The Great Fall


The Great Fall
Phase One
Infection




Chapter One
DAY ZERO


Jamie closed his eyes, and drew deeply on his cigarette.  He was going to quit the fucking things. Sure he was. Just not right now, not after the text he had received yesterday.
Smoking was frowned on at the school, and Jamie had been reduced to walking to the edge of a lane. It was lined with bins, and smelt of fetid decay. He had to constantly keep on the move to avoid the dirty rainwater that ran from the gulley’s overhead.
He had fucked up again.  At least, this time, it was edging more towards work related, rather than relationship central. Most of the time in Jamie's life, one fed the other, but he doubted Maria would get wind of this one. God, he wanted a drink.
       "So, this is where you've been hiding."
Jamie turned, and was reunited with the source of his latest mishap.
Susan Mitchell was a pretty girl. Her hair was immaculate, crisp brown and tinged with blond. Her skin had an unnatural tan of a sun bed, but in the flesh, and between his fingertips, it was supreme.
Jamie found himself squirming. He had been avoiding her- badly, it seemed.
       "Hey Susan," he offered.
He felt so awkward, and the words spilled out before he could stop himself. "I'm sorry I left early this morning. It's just... em... things are complicated for me right now."
He knew that sounded lame but, to his surprise, Susan laughed and cheerfully squeezed him on the arm. "I can't believe we have to have this talk, Jamie."
He shook his head, confused.
       "Jamie, you're a nice guy but, seriously, I can do better than you."
He didn't know whether to be relieved or offended, but Susan was like that. He figured he had only heard half of what she had said at the work party last night. He had processed half again but, in truth, it was a bit of a blur. Jamie got drunk and got laid- same old story. Except the reality was now in front of him. Susan had got laid, not he.
       "So, we're cool?"
       "Of course," said Susan. "I know you have a girlfriend Jamie."
His eyes widened. "No, we're separated," he said, before realising how dumb that sounded. "You know, broken up."
It seemed Susan finally took pity on him, and changed the subject. "A little birdie told me you got an extension."
       "Oh yeah I'm here until the summer."
Things felt stiff between them, and Jamie knew it was his fault. It wasn't what had happened, it wasn't even the driving hangover he was suffering. No, he was tense today.
       "What have you got on?" asked Susan suddenly. Maybe she was a little awkward after all.
Jamie checked his watch. "I've got the little horrors for French. I better..."
Their eyes met one last time, and for a moment Jamie felt that flash of attraction once more, but Susan was already drawing away from him, iPhone in hand. He found his gaze lingering on her for a moment, after she turned away.
Afterwards he was glad for that fleeting look. Jamie never saw Susan Mitchell again.
****
Alban's was a private, and exclusive, school. Jamie was under no illusions that his contract extension was a bit of luck, but nothing more. Come the summer, he would be out the door. In this city, it was about the people you knew, and the schools you had attended.
In truth he couldn't complain. It was good money and after the message Maria had sent, he would need all the cash he could get. After six weeks of blanking him, Maria had blown his life apart.
Despite himself, Jamie felt a glimmer of hope as he walked to class. Susan had been a blip. He could turn his life around. He knew it. Life worked in mysterious ways. Didn't U2 have a song like that?
Jamie shrugged as the school loomed into view. This place really was a handy number, he mused.
Alban's was in one of the good parts of the city centre, and Jamie could only guess at the real estate value of the building alone. In this city, property did not rise up into skyscrapers; instead they spread out over the land like a tide. Location was money.
This school was old world. Take the windows. They were constructed of great chunks of oak as old as the stone itself.  A hundred years before, bullets had slammed through the glass, and against the walls, as freedom fighters rebelled against an occupying army. At break time he could still see those bullet holes that scarred the outer walls. Technically, that big old stone was a national monument. Money couldn't buy that prestige.
Those same oak framed windows stared down at him now. No new fancy doubling glazing here- this school had class. This school had history, and often as not, it was freezing in winter.
It was a nice suburb. There were trees on the pavements, and the cars parked along the streets were all new, or at least mostly so. It was the kind of place where foreign embassies dotted the neighbourhood. Sure, some of the side streets were a bit frisky, but, all in all, it was a nice place to work.
As he seated himself behind his desk, Jamie found himself once more thinking of Maria. He really had fucked up. This weekend he was going down the coast to try and decipher the bombshell she had dropped on him.
