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Cate gasps awake causing me to jump but sigh in relief.

"Jesus. Fuck, are you okay? You wouldn't wake up." Andre says strongly.

"Hey, hey, it's okay." I grab her cheeks as she pants, like she woke up from a bad dream.

"I'm fine." Cate breathes. "How long was I out?"

"I wasn't sure whether to call the ambulance or the 911." Andre panics, talking over her. "But Goldie said not to."

Well, duh?! What the fuck would we say?

"Andre, I'm fine." Cate squeezes my hand in thanks before looking at Andre. "I'm fine. Really."

"Are you sure?" I glance at her nervously. Her eyes were scary as fuck.

"I just pushed too many people. That's all." She explains.

"Okay." Andre says much calmer. All three of us exhale.

Cate glances around her room I decided we should bring her back to. "Um, can you go get my pills from over there?" She asks Andre.

"Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah." He answers softly.

I grab the glass of water I had for her off her desk. "Here you go." I smile smally.

"Thanks." She looks over at Andre as he picks up a bottle. "U-uh, the blue ones, on the left. Thanks."

"What you did was stupid, Cate." Andre tells her.

"I have to agree." I sigh. What if she killed herself? Or sent herself into a coma or something?

"Could've given yourself a fucking aneurysm." Andre continues his scolding as he sits back on the bed, opening the pill bottle.

I nod, yeah, that.

"Let me rewrite that for you." She starts, taking the bottle. "Thank you, Cate, for having the brilliant idea to ping our phones and then save us from our stone-cold idiocy."

"It was his idea." I mumble, pointing at Andre.

Andre snaps his head to me with a look of betrayal and I shrug innocently. Hey, Cate makes me feel like I'm getting chewed out by a mother, and technically it was his idea...

"That... that's a good rewrite." Andre admits.

"Hey, I had them." I defend.

"Until they would've exploded your brain." Cate looks at me.

I pout. "Okayyy, yes, good rewrite, Cate, thank you."

Cate pauses. "What they did to that poor janitor was so fucked-up."

"Yeah." Andre says, looking down.

I sigh. Oh, I did not need to be reminded of that right now.

"Who were they?" She asks us.

"We don't know." Andre replies at the same time I mumble, "Not a clue."

"But we found something." Andre inhales sharply. I smile to myself, glad to still be included even though I threw him under the bus. He pulls out his phone and shows Cate the picture of Sam.

Cate gasps as I stare hard at the phone, trying to remember the last time I saw him. I gasp quietly as I grab my head, feeling like I'm forcing myself a migraine. I squeeze my eyes shut for a moment before blinking rapidly once I reopen them.

"Holy shit. That's Sam." She zooms in the screen with her gloved-fingers.

"Yeah." Andre says.

"He's alive?" She looks at me worried.

I nod numbly, biting my lip.

"Luke was telling the truth?"

"Yep." I scoff quietly. But of course they want to make him out to be the bad guy, the crazy one.

"The first night- Sam was trying to escape..." Andre pauses. "... Marie and I stopped him. I'm so sorry, Goldie."

"You couldn't have known." Cate shakes her head.

"No.... I should've seen him. I-I I didn't even help my own brother." My voice waivers as I swallow hard.

I'm the worst sister in the entire fucking world.

"You didn't know. You couldn't see his face, you got there late." Andre rubs my back. "So what are we gonna do?" He asks. I look at him hopeful.

"For now? Nothing. We lay low." Cate says.

"What?" I look at her. Uh, why would we do that?!

Andre scoffs. "Fuck that. No." Thank you! He looks at me. "Her and Luke's brother is being tortured in this..." He struggles to find the word. "Whatever is it a-and-" He jumps up. "No, Sam needs to get out, and we need to get him out now."

God, I love you, Magnet.

I point at him. "Exactly. I'm not fucking waiting around to lose another brother! I just found out Sam is alive, Cate! We need to get him, like he said."

"How?" She snaps at us.

"We use our fucking powers!" Andre shouts at her.

"Exactly!" I nod in agreement. It's not fucking rocket science?!

"How did that work out for Luke?" She looks at us.

I scoff, grabbing my arms and letting my anger burn my biceps. Ah! I know she just wants to make sure we don't end up like him, but fuck, how does she just expect me to do nothing when my little brother is being tortured?!

