Allie's War Episodes 1-4(37)

“Revik!” I screamed. “Snap out of it!”
His eyes clicked abruptly into focus.
Reaching around me, he caught hold of the wheel, gripping the gun where it had loosed in his fingers. Without looking over, he moved one arm long enough to push me out of his lap.
He returned to the Barrier as he did it, and either I am too close, or something else drags me right along after him...



Revik hears Terian’s laugh before he locates him among the metallic bodies.
Terian throws another cluster-fuck of silver, spinning lights at Revik’s head once he does, a Barrier structure that makes the orange sleeper Revik lobbed at me earlier look like a blown kiss. Revik makes his energy flush with the background and disappears, something he can do even with a part of himself operating on the ground, and I wonder where I am, if I am with him in this space...but he melts sideways and reappears, too late for Terian to redirect.
The silver spinners disappear into the empty nothingness of Barrier space.
I’ll kill her, Revik tells Terian.
No, Terian says. You won’t. That’s the beauty with you, Dehgoies. By the end of this, we will have not only her, but you as well. You’re only a half-step from falling willingly, my friend. We can be brothers again...
Revik focuses on me.
He knows I am with him, somehow, but he can’t see me here—
You will help us train her, Terian says to him. Breaking in newbies was a particular talent of yours, as I recall. Especially the females...
Terian sees Revik starting to withdraw and calls after him.
...I will let you have her, my brother!
In that heartbeat of Revik’s hesitation, Terian lobs another cluster...this time of images, sensations. In it, Revik sees my body under his, our lights merging as I open to him. It is a mirage, a lie, but it catches both of us off-guard and briefly he is forced to untangle it.
He snaps the connection and is met with...separation pain, he calls it...that nausea I’ve been feeling with him, what I struggled with just that morning. Unlike with me, the feeling is familiar to him, though, something he understands. But with me, it bothers him more, creates a resonance with some younger version of himself, a place and time he wishes to forget.
Anger briefly suffuses his light, then reason.
He’s let it go too long, he thinks.
He will remedy that, in Seattle.
At the thought, heat flushes his belly, a flicker of sensual memory. I glimpse bare skin, a seductive smile, and this time it has nothing to do with me...
The Rook laughs. You lie, Revi’! I know you...even if your clan friends do not! I see how empty this new life of yours is! Terian’s smile turns friendly, and Revik recognizes that too; I feel the part of him that succumbs to that pull.
She will be my gift to you! Do you think your clan elders would offer you such a prize? Access to their precious Bridge? Do you, Revi’?
There is only the barest pause before Revik makes his light disappear, but Terian’s laugh follows him out of their connection.
I saw you thinking about it, brother! I saw you!
The clouds fade as Revik wills himself back.
Back to the car, back to me.



I saw him come out of it.
Crouched on the floorboards of the GTX, I watched him warily, wondering how much of what I’d just seen and heard really happened.
My handcuffed wrists rested on the seat in front of me. I watched his face as he fired out the window again, his light focused on his targets. I heard the crash of breaking glass, felt him hit something he’d aimed for, wondered why he wasn’t driving away. Even as I thought it, he slammed his foot on the gas, his hand holding the gun falling to the manual gear shift.
Once more, his eyes phased, but it was gone as soon as I saw it, leaving only a tension around his eyes, a quick glance at me. The GTX leapt forward, throwing me into the edge of the seat. I heard more shots and peered back between the seats.
I saw the cop in the road, firing steadily at us.
“Get your head down!” Before I could react, Revik caught hold of the chains between the handcuffs, yanking me down forcibly.
“Was that Terian?” I said. “The guy from the park?”
Revik gave me the barest glance. “Yes,” he said.
“I thought you killed him!”
Revik jerked the wheel sideways. The tires thumped up over a curb, bounding me high enough to pass the headrest.
“Put on your fucking seat belt!”
“I can either stay down, or wear a seat belt...pick one!”
He didn’t answer.
I slid carefully back up the seat, peering out over the dashboard past the plastic statue of the saint.  
Still holding the gun, Revik gripped the steering wheel with his other hand, edging it hard and soft as he maneuvered us across a pit of gravel towards a field that stood between us and the main freeway. I looked back at the onramp, realized he’d bumped the curb to avoid the line of police cars heading for us on the frontage road beside the freeway entrance.#p#分页标题#e#