Around him, the sound of teenage murmurings grew ever louder
       "Quieten down kids," he called out to the classroom.                                   
Friday afternoons were double French. He liked the language; there was something old and romantic about how it sounded. The 'je ne sais quoi' or 'quel âge avez-vous?' rolled off his tongue like honey. Except today, his heart was not in it.
       "For the first period I want you to finish the exercise we began on Tuesday," Jamie said in his best formal voice. "After the break we'll run through your answers."
       "Yes Mister Coleman," one of the girls replied.
****
It began to rain outside, and the drops pattered against the window. Little balls of water exploded against the glass, and rippled down its frame.  Most of the class were girls, with only a handful of boys. It seemed German was more popular with the boys in this year.
Jamie began to draw into himself, his thoughts once more turning to Maria. What the hell was he going-
Bang
The sound reverberated through the old classroom. This particular room overlooked a busy thoroughfare. Normally the dull sound of motors, a constant companion, went unnoticed.
Bang Bang
The students ignored him, and raced to the windows as one, a swirling mass of teenage nosiness. Despite his irritation at this show of insolence, Jamie still followed them, and glanced out the window.
What greeted him was completely unexpected. Below them, a scene of incomprehension unfolded before his widening eyes. A car had overturned in the middle of the thoroughfare, smashing into a clutch of trees that separated the two passing roads. Flames licked from inside its metallic hull. Three other cars had slammed into each other, trying to avoid the mayhem. People on the street were running around aimlessly, as if they did not know what to do.
Out of nowhere, a girl behind him screamed suddenly, and backed away from the group. Jamie turned around and, horrified, his eyes dropped to her knees. Below her skirt, blood swam down her bare calves. His mind rolled, nonplussed. Is Amy having her period?
Then he saw two blood red teardrops roll down her pale cheeks. Jamie watched dumbstruck as Amy, a once pretty and petite girl, turned and bit Annette Gurdling, an overweight exchange student, on the hand.
Outside was forgotten, even as more grinding wrenching sounds reached his ears.
He watched in horror, as the girl fell backwards over her bag in slow motion, and clipped the back of her head against the cusp of the white board. He heard a distinct crack as drips of blood splashed against the virgin surface of the board. New screams filled the air, and this sound was suddenly everywhere, not just in the classroom, but also in the streets outside, in the rooms above and below him.
Jamie stood like a mannequin, rooted to the spot, until suddenly he felt a jarring pain run up his arm.
Jeremy Stone, an effeminate blond boy, who Jamie suspected had a crush on him, drove his teeth into his arm, and began ripping his head from side to side as if trying to tear the flesh free.
Without hesitating, and never have done anything remotely like this before, Jamie drove his fist into Jeremy’s face. His left arm shuddered but it worked, and he pulled his arm free.
Jeremy wasn’t a pretty boy any more. Jamie had mashed his nose bad, but the look on the boy's face drained all the heat from his body.  He was a mask of blood, and his piercing eyes blazed with rage. Jamie hit him again, and the boy stumbled backwards.
Before Jamie could do anything else, he was slammed in the back, and fell past the prone body of the exchange student. He landed roughly on his knees, and felt them burn with the friction. From the corner of his eye, Jamie could see Amy and two other students kneeling over the prone girl. In that moment he knew they were not helping her, he thought maybe they were-
Another girl tried to bite into his leg, as he lay half in and out of the doorway. Jamie didn’t think she had pierced his flesh, but by now he didn’t care. He slammed his foot into her feral face. He tried to rise, but someone hit him as they ran up the hallway. He couldn’t tell if they were attacking him or simply trying to escape as he was, but the effect was the same. Jamie was jerked sideways into the wall. He tried to stand up, but his legs had no strength in them, and he felt physically sick.
Jamie groggily got to his feet, but he found himself tottering on the edge of the stairs, bright stars blinking in his eyes. The screams all around him grew louder and louder. In the classroom some of the school kids were on their knees, coughing up rivers of blood. The whole room was awash with sticky crimson.
Someone or something made for him, but it didn’t matter now. His balance was gone, and he slipped backwards down the stairway. For a moment he was falling, but then he heard a loud crash, felt a jerk of pain, and after that, nothing.
Jamie lay with blood and gunk oozing from between his lips, and as suddenly as this nightmare started, it consumed him.