"Cate-" Andre snaps at her, his eyes moving quickly to me.

"If you two charge in there, you're going to get caught and then God knows what and then..." Cate yells.

I sigh irritatedly, dropping my face into my hands, ignoring the singe of minor pain and relief my arms feel.

I can't do this.

"Cate, Cate, Cate!" Andre raises his voice.

"We just have to stop and think about it for a second." She says.

"Cate! No!" Andre shouts. I raise up to find Cate taken aback.

She stands. "I could make you stop."

"Cate!" I raise my voice now. "What the fuck?"

"Okay." Andre smirks.

"I could do it." Cate insists.

"So make me stop." Andre says.

I groan, ripping myself off the bed and pushing them both back. "Both of you stop!" They grunt slightly and I look down seeing the heat wafting from my hand, shit-

"I'm tired of all the fucking yelling." I snap as they look at me warily. "Okay, we won't go tonight." I glance at Andre. "But this conversation isn't over." I finish before making my way to the door.

"Il- wait." Cate calls out.

"Fuck off." I call over my shoulder, too pissed at her comments to listen.

"Let her go." I hear Andre say as I storm down the hall.

I don't know why I'm so mad. I know Cate just doesn't want a repeat of what happened tonight, like Andre and I don't either? But how the fuck can she just expect us to do nothing?! Andre was completely on my side and just as mad if not more mad than me! And the fucking comment about-

"Fuck." Someone curses as I crash into a body, staying rooted to the ground. Guess I wasn't watching where I was going...

"Sor-" I look up and lock eyes with dark brown puppy dog ones. Oh you've got to be kidding me.

Jordan fucking Li.

Can I not escape them for one fucking second? I wait for some snarky comment to come but it wasn't. Instead Jordan's eyes slowly trace my entire body, putting me on edge. As if I wasn't already teetering so far on the fucking edge that—

"What?" I snap, letting the words angrily fly out of my mouth.

Their eyes land on my arms. Arms I can't even feel at this point. I didn't even realize I was burning myself the whole way down the hall. I glance at their jacket, the white part looking like it was roasted over fire like a marshmallow.

I tuck my arms further into my body, suddenly feeling like I'm under a microscope and my brain is screaming at me me to yell at Jordan to stop looking at me like that, even though it's only been about two seconds.

"You practically melted me." Jordan mumbles as their eyes narrow at my arms hugging my body before looking up. I follow their gaze to find almost every light shattered above us.

Mmm, guess I didn't realize that either.

"Hey, are you coming ba-" Some guy swings the door  we're next to open and I jolt.  He steps out shirtless before stopping midway. "Woah, sorry."

Wait... He looks familiar, is he in the top ten? My eyes zero in the room and the realization hits me forcefully, it's Jordan's.

I snort. Of course. "Mm, have fun." I step around Jordan, getting back on track. They scoff behind me.

"Uh, hello?" The guy says.

"Shut up, Tyler." I hear Jordan say before the door slams and I exhale.

I uncross my arms and look down to find them whelped red. Mmm, fun. Anyone else's skin would be melted to their bones by now. Well- anyone but Luke's...

I shake my head, finally making it to my room that I've barely been in these past few days, and rip the door open. I go straight to my mini fridge and grab the first bottle I can get my hands on.

I smirk as I turn on all the lights in my room, rip the cork off, and start chugging as I open my palm, absorbing the light before slamming it on my thigh and throw my head back, swallowing hard as I feel a tear run down my cheek.

Fuck this.

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𝟶ʙᴜᴛᴛᴇʀʙɪsᴄᴜɪᴛ𝟽 sᴘᴇᴀᴋs!

Heyyyyy!!

So.... Iliana... :( She deserves the biggest hug rn,
itsg </3 And we all know Jordan noticed her arms....

Btw, in case no one is 100% by this point, Iliana's powers are solar light and heat manipulation!! Y'all aren't READY for what I have store for these powers for my girl, hehe.

Also, I absolutely was NOT gonna have Iliana in there for the Cate and Andre kiss lmao, so yeah ya know what happened after she left haha, okay bye!

More parts of episode 3 coming soon, stay tuned!!!