Chapter Three
Previously:
Perdido there was lots of panicked cries for help as everyone realised help may not be coming.
Sienna Kings stood beside the growing crowd that watched the thick black smoke push through the entrance of the local fast food court, McDonalds had been there as long as she could remember. Her parents had once made a comment about it originally being a small family diner before the space was bought and then replaced with the larger modernised yellow arches. It appeared that McDonalds would soon be something that was no longer there though, just like the old diner before it. Internally she knew that when the adults returned those in charge of the fast food franchise would quickly have it replaced with a newer building. Sienna wasn't naive though, she'd known the second her advanced calculus teacher and all of her class had disappeared at once that something had changed in Perdido Beach. Other's had only seen maybe their teacher or a class mate across the room bounce out as some had called it already, Sienna though she'd seen an entire class vanish before her very eyes. She was intelligent but there wasn't anything she'd been taught or believed she'd be taught in the future that could ever explain how an entire classroom of people simply vanished from sight without even a sign of anything to cause it. The event. It was what she'd pegged it as the moment she'd left her class room to find younger students and even other's her own age with the same shocked even a little excited expression on each of their faces. From what she could tell 'The Event' had somehow caused all of those above the age of fourteen to disappear, the fact that no adults since had shown up either meant this was a wider scale event then she'd estimated or that somehow adults weren't able to get to the beach town of Perdido.
The disappearing of all those older than fourteen though wasn't important as Sienna watched young children running out of the McDonalds spluttering and coughing roughly for breath once out of the building. Without adults there wasn't any fireman, she thought to herself then. No doctors either so anyone that was burned or injured would be left without any form of help, the sickening feeling in her stomach churned as if she hadn't eaten. Police without policemen there was no law to keep those in line, no police to enforce the laws that kept everyone safe, Sienna internally hoped that it took those with more undisciplined mindsets to figure this out much later then she had. Sienna shook her head again her mind wondering away from what was in front of her, they needed to stop the fire that was the first thing they somehow needed to make sure no one was inside. Who would willingly walk into a building that was evidently on fire though, even as she thought it she knew she'd never offer what help would she even be anyway if she were to go inside. She was a thinker by no means someone who took physical action and did it, even her parents had said people like herself grew up to be in the background planning everything for other people to do. It had felt like an insult to her when they'd said it but they'd tried to sooth her by also adding how those in the background normally earned the most money.
"It's getting worse" Colette Grayson said standing up beside Sienna, Colette was probably one of the palest children in Perdido with her snow white skin complexion and the scattering of freckles over most of her body her hair in a knotted bun at the back of her hair.
Sienna knew Colette well enough they lived only a few houses away from each other she was a grade younger so because of the close age they often got shoved together the few times both sets of parents were busy. Sienna couldn't say she had any stand out friends she was friendly sure with everyone, being well mannered and polite didn't take away anything so she'd never had a problem with playing nice.
"Well somebody call us a fire engine then" Kale laughed behind the two girls his hand limply holding the hand of his small sister while his other hand held the rolled cigarette but Sienna had to admit it smelt odd, she knew the smell of smoke but whatever Kale was inhaling wasn't your normal store bought cigarette. Cannabis she thought her dad had almost kicked her older brother out for smoking it once, her dad had found a large green bong under his bed it had been the biggest argument she'd heard when it came to her perfect older siblings. Yes Sienna didn't know much about things like that but she was almost one hundred percent sure that Kale was smoking cannabis. "Oh wait that's right no adults" he shook his head while his little sister Jacey held his hand looking embarrassed to be around him, it spoke a lot about Kale's character that even his seven year old sister was embarrassed by his demeanor and attitude to others.
