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 Posted: Wed May 11, 2011 8:23 pm
As the pain subsided to a dull ache and the stars in his eyes faded away, Gehenna looked up to see Cimmerian running after the lieutenant who had just disappeared over the edge of the platform. Then the ground began to shake and everything moved in slow motion as panic set in.
He sprang back to life and ran out to grab her around the middle, jerking her forcefully away from the edge of the platform and curling her around until his back was to the subway - preventing her from reaching out and losing a limb. Almost as soon as he did that, there was a sickening, wet crunch from the railing below and the subway cars came to a grinding halt. Inside, though, panic was rising and there was a wave of screams.
Ghen, glancing over his shoulder, saw what it was just before the doors opened and people ran out like it was the return of the plague. On the far windows, on the other side of the subway cars, was a smear of blood splatter. He didn't have any doubts about what had happened to the lieutenant.
"Don't look," he said quietly, into her ear, as passenger after passenger hurried past them and ran for the stairs leading to the nearest exit.
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Posted: Wed May 11, 2011 8:35 pm
Cimmerian had to look. She was not a girl who did as she was told. One hand flattened against Gehenna's bare chest. The woman was six years older than him, but she felt like a child cradled against him. Her elbow gained strength and she pushed back far enough to glance over her shoulder. The last thing she had seen of the boy was the look of terror and panic in his eyes. Then there were Ghen's warm arms around her. She had closed her eyes at that instant and missed the impact. Now, the only thing that remained of the Negaverse lieutenant was a red smear on the front of a subway car.
The civilians that remained in the subway station began to panic. A woman began wailing loudly, clutching her chest and shouting a prayer. A younger girl pointed at Meri and shouted something about her shoving him. "I didn't!" Meri said, shaking her head. "Stop ******** saying that, you lousy b***h -- I didn't push him!" A man covered his eyes with both hands and began shaking his head. Sirens wailed in the distance.
The Page of Pluto was aware of very little. Just Ghen's hands on her arm, tugging her, trying to get her to leave. When she continued to stay and shout, he threw her over one shoulder and then sprinted out of the subway station until the roar of sirens was nothing more than a distant memory -- a nightmare that Cimmerian felt doomed to revisit every day for the rest of her life.
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