Lauren's POV

We were sitting in the room that we had designated as the meeting room discussing what to do about the new problem we faced. A mutant who could raise the dead. Specifically the people that we had killed. Needless to say we were all concerned about that prospect. We had no idea how this kid's power worked or even who they were or where they were for that matter. We had just heard enough reports to determine that whatever this kid was doing was real and it was dangerous. There had been just too many reports from Sentinel Services or random people talking about how people that they were sure that they killed had come back to life and were working with the group behind the mutant uprising and were now trying to kill them. This was really problematic especially considering the fact that we had all killed people and not many of these people were people that we would want to come back.

I was sitting next to Andy on the couch in the back of the room. Lorna, Marcos, Mom, Esme, and John were all standing around the room discussing the mutant.

"We need to figure out who this kid is and exactly what he can do and exactly why he's working with the Inner Circle," said Lorna.

Marcos nodded, "We've all killed people and if they can bring them back..."

"We're screwed," Lorna finished for him.

"So what do we do?" Esme said looking between Lorna and Marcos.

"We figure out where they are going to attack next then we stop them." John said looking up with a determined expression on his face. He's been like that for a while now. Determined. Ever since Clarice died he's been trying to fix it somehow. Maybe just to at least make her death worth it.

Mom looked at John "But how do we do that?"

"There's actually been a pretty clear pattern of where they attack '' said Esme, getting everyone's attention, "They have attacked places within a 50 mile radius around Philadelphia where there were old underground stations. There are only about 3 left that they haven't attacked." She said, pulling out a map and showing us the locations.

"Which one do you think they will attack next?" I said looking at the map then at Esme. She was a little surprised I was talking to her. Andy and I had been avoiding her for a while now. After what happened we just couldn't bring ourselves to talk to her and luckily, she respected that.

She pulled out a marker and explained to us that it was most likely that they would attack an abandoned warehouse just outside of the city that had been a waysation before the underground collapsed.

"They have been attacking places like it, abandoned for much longer, and the other two that they haven't attacked have been active until about two weeks before the underground collapsed. This one is more similar to the ones that they have been attacking because the underground left it around two years before the collapse.

"We can send a team out to watch it." John suggested.

"Lauren and I could go." said Andy, speaking for the first time. I looked at him and nodded in agreement. No one had been letting us do much for fear of Sentinel Services figuring out where we were.

Lorna looked at us and nodded saying, "I'll go too."

"Same" said Marocs.

Mom looked like she wanted to protest "but.."

"They will be fine Caitlin," John said.

"But someone could see them and report them and then Sentinel Services would know that we're in the area and search everywhere and close the roads. We would be trapped. Don't even get me started about the other mutants in the area." Mom said looking between us with a worried expression.

"We'll be careful. We promise" Andy said. He's been dying to get out of here for weeks. It was honestly kind of bugging me.

"I still don't like it." Mom said.

"We'll make sure nothing happens Caitlin. Okay. They'll be fine." Lorna said.

It took two more minutes of arguing for her to finally relent and let us go.

Lorna, Marcos, Andy and I headed out after 30 minutes of getting ready, not really expecting to be confronted but prepared to be.

Mia's Pov

It was a normal day. Until it wasn't. I was walking through the art and music hallway at my school heading to my piano class, when all of a sudden an announcement came over the speaker saying "Everyone listed please report to the main office immediately." They rattled off a couple of names before I noticed a pattern, most of them were people that I knew were mutants.

There were a couple of names I didn't recognise but I heard enough to be able to guess that was happening. I heard one of my friends' name, Kaylee, but I knew that I couldn't intercept her. She has classes on the other side of the Main office and wouldn't go through any hallways I would.

