Agent for a Cause

"What did you do to her?"

His eyes focused on me and he sneered as he spit into my face. I had his answer. He wasn't the kind that talked so I let the blade slice through the artery before twisting the knife savagely within him. He'd bleed out in seconds. As he lay against the car dying I rifled his pockets for information.

My bloody fingers found a bottle and I yanked it free desperately. I read the label, pantho acid, and cursed viciously. I threw it to the side and it shattered against the curb.

Oh God this was bad! I needed help if I was to save Anna. My eyes took in her still unconscious state. Maybe it was already too late!

My eyes caught a flash of light and then a sound. There was an ambulance several streets over. I acted swiftly on that life line. Jumping into the car I started it with the now dead killer's keys and jammed it into drive. With a screech of spinning tires the sedan lurched forward churning over the body of the killer with a double thump.

I swerved around obstacles at breakneck speed until I saw a brief flash of light down a side street.

There!

The car was on two wheels as I swung around to go down the side street. The back end of the sedan threatened to outrace the front, but I counter steered it and soon my course was corrected only to have to repeat the steps again as I turned sharply onto the street the light had gone up.

The ambulance was several blocks ahead and I took off for it. There were blaring horns, as I raced around any obstacle in my path. Passing through an intersection an SUV caught the back corner of the car and spun the sedan completely around.

My elbow smashed through the driver side window with the impact, as most of the glass of the window landed in my lap. The car lurched forward again as I slammed onto the gas. I reached my hand across to feel Anna's pulse, it was thready and barely there.

The ambulance was just ahead. There was an intersection ahead, the light flickered from yellow to red and vehicles began to stop even as more of them came turning into the oncoming lanes. There was no way through!

"Hang on Anna! Don't leave me now!"

I swung the car into the narrow space between the two parallel parked cars along the street. I thought that the front axle of the car broke when it hit the curb of the sidewalk, but we kept going on.