Chapter one
She didn't see the heavy truck before it was too late. The driver coming from the opposite lane took a swift turn and the massive vehicle slammed into her black Lexus and the she had no time to hit the breaks. She lost control of the car and rammed into the sportsbike right in front of her. She slipped into a dissociative state in which she marveled the way the passenger was lifted in the air and then crashed down. She barely registered that her own car had now stopped moving and for a few seconds she could only listen to her own breathing, her blood as it pumped behind her ears.
Then she realised the awkward position she was in. The car had toppled on its back, and she was in the air, held in position just by her seatbelt. Then she heard the crying. Danny was crying in the back seat but she could barely turn her head to see, everything hurt so much. Then she smelled more than saw the smoke coming through the broken windshield and filling the car. She reached behind with her right hand, trying to get to Danny but she couldn't bring her body to work. Was she going into shock?
She reached with her left instead, trying to force the door open but she didn't have enough strength to. Then the door magically opened and someone with a bike helmet came into view. She wondered dimly if it was the bike driver she had seen fly so beautifully into the air before but it seemed bizarre how they could have gotten up and walked after landing. Then the helmet was gone, she heard it crash to the grand and a mass of dark curls came into view. She felt hands fumble around her body and her seat belt was pulled away from her.
''Hold onto me!'' A voice insisted, followed by more noise but she could only see the woman's lips move. She is beautiful, she thought absently.
Then wildly the world came into focus once more. She finally heard what the woman was saying and she reached out, wrapping an arm around her neck and she felt herself being picked out of the car, lifted in the air and then lowered down to the ground.
''We need to go, your car is on fire.'' The woman said intensely and Maura Isles almost begun to follow her away from the burning vehicle but then she saw through the haze and she turned back. The woman grabbed her, trying to pull her away. ''Are you nuts lady? You'll get yourself killed!''
''I have to...'' Maura mumbled, her voice small. ''Daniel's in there...''
''Your boyfriend?'' The woman asked, trying to look inside the vehicle.
''My baby, my baby is in there!'' Despite her calm demeanor Maura felt herself begin to lose it as she realised Daniel was trapped on the other side of the car and she couldn't get to him.
''Okay, okay.'' The woman said. She shoved a mobile phone in her hands. ''Call 911, now!'' She hollered, walking around the car. Maura was torn between following her and doing the rational thing, calling for an ambulance and help to pry the metal carcass of the car open. She ended up doing a little of both and she rushed behind the woman, frozen when the 911 operator picked up. She only just managed to inform on the situation as she watched the strange bike driver looking through the windows and then place both of her hands flat against the back door. Suddenly she grabbed the loose metal of the door and pulled, ripping it away from the vehicle.
Through the noise of the fire in the front of the car Maura heard the metal clang on the floor. On any other occasion Maura would stop and gape and what she had just done. There no way anyone would have just ripped the metal apart like paper. But she now she didn't care. She only wanted Danny out of there and through the open door she could hear his wails clearly. She knelt on the ground next to him but she couldn't get to him because the car was leaning too much on that side and there was enough space to crawl through the gap and take him out of his seat. This time Maura did gape when the woman reached for the back wheel and lifted. She would have laughed if she hadn't seen the car actually move upwards a few centimetres at a time until Mara finally had access to the back seat and she plunged in with both arms, unfastening and tearing safety harnesses until she finally had Danny in her arms and she was staring into his brilliant blue eyes. She pulled away from the vehicle and saw it slam back down on its original position when the woman let go.
Maura didn't care that it was been bizzare what she had just seen. She looked down at her baby boy and begun to cry with him, kneeling down on the ground without a second glance towards the woman. She heard the sirens come from afar and smelled the intensifying stench of burning gazoline but nothing could distract her from the gorgeous little boy in her arms until she finally collapsed on the ground, her vision going blank.
So, new fic arriving. First time AU so be gentle. Let me know how I'm doing. Rizzles to come
LK
