"Oy Feliciana! Tomato bastard where are you?" Katarina rapped at her sister's apartment door. "Did you forget that we were having lunch together?" Silence returned to her.
"Feliciana? Potato breath better not be in there!" Katarina waited for a response from her sister.
"Feliciana? Feliciana I swear to Grandma and Grandpa Rome that if you don't open this door" Katarina revved her leg back to violently kick the door.
The door opened ajar right before Katarina could kick it so she tumbled forward into the dark apartment, landing on her stomach. She groaned and got back to her feet.
"What the fuck is this?" The lights were off, but from what she could see, the building was a mess.
She flipped on the lights and saw chairs flipped; the floor was littered in debris and food. The table was on its side, one of the legs jammed into the wall. There was broken glass scattered around, and holes the size of heads in the walls.
"What happened?" She pulled out her phone to call 911 and Carmen, but she was stopped by a bang somewhere inside the apartment.
Katarina slowly walked past the main room/kitchen to the hallway where the bedroom and the restroom were. "Feliciana? Monika? This isn't funny! What's going on? I swear if you jump out and scare me I'll kill both of you!"
She slowly edged to the bedroom on the side. She opened the door and quickly turned on the lights. It was a single queen sized bed, but it hadn't been remade. "H…hello?"
No answer. Even Feliciana's cat Viola wasn't to be seen. Katarina backed out of the bedroom and looked to the bathroom door at the end of the hall. Slowly she walked to it, her hand out to grab the knob. Slowly she turned it, holding her breath. "Feliciana?"
Viola ran out of the bathroom as soon as Katarina opened it, giving her a scare. "Damn cat!" Katarina noticed something tied to the cat.
"Hey cat, hold on." She walked to the cat and untied the little post-it note around its paw.
"Katarina. They've found us. Get Carmen, find the others, and hide somewhere. –Feliciana."
The breath left her body for a moment. Suddenly years of living comfortably were about to come crashing down. She could feel it, but she wasn't going to stick around and watch it all crumble. She went back out to the living room to get out and get to Carmen, but as she approached she heard voices rumbling down the hallway. Katarina went wide-eyed when, in the corner of her eye, she saw a little electronic bit attached to one of the leaves of a fake plant. The place had been bugged, and they were waiting for her to show up.
"Fuck" she huffed, trying to figure out her options.
From what Katarina remembered, there was a fire escape outside the bathroom window. She bolted and locked the bathroom door behind her. She opened the window and saw that the platform, but that's not all she saw. There were men in black all around the building and on the fire escape. She heard them bust through the front door and start filling into the apartment.
"Damn it all." She was trapped.
She pulled out her cell phone and sent Carmen a text. "Someone has found out about us. I'm about to be taken. Monika and Feliciana gone too. Go find the others and hide and then fucking rescue me."
She sent the text and then broke her flip phone in half and drowned it in the sink so that they wouldn't be able to dig through it. She looked at the fire escape stairs. They hadn't made it to her floor yet; she'll start climbing up. She jumped out and started to climb up to the roof, the men bursting through the bathroom door only to find the window open.
"Follow her!"
She climbed even faster to the roof, but what would she do once she got there? There was a building close to this one. She could jump roofs until she found somewhere to hide. Damn it this was the worst day to wear heels.
She got to the last one, and got onto the roof.
"No…no!" They were already there, a man with a long black coat and a fedora standing there with a cigarette in his mouth and fifty men around him.
"Game over Romano" he said with a grimace.
"Damn it all. I'm not going with you." She shouted.
"Grab her."
They started to close in on her. She slowly backed away into the cement wall of the roof. She got on top of the border, the wind blowing her curly hair and her clothes dramatically. She took a breath; she hadn't been a nation for so long, and she wasn't ready to go back to those who tried to manipulate and abuse her.
"What are you doing?" The man in black shouted when Katarina turned to face the edge.
She took a step. They weren't taking her anywhere. But right as she was about to hit the ground, she made a horrifying realization.
She's still a nation. Immortal. They'll get her.
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