I looked long and hard at the reflection, trying to make out how many there were. THey were moving slow, and moaning every once in a while... they where sure if them smelt anything... but something had caught their attention. I could count one... two... three... at least four of them... moping around outside the door. I gripped my gun... any shot would gain attention so if i fired it would have to be accurate... and i would have to hope Dani found the wire by then. Unless they could be taken out by other means... i looked at the glass shards from the computer. Most of them were shattered clips and pieces that would do ME worse then then the infected. I saw a few shards that looked promising... but no bigger then my fist... and then i saw it... a shard of glass still on the counter. Large enough for me to grip it. I reached out and pulled it down. I pulled my sleeve down over my hand, and gripped the shard. I evened out my breathing... starting to feel my blood pump faster with anticipation. I doubted i would break into Hyper mode... but I could do damage without it. I just had to wait until...

A hand grabbed my shoulder. I spun around, powering the arm with the shard, going straight for where i estimated the throat to be... but a strong hand stopped it, grabbing just below my wrist. For a moment i was stunned, realizing someone with reflexes like that and strength like that... might not be so easy to beat. But i let out my breath in pure releif.

"Geeze!" Dani hissed. I jerked around, looking for the infected out the door. Each one lay still on the cement. Dani let go of my arm. "So you DID hear them..." he siad. I nodded. "Didn't know if you had..."

"How'd you..." I starred at him.

"We need to be quiet so..." he let it hang, "Found your wire..." he siad. He held up a box. A little shoaked at his speed I looked it over.

"Yep... this is it." I siad.

"Good then we can..." Dani was interrupted by a crash. Starteld we both jumped and looked out. THEY were flooding out of buildings. Coming from everywhere in groups of five and tens. Dani and I didn't hesitated. We pulled and fired, the glass shattered, and a few fell. I counted my shots... and Dani's. I would fire when he was reloading. But as soon as he was out, he grabbed my arm and took off. Before I knew it we were stuffed in a back room, and Dani threw down filing cabinets in front of it.

"Up!" he yelled. I looked over and found the roof laddar, and jumped on it. Just as I did, the door nearly came off it's hinges as the wave of infected it it. Dani was close behind me. I got to the top and found the latch door... with a padlock attatched. I looked down, and saw the hands and arms of hte infected hungrily pushing through the gap in the door. I pulled my gun.

"Hurry!" Dani yelled below me. I shot at the padlock... the sound splitting through my ear and head. I gasped, trying to shaking the sound... I pushed the latch again... still held tight.. I swore and fired agian, my head ringing, just as my vision caught the door collapsing, and infecting stumbling in. I shoved the door up agian and this time it gave in. I flung myself throuhg the opening Dani on my heels. I saw him drop somthing in his hand down, and slam the latch shut.

"Was that a gre..." i started.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMM! Dani dropped next to me, covering my head and neck. The explosion blossomed from the latch shoot in fire and debri.

"That should take care fo them for a few mintues..." Dani siad... "And attract the infected for the next MILE! GEEZE! Dub siad that was half the powder!" We heard dying shrieks come from below.

"Run!" Dani shouted. We both jumped to our feet and took off. We jumped roofs, climbed laddars, dodged trashcans and vents. We couldn't make out much in the dark, but we could hear the garggels following us, just as fast if not faster then us.

"This way!" I made a turn, obscuring our straight path on the roofs, and headed east. Dani followed. I don't know how many we lost, but not enough to slow down. Eventually we got to downtown, and the roofs got higher and higher, until they were over six stories above us... which left us nowhere to run to. Infront of us, a tall skyscrayper, lined in glass windows and dead plant boxes, it's roof WAY out of reach... but we could still hear them behind us. Dani swore.

"How comfortable are you with heights?" i asked.

"I not afraid of HEIGHTS... i'm afraid of falling." Dani answered. I paused, realizing the genius behind his statement, and then backed up a few strides, pulling my collar close around my neck. "What are you..." He started. But i took off, powering my legs as fast as i could, and then ejected off the roof of the building. I covered my face as i crashed through the window, and rolled to a stop... luckily I stood up with only a few scrapes, barley deep enough to bleed. I dusted myself off.

"YOU ARE CRAZY!" Dani yelled from outside. I went back to the window.

"And unless you jump... you're DEAD!" i yelled back. I saw Dani suddenly jerk, swinging his entire body around, flinging his arm at me. At first i thought there was something wrong... and then i realized he had thrown something... his knife. Straight at me.

Reflexes pulled my head away in just enough time as the knife whizzed past my head. I thought of some colorful words to shout... but i heard the knife THUNK against something and a choked gargle. I spun around and found a lone infected just as he fell to the ground, the knife hilt deep right between the eyes. I starred at it long and hard, both horrified and amazed. I had not seen or heard it come up. If Dani hadn't been there...

Just then Dani tumbled into the room, rolling across the glass, and into the wall.

"Smooth landing..." I siad. Dani stood up and dusted himself off.

"You're welcome..." he muttered.

"You could have killed me..."

"I never miss.."

"Thought you said you were better with a gun."

"I am." Dani pulled the knife out, and wiped it clean on his pants before putting it away. "Think they'll follow?"

"No... we lost most of them..." I siad. I felt the power of adrenaline start to fade, leaving me weak. Both Dani and I were breathing hard.

"Where to next?" Dani asked.

"Now we go two buildings over, there's a bank... we go down the elevator shaft to my families storage. There we pick up ammo, food, some bleach and what not. Then we head back."

"You're family has a storage in the CITY?" Dani asked. I nodded.

"We needed somewhere safe where people wouldn't LEECH off it." i murmmered.

"You don't look to good..." Dani siad.

"You're not suppose to say that to girls..." i siad, realizing my hand was on the wall to steady myself.

"No I mean all the color in your face is gone..." he said.

"Ya... forgot to put on makeup this morning..." I tried to make light of the situation.

"You should sit down... i'll clear the halls..." he siad, changing his clip in his gun. Again Dani left, peeking left and right out the door before leaving. I did the same, changing out the clip, and relaoded. I did NOT feel good. But we were almost done... we were almost finished and then we could head back.

I had barely finished reloading, before Dani ran back into the room.

"Time to go!" he said. I was up and we ran out the door before i heard another gargeled scream.