Disclaimer. As per Chapter One. If you recognise it……etc.
Chapter Two.
A Save In Time.
Audrey's eyes widened as the pain from the bite registered in her inebriated brain. She felt as though her life was fading as the streetlight she could see was getting dimmer and dimmer. Her eye lids began to flutter closed and her eyes rolled up in their sockets. She was slipping away…….
Suddenly there was a "Hey. You!" Somewhere in the distance, or that's what it seemed like to Audrey. Her senses were dulled, her brain barely functioning.
There was a sharp tug as Harvey was jerked roughly away. Someone had arrived to help. She staggered backwards, not having any support and no-one to hold her up. Hitting the wall behind her she slid down it to a seating position, her hand went to her neck and came away to reveal a copious quantity of blood on it. Adrenaline kicked in as she began to panic. She clamped her hand back over the wound and tried to get up. No good, her legs felt like lead. Her eyes focussed on where Harvey had gone and she gasped as she saw him fly through the air into the side of a dumpster. The metal buckled under the impact and Harvey, unfazed, launched himself forward onto his attacker.
Her jaw dropped as she saw her saviour. A brunette dressed in leather pants, biker boots and a red leather jacket. What was more amazing was that as Harvey jumped at her she hit him, hard, stopping him in his tracks. The momentum from her punch took her round in a circle, and as she came around the wooden stake she held in her other hand pierced Harvey's chest, right over his heart.
Audrey's addled brain couldn't believe what happened next. Harvey exploded in a cloud of dust. She watched it momentarily hang there in the form of the man he had been, then it simply drifted away on the breeze. Gone.
The brunette didn't waste any time. She was completely undaunted by what had happened, as though it was expected, as though she'd done it thousands of times before. Second nature to her. Before the form had even dissipated, she was by Audrey's side examining the wound and tearing open a dressing pack she'd pulled from he pocket.
"Hold this on the bite! Apply pressure!" She shouted.
Audrey's eyes rolled again and the brunette slapped her sharply, but not hard. Just enough to keep her awake.
"C'mon. Stay with me!" She said. "Fight it! You can do this! This is nothin'! C'mon. What's your name. C'mon talk to me!"
"Audrey." She whispered. "Audrey Raines."
"Okay. Audrey. I'm Faith. I'm gonna get some help. Stay with me here!"
"Okay."
Faith pulled out her cell phone and hit the speed dial. She bellowed some instructions into the mouthpiece, the location, ambulance required, and backup required for a sweep of the area.
She snapped the phone shut and gave Audrey her full attention.
"Five minutes Audrey you gotta hang on for five minutes. Keep the pad on, I'm gonna pick you up, get you outta this alley."
Audrey was vaguely aware of strong arms lifting her into a carrying position and Faith simply walked to the end of the alley with her. One or two passers by had stopped to see what the commotion was, Faith ignored them and rested Audrey against the wall in a standing position. She started to slip as her legs gave slightly and Faith held her upright. A black man who had been keeping the crowd back came running over and assisted her. Audrey looked at him. The last thing she thought of before it all went black was.
"What's the President doing here?"
End of Chapter Two.
Yes short one, I know. More soon…Very Soon…….