“I have a cut on my head. But I don’t think it’s bad.”
I released her hand. “Put your hand back in there in case the rocks shift.”
Her soot-covered hand disappeared inside. “You know what would make that story even better?”
“Tell me, tell me,” I bantered.
I lowered myself on all fours to watch inside. I needed to tell Theron if the rocks shifted while he moved the rest of her. A crushed pizza girl would make the Ancient grumpy.
“A queen.” She called out, “Every king needs one.”
Theron paused with his hands on the rocks just over her, and then he heaved the first one off. He tossed it over his shoulder without a care, his eyes down on the girl inside the hole. I leaned back as he lifted the second and last one off her. He cast it aside absently.
Her eyes were wide on his face. She didn’t move.
Theron crouched down and set his elbows on his knees, his eyes carrying over her dirt covered body. They rested on his forehead where there was a splash of dark crimson pasted in the dirt.
His eyes returned to hers. “I’m going to get you to a hospital. You need to be evaluated.”
Her mouth snapped shut, and her eyes narrowed. “I am just fine, thank you.” She shooed her hand at him, regal and pissy…inside a hole. “Go help someone else now.”
The dirt on his forehead crinkled as his brows rose. “We can do this the easy way or the hard way. Which do you prefer?”
“Screw you.”
“Hard way it is.” Without wasting another moment, he dipped down in the hole, his arms wrapping around her tiny frame, dodging her shoving hands. “Remember, you chose this.”
Pizza girl screamed in fury as he swooped her up out of the hole. She bashed on his chest, shouting, “You motherfucker, let me down now!”
Thereon merely started walking with her in his arms, in the direction of his train, and dumped her over his shoulder. He bellowed, “Megan! Get your princess ass over here. You’re going with me!”
I bit my bottom lip as the girl struggled in vain.
Megan jogged up next to him, cast a glance at the girl, and harped, “Shut your trap, or I’ll stuff a sock in it.”
Theron glanced at her. “That wasn’t nice.”
“I’m not nice outside of costume.”
He grunted. “I guess she can live with you.”
“What?” pizza girl shrieked. She started wiggling all over again. “Put. Me. Down. Asshole.”
Megan eyed the feisty one. “This’ll be fun.”
