The Next Generation Returns (TMI) BOOK 2

Find The Girl, & Dont Leave The Boy...

 

Olivia's POV: The end. It had to be close. The walls were starting to open. It was easier to breathe now, to the point where I could breathe in hot air without coughing to death. I had no way of bringing the tied jacket back to my face after it fell into the nape of my neck. I had to keep hold of Jake.

I couldn't stop for a minute more even for my own sake.   For each second led to Salina waiting behind. I had no idea if she found a way out, or was able to bring her mother with her. Even with the 12 year old boy that was like 80 pounds was almost too much.  I can't imagine carrying someone twice his weight in these conditions.

 My runes were fading, leaving me with my trained strength. If it wasn't for it, i would have lost it a while ago. I wouldn't have given up, just unable to go any farther and hating myself for it. Knowing that, I walk faster. 

Bouncing him in my arms, I keep myself on guard for any falling debris and search for a door… maybe mom and dads. Or Jades and mine.  They were only a few empty doors away from one another. It was hard to tell with the layers of wood and ashes in the way- for it is possible that one of the rooms could be right next to me. I should know how far our rooms are from one another… but.  

Wait.  

I did know how many doors are in between. But I haven't been counting in my head how many I may have past. Everything was so scattered. So unfamiliar. The flames ate away every remaining character to the institute that made it home. It felt like an entirely different place. but it wasn't. And I had to keep that in mind.   

But more importantly, I had to get Jake out of here. 

If I take Jake to a safer place and leave him for only a little while, then I can go back and try to find others. Maybe. 

When if he wakes up? When if something tragic happens after I leave him? God… What the hell should I do now? 

I can't leave him…  and I want to go back. I have to go back and help Salina and find my parents. 

In the name of the fucking Angel, i need a fucking idea. Please. 

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Jason POV:  It happened in slow motion. And yet… I did nothing. I didn’t use the power I had to stop his monster. To stop Jonathan. 

Now  the only thing keeping me from falling into the pit of flames and ash was the corner of the music room door that I  held on with my life, and the floor built in piano that held my feet in place. 

I didn’t know where the others could have gone. Derek was there one second and gone the next. He left me to find his sister I believe. Olivia and Jade were together. Then I lost their presence completely. The flames were not any ordinary ones. One touch and it felt like your skin was melting on the inside. You felt weaker than you normally would be in this situation. 

And I've been held in a burning building once. When I was 8. 

It takes a moment for me to evoke that memory, but when I do… I can’t seem to forget one detail. 

The way the bodies felt at my side. Their deep raspy coughs and whispers for someone to save them. I remember arms reaching to me, holding onto my legs like their life depended on a child that could outlast the fire. The only one that could manage to escape. 

It was all a test. That morning, Jonathan  asked me to get something for him; A thick folder with a girls name on the small corner. 

 Saraphina was her name.  I didn’t have time to check who it was only knew that it was important, and kept on running. All I was willing to put my attention to was my feet and the ground below me getting closer and closer to the ground bottom floor.