"You don't understand I need to go back! I need to go back right now!" Akira screamed at them. Her hands were already frosting up.
"You want to live like a prisoner the rest of your life?" Marcos demanded, glancing back at her in the rearview mirro...
When Black Frost asked John to kill someone for her, he wished that he could. He wished he could just take someones life, show Black Frost that he really meant what he said but Black Frost saw him hesitate and she had laughed. "It's hard being a hero. Isn't it?" With that, Black Frost had walked away and John let her.
That's how the three friends ended up back at their Mutant Underground Base without Akira. Everyone had looked up expectantly when they had walked in but when none of them spotted a white head of hair they all shifted around uncomfortably before heading off in different directions, knowing better than to bother Marcos, John or Lorna about what happened. Marcos and Lorna looked at each other as they slowly followed after John. They had gotten back into the club only after Akira had disappeared and John wouldn't say what had happened. They followed him all the way back to his room where they paused in the doorway, both unsure of what to say.
"John we'll find her again." Marcos said, his voice calm and sincere. John let out a strangled scream and slammed his fist into the table, breaking a large chunk of it off that scattered across the floor.
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"John." Lorna said.
"I don't know what to do guys! I don't know how to help her. I don't know how to get Akira back." John interrupted. "It's not like she's even gone she's just.. Trapped in her own mind and I can't... I can't do anything."
"Nobody expects you too." Marcos said. John ran one hand through his hair and then down his face as he went to go sit on his bed. Marcos sighed. "Akira is still in there somewhere. Black Frost hasn't attacked anyone, hurt anyone. She's just lying low."
"Because she knows people are after her. That we're after her." Lorna pointed out. Marcos gave her a look and Lorna just shrugged.
"My point is, we'll find her. We'll bring her back and... We'll use force if necessary." Marcos said. John sighed.
"How are we going to force Black Frost to do anything. She's more powerful than we know. If we push her she just might kill us." John said mournfully un-optimistic.
"Well I guess we just have to hope that there's enough Akira inside of her that won't allow Black Frost to kill us." Lorna said. John said nothing. Marcos looked to his girlfriend and motioned for her to step out. When she did, Marcos followed after her.
"Everything's going to be fine John." Marcos said in one last effort to calm his friend down. John remained silent so Marcos shut his door and together, he and Lorna headed back down the hallway.
"Is everything really going to be fine?" Lorna asked, arching an eyebrow at him.
"God I hope so." Marcos said.
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John was standing in Akira's room, again. He liked coming in here and pretending that at any moment now, she was going to walk in and tell him he was being weird for just standing in the doorway. She would shove him playfully, plop down onto her makeshift bed and smile at him before patting the spot next to her. John wished that his imagination was reality.
