Whether it's actually JC or JZ never will really matter, when he's getting the full face of her shock and that indrawn gasp is like a riot of sound in the suddenly pin drop quiet of the area. And the inside. The inside that is quiet too long right after Danny jerks her back. Long enough it creeps up Steve's spine the wrong way, because whoever the guy was who had been running after her, yelling after not accepting her running away.
He goes dead silent, as does the house. It's only two extra seconds at most. But it's two seconds too many. One long enough for the girl to do something that has Danny grunting in pain, and a second for her to jerk free at hit the door yelling, "Cops!" before the whole front is exploding in a shower of glass and a rain of bullets. Sending the girl to the side and down, and blowing Danny out the window of the porch.
The way he can't even move once he's watching Danny's body vanish beneath the floor of the porch and hearing the solid slam of it hit something, even while the wall is still exploding above him. Glass, wood and bullets flying over him in a shower still. When he's calling out through the maelstrom of noise, the need to move now, when no one else would and that's why he should, warring with the very good possibility of a gunned down HPD officer in his first half hour of requisitioning. "DANNY?"
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He goes dead silent, as does the house. It's only two extra seconds at most. But it's two seconds too many. One long enough for the girl to do something that has Danny grunting in pain, and a second for her to jerk free at hit the door yelling, "Cops!" before the whole front is exploding in a shower of glass and a rain of bullets. Sending the girl to the side and down, and blowing Danny out the window of the porch.
The way he can't even move once he's watching Danny's body vanish beneath the floor of the porch and hearing the solid slam of it hit something, even while the wall is still exploding above him. Glass, wood and bullets flying over him in a shower still. When he's calling out through the maelstrom of noise, the need to move now, when no one else would and that's why he should, warring with the very good possibility of a gunned down HPD officer in his first half hour of requisitioning. "DANNY?"