"There's no need to be nasty to her" Sienna said even a little shocked herself that she'd spoken out to Kale, her mom and dad had warned her that she was to avoid the Mason family. That they were bad news, she remembered only last semester how Kale had been taunting Lee another boy in his grade. It had been the first physical fight she'd ever been and it had disturbed her and oddly enough thrilled her at the same time, there had been snarled words exchanged then pushing. Even though the boys seemed evenly sized when standing against each other she hadn't been shocked when Lee had decided to forgo pushing and punched Kale in the face. Teacher's had rushed to separate the two but Sienna had been positive had no one moved in to stop the two it would have continued, Kale looked like the sort not to give up even when he should and she doubted Lee would have minded having to beat some sense into his sometimes friend.
"Well I'd hardly call that nasty. It's not like I called you casper was it" Kale directed to Colette smirking as his sister pulled her hand free from his grasp and shoved at his hip
"Knock it off" she hissed her cheeks bright pink, Kale seemed to take his younger sister's words seriously though as he raised his hands in a sign of surrender to Jacey. Sienna stored that information away, get Kale to do something make sure Jacey was helping not that she'd ever require Kale's help for anything in her eyes was just that stoner kid that spent too much time talking about what girls had lowered their inhibitions and standards to even allow him near them.
"We need to put it out and as he" Sienna pointed over her shoulder to Kale as she spoke to Colette "pointed out there isn't any fire engines coming with adults to put it out" Sienna tapped her fingertip against her bottom lip while she tried to think of a way to put out the fire before it burned the entire building down the fact that she couldn't see flames yet meant it hadn't grown out of control yet. Sienna looked around the plaza seeing just how many children were around some actually paying attention to the black smoke swirling out of the McDonalds while other's messed around as if nothing was happening. It was then she caught the hardware store in her sight the car partly showing out of the crumpled in wall. "We need people to get hoses from the hardware store and set them up to put them out" Sienna this time turned to Kale "Could you please get some of the other boys from your grade to help you set up hoses if the fire spreads it'll burn down the whole town" Sienna saw the moment that Kale was going to laugh her off and refuse but oddly he nodded his head and turned to gather helpers to take care of the task. Jacey Mason looked up at Sienna with an odd look on her face, Sienna didn't comment turning her gaze back to the McDonalds. Her concentration on the building was only changed when she saw a girl her own age pushing through the small crowd that was surrounding the McDonalds panic and fear on her face.
"Where's my brother. Kyle" she yelled looking at the entrance that was open but all that could be seen was thick black smoke as it poured out and reached high up into the sky "Kyle" she screamed as a friend Sienna guessed held the girl back from rushing in. Yes Sienna hoped that Kale was quick enough to get people to help him get hoses because she believed that the bad situation had just gotten much worse.
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No one had come. The sense of abandonment had never truly set within Riley even with the large work schedule her parents kept that left her so alone during her day to day life. Riley had always known though that come morning she'd see them both at least at the breakfast table, some days rushed other's relaxed. They were always there though her mother cooking her oatmeal while her dad nursed his black coffee while holding his iPad in his hand looking through emails. Every morning at the same time she felt as if she was any normal teenager with normal parents, they'd kiss her cheek before leaving and then she'd be alone for twenty minutes before walking to school. Sometimes she'd be fine with it but other days it got to her and she'd leave early just to be around friends because the loneliness did bother her. All the times she'd told her mom she didn't mind and that she was a big girl it was all lies to herself and to them because she hadn't ever been. She felt alone. Nothing though had prepared her for the stark realisation that there was no one as she sat beside her unconscious badly broken dance partner and friend. Like Riley had always done in the past once realising it was left to her she moved slowly from her side of the car. The highway was scattered with cars some in collisions like her own some had veered off the highway completely while others were just perfectly fine. There was no one not only had the driver of the car that had hit them was empty all of them were, the adults were gone.
"No time" she whispered between her dry lips running her tongue over them and tasting the salty sweat on her upper lip mixed with the rusted tang of dried blood "need to get James to help need something" she spoke to herself to try and ease herself, Riley knew a little about injuries and patching them up but broken bone wasn't something she'd ever dealt with other then watching on television.
