Broken Promises

Disclaimer: I do not own the secret circle

AN: this story takes place after season one, but Diana didn't leave.

Cassie walked into the boathouse planning on getting something to eat. She had nothing in her house and really she didn't have the money to buy anything, but Ethan Conant usually gave her food really cheap, actually usually for free. She felt bad doing that, but she did need to eat. When she walked in though the first thing she saw was Faye, Jake, Adam, Melissa, Diana, and Diana's boyfriend Grant sitting at a table together.

Cassie almost walked out. Her relationship with the other members of her Circle has been anything but good since the John Blackwell thing. They seemed to blame her for everything so Cassie had been keeping her distance letting them cool down. Truthfully it's not like she had done anything wrong. She hadn't asked to have to move to this town or get into this Circle. In fact they had come to her. Cassie continued to walk to the counter.

"Oh, look who just walked in. The walking disaster," Faye said when she saw Cassie.

"Hello Faye," Cassie said with a smile deciding not to react to the comment.

"What are you doing?" Faye asked.

"Same as you. Getting something to eat," Cassie said.

"Well go away no one wants you here," Faye said and Cassie looked around the table. Weeks ago when Faye made comments like that someone would have jumped up to defend her. Jake sometimes, but the boy was now Faye's boyfriend. He just sat next to his girlfriend not saying anything. Adam use to help her a lot, but since the Elixir thing their relationship had went from being friends to not even talking to each other, especially since Adam started dating Melissa. Melissa and Cassie had never been that good of friends, but Melissa had always been nice and sometimes would tell her best friend to shut up. Then there was Diana. Diana had always been the one to help Cassie, but Diana barely looked at her. Cassie knew their relationship was weird since finding out they were half sisters and everything that had happened, but Cassie had always thought she could always count on Diana.

"Faye, shut up," Cassie said. She didn't really need anyone to defend her, but it would have been nice if someone else had stood up to Faye. "What did I ever do to you anyway?"

"When you came into this town you ruined all of ours lives." Faye said and slowly the others at the table agreed with her.

"You did," Melissa said looking at Cassie. "You came here and ruined everything."

The words stung and Cassie turned to look at her sister. "Diana," Cassie said begging the girl to disagree. Diana looked at Cassie and Cassie knew right away this was not what she wanted it to be.

"I think I made it very obvious over the last few weeks that I want nothing to do with you. I don't care if your my sister. I don't want you in my life," Diana said and that hurt Cassie most of all. She could barely hold back the tears.

"Get out," Adam finally said. "I don't want you here."

Cassie turned around to leave and as she did she heard Grant say "Wasn't that a little harsh." Cassie turned around to look. The person who finally came to her defense was the person at that table she didn't even think she had said two words to. "I mean what exactly did she do to you?"

"You wouldn't understand. Just let it go," Diana said and Grant did because Grant didn't know Cassie.

Cassie left the boathouse and went to her car. She turned the key, but the car refused to start. "Come on," Cassie mumbled under her breath, but nothing happened. The car was dead and it was a long walk home. Cassie looked back into the boathouse, but decided she didn't want another encounter in there. She would just have to walk it.

Turning around she started her walk home and it just started to rain. Very lightly at first and then it started to get heavier. Cassie continued to walk thinking about what her Circle had said to her. The more she thought about it the more upset she got. Finally she couldn't take it anymore and tears started rolling down her cheeks. At that time she tripped and feel over into the mud on the side of the road. She didn't bother getting up. She just stayed on the floor crying.

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Dawn Chamberlain was driving home in the rain when saw it. A blonde girl in the mud on the side of the road crying. It took another minute for Dawn to realize who it was and step down on the brakes hard. She rolled down her window. "Cassie," Dawn yelled out and the girl turned around. Until that point Dawn was only half sure the girl covered in mud was Cassie Blake, but she knew for sure now. The situation was weird and all Dawn could think of to say was "come on. Get in."

Cassie looked at Dawn not sure what to do. "Cassie, get in this car now." Dawn wasn't too sure why Cassie wasn't responding, but there was no way she was driving off without the girl. Cassie stood up and walked to the passenger seat door. She paused for a moment before she got into the car.

Dawn looked at Cassie when she got in. She was completely soaked and her eyes were red from crying. She was also covered in mud and was shivering from the cold. Dawn turned the heat up when he realized that. "Are you okay?" Cassie didn't respond to the question and Dawn decided it would be better to talk to Cassie inside a nice warm house.

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The first thing Dawn did when she got back to her house was lead Cassie to the bathroom so the girl could get cleaned up. "I'll be right back," Dawn said and went to go find something for Cassie to get changed into. She looked through Faye's draws for some old pajamas and found some from a few years ago. Even though they were old they seemed like they would be too big for Cassie. Dawn decided she could just use her magic to make them Cassie's size.

