Chapter 7: Shots in the street (Mardon) Part two
I could feel Mardon next to me, and when I looked up at him I saw that he was studying the device. He seemed unsure, but he turned around to face Patty.
I watched them face each other. Patty's gun raised and Mardon had removed his hands from his pockets. He placed them down at his side but didn't hold them up as in to surrender. Apparently he knew this was going to come down to a fight.
Watching her, I knew this wasn't right. She hadn't told him to get down or told him he was under arrest. This wasn't a cop about to bring in a prep. This was a young girl angry over the loss of her father, angry and face to face with his killer, with a loaded gun.
Patty took a few steps towards him, "You killed my father!"
I felt him tense beside me.
"Detective Spivot." I tried to get her attention. "Detective, what are you doing?"
Mardon for his part hadn't moved but there was a static in the air. The kind you feel doing a thunder storm. While there were no clouds above him, I had no doubt he was building something up to protect himself from her.
"Stay out of this Flash!" Her head swung towards me but her gun remained on Mardon. "You were just going to let him walk away! I saw you!" Her hands started shaking, "You're just as bad as he his."
"You all just think you can do whatever you want! And you hurt whoever gets in your way. Just like my father!" Her attention was back on Mardon.
So was mine, I could see the frost and ice forming in his hands.
"Patty! This is wrong you're a cop not a murder. If you do this, it's over! You career, your life, everything that you have built its done." I shouted. I had to be able to reason with her. There was no way tonight was ending with her killing someone.
"You think that matters, I become a cop to catch him!" She said shaking her gun at him.
"Exactly!" I shouted. "To catch him! Not kill him. Arrest him." The last part I could feel myself begging.
She looked like she was considering it. She even started to lower her gun. I could see Mardon's body relax. I hadn't realized how worried he had been. I kind of was surprised he hadn't just thrown some of those damn ice balls or wind at her and took off.
I don't know what changed but one second she was lower the gun and the next she had it back up. The second Mardon saw the gun both his hands had ice in them.
"Why should he get to live? When my dad is gone?" And she pulled the trigger. I scream and tried to move, but the boot trap Cisco made didn't budge.
Mardon throw up a small wall of ice with one hand, stopping the bullet. The other threw a ball at Patty. She tried to dodge but it hit her in the shoulder. I heard her grunt as she hit the ground but she just rolled and started shooting at Mardon again. She ducked behind her car, then she positioned herself near the trunk and was firing over it.
I had crouched down, trying to make myself as small as I could. Also I was trying desperately to unlock the damn boot. Over the comes I could hear I could hear Cisco swearing and trying to hack the boot, so that I could get out of the path of the fighting.
Mardon remained close to my side. He just throw up ice every time she shot at him. Finally there was a break in gun shots. Patty must have needed to reload.
Mardon brought both his hands in front of him and then he release a huge gust of wind. The force was so extreme that her car slide several feet.
"PATTY!" I shouted.
Mardon lowered his hands and started walking towards the car.
"MARDON!" I shouted, "Please don't kill her." I begged.
He nodded.
Suddenly there was a crack, a gunshot. Quickley followed by a couple more. Mardon brought up a funnel of wind, completely surrounding him. I guess Patty was okay.
I couldn't tell if her first bullet hit Mardon but the second tore right throw my trapped leg. I let out a scream as I felt the bullet enter.
"Fuck!" I screamed and closed my eyes. I was stuck into middle of a fight between a meta-human and a pissed off cop with a gun, and now I had a bullet in my leg that if I didn't get out soon my body would start healing around it and then Caitlin would have to cut it open and dig it out.
I took a couple deep breaths. I could still hear Patty's gun and I could make out things being tossed through the air by Mardon. But I could also hear sirens. Lots of them.
I opened my eyes. Patty's car was totaled and blown far down the street. There was no way she was still hiding behind it. She had stopped shooting again, so I couldn't pin point her position.
Mardon had brought down the force of his wind. I could see him through it but the air around him was still moving. He was looking around; it seemed he lost where Patty had gone.
I was tempted to shout at him to help me get out, but last time I shouted at him Patty almost hit him.
With all the sirens closing in, I started to panic. There was no way Patty was going to get out of this. She had tried to kill Mardon and it had been unjustified. There had to be some kind of camera on her car that recorded that. But the cops didn't know that, if they pulled in and saw a cop fight Weather Wizard they would assume it was in the right and go after him too.
And I was fucking trapped.
I could see Mardon was getting really uneasy, he couldn't see or hear Patty. There for he had no idea which side he had to protect himself from.
He kept his back mostly to me, I guess hoping if I saw her I would say something.
I wasn't sure what I would do. But right now I just wanted them both to stop trying to kill each other, and I wanted this bullet out of my leg.
I heard foot steps behind me, and that's all it took. I opened my mouth to warn Mardon. But a hand clamped down hard over my mouth.