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The smoke was thick in the air, but the flames weren’t visible yet. My hand started moving along with the beat, then my feet started walking along to the song playing. We walked in a line as one, everyone ready to do their part. Spreading out wasn’t really an option on this one; we needed to work together.

“Okay, about fifteen yards ahead, then you should see it on the right,” AJ echoed through Draco’s communicator.  I smiled, so far so good.

Then I saw something out of the corner of my eye.  I twirled around with the lyric and felt that little tingle over my skin.

“We’ve got company,” I sang out, and sure enough, as soon as I said something, a man ran out from the open door we just passed. I was about to spin and kick him off but Leon stepped over and punched him right in the face. His body flew back and sunk to the floor. I doubted he was dead; Leon had better control of his powers now, but man was he going to have a shitty headache when he came to.  We’d grab him on the way back and make sure he made it to the police.

“All right, Leon, you’re up,” Draco called, ready for the muscles to do his part in this rescue.

He walked over with haste and went about moving the beam. Of course that’s where everything went to shit.

Two men and a woman surrounded us, and none of them looked like they were here to help in the rescue.

“Leon, keep working on the door. Rose, stay with him, you two are going to get the kids out of here. Phillip, find the firefighters. Lilith and I will make sure our friends stay away from here.” Draco gave everyone their job, and Leon looked at me briefly before trying to move the beam without collapsing the ceiling around it.

Rose stayed close to him, and I decided it was time for a song switch. I needed something with a bit more sass.  As soon as I hit play on my new song with a faster beat, I walked with sway toward the closest man to me. He watched my hips, and I wanted to roll my eyes. Pathetic. My hands lifted into the air sensually, but what he wasn’t paying attention to was my fingers gripping a pipe that had fallen down. I pulled myself up and lifted my legs up to where his head was and latched on. One quick twist and I felt his neck snap before the sound registered to me.

“Lilith.” Draco was about to engage his closest perp when he called over to me.

“Try not to kill them,” he reminded me, and I nodded. Got it. Just put them out for a bit, not kill.

I didn’t really mean to, but these people weren’t here to play chess with us; they wanted us dead. They likely set this whole thing up just to get us in here.

The woman who was closest to me watched what I did to her guy and then rushed me in anger. Oh boy.

She threw the first punch, and I spun around, avoiding it, but barely. She was like a beast, and she came at me with everything she had.