Christian's POV

I landed in the shadows outside Dr. Martinez's house, making sure nobody had seen me. As I walked up the driveway I couldn't help but think back to those guys I'd just beaten to hell and left in the woods. Sure they deserved an ass kicking but did I take it too far?

No. No I didn't. They killed a girl. That justifies what I did. I ran the mental image of that girl going down when she had been shot. Over and over again it played out in my head as I kept telling myself that I had done the right thing. No big deal. I'm sure they'd make it through the woods when they woke up.

I entered the house, greeted again by that heavenly smell of chocolate. Ella was sitting in the living room with her dog Magnolia. Cute little thing. I started looking around for Layla, Wonder, Oliver or all three if possible. Nowhere to be found. I almost asked Ella but she had been through a lot tonight. Probably better to ask her mom anyway.

"Thank you officer," Dr. Martinez said before hanging up the phone. She put her hands up to her face and exhaled deeply.

"Hey doc," I said, causing her to jump. "Sorry, didn't mean to scare you. You alright?"

"Christian, hi," she said quickly. "I'm fine. Ella just... ran into some trouble tonight."

"That's a shame. I hope she's alright," I said. Well at least she's better than the other guys. "Have you seen Oliver, Wonder or Layla around?"

"They decided to go stay in a hotel. Oliver was concerned that they might've been a burden."

"Oh. Right. Do you know which hotel?"

"I think a Best Western. I have the address."

"That's helpful thanks." So they were trying to leave me behind now? Great. Just great.

I flew to the hotel in a couple minutes. This whole background thing was really this important? Fuck me. I thought I had trust issues.

I flew around the building peering into windows trying to find them. That was a mistake. I think I saw a little too much of certain people's personal lives playing out in front of me and after seeing a fifth guy jerking it to some really disgusting looking porn, I decided to just listen. I did after all have better hearing now.

That wasn't all that much better because enhanced hearing means, well, you can hear what everyone is doing too. Gross. I was gonna need a shower after this. But on the bright side, at least I finally found them. I did my best to kind of awkwardly hover outside the window as I listened.

"He's an Eraser?! Oliver why didn't you tell us that earlier?!" Wonder was shouting.

Thanks a lot Oliver.

"He's not a hundred percent Eraser," Oliver said. "He may have the DNA - God knows how he got that grafted into his genetic code - but he was still tortured by the same people you were tortured by. He was taken away from his family as well. He's suffered at the hands of Itex just as much as you have."

"Or maybe that's what he wants us to believe," Wonder said. "Maybe he's actually one of them."

Ok, that still kinda hurt to hear. If I was one of them then why would I help escape?

"Look, he isn't like any Eraser out there," Oliver said. "Believe me, he's not one of them."

"Says the guy who helped turn innocent children into freaks of nature!" Wonder shouted again. "How can we trust you? You still think their doing some good in the world! You want to go back to them!"

"They are doing good! I admit, their methods are questionable, but what Itex is doing is for the good of the world!" Oliver shouted back. Then in a quieter voice, "It has to be. It just has to be."

They kept talking but something else had gotten my attention. I had put my hands on the glass panes of the hotel window while I had been listening and suddenly those panes were getting really hot. Looking down I saw the my hands and the glass were glowing orange, small streams of smoke billowing out from between the panes and my hands.

Then the window began to melt around my hands.