So Riley slowly limped using the side of her mother's car to move around to the backseat and opening the boot, it was one of the larger cars that's back seats flipped down to make more space in the back. She'd always wished her mom drove one of those flashy sports cars like other doctors did but right now she was thankful her mother was smart to see benefits in it.
"Not these sorts of benefits though" Riley grunted to herself throwing her and James' bag from the boot and then climbed up gripping hold of the handle behind James side and shook it. It was stiff but she used all her strength even shrieking out in a growl as the muscles over her thin arms tensed. The loud clang and then thud made her flinch back as the seat flattened back with a jerk and James was left laying flat now but he whimpered painfully "I'm so sorry James" Riley said wiping her eyes her voice soft and attempted to be soothing even though it sounded tired and older then her actual age.
Riley took the time to check over James again but either he was unwilling to open his eyes or the pain was bad enough to render him completely out cold. She was thankful though for the time to check on him if only to let herself gain her breath because her ribs were most definitely damaged and each step was becoming harder. She couldn't carry James he wasn't the biggest boy in their grade not by a lot but he was too heavy for Riley to carry. She moved her hair into a ponytail as to not have it in her face the blood had stopped trickling now but it covered a lot of the side of her forehead and cheek. Riley didn't know what she was looking for now but she knew that when she found it she'd know, her mind drifted to how her mom had vanished but the second she tried to think about it too much she banished it away to thoughts of James in the car. She didn't want to think what would become of that leg if he didn't see a doctor she wasn't even sure if there wasn't internal damage for all she knew he was dying as she set on a mission for something she didn't even know she was searching for.
"One time I could really use having a doctor around and nothing" Riley huffed sarcastically her arm slightly wrapped around her midsection as if to relieve some of the strain that continued to irritate her injuries. Nothing compared to James though she reminded herself internally like a mantra to keep moving forward.
Riley followed the lines of abandoned cars there wasn't as many as she'd have believed but understood that it was that time of the day where adults were working and kids were in school. The first car Riley had checked had been bare of anything useful but there had been a bottle of water in the cup holder beside the driver's seat. Riley hadn't even thought about saving some when she'd unscrewed the top and guzzled down the still cold water. It had hit the spot perfectly wetting her dry lips and sore throat, only once she'd held the bottle tilted up and felt the drop of each water that dripped from the bottle rim did she think about how it would have been a better idea to save some of the water for later or even for when James came around. Riley discarded the empty bottle and then continued on her search, it didn't matter though as every car she checked seemed to be locked or with her unable to find anything that could help her move James safely. She knew in a way she should just drive with him away get him into a car and drive but she honestly had no idea how to get a car moving and then to keep control of one once it was moving. Knowing her luck she'd just end up crashing into a wall and then neither James nor she would be able to get help before it was too late, Riley was close to turning around and heading back to her mother's crashed car when she'd seen something that caught her eye. Behind an old beaten pickup trick it had an additional trailer it was barely big enough to be considered useful but in it sat three bikes.
"That'll work just put James in the thing and pull him back to town someone will help us there" she huffed out a heavy breath before moving a little more quickly than her stumbled pace had allowed before now finally set on a concrete idea to work towards.
With what felt to her like her last ounce of strength and will she heaved the bikes slowly out of the cart discarding them to the road with little to no care. The last bike Riley didn't even have the energy to lift it over the sides of the carts walls and pushed it out and watched as it clanged and bounced when it hit the tarmac road. Riley squeezed her slender body between the small gap of the back of the truck and the cart trying to jimmy the metal screw lock out of place. By the colouring and stiffness of the metal Riley knew that it had been some time since the lock had been removed. She braced her foot, thankful she'd decided to wear her sneakers instead of her dance shoes in the car and kicked in an attempt to free up the metal screw clip. She kicked once then again and then her screaming rage came out as she kicked at the metal clip until her toes were hurting, she was so angry at everything and everyone. Mostly she was angry at her mother, if her mother had been here nothing would be wrong she was a doctor she'd be able to fix up James call Riley's dad and everything would be better. That wasn't an option though so she kept kicking even when her leg was tired and her tears started running down her already tear stained cheeks she kept at it, giving up wasn't an option not when it could mean James surviving.