****
Jamie's eyes shot open.
Screaming still filled the air, louder than ever. This was no nightmare. It was real, it was happening. The worst part was that Jamie was totally lucid, even if he was surely suffering some form of shock.
He knew he was disorientated. The young teacher couldn't seem to concentrate. He had worked here for months, yet he couldn't locate any form of escape.
Jamie tried to rise, but a pain shot up his shoulder. He felt his body, but couldn’t tell if his collarbone was broken or not. Suddenly, he heard footsteps on the stairs above, and that got him moving. He slipped his dead arm between two buttons of his shirt, and tried to run down the corridor.
Behind the glass of the classroom doors, Jamie saw nothing but madness: blood and screams, children killing children. They were tearing each other apart. He tried to block it out, and made for the dim fading light of a wet Friday afternoon.
Jamie found himself in a daze, inadvertently ignoring any and all cries for help; there were many. A blond boy reached for him from the darkness. Looking closely he saw his white shirt was torn to shreds, and it looked like he was trying to hold his own stomach in. He rounded a corner, and one of the staff stumbled by gurgling blood. There was a hole in his neck as big as a fist.
Jamie doubled over and vomited. Stars danced in his eyes, and he thought he might pass out again, but suddenly a milky white hand reached from under the stairs, and grasped his ankle. The young teacher shuddered, and made to kick into the murk.
       "Help... help me," a boy whispered.
It took a moment for the words to register, but Jamie finally came to his senses. In one swift move, he used his good arm to pull the kid from under a body that had pinned him down.
He wasn't a boy that Jamie recognised. He looked down at his khaki white trousers, and saw the boy had pissed his pants. Strangely, Jamie was embarrassed for him.
       "We have to get the fuck out of here," he said to the boy.

The front door of the building was like any normal door onto the street, a fortified wooden monstrosity. Through a dim memory, or more likely luck, they reached it. There was a body lying in front of the door, impeding their exit. Above them on stairs some creature noticed the noise, and howled a guttural craven scream that loosened Jamie’s bowels. Had he not been clockwork in his bodily functions, he would have soiled himself.
Everything happened in slow motion, as he dragged the unconscious or dead body away from the door. Jamie had never heard the phrase dead weight before, but he understood it perfectly now. It might as well have been a bag of coal impeding their escape. Yet there was strength in him then, far beyond what his damaged body should have been able to achieve. He dragged the body backwards, as if it were a feather.
The creature that followed them, a former caretaker, reached the bottom of the stairs as Jamie flung the door to the street open. Jamie pushed the boy in front of him.  He didn’t wait, but bounded down the concrete steps to street level. The primeval urge to protect his open back was strong, and he swung to try and defend himself, but they were no longer the objects of attention of that beast. Their pursuer was on its knees, ripping and tearing at the prone body they had left defenceless. There was no doubt that the former caretaker, this thing, was feasting on the flesh of his victim.
They turned and ran away.
****
The street lay in tatters.
Could a whole city scream? When the Nazis had blitzed a city, like on those old history channel reels Jamie watched, is this what it was like? Hell on earth, Judgement Day?
I can't survive out here, Jamie thought to himself.  He knew it. He guessed even the scared boy could tell that.
The rain pounded down on them, but they found themselves marooned on the corner of the street.
The boy was bleeding- definitely from his arm, maybe from his leg too. He was like a small wounded rat, all visages of affluence stripped from him. He was probably fourteen or fifteen, and wore his brown hair semi-long like all the trendy kids did. The boy's eyes were wide, and his nostrils flared like a wild horse.
Around them people were literally being torn apart.
There were maybe a hundred people on the street. Those infected with this strange madness were already in the ascendency, and Jamie knew they would be dead in moments if they stayed here. Fires had broken out everywhere, and Jamie could hear explosions in the distance. The noise carried across the city like the peal of artillery fire.
His eyes glanced down the lane. He had been smoking with Susan there, less than an hour ago. Gripping the boy by the shoulder, he pointed towards it. Together they sprinted down the small side street that ran parallel to the school.
This lane had a reputation. Last semester, a fifth form girl had been mugged here, and pushbikes were constantly stolen. Thieves walked this narrow alley with little vials of acid, ready to pour into the locks of rich kids mountain bikes. Jamie would have laughed at the absurdity of it all, had he not been on the verge of nervous collapse.
