Recoiling her hand Quinn quickly hopped up onto all fours and backed against the wall, before opening her eyes and seeing Leo stood with a can of coke in hand, an amused smile, and his hypnotic blue eyes.

Switching his features to now seem like he was being serious " I thought I told you to stop jumping those damn stairs" he commented trying to remain serious but the mischievous glint in his eye giving him away.

Even though she was glad it was him and not the phsyco that had been following her, she was still fuming at him for scaring the life out of her. He howled out laughing at her annoyed face, looking like a ticked off bull with her nose flaring and her face red she dived at him taking them both to the floor with a big thud.

Landing over the top of him she sat on him so he couldn't move and then repeatedly started to throw her fists at him. "Didn't - she punched him again causing him to laugh hysterically and try to wriggle out of her grasp- anyone- she punched him harder now thinking about how it could have been somebody else- ever- she started to laugh with him now- tell you- struggling to talk through their insane laughter she continued to punch him- not to sneak up on people!".

Quinn kept hitting him the anger now gone but the want for something else still there, not wanting to be pummeled any longer Leo flipped them over so that he was on top of her. 

"Will you stop that!" he asserted.

Now the tables had turned on Quinn and she wasn't happy even though she thought about this happening between them all the time. Deciding that she couldn't bear to lose him after everything that had happened with her parents, the laughter ceased and the glint in her eye disappeared and was replaced with sadness.

Like a bucking horse she flicked Leo off of her with ease and got herself up, just for a moment she saw the sadness appear in his eyes as well before it was gone and she stood there like a statue wondering whether she had just dreamt it.

He just lay where she had left him on the floor confused as to what he had one wrong as she walked over to get her can with his eyes staring right through her. Once again someone was getting really close to her and like always she shut them out before they could see the messy side of her.

The silence went on for too long Quinn had now sunk into the bean bag and was hoping that it would swallow her whole so that she wouldn't have to face the conversation they were about to have.

Leo opened his mouth to speak and Quinn tried to calm herself and not give her true feelings away but before he could say anything the hatch to the bunker opened and a blinding light shone down. Two people appeared on the ladders and turned off the torch they were carrying. 

Quinn's heart leaped with joy and she had never been so happy as to see her other two best friends surveying the image in front of them. 

"Quinn what did you do to him?" they both questioned at the same time trying to hold back there inescapable giggles that were rising up from their hearts.

"Well, he scared me!", that was all they needed to set them off collapsing in a mess on the floor they held there breath as giggles erupted out of their throats. Quinn grinned at their idiotic behavior if only they knew. 

Grabbing his jacket Leo stormed past the girls and all but jumped all of the stairs and slammed the hatch behind him as he left.

Eerie silence was left in his absence; Quinn sunk further into the bean bag, Megan and Jane stopped laughing and crawled over to Quinn.

"We can't put this off any longer. We have to talk about what happened on the island".

Quinn sighed deeply she knew that it was going to come to this; she had been dreading talking about it. 

" Honestly I don't know what to say to you guys, we all saw the same thing, that was the first time it ever happened. I don't know what's wrong with me."

"Okay let's just go over everything that happened"

They recapped the events of that night curious to see how different each persons point of view was, but their curiosity was wasted because they all felt the same way about that night. They all agreed that the creatures were acting weird around them and they felt like they must have been in a delirious state of some sort.

"What if you tried to do the thing again? At least that way we confirm it happened or we know we aren't mad", suggested Megan.

For a moment Quinn thought it was a good idea but then she realized that for one she had no idea how it happened or how she could do it again and two she was so exhausted last time that she fainted and she didn't want that to happen again but if they wanted to know what happened she would have to try.

"We could try" Quinn mumbled really not wanting to faint again in front of her friends it made her feel weak and vulnerable.

Hoping, willing, wishing for something to happen, Quinn focused all her energy on making something, anything happens. At the breaking point, her head was ready to explode from the pressure it was under. Her head thundered with the forceful fighting of her emotions as she wrestled with herself trying to redo what she had done in that cave. Reaching out she grasped for anything around her to hold onto, latching on to someone's arm she squeezed her hand tightly over the arm wanting to release the pain she was under and stop the pounding in her head. She stopped all efforts to focus but yet the pain still went on. An ear wrenching scream echoed out from someone's throat and bounced off the walls around her. Finally, it stopped, her hand loosened, her head calmed and her eyes opened but she kind of knew what she was going to see.

Jane was on the floor screaming with a huge red handprint across her arm and a bruise had already started to form over and around it. Whilst Jane was screaming Megan was running around the bunker kicking and slamming draws shut in a hunt for something. Pulling out of the freezer a pack of ice and wrapping it in a towel Megan handed it to Jane. They both sat away from Quinn and Jane calmed down whilst Quinn was feeling more and more Guity ny the second. She had done that to her friend, that was her fault and that tore her up inside that she had seriously harmed one of the people that had stuck by her through everything.

