Deadly

Logic Is Beyond Whats In Front Of You

            Calamity led Adrian out of her house, shutting the door behind her without locking it, no point in it if Lance was going to be home. Adrian watched her before looking up at the house itself. "I like your brother, he reminds me of my brother Vincent, well when he isn't being a complete jerk." Calamity rolls her eyes and starts down the driveway as Adrian follows her.

"Oh, you mean like you?" She eyes him as he puts his hands in his jacket pockets.

"No, he's a bit worse than me. If you think I am an asshole you should have met any of my other brothers." He pulls one hand and holds it up, lifting a finger from his fist for each name. "Vincent, Gil, or Luther. They are far worse, I'm pretty tame compared to them." Calamity rolled her eyes and looked away from him as they walked.

"Ya that's pretty hard to believe honestly. However, I won't be meeting them anyway." Adrian eyes her, putting his hand back in his pocket before looking at the road in front of them again.

"In your teacher like opinion, how did I do at a modern-day conversation?" Calamity eyes him, wondering if she should be honest.

"It still needs work; you don't flow with it like you should but if he asks about it, I can tell him you were on edge because he's my older brother." She looked away from him, fighting the memory of his smirk that was trying to rise in her head again.

"I can take that, though I still don't understand the slang now. Its always changing and when I think I've got it, it changes again." She couldn't fault him there, hell there were days she didn't even understand it herself or couldn't fully explain what half of it even really means.

"I can try where I can, a lot of its hard to explain. It is an improvement over what it has been, now your texting needs a lot of work." He turns his head to face her this time, allowing her to see the left side of his face versus just a wall of long black hair.

"You said it was like sending a letter, just quicker. I have sent a lot of letters in my time, so I know my letter format isn't incorrect." He tilted his head as Calamity sighed, running a hand through her hair again without looking at his face to long. "Also, what was your brother talking about over coffee?" This time she did look at him for longer than a few seconds.

"What? He says a lot you know." She swallowed down a rising lump as he stared at her.

"About what you read? You cut him off which was extremely rude." There it was again, that rising heat in her face, but she ripped her eyes away from him, focusing on the road.

"I read a lot of books; I have no idea what he was talking about." She paused at a crosswalk, looking both ways before stepping out in the street with Adrian a few paces behind her.

"I think that's a lie, because you are walking a lot faster now." She kept her eyes on her feet, desperately fighting the blush wanting to form. She made a mental note to completely destroy Lance later, mostly for embarrassing her and only partly for calling her out on her love for the brooding boy in black trope. She shook her head, smacking her cheeks a few times before jumping as she hears a car horn. She turned her head quickly as she noticed a grey jeep barreling towards her, she froze. She was in the crosswalk it should slow down but it didn't look like it was going to and her legs buckled as she just stared before shutting her eyes and bringing her arms up to her head like it was going to lessen the impact.

Before she could react, there was a huge rush of wind and she could feel her feet leave the ground but, there was no pain. She slowly opened her eyes when she felt herself stop moving, she looked up. Her eyes widened heavily; her body pushed up against Adrian's as he looked down at her. She was wrapped in his arms, his forearms laying against her waist for a moment before she looked around. They were on the other side of the street, the jeep gone.

That shouldn't be possible, he was several feet behind her and even if he had moved to grab her the jeep would have just hit them both. She reaches up and tries to shove him away, but just like when he grabbed her arm before he didn't budge. "Are you ok?" She meets his gaze again, his eyes back to that deep and intense bright red and practically glowing in their sockets. She pushes again, this time however he lets her go. She took several steps away from him, her breath choked in her throat as she stared at him trying to breathe. "That automobile would have hit you, you do process that right?" His tone was back to being flat and cold, which caused Calamity to bring her trembling hands up to her head and grip her hair.

"H-how was that even possible! We should be dead! Oh my God!" Adrian tilted his head again, not as obvious as before but it seemed to be a weird quirk he had when he grew confused.

"You would have been if you had just stood there like you had planned on doing." She looked up at him, her breathing still mostly out of control. When she could get a breath in, it was choked and felt like it was ripping through her lungs like knives. "I can't have you dying on me before you help me find Vivian."

"What did you even do?! How did you even-?!" She tried to take a breath in as Adrian approached her and grabbed her chin, though instead of his usual rough and tight grip this one was gentle. He tilted her head up, laying his other hand over the ones she was using to claw her head.

"Deep breath in, you need to get a good one in." She stared at him, still in shock but did as he said. It came easy and smooth this time, she took in as much as she could before he spoke again. "Hold," He waited for a few seconds, watching her face as she trembled against his hands. "Now out." She obeyed once more, her lungs slowly starting to relax. He let her go just as quickly as he had grabbed her, stepping back a decent amount of space.

"What did you do?" She motions to the street with her elbow, her fingers still in a death grip on her own hair.

"You mean thank you." She looked at him, the confusion on her face visible. "You mean thank you for me saving you." She swallowed and lowered her hands, trying to control their shaking.

"No, I mean what did you do in order to save me?" He narrows his eyes at her, or at least the one she could see.

"You should be grateful, I debated it for a second, but you would be no use to me flattened into the road. If you really have to know, I simply moved and acted. I am just a lot faster than you." He looked away from her, physically moving his head this time which allowed her to see behind the wall of hair just a little more than she had been able to earlier. "Honestly, you call me rude, but you can't even manage a simple 'thank you'." Calamity stared for a lingering moment before looking down at her feet, swallowing again and forcing herself to speak.

"T-thank you, I panicked." She didn't look up as he scoffed at her, it was extremely condescending.

"I noticed; you know you would have died if I hadn't been there but don't get used to me saving you." He turns to walk away, Calamity closing the gap between them and grabbing his jacket which causes him to turn and look at her. If a look alone could kill someone, it definitely would have done just that. His eyes looked like pools of bloody fire, and heavily intense which was a definite shift from how he looked at her on her doorstep just under an hour ago. She let go of the fabric, feeling herself almost sinking into her own skin at the look.

"I mean it, thank you." She watched him look away from her, starting to walk again.

"Let's go, before we are late because you held us up here." She watched him for a moment, why even bother helping her calm her breathing down so gently if he was just going to brush her off like she wasn't more than a dirt pile he had kicked. She turned and looked back at the crosswalk again, mentally replaying what just happened before turning back to look at Adrian. Whatever had just happened, she was mildly thankful and even more terrified. He moved to save her like it wasn't more than a simple jog but with how hard the wind hit her he had moved extremely fast. If the books she liked to read had taught her anything, moving that fast required power and a lot of it, and if he wasn't even flinching at doing it that made her question how strong he really was. He turned to face her, breaking her derailing thought process. "You coming or are you just going to stand there?"

"Right, sorry!" She jogged to close the distance between them, catching up before glancing at the street behind them again. She couldn't use her logic anymore, that was definitely not human.