His spewing of pleas only made the sharper headache pound harder in her head, further clouding her judgement and with another powerful shove. Lulu rammed Harper against the wall again, right as the pipes in his walls began to shake and groan from the pressure, her rage inciting the water to burst out of the valves. “Do you know what pisses me off more than a man in general, Harper? A man who tells me to calm the fuck down.” She hissed, wishing she could choke the life out of him but the last trace of common sense hindered that desire. If he was dead, any hope of finding Rhi went with him to his grave.
However, that didn’t lessen her constraint against his vulnerable throat, her arm held his throat firmly in place as he thrashed about. “She liked you, Harper! She trusted you and I swear if you hurt her, you’re good as dead. Even the Deputy McDumdum isn’t going to save you.” Suddenly there was a loud eruption of water from his kitchen, a rush of streamed from pipes, pouring over the kitchen floor and soaking the edges of the carpet. The apartment groaned and moaned from the pipes rattling behind the plastered walls, making the floor vibrate from the intensity. His kitchen quickly getting flooded with water, the kitchen sink overflowing with water.
As he gasped for air, she couldn’t even feel an ounce of sympathy for him, Lulu was never a ‘turn the other cheek’ kind of a gal anyhow. Instead, it gave her a cruel idea which was much crueler than what she really wanted to do to him. “You’re not going to talk? I got all night, old man. In fact, I think it’s about time we start shaking things up. Don’t you agree?“ Before he could answer, Lulu dragged him, with a firm grasped on his arm and his hair, towards the kitchen, specifically the overflowing sink. “Let’s see if this will make you spill.”
As if slamming him against the wall once wasn’t enough to shake his air ways in an unplesant way, the second time was the exact reaction his body had been waiting for to close the little piece of oxygen his body forced in between breaths, and the chokehold Lu still held over his throat. A panicked filled need to show her away from him was crystal clear in his eyes, but her voice drowned every little attempt to reach out with words that would be nothing but a wheezing whisper at this point, another pledge for her to step back and listen. This was bad, hell, not even bad... chaotic, chatastrophic and plain stupid. “Lu...--” he tried his best to push out, his words abruptly cut off by a bang loud enough to scare whatever birds that was resting in the tree outside his kitchen window.
He didn’t need to to turn his head around to process what had happened, his head being far too much in a haze to question how. The sound of a flood a few feet from where they stood caught his attention away from himself and the fury Lulu was currently trying to spit into his face. In the far end, it still didn’t matter, he hadn’t done anything, he had nothing to prove and nothing to feel guilty about. The sounds, the knowledge and the fear however, got to him at once but much like before: he wasn’t given time to react nor defend himself before Lulu decided to take the matter into her own hands once more. It wasn’t like he was refusing to talk, as she so openly accused him off, he wasn’t given a chance to and his lungs was on the edge of screaming at him as well, demanding yet another thing he couldn’t give.
Focus, he had to focus, right now! His feet dragged alongside Lulu’s steps, socks soaking wet within seconds from the rush of water still blurting out, trying his best to put them both at a halt as his brain processed the ongoing havoc around him. Where was she taking him? Shake up how? It wasn’t until his eyes landed on the sink itself that the thought crossed his mind, this time another errupt of panic that caused his body to freeze and his arms to fly out in the open air in the hopes of grabbing something that could keep him away from the water. “STOP!” Harper blurted out, his chest burning from pain and the force that was put on his breathing. She had no idea of what she was doing, and if he didn’t nestle his way out of her grasp soon enough she would have nothing but a dead man to question. Which, in this case, would give her about the same result. Being below Lulu’s arm on the other hand made his struggles for freedom harder, impossible to wriggle out without a cheer force on his side -- his wand, he had a wand. He had a --
The knowledge struck him like a bolt of light, collecting the last of his energy to finally hit out against Lulu right as they reached the edge of the sink, his elbow reacting with a newfound strength -- but unlike his attacker, it wasn’t a punch filled with anger, it was a punch filled with fright. As Lulu stumbled back, he leaned against the counter for support, his legs seconds away from giving up on him as his fingers swept around the wooden piece that his been hiding in his jeans pocket since days back. Though magic was a known part of his life, the wand itself was often left forgotten whenever he left home or chose to do his mundane tasks without a second helping hand in the mix. Deep down it didn’t matter as of now, his only goal being one were he stayed alive and before Lulu got hold of herself, and before she had a chance to attack, Harper pointed the one and only defense spell his head was allowed to think up her way. A flash of light, another loud bang from across the area they were in. He didn’t stop to look for Lulu, of whether or not the spell had knocked her out cold as his legs finally made due and slipped down in the sea of water. His hand hugged the wand tightly, his chest still burning with a sensation of pain as he could only beg the break that had developed between them would be enough for him to regain his breathing, and for Lulu to calm down to a point of being able to listen. “Ho... holy shit...” Harper caughed, placing his free hand over his mouth in shock. Eyes staring wide at the woman now rolling in water. “You could... you... you could have fucking... killed me. Are you... are you out of your mind, Lulu?”
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