The car slowly pulls up to an abandoned building and Rowan looks at it in confusion. "What is this?"

It's our headquarters, don't worry you'll both be safe here," John says as he stops the car.

"Yeah so safe until the building collapses on us," Rowan mumbles to herself. They all get out of the car and head inside. Clarice and Rowan sit down on a couch and talk to a women who introduces herself as Sage.

Rowan leans forward on the couch getting completely lost in her thoughts.

"Shit, what the hell did I just do?" Rowan mumbles to herself looking around frantically trying to see if anyone saw. She briskly walks away, constantly looking over her shoulder to make sure no ones following.

She was so distracted she didn't realize she ran into someone. Rowan gasps and backs away from the woman holding up her fists.

"Woah, hey I'm not going to hurt you," the woman says holding her hands up in surrender. "You look like you could use some help, I'm Lorna."

Rowan looks at the outstretched hand and shakes it. "Rowan."

Rowan quickly shakes her head and looks up just as Clarice gets off the couch. Sage looks at her in concern and puts a hand on her arm. "Hey are you alright? You spaced out on me."

Rowan looks down at her hand and shakes it off. "Yeah I'm fine, I'm just going to go." Rowan gets up without another word and walks away from her and towards a set of stairs. She sits down and rests her head in the palm of her hand.

Someone sits down next to her but she doesn't pay them any mind until they start talking. "You never told me what the nightmare was about."

Rowan looks over at Clarice and purses her lips, "It doesn't matter anyways. It was just some silly nightmare no big deal."

"You sure? You seemed pretty freaked out when I woke you up," Clarice asks placing a hand on Rowan's lower arm.

Rowan turns away from her and moves her arm so Clarice's hand is no longer touching her. "It's nothing really. I'll tell you if it gets bad okay?"

Clarice nods and stands, "Okay."

Rowan let's out a heavy sigh and leans her head against the railing. She closes her eyes and drifts away into the nothingness that is her mind. She lets her self go as she finally relaxes from the nights events. Her mind and body were completely still and she was peaceful.

That peace didn't last very long and she started seeing images flash behind her eyelids. Images of Lorna being detained, her family dying right in front of her, the flames and chaos of that night, her capture and being taken to the mutant detention center.

She starts to get a headache and her mind and body go into a panic. Her body heats up as more and more images flash behind her closed lids. Flames faded in and out across her skin and her eyes start to burn. She finally shook herself out of the paralysis with a gasp.

She stood up abruptly and started wheezing against the railing. Her breath came out quick and labored and she tried to get it to stop but she realized she couldn't. Rowan continued to struggle with her breathing and tears welled up in her eyes. She knew if she didn't get her panic under control she could burn this whole place down and kill everyone in it.

John stepped away from the room with all the tv screens and noticed the girl panicking against the stairs. He quickly runs to her and moves around her so he's facing her. "Hey, woah woah woah woah it's okay, you're okay. Just look at me."

Rowan ignores him and starts shaking violently against the stairs.

"ROWAN! Look at me!"

Rowan's head slowly lifts up and she stares into his eyes but her breathing didn't slow down.

"I need you to count with me Rowan. Slowly but surely okay?" John asks making sure to keep eye contact with her. She manages to nod her head in between each quick breath.

"Now repeat after me, One, Two, Three."

"O-o-one, T-t-t-two, T-three."

"Four, Five, Six, Seven."

"F-four, F-f-five, S-six, S-seven seven."

"Eight, Nine, Ten."

"E-eight, Nine, Ten." By the time she reached the last number her breathing had finally slowed and she stopped shaking.

"Good, that's good," John says as she slides down the railing and sits back down on the stairs. He walks around and sits next to her and let's out a sigh. They both sit in silence for a while until Rowan breaks it.

"How do you know my name?"

John looks up startled, "What?"

"My name, how do you know it?"

"Uh, Sage told me," Johns says looking over at her.

"Oh, yeah her," Rowan looking at her lap and bites her lip. "Thanks by the way, for uh everything."

John offers her a slight smile, "You're welcome."

Rowan nods her head a couple of times before standing. "So I'm gonna go, so uh bye." She walks away and towards a safe where she finds Marcos splitting a cinderblock with his light up hands

"Cool hands."

Marcos stops what he's doing upon hearing the voice and looks up. "Oh, uh thanks?"

