"They've been over there for five minutes and our blood was tested a half hour ago, what do you think they found?" Amanda whispered as she tried not to scratch at the bandage on her arm from where the blood had been drawn.
"Must be something of interest, whatever it means… Maybe they might be able to even trace it back to wherever it came from." Finn said, lightly placing his hand over the bandage and lightly shifting the bandage around a bit, the movement against Amanda's skin providing some relief to the itch.
"Thanks for that… and I really hope that whatever it is in all of us, they find out who slipped it." Amanda said quietly.
The two waited as Dr. Amann walked over.
"Good news is it's just trace amounts now so it's not enough to suspend either of you… but I don't know who keeps Blackbird amphetamines around nowadays." Dr. Amann explained.
"That's going back a few decades…" Amanda said before she and Finn left. "70s drugs? Who's still holding onto drugs from that era?" She asked as they reached the cafeteria.
"No idea, love but I feel like wringing their neck." Finn answered as he pulled Amanda's chair out for her before she sat down and scooted up, Finn sitting down next to her… neither felt like eating now but it was nice to be around each other.
It wasn't long before they were joined by Bayley, whose right arm was bruised from the attempts it took to draw her blood.
"Next time, I'm punching that damn doctor." Bayley said as Finn stood up and pulled a chair out for her before she sat down, scooting up. "You are quite the gentleman."
"Anyone else being drug tested?" Finn asked as he sat back down next to Amanda... before all three cringed when they heard Alexa's shrill painful scream.
"She is." Bayley said, rubbing her ears.
"Does she have a volume knob on her mouth?" Amanda asked, Finn rubbing his right hand up and down her back and lightly massaging her tensed up neck.
"What the hell happened with you two, you've got bites and scratches." Bayley said.
"Being drugged and trapped in an elevator can make people go a bit haywire." Finn explained as Aestrid, taking a break from helping organize production crates, walked into the cafeteria and over to them.
"Morning, Ace." Amanda said.
"Hey… listen, whatever happened, it's okay. I'm not gonna care, whatever went down… you two are who you are." Aestrid said, sitting in a chair.
"We've all done worse…" Amanda responded as she started to feel a little more clear headed.
The four talked for a bit and Alexa eventually reached the cafeteria, rubbing her sore arm before she and Murphy sat down.
"Damn, you two look terrible." Sasha said after a few seconds as it was the table she was at that they sat down at.
"Tell me about it…" Alexa said before dropping her forehead to the table. "They're gonna find some crap in me, I know it." She said in a croaky voice.
"Whatever it is, it made us all go crazy! I don't know how she did it but Carmella ripped a damn table leg off and tried to use it as a sword." Sasha explained, Murphy snickering as he helped Alexa sit up.
"Anyone else go frat party crazy?" Murphy asked.
"Not that I remember aside from Enzo trying to jump off the jukebox when he got back." Sasha answered, holding back a bit as she didn't want to remember more.
Looking across the cafeteria, Amanda saw Baron with his right hand bandaged.
"Anyone see a broken window this morning?" Amanda asked quietly after turning back to the other three.
"Not that I know of…" Aestrid answered before heading to where Baron was.
"How they holding up?" Baron asked.
"Managing by… but the itty bitty things are freaking them out right now." Aestrid responded.
"Same with Tye Dillinger… til I punched him." Baron answered.
"Thomas, what the hell?!" Aestrid asked, Baron knowing he was in for it whenever he was called by his real name.
"He was trying to jump off the hotel itself, convinced he could fly! So I hit him after dragging him off the ledge, knocked him out and left him in his room." Baron explained.
"Damn… were you all dosed with different drugs?" Aestrid asked.
"I think so…" Baron answered.
Out in the parking garage was where Finn had found Amanda after she slipped away from the group to go clear her mind… walking over, he wrapped his arms around her shoulders after sitting down next to her on the production crate.
She looked over at him and smiled slightly as he kissed the side of her head.
"I wonder where she went off to… after she disappeared from the Barclays Center, what exactly had to be done." Amanda said quietly.
"Suppose there's no real way of telling… if she had to go and alter something in the past, how would we know it? Our books and records would be altered, there'd be nothing to tell that events were different. For all we know, she could've gone back to switch which side of the civil war won, we'd never know it was any different." Finn said, his hand resting on her upper arm.
"She could've… if it was her at the lighthouse, she might not have seen us." Amanda responded, stretching her legs out and a 'crick' echoing from her left leg. "13 years later and that still hurts every now and again." She said.
"That was a bad break from what you told me…" Finn responded before they looked at each other.
In the distance, Liviana watched them before they disappeared back into the building.
'You can't see me… I think you'd kill me.' Liviana thought, her vision of them through zoomed in visors in the helmet bolted down onto her. She was in agony inside, numerous rods and clamps were throughout her body yet not one could be seen from the outside of the light and dark grey suit she was in. And she'd scream and cry…
If she actually could.
