Miguel had been climbing and jumping around the balconies in the mall at speed for the past twenty minutes, and was finally starting to feel like he was using up some of his endless energy supplies. He was going to owe the two younger Jakes a lot of alcohol or a year’s supply of coffee or something pretty shocking amazing, he realized as he threw himself backwards from the very top of one of the supporting columns and enjoyed as much free-fall as he could get in such a limited space before pinballing off a balcony and back onto the column again.
He hadn’t wanted to leave Sarah on her own, so when he’d opened the front door of her apartment that morning and found the two Jakes standing on the other side of it offering to take Harri and Henry for a play-date (the Jake with the twin toddlers) and to give Sarah a sympathetic shoulder to cry on (the Jake who was no longer blue), he’d taken them up on their offer as soon as Sarah had okayed it, and headed straight for the mall.
He bounced down to the ground floor, intending to do some sort of timed lap round the entirety of the mall, and spun round when he heard what sounded like a lot of breaking glass, somewhere very close. His enhanced hearing then picked up on someone groaning... was that Dan? And then a woman shouting at him?
Miguel was off and moving in an instant, following the sounds and landing on the railings just in front of them within seconds. Just in time to see the woman scream and he knew, he just knew she was going to punch Dan again so he fired a line of webbing at her fist before following after it.
She fell backwards, so Miguel simply grabbed her as she yelled, hauling her to her feet and dragging her away from where Dan lay. "What the shock are you doing?"