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“Dropped my damn phone,” he says as Ned lets out a gurgled squeal like a pig as I pull it tight.
“THE CD! USE THE CD!” I yell.
Lex grabs it in his panic and slams the side of the CD into the man’s jaw without remembering to break it first. Or maybe he didn’t listen to that part of it.
“What thefuck!” the passenger yells as the driver decides toacceleratethe car a moment before it slams into the trunk of the car in front of us. I’m thrown forward hard enough that I lose my grip on the seat belt and the coughing man breaks free. He yanks his seat belt off and lunges into the back for Lex who jerks back as the front seat of the carburstsinto flames.
“Fuck! Fuck!” Lex yells as he grabs for the lock on the door, but the fucking child safety locks are on, and the front seat is an inferno.
The driver and the passenger punch and shove each other as they fight to get into the back seat with us.
“Is it going well? I think it’s going well,” Deus, who’d somehow gotten on speaker, says.
“It’s not fucking going well!” I growl as someone elbows me in the face.
“I’m on FIRE,” the passenger yells as he flattens me with his weight. I knee him in the balls which would have been a good idea if hewasn’t on fire.
I feel a tiny moment of relief when I realize I’m still wearing my fireproof supersuit before I twist and press my face against the window to see where the unlock button is. Ihaveto have enough energy to use my powers to unlock a damn car door.
“I can’t control it!” Lex cries as he holds his hand toward the fire; it does nothing but feed the flames that seem to be dancing, they’re so excited to be let loose.
I stare at the lock and plead with it, but the moment I can feel it, blood starts gushing out of my nose and the pain is so severe it feels like someone stabs me in the head with a knife. Deciding that the second-best thing would be to have someone else sacrifice their arms to the flames, I kick Ned toward the fire. “Sacrifice yourself, unlock the door before we asphyxiate.”
“Fuck you!” he growls.
“Fuck you too!” Deus shouts through the phone forsomeunknown reason.
That’s the moment some concerned citizen tears the door open and we tumble out of the vehicle into the street.
“Come on, run!” I urge Lex as I grab my phone and haul him after me.
“Now did you kill them?” Deus asks as I race down the street with Lex by my side.
“That would be a negative,” I say.
“And are they still following you?”
I spare a moment to look behind myself and realize quite quickly that I wish I hadn’t. Those fuckers canrun. It’s almost like I spend the majority of my days using my powers to get me things so I don’t have to get out of a chair and they like… exercise and shit. The only thing I like exorcising is my brother when he interrupts a good book.
“Okay, I see, vaguely, that you might be minorly right, but maybe you need to GET HERE FASTER.”
“We’re trying, we really are,” August says, sounding pained. “The traffic around the bomb slowed us down.”
“Alright, do you have any weapons?” Deus asks as we duck into an alley.
“My amazingly sharp sass,” I say, which no one seems to think is of any use if the silence is anything to go by.
“I still have that CD for some reason,” Lex says as he holds it up, still fully intact.
“Remember. Go for the throat. You two are too inexperienced to do anything fancier,” Deus says.
I grab the CD but I’m panting so hard and my arms are like fucking noodles afterholding up an entire building. “I can’t break it.”
“I plead with Beelzebub to take you down with open arms after your death,” Deus says, which isn’t fucking HELPFUL.
Lex, thankfully, snaps it, but it doesn’t break perfectly in half; instead, he merely snaps off one tiny piece that he hands me before keeping the rest of the thing.
“What is this?” I growl.
