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“Fuck…”
August is trying to rush for me, but Alloy won’t give him a moment to breathe. I need to just… I need to get close. I need to not worry that I’m going to kill a man… I just… I have to stop him before he hurts those I love.
Lex screams something as fire tears through the area between Alloy and August. It immediately rages out of control as it latches on to the metal Alloy is using to protect himself, but it’s soon apparent that maybe this is what we needed to get Alloy to move. Because if he doesn’t, the flames heating the metal are going to kill him.
August rushesrightinto Lex’s fire, like he’s positive it’s not going to hurt him, and I use the moment of distraction to run for them. I can’t see August through the flames but that must mean Alloy can’t see me.
I use the cover to draw in close, but the fire is in my way. Fear of the flames and memories of the pain I’d felt the day of the broadcasting station flash into my mind, but I have to trust Lex, even if he can’t trust himself.
Reaching out, I can feel the heat, but the fire doesn’t hurt, so I push through it, moving fast as I make it to the other side and find the man attacking August. August is barely avoiding his assault but he’s keeping him busy as I step up behind him and reach out with my power.
As he raises the metal rod, I grab onto his heart and squeeze it.
Fuck, fuck, fuck… I know I’ve claimed I’m evil as fuck but killing a person is a whole different game. I squeeze tightly onto his heart as the man whirls around in shock. He grabs for his chest as he lifts his hand, and I force him back while I squeeze down.
He staggers forward a moment before all the metal around him drops to the ground. He takes one more step before he lands on his knees and falls to the ground.
My breath is coming heavy, but I don’t let up my hold on him. Even though he’s on the ground, even though he’s clearly not getting back up, I continue holding down tightly until August steps in front of me and grabs me.
“You okay?”
I nod slowly because I’m honestly not quite sure when so much adrenaline is raging through me. August pulls me close to him as he draws me back through the fire and over to where Ellison is kneeling on the ground holding Deus.
Lex is running toward headquarters, calling for help that I hope can quickly find us.
“I’m fine, you guys are getting all fussy over nothing,” Deus says even though his shirt is soaked in blood.
“Asmodeus, why? You nearly got fucking cut in half saving me,” Ellison says, his hand shaking.
“I just wanted to look cool like in the movies,” he says, which is a lie, and we all know it. Deus has told us before he wasn’t allowed to have friends or people he cared about in case he’d risk his life for one of them. This is literally what he was trained not to do and yet he still sacrificed himself for Ellison. “Is he dead?”
“Yes,” I say.
“Good job!” Deus says, far too thrilled considering he’s bleeding all over the place. He even tries to give me a high five which makes him grimace but doesn’t make him stop.
“Just… stay still,” I urge as I kneel down next to him. “Everyone else okay?”
“Lex got hit, so I hope he’s okay,” August says as I look over to find my brother carrying Lex back. I have no idea if that’s because he’s hurt or because he just wanted a ride. Valerie isn’t far behind them, looking a bit bloody, telling me that she and some of the others suffered worse than I thought.
“Deus… we’ll have a medical team out here quickly… was it me that made him come here?” Valerie asks. “Did my announcement do this?”
“No,” Ellison says. “But it’s a long story.”
She nods and rushes off, yelling for the medical team to “fucking hurry up before I fire your asses.”
They try to go for August first, but we push them over to Deus who still seems to be pretending like his back isn’t sliced open.
They rush to get him into the ambulance as another team heads over to deal with the body we left behind.
August reaches out and squeezes my hand before bringing it up to his lips and kissing it. “Thank you.”
“Me? I just… I was nearly useless. I’m not used to someone one-upping me,” I realize.
“You were the exact opposite of useless. I couldn’t have done it without you. None of us could,” he says before reaching out and patting Lex’s back as the remaining medical team checks the wound on his arm. “You too… that fire was ingenious.”
Lex looks happy but also mildly alarmed. “I didn’t really… do it on purpose or have any control over it.”
“Hey, the two of us could walk through it and it allowed me to get close to him. I think you had more control of it than you realize,” I assure him.
