Nighttime fell over the West End as Eddie began her shift on patrol. She clung to the shadows, combing the alleys for trouble - the only hint of her presence being an occasional glint of light off the garnet at her throat. Eddie took her job seriously, scaring off muggers, foiling burglars - and this shift began no differently.
As she passed an alleyway in a particularly nasty area, Eddie heard screaming - a woman screaming for help. Swiftly, silently - she ran to investigate, and saw a large hulk of a man trying to have his way with a woman who obviously wanted no part of him. Eddie immediately dealt the man a vicious kick to the side of his left knee, collapsing the joint as bone shattered and sinew ripped, staggering the bigger man, and allowing the woman to free herself from his clutches and escape.
Normally, she stopped once the villian was down and out (the would-be rapist was writhing on the ground, clutching his ruined knee), but this night, Eddie snapped. All she saw as she looked at the man on the ground was the leering, gross, disgusting face of the man who had groped her - the same one who forced kisses from Trixie even as she spit blood in his face, and the man in the alley would pay dearly for his crime.
Eddie pinned the bigger man to the ground with her bare foot - wedging it under his chin, cutting off his air as she leaned her weight into his neck. His feeble attempts to throw her off his neck earned him a shove hard under his chin, jarring his teeth together. She then stood on his shoulder, grinding her heel into the nerves above his collarbone, moving her other foot from his neck to press down on his mouth and nose, growling low in her throat at the now-helpless brute.
"No - means - No. You got that?"
He managed a weak nod, eyes rolling back in his head as his air vanished under the weight of Eddie's 115 pound frame standing on his face.
"What's that - I can't hear you!" She lifted her foot from his face - which increased the pressure on his collarbone, snapping it under her heel. When the brute opened his mouth - panting and gasping for air - Eddie wedged her foot into his mouth, lunging forward to again choke off his air.
"How you like being helpless - I so much as see your ass around here again I'll make a necklace of your nads. Got it?"
With that, Eddie shoved her foot down his throat as far as it would go, only letting up when he went limp on the ground, unconscious. She left him battered and broken for the law to find, and slipped back into the shadows and headed back to the Sanctuary - home - her body trembling as the adrenaline continued to pulse through her.
As she passed an alleyway in a particularly nasty area, Eddie heard screaming - a woman screaming for help. Swiftly, silently - she ran to investigate, and saw a large hulk of a man trying to have his way with a woman who obviously wanted no part of him. Eddie immediately dealt the man a vicious kick to the side of his left knee, collapsing the joint as bone shattered and sinew ripped, staggering the bigger man, and allowing the woman to free herself from his clutches and escape.
Normally, she stopped once the villian was down and out (the would-be rapist was writhing on the ground, clutching his ruined knee), but this night, Eddie snapped. All she saw as she looked at the man on the ground was the leering, gross, disgusting face of the man who had groped her - the same one who forced kisses from Trixie even as she spit blood in his face, and the man in the alley would pay dearly for his crime.
Eddie pinned the bigger man to the ground with her bare foot - wedging it under his chin, cutting off his air as she leaned her weight into his neck. His feeble attempts to throw her off his neck earned him a shove hard under his chin, jarring his teeth together. She then stood on his shoulder, grinding her heel into the nerves above his collarbone, moving her other foot from his neck to press down on his mouth and nose, growling low in her throat at the now-helpless brute.
"No - means - No. You got that?"
He managed a weak nod, eyes rolling back in his head as his air vanished under the weight of Eddie's 115 pound frame standing on his face.
"What's that - I can't hear you!" She lifted her foot from his face - which increased the pressure on his collarbone, snapping it under her heel. When the brute opened his mouth - panting and gasping for air - Eddie wedged her foot into his mouth, lunging forward to again choke off his air.
"How you like being helpless - I so much as see your ass around here again I'll make a necklace of your nads. Got it?"
With that, Eddie shoved her foot down his throat as far as it would go, only letting up when he went limp on the ground, unconscious. She left him battered and broken for the law to find, and slipped back into the shadows and headed back to the Sanctuary - home - her body trembling as the adrenaline continued to pulse through her.