There was a dumpster in the alley, the mouldiest smelliest thing Jamie had ever seen, let alone smelled.
       "We need time," he gasped, and the boy nodded dumbly. He was in shock, Jamie finally realised.
I have to give myself time to breath, he thought, before I can even try to think.
They managed to squeeze into the refuse bin, and in seconds, both survivors were covered in filth. The boy's body began to shake uncontrollably, and he threw up then, loud loud retching sounds that seemed to echo down the alley. Soon after that, pounding footsteps ran down the path, as if hunting or searching for something. Jamie squeezed as tight as he could into the darkness, and grasped the whimpering boy to him. After what felt like forever, those footsteps grew distant.
****
The boy was hyperventilating in the wet claustrophobic darkness. Jamie patted his face as if he were a blind man, using his fingertips as a means to see. The boy's smooth face was already covered in dirt and snot.
       "Son. Are you okay?"
       "I think so."
       "What's your name?"
       "It's Danny, Mister Coleman."
The boy knew him, thought the older man, relieved. "Call me Jamie."
       "Are they gone, Mister Coleman?"
Fucked if I know, thought Jamie hopelessly. "I don't know Danny."
It was terrible in this murky darkness. He felt himself shaking as the adrenaline faded from his body. Jamie realised that they were surrounded by the risk of infection.
       "Danny, why are you bleeding?"
       "One of those things bit me."
The boy sounded terrified, and Jamie didn't blame him.
As quietly as he could, Jamie slid off his shoe and removed his sock. Opening the dumpster a little allowed dim light into the murk. He gently pulled the boy's shirtsleeve back and saw where Danny had been bit. It was a dinger. The kid would need stitches, but for now Jamie had to bind the loose flesh with his quickly bloodstained sock.
He felt his own shoulder, and found he could move it pretty freely despite his dead arm. He was pretty sure he had dislocated his shoulder. Somewhere along the line, it had popped itself back into the socket. It hurt like hell but at least nothing was broken.
       "Mister Coleman?"
       "Call me Jamie. School time is over."
       "What are we going to do?"
There it was. The words put a chill into his heart.  Jamie realised that they were less than a few hundred meters from the school. Huddled in the dark, he tried his best to think.
He knew he couldn't get home. He lived on the other side of the river, and he doubted public transport was going to be running any time soon.
       "My house is about two miles from here," said Danny.
Two miles, maybe twenty minutes if they ran. Jamie didn't answer immediately but instead he lifted the lid of the dumpster, and scanned the sky. Raindrops continued to fall like liquid bullets, and for the first time Jamie wondered if that’s where the madness came from, contained in those tiny droplets.
       "Maybe we should wait Danny," he said finally. "See if the police or army... or someone comes."
       "I don't feel so great, Mister Coleman."
Infection. The word entered his mind before he could stop himself. Jamie thought of Maria then, what would she say if she read his mind right now.
       "Jesus Danny, stop calling me that. I'm twenty-six years old. I'm not an old man."
       "Okay."
Jamie cursed himself. He knew he wasn't helping the situation. "We'll wait," he said finally. "Someone... someone in authority will come."
****
No one came.
The two survivors sat shivering in the cold wet dumpster, and began to comprehend the impossible. They barely spoke, but Jamie finally accepted that help was not coming.
       "We can't be seen if we move," said Jamie. "We'd be easy picking for those things. At least you knew this area well."
Danny moved, stretching in his arms.  "We could use the side streets most of the way," he said softly. "At least until we reach the canals."
Jamie peered out of the dumpster. "What the fuck is happening, Danny?"
The boy didn't reply. Jamie closed the lid, and lay back in the refuge. He got used to the smell after awhile, it was like he didn't even notice it anymore. It felt like forever waiting for night to come, but in truth it was probably only an hour and a half at most. The days were very short now, and the cold night drew in.
Normally the city would be alive now, the sound of rush hour traffic echoing through the city-centre. There were still sounds, but mostly they were horrific things they heard. Between the roar of distant gunfire and explosions, an eerie howling descended on the city, and the metropolis began to quieten down for lengthening periods of time.
Jamie was absolutely freezing when he fearfully emerged from the filth of the dumpster. Crouching down, he looked left and right but the alley was empty.
       "C'mon,' he whispered. Danny slipped down beside him. The boy looked like a sewer rat, his face blackened by refuge and dirt.