When she got back into the bathroom instead of being in the shower Cassie had decided to sit on the bathroom floor and cry. "Okay, what's wrong? This isn't like you." Dawn said putting the pajamas on the counter and looking at the girl. Truthfully Dawn hadn't spent a lot of time with Cassie, but she knew from watching the Circle that Cassie was strong. That she wasn't like this. "Cassie, please tell me what's wrong."

"Everything, okay, everything is wrong," Cassie finally said. "Life sucks. No one wants me here. I should just join my mom and grandma." It took Dawn a second to realize Cassie had just threatened to kill herself.

"Don't ever say that again," Dawn said getting on the floor besides the crying girl and putting a hand on her shoulders. Cassie looked at her tears in her eyes and Dawn brought the girl into a hug not caring she was getting mud all over her shirt. Cassie cried into Dawn's shoulder. As she had her arms around the crying girl it was at the moment Dawn realized how badly she messed up. Not just because she had sat back and let Charles kill Amelia or any of that. Dawn realized she had broken a promise she had made a long time ago. A promise that she should have never broken.

-Flashback-

The entire Circle was together at the Blake house. The five pregnant females watched as Sara gave her new born son Nick over to Richard and handed a toy to little Jake who was playing on the floor. Then she picked up a bag. They were all together to decide on something very important. Who would be the godparents to their children. Everyone had just decided it was better to keep it in the Circle and they had decided to pick a kids name out of a bag for random selection.

"I'll go first," Sara said putting her hand into a bag and took out a small piece of paper. "Richard and I are..." Sarah unfolded the paper "Melissa's godparents." Sara smiled over at Sophie and Patrick and then handed the bag to Amelia.

"Diana," Amelia said and looked at Elizabeth with a smile. Elizabeth gave Amelia a look that confused her. "Are you okay with this?" Amelia asked Elizabeth.

"Of course I am," Elizabeth said a little too fast. "Your like my best friend and if anything happened to Charles, our parents, or I it would only be right for you to get Diana. Our kids growing up as sisters." Elizabeth put on a smile and laughed to herself as though she had an inside joke.

"Okay,' Amelia said still a little confused not yet knowing that Diana was Cassie's half sister and handed the bag to Elizabeth

"Faye," Elizabeth said and gave the bag to Dawn.

Dawn put her hand in the bag. "Cassie," Diana said after she was done.

"I guess we get Adam then and Catherine and Ethan get Jake and Nick," Sophie said and looked at the two little boys with a smile. "Funny how that worked out."

They sat around for a while longer until everyone finally started to leave. "You coming Dawn?" Thomas asked his wife.

"Give me a minute. I want to talk to Amelia," Dawn said and turned to Amelia who was just a little confused. Thomas nodded and walked out the house to start up his car as Dawn took a seat. "You okay with this?"

"With what?" Amelia asked.

"Me being Cassie's godmother." Dawn asked. "I know we're not the greatest friends in the Circle especially after everything that happened with John." Amelia rolled her eyes. She knew that Dawn had liked John at one point and now she knew John was up to something. What it was she wasn't too sure. "I mean if you don't want me to be Cassie's godmother I can switch with Sophie. I'm sure no one would mind or maybe we could work out away for Elizabeth to get Cassie. You two have always been close."

"Dawn, I don't care about whatever type of relationship you have or had with John." Amelia told Dawn surprising her. "I know if anything were to happen to me or my mom you would take good care of Cassie."

Dawn was shocked with the trust Amelia was showing her. "I promise," Dawn said. "I promise if anything were to happy to you or Jane I would take really good care of Cassie."

Amelia smiled and the both heard the horn as Thomas got impatient. Dawn started to leave. "Hey Dawn," Dawn turned around. "Did Elizabeth reaction to me picking Diana seem a little weird to you?" Dawn thought it over and then nodded.

"You think something is up?" Dawn asked.

"I don't know. I'm sure it's nothing." The two then heard another honk. "You better go before Thomas goes crazy." Dawn laughed and left the house.

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It was now that Dawn had knew how badly she had broken her promise and at the time it had been easy. It was way too easy to agree with Charles plan to kill Amelia. She had even sat back and let Charles take away Jane's memories. What had she cared? Cassie was a stranger. Dawn hadn't known her, but how much of a stranger had Cassie really been.

Dawn had seen Cassie as a baby. Had been at the hospital to visit her when she was born and had held the girl in her arms a couple of times. She had even babysat for Cassie before Amelia had left. Also Cassie had always been and will always be her goddaughter and now her goddaughter was sitting on her bathroom floor crying into her shoulder for a unknown reason.

