Lauren's Pov
Mia needed us to stop Josh from getting out of the building. He was taking Kick. It was like everything lined up, Mia had been saying that he seemed off for weeks. I guess she was right.
"What are we going to do? How do we stop Josh without hurting him?" Andy said pacing in front of the front door. We were standing there to make sure Josh couldn't get out while we came up with a plan.
"I don't know, we can't let him get close to us so using a sedative isn't an option," I said leaning against the door frame. "We have to knock him out without touching or hurting him."
An idea popped into my head that I knew Andy wouldn't like. I wasn't a big fan of it either but it was our only option.
Andy stopped pacing and turned around to face me, "I know what you're thinking, and no. We are not asking Esme for help."
Right as he said that Esme just so happened to walk out of one of the hallways.
I sighed, "It's not my favorite idea ever either but we are both going to have to deal with it." I said walking over to Esme.
"Esme!" I said. Esme turned around obviously surprised that I was talking to her. "We need your help."
"Uh, why?" Esme said.
"Because Josh is on Kick. He hurt Mia. We need to knock him out without touching him or hurting him. And, um, our powers aren't very good at knocking people out without hurting them." I said.
"Ok. What do you need me to do?" she said nodding.
"I need you to use your powers to make him fall asleep, so he can't hurt anyone else," I said. I hated this but, it was the only option.
Esme nodded slowly. "I'd have to hide so he wouldn't see me coming."
"Ok, we'll distract him and then you'll knock him out," Andy said walking over.
Esme nodded, "Yeah, um, before we do this. I just wanted to say I'm sorry, I'm so sorry, for what happened, what I did to you." she said. I took a deep breath. I never really expected to hear those words come out of her mouth.
Andy and I looked at each other as Esme continued, "What I did to you was horrible and something no one should ever have to experience. I am so, so sorry. I hadn't been able to say this before because I had to admit that it was my fault to myself before I could apologize to you. I'm so sorry it took this long."
I smiled as I bit the inside of my lip, "Thank you, I never really expected you to say that," I said.
Andy nodded, "Yeah, what Lauren said."
"It's okay Esme. Let's all just try to move on from the past and make sure Josh doesn't leave," I said.
Andy and I stood in opposite corners where it was hard to see us while Esme hid where she could see what was going on but if you were trying to get out of here you couldn't. Now we just had to wait.
It wasn't long before Josh walked out of one of the hallways with a backpack. He looked so nervous. He walked to the door and right before he reached out to grab the door handle I put a shield up to block him. He tried to push through the shield but that obviously didn't work.
Andy used his powers to push him away from the door gently, enough to make him stumble back so we could stand in front of the door.
"Hi Josh, fancy seeing you here," I said stepping in front of the door.
Josh's eyes widened, "Lauren.. what are you doing?" he said trying to play dumb.
"Don't we know what happened? We know what you did to Mia." Andy said as he stood next to me, ready to push Josh back if he tried to get close to us.
"I didn't mean to. I don't even know what I did" Josh said quietly, looking at his feet.
"Yeah, we didn't mean to do a lot of things that we did. That doesn't excuse us from blame." I said.
Josh looked up and tried to take a step forward but Andy pushed him back. Esme stepped out from her hiding place her eyes glowing blue. Josh fell to his knees holding his head.
Esme said a single word, "Sleep" And he collapsed.
I breathed a sigh of relief, "Now what do we do with him?"
