Spade 10:1

Lightning streaked across the sky like skeletal hands reaching out for anything they could wrap their electrifying grip around. The rain came down hard in transparent sheets that resembled curtains blowing in a light breeze. The wind, however, was a different story. A hurricane rolled in off the Gulf and took both them and me by surprise. It just might have saved my life though. Assuming it doesn't decide to kill me now after all.

They have been following me for days, some sort of demonic bloodhounds. If they catch up to me they’ll drag me back so I've got to keep moving, even in this mess. I'm too tired and worn out to fight them right now and if they catch me it will all happen again. And I will never let any of it happen again.

"Yes. You will ."

I push the voice to the back of my mind and lock it up as best I can.

"So Weak…"

Was that my thought or his?

I'm slowly going mad and he knows it, I can feel him relish every little slip of my psyche as I gradually fall prey to his will.

Another bolt snakes across the sky and I can vaguely see one of them slip behind a building a couple hundred yards away. They are closer than I thought. I've got to move. I'll wait till the next lightning strike, hopefully the bright flash of light will blind them long enough for me to make a break for that building down the street. So I cover my eyes with my hands and wait.

CRACK! Run. 

Staying low I move from car to car trying to stay out of site. I'm almost there. My legs buckle as I make it to the door. I'm so tired. 

Shit! The doors locked and the wind is picking up again. I look back, through the hundreds of mostly abandoned cars, some still with there passengers starring lifelessly out the shattered windows. Burned shells that now litter the streets in every direction.

FLASH!

I shielded my eyes almost to late from the lightning but I can still see them. Two massive cloaked figures that remind me of wraiths in some old horror movie. They're just standing there in the rain; still a couple hundred yards away.

Have they seen me?

"Yes…"

No, not yet I've still got time. I've got to hurry, I dive around the corner of the building and I hear their gut wrenching wail, my skin crawls. They did see me.

"Of Course they did...," He laughs at me.

I feel my right hand instinctively grope at my upper right thigh for my revolver and instantly remember that I hadn’t had time to get it when my chance to escape came. I only had time to run.

“How Pathetic…”

His banter is slowly making me crazy and really angry.

Shut up, I mentally scream at him, just shut up!

"You will have to fight. You will have to kill them if you don't want to go back and be used again. I'm… more than willing to go back but, I’m stuck with you. Trapped in you till I can find a way out, and when I do you’ll wish you never made that deal with me."

I wish all the time I never made that deal with you. After seeing what you used me to do while I was trapped only able to watch, kinda like you are now. I’ll never let you out as long as I still breathe.

“Well that might be a long hard road boy; cause, as long as I’m a part of you… You’ll never die!”