La Sombra [Ben Hargreeves]

History

"Allison, keep her steady." Sloane cautiously told her.

"I got her." Allison nodded, her eyes flashing again. "Viktor. Lila."

"On it." Viktor and Lila went to Jennifer.

"Johnny, come this way." Delores waved him over.

"What's going on?" He questioned.

The others filled him in on the plan, keeping their voices low. I followed after Viktor and Lila. Allison rumored Jennifer to willingly let go of the durango. Jennifer's veins glowed red, traveling up her chest to her mouth. Viktor and Lila held their hands out, their bodies glowing white.

"Guys..." Klaus pointed towards one of the blinded windows. I turned to see silhouettes walking by. "Looks like there's still some people out there."

"We'll handle it real quick." Ben cracked his knuckles. "Hot Head, you're helping. Fire typically keeps the people away."

"I want in on the action, too." Diego grinned, yanking out his knives from the back of his shirt and twirled them.

"Be quick. And make it seem as if a fire had occurred, Johnny. We can't leak out that we have powers on the news. It'll ruin the whole plan." Five warned.

"We got it." Ben flicked his hand in dismissal as they started to walk towards the side exit door.

Red particles started to escape out of Jennifer's mouth. I unscrewed the lid as Viktor and Lila guided the durango into the jar. Jennifer was slowly turning back to her normal self.  The jar filled with the red particles until the last of it poured in. Once all of the durango was in the jar, I screwed the lid extra tight. Jennifer stumbled backwards, leaning against the wall of the escalator.

At that exact moment, the boys came back inside. They had some scratches and blood on them, but they appeared not to be hurt. I glanced at the window to see no more silhouettes. Instead, I could see some patches of small fires in the street. I turned my attention to Ben to see him leaning against a pillar with his arms crossed, his eyes already on me.

"Jennifer, how are you feeling?" Johnny quickly asked as he hesitantly made his way to her.

"I-normal. I feel normal." Jennifer breathed out a chuckle. "I don't have that violent urge anymore."

A smile grew on Johnny's face as he took large strides to her. He wrapped his arms around Jennifer and lifted her off the ground. Johnny gave hugged her tightly, one of his hands on the back of her head. Jennifer had her arms around his neck, her face pressed against his chest.

"So...Did we do it?" I breathed out, glancing at everyone with a hopeful look.

"Phase two is at least." Delores smiled. The phone started to release a sharp ring from the counter. We all turned toward it, Jennifer and Johnny breaking apart. "Uh... are we expecting a phone call or something?"