"Come on you stupid ass car" Riley yelled at the cart and then kicked the bonnet of the truck and watched as the clip snapped the old rusted clip finally gave way under the constant pressure of being jolted. Riley paused for all but a second looking at it not believing the dumb stupid luck of it all and then laughed. She laughed so hard that it hurt her ribs but she didn't care, Riley laughed through her tears even when her chest jerked with the sobs that somehow continued she laughed. She'd lost her mind she'd decided then as she giggled calming her hysterics only slightly.
Riley then tried to maneuver the cart away pushing up the metal clip now and pulling out the extender and trying to pull it behind her but quickly realised it wouldn't move smoothly enough or as easily as it could. She'd have to push. So Riley pushed hunched over gripping the wooden wall of the cart and pushed it much smoother over the flat highway road back towards her mother's car. It took more energy and was uncomfortable for her in her already injured state but she couldn't be selfish right now, even if she and James weren't extremely close he was one of the few constant people around in her life. She knew had they been in the opposite situation and she was in the car broken and in need of emergency help he would have done anything to help, probably without the crazed crying and laughing too. Once at her car her fear rose at just how pale James had become since her time away his eyes were open now though but glazed, she'd thought he was dead but the rise and fall of his chest let her know it wasn't that bad. He didn't respond when he saw her as if in a pain induced trance, he simply mumbled and whimpered up at the roof of the car, she was glad it wasn't her in his position then she'd take having to lug around carts and painful ribs over his condition any day.
"I just need to move you now James this is most likely going to hurt just if you can help me out a little okay" Riley spoke to him to receive no sign of any recognition, she pulled the latches up from the one side of the cart and lowered it so it was level with the boot of the car.
She moved into the back of the car then and gripped her arms under James arms wrapping her arms tightly over his chest and latching her fingers together. He was sweating profusely and covered in blood, she grunted from exhaustion as she was forced to heave his weight back wincing at his loud scream of pain as his legs started to be pulled along with him. He made no understandable sound other then crying out his hands clawing to reach for the leg tears falling down his open eyes but he didn't look at her or anywhere just continued to cry out. It made the job harder for Riley wishing she could stop and not have to force him through to suffer but she'd done so much to get to this point to actually get him help. Riley didn't even flinch away from James as a patch grew in his pant leg she knew he was wetting himself and had this happened before this moment she most probably would have been repulsed by it and avoided him, she couldn't imagine what he must be going through though. His cries stopped when his head lulled back and he fell more into her hold, he'd passed out again. Now that his legs weren't partly hidden by the chair she could finally see them and it made her stomach want to revolt against her as his almost black legs swollen and bruised beyond recognition. She'd been wrong when she'd guessed he'd broken just his shin from what she would see both of them were badly broken if she had to put any guess she'd say muscle tearing as well as shattered bones.
"Oh god there's supposed to be help" she cried softly as she pulled James the rest of the way into the cart refusing to stop until he was completely moved into the cart. She reached over and firmly secured the metal locks to hold up the cart wall and then reached into the discarded bags and grabbed out her towels and covered them. She didn't want James to see them when he finally came around properly, that's if his body could even handle the pain he was in while being conscious and aware of everything.
Riley then turned the cart around heavier now with the added weight of James, she stood her back arched over as she gripped tightly around the cart wall again. She couldn't be sure on how far her home was, she could see though maybe over two miles from where she was Perdido Beach and if it wasn't easy enough to find there was a large pillow of black smoke reaching into the sky like a marker for her. Riley huffed out sweat dripping over her upper lip and then continued to push, she'd get them both to Perdido and then someone else could take over the caring because there had to be someone who could lessen James pain. When she got home she'd shower, she'd sit on the floor of the shower and let herself really cry and then she'd allow herself to think about what had happened and who in the world her mother had vanished from the driver's seat, why there was no adults to help.
