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Nightcrawler's POV:
I quietly followed Anabelle and Craig back to zheir village. I stuck to zhe shadows and vatched zhem drag her to her house. I vatched as she slowly prepared dinner on her injured ankle. She limped over to zhe table and gave him his plate. I noticed zhat she didn't eat and she limped into anozher room.
"Anabelle where do you think you're going?" Craig asked, his mouth overflowing vith food.
"I'm going to take a shower." She replied. I crawled to the vindow vhere her room vas. I saw her get a towel and some clothes. I knocked quietly on zhe vindow hoping she vould hear me. She looked at zhe vindow and I put a finger to my mouth to signal to be quiet. She looked surprised and limped over to zhe vindow and opened it.
"What are you doing here? If Craig catches you here, he'll kill you!" she vhispered.
"I came here to rescue you. I'm not just going to leave you here vith zhat jerk." I vhispered back.
"You actually came back for me?" she vhispered, a tear forming in her eye.
"Of course." I replied, smiling at her. "Come on climb zhrough zhe vindow so ve can escape. Ve need to get you out of here before-." I vas cut off by Craig calling to Anabelle from zhe kitchen.
"Anabelle? What are you doing?" Craig called. He sounded like he vas getting closer.
"Kurt what are we going to do? I don't have time to climb out the window right now, and I still need to pack some things." She asked panicking.
"Don't vorry, I'll be back for you, but for now, just keep doing vhat you ver doing before. Bye." I said as a crawled avay to zhe roof, just as Craig burst into zhe room.
Anabelle's POV:
I watched Kurt crawl to the roof just as Craig burst into my room. He noticed that I was looking out of the window.
"What are you doing? You weren't trying to run away were you?" he asked, eyeing me suspiciously.
"No, of course not! I just heard a noise outside my window so I tried to see what it was, but then you came in the room, so I didn't get to look around." I lied.
He stared me down, trying to figure out whether I was lying or not.
"Can you check it out? It sounded really scary, like something scratching the side of the house." I added, hoping to convince him.
Ok, I'll have a look." He said, deciding that I was telling the truth.
Meanwhile Kurt was on the roof listening to everything. He looked around for a weapon and found a large piece of wood leaning against the house next door. He crawled to the side of the house and picked up the wood with his tail and then crawled back up to the roof of the house. He stood with the wood in his hands, waiting for Craig to stick his head out of the window.
Back in the house, I watched as Craig walked to the window to check out the "scary scratching noise" that I'd "heard" outside. He stuck his head out of the window and looked around.
"Anabelle, I don't see anyth- what the hell?" There was a loud cracking sound and then Craig's body went limp.
"Oh my gosh what just happened?" I cried. I thought he was dead. I know, I know. He's a jerk. But that didn't mean that I wanted him dead! No one deserved to die like that. Suddenly, his body was yanked from the window and Kurt appeared, holding a broken piece of wood.
"Come on let's go." He said tossing the broken piece of wood aside. He noticed the look on my face. "He's not dead, he's just knocked out. But he von't be out for long, so ve need to hurry!"
"Ok, ok, um I need to pack some things first, but it'll only take a sec." I told him as I got a large suitcase and a backpack and started throwing things in them. I finished in a few minutes and then Kurt helped me out of the window. I was so grateful to him for saving me and I was just so happy that I would never see Craig again, that my emotions got the best of me and I threw my arms around Kurt and gave him a huge hug. He was surprised at first but then he wrapped his arms around me to hug me back.
"Thank you so much for helping me." I said.
"You're velcome. But ve still need to get avay before he wakes up and goes to look for you." Kurt answered politely.
"You're right let's go." I said letting go of him. The hug didn't last long, but when I was hugging him, I felt safe and warm. I felt a little tingly after we let go, but I ignored it and smiled at him. "Okay, lead the way." I said kindly. He stood looking at me. "What?" I asked.
"Vhat about your ankle? It's svollen and you can't valk like zhat." He said, looking concerned.
"Oh, don't worry about me, I'm fine. I can walk." I assured him. He raised an eyebrow at me. "Really I'm fine." I insisted.
"Ok, but if it hurts to valk just let me know and I'll carry you the rest of zhe vay, it's not a problem." He said smiling. I nodded, but kept looking at him. He has an amazing smile. I thought to myself. "Vhat? Is zhere somezhing on my face?" he asked as he wiped his mouth. I giggled.
"No your face is clean, it's just…" I stopped, not wanting to say it. He looked at me eagerly.
"It's just vhat?" he asked, clearly wanting to know. I blushed.
"I was just thinking about how you have an amazing smile." I said, still blushing. His cheeks turned purple as he blushed too.
"Oh, vell zhank you." He said brushing a piece of his dark, navy blue hair behind his ear shyly.
"We should probably go now." I said.
"Right, um it's zhis vay." He said starting to lead the way. I nodded and then tried following him, but when I stepped on my sprained ankle, a really sharp pain shot through my foot.
"Ow!" I cried out in pain as I fell to the ground. "Oh my gosh that really hurt!" I cried as I sat on the floor.
