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(Will's POV)
Lauren's face paled when she heard those voices, voices that made the hair on my skin prickle. If they catch us here, Lauren and I will be dead, both by my father and by SHIELD. The voices kept going, ignorant to the fact that two teenagers were just a few metres away. Quietly I whispered to Lauren,
"Move back one step at a time."
And this is where I go into the explanation of all the movies I've seen where people get caught out by a twig snapping. Now, I wish I could say that didn't happen to us, but….what do you think? Anyway, I need to get back to telling you what happened.
Our breathing became quieter but our hearts were still racing. I could see a squirrel race away through the trees as it caught sight of our figures. One step at a time, exactly what I said, we moved back about five metres. Then came the inevitable; my foot was on its way down to the ground when something harder than the wet snow was underneath it. Thinking that it was all going to be fine, I stupidly pressed my foot firmly down and the sound of a cracking twig echoed around like a gunshot.
A voice paused mid-sentence, and another voice questioned
"Am I hearing things or did a twig just snap un-naturally?"
Lauren and I quickly shuffled back a few more steps and glanced at each other when we were another coupled of metres back; her eyes said it all we are not going down without a fight, it doesn't matter who our parents are, it matters that they don't get the chance to look at us and assume we are the same. I nodded and we kept moving backwards as I heard a voice call out
"Spread out."
My breaths were coming much faster than before and sweat was trickling down the side of Laurens forehead. Two figures emerged from the trees, and I quickly identified them as Bobbi Morse and, the one and only, Phil Coulson.
My eyes widened and I swiftly turned my head to Lauren, she yelled to me
"RUN!"
Feet pounded against the snow and our boots were soon soaked through. I turned my head to Lauren and yelled at her
"Lead them away from the horses!"
She just nodded and we turned in a new direction. Soon we were going downhill and I fell over, tumbling head over heel to the very bottom. I gathered myself back up and started running again, the feet behind me sounded closer than before – but then again, after falling downhill, what do you expect?
My breathing was coming painfully and I could hear Lauren a few metres ahead of me, telling herself out loud to keep going. But the footsteps kept coming closer and closer, I could literally feel them breathing down my neck.
Arms grabbed me from behind and I screamed. Lauren's head turned around and her face displayed shock; her eyes wide. I let out a yell
"KEEP RUNNING!"
She nodded and her hair whipped around as she turned and ran. I let out a loud grunt and rolled to the left and jumped into the air, then I turned around to face my opponent. I was not going to go down without a fight! A figure rushed past me, trying to find Lauren in my forest land. A flash in the corner of my eye forced me to turn me head and I dodged a punch headed for my nose, painful, bloody, but efficient.
Turns out I was going to be facing the great and powerful Bobbi Morse, sometimes known as Mockingbird. I launched a flying kick at her face and she flipped me onto the ground, I jumped back up and caught a painful blow to the head. Stars danced in front of my face and I let out an annoyed yell. Quickly I started another round of punching, aiming for her gut, chest and nose. She managed to dodge most of them and brought out an array of twists and turns that ended with my arm being threatened to be pulled out of its socket.
She talked in my ear and said menacingly "Make one move and I swear that you'll have a dislocated shoulder before you get home to your dearest daddy."
My insides were wobbly as hell, even with training in several martial arts, it had not prepared me for a situation like this. However when my cocky reply came out of my mouth, I was surprised at the confidence in my voice
"I think child abuse is illegal, just so you know. But I guess it wouldn't matter to you, you've already killed so many people in your attempt to find and exterminate my father."
My arm was yanked back further and I bit back the urge to scream. Maybe I was starting to get to her; my smirk grew even wider. She pulled me to my feet and pushed me forwards towards where I assume we had come from.
A scream echoed through the forest and my heart raced as I set my hand alight and Bobbi Morse hastily let go of my arm, allowing me to run in the direction of where I assume Lauren's scream came from.