We Who Remain (I Am Phantom Book 2) by Sean Fletcher

Author:Sean Fletcher [Fletcher, Sean]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Epic Worlds Publishing
Published: 2016-08-14T22:00:00+00:00

Free running through suburbia dressed as a vigilante wearing overly high-tech hoodie and pants is a little different than in the big city. For one, there wasn’t the advantage of height from the rooftops, so I couldn’t pass unseen overhead. Instead, I ended up ducking behind a lot more garden gnomes than guardrails, and there was a somewhat diminished coolness factor to Phantom when he was forced to crouch behind old election season signs like ‘Wright is Right!’

Yeah, because the city’s political platform was what would really strike fear into the hearts of criminals.

I came up one street over from Danny’s house, in case any police were there. Sure enough, blue and red strobe lights washed over the surrounding houses. Even on the street I’d stopped on people were out watching the action, and I had to be extra cautious to slip past them and settle myself in the buttonbushes bordering Danny’s backyard fence.

Police swarmed the place. Danny was standing near me in the backyard, talking with an officer. He didn’t act so big anymore. But that was typical after an encounter with a superhuman. Or a whole group of them. It was hard to maintain any sense of bravado when you were surrounded with what seemed like a hundred police and the inside of your house looks like a blender went on a rampage inside.

I watched the exchange between Danny and the officer. There was no way, as cuckoo as Danny was, that he would tell the police about what had actually happened. His greatest passion involved secrets and lies. He wouldn’t just divulge them the minute he was asked. But I was here partly to make sure of it.

Danny kept shaking his head to the officer’s questions. Every now and then he’d sweep his hand behind him to his house and his voice would rise in pitch. Finally the officer gave up questioning him and left him alone to return to whatever investigation they were doing out in the front yard. There were no other officers nearby. I stood up in the bushes and stepped out so that I was still covered in the shadow of a nearby tree.

“Danny.”

He jumped as if bitten by a snake. His eyes roved the rear border of his yard, passing over me twice. I moved my arm just a bit so he could actually see me.

When he did, his eyes widened. He took a step back, but I quickly said, “I’m not here to hurt you. I need answers. Answers you have.”

Danny checked for police but there were none around. He approached me, but hung back a good distance away. He didn’t relax. He probably knew as well as I did that if I wanted to hurt him, no amount of distance was going to help.

“You’re him. You’re Phantom, the guy I sometimes put on my site.”

“Your site?” I asked, playing dumb. So far, it didn’t seem like Danny had made the connection between the superhuman kid from earlier and the vigilante who’d shown up in his backyard demanding answers.

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