"Helena Graves, did you finish that-" I pointed to my Lecturers desk and he looked down to see the fifty page essay he had me write, "Ah... I knew you'd finish it in a day..." he muses and I continued to sit in my desk as everyone stared at me angrily...
Please, if I wanted to be the teachers pet, I'd be baking him cookies and giving him apples.
"That's it for now, class-" I stood up and walked out of the lecture hall before I hurried out of the University building and towards the old hotel that I used as my head quarters.
Pushing my way through the crowd I suddenly find myself being dragged away from the crowd and into an alley way... I better not be in trouble again or I swear to - "Give us your money" please throw me off of a cliff... wait a minute...
"Monte!" I squealed and hugged the large giraffe of a man before I turned and stared at his assistant, "Carlos!" I hugged the other guy and squeezed Carlos tightly.
"Let me go now, Reaper"
"Just because my last name is Graves and I use to... stop calling me The Reaper" I glared at them.
"We can't stop Helena, because we all know everyone fears the Reaper" Carlos grins at me, "Since you are the one that got thirteen gangs into prison"
"What ever" I pushed Carlos away from me and rolled my eyes at him before I then turned and peeked out of the mouth of the alley, "Now why did you drag me in here?"
"We have word of Tobias asking for you"
I turned and raised my eye brow at the two idiots, "The Drug Lord? Interesting..." I stared at the dirty pavement for a second before I turned back around, "Tell the little birds to keep their ears out for me. I'll get them what they want if they do that for me" the two guys nodded and I walked out of the alley and back into the crowd.
Great, it seems I've just got a powerful Drug Lord on my ass for some kind of revenge.
Sighing I slowly pushed my way to the hotel to start my work there.
* * *
Walking down the street, the street lights turning it into day as the thinned crowd continued to push and shove their way to their destinations while I chewed on the tooth pick as I walked towards my apartment building.
But then my nose caught something.
Smoke...
I broke out into a sprint as the crowd move the opposite way I was running, I shoved people out of my way until I skidded to a stop at the sight of some random apartment building up in flames.
"MY BABY!" some woman screams and points at the building on fire... how cliche - no wait - there is some kid up there!
I dropped my bag onto the ground and spat the tooth pick out as I started to run for the fire escape, getting to the ladder I put my hands on it, only to wince and pull my hands away from it.
Quickly I pulled my jumper and long sleeved shirt off and wrapped them around my hands before I started to go up the ladder, knowing I've just did the stupidest thing in the entire history of stupidest things done by idiots I continued to run across the small platforms and climb up the ladders, and soon I heard the cries of a child.
Finding the window that was conveniently next to the fire escape latter I peered inside to see the flames climbing up the walls and to the roof, lifting up my foot I kicked and kicked the window until the glass finally cracked and then broke.
Reaching through the hole I opened the window and climbed inside, my clothes still on my hands.
I hit the carpet before I raised a jumper wrapped hand to my mouth and nose and squinted at the smoke before I started to hurry in my old converse towards the sound of the baby screaming.
Running into a room I saw a child in a play pen that was surrounded by flames. Hurrying over to the infant I jumped into the flames without a single care and picked the child up and wrapped myself around her before I hurried back out of her room.
Burning I looked down to see my jeans had been caught by the flames, quickly I put the infant in one hand and then slapped my leg until the flame went out.
"Okay, okay, shhh" I hurried over to the window and saw the firemen below, "YO! I HAVE A KID UP HERE!" I waved my hand out of the window before I moved the child to my hip and started to climb out of the window.
"Need some help" I looked up to see the guy from the other day staring at me with a smirk.
"Yeah, take the kid" I handed him the kid and he then holds his hand out for me to take, but my eyes twitched as I ignored the fact I was sweating up a swimming pool.
Distant cries...
"No, don't I'll-" I pulled back through the window and ran through the flames, ignoring the fact the flames chewed at my skin and making my senses flood with pain as well as make my stomach churn as I smelled my own flesh burn.
I ran at the front door and as soon as I came in contact with it I burst through the burned wood in shock. Skidding across the ground I started following the cries to another apartment where the door was wide open.
Hurrying in side I kept swatting at my body to put out the flames, and then my eyes met with the fire extinguisher. Grinning I yanked it off and then started spraying the foam shit everywhere.
And then I found where the cries were coming from...
"For fuck sakes" I stared at the kittens before I picked them up, "What kind of monster would leave a box of kittens in an apartment building that was on fire" I cooed before I turned and started spraying all around me.
And soon I got boxed in...
Groaning I leaned against the wall as I clutched the box to my chest and dropped the fire extinguisher, of course I just tried to be the hero in this situation...
Eyes watery and my throat burning I hit the ground as I stared at the flames, "He..." I squeezed my eyes shut as I held onto the box of wailing kittens. The smoke was too thick, it was suffocating...
Gasping for air I soon felt myself choke on the thick smoke, even with my hand over my nose and mouth, "...lp..."
"HELENA?!"
I curled into a ball, protecting the kittens from the flames and smoke.
"HELENA, ANSWER ME!"
It felt as if I was being cooked - like a chicken...
I would have giggled at myself, but I was cooking like a chicken at the moment so it's kind of hard to do so.
"HELENA!" I felt flames licked at me as I held in a cry of pain.
Suddenly it went extremely cold around me and I froze before something touched my skin and I stiffened, "Helena, why is it you that I seem to always find in a life threatening situation?"
My eyes opened slightly as I stared at the masked person in front of me.
"I've met you twice, don't pull that bullshit on me" I croaked as I heard him chuckle, everything was short lived of course.
Because soon there was a loud cracking sound and we both looked up, just in time to see the roof collapsing on top of us.
