QUINN

((Wow I haven't updated in a while, sorry everyone! This chapter is the start of the end, so get ready for some intense shtuff))

((In case y'all forgot what went down, Everyone's got their powers back and there's a rival group of college people (led by the evil/well-dressed Drew). One member Peter attacked Diana but Quinn saved her! And here we are now))

My knuckles hurt like hell. I looked down at my hands as we walked on in silence, closing the distance between the incident and the house. I hadn't noticed the pain in the moment, but as the time passed the numbness faded and I could see the bruising. The last time I had fought someone was a few years ago, when the walls had just come down. Someone made a comment about Sam on the streets and I lost all control.

I tried to close my fingers into a fist, but they wouldn't move. Did I break my wrist? The pain had become unbearable, but I held it together for Diana, who was walking beside me, letting out broken sobs in between hiccups. I had never seen her so shaken.

Right when we walking into the house, I heard a glass hit the ground and shatter. Roger had been crossing the hallway in front of the door, and when he saw us he dropped it in shock.

"What happened?" His eyes were alight with concern. He grabbed Diana and sat her down on the couch in the other room. I walked into the kitchen and tried my hardest to get out ice cubes to put in a bag for my hand, but my hands shook and the tray dropped to the floor. Ice spread out across the floor. I collapsed into a kitchen chair.

"EVERYONE GET DOWN HERE." Roger yelled upstairs, and I looked over to notice he had his arm around Diana. He was a lot better at handling situations than I was.

The group ran downstairs, Sam and Astrid looking like they had just been woken up. I noted the time: 1:48 AM. They probably had been.

"Oh shit." Lana grabbed my hands and I immediately felt relief. Everyone else circled around Diana and Roger. Lana looked up at me from her position crouched in front of chair. "Are you okay?" Her hair was in front of her face, just blocking the edges of her beautiful eyes. For a moment I couldn't breath. I was stunned by her beauty. "Quinn!"

"Yeah sorry I'm fine." I stopped staring and looked down at my hands. They were mostly healed. "Let's go into the other room."

The other room was chaos. Albert was pacing around, obviously distressed, but for some reason I wanted to laugh. I think it was the fact that he was wearing blue and white pinstripe pajamas. Astrid had taken residence on the other side of Diana and was calmly whispering in her ear. The two had become close over the years, and Diana looked noticeably calmed down. The rest of the group had centered around them.

Sanjit was staring at me, glaring at my hand intertwined with Lana's. After the whole Lana-Sanjit incident I went upstairs the same afternoon and found my stuff replaced with Sanjit's at my bunk bed. My belongings were thrown into the room with Lana. After that he never spoke to me again, besides the occasional "you're in my way," or the "can I change the channel? The game's on."

"Well this is some deep fucking shit we're in right now." Sam announced. He was sitting beside Astrid on the couch, his hand on her leg.

"Sam!" Edilio lectured.

"What? Peter's a complete douche and I think it's great he had the shit beaten out of him, but now we're going to have Drew and her henchmen after us."

At that exact moment, a brick crashed through the front window in the living room. It landed in the center of the room, along with the broken pieces of glass.

"Are you fucking kidding me?" Albert said what was on everyone's mind. "They couldn't have just knocked on the door?" There was a note attached to the brick, and Sanjit picked it up. "Like honestly how over dramatic are they, even Drake wouldn't pull this shit." Albert's comparison to the old FAYZ shocked everyone. I looked up, scanning everyone's faces, and I noted the fear that I hadn't seen in a long time. Dekka was digging her nails into her thighs, and I noticed one had left a trail of blood down her leg. When she saw me looking, she got up to go to the bathroom.

Albert cleared his throat. "Sorry bout that, I'm just overwhelmed." We all stared at him. "Sanjit, how about that note?"

Sanjit began reading after blowing the glass slivers off the note:

"FAYZIANS: YOU HAVE HURT ONE OF US. THAT WILL NOT BE TOLERATED. MEET IN THE ANDERSON PARK TOMORROW AT 10 PM BY THE LION STATUE."

"Jesus that was over dramatic!" Albert rubbed his eyes.

I pulled Lana closer, wrapping my arm around her waist.

"This means war, right?" Dekka had returned, the nail marks on her leg covered in two Hello Kitty Band-Aids that we had bought as a joke. No one had used any since Lana got her powers back.

"Let's hope they don't have the numbers they say they have." Edilio noted.

We all went up to our respective bedrooms in silence, all thinking. Lana and I went upstairs last, after splitting a bowl of ice cream. I was still shaken from beating up Peter, and now the thought of a battle was like a shard of glass in my head. I couldn't stop thinking about it. Lana and I went upstairs, and I lay beside her, my hand around her waist, but I didn't sleep. I was preparing for a fight I didn't think I was ready for.