Abhaya Mehta boarded the Metro at 8:22 pm on a Tuesday night. She entered with her wonderful, amazing boyfriend, Paulie, chatting idly with him about this or that. They were both under pressure from currently eloping because her parents didn't approve of him or 'people like him,' but she tried to keep her spirits up. She was always on the positive side.
Now, it was 12:58 am, and Abhaya was standing in a subway tunnel with her boyfriend and five other strangers and the devil himself towering over them and she was about to be impaled by a part of the smiling Lucifer's writhing tongue. She squinted her eyes but did not close them because she found, out of fear, they would not close.
It was 12:59 am and Abhaya watched as someone got in between her and the projectile, getting struck through the gut then falling to the ground.
Seconds later she realized that her savior had been Paulie.
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