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Connor shifted above them glass falling from his back, Regan in panic reached out to check him but Connor shrugged her off. Standing pulling her and Olivia with him, his eyes were calculating.
"We need to get Tyler and Brain get to the ground floor we're not safe up here." Both rushed over the glass cracking and crunching beneath their shoes as they raced over.
"What the hell is going on?" Brain yelled over the chaos as tables where over turned, glasses dropped; the glass shattering on tiles. Outside was an even worse situation as bestial roars and horrified screaming could be heard, Regan wasn't given a chance to glance outside as she was pulled and then pushed forward by Connor now in full cop mode.
"Move both of you!" Regan without a second thought grabbed Olivia's arm and pulled her along, at first Olivia must have been in shock because she was more dead weight then help but something restarted in her brain and then she was running with Regan. Going at first to the elevators Connor called behind them,
"No, no elevators! Get to the stairs!" As he screamed this something plowed into the room, more screams greeted this along with a noise unfamiliar to Regan that sent icy tendrils of unknown fear into her. She turned seeing some creature, it was on four legs with wide spread wings that was blocking out the available sunlight horns, claws, the whole package every bit a demon of hell that she had thought to be the mad ravings of religious lunatics. It had begun grabbing guests all screaming and squirming, sometimes it was merciful if she could even call it that by killing the person with one single body separating bite, unfortunately one man it snatched tossed him screaming into the air before impaling him on it's horns, the man still groaning in agony as it munched on his leg. Regan gagged at the sight of blood gushing from the stump where his leg once was. Connor knocked into them yelling.
"Keep moving don't look back!" Regan began sprinting again Olivia as well as they came upon the stairwell door they threw it open rushing in and down the stairs. Being in heels made the decent even more treacherous and the quaking earth didn't help so as they rushed down the stairs Regan miss-stepped and suddenly she collided hard with the unforgiving cement floor her ankle twisting painfully.
"Ah!" Her brothers and Olivia came to a stop Tyler rushed over, helping Regan up who gave a pained yelp as her weight could barely be held my the ankle. She ripped off her shoes wincing as her injured ankle throbbed.
"Come on we keep moving." Connor was shoving Brain and Olivia along, but Tyler was steadfast by Regan.
"What about Regan her ankle!" Connor's shoulders dropped. He looked between Regan and her ankle as she leaned on Tyler.
"If you can keep up—"
"Connor!" Regan winced but nodded her agreement.
"Tyler he's right if I'm dead weight I'm dead weight." Her voice quivered a bit but she wasn't going to be the cause of her brother's deaths if she could help it. So once again they were moving thankfully she had fallen only about two flights away from the main floor. Olivia and Brain waited by the door both of them gasping for breath, Olivia's eyes coming to rest on Regan and they widened, Regan tried to smile in reassurance but it was lost the moment she stumbled and put weight on her injury. Olivia worried her lip between her teeth,
"I'm so sorry…" She muttered Regan blinked at this.
"Hey it's the heels, hell it's the situation not you." Another crash, more screaming and roars, the building shook harder this time. From in the stairwell they all heard the telltale groan of beams on their last legs, and cement was crumbling freely now. Connor jumped the last few steps and shoved open the door.
"We need to get out of the building now!" Everyone nodded in agreement and followed close behind the lobby was almost empty the front doors had been pulled off their hinges from people trying to get out—or maybe from something trying to get in Regan limped along Tyler's arm steady around her waist but she stumbled again as another quake hit. The group still ran ahead till Tyler called for them to slow down, Regan was about to hush him when a horn took her attention. It was loud, a deep primal noise that Regan felt like she had heard before but couldn't place where. Something was ominous about it as well, like it was a call to war…Or the end of some battle, and if it was she felt like humans had lost. The quake that had stopped them before had dislodged a marble pillar in the lobby Regan heard the grind of stone against stone and looked up; she heard her and Tyler's names being screamed. She wouldn't be able to move out of the way in time, but…She turned using Tyler's surprise in her favor his grip had loosened she pushed with all her might Tyler flailed and fell far enough forward he landed without injury and out of the shadow of the falling pillar. Regan wasn't so lucky.
When Regan was ten her family had been in a horrible car accident her father had a bit too much to drink and had swerved on a back road. The crash had killed her mother instantly, her brothers all had varying degrees of injuries all which had need, extensive surgeries' and physical therapy, amazingly enough she had come out of it unscathed save for some cuts on the left side of her body. That was probably the most horrid pain Regan had felt, up until a huge decorative marble pillar crushed most of her lower body and her upper left side. She couldn't even scream, as it was agony to attempt even a wisp of breath. Most of her bones were crushed and she knew from the rolling inner pain she was most likely bleeding internally.
"Oh god Regan!" Tyler was beside her his hands shaking as he tried to figure out how to help. She winced but moved her head to look up as Connor and Brian both rushed over to her as well Olivia was last to join tears streaming down her cheeks as she looked over her friend. Regan gave a weak pitiful smile that was marred by blood rising up her throat and into her mouth.
"We…We can get someone—"
"That thing is marble probably weights a ton, you wanna ask those fucking things to help!?" Regan winced and reached out her right hand grabbing Tyler's hand.
"I pushed you dumb ass—"
"I could have gotten you—"
"Tyler." Connor was shushing him and for once Tyler understood and all three looked to their younger sister in solemn silence, Brain adding his hand to hers and Tyler's, finally Connor did as well swallowing hard as he tried to push back his own tears.
"Please take care of, each, other." Her breathing was becoming more and more labored as she felt her ribs cracking under the weight. She looked up at Olivia with a sad smiled.
"These guys, will protect, you, okay? And what ever you think happened today—" She was cut off as her body gave another horrid spasm of agony and her ribs finally broke.
"This isn't you're fault…" Her body was shutting down, her heart slowing her mind racing to figure out how to stop it's own demise. A part of Regan was terrified, but another was so calm she shut her eyes not wanting to look at her brothers as they wept over her.
Death was an interesting feeling to it; she felt so much peace for a moment as finally the pain all fell away. The weight of the marble pillar gone the world falling away with it. She was free, at least for a moment. Suddenly that peace was ripped away her soul? She guessed was seemingly snatched from it's path and suddenly she felt fear, this wasn't supposed to happen she was supposed to go to…a waiting room, a light any thing! No instead whatever had taken her pulled her through darkness, and heat boiling heat. She panicked struggling but to no avail, she was being dragged to hell she knew it, but no screams reached her. No shackles neither to wrap around her wrists nor cackling demons to pinch and gnaw on her flesh. No whatever this place was, it was hot, desperately so. But that was all she knew when a hushed voice whispered in her ear the words were old ancient, ones she couldn't even dream of speaking herself; and she knew no more.