There were two names I didn't recognise in a row before I heard the name of one of my friends and his little sister, Camreon and Lizzie Stone. I knew what Cameron's powers were. He had increased strength and fast reflexes and Lizzie hadn't triggered her powers yet but we figured out that she's a mutant because her eyes are naturally purple. She had to wear contacts to make them seem brown. I became increasingly worried when I heard my best friend's name go over the speaker, Josh Black. He can heal people's injuries both physically and mental. He got his powers a couple months ago and I've been helping him with them ever since. Then I heard my name and My heart stopped. Everyone in the hallway turned to look at me as I froze, my face paling. I looked around quickly as I hurried to find my friends before they got to the main office. Knowing them one, at most, would figure it out and they probably wouldn't think to run if they did. They had no means of escaping. I did.

I hurried quickly to try to intercept them. I saw Lizzie as I walked into the main hallway, "Lizzie! Wait!" I said as I ran to get to her.

"What?" She said turning around to face me. "I want to get this over with, I have my favorite class next."

"Well if you keep going, my guess is the next class you will be in is prision." I said seriously.

"What!" she said looking very startled.

I started to explain but I saw Josh turn the corner of the hallway next to us, talking to Cameron with a serious expression on his face, seemingly trying to convince him of something. Josh saw us and pulled Cameron towards us. "Please tell this idiot that this is not random. They called us down because they figured us out." Josh said slightly exasperated with a desperate look on his face.

I nodded, "They did. We have to go. Now."

"Mia, are you sure I mean this could be totally random and a coincidence." Cameron said looking between me and Josh.

"Look outside." Josh said, his eyes glued to the window a terrified expression on his face. I turned to look and I saw Sentinel Services pulling up outside.

"Oh crap" said Lizzie. I have to say I agreed with her. Sentinel Services have been freaking out ever since that terrorist attack on their headquarters in DC. It was the biggest mutant terrorist attack ever. They say a team of two siblings took it down. I had heard the news call them Fenris.

Sentinel Services agents started to surround the school most likely were covering every exit. "They're starting to surround the school. They probably will have exits covered soon. We need to go." Josh said, his voice shaking slightly.

We turned to go but the exit that would lead us out was already covered. I pulled them out of the line of sight of the windows and started trying to think of a way out.

"Mia, you have to get us out of here," Lizzie said, grabbing my arms and shaking me.

I looked at her doubt flooding my mind. "I don't know I've never jumped with more than one other person before." I said, panic fully taking over my brain.

"You have to," Josh said.

"Ok, Um, grab on to me" I said, grabbing Lizzie's shoulder. I focused on my power. I could manipulate, create, and travel through shadows. I had also been training to fight but that's not what I needed to do now. Right now we needed to run

"Mia, hurry! They're coming" Cameron said, gripping my arm tighter.

I felt my nose start bleeding. I focused on where I wanted to land. I made the shadows surround us and I pulled us through and we landed next to Cameron's car. He was the only one of us who had gotten a car for his 16th birthday.

"Get in. I said, before they find us." I said.

"Mia," Josh warned. I looked at him, his brown hair falling in his eyes as the world went dark and I felt myself fall against him.

Josh's Pov

Mia fell into my arms as the nosebleed I had noticed before we jumped got worse. I dragged her into the backseat of the car as Lizzie and Cameron climbed into the front. I looked behind us as Cameron started the car and pulled out.

"Drive," I said.

"I know. I know" Cameron said. He sped up as he pulled onto the main road.

I turned to Mia. She was still unconscious. She had exhausted her powers. I can't heal her all the way when she does this but I can help with the symptoms. I stopped her nose bleed. She'd be unconscious for a while yet. I tried to clean up the blood on her face a little. It was black because of her powers and blood is a lot more noticeable when it's black.

"There is an old abandoned warehouse just outside of Philly. The mutant underground used to use it before the network collapsed." I said. Mia had started researching places to go if we ever got caught when Sentinel Services busted her neighbor a few weeks ago. We had started planning on running for a while now.

We drove in terrified silence for a while. Cameron was focused on where he was going and Lizzie was looking out the window. I was just making sure Mia was okay. After about 30 minutes she woke up.

