Luke Cage | Power Man.ย ย
Title: Wrong Place Wrong Time
Walking home from the barbershop usually let Luke meditate in the crisp evening air, except of course for those times when he heard a woman screaming for helpโlike tonight. Quickly, he jogged towards the sound and saw a jewelry store getting robbed. He rammed his shoulder into the glass door, breaking it and setting the alarm off. The robber pointed his gun towards Luke, who instinctively put his hands up. With his other hand, the robber held onto the woman as a hostage. โYou donโt wanna do that,โ Luke yelled over the screeching alarms.
The robberโs arm visibly shook as he pulled the trigger and emptied his magazine into Luke Cage, whose body ricocheted the bullets off his clothes and ultimately shattered the front window. Faintly, Luke heard police sirens making their way towards him and the intruder. When he turned back to the robber, he had fled. The woman took a second to study the scene before yelping and running after the robber, as if a bulletproof man was worse than a stranger with a gun and ski mask.
Luke heard foot steps coming towards him. He brought his arms up higher so he wouldnโt be suspected as the would-be robber. โNot what it looks like,โ he muttered, turning towards the other with a helpless shrug.
In the life Danny lived, he found friends were hard to come by. People were nice, they were smiles and laughs, and those surface level friends were a sort of nice he did enjoy. But there were some that ran deeper then that, that neededย to run deeper. Who stood by you when your life was on the line, in the line of fire, or in Luke Cageโs case, defending you from the line of fire. Danny remembered that day all too well, that fearย choking his chest that he wouldnโt survive this encounter. That all his efforts would be for not. Only for Luke to come charging in and same him, they teamed up. Then Jessica and Matt came along and everything lined up together. Somewhere along the line, Luke became his friend. Friendship in a different way then Danny had ever known it to be before, someone who could fight beside him and he could rely on. Luke was that. So were Jessica and Matt, but each of their relationships were all kinds of different.ย
He hadnโt known Luke would be here, had only heard the alarms going off and the danger of the scenario making itself known, and Danny making himself apart of it without a second thought. Apparently Luke had been in a similar vein.ย โYou donโt have to tell me that,โ Danny commented, relief that Luke had dealt with the situation and came out unharmed.ย โYou beat me here.โ He commented with something of an amused grin.ย