"Here?!" Hiro exclaimed, "Where?"
"That's the problem. I don't know." Aline replied.
Hiro appeared to not understand, so Aline continued: "You never wondered what happened to... my life-energy, as Oliver calls it."
"Your life-energy..." Hiro whispered, "You mean that that kept your body alive while you were in a coma?"
"Yes." Aline replied, "I think that that guy Jonas has it now."
This shocked Hiro: "He does? How?"
"He tried many things to get to Oliver, one of them is killing people. Another was to try and read my mind to find information."
"Read your mind?" Hiro wondered, "Is that his power?"
"No, I don't think so." Aline answered, "I think his power is more like... he knows how to invent things, such as a machine that would allow him to hear my thoughts. I think it's through that machine that my life-energy got inside him."
"That's awful." Hiro almost sounded sad.
"Both Oliver and I think that because of that, it created a connection between us and Jonas. We can sense each other from miles away now."
"You can?"
"Yes." Aline answered, "But..."
"But you don't sense him now?"
"It's weird, but not so surprising." Aline said.
"How so?"
A month earlier, Aline had told Christina all she needed to know that would explain what was happening to her lately. This created some kind of a friendship between the two, which got the police to drop all charges they were about to charge Aline with. Christina was about to leave the hospital that day, and Aline was to wave her goodbye.
Suddenly, something was wrong. Aline felt that something was getting closer to her. When both her and Christina made it to the hospital's main entrance, Aline stopped dead, which got Christina a little curious.
"What's wrong?" she asked.
"We'd better run." she replied as she grabbed hold of her arm.
Christina pulled herself from Aline's hold, and said: "Hold it! What's going on?"
That's when the people who were outside the entrance got knocked away, making room for someone to enter the hospital, without bothering to open the glass door. As the window's splinters scattered themselves around, both Aline and Christina got to take a good look at the man entering. His appearance was so grotesque, it got everyone else in close proximity to run away. It was Jonas, who wore something that looked like a mechanical suit, likely built to make himself stronger.
Aline shook her head at the sight of him: "You really gotta go through all that trouble just to see me?"
Under the eyes of Christina, who didn't understand any Dutch, Jonas decided to go in with this conversation: "You? You must be so full of yourself. I'm looking for the halfwit! Where is he?"
"You don't need to know that!" Aline replied, as she tightened her muscles.
She didn't really know why, but for some reason nothing happened. Oliver would allow her to use the power to transform, but for some reason that didn't happen.
"What's happening?" Aline asked Oliver in her head. After he replied, Aline asked: "What do you mean, you don't know?"
That's when Jonas's strong arm smacked Aline against the wall. Once she landed back on the floor, Jonas walked towards her. Suddenly he felt someone tap him on his shoulder. He turned to look at who was doing this, only to get scratched in the face. This distracted him enough, so that whoever scratched him could also cut some of the machine's wires, rendering it useless.
Jonas looked up, and saw Christina. She had somehow managed to make her nails grow longer and stronger. She exclaimed to him: "How dare you! To use such a heavy machine on a defenseless woman, you coward!"
Jonas couldn't allow her to win this fight, so he mumbled in Dutch: "You stupid bitch! Learn to speak Dutch!"
Having said that, he pressed on some button on his machine, which got him to vanish into thin air. Once he was gone, Chritina ran to Aline, asking her: "You okay?"
Though Aline needed some help getting back up, she nodded.
"Who was that guy?" Christina asked her.
