Kasumi lowered her hands from her ears as the gunfire ceased.
"What the hell was that," the shorter of Kasumi's apparent captors exclaimed as the two struggled to get the door back into its frame.
"Shit, this isn't going to work," the other man cast around for anything close by that might bolster the door. "Find something we can use! I'll hold the door in case that thing comes sniffing around again." He spared a glance for the woman attempting to get to her feet. If he had to go by appearance alone, she wasn't just some vagrant that had decided to hole up in the place. "Hey, you work here?"
Kasumi nodded absently, her attention now only partly on the intruders. The two men had ceased to be the greatest threat, but since she didn't know what they intended, she could hardly dismiss their presence, not after they'd forced their way in. She'd have to wait until it was safer to see what their intentions truly were.
"Well, make yourself useful. Help me with this damn door."
For now, they were the lesser of two evils. That thing, hadn't been human, and it most certainly hadn't been friendly either. Kasumi had caught its stare, just for a moment when it rose up in the doorway, behind the men, and had been shaken right to the core of her being. Its eyes had been filled with powerful emotions. Hunger, rage, and strangest of all, promise. Of what, she couldn't say as the encounter had been only the barest of moments. The young nurse knew one thing for sure. She didn't want it to have another chance at her.
"The bookshelves. They're heavy enough, probably," Kasumi said, having decided. After all, the men wouldn't be able to do much of anything, if they were sufficiently occupied. "And, the backyard. If it comes around through the alley," Kasumi trailed off, recalling her earlier plan to escape out that way. She dismissed it almost immediately. There was no telling how safe it was outside. If there were more of those, things, it was doubtful that she'd get anywhere near downtown, let alone out of the neighborhood.
(Posted Tue, 02 Jan 2007 10:24)
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