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Lee had decided to leave his bike in the shop before they'd exited together they'd made plans even put a lot of the candy in boxes that had been left empty in the office at the back of the store. They'd made a plan to go ahead with and that in itself had given Lee and Cameron something to focus on should the time come when this evening the adults didn't return. Neither had openly admitted it but they'd both voiced it with that look when they'd spoken about where to stash the candy, it was a look that screamed "they aren't showing up" "nothing is going to go back to normal" and the most frightening of looks "there isn't anyone to tell us what we can't do" maybe it was immature but it was on both of their minds. A world where they went by what they wanted, Lee had to admit it didn't have the same fun aspect to it without Louise around what was the point of no adult supervision if Louise wasn't around for him to hook up with.
"Dude it's totally aliens" Cameron had snorted as they'd exited out of the back of the shop locking up the door and walking out of the alley exit it was trash day and it seemed this part of town still hadn't had its trash collected off the street.
"Yeah because ET is all about the stealing adults" Lee waved him off as they moved out into the open street heading towards the plaza, Lee shoved Cameron away from him the two trying to joke while in the worrying situation they'd found themselves in now.
"Could you imagine all that anal probing..." Cameron stopped his eyes widening and then looking up as Lee turned his gaze from his friends shocked face towards the direction he was looking in. Lee understood the shock though as black smoke rose up into the sky and for a second he thought maybe Aliens was too far a stretch to explain what had happened. "Holy crap fire" Cameron said as Lee's cheeks flushed with embarrassment for even internally thinking that it could be anything other than the obvious, he could even smell it now that he thought about it the smell of something burning. Cameron then started running in the direction of the smoke that seemed to be just on the other side of these buildings in the town plaza.
"We can't catch a break" Lee growled through gritted teeth running after to catch up with Cameron and find out what had happened, there wasn't any adults though so Lee knew there wasn't much he could personally do. There wasn't much anything kids could do when it came to a fire, in fire safety they never actually told anyone who to put a fire out unless you were on the one on fire "Stop. Drop and Roll" Lee mumbled to himself as he moved up to Cameron and they both broke into the town plaza together.
Lee had never seen this many people in the plaza even during the Christmas time that was fast approaching he'd never seen this many people as they seem bundled together in different areas. Where the larger mass of bodies were was near the McDonalds, the restaurant wasn't like the usual McDonalds that he'd seen in other towns or cities. It didn't have the open feel with space around all sides for parking there wasn't lots of windows around this McDonalds it had the front of the show made up of completely glass with the two main entrance doors and the golden arches over head with the name. It certainly had the McDonalds theme that was a given there was no drive through though due to the lack of space and other shops around it on a glance this McDonalds could have been any normal shop in the plaza. Right now though it wasn't bright and welcoming like it normally appeared the bright yellow arches looked almost daunting with the smoke pouring out of the open doors, you couldn't even see into the windows of the front of the shop because of the smoke it clung to it like tar. Cameron tugged on Lee's arm nodding his head as Kale ran past them with a garden hose wrapped around his shoulder others with the same equipment it seemed some had already decided a plan of action which was impressive.
"When you become a trained fire fighter?" Cameron yelled to Kale still even as he seemed to be doing something useful and helpful he looked bored and indifferent cigarette sitting over his ear waiting to be used it wouldn't surprise Lee if he used the burning fire light it before smoking.
"I figured I spend so much time smoking up my bedroom what's hard about a little fire in McDonalds. Anyway I save this place and maybe I get free big Mac's for life" Kale shrugged and then continued on his way other's following behind, Lee didn't point out that those hoses were useless until they found somewhere to hook them up to a water system.
