Andy's Pov

Mom kept trying to talk to me and I kept ignoring her. I didn't want to talk to her. I didn't want to be here really. I wanted to do this alone. I wasn't exactly a team player anymore. The only person I worked well with was Lauren and that wasn't really an option right now.

I looked out the window of the car at the other cars speeding past. I could hear Mia and Cameron talking quietly in the backseat, I didn't care what they were talking about as long as they didn't try to involve me in their conversation.

I closed my eyes, I tried focusing on the connection between me and Lauren. I could feel it there but I wasn't feeling anything from it, nothing. Like it was turned off, there but not working. It was terrifying. I had no idea what was happening to Lauren, what they were doing to her, anything. It's been two days, she should have done something to let me know she was okay, maybe even where she was but I had nothing.

"We're almost there. Probably five more minutes." Mom said as well pulled onto another road. I recognized the area we were in, we were somewhere near Atlanta.

I nodded then looked back out the window.

Mom started talking to me again, "Dany posted on his Facebook that he was going fishing at the place he used to take you and Scott fishing. Hopefully, we can cut him off there before he-"

I cut her off not wanting to talk, "Okay."

Mom sighed and glanced in her rearview mirror, "Mia, Cameron are you ready?"

They both nodded. Mia pulled out a gun and handed it to Cameron.

"What am I supposed to do with this?" He asked, taking the gun gingerly.

"Hopefully nothing," Mia said, "But it's better to be prepared than die."

"That's fair," Cameron said laughing slightly.

I tuned them out after that. I didn't feel like paying attention to them anymore. I stared out the window looking at the familiar roads until we got to the river where Uncle Danny would hopefully be.

Lauren's Pov

I didn't know where they were taking me. I was in a transport surrounded by at least a dozen guards. I swear, they stopped my powers from working, put a collar around my neck, tied me up, and they still think I'm dangerous. Like dude come on, I'm just a normal 19-year-old girl with PTSD without my powers. I'm not freaking dangerous.

I felt the transport slow down then stop. One of the guards got up and pointed their gun at me, "Time to move" he said.

I looked up at him, "is pointing a gun at me really necessary"

He shifted nervously but didn't respond.

"Right, you're all scared of a little girl. Who, by the way, can't even use her powers even without this collar around my neck" I said sitting back in my seat.

"We're taking this precaution Ms. Strucker because you are highly dangerous and killing over two thousand people in less than five seconds." Jace Turner said standing in the doorway of the transport.

I rolled my eyes. That's what they focus on sure, something I a, didn't want to do and b, something I can't even do without Andy. Yeah, that makes sense.

Jace Turner nodded at the guards and left. Two guards roughly grabbed my arms pulling me to my feet. I'm pretty sure that they left bruises on my arms. They practically pushed me down the stairs leading out of the transport. The only reason I didn't fall is that they were still holding my arms.

I squinted as my eyes adjusted to the sunlight. I saw a cement building with a yard surrounded by a metal fence, "Where are we?" I asked.

"Well we figured that putting you in complete solitary confinement would be too nice for you, so we made other arrangements," Jace Turner said smiling to himself, "You'll be placed in a high-security prison composed of the worst type of people, many of whom hold grudges against mutants. I'm sure you'll have the best of times."

What the hell dude. They didn't give me time to process before they practically threw me inside the prison. They led me down a kind series of hallways, most of which didn't have windows.

They pushed me into a small cell. I fell to the floor, landing on the floor, my hip hitting the concrete hard. Jace Turner stood in front of the door to the cell as I slowly got up wincing from the pain.

"You have fun in there, and don't try to get out. It's plated with adamantium, even if you did have your powers you wouldn't be able to get out. Also just so you're aware all of the guards can activate your collar anytime they feel it necessary so I wouldn't recommend misbehaving." He said as he shut the cell door.

Andy's Pov

Mom was standing behind a tree, booking herself from the view of the river in front of me. I was standing just in the woods surrounding the clearing clutching the pendant of Lauren's necklace that I was wearing. Mia was crouching in the tree next to me with an arrow knocked on her bow.

Uncle Danny was starting to walk to his car with fishing stuff in hand. He looked a lot more scruffy than when I had last seen him.

I nodded at Mia and she shot her arrow so it landed in the tree directly in front of Uncle Danny. He jumped, dropping his fishing stuff, and quickly looked around.

Mom glanced at me and stepped around the tree to face Uncle Danny, "Danny, we need to talk."

Uncle Danny jumped when he saw mom, "Caitlin, what the hell? What are you doing here?" he said, starting to panic.

