Kat, Diego, and Klaus ran to the car, their breath heaving as they slid in and closed the door. As Diego sped off, he looled in the rearview mirror at Kat, who was staring down at her hands in shock.
"What the hell was that, Kat?" He asked, still in shock.
"Yeah, what happened. Where did all that energy come from?" Klaus echoed, turning in his seat to look at her.
She looked up at them and shook her head. "I don't know. I could feel the energy in the room building up, and suddenly it was like I couldn't hold it in any longer." She explained.
Diego pulled into an alley and stopped the car, turning it off. He turned to look at Kat, his eyes full of concern. "Are you alright? "
She nod, looking into his eyes. "Yeah. Yeah, I'm okay. Just...confused."
He nod in understanding. He reached his hand back to hold hers tightly. "Everything is gonna be okay. We'll figure it out one step at a time."
"Hey, at least it happened at just the right time. You saved our asses in there." Klaus mused.
"Yeah, well, you're lucky I insisted we go in after you. Something told me you were gonna get yourself in trouble." Kat said, looking at her eccentric brother.
"You got a big mouth, you know that?" Diego said, looking at him with a small smirk.
"Oh, wow. What a truly shocking revelation, Diego." Klaus retorted. He pulled out a small bag of pills and began opening it.
"Everything's a big joke to you, right? Would you stop it?" Diego fussed, ripping the bag from Klaus's hands. "Why are you putting this shit in your body?"
"Check this out. Hm? My body is a temple. Kat treats her body like it's a well oiled machine. All that shit you do, it's just weakness." Diego informed him.
"Oh, wow, beautiful. Well, weakness feels so good." Klaus said, pulling out another baggie.
Kat leaned forward and smacked it out of his hands, wrestling with him. "What's goin' on with you? Huh? Tell me what happened when you were gone." She fussed.
"Don't hit me, Katherine!" He yelled.
"Don't tell me everything is all right, because I saw you in there. You were crying! You never cry unless it's something serious, so spill it Klaus." She said, her voice softening with each sentence.
"Because I lost someone!" He finally caved. "I lost someone. The only...The only person I've ever truly loved more than you and myself. Cheers." He said before leaning down to pick up the baggie, swallowing the contents of it.
"Well, you're luckier than most. When you lose someone, at least you can...see them whenever you want." Diego reasoned, his voice quiet and sad.
His mind flashed to seeing Kat covered in blood on the hotel floor. What would he have done if he had lost her? He never would have seen her again. Never would have held her in his arms and told her how much he loved her again. He would have never gotten the chance to give her the ring he had kept tucked in the pocket on his harness for the past two years. He looked back at her in the mirror to see her emerald eyes sparkling with tears. He knew that he had to step up soon. If they couldn't stop the apocalypse, he would make damn sure they went out with her knowing just how much she meant to him.
Through the mirror, he saw a man exit Griddy's donuts sat up straighter. "That's our man."
"Hey, I know that guy." Klaus said.
Kat's eyebrows scrunched as she looked back to see Hazel walking towards his car.
"How could you possibly know that--" Diego started.
"That's him. He and a really angry lady named Cha-Cha tortured us. They're the ones who almost killed us." Kat said, her face pale as she shrank into her seat.
Diego clenched his jaw and started the engine. "We gotta get this guy."
It only took a few minutes for them to follow Hazel to a hotel and park their car somewhere poorly hidden.
Kat was fidgeting in her seat, obviously nervous to be tailing the man who had such a huge hand in her most recent trauma.
"You do know that killing these people isn't gonna make you feel any better." She said quietly, looking at Diego through the rearview mirror.
"Yeah, but when it's done...I'm gonna sleep like a baby. They can't just hurt you and get away with it. They have to pay for what they did." He said. For Patch. For Klaus. For her. For the way she flinched away when he moved too fast, and the sparkle that had dulled from her eyes. For the undoubted years of nightmares she was going to have and everything else they had taken from her.
"Sure you will." Klaus sighed.
"Stay in the car." Diego instructed.
"What are you talkin' about? This guy tortured us." Klaus said, pointing between himself and Kat.
"I have a plan." Diego assured him before getting out of the car.
Klaus turned in his seat and looked at Kat, then scoffed in disbelief. "Stay in the damn car? What are we, sidekicks?"
"We're not staying in the car, are we?" She asked, knowing what his answer was going to be.
"And miss all the action? Hell no we're not staying in the car!" He said, getting out of the vehicle.
"I was afraid he might say that." She said to herself, sighing as she quickly got out and followed behind him.
They quickly and quietly made their way up the stairs to where Diego stood, lurking.
"So, what exactly is the plan here, big guy?" Klaus asked.
"I told you to wait in the car." Diego huffed.
"Yeah, but you also told me that licking a nine-volt battery would give me pubes."
"We were eight."
"Yeah, well, we were seventeen when you told me that if I figured out how many licks it took to get to the center of a tootsie pop, it would make me better at giving-"
"Point taken, Kit-Kat." Diego cut her off with a raised eyebrow and a smirk.
Klaus used the brief distraction to try to walk towards the hotel room door, but Diego caught him before he could get far. "Uh-uh, uh-uh..."
"What? Come on." Klaus whined.
"For once, I need you to listen to me, okay? Now, go back to the car. If I don't come out in two minutes, that means I'm probably dead."
Kat whipped her head to look at him, her eyes wide and her jaw slightly dropped. She grabbed his arm and took a sharp breath.
He walked with them down a flight of stairs, holding onto her hand. "I'll be ok, I promise. But if that happens, go get help. Okay?"
Kat sighed, but nod her head. "Okay."
Diego walked back up to the room that was his target, while Klaus and Kat exchanged a look as they stood at the bottom of the steps. There was a loud crash of a door being kicked in, but no noise after that.
"It's a trap!" Kat realized, looking at Klaus in shock. She shot up the stairs with lightning speed.
"Wait up, Admiral Ackbar!" Klaus said, running up after her.
The sound of tires screeching filled the air, quickly followed by gun fire. Diego yelled as a bullet hit his arm. Katherine quickly pulled him out of the way, held him between herself and Klaus. Gunfire riddled the walls at the car passed them by, and Kat buried her head in Diego's chest. He placed a gentle hand on the back of her head and made sure she wasn't in danger of being shot. As soon as the hail of bullets ceased, Klaus broke the tension.
"Oh, man. See? You used to think I was an idiot."
"I still think you're an idiot. You okay, doll?" He asked, looking down at Kat.
"Yeah. Yeah, I'll live." She said.
He wasn't sure he believed her as he looked her over and saw the nervous glint in her eyes and how pale her skin was. However, he figured that now was not the time to discuss it. The sound of a car speeding away der his attention, and he turned, pulling her with him as he practically floated down the steps.
"They're getting away." He exclaimed.
"You're welcome!" Klaus called, following the pair down the steps.