"Let's go find out what happened" Lee said nodding towards the McDonalds and then the both were moving through the kids watching, he hated how the littler kids were crying and asking for their mommy's and daddy's it made him feel sick "God I hope Samantha is okay" he whispered to himself remembering the little girl that he'd told to go back inside and wait for her mother.
Lee moved to where a small group of people were there was a girl crying pitifully into her hands as friends tried to hold her back from going towards the fire. There was some kids that had the smoke smell lingering over them, one small girl maybe five was coughing roughly and wiping roughly at her red eyes. Lee fixed his eyes though on a girl with orange hair it looked how he'd expect the flames inside were probably burning she was standing beside a smaller girl with messy blonde hair that was bunched up at the back of her head. Lee didn't know them but he'd seen the girl with orange hair before but he didn't seem to have a name that stuck out for her, the two were talking to a boy whose face actually had black soot over his cheeks. Lee moved over to the girls as they seemed to be questioning the boy, he was curious though because this girl didn't seem to have any reason to be here but she was asking the boy questions she could see as she bunched her hands together in front of her urging him to continue.
"It was like blue sparks" he wheezed out coughing again slapping his chest and taking another large gulp of water "it leapt from the microwave into an empty socket and it just went boom" he even spread out his fingers and arms to show the way it had exploded then "It was like on his hands" that had caught Lee though, as he moved closer and looked down at the boy Cameron moving up beside him but his attention was fixed on the smoke "his hand was jerking it was blue I..." he sighed slumping down onto the curb then and the smaller girl with blonde hair reached over and patted his shoulder soothingly while the other girl fixed her eyes on Lee as if he'd interrupted.
It didn't matter though because what he'd heard it had been enough to know that he needed to go inside, it didn't matter how dangerous it was he needed to see it for himself. "Is there people still in there?" Lee asked but didn't look to the girl waiting for him to speak to her he only addressed the boy as he nodded
"Your Lee right I'm Sienna and I really think we should just stay calm" she said to him oddly giving him a weird look as he shook his head not really listening to her, he needed to go in it wasn't even about being a hero it was about more than that. It was about proving to himself, proving that today hadn't been the start.
"Yeah sorry but I don't have time for introduction Sienna" Lee turned then as he moved towards the McDonalds ignoring the yells from Sienna telling him that he needed to cover his face it didn't matter though as he moved into the entrance and was encased in the dark smoke that made it almost impossible to see and his eyes literally itch.
"Are you crazy" Cameron's muffled voice yelled once hand holding the neck of his shirt over his nose and mouth while the other hand took a firm hold of Lee's forearm trying to tug him back out of the building.
Lee ignored it though as he saw what looked like a body on the floor just ahead it was too hard to see so he lowered his body crawling along the floor towards the shape. When Lee finally made it to the body it was a girl her face was completely black and she was out cold, warned words filled his memories about how it was the smoke that killed you first. Lee lifted the girl and then turned to Cameron and shoved her into his arms firmly and pointed to the door keeping his own shirt to covering his mouth now. Cameron looked to want to argue with him but with one glance down to the girl in his arms he span and ran out of the entrance, Lee nodded then and moved deeper into the McDonald's the signs over head warn him of the approaching counter.
"Help" Lee heard the barely there croaked cry "make it stop" the voice pleaded and so Lee kept moving forward his eyes hurt so badly as if all the moisture was gone they'd dried out and now just blinking against the smoke made him want to cry out in pain. The smell burnt the hair in his nose and he felt like each little gasp of air was becoming his last, he ran his free hand over and along the counter finding his way around the back into the kitchen area he could feel the heat then.
The fire clung to the walls it was nowhere near the large tubs of fat where the fires were burning and even the large grill tops where burgers would have sizzled were clear. The fire was to the left of the kitchen and it was crawling up the wall and roofing and then spread out over the metal table tops. That wasn't what caught his attention though that was the boy in the corner standing near to the microwave as if frozen in horror, his small hands were alight though in the dark with the crackle of flames. His hands glowed but not outright as if a current was running around his hands following around his fingers and then jumping off his hands slightly. Lee watched as it seemed to jump at anything it could, watched as the spark left his thumb and ran up and along the metal table counter and zinged over lighting the table and all its contents. As Lee rounded the corner he felt the hairs on his arms stick up from the static, even though he looked at the boy shocked it wasn't from seeing something like this it was from seeing something like this again.
