Living in London

I should just tazer you right now

STILL LOUIS'S POV

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With loud thuds the walls rattled. I swear everything was moving in slow motion suddenly and I was sure I was going to die. I had no idea how far up we were and elevators dropping are very dangerous. I heard the chords squealing before a loud crack echoed around the elevator. Ariadne screamed as we plummeted. I dived at her, holding her tightly against me. For some reason I thought if we stated as small as possible in the corner of the elevator that we wouldn't die or be as badly injured. I felt a sharp pain shoot up my spin when we hit the ground and I held into Ari tighter, squeezing my eyes shut. Suddenly we stopped moving and I slowly blinked them open.

"Are you okay?" I asked Ari after a few moments of silence. She had her eyes squeezed shut and hadn't moved. Slowly, she took a deep breath and unclenched her fists, pushing me away from her. When we were falling I protectively shoved her between my body and the wall, so if pieces of the roof began falling for some reason, she wouldn't be hit.

"I think so," she said in response to my question. "This is why I hate elevators. The first time in six years I go in an elevator, it drops."

I raised an eyebrow at her, leaning against the wall next to her. "Why are you scared of elevators?"

"Have you seen Speed? And Devil?"

"Not Devil. Why?"

"These people are stuck in an elevator with a possessed person who keeps killing them off."

I turned to stare at her, trying to look how I think I would if I were to be possessed. She jumped up quickly and dropped down again against the wall opposite me. "Don't run away, Ari," I said in a slow, creepy voice.

"Touch me and I tazer you," she said, completely serious. I just grinned at her.

She stared warily at me for a few minutes before deciding that I wasn't possessed and coming to sit back next to me. I contemplated hissing at her but I didn't want to freak myself out.

"Me and Harry heard you singing the other day," I blurted out to break the silence. Ariadne gasped dramatically and leaned away from me.

"I should just tazer you right now!"

I eyed her bag warily. "You don't actually have a tazer in there, do you?"

She shook her head. "Nah, just pepper spray."

I gulped. Maybe telling her we heard her wasnt the best idea. "We didn't mean to- we weren't eavesdropping, I mean. We literally walked in the door and you started singing." She blushed, looking down and mumbling something incoherent.

"You're very good, you know. Why didn't you tell us you could sing like that? We could give Simon some demos," I suggested.

Her head snapped up so quickly that she must have gotten whiplash. "Don't even think about it." I raised my eyebrows at her but let it go.

"I'm going to see if we can get someone down her to get us out," I said. I stood up, arching my back to stretch it out a little. The ache was more in my neck and shoulders now, anyway. Under the level buttons was a tiny compartment door. I swung it open and pulled out the black curly-chord phone, pressing the button to call for assistance. Beep beep beep. I hung up and pressed it again. Beep beep beep.

You have to be kidding me. That is impossible!

"The lines dead," I told Ari, sitting down next to her. She turned to tape at me. I guess I'm not the only one who's getting a bit scared.

She fished around in her bag for a minute, pulling her arm out and producing her mobile. "I HAVE ONE BAR OF CONNECTION! Touch wood," she tacked on as an afterthought, tapping her fingertips on the wooden panel encasing the buttons. "So I don't jinx it," she explained when I looked confused.