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wouldn’t really want to
touch some of the people I’ve had to deal with your bare hands...”
    Lily
slips them on. They fit snugly.
    “Nice.
Is that it?”
    “I’ve
only been doing this a few weeks. I’m not Batman. I’m still learning the ropes
at this as much as you are.”
    “Come
on, you can at least teach me something?”
    “I
know you handled that incident with the girl and her mother. You’ve got moxie,
more than I had when I started. I think you’ll do fine.”
    She
pouts, a little disappointed.
    “Well,
you can at least show me how to fly?”
     
    Lily
screams as she falls out of the air. Tumbling down towards the rooftop below,
Seth blinks underneath her, just barely catching her in his arms. He collapses
under her weight.
    “Fuck,
I panicked.” Lily tells him as she climbs off Seth. “To be honest I’m not the
biggest fan of heights.”
    “So
why do you want to fly then?”
    “It
looked cool.” She helps Seth to his feet. “So how long exactly have you been flying?”
    “You
know that night when you brought me to your place? That was the second time.”
    “You’re
fucking kidding me?”
    “I
wanted the last word. You were fronting up to me.” he tells her.
    “I
didn’t know I could trust you.”
    “And
you trust me now?”
    “Now
that I know you’re a decent guy, yeah.” Lily dusts herself off. “So, what now?”
    Seth’s
gaze turns to one of the brightly lit skyscrapers in the distance.
    “You
been up there?” he says, pointing out the building.
    “No.”
    Blink.
     
    Save
for the ever present wind chilling their bare faces, it is eerily quiet up atop
the skyscraper as Seth and Lily look out across the city, above the vast array
of LED lights that silently illuminates the outline of the building that sits beneath
their feet.
    “Look
at that.” Seth tells her. “It’s a nice looking sight.”
    Lily
doesn’t seem to be as enamoured about the view as he is.
    “Eh.
You actually like this place?” she asks him.
    “I
grew up here. Its home. And I think it’s worth protecting.”
    “You
sound like a superhero. You sure you’re not Batman?”
    “Trust
me I’m not. I’d love the money though.”
    She
laughs. He smiles too.
    “So
what else do you think we can do with our powers?” Lily asks him.
    “I
don’t know. Even after all this time I’m a bit afraid to find out.”
    “Do
you think it’s possible to travel back in time?” she asks Seth.
    Goosebumps.
Her question alarms him. “No, I don’t think it’s possible.”Seth lies, knowing
fully well that he’s done it before, albeit accidentally and with his hands down
his pants. “Even if you could, it would be dangerous. One false move and you could
change the future for the worst...”
    “Or
for the better.”
    “Like
kill Hitler?” he asks her.
    “Or
save my dead parents.”
     “I’m
sorry.”
    “It’s
okay. You didn’t really know.” A pause. “They died in a car crash. But it
wasn’t a traffic accident or something like that; something was wrong with the
car they were driving.”
    She
sighs, recalling those memories again.
    “It
was actually going to be a present for me you know? A high school graduation
present. They found a guy selling it online; it was just a cheap used car, lots
of miles on it. They took it out on a test drive alone and... it exploded. It
was a defect with the fuel injection or line or something.”
    “That’s
horrible.”
    “I
wish I could go back and warn them somehow, tell them not to drive that car,
that I didn’t even need a car in the first place. I actually found the guy who was
going to sell it to them a few months ago...”
    “What
happened?”
    “I
confronted him, I said he was going to pay somehow but I didn’t really know
what I would actually do... But his life had been ruined too by what had
happened anyway. He saw the car explode in front of his eyes, he tried to save
my parents from the blaze. He didn’t know anything about the defect. If he had
been