Call 911

You casually glance across the kitchen, where your phone sits on the counter. A distance of three steps separates you from help, but if someone is in your house, dripping blood on the floor, it might as well be three miles. You turn, your heart beginning to pound as you take one step, then another. You raise one arm, reaching...

"Don't move," commands a firm voice from behind you. You freeze.

"Look, I don't know who you are, I haven't seen you, so just take what you want and please don't hurt me," you say, trying to keep your voice steady.

"Relax, I'm not here to rob you," the voice says. "I just need a place to hide out for a while."

You suddenly realize who you're talking to. "You're the guy the cops are after, aren't you? Did you shoot somebody?"

"I didn't shoot anybody, I just laid down some cover fire to give my team time to get back through the portal. We hadn't expected to encounter the authorities in such a remote location." The stranger is silent for a moment, then asks, "Did you call them?"

"Um...maybe?" you say. "I saw a weird light and thought it was kids playing with fireworks. I didn't want them to start a forest fire."

"That's real responsible of you, thanks," the stranger says, his voice dripping with sarcasm. "Now I'm stuck here until they reopen the portal, if I don't bleed to **** first."