The Persistence of Renegade X by Chelsea M. Campbell

Author:Chelsea M. Campbell [Campbell, Chelsea M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Golden City Publishing
Published: 2019-08-04T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 5

WE RUN FOR A few more blocks, just to be safe, before heading back to the car. Well, circling back to it, because there’s no way we’re going back the way we came, just in case those superheroes are still around and decide they want to bring me in for questioning or something.

As if me zapping that guy didn’t totally help them out. Even if it might also be sort of frowned upon.

I shift Jess’s weight onto my other hip. I feel tired and sweaty all over, and judging from the looks on everyone else’s faces, they feel the same way.

“Are you okay?” I ask Kat.

“Yeah. It only hurt for a second.” She holds out her hand, inspecting it. It looks normal. “But, Damien, I think I’m going to have to demand half of your babysitting money. You know, for hazard pay.”

“That’s three dollars. You can put it on my tab. Or maybe I can, you know, ‘work it off’ later.” I grin at her.

She rolls her eyes at me. “I’m not paying you for something you’d do for free.”

Sarah clears her throat. “Thanks,” she says to Kat. “I could have been—”

“Don’t mention it,” Kat mutters.

“But—”

“We’re a team, aren’t we?”

Sarah takes a deep breath, then nods.

“You didn’t ask if I’m okay,” Xavier screeches.

Everyone collectively winces at his voice, even Jess, who stirs in my arms and mumbles, “Bad voice, no.”

“I almost got hurt!” Xavier goes on.

“No,” I tell him, “you almost got killed. There’s a slight difference.”

His eyes go wide. He sucks in a long breath, then shrieks, “I need to call Mommy! I need to call her now!”

“She’s busy,” I tell him. “And you’re fine.”

“I told you you couldn’t watch both of us!” He points to Alex, as if he’s the reason any of this happened.

Alex glares at him, then gives me kind of a strange look. “You really zapped that guy.”

I can’t tell if he sounds awed by that or more like worried. Maybe both. “Yeah, but he’s fine.” And we wouldn’t have been if those superheroes had kept chasing us. “Well, he’s probably going to jail, but that’s on him.” Or to be tortured, if those heroes were from the League, but they didn’t look like it. The badges on their uniforms definitely weren’t the League’s logo. Probably some independent group or something. “I only did it because I had to. So—”

“It was really cool! I mean,” Alex goes on, “I only kind of saw it out of the corner of my eye, but it seemed really cool.”

“You didn’t see it because it never happened. None of this did. Got it?” I raise an eyebrow at him.

He blinks at first, then deflates a little as understanding washes over him. “But—”

“I didn’t zap anybody, because we weren’t being chased by heroes, and you definitely didn’t get out of the car and follow us into some random alley, because none of us were ever here. I left Kat in charge while I went to pick up Xavier, and then I came straight back, and all you guys did was watch a movie.

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