Mia's Pov
Andy and Lauren almost died. Lauren was barely breathing when we found them. It's a miracle that they survived. They only just woke up about an hour ago.
"You could have died. How could you do that to me? After everything we've lost," Caitlin said. She had been constantly worrying and pacing around the room for the past two days.
"Yeah well, we didn't know that this would happen to go in. We just thought that we were going to sit there and not find out anything. This was not the plan." Andy said motioning at his shoulder where he got stabbed.
Caitlin sighed and sat down in her chair, "As much as I want to be mad at you both I can't because you're my kids and you almost died."
"We're just glad you're okay," Lorna said. She and Marcos were standing near the door. I nodded.
Lauren looked up, she had been quiet ever since she woke up. I guess she was still in shock from what happened. "How did you save us? When I passed out, I-I didn't think it was possible to save me anymore," she said.
"Luck, pure luck. When Jack stabbed you both, he didn't hit anything that was too deadly. Your mom was able to stop most of the bleeding before we got you back here and when you got here we asked Josh to help. He wasn't able to do much but he was able to heal it a little. Something about that knife stopped his powers from healing it as much as he could normally." I explained.
Lauren nodded. "Okay."
Caitlin studied both her kids, "you two should rest more." She motioned for the rest of us to go. "You guys go. I want to talk to them a bit before I go try to get some sleep."
I nodded and walked out. I went to go talk to Josh. He was still recovering from the whole Kick ordeal.
"Hey," I said walking over to him. He was reading a magazine on a couch in one of the common areas.
"Did Andy and Lauren wake up yet?" He asked sitting up.
I shushed him, "Yes but keep quiet about it. Caitlin doesn't want people to know about what happened. She thinks it will cause people to panic."
Josh nodded and went back to his magazine.
I thought about walking into that factory not knowing what we were going to find. Half of me was expecting to find them dead. We were very lucky that they weren't. I walked onto the floor following Caitlin and saw Jack's body. I figured out he must have been the traitor. My eyes shifted to seeing Andy and Lauren curled up against each other, both of them covered in blood. They were unconscious. I was terrified that we were too late. Every thought running through my head was some variation of what if I did this differently. Would we have gotten here sooner? Could I have prevented this?
For 48 hours I barely slept. I was so worried that they would die. They were the first people I made friends with here. For 48 hours I kept preparing myself for the worst. The chaos that would happen if they died, the grief. Everything was just so worrying, terrifying.
I sighed and grabbed a magazine from the table, figuring I should just distract myself from everything. I fell asleep after a couple of minutes trying to read.
Andy's Pov
"Are you sure you're okay?" Mom said. She was worried. I mean who could blame her, her kids did only just wake up from being stabbed.
"We're fine mom," Lauren said, "Just tired."
"What happened to the knife? What did you do with it?" I asked. I wanted to make sure no one could ever use it against us again.
"Lorna and Marcos are working on it. They are going to melt it and then bury it somewhere no one will find it." Mom said.
"Good," Lauren said, breathing a sigh of relief.
"Now get some rest." Mom said as she got up and left.
I sighed and turned to Lauren, "She's going to smother us, isn't she?"
"We almost died Andy," Lauren said. "We haven't even told them what happened yet. They haven't even asked. They're that worried us."
"What are we going to tell them when they do?" I asked thinking about everything that happened. "Rebecca disintegrated. How do we explain that?"
Lauren tried to lay on her side and winced, "Ow, stupid stab wound. I don't know. Do we even know what happened? Just that we caused it somehow."
"I know but it's hard to even try to figure out what happened. It was like we somehow stopped her from regenerating with the way our powers affected her." I said.
"What if that happens again?" Lauren asked. She was a little scared of her powers and I couldn't blame her. What was happening was crazy. "We don't know how our powers do that. We don't know how to stop it. What if we hurt someone we care about?"
If this, whatever it was, happened here... I didn't know what would happen. Both times it happened it only stopped after someone died. What if that was just how it stopped? With people dying.
"What if we left, just for a while? Until we figure everything out." I suggested.
