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!plot: the soulless, jake armstrong, sue snell

WHO sue and jake
WHAT demon failure
WHERE busy street of LA
WHEN night time
WARNINGS mind powers, violence, and an angry pregnant girl, oh and some blood...
STATUS pending

Talking about her pregnancy on the network had gone surprisingly better then she had thought it would. There, for a moment, she felt like the popular girl she had been back home. She had been the type of girl that had walked down the hall and people went out of their way to say hey. Here? Sue was just another face. She went to work, hung out with her roommates, and struggled with the powers she barely understood.

Her baby was probably going to be more powerful than her or Carrie and it didn't scare her. Oh, it should have. Sue had pretty cracked open a mountain with her mind out of fear and buried a monster inside, but this child inside of her would be able to do so much more. Since the mountain, she had pretty much only lifted books with her mind or other frivolous things. She hadn't exercised the power as much as she should have.

It didn't matter much though. Wasn't like anyone was out to get her or at least that was what she thought. She had spent most of the evening with Carrie and now she was walking the sidewalk by herself as she focused on the cheeseburger she wanted. Cheddar, mayo, pickles, lettuce, with a strawberry shake on the side. God, she could go for fried pickles too. She waited patiently at a crosswalk as she let her foot tap out a beat to the music coming through her headphones.

Tonight wasn't going to be as peaceful as she thought.

A feeling of unease started in her stomach and the hair on the back of her neck stood up. Sue reached up and plucked an earbud out of her ear as she tried to figure out why the baby was upset. A sort of cold seemed to settle around her as she noticed things seemed oddly silent. Cars were going by, people were few and far between, but something was coming.

They said death came unannounced, but she heard the footsteps easily enough.

Sue popped the earbud back into her ear as she turned to meet the grotesque thing walking towards her. A man, of sorts, blurred dangerously around the edges. He was out of focus and it kind of hurt her eyes to try and focus on him as if there was some extreme strain there. What really bothered her was the fact his face was blank, no features, except for two startling red eyes. They glowed red with the fires of Hell. She could see her end in them.

Soulless. Oh, she knew demons were stealing souls, but somehow she hadn't thought she'd be one of the victims. Her feet stumbled backward, into the intersection, as the thing opened a mouth and screamed. The sound sent a shock wave through her and she was suddenly very glad music was blaring in her ears so she hadn't heard it at the full volume.

"Not tonight," she planted her feet as the demon advanced. "You aren't getting anywhere near me or my baby," she thrust her hands out and did more than flex her powers. The street began to rumble under her feet as it heaved dangerously. Car alarms started going off around her, a groaning and creaking sound filled the air, but Sue kept going. The demon was still trying to walk towards her even as the pavement bucked like a chaotic river. She flicked her gaze towards a parked car and jerked her chin, feeling a surge of power from the child inside of her, and the car went sailing through the air. It slammed into the demon with a nasty metallic sound. Grinding, deadly, and a bit wet.

And of course, it didn't stop the thing.

Sue backed up a few more steps as the car was tossed aside like a piece of tissue paper.

Ichor oozed from an injury, but those fiery eyes only blazed brighter.

"I said no. No means no, asshole," she twisted her fingers in the air and prayed no one else was going to get caught in the crossfire. The street ripped open under the demon. Just as the demon was going under she slammed the pieces of the road back together. Flesh, even demon flesh, couldn't withstand a sort of pavement guillotine. Bloody ichor erupted everywhere as the head of the demon was removed rather soundly from its body.

The feeling of unease vanished and she sank to her knees just as the nosebleed began. Sue pressed her hand to her nose as she stared at the scene in front of her. Cars, damaged. Buildings nearest the scene had cracks in their foundations, but the worst was the street.

Oh God, what had she done?

The demon head was turning into some gross black slime before her eyes and she wanted to cry. No, scratch that, she wanted to eat a giant plate of nachos. Something was wrong with her. She had just killed something inhuman and she wanted food.

"Oh God," she breathed out. If Tommy could see her now what would he even think?