|1| Whatever It Takes || Code 8: Connor Reed

07. Deal with us

Tommy grabbed Connor by the arm and pushed him against the wall. "What the fuck were you thinking?" Tommy snapped at him and Connor's eyes flashed. "Robbing a fucking bank, are you insane?" Connor pushed him off as Tommy staggered, swiftly smelling burned clothes as he looked down and his clothes were smoking from the electricity.

"Back off." Connor warned as his eyes flickered with electricity and Tommy winced in pain, feeling the familiar pulsing in his head that came from someone ready and willing to use their abilities.

"Hey." Victoria butted into the conversation, pushing the two of them apart as Tommy was rubbing his head. "Chill out." She ordered and she was glaring at Connor, who blinked and the pain in Tommy's head was lessening. "Hurting each other, isn't going to help." She said and Connor said nothing to that, as Tommy was going back to waiting in the van.

"Get going." Victoria said sharply as she was swiftly pushing Connor after the others like Garrett and Maddy, which was where Jordan was waiting by the entrance for Victoria. "By the way, we're even." Victoria said as she pushed past him and ducked into the tunnel.

Victoria got herself a drink because she could and Jordan was sitting in a booth in the corner quickly, glaring at everything around her and Victoria was silently getting up and walking over to her. "Jordan, you didn't have to come in here with me." Victoria pointed out and Jordan snatched Victoria's drink out of her hand and threw it back without waiting for a response and Victoria sighed. "All right then." Victoria murmured.

"I couldn't let you come in here on your own." Jordan muttered and right now, Victoria was narrowing her eyes quickly and she was shaking her head.

"I can take care of myself, Jordan." Victoria murmured as she got up again, walking over to Connor who was sitting in the corner by himself. "That was some surge." She noted as she was sitting down with Jordan's abandoned drink in her hand.

"It wouldn't have been as powerful, if you hadn't given me a boost from the whole nearby underground water main." Connor pointed out and he was staring into his drink. "It was a good plan." He muttered.

"You tried to rob a bank, Connor." Victoria pointed out as she was shaking her head. "You were bound to run into some pitfalls, but you shouldn't have been there in the first place." She sighed at the words. "Tommy is really worried about you, Connor, you should get out before it's too late for you to." Victoria warned and he glanced at her.

"Why did that sound like a threat?" Connor asked and she shrugged.

"I'm trying to help you as a favor to Tommy, all right? I'm only trying to make sure that you survive this, if things go to shit." Victoria shook her head. "I'm trying to make sure that Tommy doesn't lose his best friend." She noted and Connor turned back to his beer, as she stood up and shook her head. "Suit yourself, Connor. He thinks of you like family, same with Griff." Victoria pointed out as she snatched up her drink and she walked back over to Jordan.

"How did that go?" Jordan asked with a familiar and dull tone of boredom in her voice as Victoria sighed, looking at her with a look that said "what the fuck" and Jordan sighed as she took the drink and threw it back. "Can we go now?" Jordan questioned and Victoria nodded at the words as they were walking away from the bar and Victoria stopped, suddenly sensing something off.

Then she looked down at her arms and realized what it was.

The hair on her arms were standing up and she spun around, just in time to see Connor's blast of electricity that sent a gun flying out of somebody's hands. Victoria's eyes flashed over to a nearby drink in a metal cup as Jordan flung the cup at the assassin and then as soon as some of the drink splashed into their mouth, Victoria's eyes were glowing brightly blue.

The assassin dropped the knife as they were choking, their hands going up to their throat as they choked on the drink. "Rhino, now!" Victoria shouted, her voice tight with concentration and the Brawn that was in charge of Marcus Sutcliffe's protection unit, he fired multiple times at the assassin until they were on the ground and covered in blood, dead from the choking and the gunshots.

It took Victoria a few seconds to realize that everybody was staring at her. Victoria saw fear in people's eyes, admiration in others, shock in some more and she was cracking her neck silently as she looked around. "Garrett isn't the only powerful Kelton in town." She said as she turned around and walked out. Jordan fell into step behind her and with a flick of her hand, the doors slammed shut behind them.

"Nicely done back there, my young friend." Jordan said with a laugh and she was swiftly throwing one of her arms around Victoria, who was silently thinking as they walked. "You should have seen the look on Sutcliffe's face, he couldn't believe that you could have easily killed that assassin on your own."

"Yeah, I can't believe it either." Victoria admitted quietly as she was thinking about it and the more that she did about it, the more that it scared her. Victoria hated how powerful it had made her feel, she hated that she had actually enjoyed watching that assassin choking and suffering, before Rhino had shot her to death and finished it off.

Tommy glanced up at them and something in her face must have tipped him off, because he was getting into the driver's seat and clearly now, Jordan was a little bit tipsy, as she climbed into the backseat of the car and he drove off once they were all situated.

As soon as they got out of the car, Victoria vomited into the nearby bushes and she just kept seeing it. Victoria kept seeing the blood of the assassin on the floor, it was all that she could see as she continued to vomit until there was absolutely nothing left to lose.

After they got Jordan back into the house with Griff to watch out for her, Tommy came back outside to sit on the porch with Victoria, with a cup of hot chocolate in each hand and he handed one to her quickly. "Thanks." Victoria said as she was wrapping her cold hands around the cup as he nodded.

"So, what's wrong with you?" Tommy asked as he was sitting down next to her and she took a sip of the hot chocolate, wondering where to begin with it. "This wouldn't happen to be a reaction to saving a lot of people from an assassin earlier, would it?" At the words, Victoria choked on her drink as she coughed, sputtering in surprise at the words until she could clear her own windpipe.

"How did you know that?" Victoria asked, coughing as she got her breath back soon after and Tommy smiled a little. "Who the hell told you?" She asked and Tommy chuckled, before he was holding out his phone to her.