They made for a pathetic pair, as they shivered in the cool evening air.
They soon found any idea of getting to Danny's house in twenty minutes was a pointless estimation. A fizzing sound filled the air, and like a switch being flicked, the power went down. They stood in the darkness, and a primeval fear rose in Jamie.
       "Jesus," he whispered.
Danny pulled him down suddenly. "There's something up there."
Jamie could feel his heart thumping. "I see it."
       "Mister Coleman... Jamie. You won't leave me will you?"
The older man thought of Maria. "I swear Danny, I won't leave you."

They began their journey by moving down the back streets, crouching in the shadows. As they moved through the darkness, they began to see others like them. On one street Jamie stared across at another night dweller, a woman who moved in the murk as quietly as they did. They were less than ten feet apart, and Jamie silently acknowledged her, before they moved on in separate directions.
The Infected were everywhere, and worse of all, a lot of them seemed to be trapped inside buildings. It was almost like they lacked the basic skill to open a simple doorknob or turn a lock. Their silhouettes stood silently, as if frozen in time.
The little Jamie saw of them told him they were mindless things. Aggressive and blinded by the lack of light, they milled about aimlessly, snarling at each other like rabid dogs.
Danny was wet and freezing, and Jamie beginning to suspect he might faint. The boy kept close to him, as if seeking physical contact where possible.
Despite the fear, Jamie was irrationally hungry yet he knew they dare not rush. Not for the first time he began to wonder where the police or the army were. An acidic fog had begun to descend despite the rain, and he knew then that the city was burning. Though they heard sirens, they emanated from apartment blocks with an internal source of power. No help was coming. They were on their own.
There were fewer screams now, only the eerie shrill of the Infected that signalled their threat long before they saw them. These infected things moved in small groups, but from a distance they still seemed aimless, staring mindlessly into the black sky.
When they reached the canal, they hesitated. There were Infected on the bridge that forded it. Jamie turned to his young companion.
       "We'll have to go in the water."
       "I can swim."
       "Do you know how deep it is?" he asked Danny, but the boy shook his head.
       "Are we close to your house?"
The boy pointed into the night. "It's just over there."
Jamie went into the water without hesitation, and a soft splashing sound told him that Danny had followed him. The water sucked the life from him, and his balls retreated almost inside of him. The canal was not wide, but it turned out to be deep, yet he still managed to paddle across, even with his weakened arm. When Jamie reached the banks, the rats stared at him from the long grass. He was in such a sorry state perhaps the rodents thought him one of their own. Jamie felt Danny's arm touch his shoulder.
He dragged himself onto the road, and keeping low, the two survivors crossed the street. In front of them an old Methodist Church stood as it always had, silent and dark. They cut through its grounds, and before long the two survivors stood in a nice landscaped garden. The street was so silent; Jamie doubted it had ever been that quiet before. Every house was as black as a mausoleum, with no light or sound of life emanating from behind those walls and windows. Jamie felt his skin creep, clammy and fevered.
       "This is my house," said Danny softly, before his eyes rolled back in his head and he fainted.
****
       "Danny... Danny..."
The boy's eyes opened groggily, and Jamie sighed with relief. "Are you okay?"
       "I'm sorry... I was thirsty," said Danny.
Jamie nodded, and crouched down beside him. The boy seemed a little dazed and incoherent. Jamie's eyes were drawn to the house.
The front door was smashed to pieces. It had broken into shards like the wine glasses he sometimes dropped on the tiled floor of his kitchen. There was no sound, no light, no sign of life, just an open jarred door that looked like a wound. Jamie stood there transfixed, unsure of what to do.
In the distance they heard one of those things howl, and that brought reality back.             "Anything could see us here," said Jamie, "we have to get off this street."
The sound seemed to carry strangely in this eerie night. Those things could be closer than he dared imagine.
       "We have to hide," he said to Danny. "Do you want me to..."
The boy shook his head, and squeezed Jamie's hand. The former teacher could see how scared his new friend was.
Slowly Jamie stepped into the darkness of the house, his every muscle taut. He could feel Danny cling to his good arm like a little boy
       "Mom," Danny whispered.
His voice sounded childish and scared. It was as high pitched as a girl, despite the fact his voice had surely broken.
