X marks the spot

Absolution

A car window smashed. The person who had done it definitely felt it on his skin, but he didn't care. He, for all intents of purposes, ignored the pain that was there. He just kept going.

Just as he had been taught.

He was quick the wires, shaking his hand when a spark occurred. He tried a few more times, more sparks, more sparks. More ignoring that pain as he tried again, and again, and again.

Finally, the car came to life, and the radio spurred to life; Tainted Love blasting through it.

Like the pain, the driver mainly ignored this, and just put the car into gear, undid the handbrake, and slammed his foot down...

As he took off, a woman barged out of the front door, gun in her hand and hand holding a child's hand. She was breathing heavily, sweating so much that it may as well be bullets. She had dodged so many after all.

Thankfully, there had been no one trying to stop her on her way out with her children. Whatever her associate was doing, it had drawn them away from her and her children. That was enough for her. That was enough...

She pulled her children down the steps, a line of people that would never be ok without extensive therapy again. That, and the mother was unsure on how the children would view her. Was she a monster? She saw how her daughter hesitated...how she paused. How she didn't want to take the hand, the comfort that the mother hoped to give, to offer.

Sarah shook her head, she was getting too much into her own head. She had to keep moving, Aaron would be onto her now. She knew that. Once things with Decon would be done, maybe she'd be next.

She had fallen for people's anger before, fallen into the trap of allowing it.

She wasn't doing that again...

Aaron's car skidded around the corner, slamming into a post, turned out those things were stronger than games gave them credit for. The car's back bounced off it, leaving a dent. The wheel seemed to stall...

Aaron kept going, three wheels were better than none.

He saw the car that had evaded him up ahead, seeing it turn left. So, as he continued on his way, he took a wider swing this time.

His car swung around the corner, this time cleaner. Not entirely clean, with the steering, but it as enough to make it around.

Aaron knew he could try shoot out, but that would only waste bullets he wasn't sure he had anymore. So, he just put the foot down further, as far as it would go. The car was screaming at this point, be that out of enjoyment or protest he didn't know.

He wasn't a car guy, he was more of...well, you know.

The song had swapped, Somebody to love was now going through the speakers as he continued flying down this street. For a man who owned an - as it seemed - an army, Decon sure loved the empty streets...how they were empty for New York, Aaron didn't know.

He also, didn't care.

"Where are going, mommy?" The son asked. Sarah almost jumped at his question. It had been silence the whole ride. Sarah had, once again, been in her mind, going only on auto pilot. She had a hand to her head, mind running as quick as it ever had. She was running through everything, places to go to, people she knew who could get her out of here in one piece.

Unfortunately, right now, that all came back to the organisation she had just exposed herself to. So...fuck.

She then realised her child was still awaiting an answer. She looked in the mirror, seeing his eyes meet her's in the reflection.