"How's the arm, you know since you've been shot and all?" Rowan asks rubbing her arm awkwardly.

"It's alright, under the circumstances that is. You can come in you know? You don't have to hang around the door like a creep." Marcos raises a brow with a smile and Rowan smiles back.

"I'm Rowan by the way, just in case you didn't know," She says offering him her hand. He grabs it with a laugh, "I'd tell you my name but you already know that."

"So, what are you doing?" She asks taking a seat on the couch next to a dog.

"Nothing important. What's up?" Marcos says turning his body and attention towards her.

"I just wanted to thank you for helping me and Clarice. You have know idea how much I appreciate you and your friends help." Rowan says whilst playing with her fingers.

"You are very welcome Rowan."

"Oh and uh sorry about Clarice throwing that coffeepot at your head. We didn't know if you were a good guy or a bad guy so, yeah."

Marcos let's out a chuckle, "Don't forget about the mug."

Rowan laughs along with him, "Oh yeah who can forget about the mug."

Rowan looks to the doorway upon sensing someone looking at them and sees Clarice. She waves her in, "Hey we were just talking about you."

Clarice raises her eyebrows, "Were you?"

"Yeah you and the whole Marcos's head, and the coffeepot and mug situation."

Clarice nods her head and looks over at Marcos with an apologetic smile, "Sorry about that."

Marcos waves her off, "It's totally fine."

Clarice looks down at the broken cinderblocks and back up at Marcos. "I'm guessing this has something to do with getting Lorna out of jail?"

Marcos sighs and stands up, "Yeah. Well, that was the idea. Should work great, as long as they have no guards or cameras..."

"Or smoke detectors?" Clarice butts in.

Marcos takes a seat in the couch and Clarice follows suit sitting next to Rowan. "For what it's worth, I know you lost her helping us, and I'm.. I'm sorry."

"That's all alright — it wasn't either of your faults." They're all left in silence and Marcos stands before turning to the two girls. "You got both of you girls out of prison using some kind of portal, right? You think you could get someone in?"

Rowan snorts, "sure if you wanna get cut in half." Marcos gives her a look of confusion and Clarice gives her a look of annoyance.

"It doesn't work like that. It's bad if I try to go someplace that I can't see, someplace I haven't been."

"What do you mean by bad?"

Clarice creates a small portal in her hands and one on the ceiling. She picks up a random toy from the couch and tosses it in just to have to come back out of the other portal cut in half.

"Told ya cut in half," Rowan says leaning back against the couch.

Clarice rolls her eyes, "See?"

"Right. That was her favorite toy."

"More like her only toy," Rowan says looking over at the dog and giving her a quick pet.

"My bad," Clarice says to the dog.

Rowan looks over at her with a look that says are you serious right now and Clarice just shrugs her shoulders in response. Marcos's phone rings and he picks it up and walks away. Clarice and Rowan continue to play with the dog while Marcos talks on the phone.

Both Rowan and Clarice look up at him and watch as he walks away. They both stand up and Clarice walks slightly after him.

Rowan sets her hand on Marcos's shoulder as he pulls his phone away from his ear. "Hey is everything alright?"

"Yeah everything is fine."

"Sure okay, what was that call all about?"

Marcos sighs and runs a hand down his face. "Some guy called saying his family needs help, so I'm going to help him."

"Alone? Marcos this could be a trap someone could get hurt," Rowan says pulling his boulder so he would face her.

"Exactly why I don't want anyone involved. Look I'll be fine I'm just going to go talk with him and I need both of you to not tell anyone."

"You're not serious are you?" Clarice speaks up.

"I am. I'm going to go and neither of you will say a word."

Rowan scoffs and crossed her arms, "Well what if you're hurt?"

"Then come get me," He says and walks away.

"How are we supposed to... unbelievable. Been here one day and I'm already ready to go." Rowan shakes her head in annoyance and walks back to the dog with Clarice following behind her.

Clarice busies her self with fixing the dogs toys while Rowan leans back and drifts off to sleep.

"See?" Clarice asks squeaking the toy, "All fixed." She tosses the toy to the dog and stands up.

"Where are you going?" Rowan asks moving her head so she's looking at Clarice.

"To go tell John that Marcos is gone."

"Cool. Have fun." Rowan turns her head away and closes her eyes.

