Sorry to all my readers and especially to my awesome reviewers, I would have updated sooner but my internet has been on the fritz.
I don't think I need a Previously so on with the story…. Which is, by the way, in…
Third Person POV
Chapter 9
"You check that one!" a suit yelled to another. Reinforcements were called to find the runaway blonde. How she escaped from Mad March he didn't know.
"Go that way!" yelled another.
"I got this one," said Hatter and rushed into the rundown warehouse. Because of the broken windows, he guessed there would be broken glass, a good choice of a hideout if your hands are tied behind your back. His walked into the building and looked around for broken glass.
"Bingo," he whispered to himself as he found a bloody shard of glass. The blood was fresh and he followed the trail of blood drops with his eyes to a stack of boxes. He looked behind the boxes and found… nothing.
"Come out come out wherever you are," he said, his voice echoing throughout the many stacks of boxes, "Let's not play a game of cat and mouse, Evangeline. We both know that you will eventually be caught and taken to Alice."
Evangeline barely had enough time to hide behind a stack of crates before Hatter came upon her previously hiding place. She had seen him follow her trail of blood and made sure to wrap up her hand before moving. She peeked around watched him wander around looking for any clues, his back turned to her. He was getting closer to the side of the stack where she was, so she backed behind the boxes and went to the other side. She looked around and found no one.
"Ah!" she screamed in pain as her hair was yanked and a hand trapped both of her arms.
"Ello Ava," a familiar voice whispered in her ear. She drove her head against his, and smirked when she was rewarded with a cry of agony. Immediately both hands let go and she whirled around to see Hatter holding his bloodied nose. She kicked at his feet and he went down, then Ava turned and ran.
But not fast enough, she stopped when Hatter stepped out from behind a stack of boxes and took a fighting stance. She too took her fighting stance, and waited for him to make the first strike. She knew she could defend against him; she just had to wait for an opening. But she didn't know how long she could hold up against him.
Hatter attacked a few minutes later, and Ava countered each punch and kick. But Hatter knew one of her weak points. He punched a few decoy shots and then kicked her… in her bad knee. Low blow they both knew that, but the faster he captured Ava the faster he would get his "payment" from Alice.
Ava went down after he kicked her knee and rolled away to avoid the attacks that came after her. She got up quickly, but shakily, and got back in her stance. Hatter was surprised at that one; she was stronger than he thought. He quickly got onto defense as Ava attacked with a new found rage. She knew his weak spot also, and she punched a few decoy shots and then kicked him…in that spot. She smirked as he went down.
But it disappeared as he got back up and attacked her which such speared she barely had enough time to block them. She couldn't keep up and he punched her in the stomach… hard. So hard she barreled into a stack of boxes, which toppled over her crouched form and buried her.