He had gotten his payback; the Eater had lost sight of me and had taken him instead. By the time I was able to drag myself to the door, the Eater was done and had come back for dessert.
I was the dessert.
Benjamin strolled up, looking like the adolescent version of a badass and shot the creature right between the eyes with his crossbow.
Unfortunately, his cool card was revoked when he almost fainted at the sight of blood. As soon as the blade was removed, he raced to the nearest garbage can and vomited up the entire contents of his stomach.
However, he earned the cool card back later when he threw himself down a laundry chute to tackle a kidnapper that had stolen Marcus from us and was threatening to kill him.
In reality the man had shot me, or rather grazed my temple, but in the chaos, I had managed to get Marcus out of there. Benny had more than proven himself in my eyes.