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* ''[[http://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=19641 a2 ~a due~]]'': Sona attempts this in one of the possible endings, after realizing that Hao does indeed return her feelings for him. He's getting ready to board a plane back to China; she's running breakneck speed through the airport to reach him in time and dodging airport security along the way. [[{{Deconstruction}} Beautifully deconstructed]] as she is ''tazered by a security guard'' before she can reach him. [[spoiler: This leads to a MaybeEverAfter of sorts as he leaves, unaware that she cares about him as more than a friend, and she is stuck in America for a while, determined to go to China and see him again. Unlockable bonus content shows a small part of their eventual, happy reunion.]]

* A rare female/female example in ''Film/ImagineMeAndYou''.

* ''{{Manhattan}}'': In which Isaac has to ''run'' across Manhattan to meet up with Tracy before she leaves for London. It's also a subversion in that Tracy wants to go anyway, and tells him it'll only be 6 months.

* At the end of ''The Mammoth Hunters'' Ayla realizes that she wants to go with Jondalar and runs to tell him, just as he is leaving.

I'm committed I'm in love and I'm desperate\\

* The final ten minutes of ''Series/QueerAsFolk'', in what probably cements [[VictoriousChildhoodFriend Vince]] and [[JerkassWoobie Stuart]] as the official romance of the series. Their [[VitriolicBestBuds tempestuous]] [[BelligerentSexualTension relationship]] finally convinced Stuart to split for London, and Vince being too delusional or too stubborn to make an effort to stop what would have undoubtedly spelled the end of their time together, the situation leads to Stuart actually packing up and on being the verge of leaving town. However, [[ShipperOnDeck Vince's mom]] pulls all the stops in an effort to get Vince to Stuart before he leaves, and they end up reuniting and reconciling moments before Stuart drives off (and [[spoiler: leaving town together, apparently for good]].)

* ''Series/ThirtyRock'': Liz Lemon did a lower key version of this; after a fight with an ex-boyfriend while he was in town, she chases him to the airport to apologize, and give him her apartment key, just in case he visits again. Unfortunately, she [[ItMakesSenseInContext has a really delicious sandwich with her]] when she arrives and isn't allowed to take it through security. She protests to the guard that she just wants to see her boyfriend for a minute, and the guard [[LampshadeHanging scoffs that that's "sort of a cliché."]] Unwilling to give up her sandwich, she [[http://tmblr.co/ZAiPWy69zieo wolfs it down in one go]] while insisting, "I can have it all!" The guard admits, "That's less of a cliché," and lets her through.
** Lampshaded again later when Jack is about to do this, but finds his girlfriend still waiting at the bus stop.
-->'''Jack''': I was about to do the whole "run to the airport" thing like Ross did in ''Series/{{Friends}}'' and Liz Lemon did in real life.

* In episode 12 of ''LightNovel/ThePetGirlOfSakurasou'', Sorata and the others rush to the airport to stop Mashiro from leaving, but [[spoiler:they find out she wasn't leaving at all, Rita was]]. It does get Mashiro to start wondering WhatIsThisFeeling that Sorata makes her feel.

* The end of the LightNovel version of ''LightNovel/StrawberryPanic'' (not the anime) where Shizuma is about to board her private plane and leave for Europe, until Nagisa turns up [[SayMyName yelling "Shizuma-oneesama!!!!!"]]

Then Alice suddenly has an epiphany: she really does love Bob too much to not be with him! She loves him more than Steve, who she was going to marry instead. She loves him more than her job, or whatever other situation had cropped up that made her think she had to choose it over Bob. But ...he's about to leave because she shot him down! If she doesn't turn around and get back to him ''right this minute'' he'll be gone, she'll have missed her chance, and she'll have what might have been haunting her forever.

[[caption-width-right:350:[[ToTheBatnoun To the Scott-mobile!]]]]

* ''Series/{{Bridgerton}}'': In the near-end of chapter 7 season 2, after the gazebo scene[[note]]post-coitus[[/note]], Anthony Bridgerton rushes to propose to Kate Sharma upon waking up alone. He chases after her as she immediately rides on horse through the heavy rainstorm, [[spoiler:but she falls and hits her head before he has a chance to talk to her.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:[[ToTheBatnoun To the Scott-mobile]]!]]

* Lester pulls off an excellent one toward the end of ''Webvideo/{{Awkward}}''.

* One issue of ''ComicBook/IncredibleHulk'' had Betty leaving on a train to be in a convent, and naturally one of Bruce's enemies shows up on his way to the station. They battle it out and Bruce sees the train leave ''just'' [[MissedHimByThatMuch as he gets there,]] and falls to the ground defeated... and then hears Betty standing behind him with a suitcase.

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[[caption-width-right:269:[[ToTheBatnoun To the Scott-mobile]]!]]

* DoubleSubverted in ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar''. [[spoiler:Kaguya oversleeps and fails to get to the airport in time to see Shirogane off when he leaves to attend Stanford University, so she ''has a private plane fly her to Californa'' soley so she can give him a proper "goodbye" ([[Fiction500 before announcing her intention to visit him every weekend]]).]]

* Music/{{Lonestar}}'s "Running Away With My Heart"