"Let's get out of here!" I said gruffly.
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Zora kept up with Elon, but then things got wild as they both stepped out into a group of officers. She'd only had the opportunity to take out one of the men with a kick to the head before Elon had dealt with the four others of the group. Her man could handle himself that was for sure.
Bullets had begun to fly then and before she had known it Elon had stuffed her into an air vent and told her to make her way to the outside, while he led the shooters away. She hadn't had much of a choice about it and she had learned not to ask twice when Elon said something.
She was outside now on the roof and as bullets pinged off the roof all around her shattering red tiles she couldn't but be a bit snarky in her opinion of Elon's claim that this had been the safest route for her to take.
"All right! All right! You've made your point. Perhaps it would've been safer for us not to have split up." Came her husband's projected thoughts into her mind.
The angry whine of a bullet whizzing by her head only added to the sarcasm of her thought out reply, "Do you really think so honey?"
Her husband's only response was, "When you get to the end of the roof jump off it."
Zora gasped. Surely he wasn't being that vindictive about her being right about something instead of him?
"Oh come on Zora! Do you really think I have plans to kill you, because you were right and I was wrong?"
Zora knew the answer to that and she swallowed nervously as she ran hard down the narrow white centerline of the roof getting closer and closer to the approaching end of it.
"You were serious about jumping weren't you?"
"I'm always serious and yes I want you to jump!"
Zora saw the edge fast approaching, "Oh God!" She half screamed out as she surged into empty space and fell. She tore through one awning and then another and another and then blinking her eyes she stared up into Elon's smiling face.
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"You really do need to start trusting me Zora." I said not being able to resist from saying it.
Her breathing had started to slow as I set her down to her feet, "I do trust you or why else would I have jumped?"
I kissed her forehead, "I know you do honey I was just teasing."
She was still shaken up a little from her freefall and to cover up for it she asked belligerently, "What took you so long anyway?"