"Tell me what the weirdest thing about you is?"
"Excuse me?"
"Its what I do." Tyler said. "I find out the oddest things from all the people I know."
Maddie looked at him curiously, then out the open car window behind him. She then flicked her attention back to her bare hands on her knees.
"Only if you tell me something in return. A question for a question, an answer for an answer."
"Fair enough."
"This has to be the first time in nine years I've spent a day without wearing gloves."
Tyler laughed. He reached his right arm over and picked up her delicate pale hand.
"You have nice hands." He said with a laugh. Maddie pulled away with a mock look of offense.
"Keep your eyes on the road and your hands on the wheel, smart-ass. Now your turn. Whats something weird about you?"
"Well, else than being able to use magic and stuff… I'm allergic to silver, if that's weird."
"Silver?"
"Yes ma'am."
"You sure you don't have any werewolf blood mixed in with the warlock?"
"I dunno, but if I do you better watch out, it's a full moon tonight." He then growled and snapped at her with his teeth. Maddie laughed and made a cross with two fingers. They both laughed.
"My turn, and I'm sure you've seen this one coming."
"Hmm you never know."
"What is it like?"
"Pardon?"
"Seeing people, well, die."
Maddie sighed, as if she knew this question was going to be asked at some point or another. She fiddled with a ring on her finger for a moment before turning to face Tyler.
"Its hard to explain."
"Can you try?"
"Its… weird. You can be anywhere, at anytime doing anything, but as soon as you – well, as soon as I touch anyone its like the whole world fades away for an instant, and then suddenly you snap back to reality and the moment is in your head. As if the death had already happened and you witnessed it, and this time you were just recalling a memory"
"A very detailed memory?"
"Pretty detailed. You read the file on Penn, right?"
"Yeah."
"Well that's a good example. If I witnessed another murder, for example, I would see it all happen, but the murderer would be a blur. But if I had previously met said murderer I would see that it was him. Or if I met the murderer later the memory would resurface with a face on the shadow that was the killer."
Tyler simply nodded and the two sat in the truck in silence while it rolled on the deserted streets. After five minutes of silence they left the suburbs and got onto the highway.
"You wanna see something cool?" He said with an unhealthy grin on his face.
"Depends."
"I'll take that as a yes."
Tyler slammed his foot on the accelerator, the truck lurching forward and then speeding up until it largely passed the speed limit.
"Tyler Sims, are you sane?" Maddie asked, a bit nervously.
"Not entirely." He said with a Reid-like grin. "But that doesn't matter now. Hold on tight."
At the speed the car was going Maddie could see the portion of the highway that was out and being rebuilt, a huge, gaping section of the road that was nothing but thin air. Tyler had known it was there all along.
"No fucking way." She said in a whisper. "Don't you dare." She said louder.
"Too late."
Tyler's eyes went pitch black, and with one last slam on the accelerator the truck burst through the yellow caution tape, knocked over the safety barriers and flew off the road, onto nothingness. Maddie let out a strangled cry as the weight of the road disappeared and the car glided effortlessly. Thirty seconds later it landed with a thump.
"You ok?" He asked, laughing, to Maddie, who seemed a bit shaken. He stopped the car on the side of the road when she didn't respond. "Hello… Maddie?"
She didn't say anything for a long time.
Then she started laughing hysterically.
"What the hell was that?" she had tears welling at the corners of her eyes from her laughter. "Don't. You. Dare. Do anything like that ever again! Ever!"
"You didn't like it?" Tyler said in a mockingly hurt voice. "But why are you laughing?"
Maddie choked and stopped laughing, giving him a particularly evil glare that lasted about a second before she smiled.
"How did you do that?" she asked.
"Magic." Tyler said with a grin, starting up the car.