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far cooler head than some of the other innocents she’d dealt with. Most of them would be passed out cold by now, especially at the sight of their own blood. She had really been impressed by the way he’d handled himself with that wolf. Most she had come across wouldn’t have even tried to fight back, not against such a grossly grotesque looking beast. It was like they knew they would be ripped to shreds and didn’t even try. Those who did fight back usually didn’t have the strength to hold them off.
    It was amazing that he hadn’t been bitten and she was grateful for that. He was way t oo beautiful of a man to turn into one of the ugly creatures. Had he turned, she would have had to smoke his ass. “This is not a joke and you have been in a car crash,” she answered both honestly and evasively.
    She was taken aback by the look he gave her. It was a look that said she was full of shit and they both knew it. “I haven’t been in a crash. My car was sitting still when one of those… those… whatever they are hit it, so I ask again. What the hell is going on?”
    She shrugged as she dug in the pocket inside her jacket. She found what she was looking for and then held it out to him.
    *
    Jerry looked at the devise she held out to him. He wasn’t a bomb expert but it looked like a detonator, complete with cheesy red button. There should have been a little sticker around it that said ‘push here to blow shit up.’ He looked at her and the number of grenades she had strapped to her chest. He then looked back out to the glowing eyes that were stepping out of the woods and taking shape in the darkness.
    “You may do the honors if you like mon cher.”
    He turned back to her and gave her his best ‘do I look stupid to you’ stare. “No thank you. I didn’t sign on for the death then forty virgin package deal. Some men go for that sort of thing but… I’m good.”
    She looked like she didn’t follow for a moment until he motioned at the grenades on her chest. She laughed then. It was a husky sultry laugh that whispered to his senses. “Honey. You get the strangest ideas about thangs. I aint gonna blow us up but I’ll have to remember that whole forty virgins line.”
    “T hen what-”
    B efore he could say another word she pressed the button. The entire clearing was suddenly filled with a blinding light. He closed his eyes but not before the light had filled his vision and all he could see was white. He felt searing pain as he clutched his eyes.
    “My eyes,” he cried out. He heard the creatures scream out from around the car and smelled that putrid smell of death as they fried. When the light finally dimmed he tried to open his eyes but to no avail.
    “I can’t see,” he screamed to the woman that had been in the car. There was only silence. He pushed past the pain and did his best to open his eyes. He managed a small slit only to find himself completely alone in the stark silence.
    “536,” the radio blared and he nearly jumped out of his skin. “This is 519 attempting to raise 536, respond.”
    He picked up the mike with a shaking hand. “This is 536.”
    “Your thirty minu tes is up. You better be here in the next ten seconds or-”
    Jerry stopped paying attention as he searched the floor board for her gun. It was gone. Even though he wasn’t steady on his feet he opened his car door and stumbled forward. He went to where her motorcycle had been parked when he’d pulled her over. There were so many crisscrossing tracks it was hard to say how many people had been dirt b iking back here in recent days.
    He found his gun and holstered it b ut that was pretty much all he found. There were a few piles of burnt ash here and there, but at worst it looked like any other area where teens would come to have bonfires, perhaps a hang out for the local drunks. People would laugh him all the way back to Durham if he told them…
    Suddenly his he ad was spinning. He sat down in the dirt and tried to right