Snippet #1980713

Jimmy watched the change in her tone and her eyes as something had gotten her attention and then he heard it.
"Well not really dine and ditch, since we didn't eat anything here....more like, ditch my chaperon!
As she got up from the table Jimmy lit a cigarette and got up from the booth slowly.
His head turned to view the man whose aim it seemed was destroy yet another meeting for him.

With his hands in the pockets of his pants he turned in the direction toward which Ginger ran and very cooly walked to the door in back muttering:
"If you don't run like a rabbit the dogs won't bark."
He very gently opened and closed the door, all the time keeping one eye on the room they were just in.
Sure enough the man found they table they were at but so far it was taking him a bit of time to figure out where they went to.
After following her into the alley Jimmy spit out his cigarette, took her hand, and said "Come on, stick with me, I'll take care of this guy."
With a firm kick against the door he managed to jar it a little bit and after one more sound blow the door came open.
He then used his free hand to tip his hat to her with a bit of a nervous smile.
"Sometimes you just don't have time for a key huh?
When we get through here run to the side door on the other side of this building.
Don't look back and don't wait for me.
Stay in the alley until I get there , I won't be there straight away but I am coming I promise."

With yet another more devilish smile he said.
"Oh and about the flowers...I had no idea who you are but they don't call me "The Saint" for nothing."
About this time here comes the entourage sure as the world and Jimmy smirks as he says.
"I had a slight change of plan.
How's your jumping skill doll?
No time to wait to find out, follow me."
With that he continued to hold onto her hand running up the long metal stairs of the adjacent building.
Upon reaching the roof he took one look over the side and one look at how Ginger was dressed, and then he shook his head.
"Oh you're not dressed for running at all are you?"
He said hiding a laugh.
"The objective in running like this is to do something those chasing you either won't do or are hesitant to do.
For that we both need much better gear but for now we're stuck with this.
We've got three options from what I see, the first is jumping to the roof of the building across the alley, the second is jumping into a dumpster in the alley, and the third, I wait on this guy to show up here and feed him his teeth.

Jimmy had always loved being a thumb in the eye of authority, from the time he was a kid.
Cops, teachers, counselors, everyone tried to reach him but he chose this path.
Embracing being a tough guy with both hands.
This brought back memories of skipping school either alone or with friends.
For him it was always about the thrill of the chase, waiting to see if he could outsmart his pursuers no matter how perfect they thought their plan was.
Of course it always caught up to him and he'd take a beating from the people running the orphange but in his mind...everybody took a beating sometime.
After another moment of looking around he finally snapped.
"The fire escape!
Come on we can take it to the alley, cut back to Kimmies, and take my car out of here before this guy this... putz even knows what's happened."
Still holding her hand he got her to the fire escape and after taking his hand from hers he said smiling.
"Ehhh you may want this activity to be more a ladies first kind of thing.
I... I of course don't mind if you follow me but... you see my point."
After making sure she made it down the fire escape safely Jimmy headed down after her.
The words shouted from the rooftop echoed down into the alley heralding his presence.
"Hey stop!
Get back here!
Miss Caggliano! You there...come on buddy I'm just doing my job here!"
After Jimmy dropped to the pavement he offered his arm to Ginger and said as he walked her to the car.
"Sometimes if you don't run like a rabbit the dogs won't bark but when they do.... you run like hell.
Since he's going to be a while getting down from there we're going to take a nice stroll to my car because if we leave here running every cop within a mile will be here in minutes.
Unless of course he has a walkie talkie...then how's your running skill huh?"
After an uneventful walk to the car he calmly opened her door for her and got into the driver's side just like any normal man would taking someone out on a date.
He then set his hat down beside of her before turning on the car and said
"Hate to be a bother but this car isn't real hat friendly, could you look after that for me?"
With that he fired up the engine and with a quick squeal of the tires he was headed down the road.
After a block or two, and upon getting caught in a bit of traffic, he looked over at her and smiled as he said.
"I'm sorry about back there on the roof.
I just didn't have time to work anything else out.
You're...you're ok right?
No broken bones... no bruises?
When you finish with that load of questions how about you tell me a little about you and the monkey in the suit back there?
That wasn't a standard rent-a-cop that a was police issue piece he was carrrying.
Don't tell me the goomba from the other day is still bothering you...you know the guy from the sidewalk?
If he is... I can handle that for you.
Sometimes, some very stupid people, don't know how to take "no" for an answer so quickly huh?"