"Cassie, just tell me what's got you so upset." Dawn asked and Cassie finally started to talk. She told Dawn everything her Circle had said to her that day. Dawn listened as Cassie explained and was very upset with the Circle. She had known that they were having problems, but she couldn't believe they would say those things to Cassie. Especially Diana who was Cassie's sister. She was going to have to have a talk with them and maybe she should get Patrick and Ethan involved in this.

"Cassie, they're just taking their anger out on you for no reason." Dawn really didn't know what to say, but she knew she had to say something. "They'll come around."

"I'm going to lose my house," Cassie said.

"What?" Dawn asked confused.

"My inheritance is going to run out before my senior year is done. I have no money. I'm going to be homeless."

"No your not," Dawn said. "If you can't afford the house sell it and move in here."

"Faye wouldn't like that," Cassie mumbled so low Dawn almost didn't hear her.

"It doesn't matter what Faye would or wouldn't like. She doesn't get a choice in the matter. I'm your godmother it's time I start acting like it." Cassie looked at Dawn shocked at the information. "And nothing you have told me is any reason for you to kill yourself."

Cassie turned her head away from Dawn and looked at her feet. "You have to get out of those clothes and get cleaned up." Dawn turned on the water for a bath and wait for the tube to fill. Then she looked over at Cassie who was still just sitting on the floor. "Cassie, come on." Cassie looked at Dawn and then nodded taking the dirty clothes off and getting into the bath.

Dawn hated having to treat Cassie like a baby, but there was no way she was leaving the teenager alone. Not after what Cassie had said, so Dawn sat besides the tube and helped Cassie wash her hair. It was a really quick bath and Cassie was out not too long later. Dawn handed Cassie the pajamas and like Dawn thought they were a little too big for the girl. With a simple spell they were her size.

Dawn looked down. She had to change out of her clothes too, but she didn't want to leave Cassie alone. "Come on," Dawn said holding out a hand to Cassie and led Cassie to her bedroom. Cassie sat on the bed as Dawn got herself changed and then she looked at Cassie. "Cassie, are you hungry." Cassie shook her head. "You said you went to the boathouse to get something to eat, but Adam kicked you out."

"I'm not hungry anymore," Cassie mumbled.

"Cassie you have to eat," Dawn said sitting on the bed next to Cassie.

"I'm just really tired," Cassie said and looked at Dawn. Dawn could see it in Cassie's eyes. That the girl was exhausted.

"Okay, but tomorrow morning I'm going to make you a big breakfast and your going to eat it all." Cassie nodded, but didn't move. "Lay down. You can sleep here."

"I don't want to take your bed. I can sleep on the couch."

"Cassie, your not taking my bed. I'm giving it to you and your going to sleep right here." Dawn pulled down the covers and Cassie didn't argue as she got into the bed and rested her head on one of the pillows. Dawn tucked Cassie in and then sat on the bed until she was saw the girl was fast asleep.

Then Dawn got up and went to throw her clothes and Cassie's into the wash. Then she looked around. Cassie had tracked mud in the house and the front seat of Dawn's car. Dawn got to work cleaning with a little help from her magic. She was halfway done when she heard the scream come from her bedroom. She didn't waste a minute running in to find Cassie in the middle of a nightmare.

"Cassie," Dawn said shaking the girl. "Wake up." Cassie opened her eyes and a second later she had thrown herself into Dawn's arms once again crying on Dawn's shoulder. "It's okay. It was just a nightmare." Dawn decided to hold Cassie until Cassie had stopped crying. "You better now?"

"Don't leave me," Cassie begged. Dawn got into the bed next to Cassie and Cassie curled up next to Dawn. "Are you really my godmother?" Dawn had expected Cassie to ask that question a while ago.

"Yes," Dawn answered. "Amelia never told you who your godparents were."

"She just said they were old friends from back home. Never really cared enough to ask for names." Cassie was against Dawn and fell back asleep using her as a pillow.

Dawn had her arms around Cassie and was reminded of when Faye was little. When Faye had had a nightmare she used to come and get into bed with Dawn. Dawn had held Faye the same way she was now holding Cassie, but it had been a long time ago. Faye hadn't needed her for a long time. Hadn't really needed a mother and Dawn hadn't complained. Truthfully she knew she became a really crappy parent, but Faye hadn't needed her. Now here was Cassie and Cassie did need her. Cassie needed a parent, a mother, and Dawn was the only one she had left.

AN: okay this might seem like just a random one shot. Well let me explain why I wrote this. I'm sure most of you know I'm a member of The Secret Circle Project. If you don't know what that is it's a fan made season 2 of The Secret Circle. In our season 2 we are sort of making a bit of a mother/daughter relationship between Dawn/Cassie and the idea got stuck in my head, I just decided to write this. If you haven't already go check out the project and always remember to review.

Okay guys as of now this story has went from being a one shot to a three shot. The next two chapters will be co written with my fellow The Secret Circle Project writer Forcystus5. So look for the next few chps and remember to REVIEW.