Lauren pressed her lips together, "We both have open stab wounds."
"Fair, but we could wait until they healed more or ask Josh if there is anything he could do," I said.
"Andy it's just... Mom. What would happen to her? She'd freak. I saw what happened when you left, she fixated on finding you. It was all she thought about," she said. Mom right, she's been overly worried since everything that happened and us getting stabbed has only made her worry more.
I sighed, "I know and I don't want to leave but I think it's best. Just to keep everyone safe."
"Maybe. Ask me again tomorrow. I'm tired." she said. She closed her eyes. I sighed, it was best for everyone and we both knew it. I think Lauren just didn't want to admit it to herself right away.
Lorna's Pov
I wanted to talk to Andy and Lauren. Caitlin had just let them go back to their room to finish recovering instead of making them stay in the medical room. She was so worried about them.
I walked into their room, "Hey Andy, Lauren..." I trailed off as I realized I was talking to myself. They weren't there. I walked farther into the room.
Some of their stuff was gone too. The music box was missing with a piece of paper in its place. I walked over and picked up the paper.
It was a letter. It said, "Dear whoever is reading this, we're sorry but we couldn't stay. We had to leave. Some stuff happened at that factory that freaked us out. We need to figure it out by ourselves. We'll be fine, don't worry about us. Don't come looking for us. Andy & Lauren"
That was it, that was the letter. They left, those idiots. Whatever happened, we would have helped them figure it out.
Mia walked in, "Hey, where's Andy and Lauren?"
"They left," I said, holding up the note.
Mia walked over and took the note from me. "You're kidding, right? They still have open stab wounds," she said when she finished reading the note.
"I know. They're idiots," I said shaking my head.
"How do we tell Caitlin? They're her kids," Mia asked, giving me back the letter.
"I don't know. All I know is that, based on this letter, they don't want to be found and if they don't want to be found, we won't find them," I said.
Lauren's Pov
I was sitting in the passenger seat of the car. Andy wasn't letting me drive.
"Why can't I drive," I said.
"Because you got stabbed in the stomach and can barely walk much less drive," Andy said rolling his eyes. He was driving with one arm, the other one was in a sling.
"Yeah, and you can only use one arm because you got stabbed in the shoulder," I said.
"Whatever, we'll be there soon anyway so it doesn't matter," he said focusing back on the road. I sighed and looked out the window. We were running away. I tried not to think about it too much, we were trying to just laugh and pretend that this wasn't happening. That we weren't running away because we were scared of hurting someone.
"We're here," Andy said as we pulled into an alley. We got out of the car and leaned against it waiting.
"So we're just supposed to stand here out in the open?" I said looking around the alley. It was dark so people hopefully couldn't see us but we were still just standing in the middle of an alley.
"All he said was to meet him here," he said. I sighed.
"So, I hear you are running away," I looked up and saw erg walking out of the shadows.
"Yeah, we are," I said.
"May I ask why," Erg asked
"Um, we just have some stuff to figure out by ourselves," Andy said.
Erg nodded, "Here are the supplies you asked for," Erg said, handing me a duffle bag and a backpack full of stuff.
"Thanks. Do you know any roads that we should avoid?" I asked, handing Andy the backpack. I knew of some but I wanted to make sure we stayed away from places people got caught and Erg would know that kind of stuff.
"Stay off the highways and toll roads. Stay away from interstate 80, there are a lot of cops on that road," he said.
"Got it," I said.
"Where do you plan to go?" Erg asked.
"Don't know, LA, Chicago, maybe even Miami. I've always wanted to go to Miami," Andy said jokingly.
"We're going to stick to small towns. The midwest somewhere. And, don't tell anyone we came to you for help. We don't want them to find us or look for us even," I said.
"I won't. Good luck and don't get caught," Erg said, walking back to wherever he came from.
"We won't," Andy said, going to put the backpack in the car.
I looked around the alley making sure no one was watching us. I didn't see anyone. I sighed, we were really doing this. I walked back to the car.
"You ready," I asked as I got in the car after putting the duffle in the back.
"Yeah. Let's go" Andy said, turning the car on.
