The Darkness Ignited (The Gifted)

Chapter 11 Part 1

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.