shot fire, followed by the blade of Esmeralda's sword beheading each creature. All three bodies then slumped to the ground.

Quasimodo half smiled and spun the rifle around on his right pointer finger while the gypsy woman wiped the blood off of her weapon against the corner of a building.

"Well aren't you two just a natural!" The gypsy king clapped. Esmeralda hummed. "Thank you. Thank you." She bowed and noticed Sadie walking away in the opposite direction. "Sadie?" She quickly caught up with her and sighed. "I didn't mean to be a show off. I'm sorry." The girl stopped, quickly wiping her eyes with her left arm. "It's not that. I was very impressed actually. But.."

Esmeralda sighed and stopped in front of her. "Would a hug help?" Sadie lightly smiled and rested her head under the gypsy woman's chin, embracing her hands on her back. "Thanks." The girl sighed and lightly freed herself. Esmeralda smiled then blinked as a heavy rain drop fell onto her hand. "Great." She muttered.

Clopin glanced up at the now grey sky and offered an umbrella to them with a smiled. "Thanks." Sadie opened it and handed it to Esmeralda since she was taller. "Oh no mademoiselle. Thank you." She lightly blushed.

"Do you think this rain will turn into a downpour?" Quasi opened the other umbrella and went with the idea of his for Sadie to share with him since they were almost the same height.

"I hope not. Maybe we should find a place to stay just in case." Clopin slipped under Esmeralda's umbrella. "Maybe it'll be just a drizzle." Sadie shrugged. "I don't know about that. Those clouds look pretty nasty to me." Quasimodo said. "Does anyone have the time?" "Uh.." The gypsy king searched through the box of supplies for the watch. "It is..eight-fifteen." "Really? It doesn't feel like it. What about that house over there?" The hunchback pointed to a barely stable building with a slanted roof. "Never mind."

Sadie smiled. "What about over there? It has a front door and everything." "Works for us." She giggled as all three of them answered. They approached the house but stopped as they heard a crowd of moaning coming from inside. Esmeralda shook her head. "I wouldn't risk it. Let's keep looking."

"Perhaps I can offer just that, gypsy." Frollo slyly smiled as he walked out from behind the corner of an abandoned cart.

Sadie hiccupped and hid behind Quasimodo, who lightly pat her back. "Why are you still following us?" Esmeralda growled and confronted him. "I am not following you gypsy. I am simply carrying out the Lord's will to exterminate vermin like yourself." She couldn't help but shiver at the harshness of his words. "Now. Where is the little heathen witch?"

"Why?" Clopin scowled, not knowing the judge had noticed a shade of blue beside his former son. He rose an eyebrow. "What's this?"

Sadie started to pant with her eyes closed as his footsteps came closer. "Stop traumatizing her Frollo!" Quasimodo refused to move as Frollo motioned with his right hand for him to do so. "I dare not to neglect the duties sent before me. Now if you will.." "No!" The hunchback glared. Frollo deathly stared at him, which was more than enough for the boy to move.

Sadie trembled as two of his fingers were placed on her chest. "All I ask of you is to listen to my words. I can save you." She quietly collected her strength and calmly slowed her breathing. "Sandra." His whisper was enough to set her off. She opened her eyes and punched him in the chest so hard that he fell to the ground on his back.

Quasimodo and Clopin's jaw dropped and they covered their mouths. 'Oh my god.' They both thought. Esmeralda blinked with a grin. 'You get what you asked for.'

Sadie panted once again with her eyes narrowed. The judge angrily stumbled to his knees with a hand on his chest. Sadie however was no longer afraid of him. Quite the contrary actually.

"You.." He coughed. "..bloody witch." She sighed as he continued to cough then cleared his throat again. "As stated before. He is not going to save you." Her arms folded. Frollo pushed himself to his feet. "One so small..and yet so strong." She backed up as he spoke to her. "I shall never plague my hands again." 'Well..that's a start I guess.'

Esmeralda rolled her eyes and scoffed. "You can't be serious! Giving up.." Clopin hushed her with his hands on her shoulders. Sadie quietly continued to listen to his words.

"Do you give up? You proceeded to underestimate me and now you want me to forgive you for doing just that?" She stopped walking and felt her cheeks become warm. He went to speak up but she continued to. "Either way. The answer is no." She turned around.

"Come on guys!" The gypsies and Quasi walked after her with no shame of leaving Frollo behind. Still determined, the judge followed them but no one spoke a word.