"Jane I am so sorry, I really didn't mean to!" , Quinn exclaimed whilst holding back tears.

Jane glanced up at Quinn and just smiled and at that moment it seemed like all had been forgiven," No I'm sorry I pushed you to do that and you didn't want to".

However, while the other two were seemingly on the same wavelength, Megan had other ideas, "Why are you just sitting there? We need to try it again otherwise that was all for nothing!".

At times Megan could be slightly insensitive to how other people are feeling but wanting to know what was happening to her Quinn started to try again with a nod of her head.

Obviously, the last time hadn't worked when she just focused as much as she could, she thought back to her time in the cave and suddenly she remembered. She had been so angry their and it consumed her, maybe if she did that again she could find out what was going on with her.

This time though instead of concentrating on anger she thought of happiness and how she felt when her parents were with her and how she felt around her friends when they made the bunker. No sooner had she concentrated, when she felt overwhelming joy and brightness within and all around her flowing through her veins seeping into her heart and creating a bubble of happiness around her. Quinn imagined herself to be in the deep countryside with her parents and her friends all on horses riding and racing each other laughing and feeling uplifted as the sun sent a bouquet of orange, yellow and red lights flowing across the sky as it sunk behind the craggy ridge. 

Opening her eyes, both Jane and Megan had there jaws dropped to the floor and it seemed impossible but it looked as if their eyebrows extended above their heads.

Confused Quinn asked, "What?".

They mad no movement their mouths still gaped open and their eyes as wide as the moon, Quinn got up and reached into the basket trying to fill her time while Jane and Megan sorted themselves out. However, nothing happened they just sat and stared they looked like they were trying to make sense of what had just happened.

"WHAT THE BLOODY HELL WAS THAT?" Megan screamed out finally doing something other than stare.

"What do you mean?" replied Quinn.

"That crap that you just pulled! What in the flying fart was that?" Megan screamed out again her voice getting squeakier and higher every time she shouted.

"I don't know I just focused"

"Well you smiled and then the room went warm and these orange yellow and red bands surrounded your hands and you. Then you started to smile more and we started to gloat on these clouds of yellow-orange and red and then they surrounded you and you just started to rise up. Then you breathed out and we fell to the floor and then you opened your eyes. So what the hell Quinn this whole thing has just given us more questions than before. Did you know this before? Have you been keeping this from us the whole time?" Megan barked.

How could they accuse her of lying to them? She was just as confused as they were maybe even more so because this was all happening to her, not them, her! 

"How the hell should I know what's going on this is harder for me than for you. I could be wheeled away as a science experiment any minute and I was already weird enough without this happening to me as well. Do you think I want this? All I want is a normal life where I can live with my family and be normal and not have to worry about where my parents went or why the hell I lift stuff with my mind and why the fuck there was a bloody dragon a dragon." all the emotions pouring out of her Quinn stopped for breath her emotions getting the better of her like always. The shock was written all over her friend's faces, trying to take in everything that she had said. 

"Quinn we're sorry we know you just want a normal life and I'm sorry for accusing you, I know its weird but could you do it again? It's just because every time you've done it something different has happened.", Jane commented.

"Yeah sure, I'll try again, I'm still upset that you accused me though!" Quinn shouted sticking out her bottom lip.

They all fell into another lapse of laughter. "Just do your thing you idiot" Jane laughed out.

Again concentrating Quinn tried to go back to thinking about her last image of happiness but before she could reach out and grab it her mind pulled her back and made her turn a different corner. Suddenly she was thinking about all of the creatures and the cave and the goblins and then the next minute her mind was going through a memory that she couldn't remember. It was flint the goblin outside of the bunker trying to listen through the hatch.

Her eyes shot open and she bolted towards the ladder climbing three steps at a time with Jane and Megan behind her. It had felt so real, he had to be here but how was she able to see him this was just all way to much to have on her mind. Flinging open the hatch she jumped out. Landing for the second time today like an animal on all fours. 

Bouncing over the ground she searched for goblin hoping that she wasn't going crazy, suddenly a branch snapped over head and as Quinn looked up she spotted flint hanging from the tree.  

"I KNEW IT!".

The other girls just looked at her as if she had finally gone mad, "Look!" she screeched pointing up to the goblin now dangling from the tree by one hand.

Finally, the tree gave way and in those few crucial seconds, Quinn ran beneath the tree and plucked flint out of the sky as he was falling. 

The gratitude on his face was enormous and Quinn still angry that he was here and confused as to why he was here, sternly said "You have a lot of explaining to do".

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Yay! Third chapter this week, I no longer have writers block for now and yeah I hope you enjoyed the chapter. If you haven't all ready go and take a look at my friends book Trapped by shemy14. Also I made the cover art for that book cos I'm an amazing friend! Enjoy.

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