He wasn't the only one.
It had happened so long ago now that he'd pushed it out of his mind almost, he'd been in the backyard shed working on his wood shop project. He'd not been paying enough attention as he listened to fall out boy over the sound system in the corner, he'd closed his eyes and hammered along to the beat while singing and then he'd smashed the hammer down onto his thumb. It had cracked the nail on his thumb and there had been a steady flow of blood, the second he'd pulled his hand back though his other hand had pointed out palm facing the work-top table and a bright white hot flash and appeared and then it was gone all that was left was a gooey mess of burning metal and smoking charred wood. Lee had never told anyone, he'd told himself he was simply sniffing the paint in the shed and he'd hallucinated it he'd barley even seen what had happened he'd just remember a bright flash and the remains.
He knew now though as the younger boy stood still unaware he was being watched that he wasn't alone, Lee had the power and so did this boy Perdido Beach had been coming to a big change long before today he realised completely without hesitation. Lee stumbled over something as he came around the metal counter the boy looking up at him startled and scared. Lee hadn't even had time to speak before the boy raised his hand and the blue spark hit Lee in his arm, he yelped out and watched as his left arm jerked without any control from him it was exactly how he'd thought a stun gun would feel. The intensely painful sensation travelled along his arm and down his side where it hit making Lee crash into the burning counter top he felt the sizzle of his skin burn against it but where his palms lay flat nothing at all. Lee turned to the boy again his own right hand coming up now without even thinking about doing it both stood fearful and ready, Lee didn't want to but his body it was like it was protecting himself a new instinct he'd never had before was controlling him, removing the danger.
"No don't" Lee yelled as the boy fired the odd blue spark.
It never reached though him though not before Lee was releasing his own power like a white liquid it shot in a straight line towards the boy, the aim was off but Lee watched in horror. It was like liquid fire anything it touched it hissed and melted he realised then what the meaning of white hot had always meant as the wall behind burnt through with the contact of the beam. The spark hit Lee knocking him off his feet as he jerked on the ground as if he was having a seizure, the boy had gotten him good but Lee knew it didn't matter. No matter why he'd come in here it hadn't been for what had happened as he watched the boy collapse with a wet thud his face pointed towards Lee. He could feel the vomit rise up from his stomach and empty onto the floor over himself as he continued to shack while being sick. The boy had caught some of Lee's power across his face and it had melted the skin on contact and that melted skin and further burned over his neck and into the shirt he wore. Lee didn't move as he sobbed in pain and disgust, he gasped for breath finally remembering that he needed to get out but he didn't want to. He was a killer, he hadn't meant to though he didn't want to hurt the boy he'd been relieved to find someone like him he wasn't alone in it but when he'd turned that stun gun spark on him Lee had returned it in kind with something so much more lethal and destroying. Lee panted in the darkness then his eyes burning from smoke his skin burnt from the counter, vomit on the neck of his shirt. He couldn't breathe all he could focus on was the boy across the kitchen floor who was already dead and as the air grew impossibly thick Lee knew that may be his fate too...
There you go another chapter I'm not sure if I'll be able to update everyday like I've been doing but I'll try my best to keep the chapter's coming frequently. Like before I'd really just like to thank those of you who are reading and have reviewed what I've written it's always great hearing what people think. Also a special thank you to MyCrazyBeautifulLife, The Lady Cloudy, ShadowDude90, Stalking dream and DeathAngel80 all of your character's have been really fun to write with and I hope your enjoying reading how I bring them to life in this story so far. Well there you have it anyway, anyone coming to this a little late I'm still taking character's the sheet is in the AN at the bottom of chapter one.