Excerpt from Chapter
14 of the fan novel now available on Wattpad:
"Get
in!" Duncan snapped at Joe as he gunned the engine.
Joe
threw himself into the front seat, snagging the door with one hand. The T-bird roared across the parking
lot. Streaks of lightning streaked out
of the building, as if reaching for the two Immortals in the car. The wheels screeched, bumping on the curb as
Duncan missed the driveway entrance by ten feet and shot across the street, up
over the corner of the abandoned gas station and out into the next street. He spun the wheel, judging they were far
enough away now, turning the car to face the sagging hulk of the building.
Blue
and white lightning snapped along all the exposed metal beams. The few bits of whole glass shattered in a
white rain, arching out like the spray of a fountain. Hissing turned into roars. The whole building buzzed and snapped like a
mad scientist's laboratory.
Darcy
pulled herself forward, clutching the backs of the seats and peered out between
Joe and Duncan. Her mouth fell open and
her eyes widened and what little color she had regained fled.
Then
with one final boom that shook the ground and threatened to reach out to crack
the cement under the car, it was over.
"Daddy?"
Darcy whimpered in the sudden silence.
"How
soon do we know -- " Joe glanced
over the back of the seat at Darcy and swallowed hard, visibly unwilling to go
on.
"Until
we know who won?" Duncan nodded
toward the gaping mouth of the door.
"Josh'll know we'd wait, and he'll come out. Immerman will run and hide."
They
waited. Twenty minutes. Martha drove over and joined them and stared
when she saw Darcy's bloody shirt and realized what it meant. She climbed into the back seat of the car and
wrapped her arms around the girl and cried.
Darcy didn't cry, but stared with dry eyes at the door of the Allied
Glass Works.
When
twenty minutes passed, Duncan said nothing.
He put the car into gear, let Martha get out to drive Frank's car and
drove back to his loft.
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