Eloise stared at Adam, he had held his hand out to her as he introduced himself, but she was just staring at him.
A second passed and Eloise finally found her voice through her shock, "WHO ARE YOU? HOW DID YOU GET INTO MY CAR? STAY AWAY FROM ME CREEP," She screamed at him and tried to open her car door.
He pulled his hand back looking hurt and leaned back into the chair relaxed.
"First of all, I already said my name is Adam. And to answer your second question, it's a bit complicated. But basically I got into your car with what humans might call powers. And lastly, excuse me ma'am but I am no creep." He smirked.
The whole time he was talking she kept frantically trying to open the car door and kept failing, so he reached over and opened it for her.
She flinched back as his arm almost touched her.
As soon as the door opened Eloise ran out of her car towards the building where her class would be, while Adam followed right after her.
It was easy since he seemed to be taller than her by a lot.
Eloise looked around her trying to find someone so that if this stranger did anything to her she could scream for help, or that there would be a witness at least.
"Hold on, don't I at least get a thank you for saving your life?" He said to her, she froze in her tracks.
"What?" she said as she turned to face him.
"I said, aren't you going to thank me for saving your life?" He smirked again and saw that she was getting confused. "Earlier you said it was God, but really the big man didn't do anything for you today, it was actually me."
"Wh-what are you talking about? The truck?" She said, her voice shaking a little. "How could that be you, were you driving the truck?"
"Not exactly, but I did stop it." He said nonchalantly, without going into details. Humans can't really process the concept of death and the after life easily so he figured he would ease her into this.
"Uh, well thanks I guess." She walked off towards her building, still very bothered with the fact that that strange man ended up inside her car without her even noticing.
She was even more bothered that she couldn't help but find him attractive.
Maybe she was just in so much shock she didn't notice someone opening her car door, or maybe she was delusional from the shock and was simply imagining this gorgeous man.
'What a creep' she thought to herself, 'what kind of person randomly gets into a stranger's car?'
Eloise stopped in her tracks and realized what Adam had said didn't make sense. He said he stopped the truck but he wasn't the driver.
How could a guy stop a 10-wheeler truck if he wasn't the one driving it? He said he wasn't the driver, so was he inside as a passenger? Was he some sort of traffic enforcer? She didn't see anyone next to the driver and she didn't see anyone else near her car and the truck when it happened.
She turned to ask Adam these questions but when she looked behind her he was gone.
"That's strange," she said, "I guess he just really wanted me to thank him."
She walked hurriedly to her class, still confused and shaken up by everything that had happened that morning, leaving Adam standing in the same spot watching her walk away but invisible to the human eye.
"I'm screwed when I get back to HQ" Adam sighed. "Why did I bother to stop that human's death? What got into me, even a rookie isn't as dumb as I am right now."
Adam shifted back into his apartment in Brim.
He had about 48 hours before HQ would notice a soul was missing, it took them at least two days to process souls into their proper area. He had to figure out what to do next, and fast.
He had heard stories about other demons not fulfilling their tasks and failing their assignments, but never in this way.
They usually failed assignments if they fail to catch a soul in time and it ended up getting lost, but he's never heard of anyone preventing a human's death.
"Maybe I'll get lucky and she'll die again within the next two days," He said as he paced around his apartment.
"Although the odds of that happening seem slim." Adam fell into his sofa and dropped his head in his hands, wanting so badly to turn back time.