"It's ironic isn't it? To use the words protecting and killing in the same sentence. Of course, with these two words, there can't be a happy ending for the story. In the end, protecting you is killing me."

"You can't run forever."

His voice called out mockingly as I ran through the dark, smelly alleys. I didn't care. Not about the cut on my arm, how tired I was from running, or even his mocking voice. Not even death.

"He's right. We can't keep running forever."

"That's because I don't plan to." I pulled him into an abandoned building, locking the lobby door securely, before dragging him into an dark and dirt filled room. I locked the door securely once again, hoping it'd buy us some time.

He stumbled further inside the room and tripped, falling to the floor with the book.

"Why are we even here? Why did you lock us in our death bed?" Anger was evident in his voice and so was fear. "They'll catch us here. We're done for."

The muffled bits of moonlight that came from the cloudy and dirty window of the building allowed me to see a few drops of tears rolling down his dirty cheeks. I knew I resembled him just as much. 

I knelt down in front of him, pushing my side bangs out of my face as my short black hair swayed with my movements. I dropped my sword and used my thumbs to wipe the tears off his face, trembling.

"Everything will be okay. We're not going to die." My voice wavered and water filled my eyes at the sight of him letting tears roll down his face soundlessly.

I took my pocket watch out as I heard the lobby door slam open.

"Hold onto this." He quickly recognized the device and placed his left hand on the side of the pocket watch as I moved the time back.

"From 3024 to 2014." I moved the time back on the pocket watch as the sound of footsteps were getting closer.

"2014? Will we be okay there?" His right hand grasped the book and brought it close to his heart.

"We'll be better there than here." I answered, giving him a tired smile as the door to the room we were in slammed open. I got a hold of my sword and everything slowly faded away....