Guns were aimed her way, so Aurelie was the next to wake up. She immediately jumped to safety behind a warehouse, but not before a bullet grazed her side. She cursed. The bad guys were supposed to have worse aim than this! This was unfair, if the people shooting at her were good shots (well, it was debateable, but she didn't want to have to think of all that now), then she should at least get Matrix-style bullet dodging skills. She didn't have Matrix style bullet dodging skills, though, so she had to make do with the next best options: run faster than the wind, or return fire.

Returning fire would just hold her up here, and she had no idea if they had reinforcements waiting. So returning fire was a bad idea. Running it was. Aurelie peeked her head out the side of the warehouse she was hiding behind. A hail of bullets immediately peppered the wall where her head had been, but she'd already seen all that she'd needed to see, so her head was safely out of the way. Her suspicions were correct. The buildings were in the direction of the town, and they were all more or less the same height. If she could get on the roof of one building, then she could jump from roof to roof until she reached other people. Get to a populated area and you're home free, she thought to herself. Quietly she started to move towards the buildings. One of them had a fire escape. If she got to that one, then things would be easier.

But she had to move fast. Her quick peek at the buildings had also showed her that the bodyguards were inching closer to her 'hiding spot'.

Somehow, she made quick runs from warehouse to warehouse without being seen, before finally reaching the rusty fire escape. The entire area was silent and tense. Her four remaining kidnappers had scattered at the first round of gunfire, and the other guy had gotten in his car and was driven a safe distance off. It was just her and the other two guys. This was possibly the most dangerous part of her plan though. There was no way she could go up the fire escape without the other two noticing, and she was pretty much a sitting duck while running on the rooftops, though they wouldn't be able to get a good shot at her, because they would have to run after her too.

Taking a deep breath, she ran up the stairs. She saw the body guards turn towards the sound and see her, they opened fire the next second, and there were sparks as the bullets hit the rusted metal. She ignored them and ran up faster, trying to keep as much metal railing as possible between her and her body. After a few seconds that lasted an eternity, she was at the top of a three story building. After taking a quick look around she decided that there was really only one building that was safe enough to jump onto, although the roof of that building was a foot higher than the roof of the building that she was currently on. She ran and once again placed a foot against the wall and pushed off. She grabbed the edge of the roof and hauled herself up.

A quick glance backwards showed that the her pursuers were already on the roof of the building she used to be on. They saw her and started to run towards the building she was currently on. She took another look around and chose another building to get onto. And so it went. Aurelie continually jumped to a roof that was higher than the one that she was on, so that the men behind her couldn't stop and aim at her.

As the adrenaline rush gradually died down, she started to mutter curses at Phil and Carter under her breath. Phil and Carter were two imaginary angels that she cursed at whenever anything went wrong. She couldn't curse the heavens, due to the fact that she was still trying to get into them somehow (she steadfastly ignored the fact that cursing at angels in heaven wasn't much of an improvement on cursing the heavens themselves). So instead she imagined that there were two fat, middle-aged, balding men who were constantly looking down at her from heaven. And every time that she made a plan or an attempt to do something important, they would ruin it. One would go, 'Hey look, she's trying something.' then the other would come up with a way to ruin it, and they would both chortle gleefully when their machinations lead to a disaster on her part.

Eventually she made it to the city. The street beneath her wasn't bustling, but it wasn't deserted either. She just needed to jump to one more roof. The problem was which one to jump to. There was one that was higher, but it took her away from the city, but the one that would take her to the city was at the same level as this roof, and the gap between the two buildings was rather large. By continuously jumping up, she was currently on an eight story building. She gritted her teeth, and made a decision. The chase had already been going on for an hour. Her body was aching, and the strap of her messenger bag was like a rock on her shoulder, and her flesh wounds from the bullets burned. The men behind her seemed to be tireless, she was definitely going to lose this battle of stamina. She wasn't going to make this drag it on further, or she could become too tired to continue. It was time to end this. She started to run in the direction of the building that was on the level that she was on. After she made the jump, she would climb down to street level and disappear.

Unfortunately, she didn't make the jump. The second she reached the edge of the roof, she jumped. And, at the moment her feet left the ground, a bullet hit her arm, passing through cleanly. If she was on solid ground it wouldn't have been a problem, she would've maybe just have stumbled, but kept going. But she was in air. So when the bullet hit her, she was flipped over and all her forward momentum was dispersed. With a quick, sharp scream, she dropped into the space between the buildings.

Aurelie could feel the wind roaring past her. Her hair whipped around her face like a fire. She felt... empty. No terror, just a sort of sadness. She'd had plenty of time to come to terms with her own death. When one kills, they must prepare to be killed in turn. She only had two regrets, not taking one of those jerks with her, and for leaving Zane alone now that she was dead. Well, going to die. And he wouldn't exactly be completely alone. There was Uncle Chase, of course. Though he wasn't anyone's uncle, he had a soft side that would ensure that he'd take care of one of his two friends when she was gone, even though he too would grieve. Even though she wanted to go and tell both of them that it would be okay and that they shouldn't be sad, she was falling off of a building at the moment and therefore all she could really do now was wait to die.

What she didn't know, though, was that as she fell a hole opened up beneath her. At first it was tiny, the size of a pinhole. But it steadily grew larger and larger, until it filled the alleyway. If one was to look at it from above, they would see a huge expanse of the darkest and purest black opening up. The strangest thing about the hole, though, was that you could only see it by looking down at it. In other words, it was circle floating in midair. And Aurelie fell into it. The second after she passed through it, the hole closed swiftly, and when her pursuers came to the gap between the buildings, both Aurelie and the mysterious hole were gone, without even the slightest trace left.