Carolina Rose

Instincts (2)

Gloria Gaynor - I Will Survive (Lyrics)

Song of the chap!!

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Five Pov

"I got her!! Cha-cha, I got her!!" The male yelled, making my blood run cold.

Lina was caught? But how? Is she all right?! ...These two idiots must be a little bit more skilled than they seem. I concluded, thinking up of a way to save Lina.

"Good job, Hazel!! Now hold her still!! I'm coming over to you now!!" The female, named Cha-cha, hollered, trying to find her partner in the dark.

I hurriedly jumped to where I'd heard the male's voice and found Lina trapped under the man's very bulky frame. She took notice of me, gave me a friendly wave, and looked back over at the man on top of her.

"Mind if I stab you?" She asked, forming a Mumu (her force field knife) in her free hand.

"Whoa. Calm down. That's a knife," The male protested.

"I know, fatass. Now, you either move off of me or I will slit your throat and turn you into a cannonball."

Lina could use her force field to literally compact a human being into a cannonball-sized ball of meat. However, the target couldn't be in contact with any other human- unless the other human was dispensible. In this case, if she were to turn the man into the cannonball, then she'd end up turning herself into one, too.

"Please don't turn me into a cannonball. I don't want that. But I don't want to get stabbed eith-RAAAAAAAGH"

"Go take care of the woman, Love. I'll be fine here," Lina said, face pale from blood loss.

The machine gun roared to life once again as the woman started to shoot at me, giving me no choice but to do as Lina asked. Running through the narrow aisleways filled with clothes racks, I grabbed what was left of Delores (which wasn't much) and stuffed her into a bag. I could hear the male let out another piercing scream (Lina probably stabbed him again) as I drew the gunfire away from Lina.

"WHOAAAH"

CRASH

For a brief moment, I saw Lina's force field send the bulky male flying through the window, pushing him off of her. The woman instantly turned and moved towards where Lina was, her machine gun blasting the entire time.

"Five!! Five, I'm here. Come on." A quiet voice said, catching my attention.

"Lina!! You're all right."

"Shut up and let's go. The police are here."

And she was right. The sound of wailing sirens pierced through the air heavily laden with the smell of gunpowder. But the worst was yet to come.

My heart leapt into my throat as a bright light flashed into our eyes, the woman's gun facing us for a brief moment. Lina grabbed the bloody spade in my hand and threw it at the woman, hitting her smack on the face. We used that moment to hide behind the cashier, making her think that we'd spatial jumped out of the shop.

"Ah, damn it. They've jumped again." The woman grumbled, her footsteps fading as she walked away.

"Oh good God. They left- ow, ow, Five, love, my shoulder-" Lina muttered, breathing heavily and groaning as I pulled her into a tight hug.

"Thank God you're alive," I whispered, cupping her face with my hands.

"I'm glad that I'm alive too. How about you? Are you hurt?" She questioned, glancing over me for any wounds.

"No. I'm fine," I said, not bothering to tell her that a bullet had grazed my arm.

"Good, good. Did you get Delores?"

"Yeah. Well, I got what's left of her." I replied, taking deep breaths to get what little stamina I had back.

"At your earliest convenience, Love. We gotta get out of here before the police catch us."

The journey back to the Umbrella Academy was a short but tiring one. We had to stop multiple times due to Lina's wounds and heavy blood loss. She didn't have nearly enough energy or stamina to keep her wounds sealed using her force field, much less heal herself with it. It got better once I jumped us into an empty taxi.

"I shouldn't have let you come along- we should've listened to your instinct," I said, holding her hand tightly as we sat in the city taxi driving us back home.

"We just know that something bad will happen, not when or where or who it'll be connected to. They're not major injuries. I'll be fine." She said, even with a face as pale as a ghost.

As the building came into view, I jumped the two- I mean two and a half- of us into the lobby of the Academy. The second we stepped into the house, Lina was out like a light, collapsing almost instantly.

"Lina? Lina!! Wake up!! Don't die on me now!!" I yelled, pulling her into my arms and gently slapping her in order to try and keep her awake.

"Five? Is that you?" Allison called out from the top of the stairs.

"Oh my God, what happened to you? You look terrible!!" She said, hurrying down the stairs.

"Where's Mom?!" I asked.

"Is that blood? What happened to Ro-ro?! What the hell have you guys been doing?!"

"Some very intense sex, obviously. I bet that it's Five with the kinky issues." Luthor whispered to Allison, who made a suitably disgusted face.

"SHUT UP AND GET MOM"

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