Gone to Ground by Chloe Garner

Author:Chloe Garner [Garner, Chloe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: A Horse Called Alpha
Published: 2019-07-27T06:00:00+00:00

A woman opened the door and peered around the corner at her, frowning when she found Samantha standing there.

“The kid who carried paint home for me gave me this apartment number,” Samantha said. The woman’s eyes went wide and she closed the door. There were muffled voices for a moment, and then it opened again and the kid was there with her buckets of paint and her plastic bag of other supplies. She smiled.

“Thank you.”

“Did you save Mikey?” he asked. She nodded.

“I don’t know what’s going to happen to him, but he’s okay, right now,” she said, and the kid ducked his head, putting the paint on the ground and disappearing back into the apartment. The woman put her eyes around the door again, and Samantha couldn’t read them, but she took her paint and stood. The woman watched her for just another moment, then closed the door. Samantha wandered toward the front of the apartment building, seeing blue and red lights reflecting off of the wall of the entry.

Ambulance.

Police.

Sam had killed someone, and so had Samantha.

They were going to have to deal with that, at some point in the near future, but for now it was just about staying low.

There was a part of her, the part that refused to ever outright lie to anyone, who thought that she needed to go turn herself in, because if what she had done was truly right, she would be exonerated by human justice, but the pragmatic response to that - an important one, at that - was that she couldn’t tolerate the publicity of being a part of an investigation or, worse, a trial. Innocent or not, she was in hiding from a psychic, and there was no way she could keep them hidden from the woman if they were on TV for killing members of a gang.

Vigilantes.

She was confident she’d been right. She was acting in defense of life, and that was right.

It was just odd to be doing it on a playing field that wasn’t her own. Where the clearly-right and the clearly-wrong had people involved whose deaths had infinite consequences.

She was going to have to deal with that, certainly, and it was going to hurt when she did.

A pair of EMTs went by with a stretcher and Samantha held the door for them, turning her face away in what she intended to be expression that said she didn’t like to see blood.

From the level of triage they had, this wasn’t the man she’d slashed and bandaged; this would be the first one Sam had shot, and he wouldn’t recognize her anyway, but there was no reason to be incautious.

A police officer followed behind with a notepad, jerking his head at Samantha.

“I assume you didn’t see what happened?” he asked. She looked after the gurney and shook her head.

“No, I didn’t see what happened to him.”

“Hear anything?” the officer asked.

“Gunshots,” she said. “A lot of shouting.”

“You know why they were in the building?”

“Something to do with the people upstairs,” Samantha said, taking in the officer carefully now.

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