Kelli Morris<br/>Near Hwy 91<br/>~cops chasing her<br/><br/>The toll road was nice and smooth, uneventful, other than Tom coming in and out of consciousness. He’ll be okay, she thinks to herself, he just needs a little rest and some pain pills.  His phone rings, causing him to wake and answer it as she merges off the Toll road onto Highway 91 east.<br/><br/>No sooner than he finishes his conversation, and asks her about luck, a Highway Patrol unit flashes their light bar, the bright red/blue lights bright.  Watching them pass in her rearview mirror, she sees them making a U-turn.  “You might want to buckle up.” Stomping on the gas pedal not want to take a chance they are after someone else.<br/><br/>Her fingers twist the light switch shutting off her head and tail lights as she pushes the car fast riding the center line, knowing traffic will be pulling towards the shoulders; she should be safe. She focuses on the road, her world seems to slow down, not as dramatically as in the Matrix, but she sees clearer.  She knows she has to act fast, the longer she waits to make her moves the more cops she will have to out run.   Checking her mirrors, she lets out curse; the cops are gaining on her.<br/><br/>A left coming up, she prepares for it; her foot feathering the gas; timing the oncoming traffic; letting off a little slowing, then without touching the break, she gears down to 4th riding the clutch, her right hand moving to the E Break, pressing the button in and holding, she points the nose of her car committing to the left turn. Her foot letting the clutch out as she lightly applies the E Break, she starts to slide across the lanes making a hard left. Turning the steering well in the opposite direction, she applies pressure to the gas pedal as she drifts smoothly though the turn.  The break wire to the E brake cut shortly after stealing the car, her tail lights don’t light up as she makes the turn.<br/><br/>Leaving the car in 4th, she drives faster than the traffic in the area, passing cars on the left, sliding smoothly between a Corolla on her right and a Jetta coming towards them on her left.  Plenty of room she thinks once she slides past them.  Checking her mirrors once again, the turn slowed the HP’s up, but they have a clear road ahead of them as the cars pull to the edges. They take advantage of it, she can see them gaining on her once again.<br/><br/>The driver was good, she will give him that. Knowing she needs to have a lead if she and Tom are to have a chance, she must act quickly.  Gearing down to third and letting the clutch out, her engine roars as the rpm needles jumps up.  Never looking at the speedometer, she drives by feel and the whine of her engine. The intersection approaching, green light blinking off, yellow blinking on, she enters the intersection, ready to make a hard right turn, knowing she could bounce into the car behind her target if she uses the first car, she aims the hood of her car at the driver’s side door of the second car stopped at the light waiting for it to turn green on his side.<br/><br/>A dodge Durango,  perfect, she sees the man’s eyes get wide as he freezes up, she turns the wheel as she pulls up on the e break sending the car into a slide.  Unlike the drift move she did previous, she sends the side of her car directly at the Durango. A loud jolting crash, sounding much more violent than it really was, and mostly unnoticed by her as she was securely buckled in and prepared for it, she uses the Durango like a  bank board to propel her car back out into her lane losing little speed.<br/><br/>Putting both hands on the wheel and starts to weave in and out of several cars in both the right and left lanes, causing a couple of them to come to a breaking halt across  both lanes as they honk angrily at her.  Not enough to completely block traffic, but enough to slow down traffic for cars to get though.<br/><br/>Not wasting any time, her eyes scanning not seeing the HP or other cops, she leaves the car in third, powers to the end of the block and slides though a hard left turn, accelerating about half way down the block; another quick scan and then pulls a 180, sliding into traffic going the direction she just came from as she turns her lights back on.<br/><br/>“keep your head down for now Tom, were not out of this yet”  she can feel the blood pulsing once again, she unconsciously bites at her lower lip as she rubs the palm of one hand than the other on her hoodie.  Her head looks straight ahead, her eyes the only thing moving, scanning, looking, she shifts to second ready to run.<br/>