Clarice shakes her head and heads towards the stairs. Rowan drifts off into a dreamless sleep for once in her life before that was quickly interrupted by someone slapping her arm. She blinks a couple of times before looking at the culprit who was Clarice.

"What? I'm sleeping here."

"Come on let's go, we're going to get Marcos," Clarice answers grabbing her arm and pulling her up and after her.

"Hey what part of I'm sleeping here don't you understand? And who the hell is we?"

Clarice doesn't answer and just continues to drag her until they reach John. "Alright let's go get Marcos."

John looks at her and sighs, "this could be dangerous. Do you really think it's a good idea to bring more people along?"

"She can help I know she can," Clarice says crossing her arms across her chest.

"Yeah and she can hear you both loud and clear thanks. So are we going to go or what?"

"Yeah let's go."

They all get into the black car and drive away.

"So where is he?" Rowan asks looking over at John.

"I don't know yet."

Rowan let's out a sound of surprise and sits up. "I'm sorry I think I misheard you because it sounded like you just said I don't know yet."

"That's exactly what I said."

"And how exactly do you plan on finding him hm, by scent?"

"I'll find him don't worry."

Rowan sits back in her seat with a thump, "Right."

John drives for a little longer before pulling over to a large building.

"Is this it?" Clarice asks giving it a once over.

"Yeah this is the place I'm sure of it. Come on."

John walks to a door and starts to pound on it trying to break the lock that's on the other side of it. "Come on open." He pushes harder and harder until it finally swings open. "Come on!"

Rowan stares at all the faces that are there before turning and running away with everyone following behind her. They all continue to run when John stops out of nowhere.

Rowan notices and looks back at him, "What are you doing? Come on we don't have the time John."

"They're coming! That way! Go! To the hallway!" John grabs Rowan's arm before she has time to react and pulls her after him. They all continue to run when the kid with them trips over nothing and falls.

John slows down and helps him up. The woman and boy continue to run but John gets one of those things attached to his leg.

Rowan slows down and turns back around. She steps to help him but Marcos already came and helped pry it off. Rowan grabs his arm and helps him stand straight before yanking him after her, not wanting to wait around for that robot thing to get back up.

Everyone continues to run but stops when one of the robot things climbs down from the ceiling. "Go, go, go!" They all turn and run in a different direction and come upon a locked metal door. John punches it tying to break it down but it's not budging.

Rowan turns around to see another robot thing coming towards them. She holds her hand out ready to try and set it on fire.

"They're on the other side. They're on the other side!"

"Here they come!" Marcos yells out. He uses his abilities to hold some of them off but more keep coming. One jumps at them but the girl that's apart of the family puts up some bubble shield that stops it.

Rowan closes her eyes and holds out her hand. She slowly breathes in and out and she opens up her eyes again and they're a blazing fiery red. She feels the burning heat run up and down her arm as she channels the flames to her hands and the robots. She pushes every ounce of energy she has left to into creating a fire that will burn the robots to ash. She manages to sets two of the robots on fire and keep them ablaze.

"Clarice, you got to get us out of here," John says to her.

"What do you mean?"

"You got both you and Rowan out of the prison, you can get us out of here!"

"No, it's different. I can't see where I'm going. It's too dangerous," Clarice says shrugging John's hand off of her shoulder.

"Alright well, we'll die if we stay here, so can you please just do it?" Marcos says attempting to keep the robots away from everyone.

Rowan turns away from the robots and stumbles back a bit. She breathes in and out and looks at Clarice. "Please Clar. You're our only hope of getting out of here alive."

Clarice put her hands together and slowly started pulling them apart. Sparks came from her hands as a portal slowly started to open up. "I can't do it!"

"Yes you can," John tells her.

Clarice makes the portal bigger. "Go! Hurry!"

John dove though the portal, "Come on! It's safe!" Rowan was next to enter the portal then the people from the family Marcos was trying to help. Marcos came in soon after but two were still left on the other side. The boy pulls the robots apart and enters in through the portal but the man gets shot.

Clarice couldn't  hold the portal anymore and she collapses onto the floor. Rowan looks over at her in panic and runs to her. "Clarice! Hey get up, come on get up please."

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And that is the end of this chapter I hope you enjoyed and it wasn't bad. Feel free to comment with feedback and tell me what y'all think.