" Come here," Lady in Black- Cora whispered to me. I moved towards her cautiously, she may be a little nice but still . . .

She unlocked my chains and set me free, then she did the same to Blue- Cap.

" Go, " she murmured," Leave through the door, I will distract them." She grabbed our hands and held them tight.

" C-cora . . . Th-thank you," I whispered to her, it was getting dark and harder to see.

" No, thank you, you helped me see the truth, now go, go before Emily comes," Her hand rested on mine for a second longer then she let it go.

I don't think I can let her go.

" Come with us, don't you have a family?" Blue-Cap starts to look anxious jumping from one foot to the other.

" Err, we should go?"

I ignored him," We don't know where we are, but you do," I continued," I don't want to die when I've just been saved."

Cora looked at me," Linda, I h-have nowhere t-to go," her eyes look sad.

" Everyone has somewhere to go Cora," I said firmly," And I know this isn't your place to go."

Footsteps echo from . . . nearby and I can make out a shadow from outside the room. It's now or never.

I take Blue-Cap's hand and stare at Cora, she blinks back a whole load more tears in her grey-blue eyes then springs into action.

I rub the sore patch where my chains were attached, stretch my arms and watch the figure racing into the distance. Everywhere smells musty and I can only make out blurry grey shapes in the gloom. 

" Cora! " I hear a hoarse voice shout," CORA!  MELINDA! MELINDA! HARRISON?!? HARRISON?!?" Oldie.

" WHERE ARE YOU?!?" Stop. Focus. 

Blue-Cap starts whining quietly that he's scared.

" Shut up," I mutter, maybe a little too fiercely because he looks up at me with trembling hands. I really couldn't care less. Not right now anyway- Stop wasting TIME! 

I edge out of my prison slowly so I don't make any noise because if Oldie can't find us he must be nearby . . .

Oldie keeps up his annoying yelling and my heart keeps beating way too loud, if it doesn't shut up it's gonna get us discovered . . .

I can see a little better because of an open window on my right on a crumbling wall, the cold wooden floor is piled with junk, old DVDs, a record player, smelly clothes and food wrappers, and many coke bottles. There are graphs with images of people, my hearts skips a beat, there on the wall is an image of me and Blue-Cap with the words, M I G H T B E N E X T in block capitals. There's also a collection of guns and knives in an open cabinet and a staircase, a wooden staircase, and at the bottom a figure is waving at us. Cora.

I try to dart downstairs like some superman but . . . you know I can't. A, because I'm not superman and B, because of Blue-Cap lagging behind.

" Hurry up Blue-Cap!" I whisper very quietly, he looks confused for a second then tries to keep up, tripping over the fifth stair. Aaaah, I really can't live with THIS! 

I pull him onto my shoulders and we continue the descent quicker ( he feels like a great FAT lump but we are going w a a y faster that we were with him walking. )

Cora is standing in the shadows anxiously and grabs my hand," Linda, Hector and Emily are both upstairs looking for us-"

" I TOLD you HECTOR, we should have NEVER got HER, I TOLD you!"

They'll be there a while, I giggled then pointed at nowhere in particular," I can't see a thing."

Cora produced a candle from her pocket and a match, she lighted it and the entire place was illuminated, like upstairs it was filthy and filled with trash but there were many important looking documents and papers stacked on a chair-

I didn't see much more after that, Cora helped Blue-Cap of my shoulders and started running forwards with him on her shoulders. She headed towards an rusty door towards the left of the staircase. Cora opened it with another key and revealed a black starry night. The moon gave me a little wink and I breathed in the cool night air. We're free! We're FREE!

Blue-Cap and Cora started dancing but I noticed heavy footsteps from behind me," RUN!"

It wasn't too late, but it was very close, I screamed at Cora and Blue-Cap," OLDIE-HECTOR! RUN! RUN! RUN! " 

We raced . . . I actually don't know where, we raced into the darkness blundering onwards and not looking back for at least an hour. I stopped and noticed we were back where we started, behind my crumbling prison.

I looked at Cora hopelessly, she just smiled and pointed at a red car. Can she drive? I have no idea.

Turns out she can't and I've been on this crazy drive for three hours, trust me nothing of note has happened apart from crazy wild bursts of speed and turns every five minutes.So, there's no point writing about it, oh you wanna know the scenery? Pitch blackness. Yup, and the car ahead of us, really interesting. I really NEED to be home, like NOW! It is NOT my destiny to wither and die. 

Apparently Cora needed to 'concentrate', so we had no chats, as for Blue-Cap, lemme just say he LOVES his snooze. Still, finally something of note happened.

" Cora? Why are-were you a kidnapper? "

She was silent for a while then answered with a," That is a story for another time."

So I was wrong, nothing, I repeat NOTHING of note happened, but you know, it's okay.

" Where are we going? "

" To the nearest police station near that nursery of course! We had it planned so we would be clear of the area . . ." Cora's voice drifted away.

" Are you gonna hand yourself in?" I squeak.

She doesn't reply.

" Well, I won't let you. I'm gonna tell the truth . . . with a little extra. How you disguised yourself to save people. We'll leave out my shouting fit. "

Cora laughed and Blue-Cap woke up, pointing at a police-station, our local police-station," We're here."

I know. Seriously, how dumb do you get?