"Where were we again?" "Oh. Shelter. Right. How about there?" Clopin pointed and they smiled. "Good idea. Stable roof, stern foundation, wonderful architecture." Sadie firmly joked, causing everyone else, Frollo included, to chuckle. "Very funny." Esmeralda slowly opened the door and led Clopin, Sadie, and Quasi inside, purposely closing and locking it to leave Frollo outside.

"Hey guys! Good news!" The gypsy woman called from up the stairs. "What?" Clopin followed her and set the box of supplies down in front of the doorway. "There's four beds." She laughed. "Haha! Brilliant! Just in time because it's getting late." Sadie sat on one of them and smiled, although a bit guilty about punching Frollo earlier. 'Stop it. Twice he tried to kill you. But..he didn't. You conquered your fear of him.' Her head shook in confusion. "Alrighty then. Good night guys." "Night Sadie." Quasi sighed.

Half an hour later, Sadie's guilt was prohibiting her from sleeping. She sighed and quietly walked down the stairs to unlock the door. She turned the knob as Frollo did the same thing.

"I.." She blushed as her eyes met his. "May I come in?" "..Sure." Sadie held her breath as he entered, and he knew. "Please don't do that." The girl sighed with a nod. "Now. Why are you really following us?" She folded her arms. "Why to purge the world of sin." "I get that I'm a sin!" Sadie shouted in a whisper and sat on the floor. "I don't need you to tell me that. Death will take care of me accordingly."

Frollo knelt in front of her and went to lift her shirt to check her wound. Sadie fidgeted, hoping to lose his grip. "Sadie." He held her shoulders. "Don't touch me!" "Then calm down." The judge blinked. "Why? Haven't you done enough to me?" She scowled. "More than enough." He sighed, glancing back and forth from her arm to her waist. "Then go." Her voice was adamant but winced as her wound stung again. "I simply can not." Sadie snickered. "Are you afraid of the dark Claude?" "No you abominat..I mean, My eyesight isn't what it used to be."

"And that's my fault too right?" "Do not test my patience heathen. Lay down." "No." Tears began to form in her eyes. "Can I just check to make sure you are healing properly?" She sighed. "I will never heal properly as long as you're here." "I am well aware of that." He groaned. The girl suspiciously watched him as she lay down on a carpet. "Are you with me or against me?" She whispered. "That is your choice Sandra. Not mine." A shiver trailed down her body as her top was briefly lifted.

"It is not my choice! I tried to negotiate with you but you didn't listen. It is your choice. Okay?" She sighed as he let go of her shirt. "You're right. I haven't listened to you. Your devilish ways are far too late to reverse. But I will tell you that I am a keeper of my words."

"Since when?" The girl rose to her feet. "This very second until I take my last breath." 'This has to be a joke.' "That is far too sappy, even by Valentine's Day standards. Stop stalling and tell me what my hellish self has to offer you."

"Your hell-bound lips." He stood up.

Sadie looked blankly at him and her cheeks blushed a light pink. "What?" "You heard my exact words my dear." She blinked, struggling to stand her ground. "Why me?"

Frollo removed his hat and set it on a chair. He looked down at her and calmly answered her. "Esmeralda denied." "What makes you think I would accept then?" His head turned to the side. "You went out of your way to hurt me and mentally scar me all over something as stupid as a kiss?" She fluttered her eyes. "Yes. Now if you would stop wasting my time and answer me." "J..just that right?" Frollo impatiently sighed. "Yes. Nothing more my dear."

The girl pressed her lips and gulped. "But.." "But what?" Frollo growled. 'Bloody heathen is testing my patience.' "..I can't reach you."

The judge rolled his eyes and knelt his six foot self back down to her height. Sadie began to feel light headed but managed to take a step closer to him. "I can't." She shook her head. "You need to stop being so tense. I haven't killed you nor will I ever. Now close your eyes." Sadie deeply sighed and shut them. 'Out of all the things I have done wrong, this just nailed it. He's old enough to be my father. Or grandfather. At least no one will know as long as you keep your mouth shut. His is an entirely different matter.'

Sadie's body almost jumped out of her skin as his dry lips touched hers. 'How long will this take?' She forced herself to kiss back, hoping it would be over faster.

After a tedious two minutes, he broke the kiss. Sadie was more than relived that it was over. It was just gross. Like kissing a cactus or sandpaper. Her eyes opened. To him, it felt as if the kiss came from an angel. Her lips were soft but firm. Small but full.

"Good night Sandra." He smiled and picked up his hat before leaving.

The minute the door closed, she locked it and quietly walked upstairs. The girl disgustedly wiped her lips on the pillow case then flipped the pillow over. 'My god that was repulsive.' She lay down and closed her eyes. "I'm washing my whole mouth with soap tomorrow. If I can find any that is."