Lauren's Pov

I had been avoiding both Wes and Jack all week. I'm not very good at it apparently. I had bumped into Jack twice and Wes three times. I had managed to get away before I had to actually talk to either of them though.

Mom and John were heading down to Baltimore today.

"I love you," Mom said, hugging me. Andy was standing just behind me. "I'll only be gone for a few weeks."

I nodded. "Yeah," I said. Mom hugged Andy after she let me go.

"Hey Caitlin, you ready to go?" John asked as he walked in. Mom nodded.

"I'll call to let you know we got there safe." Mom said as She grabbed her bags and headed out. It will be fine. I looked at Andy, his lips were pressed together.

"We'll be fine," I said trying to reassure him. I was also just trying to convince myself of that. Mom hadn't left us alone since we got here.

"Yeah," he said I could tell he didn't believe me. I didn't believe me either so I couldn't really blame him.

"Hey Lauren and Andy, can I ask you a favor?" Lorna said running up to us.

"Yeah sure, what's up?" Andy said.

"With Caitlin and John leaving, Marcos and I are really busy but we do a supply run and right now we don't trust a lot of people because of the spy thing. Can you two do it?" Lorna asked.

"But we're not supposed to go anywhere by ourselves, what if someone sees us," I said concerned. Mom had drilled this into our brains, don't leave. And if you have to don't go alone.

"Then take someone with you," Lorna said. "Please, I really don't have anyone else to ask. Just take two or three people to help you and you'll be fine. Okay?"

"Fine, we could ask Mia or something," Andy said.

"Yes, ask Mia. She's pretty good at using her powers, and she's getting better with her bow too. I got to go through, Marcos needs my help." Lorna said walking away towards the meeting room.

I turned to Andy, "Now, we need to even see if Mia will agree to go. Who else would we even ask"

"You could ask Wes," Andy said, poking me in the ribs.

"No," I said glaring at him.

"But we don't talk to anyone else," he said.

"Oh well," I said slightly annoyed.

"Lorna said to bring two to three people with us so we don't ask Wes then we would have to ask Esme which is not happening," Andy said raising an eyebrow at me.

I sighed "Fine," I said reluctantly. "You have to ask him though."

"What no! I barely even know him. I've talked to him like three times," he said.

"It was your idea, you have to ask him," I said starting to walk away to go find Mia to ask her. "I'm going to go ask Mia, so have fun"

"I hate you," Andy said groaning.

"Yup," I said smiling mischievously. I went to go find Mia. She wasn't in the area that she ended up sleeping in. I checked just about everywhere before I decided to check the training room. Of course, the last place I checked in was where she was. She was shooting her bow at the target.

"Hey," I said walking in. Mia acknowledged me and shot another arrow. It hit the circle next to the center.

She sighed before addressing me "Hey Lauren, what's up."

"Do you want to come with me and Andy on a supply run?" I asked her.

"Sure why not. Sounds fun" She said, shrugging.

"Bring your weapons just in case," I said.

"Just don't expect me to actually hit anything with an arrow," Mia said motioning with her bow at the target full of arrows that didn't hit the center.

"I'll be fine, nothing ever happens on supply runs, weapons are just a precaution," I said, "I have to go get some stuff together for the mission. One more person is coming too."

"Who?" she asked.

"Wes," I said, sighing.

"The kind of ex-boyfriend Wes?" Mia said, raising her eyebrow.

"Yeah, Lorna said we should bring two or three other people with us and we don't talk to or really know anybody else," I said. "I need to grab a couple of bags to load the supplies into once we get to the warehouse"

Mia nodded, "How long till we're leaving?"

"Two hours," I said walking out the door.

I was heading towards the storage room where we put the bags when I bumped into someone. I looked up and saw Jack and his perfect hair. Like seriously, he was a refugee and his hair was all perfect and bouncy... back to the point, he was standing in front of me.

"Lauren. Hey," he said. I just stared at him for a second.

I swallowed my feelings and refrained from freaking out too much about the fact that I was talking to my ex-boyfriend who I haven't talked to since the day Andy got his powers, "Hey Jack. W-What are you doing here?"

"Uh, hiding from the government." He said like it was obvious, probably because it was.

"So, you're a mutant?" I said, nervously.

"Yeah, I can manipulate people's emotions." He said.

My eyes widened slightly, "Oh, uh, like a telepath. That's interesting," I said hesitating slightly. I wasn't a big fan of telepaths for obvious reasons. I noticed my powers start to activate. I tried to focus on stopping them but never worked very well before so I don't know why I expected it to work now.

Jack looked at his hands before asking me a question that I had been waiting for, "What are your powers? I saw some stuff on the news but.." he trailed off.

"Well, the news isn't wrong. I can do that when I combine my powers with Andy's. By myself, though I push things together, it's a form of molecular manipulation and more recently telekinesis." I said.

Jack looked at me with concerned eyes, "Did you actually do that?"

"Yes, I did," I told him what happened. I trusted him still somehow, even after everything I went through and the fact that it's been over a year since I've ever seen him.

"That's terrible," he said.

I looked at my hands and nodded. I felt my powers flare more and a chair a couple of feet down the hallway tipped over towards me. I took a sharp breath.

