The Storm Inside

Chapter Thirty One: Sacrifice

"I don't know if I'm strong enough to do anything right now," Beatrix admitted quietly, laying her head on my shoulder as I sat down beside her.

"It's okay, we'll do what we can, while you recharge," Sophia said. "But... I don't know if I can be all that helpful either."

"Maybe you can get in their heads, and confuse them," I said. "Me and Val can do the heavy lifting and get us out."

"These doors are made of thick steel, I don't know what you think I can do," Valerie said with a sigh, touching the door with the tips of her fingers.

"Can you freeze it solid?" Beatrix asked. "Turn the whole thing into ice? Then Damira can break it."

"I'll try."

As she worked on the door, we continued the planning. "Once we're out, we have to assume that Dove and Kaiden haven't been caught," I said. "It's Mary I'm worried about, the guards could have taken her anywhere."

"We have to find her," Beatrix said. "I'm not leaving without her, I'm not losing her again."

"You won't," I promised, wishing I knew for certain that I could keep it. "Hopefully Dove and Kaiden have found her. If the three of them are together, we can meet them and leave in a group."

"There's a helicopter on the roof waiting for us," Valerie added. "That's how we got here. There's a ladder, we can use it to get up there, but we have to get outside first."

"Once we're out, someone needs to contact some authorities about this place," I said. "Some clean ones, if there are any left."

"I don't know about you, but I don't have access to a phone right now," Beatrix said.

"I don't know where mine is," I said with a sigh. "Val?"

"No of course I don't have my phone," she snapped. "Why would they let me have a way to contact the outside world if they were gonna lock me up?"

"Relax, I was only asking," I replied.

She sighed, leaning her forehead against the door, unaffected by the frost that was growing on it. "I know, I'm sorry. Alexis took it before she locked the door."

"We need to sort out our priorities," Beatrix said. "And the order we're gonna complete them in."

"Getting through the door is number one," I said.

"Then, we have to get upstairs," Sophia said.

"And find the others," Beatrix added.

"And then we get onto the roof and out of here," Valerie said. "It sounds complicated."

"We have powers, they don't," I said with a shrug.

"They have guns, and we don't. They practically have an army, we're seven people at the most," Sophia said.

"We need to look at this positively," Valerie said.

"No, we need to look at this realistically," Beatrix told her. "And realistically, they don't stand a chance against us. They might have guns, but we have Damira."

"You're making me sound more powerful than I am," I said, shaking my head.

"No I'm not," she said. "You're powerful, but you need to stop being afraid of that power. After this, you don't have to use it ever again if you don't want to. But right now, we need you."

We were silent for a moment, with nothing left to say at the moment. I just looked at her. I felt like I rediscovered how beautiful she was, every time I looked at her.