Lick The Pavement
Chapter Seven: Brian Knight
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//Father's a name you haven't heard yet
You're just a child with a temper
Haven't you heard 'don't hit a lady'?
Kicking your ass would be a pleasure//
Never Again - Nickleback
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"Brian Knight, I'm arresting you in connection with the murder of your father. Come quietly and there will be no need for unnecessary violence."
Brian Knight had been living on the streets for seven days. He'd run away from home because he'd had no other choice after murdering his father. Not that the bastard hadn't deserved it.
His little brother was only young, he shouldn't have to put up with being beaten unmercilessly by the man who claimed to be his father. Things had only gotten worse after his dad had found out that Daniel was both gay and a mutant, both unforgivable offences in his eyes, despite the fact that the boy couldn't do anything about either of them... not that he would have wanted to if he could have done anyway.
His dad had been abusing his small family since Brian could remember, but recently had zeroed in on Daniel. Brian was usually able to deflect his dad's anger from Daniel to himself, as Daniel got the brunt of it anyway, but after the revelations his dad had been even more single-mindedly aggressive towards the young boy.
Things had gotten worse until one night, Brian had just had enough. His temper swelled, the lights dimmed as the electricity was drawn into ihm. his eyes went from blue to milky wihte as they glazed over with power, his hair, normally short and falling softly forward, rose intop the air and flickered to silver. He pulled his arm back and let a punch fly, for all the years that he and his mum and his younger brother had had to deal with his short-tempered father.
His dad was dead before he hit the ground.
Brian fell to the floor, his hair darkening back to its usual brown, his eyes clearing, holding a hand over his chest as it burned with pain.
His brother, eyes wide and tear filled, stared at the body of their father in shock, and his mother looked at her son with sad fear in her eyes.
Brian couldn't take it, and ran.
So there he was, stuck in an alley with the police advancing. Well fuck them if they thought he was going to be caught easily. They hadn't done anything to help his mother or his brother when his dad beat them, there was no way he was going to help them back now.
He absorbed electrical fields form every source he could find, from the neon lights of the shop fronts to the bio-electric signatures of them men in front of him. He ran forward and sent the energy through his hands to the men in front of him, felling them quickly.
He exited thealley to find two black vans, from which hordes of men clothed in a black uniform were advancing. He braced hmself, turned and lifted a car over his head, sending it flying at the thickest group of men. The vehicle crashed and crushed a lot of men beneath it. He turned to pick up a car on his other sidea as he was shot at. Luckily, his powers gave him some invulnerability against the tiny missiles, so he was able to launch the car again, this time at one of the black vans, which exploded.
Didn't these guys know to turn the ignition off?
Well too bad for them.
He was going to pick up another car, having swept some more men away from him with one arm, when he realised his feet weren't obeying him.
He raised a hand to his neck to feel a small dart protuding from his shoulder. Before he collapsed to the ground, his last thought was of his brother at home.
How would he deal with hearing his brother was in prison?
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Now I have to go watch Reservoir Dogs (yay, finally). I will be posting the next chapter ASAP, and then things should be moving along pretty fast. Yes, they will all be getting together soon.