Jamie could understand. His own windpipe felt so tight he could barely suck oxygen into his lungs. There was no reply, so they stepped further into the darkness that had once been Danny's home.
The house had been trashed. In the hallway, furniture lay overturned. The ballisters on the stairs were cracked, as if a weight had fallen against them. As quietly as they could, they slipped into the kitchen. The damage was widespread here too. It was if the house had been looted, cupboard doors hung ajar, cutlery was strewn across the floor, smashed glasses and cups dotted the hard tile floor. Something caught Jamie's eye, a dull glint of a meat knife. He bent down and scooped it up, feeling a little better now he had some form of defence. Jamie suspected it would be little use to a half crippled schoolteacher and a skinny young boy.
       "Where's your phone Danny," he whispered. The boy indicated the corner and Jamie went to it.
       "What are you doing?"
Jamie ignored him, but picked up the phone. There was a dial tone, and the man exhaled.
       "I have to go upstairs."
       "Danny, wait a second. I'll go with you."
The boy reluctantly agreed. Jamie dialled Maria's number, a numbness seeping through him. It didn't answer. After three attempts he finally accepted defeat. Instead he dialled the emergency number. This call connected straight away.
       "DUE TO THE HIGH VOLUME OF CALLS, AN AGENT CANNOT TAKE YOUR CALL RIGHT NOW. PLEASE TRY AGAIN LATER."
He was disconnected. Jamie cursed.
       "Nothing," he said to Danny. The boy looked upwards, and then back at him. Jamie shook his head. "First, you have to try and eat something."
       "I'm not hungry," said the boy mechanically, but Jamie wasn't really listening to him. He suspected that despite his strange calmness, he was in some sort of shock. His mind could not comprehend the situation they found themselves in.
The house was silent as a grave. Jamie knew they had to search upstairs, but he suspected what they might find.
Instead his mind kept equating shock and weakness to hunger. The fridge was intact, and he stuffed leftover food into his face. The cold lasagne tasted terrible but he forced it down. He gurgled OJ and then paused.
Reluctantly, Danny nibbled on some dry crackers and drank plenty of bottled water. He looked at Jamie, his blue eyes shining almost unnaturally.
Jamie finally admitted to himself that he was stalling. A sudden wave of emotion hit him, and for the first time he felt a connection to the young man. With his good arm, he pulled the boy into a hug and whispered into his ear.
       "No matter what happens Danny, whatever we find, we have to stick together okay?"
       "Okay Jamie."
Jamie's eyes looked upwards, and he shivered. He did not want to go upstairs, something inside was warning him away but he had no choice, and slowly he made for the stairs. On a whim he gave Danny the knife, and went back to the kitchen to find a second blade. The boy watched him but said nothing.
It seemed Danny was adjusting to this world even then. On the fourth stair, the boy made him step over it, and Jamie suspected why. They reached the landing.
       "Mom and Dad's room is at the bottom of the hallway."
 It was even darker up here, almost unnaturally so.
Once this house had been a home, but now it was a cold and alien place. Jamie was terrified of the shadows that ruled here. All the bedrooms were pits of blackness. Jamie edged past them, his heart thumping in his chest.
Jamie realised they hadn't even checked to see if there were any cars was in the driveway.
       "Mom... Dad?" Danny whispered into the darkness. He stepped into their bedroom. There was a terrible wet sound from the carpet as Jamie pressed his foot down.
       "Stay behind me Danny."
Of course they were here. He thought the father had bled to death. The front of his white work shirt had a trail of caked crimson that ran down it, his head ajar at a gruesome angle. They had torn Danny's Mom apart. Only the clothing, and the once beautiful blond hair were recognisable things. Yet even that hair was matted with red.
Danny didn't scream. Instead his legs gave way, the fight had left him now. He tried to steady himself, but he was shaking from head to toe. Up came the water and crackers, in an acidic river.
His Dad's eyes flicked open.
They were dead things, and had even begun to milk over. There was no time for horror or repulsion.
The thing went for Jamie, faster than he had thought possible. Jamie drove the knife up towards the infected man's head but they were going backwards, pushed towards the luxurious balcony windows.
The glass smashed as the thing drove Jamie through it, the six-inch cutting knife cradled between them like a baby. Then they were falling through the night air, and Jamie stared into the blank soulless eyes of the man who had been Danny's father. As he fell he saw nothing in those orbs, just a blank primal emptiness.




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