'Stop,' we froze. Just round the corner of the wall we were hiding behind, there was shuffling of feet. I pushed Lucy back against the wall, using my arm, so that they wouldn't see us as whoever it was passed us by.

'Go,' I murmured. We ran at full speed, except just as we got further away from the man, Lucy ran over a massive branch, that just so thankfully snapped. The man span round, we he saw us his eyes narrowed. He raised his hand to his ear and started to shout.

'Culasse sur le côté ouest, arriver ici MAINTENANT!' (Breech on west side, get here NOW!)

The man looked up, and gave a sloppy grin. His false golden teeth shone through.

'What a sight,' Lucy said, in mock disbelief. The man's grin faded, but was replaced by a scowl. Behind me I heard feet running at a pace towards us.

I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. I heard myself repeat the words that I had said to Cammie's class, on my first day of teaching at Gallagher. Notice things.

Cammie.

I had to get back for her. To protect her. The unspoken promise that I had made with Matt. Not to protect his 'girls', just Cammie. Rachel, I know will do fine at looking after herself, just a comforting hug or reassuring words every now and again. Luckily not often (I don't do hugs) just sometimes.

I opened my eyes, and looked around. About 15 men had circled us and were slowly closing in on us. But I wasn't concentrating on them. A way out, that's what I wanted. We could, take down all the men, but that was risky and raises too much awareness for our first trip here. Behind Mr. False Teeth there was a metal gate, it was tall but with enough lift we could get over it.

'Black...' I whispered. Black was Lucy's code name, because she can make herself disappear into the shadows, which are black.

'I see it,' she whispered back.

'On the count of three,' she nodded.

'One...' We took a step forward.

'Two...' And another.

'Three...' Most of the time we would shout 'three' for the fun of it, but not now, we had to keep it subtle.

We sprinted forward. Kicking down anyone that came in our way. When we were close enough, we jump forward using the fence railing as an extra boost and swung ourselves over it. The fence was higher than I had expected, so when we landed we had to roll to take the impact. Jumping straight up we carried on to sprint. We reached a dense forest which surrounded the warehouse and kept us hidden from searching eyes. But we didn't stop.

My footsteps slammed onto the uneven forest floor. I couldn't hear anything but my heart pounding in my ears. We dodged anything that came into our path. My breathing by now had become irregular, and I struggled to get it back to normal. My mind was racing, thinking about different outcomes of this event. My muscles were screaming and my lungs were burning but I didn't stop.

I can't stop.

We reached the edge of the forest and only then did I force myself to slow down to a more human pace. Lucy copied my actions; slowly we came to a stop both panting hard. I bent down and placed my hands on my knees to support myself and Lucy lent against a tree using one hand.

I gulped in as much air as I could to stop the burning feeling in my lungs, the air felt cold against my throat as I breathed in. A small, welcoming breeze blew against my face and cooled me down slightly.

After I had stopped panting I looked up, we had come out of the forest to meet a road that I recognised as the road we came on to get here.

Hopefully the car wasn't that far away.

LUCY POV

Everything around me was spinning. I slumped down onto the ground, no longer being able to support myself.

I breathed in as much air as I could to stop the spinning.

Were I was sat was so comfy. My eyes began to feel heavy and start to droop, if only I could sleep, just for a quick while. Then I would be fine.

In front of me I only just noticed Joe watching me cautiously.

'Hey Lucy! No! Now's not a good time to nap!' I frowned slightly. Why wasn't a good time to nap?

Joe was now snapping his fingers in front of me.

'Lucy! Lucy! Now wake up! I need you' but I didn't hear the rest of his sentence because i had already drifted off into a welcoming sleep.

JOE POV

Crap.

Crap.

Crap.

Crap.

Cr- I think you get the point.

Lucy falling asleep is NOT good. Certain people after pushing themselves to the absolute limit when running, and I don't just mean running that extra ten meters, I mean physically forcing yourself to keep going until you throw up, and then keep going after that, when they stop they get overwhelmed by dizziness and drowsiness. Once they fall asleep they are almost impossible to wake up. Some have been known to fall into a coma (only the extremes) then their body starts to malfunction.

By the looks of things, that is what's happening to Lucy at this very second.

(A/N: Okay sorry about the AN just, I made that whole thing up... PLEASE DON'T go around saying that if you do too much exercise you will fall into a coma! I just needed something like that to happen for just that added drama ;D)

I spun round and ran a hand through my (slightly) sweaty hair. I was correct about before, the road was the one we came here on, I recognised the tree patterns. (Notice things). That must mean that our hire car is somewhere around here.

Carefully I scooped up Lucy and set off at a gentle jog. I don't know if my body can handle more running, especially with extra weight. (Not that Lucy is heavy or anything...)

After ten minutes I reached the car. I carefully placed Lucy in the passenger seat, and walked round to the driver's side and got in. We were quite close to the warehouse so I had to get out of there quickly.

Once I was safely out of the warehouse's ground, I picked up speed on the road. I had to get back to the hotel as quickly as possible 1) so that no one from the warehouse would see me. 2) Because I needed to get Lucy awake as soon as possible.

And Lucy isn't a very god person to wake up on normal terms.

Hi! Okay so, yes I did say that I would update over half term, just quickly: To 'TheChameleon.x' British and proud! (And thanks for all the reviews everyone!) Anyway, I did say that I would updates but we went to London with friends so I had literally no time! Also my friend who is a 'fellow fanfictioner' said that the story had gone a bit off track and that it was better when Lucy was at Gallagher. So I was wondering if anyone else thought that? Please tell me if you do think that! (I think criticism is good! Just... constructive criticism)