gotham l.p.

45 Pieces

Gotham City, City Streets
Tuesday Dec 29 10:00 p.m.

Caroline

I was still following the car now as we crossed the rusty city bridge. He wasn't driving like himself, he sped so fast his tires created enough friction to make sparks on the road, he swerved in and out, it was almost like he was purposely avoiding me and I felt like the kid trying to catch up in a crowded school hallway.

At the end of the bridge the traffic was bumper to bumper. I looked everywhere now, but I couldn't see the black car. I could have sworn he was just to my left before, now that spot was replaced with a bus. I felt so crammed between the cars, but I didn't dare crack a window, I would only suck pollution into my lungs.

I told myself soon I'd be off the bridge. Soon. Soon. Soo....

Crash. I screamed, swerving to the left, I felt other car's exteriors on mine. There was beeping and yelling and I was so stressed and lost, he did it on purpose. That jerk hit me on purpose.

I was never in this situation before and I didn't know what to do. The front of my car was smoking and parts of street were in flames. My window was shattered and glass remained all around me.

"Shoot! Shoot shoot shoot! Oh god." I said looking at my wrists, blood trickled from my elbows to my fingertips. The fragments of glass pierced my legs and some clung to my black leather skirt that I changed into when I was waiting for Liam to leave.

Liam. Where was he? Why would he hide something from me? What was he doing right now?

"Hey!" I heard a rough voice from outside my car, I prayed he wasn't going to yell at me for swerving, I really had no other choice.

"Are you okay?" He stuck his face through my shattered window.

I referred to the shards of glass on my lap by looking down, he cursed under his breath and started to take something out of his bag. It was filled with some strange items I couldn't make out, but he was holding the bag away from me so I couldn't see. "Here. Put this.. somewhere it will help." He handed me a white tee shirt to stop the bleeding.

"Thank you." I said. "Who are you?" I asked looking at him in the dark, his eyes were crystal blue and his hair was a messy soft brown. He was really cute, but all I could think of was Liam.

"I'm Louis, I've kind of been ordered to save you."

"Oh? You don't look like that hot superhero I always see on the news."

"You fancy him? The bloke has a mask on you can't even see his face!"

"Still hot." I laughed, it was then that I realized his accent.

"You know Liam, don't you." I said.

"We gotta get outta here." He said, looking left and right hurriedly.

"Where are we going?"

"Can you run?" He asked, I responded with "uuuhhh," but looking down at my lap I saw something amazingly unbelieveable. The pieces of glass were sitting on top of my skirt, no longer piercing my skin. My blood was gone. I smiled to myself and said, "Faster than you!" I said, hopping carefully out of the car with help of Louis's arm.

"Follow me okay?" He said and I did, we took several twists and turns through the maze of cars the drivers honking and sticking their angry faces out the window, trying to figure out what was the hold up.

When we reached the end of the bridge I stopped short. "Oh my god. Louis oh my god."

"You feel that too?" He said, holding out his arms to keep balance. "Bloody 'ell. Someone's controlling the bridges."

"What do we do? Oh my god." I said, the bridge was raising more every second, I thought I was gonna have a panic attack or faint. Drivers and passengers screamed and yelled as they were tipped backwards like going up on a rollercoaster.

"You need to trust me Caroline." He said, looking in my eyes. Both of us were breathing heavily. It reminded me of the time that superhero saved me from the unknown building, he said I needed to trust him...

"Please tell me we're not jumping." I said.

"We have to go NOW." He said. "One, two.."

"Louis no!" I said but by then I already felt his tight grip on my wrist and the rushing air moving at the speed of sound.