"Is this place haunted?" Jack said, turning around to look at the chair.

I walked over to pick up the chair, "No my powers just like to do stuff when I don't want them too."

Jack nodded, "Where are you going that you are in such a big rush," he said, changing the subject. I was grateful to him for that.

"Uh, a supply run. Normally Andy and I don't really do this kind of stuff but everyone's kind of busy right now." I said, wishing my heart would stop beating so fast.

"I could help if you want," Jack said.

"Uh, I, uh, I don't know," I said. I felt my powers calm down a bit.

"Come on it will be fun. We could hang out, it will be like before," Jack said smiling gently at me. I forgot how handsome he was.

"Ok, fine. Meet me at the main entrance at six." I said, feeling my heartbeat calm down slightly.

I walked away shaking my head, berating myself for saying he could come.

Andy's Pov

I was sitting in the passenger seat of the car and Lauren was driving. She has been supper tense ever since she let Jack come on the supply run, which was stupid considering her other ex-boyfriend was also coming. Mia was unfortunately stuck between Jack and Wes, but she threatened them to behave with one of her daggers before she got into the car.

I glanced at Lauren, her eyes were glued to the road and her fingers were white from gripping the steering wheel so hard.

"You good?" I asked her.

"Yes," she said, her voice tense. She wasn't. I could feel how tense she was. It was making me anxious.

I watched as we pulled into the warehouse's back driveway. I looked around to make sure no one was around. I didn't see anyone so I turned around to talk to the others, "Ok, we have to do this quickly. Get in, get out. Got it?"

Mia nodded and poked Wes to make him move, "Yup, let's go."

Lauren pulled the car up against the wall of the warehouse. We all walked inside and Lauren and I directed the others where to go and what to grab.

Lauren and I had to get some more blankets. More refugees were steadily pouring into all of the stations. We were going to send these to some of the other stations that needed them as well as the Morlocks.

"Are you ok?" I asked Lauren.

"Yeah, why," she said, clearly lying.

"Lauren, you know we are psychically linked to each other right. I can tell you're lying," I said, raising my eyebrow.

"I'm fine Andy," she said trying to walk away.

"No, you're not. You're stressed," I said following her.

"Of course I'm stressed Andy. My two ex-boyfriends showed up on the same day and for some reason I let them come with us on the supply run." Lauren said as I tensed hearing something out the window that sounded like a car door slamming. She looked at me concerned. "What?"

"Hold that thought," I said walking over to the window and looked out. I looked out and saw a few cars pull up and people get out. They were wearing hoodies with a white cross. My heart dropped to the ground as my eyes widened

"Lauren," I said, warning her that something was wrong with my tone.

Lauren walked over. She looked out the window and gasped "Purifiers" She looked at me terrified.

Mia ran over from wherever she was, "Purifiers outside" she said, panting.

"We know," Lauren and I said in sync.

"What do we do?" I said.

"I don't know. Mia check in the back, see if they found the car, and have the exits covered. Find Wes and Jack and tell them what's happening," Lauren said. Mia nodded, pulled her bow off her back, and ran off.

"We'll have to fight if she doesn't find a way out," I said looking back at the purifiers. They were moving into offensive positions.

"There has to be another way," Lauren said, shaking her head.

"There might not be," I said. I was looking at how the purifiers were lining up, some were in defensive positions and others were in offensive positions. "They are really prepared."

"Yeah, it's like they knew we would be here..." Lauren said. Her eyes widened, "Oh my god, they knew we would be here. Someone tipped them off."

"Oh my god," I said. "How?...right, there's a spy. Why would they tell purifiers and not the inner circle?"

I heard Mia say "Who are you?"

"Because they told both," Lauren said.

I looked at Lauren and ran over into the main room of the warehouse. Mia had her bow drawn and pointed at Rebecca.

Rebecca smiled at her "None of your concern." Rebecca raised her hands to use her powers.

Mia looked around Rebecca's powers "Nope not today." Mia said as she shot the arrow.

Lauren and I ran over to her. Mia's arrow had hit Rebecca's chest.

"Not where I was aiming but that works too," Mia said, pulling another arrow out.

"You can't kill her," Lauren said to Mia. "But that doesn't mean she won't try to kill you."

"Wonderful," Mia said, looking at Lauren out of the corner of her eye, very concerned.

"What do you want Rebecca?" I said as Rebecca pulled out the arrow that Mia shot.

Rebecca threw the arrow aside, "Well I think it's pretty obvious that I want you dead."

"How did you know we were here?" I said even though I already knew that answer.

Rebecca rolled her eyes, "The spy obviously. Didn't Leah tell you about them, the traitor?"

I glanced at Lauren. She was glaring at Rebecca in between looking for a way out of here. Wes ran out from a hallway and stopped, his eyes wide.

"Oh another new friend, fun" Rebecca said, smirking. I watched as Rebecca's powers surrounded Wes's chest. I was frozen in place like I forgot to move. Her powers stopped and I watched him fall to the floor dead. His heart no longer in his body. I grabbed Lauren as she tried to run to him, stopping her.

"No," Lauren screamed.

*I know, I'm making you wait so rude but I'm posting the next part on Monday so stay tuned!*