"What happened?" She said sitting up really fast. She was unsteady even just sitting down. I gently moved her so she was leaning back in the seat.

"We made it out. We're heading to a warehouse outside of Philadelphia to hide for a bit." I said trying to calm her down.

She nodded. "Good plan. We need to get off the road. They will know the plates once they realize that we weren't there and look it up."

"We're almost there. Don't worry" said Cameron.

"One more thing." Said Mia. She pulled out her phone. "Phones. They can track us if we have our phones on us. Give me your phones."

We all had her our phone and she threw them out the window of the car.

"Well that was violent" Lizzie said, looking out the window regretfully.

We pulled up to the wear house but we parked a bit away from it.

"Grab the license plate. They'll probably send out drones to look for us. They'll find where we are hiding if we leave it on." Lizzie told her brother before helping Mia get out of the car.

Cameron pulled the license plate off the car before starting to walk towards the warehouse.

We got there and had Mia sit down behind a stack of boxes so if someone walked it we wouldn't be seen immediately. Which turned out to be helpful because after a couple of minutes I heard the door open and pushed Lizzie to the ground, hiding her behind me.

A group of four people came in and looked around. One of them said "are you two sure about this. You can still go back."

A different voice said "We're fine Lorna."

I felt something press into my hand. I looked down and it was a small dagger. I turned back and looked at Mia. She had the twin dagger in her left hand and was handing it to Lizzie. She knew she couldn't fight and she knew that she was the only one out of us to carry a concealed weapon. She hid them in her boots. God she's awesome.

We heard them moving closer. The footsteps echoing off of the walls. Yet another voice said "do you think the Inner Circle will actually attack here. I mean it seems pretty empty"

What now, I exchanged a look with Cameron. Who were these people? They didn't seem like Sentinel Services but you never know.

We heard them start to get closer. I griped Mia's dagger tighter as Mia shifted to get her feet under her.

One of them, a woman with green hair, rounded the corner. She raised her hands and a green light surrounded it. I felt the dagger get ripped out of my hand and fly into the mutant's hand. I saw the dagger in Lizzie's hand do the same. The other three people ran over and saw us hiding behind the boxes.

"Who are you?" said the green haired mutant, holding Mia's dagger.

"Whoa, Whoa." I said, holding my hands up defensively. "We are just kids hiding from the cops."

"Lorna, they're just scared kids." A blond haired girl said.

"So. Scared kids do dumb stuff." The one I assumed was named Lorna said.

"Ok um, I'm Josh, don't know what you think that we're gonna do but um, this is Cameron, Lizzie, and Mia." I pointed to each of them in turn. Lizzie waved awkwardly and Mia shifted a little pulling shadows closer to her ready to run if the need came.

Lorna lowered her hands. "You guys are mutants."

"Um yeah"

"And you are running from the cops."

"Yeah."

"Why?"

"Because someone told the cops that we are mutants and they came to our school to arrest us and we ran. Okay." Mia said.

"Lorna stop interrogating them. They are obviously scared and in danger." Said the guy with black hair. "I'm Marcos." he pointed to the other boy and girl that they were with "that's Lauren and Andy" then he motioned to the green haired mutant. "And this is Lorna, although I'm sure you figured that out already. Do you need help getting away from the cops."

"Yes." Mia answered. "But, uh, can I have my daggers back?" she asked a little nervously.

Lorna apologized and gave them back to her. I noticed what seemed like a person moving through the corner of my eye in a space between two of the boxes.

Before I could say anything the person went up to Andy and put a hand on his arm and said "Have fun," before running away.

{*Hey peoples, I hope that you enjoyed this chapter part. There is going to be 2 parts to this chapter. The next part should be out soon I just have to finish editing it. :) The song above is a song that reminds me of how I plan on doing Lauren's Character arc during this fic.*}