"Anabelle are you alright? I told you zhat you shouldn't be valking on zhat foot. Here let me carry you." He said. He put on my backpack and then lifted me off of the ground easily. Then he grabbed my suitcase with his tail and we walked into the woods.
Wow, it's really dark in these woods, how can you see? " I asked him curiously.
"Vell my eyes let me see in zhe dark, just like a cat." He explained.
Oh, that's cool." I said. He smirked.
"You're really tense Anabelle, vhy don't you relax. Don't vorry ve'll be zhere soon." He told me.
"Ok, sorry." I replied. I let out a deep breath and relaxed and leaned into him. He was nice and warm. After we had gone deep into the woods, I started feeling sleepy. I yawned and fell into a nice, peaceful sleep.
Nightcrawler's POV:
After I had valked for a few minutes, I heard Anabelle breathing slowly. She vas snoring but it vas quiet snoring. I looked down at her. Her face vas so peaceful and she vas smiling a little bit. How can she sleep after a crazy day like zhis? I know I von't be able to sleep tonight. I thought. Ve vere almost zhere. It vas hidden vell, but I still vondered if it vas possible for Craig to find my hideout. Fifteen minutes later, we arrived. It vas a small house hidden by bushes. You couldn't really find it unless you looked really vell, so ve ver pretty safe for now. I opened zhe door and took Anabelle to zhe only bedroom in zhe house. I layed her on zhe bed and she voke up.
"Kurt? Where are we?" She asked rubbing her eyes. She yawned and then looked around.
"Zhis is zhe house zhat I have been living in for now. It's very vell hidden, I don't zhink zhat Craig can find us here." I told her.
"It's cute. It's cozy and warm. She said smiling. "So where's your bedroom?" She asked.
"Uh, zhis is zhe only bedroom in zhe house, but you can stay here and I'll sleep somevhere else.
"But Kurt this is your bedroom. I'm not going to kick you out just so I can sleep here!" Anabelle exclaimed.
"No, it's fine, just sleep here, I'll sleep on zhe couch. It's ok vith me. Honestly." He insisted.
Anabelle decided to give up. "Fine." She said sitting on zhe bed and crossing her arms. Suddenly her stomach growled loudly. She blushed and zhen covered her stomach. "Sorry." She said.
I laughed. "Don't apologize, you're just hungry. I can fix zhat." I said smiling. I started to go make food, vhen I remembered zhat I didn't have any food. Zhat vas zhe whole reason zhat I had gone in to town. "Uh." Vas all I could say rubbing zhe back of my head. I vas embarrassed zhat I didn't have any food for her. I didn't have any food for myself, never mind anozher person.
Anabelle's POV
"It's ok. If you just tell me the way back to the village, I can get some food and bring it back here." I said smiling. Kurt looked so adorable when he was embarrassed!
"Ok, but first let me take care of zhat ankle. It's pretty svollen." He said. He left the room for a minute and then returned with an icepack and some cloth to wrap my foot in. He took off my sandal and grabbed the icepack.
"You're going to hold it on your ankle so I can vrap your foot okay?" He instructed as he handed the icepack to me. I put it on my ankle and let out a small gasp as the icepack touched my swollen ankle. "Are you alright? If it hurts, you don't have to keep it on." He said quickly.
"No, it's fine, it's just really cold." I told him. He smiled and then wrapped the cloth around my foot and the icepack.
"Try to valk on it. You're ankle shouldn't hurt as much, so you can go get zhe food and come back vithout zhat much pain. Zhen you can rest it later." He told me. I stood up and he was right; my ankle was barely even hurting.
"Wow, it barely hurts! Thanks Kurt." I hugged him.
"No problem." He said, returning the hug. He walked with me to the door. "Follow these directions." He gave me a piece of paper explaining how to get back to the village from where we were.
"Ok, thanks. I hope that Craig won't find me. I'll be as sneaky as I can. Wish me luck." I said as I walked out of the door.
"Um Anabelle?" Kurt called after me. I turned and faced him. "Be careful." He said, suddenly serious. I nodded, and disappeared through the bushes that concealed the house.
Let me just follow her just in case somezhing happens to her. I'll feel better vatching over her. Kurt thought to himself. He quietly slipped through the bushes after waiting a few minutes to make sure no one heard him leave, and once again, he stuck to the shadows.
I was having no trouble following Kurt's directions. They were very clear and understandable. When I reached the village in about twenty minutes, I went into sneak mode. I couldn't let Craig see me. I didn't know if he was unconscious or not, but I wasn't about to take that chance and find out the hard way. I hid in dark alleys as I quickly made my way to the market. The market owner was a good friend of mine, so I didn't have to watch out for him since he didn't like Craig either. But I knew that Craig's friends were around the village somewhere. If Craig had regained consciousness, then surely he would've told his friends to keep an eye out for me. I quickly bought all of the food I needed, and thanked the market owner. I was about to turn around, when someone grabbed my shoulder. I let out a high-pitched scream.
Oh gosh, they found me. I'll never see Kurt again. I thought sadly.