Mom tried to calm him down, "Danny relax. We're just here to talk."

"We?" He asked.

I walked out of the trees and into the clearing with my hands in the pocket of my jacket, "Hey Uncle Danny."

He backed into a tree looking terrified. Of course, he was scared of me. I mean at this point who wasn't? They all thought I was some big bad terrorist instead of just a scared teenager. It was kind of annoying.

Mom sighed, "You don't have to be scared. Andy's not going to hurt you. Besides we need your help."

Uncle Danny stopped staring at me and looked at mom, "You want my help? You do realize that every time I have helped you I have gotten in more and more trouble. Last time I tried to help you I lost my job! I went to jail for a week!"

I rolled my eyes and walked over to stand next to my mom, "Oh boo hoo, you went to jail for a week. You do realize that Lauren got arrested. She will be tortured in there for the rest of her life unless I do something to get her out."

Uncle Danny stared at me with wide eyes, "But... but that's illegal"

"So is me standing here. Everything I do is basically illegal. I might as well just add breaking Lauren out of jail to the list," I said rolling my eyes again. He was just annoying me at this point.

Mom gave me a reproachful look before trying to convince Uncle Danny to help us, "Danny you know people. You could talk to people and ask them if they know anything about Lauren."

"Sure I used to know people before your children decided to attack the capital. After that, they all run for the hills whenever they see me."

I sighed of course even someone I am, unfortunately, related to believes that we actually wanted to do that, "That's not exactly why happened"

"Oh then tell me what happened Andy? Sentinel Services just spontaneously combusted?" Danny said his volume started to increase.

I glared at him, "you know maybe if you weren't such an ass-"

Mom cut me off, "Andy enough." She put a hand on my arm before turning to her brother, "Danny, please. There must be something you could do. Someone you could ask."

Uncle Danny laughed, "I could go to jail just for talking to you. You know, I might as well call the police since you're here. Get you locked up with your sister. I'd be doing the world a favor."

Okay, bitch if you want to do this the hard and painful way. I balled my hands into fists. I could feel my powers inside of me begging to be let out. He took his phone out and started to dial. I before I could even move my hand to finally let my powers out an arrow hit the center of his phone, knocking it out of his hand. I smiled, Mia was the best.

Danny dropped his phone out of shock and tried to run away but turned around and saw Cameron who had been hiding behind a car until recently.

"Oh no, you're not going anywhere," Cameron said, pointing the gun Mia had given him at Uncle Danny's chest. Uncle Danny slowly turned around looking like he might faint out of terror.

Cameron walked over to me and the gun held loosely in his hand, "You didn't tell me your uncle was such an asshole and coward."

I sighed, "He used to be nice. I guess everything changes when you blow up a building. Also, is Mia just going to stay in her tree forever or actually come help?"

"She's better in the trees. She prefers to just be watching from afar, and she is helping just from her tree," Cameron said while watching what Uncle Danny was doing intently.

I nodded and turned back to Uncle Danny. He was pissing me off so I used my powers and pushed him against a tree, "Listen I didn't come here for nothing. You're going to tell me what you know. Now"

He looked around nervously refusing to look at me, "I told you I don't know anything" he said, stuttering. He wouldn't look at me. He was hiding something.

"Andy said he doesn't know anything to relax." Mom said. I knew I should stop but I didn't want to.

I shook my head, "He's lying. He's too jittery, too nervous"

"You're making him nervous," Cameron said.

"And?" I asked incredulously, rolling my eyes, "He knows something. He's hiding something.

My powers started to push him into the tree harder. He winced. Mom walked over and pulled my hand down, stopping my powers, "Andy stopped it. Now."

I glared at her and simply used my other hand and threw him into the tree then let him fall. I pulled my arm away from my mom's grip and knelt down when uncle Danny had fallen. the back of his head was bleeding

"You know where Lauren is. Now you're going to tell me where she is or this is going to get real ugly real fast." I said quietly so he was the only one that could hear what I was saying.

Uncle Danny looked terrified, "Fine, fine! But I only have an idea of the general area." He said, his voice shaking.

I looked back at Cameron and mom with a triumphant smile, "Where?"

"New York. Somewhere. I don't know exactly where but I overheard one of my old friends talking about it when I was at a bar last night."

I smiled, finally, I had something to go on. I was going to find Lauren and I wasn't going to let anything stop me.

*Okay I like this chapter a lot and I'm so excited to show you what comes next. Hope you enjoyed this chapter! More will be coming soon and hopefully faster now that I'm on spring break. This semester has been super hectic and I haven't been able to write much but I'm planning on getting a bunch done this week. :)*