collide | lab rats

1.17 | invisible to you but not to the world

THE four on the couch stay silent, listening to the arguing between evangeline's parents.

"¡pero si yo no le hice nada alejandro!"

"¡ya se alicia pero el niño no se fue no más por irse, tiene que ver una razón!"

"¡me quieres echar toda la culpa a mi pero ay no!tú eres bien inocente alex. ¿aver, porque no me dices de que estaban discutiendo esta mañana?"

"¿y cuando estábamos discutiendo? ¡yo ni tengo idea de lo que estás hablando mujer por dios!"

"no me eches la cara de menso alejandro. ¡seguro fuiste tú y lo estás ocultando!"

chase purses his lips, turning his head from the couple to the couple's daughter. the dim light from the tv couldn't reveal much but he could tell she felt worried foremost about the location of her lost sibling.

lina could see a pair of eyes on her from the corner of her eye. she followed the eyes until her's met his'.

chase seemed to give a concerned expression, "sounds intense."

lina nods looking back for a second, "it is... oh right," lina snaps her head back at him in realization, "i forgot you're smart with the languages too."

chase nods giving a quick smile. he contemplated bragging about his smartness but was smart enough to realize this was not the ideal timing for that. i mean, what did you expect, he's chase.

"oh lina, don't beat yourself up about it. i'm positive you didn't impact his sudden leave," bree moves over next to her.

"yeah.." she answered trying her best to believe it was true. heavy footsteps and a slammed door indicated to the teens that the fight was over momentarily. adam and chase turned to see alicia alone. she muttered a couple curse words under he breath before heading upstairs.

and there they sat in silence, listening to the raindrops crash against the ceiling. this day has been a particularly stressful one for lina and all she knew is that she needed to close her eyes and temporarily enter a slumber.

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lina awakens wrapped around a pair of legs once more. she slowly opens her eyes to a pair of grey pajama pants that the bionics wore every night to bed or.. capsule in this case.

she rests her back against the wall, smelling the clean linen from the pants. she smiled looking up and seeing exactly who she expected.

as on cue the three wake up simultaneously, yawning and opening their capsule.

"oh, i completely forgot you were here," bree smiled down at the girl, helping her up.

"it isn't a sleepover if i don't sleep over," lina laughs as she stands up and walks out of the capsule.

"motherfucker," lina muttered as she struggled to walk over to a nearby chair.

"how'd you sleep?" chase smirked seeing her obvious reaction.

"it feels like i slept on rocks," lina grabs her neck in pain, "i don't understand why everything hurts, i mean when i slept with adam... let me rephrase that. when i shared a capsule with adam, i felt fine."

"that's cause adam's taller and bigger, his body serves more as a cushion. with bree since she's smaller, you don't get that kind of support leading to uncomfortable positioning," chase's super smarts come out as lina just nods slowly.