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“Is he dead?” he asked, trying not to panic, though it was getting up there, his thoughts racing, his heart pounding. He should have done something. He should have been better, faster, more efficient. “No,” the Host replied, “he went upstairs and then he left. Life signs increased towards dangerous levels and then vanished. There is something wrong with the system.” “Shit, yeah, okay,” Sebastian scratched the back of his neck, trying to think, trying to make sense of that. Something was very wrong. He needed answers. “What’s that thing growing outside of the building? That organ looking thing?” The Host tilted his head the other way, “I am afraid I d not understand your meaning.” Sebastian sighed. This was all getting a bit too weird. Weirder even than it had been in Union. “Okay, can you direct me to the Police Station.” At that the Host seemed to brighten up a bit. “I can give proper directions to Mobius operatives and visitors alike! Simply go down the road to your left for four blocks, until you hit Abbey St. and then turn right, going until you hit Karlson Park. Then you’ll hit a few residential streets so you’ll want to go left again on Baker. You get back on Abbey and then turn right on Erin.” Sebastian tried to memorize it but then the realization struck him. He knew those names. Of course that was where Joseph was. Abbey was his wife, his ex-wife anyway, and Erin was his daughter. She’d been a little bit younger than Lily. He hadn’t seen them for years, even before they’d both been pulled into STEM. Abbey had left him, fallen in love with another man, and moved back up to Canada, taking Erin with her. Joseph had been devastated but he’d kept it close to his chest, he always did.
“Grab onto my hand!” a voice ordered and the he could see the hand, like an angel’s hand, bright gold and glowing, like there was fire just under the skin. He had no choice. “I will make you strong again, just grab onto me!” He did. He reached out. The skin felt like fire and it consumed him as he was dragged out, the flames spreading down his torn shirt sleeve, setting his nerves off and then extinguishing them. Smoke filled his lungs when he tried to cry out, the burning taking away his breath. But beyond that, sinking through the agony of being burned alive, as the large shape of glowing death, like the sun in human form, dragged him away, was the feeling of his skull cracking open. It felt like a jagged break and then there was something inside of it being shoved forward, upwards and out through his empty socket. It smoldered into being, long lines brushing over his nose and forehead, down his cheek and throat. It was marking him. And then he could see. He wasn’t being dragged by an angel, he was being dragged by a man, who was slight and hunched over and dressed well but had been for far too long. His shirt was untucked and stained with sweat and his waistcoat was undone. His sleeves were rolled up and there was a mass of scar tissue down each of them, thin and white and bright through the smear of blood. The world spun and Stefano found himself thrown over the man’s shoulder, and they were running, moving faster than Stefano had ever expected, faster than Sebastian could run, that was certain and he’d taken up jogging recently. The man was saying something, but Stefano couldn’t hear him, not with how his head still felt like it was splitting.
More promo for my old fic, A Detective in Junction! Gods there were some cool ideas in here.
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