Mia's Pov

I was in the training room with Lauren practicing shooting my bow. We have been hanging out here a lot since I got here almost four weeks ago. I knocked an arrow and shot it, hitting the center of the target.

"Nice shot," Lauren said looking up from the book she was reading.

"Thanks," I said smiling. I put my bow down. "Have you noticed anything up with Josh? He's been acting weird ever since he healed Leah."

"I don't know him that well so can't really say but he seems fine to me," Lauren said.

I paused for a second, thinking of how I wanted to phrase my thoughts, "It's just that he seems... I don't know, like off somehow."

"He's probably just tired. Healing a wound that bad must take a lot of energy." Lauren said, shrugging.

"Yeah, normally he just heals wounds mostly. He could have healed her enough so that she would be ok and left it there but he didn't heal it all the way. Which is weird." I said. That had been bugging me the past four days since Leah got attacked.

"Maybe he's just getting stronger. I mean he's been using his powers a lot and the more you practice with your powers the stronger they get. They can change and get stronger. At least that's what happened with Andy and me." she said marking her page and putting her book down.

"Yeah, maybe. Hey, where is Andy? I thought he was supposed to meet us here." I said.

Lauren frowned, "He was." Lauren sighed glancing at the door, "He probably just forgot or something."

"Yeah," I said. I picked up my bow and shot another arrow at the target. I hit right next to the first arrow I shot. I smiled.

"Boo"

I jumped and turned around to face Andy. Lauren burst out laughing. I sighed and glared at Andy before turning on Lauren.

"You saw him didn't you," I said accusingly, pointing my finger at her.

"Yeah I did," Lauren said smiling mischievously.

"You both suck," I said rolling my eyes.

Andy laughed at me. "You know, you are surprisingly easy to sneak up on," he said smiling. He was holding a box.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah, what's that?" I said, pointing at the box.

"Something I found that I thought was cool," he said smiling.

Lauren came over "What?"

Andy smiled and opened the box and took out a gold knife with an ornamental handle. It was honestly really pretty.

"A knife," Lauren said, raising her eyebrow. "Where did you even get this?"

"I found it in a storage room behind a bunch of stuff in a cabinet. It was like somebody didn't want it to be found." Andy said as Lauren took the knife out of the box. Andy put the box on the table.

"Maybe because they didn't want it to be found," Lauren said examining the knife.

She put her finger on the tip of the knife, testing if it was sharp, "Ow" she said as she pulled her finger away quickly, dropping the knife. She blinked and stumbled backward and fell to her knees.

"Lauren, are you ok?" Andy said quickly, catching her just before she hit the ground.

"I don't know, I just got really dizzy and cold all of a sudden. Right as my finger hit that knife." She said blinking, clearly disoriented.

I knelt next to her. Andy was on her other side, half supporting her, "What happened?" I said putting my hand on her arm, she was burning up.

"Oh my god," I said, "You're burning up," I told her.

Lauren looked confused, "I am? I-I'm freezing," she said.

Andy looked at the knife, "What the hell is that and what did it do?"

"A knife that apparently is really creepy and I have no idea," I said eyeing the knife warily. I turned back to Lauren, "What happened?"

"I don't know, I touched the tip not expecting it to be that sharp, I barely touched it." she said, shivering a bit, "When I touched it was like all of the warmth and strength left my body through where I poked myself. Like it was being drained out of me," she said.

I picked up the knife to examine it. I looked at it closely, being careful not to touch the blade. It was gold and had faint golden lines running across the blade that stood out from the rest of the knife. It almost felt hot to the touch. I put it back down. It was kind of freaking me out.

"What do we do with it? I mean, it is a weapon to begin with, and those are supposed to be in a locked room that only Lorna has the key to. If this was in a storage room that means someone brought this in from the outside and if it can do this," I said motioning at Lauren,

"Then we should make sure whoever brought this knife here, can't find it," Andy said.

"But where would we hide it? It's not like there are many places to hide stuff in here." Lauren said, her eyebrows creased as she looked at the knife.

"I don't know," I said.

"What if we put it in the weapons room," Andy said.

"It's locked, Andy. No one can get in" Lauren said.

"Not necessarily," I said, an idea dawning on me, "I can teleport, it's like traveling through shadows. I've been in the weapons room, I know the layout. I could teleport into the weapons room, hide it, then teleport out and no one would be any the wiser."

Andy nodded, "That's not a bad plan."

"It could work, as long as no one sees you put the knife there," Lauren said.

"Lauren, half of my power is just hiding. I'm pretty sure I'm not dumb enough to get caught." I said.

Josh's Pov

I felt great like nothing could stop me. I decided that because Kick is an addictive drug it would make a lot more sense for me to slowly wean myself off of the drugs than just take it once and never take it again. I feel like that would cause side effects if I did that. Taking the drug I felt invincible. I could heal all of the wounds that people came in with, even the really bad ones.

It made me feel so happy to help these people, so what if I was hurting myself. I didn't want to stop. Mia would freak if she knew so I couldn't let her find out. I was doing this to help people. I kept telling myself that over and over again. I knew that I shouldn't be doing this, taking this drug but it was for the best. I was helping people, I was healing them so that they wouldn't be in pain.

I focused back on what I was doing. I was monitoring Leah. She still hadn't woken up. I didn't know why, she should have woken up by now. There was nothing wrong with her anymore, besides some bruising, but bruising is one thing that, even with taking Kick I couldn't fix. It was just blood trapped inside the skin. I could stop bruises before they formed but after they were already there... there just wasn't anything to fix.

I pressed my lips together as I went over my notes on everything I've done to help Leah, omitting the drugs obviously. She should be fine, there was nothing medically wrong with her.

Esme came in, "Any changes?" she asked quietly as she walked over to the bed.

"No," I said, shaking my head. I was frustrated, why couldn't she just wake up?

"I don't know. She just won't wake up. There isn't anything wrong with her. She should have woken up by now," I said.

Esme sighed. "Hey, how are you doing?" She said gently, putting her hand on my arm.

"Yeah, I'm fine. Why wouldn't I be?" I said.

"You took a really addictive drug to heal her. I just wanted to make sure that there weren't any side effects." She said gently.

I hadn't told her that I was still taking Kick. She would tell someone if I told her. "I'm fine Esme. Nothing happened." I said moving to the other side of Leah's bed. I was pissed that she wouldn't just leave me alone. I was fine.

Esme looked at me, almost as if she was studying me.

"You don't need to use your powers on me. There is nothing wrong." I said suspiciously. I didn't want her to find out about me still using Kick.

Esme sighed. "I wasn't Josh. I believe you," she said. She looked at Leah her eyes softening as she looked at her, "Just come get me if anything changes. Ok?"

I nodded. Esme gently squeezed Leah's hand before she left.

She was suspicious of me I could tell. She was lying that she wasn't, I could see it in her eyes. No one could find out I was still taking Kick. I was just going to try to avoid everyone so no one else would be suspicious.

Lauren's Pov

I was standing outside the door of the weapons room with Andy while Mia went in to hide the knife. Mia would be the only one who knew the exact location of the knife.

I was still a little woozy from whatever that knife did to me. It had been almost 4 hours and I didn't quite feel totally okay yet but I was standing without my knees buckling, which was an improvement.

"How long do you think this is going to take?" Andy said. It had already been over ten minutes.

"Don't know. She has to find a place where no one is going to look like ever, so it could be a little," I said.

Andy sighed and leaned against the doorframe. He was tapping his fingers nervously on his arm. "I just feel like the longer we stand here the more suspicious we look."

"Probably," I said. I got really dizzy all of a sudden and leaned heavily on the door frame and just tried to stay standing.

"Lauren, are you ok," Andy said.

I tried to say, "Yeah I'm fine," but my knees buckled before I could say anything.

Andy quickly came over. My head was spinning. "I'm fine, I think I'm just still feeling whatever that knife didn't to me is just still affecting me," I said.

Andy sighed. "That knife is just weird. I hope wherever Mia hides it where one will find it."

"Yeah," I said.

"There was something else too, when you touched that knife all of the normal feedback that I get from you like the emotions and stuff it just went away. Like the flip of a switch, it was just gone." Andy said helping me up.

"That's weird. I wasn't paying attention to our connection when it happened but if you stopped getting feedback from me then I probably stopped getting feedback from you but I just didn't notice." I said.

"Can you feel any feedback for me now?" Andy asked.

I closed my eyes and focused on where I could normally feel our connection to each other. I could feel it faintly but not even close to the level that I could normally.

I shook my head, "I'm only getting a little. Not even close to the normal level" I said as I opened my eyes.

"This is weird. I don't like it," Andy said.

"Yeah," I said. I glanced down the hallway and saw Jack walking towards us. I nudged Andy and motioned for him to look.

He glanced behind him, "nope you're dealing with it. Not me. Your ex-boyfriend, your problem." He said. I took a deep breath as Jack noticed us.

"Lauren, Andy, what are you doing here?" Jack said as he walked up.

"Just chilling in a hallway," I said, motioning around us.

"Why though." He said looking at the hallway.

"Uhhh, because..." I looked at Andy for help.

"Because there is shattered glass in our room," Andy said.

Really? That's what you come up with. I sighed.

"Okay, you guys are weird," Jack said. He looked at his feet, "Lauren do you want to do something maybe, that's not standing in a hallway?"

"Uh... No...We have to do something soon." I said awkwardly.

"Oh, Okay. I guess I'll see you later then." Jack said. He left looking over his shoulder at us as he left.

I breathed a sigh of relief and looked at Andy, "Shattered glass?" I said, raising my eyebrow at him.

"What I panicked," He said, raising his hands in surrender. I rolled my eyes.

Mia appeared in front of us suddenly. "That was stressful," she said as she got her bearings.

"Tell me about it," I said.